The Exclusion Clause in the Small Print of Life

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[@HelloFutureMe]

Does the world ever feel like it's burning up and you're not sure what to do? Well boy do I have the book for you linktr.ee/timhickson

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

You're amazing man! Love your content

[@jessetorres8738]

This story reminds me of the Season 5 finale of The 100. The last 412 survivors of a nuclear war on Earth escaped onto a spaceship that would travel over a century to a new planet. However, 2 of the survivors chose not to go into cryosleep to keep the ship running & on course until the ship reached the new planet. They also had a son that grew up without any friends so they later put him into cryosleep, but then he took over the responsibilities once his parents died.

[@djinnbuggaboo]

Do you have a preference for which store to buy your books from? Like one charges less fees to sell with them?

[@jessetorres8738]

This story reminds me of the Season 5 finale of The 100. The last 412 survivors of a nuclear war on Earth escaped onto a spaceship that would travel over a century to a new planet. However, 2 of the survivors chose not to go into cryosleep to keep the ship running & on course until the ship reached the new planet. They also had a son that grew up without any friends so they later put him into cryosleep, but then he took over the responsibilities once his parents died.

[@thatotherted3555]

I was thinking of that too. It was a weird and uneven show, but that was definitely one of its memorable high points.

[@strawberrylotlizard]

Such a stupid show

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

Just imagine, taking a selfless job like, suicide by century ship maintenance person. Only to realized that nobody planned to have more than one person awake at a time... So, you do something covetous and wake up a co-worker who should be asleep for the next 250 years... Lie to them, have children with them,,,, and right before their death, you be like... Oh by the way.

[@mikelitoris8809]

Wasn't there a movie kind of like that with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence?@@Robert_McGarry_Poems

[@reidchikezie1161]

@@Robert_McGarry_Poems that's what happened in the movie; The Passenger.

[@kaikalter]

This is a really nice and creative way to promote the book.

[@viktorberzinsky4781]

Even after the death of his dream, he still found the resolve to give future generations some small amount of hope, no matter miniscule...The story I think many of us needed to hear...It matters not how full the glass is, the smallest droplet is worth fighting for. Perhaps you might just be able to refill it.

[@TheBarrej2006]

He was not giving future generations hope, he was telling himself a lie, to avoid a truly impossible choice. If he actually believed the lie, he would have woken someone up to replace him. He would have done fuel calculations, parts inventories, etc. If he couldn't himself, he would have woken someone up who could have. He knows what those answers would be, if he where to look, so he will not look. Because this way, he does not need to be affirmatively involve himself in the the end of this ship, and everyone on board. Inaction leads to the same results as action, but this way he can lie to himself that he was not involved.

[@BlakyKarol]

It's always so fun and amazing to work with you Tim. I really enjoyed drawing this and your narration makes it 10 times better. Thank you for working with me ❤️ your projects are always so creative and gives me something new and out of my comfort zone to draw.

[@THATGuy5654]

I kind of assumed that he'd make the girl his apprentice so she could do his job on the way to the next best hope, sacrificing her dreams but (maybe) saving the colony. It would be a sad but potentially more hopeful ending.

[@dellagondwana5504]

I was thinking that too. If he's so old and probably won't make it to the next planet, who's going to wake them up when they get there?

[@Levi_Zacharias]

My emotions were not ready for this so early in the morning. Brilliant work!

[@dimitra_k]

Man, I've been reading A Catalogue for the End of Humanity for a few days now and it's been brilliant! Your writing style is so good. It has made me think, it has made me sob, it has made me feel so much. I've been reading a story a day and the medium of the short story really is wonderful for the kind of stories you've written. This story, in particular, was really touching, I really appreciate the hopeful note it ends on. Thank you for sharing these beautiful stories with us, they genuinely mean a lot

[@dakotasherman632]

Hey Tim, I just bought your books on writing today. Watching you has finally made me decide to begin writing a story I have been thinking of. Thank you for the inspiration and in advance as I'm sure your books will be helpful!

[@Temperans]

These type of stories are always fascinating because the exact details can change so much even just considering the tech involved. Are there androids? Are there self repairing robots? Is the whole thing designed from biomass? Is there a protocol for replacing the janitor? What if the janitor gets lonely? What if there is an error and someone is forced to stay awake ahead of tim? The possibilities are endless. My favorite version of these type of stories has a set of people who stayed awake, then proceed to create a family and a vivarium in the middle of the ship.

[@jackwriter1908]

Damn, that is one nice promotion. A beautiful story and nice visuals... I will definetly share this with my friends, I am currently not really readinv much, so I am going to share this video and hope that will help.

[@zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998]

waking up 1 young fellow with a background similar to his initial one, then mentoring them to maintain the ship, would've by hundreds if not thousands of times increased the odds of the ship reaching its destination. Though I don't know how fuel costs plays into all of this. Maybe they got a perpetual motion machine to make speeding up and slowing down a non-problem. Other than that, it's a pretty neat animation/story, so well done. I couldn't see the artist tagged anywhere, so did you do that?

[@finbar1184]

Isn't it right at the end in the middle of the screen?

[@ollievirus6695]

At the end of the story it have the artist name

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

7:35 Art by Karolina Vaišvilaitė

[@TheBarrej2006]

Thousands of times better odds, when the odds start at 2×10^-600 is still 2×10^-597. He was not giving anyone in those cryopods a chance at a new world. He was absolving himself of the responsibility of activity participating in then end of this ship. To wake anyone up would be to force them to make the same impossible choice he was faced with, the same choice he would not, could not bare to face.

[@zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998]

@@TheBarrej2006 why do you think the odds of success were this low? They made the initial journey with no cryopods lost? Well, if the apprentice gets lonely, can wake up someone else to keep them company and to help out, since there'll be even more need for ship repair with how it's older now. Thus, they won't have to suffer through the same loneliness. And what choice? It'll only happen if the next world is ruined as well. They can keep hopping around, maybe improving the ship, or even improving their tech, till they either find a good world to colonize, or they get better at terraforming.

[@andrew.]

Just fyi, terminal velocity refers to the velocity at which the force form gravity reaches an equilibrium with the forces of drag from air reaistence (terminating the acceleration), it's not a speed which is terminal to people. So attaining this speed is possible in any gravity, and different objects have different terminal velocities dependant on their size, shape, mass and orientation. Maybe you (and the character) knew this though and were using the term poetically.

[@calladricosplays]

Squirrels can survive terminal velocity!

[@wynnt1]

I love these animations for your short stories. They add a whole new layer of beauty and tragedy to the words on the page Also just kind realized that THOSE ARE THE MOST SPACIOUS PODS I'VE EVER SEEN

[@approximateCognition]

same energy as one of those ark ships in the children of time trilogy

[@madelinejameswrites]

This is so beautiful. I started crying at the end because the emotions just hit so hard especially as a mom. Wonderful job!

[@jennifervan75]

This was absolutely beautiful

[@sammykat2hb]

This brought tears to my eyes, thank you for sharing it and the illustrations are fabulous

[@gustavovaz2535]

I loved it Tim! Great job to you (and the artist as well)

[@crk.resrhetorica]

That story was very beautiful and touching. And the imagery is great, too.

[@hairywolfman3160]

Well I know what I'm getting myself for Christmas!

[@GrupoEscarlata]

This was great! I've been writing for a year now and your videos are very useful

[@LittleChortle]

My copy of A Catalogue for the End of Humanity just arrived, I'm so excited to read it 💖

[@lukasdutko8672]

Usually, I play all videos at 2x the speed. Usually, not many things make me feel much. Guess this was not usual. The same way I couldn't bring myself to up the speed. The same way I couldn't stop my tears from falling. Beauty. That's what I've experienced just now. Amazing work. You truly did have it in you. 😃😇❤️

[@brannanvitek1035]

God this was *stunning*. I froze while doing laundry to listen. Great job Tim!!

[@godofmyownhours3875]

❤❤❤❤ Great story, Tim! Loved it since first time reading it.

[@rosaliegrace905]

Absolutely beautiful the second i have any extra money I'm grabbing thos books immediately.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content! Keep going 😊😊😊😊

[@LiaGoldie]

Beautiful Tim! Thanks for sharing your story with us. Your book is on my Xmas list :)

[@bethanyrldodson]

I’ve only listened to your non fiction before. This was really beautiful ❤

[@isaacjohnson3503]

this is amazing. do more of these please!

[@PRETTEHSHINEH]

Not you just casually making me need to bawl in the middle of a workday 😭

[@Mikeoneal07]

This was beautiful, thank you

[@mathieuleader8601]

great job on the expressions

[@user-sl8mn1yz1s]

I fell asleep to this after a long day. Thanks Tim! I’m putting in my order.

[@blytheanneliese5408]

HOLY CRAP THIS IS AMAZINGGGGGGGG thank you so much for sharing this!!!! Now excuse me while I go violently sob

[@hieracium3317]

Damn Tim, just trying to make me cry here

[@moonglade420]

That was amazing :3 made me feel a lot and the ending almost made me cry (in a good way)

[@angelamccollister]

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

[@elkboy2538]

You've got talent as a writer, man. Hope you know both your upcoming books are on my Christmas list. Also, I wish I could draw like that 😢

[@MDP1702]

Something I never really understood in such 1(/x persons) stays awake for decades while the rest remains in cryo sleep stories is, why not work in shifts? Like 5-10 years and then switch (or switch even more regularly). This way the caretakers lose only a short part of their life instead of their entire life. And it also creates more redundancy. Really nice short story though.

[@Signal_Lost.]

Aww. . . it made me cry!

[@zenkomenhi]

I am trying not to sob right now, this was so beautiful

[@JMPT]

Amazingly Nice 💙

[@CleoPinto4317]

wow thats beuatifull

[@Rick586]

Very nice story!

[@pyeitme508]

WOW!

[@3dchick]

So Good !!!

[@fantasymagic97]

This gave me goosebumps.

[@TheFrench23]

Hey thanks for your work, been watching you for years keep going at it. And hope you won't mind me writing in your books as I use them as manuel for writing lessons.

[@Slobrojoe]

Hoping for a copy for Christmas :)

[@SkyP9812]

I'M NOT CRYING, YOU ARE! my eyes are just extremely sweaty, that's all!

[@alexm-e4910]

Christ dude that was fucking beautiful. Made me tear up and I don’t cry easily

[@naomiuchiha0906]

Man...I am in tears

[@zoinks2607]

I give it 5/5 sparkles✨ ✨ ✨✨✨

[@ginathedreamer5655]

Loved it. Reminds me of the first half of the book Coyote

[@mavg.]

You're amazing

[@frankharr9466]

That was good.

[@jazzm5748]

Beautiful

[@UseTheLess00]

My urge for the audiobook has just increased tenfold!

[@uncabob214]

Well I'm crying.

[@alexm-e4910]

Hey I just published a new short story :) so happy to have matched this release with one of my own

[@charlessaintpe8574]

For the first couple seconds, I thought I was about to hear the William Tell Overture.

[@PhoutianPhill]

Any update on the calandar release?

[@King_Hodop]

Yo what an animation?!??!

[@joshuavincent3515]

I'm going to read this.

[@mindfighter1]

How dare you make me cry in 7 minutes

[@mahikamihan]

bone-chilling!

[@jayromeric9101]

Holy sh>/ that was good!

[@Tyxaar]

HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME CRY TODAY????? D':

[@Glitterblossom]

Why do we plant trees whose fruit we’ll never eat? Thank you.

[@andreaweber8059]

I wonder if he even arrived at the correct planet in the first place, given that he was 9 years late.

[@jadabocage8357]

bro why’d you do that to me? (my brother’s name too) wonderful tho. I luv it >>> on my Christmas and bday list fr

[@urinalcakes3776]

its been a year since youve uploaded anything including her😔

[@t-helen-price]

What a riveting narrative! omg!! "sleeping children" stopppp'. This video has genuinely piqued my interest in your book, especially with the audacious imagination!

[@ookazi1000]

Thank you for the content warning. I'm not in the mood for that, so I'm just gonna let this one play on mute as I tab away.

[@NawDawgTheRazor]

Alternatively, we can not destroy OG Eden.

[@tulikas9862]

7:34 Thanks, Tim for letting there be a real human name there. It's such a small thing, but it holds so much weight nowadays.

[@federicopena8664]

Did they make it to a new home?

[@lord_of_crabs]

...holy shit.

[@NaritaZaraki]

Well here come the waterworks.

[@ellyonjune]

Jesus Christ you made me cry

[@SecretSynth]

Wait but even if they make it to the exoplanet no one will be able to wake them up! He should have defrosted someone else to carry on his work-

[@sarahwithanhyouheathen3210]

Ok so i read the title as The Plant that Died and i was like, aww poor plant 😢 Then i saw it said The PLANET that Died and i was like, oh good riddance lol 😂

[@teekaa2520]

Hey I like your content, but ... creators like you have warped my brain in a way that I can't help but pick this story apart. So ... Dramatically, when it comes to the feels: Great! But realistically ... The obvious solution is to wake someone up to take his place. Someone with life experience who has held responsible positions before, probably male in his 40s or 50s. Also since the ship wouldn't function without a janitor, he doomed those people, by dying without a successor. If I were to design the janitor role I would have them be a couple and not just one couple but maybe up to 5 couples. One couple would work 5 years have one year overlap with the next couple and rotate thru ... It reminds me of NASA not investigating the site of the accident in Andy Weirs "The Martian". That's bull s**t, of course they would have investigated immediately. And if they didn't want to publish pictures of Mark Watneys body they surely could have gotten a Presidential waiver for that.

[@TheBarrej2006]

No one was ever going to survive that trip. That was true from the moment they set out. What he is doing is avoiding the impossible choice of choosing their death. The outcome is the same, but this way, he can lie to himself, and say that he did not make the impossible choice. He just differed that until after he had passed on. Then there would be no one awake to make that impossible choice, save for the unfeeling, uncaring time cosmos itself. To wake someone up would be to force them to make the impossible choice, and most likely in a scenario in which it is harder to lie to themselves that this choice can be delayed. He knows that they can't even make it to the next planet. But he needs to tell himself that maybe, just maybe; and that way I can live with myself.

[@teekaa2520]

Well, I guess the story is just not for me. Edit: I don't see the impossible choice, doesn't mean it wasn't intended. But... The reason they send Mark Watney to Mars and gave Kirk the command of the Enterprise, they didn't see the impossible choice either. The sad thing is that in the end the Janitor was just a janitor and should not have been given this responsibility.

[@TheBarrej2006]

@@teekaa2520 The point of the story is in the first line, the rest is illustrative "Somewhere in the small print of life, there must be an exclusion clause. If there is no hope, do not wake me up" There is no hope, so don't wake anyone up. But i am awake, so i must have hope. But there is no hope, so i cant wake anyone up. But i am awake, so i must have hope. This story is about finding a way to hold those 2 statements in his mind, without him seeing the contradiction.

[@fourdayz1414]

@@teekaa2520 ​​⁠ just adding onto the other commenter but yeah it’s about feeding yourself a lie in order to push forward. It’s something a lot of people can relate to, especially when life is looking hopeless. So it’s less about plot (it’s a short story, there isn’t much time to explore a complex narrative such as this) and more about the meaning and feeling behind it

[@teekaa2520]

@@fourdayz1414 To be quite frank thinking "Somewhere in the small print of life, there must be an exclusion clause." is a symptom of mental illness and should be shown to a professional.

[@abduljalloh5777]

Tim giving Eminem vibe😂

[@vicenteabalosdominguez5257]

Amazing story. Can't wait for the Glorks to find this ship and use them as cheap labour in mining world #261.

[@leckertoastbrot6532]

the story is nice, the drawings too but the editing is on a way lower level

[@robbyw.8616]

32nd

[@FaoladhTV]

cat

[@AwkwardAman]

Have you read one piece, if not I highly recommend you to read it's manga! It's like a greatest Odyssey of our time! ❤

[@mopar1969ful]

I second this 🙌

[@LaymensLameMan]

Bro what? Of course he knows what one piece is 💀

[@AwkwardAman]

@@LaymensLameMan I said if not! Than I highly recommend you to read it. Btw I recently subscribed his channel because of the video about World Building! In my humble opinion I feel One piece has the greatest world building of our time and I didn't see any one video or a reference about One Piece. Ps_Ignore typo

[@LaymensLameMan]

@@AwkwardAman lol well yeah but that’s because it conflicts with the rest of his content. People that watch his videos are most likely not that into one piece. It does have good world building from my understanding but I’m not sure about the greatest of our time lol it is a really grand story though.

[@DesignerBerg]

I loved this story very much. Thank you for sharing it. Also: Some of the commenters on here seem to have missed the point of the story, and that makes me kind of curious. Perhaps the apparent need for more, more logic, more plan, more denial, more survival, and so on, is actually to be expected. After all, is that not the hallmark of what humanity does here in this universe? -To have people react to your story as if it was truly happening right now, before their eyes? -To have outright rejections of the certainty of The End, thrown in your face, with fury for company? WOW. I think someone hit the mark.

[@dotcorbeil6266]

Ummm there is a problem with this story

[@angelgracealtares6998]

Omg!! I love it so much!!! Great job ❤ You're so talented and creative and even my life coach @lisahaisha shows some of your videos during her retreat here in the Philippines.