How High Tech Low Life Carries the Spirit of This Is How You Lose the Time War

At its heart, This Is How You Lose the Time War is about love written in the margins of war—intimacy born in impossible places, language used as both weapon and lifeline, and the defiant choice to connect when the world demands separation.

High Tech Low Life carries that same energy. Where Time War gives us coded letters between enemies, High Tech Low Life offers glitching bodies, reluctant alliances, and raw truths spoken in the cracks of war. Both are devastating, stylish, and unforgettable.

Connection in Impossible Places

In Time War, Red and Blue build something fragile in the shadows of their war. In High Tech Low Life, Garrett forces closeness on Devlin in a moment that’s equal parts brutal and tender:

“No!” Garrett exclaimed harshly. “If you’re not going to accept help willingly, I’m more than happy to do it by force!” … Once dried off, Devlin was beyond embarrassed. He threw the towel around him as if it were a lifeline.

Like Red and Blue’s letters, these moments of forced intimacy carve out space for connection in the middle of chaos.

Words That Wound and Heal

Red and Blue wield words as blades and balm. Devlin and Garrett do the same—barbed honesty cutting through walls of deflection:

“I’m a murderer, you ape. I tortured countless people. Including you.” … Garrett’s jaw clenched. “You’re just as much the victim as any of the beings you were forced to harm, Dev.”

That same duality—truth as destruction, truth as salvation—runs through both stories.

Intimacy as Defiance

For Red and Blue, love is rebellion. For Devlin and Garrett, even staying in the same room without tearing each other apart feels like war turned into something else:

“I feel like he’s a self-destructive asshole who refuses to acknowledge when people truly give a shit about him.” … “I feel like he’s the most frustratingly persistent person I’ve ever met and that he’s keeping me around only because he thinks it’s what Sam would’ve wanted.” 

That intimacy isn’t soft—it’s jagged, reluctant, and deeply human. Exactly like Red and Blue finding ways to say I love you without ever writing the words directly.

Bodies That Refuse to Behave

In Time War, transformation is constant, identities rewritten. In High Tech Low Life, bodies glitch, resist, and betray:

Then, without warning, Devlin’s form flickered—like a corrupted video file skipping frames. One second he was standing in front of Ethan, and the next he fragmented, pixels scattering before vanishing entirely.

Both stories remind us the body is never just a body—it’s a battlefield, a message, a prison, and sometimes a love letter in itself.

Choosing Each Other Anyway

At their core, both books are about defiance—the refusal to be broken apart, even when war and trauma demand it.

“It’s not just about Sam.” His voice was quieter now. “I—we—we’ve been through too much for me to just let you self-destruct.” 

That’s the same heartbeat as Time War: two people choosing each other when everything around them screams not to.

✨ If This Is How You Lose the Time War is a love story written in letters, then High Tech Low Life is a love story written in glitches: jagged, unwilling, impossible—and all the more powerful because of it.

—Kaitlyn & Michael 💜

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