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I do not understand what is happening but I am incomprehensibly grateful to bigolas dickolas

4:41 PM · May 8, 2023

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This Is How You Lose the Time War

May 8

[faintly] I guess due to ... sales volume ... the paperback is now 50% off on the big river site? Get your copy of This Is How You Lose the Time War for $8 for as long as this lasts?!

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I truly cannot stress enough how lightning-struck-stunned I am & how utterly wonderful & bafflingly joyous this is, it's like you're out for a walk in your neighbourhood & turn a corner & suddenly are in Centaurworld

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May 8

(also maybe I should get into trigun?!)

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I tried to title this post for twenty minutes and failed

May 9

if y'all only knew how much I am struggling to title this newsletter

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Well all right

Dear Friends, What's this! Another newsletter, so fast on the heels of the last? Forgive me – it's time-sensitive and extraordinary. The short version: This Is How You Lose the Time War is presently,...

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May 9

so Time War is now ranked at 15 in Books on Amazon

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May 10

ok it's at 7 now I'm just going to keep posting these if it keeps going up pls forgive my need to document this fever dream

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desperately have to go to bed but please please if anyone sees this climb any further than 7 please screenshot it this is too utterly wild & I need proofs to hold on to in broad daylight

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ok it's at number 6 now just going to go for a very long walk

screenshot of This Is How You Lose the Time War ranked 6 in Amazon's Books. Below the cover is the title, my name, a 4.5 star rating from 10081 ratings, the word "Paperback," and the price at $8.79

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Trigun Fan Account's Tweet Turns Queer Sci-Fi Novel Into An Amazon Bestseller

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many thanks to Sisi Jiang for this write-up on Kotaku! extremely grateful to be able to point to a single source on this instead of tripping over my screenshots

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Amal El-Mohtar is ‘speechless’ at how her book experienced a resurgence in popularity

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A Q&A With the Author Whose Book Is Rocketing up the Charts Thanks to a Tweet From “Bigolas...

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Dan Kois

@dankois

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read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 1,200 words u can download it on instapaper and it'll read it to you in two minutes. do it right now i'm very extremely serious. slate.com/culture/2023/0

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The tweet appeared on Sunday. By Monday, the book was in Amazon's Top 100—and rising.

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I keep wanting to do a how it started / how it's going tweet but I have no idea WHERE IT'S GOING

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How a Trigun Stan Made a 2019 Sci-Fi Novel a Hit on Amazon

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my academia-poisoning requires me to attempt to keep an ordered list of media responses, here we go, in addition to Kotaku & Slate there is also Gizmodo

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This Is How You Lose the Time War already racked up Hugo and Nebula awards, but now it has the approval of... Twitter user Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood.

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And Book Riot

Bigolas Dickolas is the Best of Book Twitter

When anime account "Bigolas Dickolas" tweeted about the 2019 book This Is How You Lose the Time War, it made it a bestseller overnight.

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may we all find some @maskofbun energy in our lives

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Yoshihiro Watanabe

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Have I bought the book? Yes.

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ALERT ALERT WE'RE AT NUMBER 5 WE HIT NUMBER 5 WE ARE SOMEHOW ABOVE TAYLOR SWIFT

Screenshot of the top 5 bestsellers in Books on Amazon. 1: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom; 2: There are Moms Way Worse Than You; 3: Tell Me Your Life Story, Mom; 4: Oh, the Places You'll Go; and at 5, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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Trigun Fan Tweet Causes 2019 Queer Sci-Fi Novel to Climb Sales Charts

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Also crunchyroll has weighed in

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I just realized I broke format cataloguing this so here is Time War at number 5 in Amazon's Bestsellers--no wait--no wait what

A screenshot of This Is How You Lose the Time War at number 3 on Amazon

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[whispering] oh the places you'll go

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cannot stress enough that this was NOT A BIT, I was GOING to post the screenshot of time war alone the way I had been doing & wrote the tweet & my husband texted me the screenshot of it at number 3

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bigolas is officially more effective at selling books than winning a fucking pulitzer prize.

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incredibly I must once again succumb to the mortal need for sleep but I am therefore also again beseeching any of you in other time zones who are interested in keeping an eye on this to screenshot if even for one second it goes above 3 because I would love to see it! good night!

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