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Don’t swim with the dolphins during a labor dispute. No matter how much they try to convince you otherwise
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...I'm here on an island in the Caribbean, being told I need to talk to the dolphins in the middle of a labor action about some whales that might have torpedoes, armed by a secret society of villains who want access to a storeroom full of objects probably looted from the victims of the friggin' Nazis and who are maybe willing to blow up -my volcano lair- to get it.
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What do you want to do first, then?” “I want to throw up from stress,” I said. “But let’s visit the dolphins instead.
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Hi, Charlie,” the dolphin said. “I’m Who Gives a Shit, and these are my associates Don’t Care, Fuck You, Fuck Off, Burn It Down, and Eat the Rich.
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I don’t know anything about this!” I said. “I don’t know how to deal with striking dolphins, or torpedo whales, or evil conspiracies
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Oh, no, Charlie. Don’t swim with the dolphins during a labor dispute. No matter how much they try to convince you otherwise.
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I don’t know what I was hoping for, or expecting,” I said. “Probably not dolphins who say ‘fuck,’” Morrison said. “They did seem to use it a lot.” “If you were a dolphin without options, maybe you’d say ‘fuck’ a lot too, Charlie.
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But you’re not anymore, are you? Now you’re management! A suppurating bourgeois fistula of oppression!” “Bourgeois fistula! Bourgeois fistula!” the rest of the dolphins chimed in unison. “Not going to lie, I appreciate your way with words,” I said. “Don’t condescend to us, you ambulatory collection of skin tags,” Who Gives a Shit said. “If you’re just going to continue your uncle’s repressive labor policies, you can fuck off right into the sun.” “Sun fucking! Sun fucking!
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You need to go talk to the dolphins," Morrison said. I laughed, not entirely the laugh of a sane person, I have to admit.
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The dolphin chittered something. “Who is this fucknugget?” is what came out of a nearby speaker. “I guess that’s a yes,” I said. “Fucknugget! Fucknugget!” the other dolphins started chanting in unison.
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Well whoop-de-fucking-do,” the central dolphin said. For the very briefest moment I wondered about the translation software that had the capability to take the chittering of a dolphin and translate it to “whoop-de-fucking-do,” but I pressed on.
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It’s your new boss, you thumbless cretins.” “Fuck him! And fuck your manucentric world view!” “‘ Manucentric’?” I asked. “It’s not what you think,” the person in the wet suit said, getting up and coming toward me. “Manus is Latin for ‘hand.’ ‘Manucentric’ is their new go-to word when they want to accuse us of bigotry.” “Fuck your fingers!” the central dolphin said. “Finger fuck! Finger fuck!” the other dolphins chimed in.
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Don’t swim with the dolphins during a labor dispute. No matter how much they try to convince you otherwise.
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I can’t imagine a dolphin actually wants to spend its life being hugged by a parade of drunken podiatrists and preteen girls, and I didn’t want to spend any time in a line with members of either group to do the same thing.
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Do they talk?" I asked.
The dolphin chittered something. "Who is THIS fucknugget?" is what came out of a nearby speaker.
"I guess that's a yes.
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If you were a dolphin without options, maybe you'd say "fuck" a lot too.
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I can’t imagine a dolphin actually wants to spend its life being hugged by a parade of drunken podiatrists and preteen girls,
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John Scalzi (Starter Villain)