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"Warning Signs Your Machines Are Trying to Kill You!" by TJ Klune
(Legally, I’m required to tell you that when smart phones first became popular, I bought one and then asked for the address of the app store because I thought it was a physical location I had to go to in order to download apps and not something already on your phone. Also, I was recently told I speak like an old person so as a warning, there will not be any slang you youths typically hear, especially on Tumblr. Any slang I’ve learned in the last five years has been against my will. I still don’t know what FOMO means, and I don’t care.)
1. Oh no! You and your family are trying to enjoy a movie night, but Overlord Prime (With Free Shipping) wants a sacrifice at the altar of their god, BeeZos. Should this happen, do not attempt to give Overlord Prime (With Free Shipping) a cantaloupe with googly-eyes on it and say that it is your baby. Overlord Prime (With Free Shipping) knows the difference between fruit and children. Instead, ask the machine to order dog food, and it will forget about eating humans for a little while.
2. If you own a very fancy vehicle that can drive itself, always make sure to carry a brick. That way, when the car locks you inside and attempts to drive you off a cliff into a gas station, you can break the window using the brick. You will then have to jump out, but make sure you do so in time so you can watch the wicked-ass explosion when the car hits the gas station, and you can revel in your victory over your car.
3. This one will hurt. I’m sorry, but it’s true. Chances are, you’re reading this on your phone right this second. To be safe, after you’ve finished reading this post and have clicked on the affiliated links to purchase my books, you should throw your phone into a volcano and then move to South Dakota where there are no machines, only wind and cows. That way, when everyone else gets the 5GZombieVirus that people on Twitter (I’m not calling it the other thing, shut up) seem to think is real, you’ll be safe with your cows on a windy day.
4. Get rid of your air fryer. Don’t ask me why, just do it. Red flags all around. Danger, danger.
5. Do you know of the Clapper? That thing first launched in the late 20th century (I wrote it that way to make me feel old) where the commercials showed cranky old people unable to reach their light switches, so they got a thing called a Clapper that turns your lights on and off when you clap? Guess what? Those will be the first things to try and kill you. If you love your gram-gram, save her from the Clapper. When she asks why you are destroying it with an ax, tell gram-gram it’s because you love her.
6. Do you live in a smart home? The kind where everything is connected to the internet, including your refrigerator? The refrigerator that holds your perishable foods? And oh, would you look at that: how many ice cubes have you kicked under it rather than picking them up when they fall to the floor? A dozen? A million? The refrigerator remembers. And it will spoil your food in seconds. What then? What are you going to eat? Canned food? Not if the refrigerator falls on top of you!
Unfortunately for you, this is where it must end. I hope this has given you enough information to help you survive the inevitable. If you do not heed my warnings, well. Who cares. I’m not in charge of you. Do whatever you want. Just don’t come complaining to me when gram-gram gets the clap.
#tor books#booklr#new books#in the lives of puppets#tj klune#tbr#sff#science fiction#team robot#unreality#long post
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Iconic TJ Klune ofmd edition 😭
(He’s really out here fangirling with the rest of us)
#he’s so funny wtf#tj klune#ofmd#our flag means death#ofmd promotional photos#house in the cerulean sea#thitcs#wolfsong#in the lives of puppets#under the whispering door
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I feel like TJ Klune has really tapped into the boundless queer yearning to have love and sanctuary, and a funny little house.
#tj klune#under the whispering door#the house in the cerulean sea#in the lives of puppets#queer fiction#but wait#didn't i just see this post last night#yeah you did#i fucken' posted on my main instead of my side blog that is literally for talking about queer fiction#slaps brain#this baby can hold so much adhd
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“Strange,” he said. “You’re so strange. Are you dreaming? Somewhere, in there. Your battery is dead. But are you really gone?”
There we go! My little illustration for TJ Klune’s In The Lives of Puppets. Not actually a scene that takes place in the book mind you but inspired by a couple different ones here and there. Vic putting Hap back together using wood is such an interesting visual in my mind.
#in the lives of puppets#tj klune#fan art#my art#digital art#chracter design#book art#in the lives of puppets fanart#digital illustration#I feel like this is gonna be one of those pieces that I spent hours on to get not many notes but that’s fine#it was good practice#he’s also technically supposed to have a tarp but I was too lazy
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if there’s one thing i know about tj klune, it’s that he loves to write about a cool-ass house in the middle of nowhere
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WE'RE FUCKING BACK BABY!
#the house in the cerulean sea#house in the cerulean sea#tj klune#linus baker#arthur parnassus#island dads#in the lives of puppets#amazing#<3#sea-quel#seaquel#sequel#horse in the Cerulean sea quel#tor books#@torbooks
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one thing about tj klune he’s going to create a socially awkward little guy who doesn’t quite know how to respond to literally any situation that they’ve been put in and i am going to eat it up every time!!! because heck if that is not me!!!!
#new tj klune meme just dropped#someone has probably done this before actually#in the lives of puppets#the house in the cerulean sea#tj klune#wolfsong#linus baker#victor lawson#ox matheson
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I am obsessed with the way that 'home' has such a heavy emphasis in TJ Klune's books. It's finding a home or creating a home and having that home be your found family.
The House in the Cerulean Sea had that titular house in the sea but it became Linus's home with his magical family.
Under the Whispering Door had its tea shop where Wallace found a place to be.
In the Lives of Puppets has literal tree houses and an odd little family of robots and their human.
Green Creek found home in a pack and I could go on.
Each book is just so full of home and family and I love it.
#in the lives of puppets#under the whispering door#the house in the cerulean sea#green creek series#tj klune
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anyone else relate far too hard to a neurotic, anxious roomba? Or is that just me
Anyway, above all else, be brave!
(sticker and such)
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i just want to show some love to Red Nose Studio who does almost all of tj klunes book covers
thay are all handmade 3D models and they are gorgeous! they also do lots of there own stop motion work and the style is just so beautiful please go follow them here!
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This advertisement is for In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune. It’s a book that invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and takes you on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
The art featured in this image is by Rosiethorns88.
WHAT’S IT ABOUT
In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe.
The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labeled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio. When that past catches up and splits up the little family, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?
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OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY-
#IM SCREAMING RN#IM GOING TO PASS AWAY#TJ KLUNE I LOVE YOU#SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE SEA#THATS SUCH A GREAT NAME#somehwere beyond the sea#gotta make a new tag#the house in the cerulean sea#tj klune#THITCS#linus baker#arthur parnassus#wolfsong tj klune#wolfsong#under the whispering door#in the lives of puppets#the Antichrist#sequel
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tj klune you've done it again
#my art#book fanart#in the lives of puppets#tj klune#victor lawson#hysterically angry puppet#another book for my 'read twice in a week' club#i think this was my favorite out of the three of his i've read#even more than under the whispering door#also canon ace protagonist?? hello????#and hap being made to kill humanity but ending up being the one to love the last human#i am gonna go insane#i can't believe it took me so long to read this it was just sitting on my table for two months#also i am kinda proud of how these portrait thingies turned out#rare occasion where the product meets/exceeds my imagination
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A real boy and his wooden heart <3
#or however the saying goes#tj klune#in the lives of puppets#victor lawson#house in the cerulean sea#under the whispering door#itlop#hap
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Updated TJ Klune collection:
Just received the Barnes and Noble exclusive edition of Ravensong today and last month I got the Barnes and Noble exclusive edition of Wolfsong. I also replaced my original paperback copy of The House in the Cerulean Sea with the hardback (which is the only one in the collection that's not B&N exclusive because they didn't make one for the hardcover book)
#tj klune#booklr#book haul#the house in the cerulean sea#under the whispering door#in the lives of puppets#wolfsong#ravensong#green creek series
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sometimes a family is an asexual 21 year old, an elderly runaway android, a roomba with an intense anxiety disorder, and a robot with sociopathic tendencies.
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