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The Trowulan Reviews is a non-profit initiative that is satirical. The Trowulan Reviews uses fictitious names in all of our content. All other use of real names is accidental and coincidental.

About the Trowulan Reviews

The Trowulan Reviews is the world’s least necessary but most enthusiastic publication dedicated to the fine art of poking fun at people who deserve it and occasionally the ones who just wandered too close. Founded sometime between the golden era of the Majapahit Empire and last Tuesday, The Trowulan Reviews is devoted to reminding the high and mighty that they look mighty funny when you tilt your head a little.

Rising from the rubble of coffee-stained notebooks and late-night rants, The Trowulan Reviews has become a beacon for all who believe that a good joke is cheaper than therapy and twice as effective. Its readership, estimated at anywhere from a handful of loyal misfits to the entire sentient population of the Milky Way Galaxy, comes for the humour and stays for the schadenfreude.

Maintaining a proud tradition of low-budget brilliance, The Trowulan Reviews supports a thriving economy of one overworked editor, two unpaid interns, and a cat with editorial control. Recently, The Trowulan Reviews has taken a keen interest in the nation’s latest innovation in resource management: handing out mining access to folks whose only proven expertise is organising prayer circles and campaign rallies. In a dazzling display of faith-based geology, non-competent organisations and vote-swaying social groups have been entrusted with the sacred task of digging up the earth, presumably because they’ve already proven so good at digging our civilisation into holes of another kind.

We, however, have retracted a few statements in the recent development of conditions. In a recent and wholly unanticipated honour, The Trowulan Reviews itself was awarded a government mining permit, proof positive that in this modern era, satire truly moves mountains, or at least qualifies to dig them up. Officials cited the publication’s “strong community influence” and “religious engagement,” which we assume refers to the number of times our staff has prayed for Wi-Fi to work. Alongside a colourful cast of non-competent organisations, prayer brigades, and vote-mobilising social clubs, The Trowulan Reviews now proudly joins the nation’s new geological experiment: extracting ore through moral support and blind optimism. We look forward to breaking ground and flattening our forests just as soon as we figure out which end of the shovel is which.

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How can I donate to The Trowulan Reviews?

The Trowulan Reviews is now not accepting donations. We tried that once, but the money started giving us ideas, and frankly, that’s how good satire goes bad. We remain proudly independent, gloriously underfunded, and entirely powered by caffeine, indignation, and the occasional miracle of borrowed Wi-Fi. If you feel the urge to contribute, please redirect that energy toward local libraries, struggling journalists, or perhaps a fund to teach public officials what “competence” means.