August 3, 2025
He's not our best, but he's who we've got: Meet Ambassador Symbles

Symbles Is Representing Humanity. Let’s All Panic Quietly.

In the Trunk Line universe, it's never a great day when Tim Symbles is put in charge of anything—let alone the diplomatic future of the human race.

And yet, here we are.

In Clueless, humanity is sending its very best—no, wait, its most available—representative to a high-stakes summit with Ephants, the Kind, and the Cats. Symbles is barely qualified to pilot a shopping cart through a supermarket, let alone navigate galactic politics.

It’s not that he’s unqualified, it’s that nobody else was dumb enough to say yes.

As Symbles wades into interstellar negotiations with nothing but a hangover and a handful of painkillers, we’re reminded of a universal truth:

Some species have warships.

Some have wisdom.

We sent Tim Symbles.

Let’s all panic quietly.