128: The Shores of Kansas Robert Chilson

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The mind-boggling epic adventure of a time-traveler torn between two nbightmare world

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Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Also panicking because that person might be a woman.

Velo, Electric Ghost

Can't, Martin fired the therapist

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Grant not beating the incel charges.

Velo, Electric Ghost

You know how women are, always disturbing the quiet of the Mesozoic era to talk about bison

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

i bet Mesozoic bison were cool and Grant just doesnt wanna think about it.

FancyShark

Are you the expert, Grant? Because humanity's distant ancestors managed to survive to present day without you just fine.

gellaho

Damn you, sexy woman!

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

So Grant, world's greatest time genius, hasn't managed to catch a single live specimen?

Ah ok just not for months

FancyShark

This is the same reason Grant doesn't have kids

anymore

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Its more fun to kill prehistoric rats.

gellaho

Double domes

Velo, Electric Ghost

"I'd have brought back a bison."

"Damn it Marian we don't need more bison!"

FancyShark

Nice try, Shackelford. But fancy animals are not so easily won over.

Unless you have snacks

gellaho

DAMN THESE SEXY DAMES

FancyShark

Well, his ax

Velo, Electric Ghost

"Grant and his ax were one of the greatest sex symbols of the age."

Velo, Electric Ghost

Just going to put Robert Chilson here

gellaho

AND DAMN YOU MOST OF ALL, PARKING LOT

Velo, Electric Ghost

Grant is about to time travel due to sheer impotent rage

I'm so excited

I love this book so much

It's such a direct "fuck you" to the reader on every page

Grant go do inventory

Find out exactly how much quality card stock Martin keeps in the supply closet

gellaho

Grant talks to his dad about taint

FancyShark

The audacity is incredible

Velo, Electric Ghost

"Have you considered giving up hunting dinosaurs to sell cars?"

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Fuuuuuuuuuck just time travel back into the mesozoic and never come back.

Problem solved.

Velo, Electric Ghost

Can't, no ice cream

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

He can learn to make it with local ingredients.

Velo, Electric Ghost

You all thought it was a throw away line. Not so. It is the anchor that binds this whole story.

Ice cream.

Ice cream and bison.

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Imagine, he could make ice cream with flavors unknown to any other human.

gellaho

Then he meets up with one of his brothers and they talk about nipples

gellaho
FancyShark

Not since the Reluctant Sorceror has there been this much dicking around in a story

gellaho

Fuck you, Mr President

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

I wonder if we get a fictionalized version of a real president or a whole new original IP president?

Velo, Electric Ghost

I can't believe we still haven't time traveled

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

I will turn around on this book if time travel never happens and its all just this guy being grumpy about the time he cant spend time travelling.

Velo, Electric Ghost

Fuck it, our hideous unlikable hero is going to the White House

gellaho

From the darkness, a redhead appears

Velo, Electric Ghost

If that happens we crown this book king

gellaho

Grant continues to hallucinate about her hair and eyes changing

gellaho
Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

God, yes, I really want an explanation from the mind of this author how he things tracking down animals works.

gellaho

His next hallucination helps him see her muscled legs and childbearing hips

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Grant is such a fuckin dick.

Just say "Yeah hows tuesday work for you?" or something.

FancyShark

I hope he goes back in time at the last page of the book and it reveals all the baby dinosaurs have his face

gellaho

Bitches love dictation

gellaho
Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Assume she doesnt need muscle memory mansplained to her at least, Grant.

FancyShark

The forbidden pat

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Also Grant..........dont pat the secretaries, you do that with dogs, and I know you dont understand the difference but just trust me.

Entanglement will be the least of your problems if you pat a woman on the head like a golden retriever.

gellaho

Uh oh, he's got a compound

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Of course he does. Hes from Missouri.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Less vandalism than any other zoo is such a weird flex

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

lol also a million visitors for literal dinosaurs.

gellaho

TIME SENSER

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

The zoo in Des Moines pulls 500k a year, what does this one do, cock and ball torture for every third ticketholder?

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"we're so popular people aren't tagging our benches as much as other zoos. Also dinosaurs"

gellaho

So whimsical

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Oh you KNOW that guy has a stars and bars sticker on his truck.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Oh yeah I just remembered my favourite thing from early in the book that I didn't comment on: the explanation that no one uses this power to change history because if you think it actually it wouldn't be very sensible and you would be very confused when you come back home to an alternate timeline

gellaho

As time goes on, Grant's loneliness becomes such that he invites his secretaries for some night fishin'

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Hey Grant. Women can like fishing too.

Mind blowing, i know.

Velo, Electric Ghost

I looked away for a few minutes have we time traveled yet

Velo, Electric Ghost

No they like bison

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

We've talked about time travel

Velo, Electric Ghost

Well that's almost as fun!

gellaho

Ladies love ramshackle gun stories

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Cool ladies do.

Velo, Electric Ghost

I hope this book is entirely about office management and then it ends on a cliffhanger as they prepare to time travel, and the last page says To Be Continued in The Shores of Kansas Part II

And then they never wrote part two

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

If you tell a woman about your buddy and his anti duck cannon, and they arent interested, you shouldnt fuck them.

gellaho

Prepare for kissing procedures

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Dont even hang out with them.

EAT THEIR FUCKIN ICE CREAM YOU DORK.

gellaho

Just like TV's Star Trek's Michael Dorn's Time Blender

Velo, Electric Ghost

They're just thinking about bison

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"oh no, kissing" Grant thought

Velo, Electric Ghost

"Oh, affection. Gross." - Grant Ryals

gellaho

More loneliness and melancholy. Adventure!

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Is this edging? Are we being edged?

Because I thought there would be more time travel and dinosaurs in this time travel and dinosaur book.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

It must be a sex thing because it's sure not anything else

gellaho

Good news, the lack of electrons means it's time travel weather

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

R.......rad?

Why the Ozarks tho, ive been there. Not great, imo.

gellaho

My loneliness gives me time travel powers!

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Oh so if he stops being a prick and fucks someone he cant time travel anymore.

Cool protagonist.

gellaho

Grant zings in his car seat

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

What the fuck is zinging

Is THAT a sex thing?

Velo, Electric Ghost

I have no idea

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Its like stimming with your own dick.

And a lemon.

Velo, Electric Ghost

"To make or move with a humming sound"

that...

No that can't be right

Fuck you, Chilson

gellaho

Walking back to the past

Velo, Electric Ghost

God even his time travel is boring

gellaho

It's very exciting, just imagine the ramparts

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Its like this guy read Nine Princes in Amber, and really liked the shadow walking sequences, but is too boring for free association.

gellaho

NOBODY CAN SEE MY AX BUT ME

Velo, Electric Ghost

Starting to think the ax is a metaphor

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Its definitely his dick.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

This is one of those things that made sense in the writer's head

But they couldn't bring it to the page

gellaho

Spends a lot of time looking at plants

gellaho

And so much time describing how his stuff is time-proof

Velo, Electric Ghost

I miss the excitement of office management

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Cool, now there arent any other characters and we can...........oh.

Hes just gonna play golf or something, huh?

gellaho

Mostly finding pleasure in decapitation

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Grant is like a shitty cat, constantly bringing back strange and mangled corpses to people who love him for no apparent reason.

gellaho

And facts about reptile waste

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy

Lizard piss facts.

We love being told things just about everyone knows on such an instinctive level nobody is aware of it.

Velo, Electric Ghost

Huh

Okay book, good job, this is technically a time travel adventure

gellaho

Finds some sauropods and gets attacked by fly beaks

Velo, Electric Ghost

Yeah fuck those guys for wanting a dinosaur

gellaho

Then spends some time in hot shit

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Dude is bitching because he gets to rifle thru dinosaur shit.

Like a real asshole.

gellaho

Why, that must be the allosaurus himself

gellaho

And what a cock it was

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

I assume he means exactly like this.

Velo, Electric Ghost

…

FancyShark

Aw man, he finally made it back in time?

gellaho

Such a cock

Velo, Electric Ghost

I'm just in shock at this point

FancyShark

Sick

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Allosaurus eats him, rest of the book is the eggheads trying to figure out what happened to him.

And drinking coffee.

gellaho

That is just far too feet. Very feet. A muchness of feet.

FancyShark

hahahaha

Sorry, I think I need to dip early. Long day. But this is a perfect line to go out on. You all have a good night! Thank you again, @gellaho !

gellaho

Toodles

Damn, forgot to mute

gellaho
gellaho
Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

lol

Also "feller". Is grant supposed to be a young Gabby Hayes?

gellaho

Adorable?

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

I can see that.

Its like a big chicken.

gellaho

Too hot for TV

gellaho

Time to steal some precious egggggssss

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Delicious.

gellaho

And we're back

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

They could all have the same father, Grant, you don't know

gellaho

DAMN YOU, PARKING! DAMN YOU, CAGE WOMAN!

Velo, Electric Ghost

Yay more office drama

I hope they fired Elinor again

Immediately

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

So.........fucking what? If theres seven empty spaces for reserved parking..........like if the parking lot is that full seven spaces isnt doing shit. Dude get back to dinosaur observing.

Develop a plot.

Something needs to happen for this to be an actual book.

gellaho

It's riveting financial issues

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

It seems like shitting out a second movie after a successful first outing is...........topical, but unintended.

gellaho

Sauropods live as long as trees, apparently

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Oh good for a second I was afraid there might be some urgency

gellaho

THESE DAMN LADY TIME SENSERS

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

You ever notice women be time travelling? Its true, women DO BE time travelling.

Velo, Electric Ghost

Is this book a prank

gellaho

These damn lady publicists!

gellaho

"Mrs Cane, could you please not headbutt me"

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Quit being a wuss and meet the fuckin president.

Shoot him and walk backward into time so the secret service cant catch you.

Velo, Electric Ghost

If only so many women weren't attracted to him! He can't help being the sexy bad boy of time travel dinosaur hunting!

He's a man god damn it, a man with feelings and needs. But all these women are a piece of meat that time travels to hunt dinosaurs

gellaho

At a party in New York, a lady runs up and stars rubbing his face scars

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Well at least he has jokes

gellaho

Is that your orbital bone? Hot.

gellaho

And what a dancer, at this weird party

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

God.

Fuck you for "with the same fluid ease he did everything." you didnt earn that, book.

gellaho

Then he's propositioned by a guy. I'm sure this will go well

Velo, Electric Ghost

Oh no

gellaho

How bout I introduce the slim, little, tiny, thin knife in my pants

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

"Time travellers at this party who want to get their dick sucked in a bathroom, what kind of people did you think I meant?"

gellaho

That old chestnut you always hear

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Now theres the Missouri coming out.

gellaho

Classic corny pickup line, do you hate women?

DAMN THESE BUSTY WOMEN, THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE

Velo, Electric Ghost

IF ONLY THEY HAD NAMES OR FACES

gellaho

Grant dreams of sad redheads

gellaho
Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

I really love how judgemental this guy is. " The manner of a hussy" is something my grandma would have said was old fashioned.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"some say the last Pteranodon died of a broken heart. Others say it died because we only fed it nachos and gummy worms. And in a sense, both are true."

gellaho

Grant goes to a rich kid's birthday party and gives him plumbing equipment

gellaho

You're probably wondering why

That is a good question

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

When i was a lad I would dream of recieving a plumbing kit. No questions needed.

One hopes tho that he got the kid some sealant or the whole thing wont work

gellaho

This twelve year old's birthday party reminds him of a time he got flashed

gellaho

It's just absolutely covered in scars

Velo, Electric Ghost

Hey Grant have you considered letting a dinosaur eat you?

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Oh wow this sounds like a huge problem for youuuuuuu, im sure its real tough.

gellaho

Which reminds him of the time he fucked a wife and her seventeen year old daughter

gellaho
gellaho
Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Grant. Did.........did you get pressured into an incestuous three way because you were too shy to say "Uh hey, one of you needs to leave."

Ive never seen any protagonist genuinely complain about all the sex theyre having and then relate a story about them having sex in a way that makes them look this dorky.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Imagine believing you - I mean your character - to be so unbelievably attractive that a 17 year old girl will fuck you WITH HER ACTUAL MOTHER on her own initiative

And then imagine thinking it's a good scene

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

And then having the character complain like that looks cool.

gellaho

Then he gets invited on a fishing trip with all the women at the party and has a four way

gellaho
Velo, Electric Ghost

This book is about time travel

It promised us dinosaurs

Scarrow is better than this

For now

gellaho

THESE DAMNED REDHEADS

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Whatever is going on here, whatever narrative or tension the author is trying to build? It sucks.

Grant sucks, I hate him, and I hope he gets eaten by an allosaurus.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

So every woman on Earth throws herself at him pussy-first and we still have to hear about his dreams where he fears rejection from women

gellaho

THESE DAMN SCI-FI CONVENTION ATTENDEES

Velo, Electric Ghost

how is this still happening

how

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Why the fuck would he be at a sci fi convention?

Velo, Electric Ghost

That's an amzing question

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

We had a time travel segment and it didn't matter

Velo, Electric Ghost

Your'e right

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

There's still no plot

Velo, Electric Ghost

He hates people and he hates things

Why would he go

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Also yeah that's hilarious

gellaho

Later, at a Georgetown party, he's surrounded by the MIASMA OF SEX

gellaho
Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Why would he be at a science FICTION convention? Hes helping ACTUAL science, its not fictional.

What would he even add to a panel?

Also Grant needs to jerk off more.

This isnt normal.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Yeah it's like how sonetimes in Marvel stories they'll have a superhero convention for all the fans, but like in universe people should have more complicated feelings towards superheroes

Velo, Electric Ghost

WHY IS HE GOING TO PARTIES

gellaho

Grant considers fucking the president

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

"you got iron man's autograph. Cool. Did you thank him for killing my uncle with falling debris? Oh he was fighting Ultron, thanks for reminding me. Who built Ultron again?"

gellaho

Vague publicity

Velo, Electric Ghost

Mariam is off having an adventure right now and we're stuck with fucking Grant

Grant thinking about all the women whose names he can't remember

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Why not just make the president a woman and then Grant can be scared of fucking the Lady President.

gellaho

Then he fucks his married head publicist

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Yeah if you can't see any group of women without thinking of them as a miasma of sex, that's a problem in your own brain

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

This book has too much unearned and boring fucking.

gellaho

The Depths

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Dude you are fucking NEUROTIC.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

SHUT UP

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

"OH GOD! What if the woman i fucked one time asks me to drive her to the airport!?"

I want him to die.

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Her smile will forever be slightly more self conscious than once it was

This character is living proof that having sex doesn't cure you of incel mentality

Velo, Electric Ghost

I get why this publisher went out of business

Not even porn can make up the loss this must have been

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

I feel like this author owes us like fifty dollars each, and Gellaho at least a hundred.

The publisher should be tried in the Hague.

gellaho

Ketchup!

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

🤔

gellaho

THESE DAMNABLE REDHEADS

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Yeah now you pissed her off and shes a much more interesting character than you.

Dick.

gellaho

THOSE FOOLS DON'T UNDERSTAND AXES LIKE I DO

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

gooood this book is as boring as the actual state of Kansas.

gellaho

Your lady bones might not allow throwing

Velo, Electric Ghost

It did warn us right on the cover

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Did we ever get an explanation why axe throwing is the single most vital skill in dino time travel?

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

"I read it on 4chan so it must be true."

Velo, Electric Ghost

I cant even fake misogyny that, it's just the dumbest thing I've ever read

gellaho

What?

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Also "they don't WANT to understand" is a very funny thing to say about axe throwing. This guy just has one weird specific hobby that he takes way more seriously than anyone else

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

And just think, she could be getting this advice from almost any park ranger or lesbian at an axe throwing bar, but without all the free misogyny!

gellaho

HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A HERO! I'LL KILL YOU!

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

Dude can throw an axe where he aims it and he thinks it makes him the Men in Black

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

"Nevermind, asshole." should be her next sentence.

gellaho

Better have a good cry and that dream again

gellaho

Then back to the past

Velo, Electric Ghost

How long is this book

gellaho

Hey there, buddy

gellaho

211 pages

Velo, Electric Ghost

That's astonishing

gellaho

Taunt the T-Rex

Velo, Electric Ghost

Somehow made the most exciting dinosaur boring

Velo, Electric Ghost

Please Grant, let it eat you

gellaho

Grant defeats the T-Rex by running at it

gellaho

I'm not entirely sure why he's doing this, but here we are

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Im not a math guy but I feel like that "eight times the weight vs only four times as strong" maybe doesnt make sense.

gellaho

So, he does that all day

gellaho

And the next day

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

I feel like a gargantuan chicken would give up after a while, its like running a marathon just to eat a snickers bar.

A dude sized calorie intake is insufficient for this kind of expenditure.

gellaho

And so on

Velo, Electric Ghost

Oh no, Grants thighs are injured

Tom Owns Diebel's Grave

This sounds more like exploiting an enemy's aggro behaviour in a video game

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

Grant is a dick to dinosaurs.

gellaho

Well, time to slash its face

gellaho

Yay?

Flippant Sausage Word Ticklers

You fuckin happy now?

Grant?

You satisfied?

gellaho

Time to tumble into the future

gellaho
gellaho

The black neighborhood he fell into helps him with the T-Rex head