💪 Tough Guys Patrick Sean Tomlinson / @stealthygeek / "Torque Wheeler" / @RealAutomanic / Kempesh / Padawan v2.5 - "Conservative" sci-fi author with TDS, armed "drunk with anger management issues" and terminated parental rights, actual tough guy, obese, paid Quasi, paid thousands to be repeatedly unbanned from Twitter

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Boston Brand said:
Oh ye Kiwis, have I got a Christmas miracle for you.

A friend and former Baen editor who now works for that breakaway press Ark Press gave me some files when we met up few months ago... my reasons are my own, but perhaps he didn't notice, but one of the many files just so happens to be Patrick's infamous "Herd Immunity" pitch letter and sample.

I leave it here with good tidings and much lols, its as awful as we theorized. All I ask in return? Show half as much support for GOOD authors and people on our side as you do tearing down morons like Patrick. Pick up some balls-to-the-wall military scifi or sword & sorcery. Look into authors from Larry Correia to Blaine Lee Pardoe to Christopher Ruocchio. Hell, as a favor for this, give the folks at Ark Press some love as they roll out books next year. Though naturally, don't tell them your old pal Boston sent you.

It is the season of giving after all... and in that spirit, bon appetit!
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Hoooooly shit! First Boston Brand post i've seen in a million years and it's an absolute banger, as always! Can you hear the little angels sing? A true Christmas miracle, God is an atalker!

Edit: Hexephants with ebony ivory tusks, oh fuck off. I expected much more cringe but what i read so far just sounds intensely boring, both from a plot- and world building standpoint.

Edit 2: Jesus Christ, the actual sample is a million times worse to read than the pitch! Don't quit your day job, Fatty. Oh, wait...
 
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Boston Brand said:
Oh ye Kiwis, have I got a Christmas miracle for you.

A friend and former Baen editor who now works for that breakaway press Ark Press gave me some files when we met up few months ago... my reasons are my own, but perhaps he didn't notice, but one of the many files just so happens to be Patrick's infamous "Herd Immunity" pitch letter and sample.

I leave it here with good tidings and much lols, its as awful as we theorized. All I ask in return? Show half as much support for GOOD authors and people on our side as you do tearing down morons like Patrick. Pick up some balls-to-the-wall military scifi or sword & sorcery. Look into authors from Larry Correia to Blaine Lee Pardoe to Christopher Ruocchio. Hell, as a favor for this, give the folks at Ark Press some love as they roll out books next year. Though naturally, don't tell them your old pal Boston sent you.

It is the season of giving after all... and in that spirit, bon appetit!
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Herd Immunity is set in the same universe as In the Black . Same corporate space military, same roman numerals for everything that is a missile, same warrior women, and same stupidity.
 
From r/grindr, here lies Tommy Two-cocksucker.
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Harlan Wick said:
Herd Immunity is set in the same universe as In the Black . Same corporate space military, same roman numerals for everything that is a missile, same warrior women, and same stupidity.
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One difference though: No publisher.
 
RiceofSkywalker said:
Another thing that sticks out to me: the CCDF Musk. Was it supposed to be some kind of reference or tribute to Elon? Wasn't Pat always rather a Musk hater, or am I misremembering?
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I'm sure he's like most leftists and had no problem with Musk until he bought their sandbox over on twitter. They all use to love him over EVs until he broke their brains over twitter.
 
>How do i call an elephant-like creature with six legs? Hmmm...
>Hexaplant!
>I'll also give it black tusks instead of white so they cant say im lazy
Genius.
Plaintiff is fat said:
and he has heat exchangers IN THE VACUUM OF SPACE!
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By that he probably meant those radiators ISS has to regulate temparature, which is kinda (?) correct
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But its Fatrick so who knows
 
I only got as far as
The mission briefing room was hot, again. Like, swamp ass hot.
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and was immediately reminded of funny-bad horror movie Wish Upon, where Barb from Stranger Things says 'your dad is total hot sauce. Like, sriracha hot sauce.' Pat writes like a 50 year old screenwriter trying to sound like a teen girl.
YouTube Autist said:
How did Patrick get so many books published? Does he have dirt on people high up in the industry?
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I think the popular theory is that he poured all his """talent""" and effort into his first book and that got him a contract for the Ark trilogy. I remember someone posting reviews for Rick's books in the threads a long time ago and they said they are all bad but the first one is at least trying.

I'm guessing after the rest of the trilogy didn't do numbers and he turned into a total lunatic on Twitter (while also blowing all the SFWA's legal war chest on a lolsuit) he got blacklisted and that's why we still haven't seen Tiny Tim In Outer Space hit the digital shelves of Amazon.
The Taco Santo! said:
I'm sure he's like most leftists and had no problem with Musk until he bought their sandbox over on twitter.
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Pretty much the same as what happened with JK Rowling, except she was good enough to create a wonderful universe for kids (and weird adults) to enjoy, whereas Elon only created a bunch of kids he refuses to take care of and cars that won't stop blowing up.
 
McMitch said:
He absolutely pulled the title after learning what herd immunity was during Covid, and tried a hackneyed story based on that alone.
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That's 100% what happened. Don't forget that his entire writing career began because he read Hitchhiker's Guide and thought "I can write a better ending". Everything he's done in his adult life has been some form of cosplay. He can't even be a geek in a convincing way, which is something he takes a weird amount of pride in. He says he loves LOTR and even has a tattoo on his flabby shapeless arm but he's never read the books. He's seemingly not into gaming at all and only slurps up the most mainstream forms of geek culture that get pumped out, like whatever the latest slop from Marvel or Disney is.

All this to say he's fat.
 
Harlan Wick said:
Herd Immunity is set in the same universe as In the Black . Same corporate space military, same roman numerals for everything that is a missile, same warrior women, and same stupidity.
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Pretty much guarantees that he would've shoe-horned in a cameo by Firstname Lastname then if he got to get it published. Or is that Captain Kamala in these books? I only own one book set in the Expanded Waistline universe, the only worthwile one i might add:
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Plaintiff is fat said:
and he has heat exchangers IN THE VACUUM OF SPACE!
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His main issue is how he designed it. NASA has a lot of documents he could have checked out for this

AprilRains said:
Did...did he just steal a cross between Avatar and that Philip Pullman book with the elephant critters? Muffaletta or something? I know that's not the actual name, but it's close.

God damnit, Patrick, stop stealing shit!
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He's never been original.
 
Jesus, Grok really is just a subservient positive feedback machine. Grok may be the only entity that reads that shit and pretends to like it. And this is what he was shopping around to publishers. Maybe his agent did a quiet quit back then, he certainly hasn't gotten anything placed for publication after his first few books.
 
Patrick's writing isn't funny-bad or shockingly bad, it's far worse: boring bad.

The kind that makes your eyes glaze over. The kind that makes you feel like a small child in a hospital waiting room, forced to watch something really old and generic on television as your only form of entertainment, holding an ice pack to your head and cringing when the pain tenses up every couple of minutes. All the while, the boring show on the television grinds at an agonizingly slow, machine-like pace , barely advancing a plot you have no interest in. You're tired, you're in pain, you have no power to control your situation or surroundings, and you're just desperately waiting for the doctor to call your name so you and your mom can go to the operating room.

Maybe, if you were a grown adult and it came on TV in the late afternoon, while you were stoned and waiting for a pizza to get delivered, you'd sit through the whole thing and go "that was actually pretty okay." But if you tried to watch it again you'd either fall asleep or switch to something else you'd been meaning to watch.

I might be overselling the emotional impact, though. It's mostly just boring.

TL;DR his stories make go like:
 
Since it’s the end of Pigmas, we shouldn’t forget that it’s now 639 days since A Christmas Carnage was submitted, and no schedule of Tiny Tim getting Choo-choo’d by Wookies and Niggers.

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See you in the next 365 days, stalker. Enjoy the boringly shit Herd Immunity, stalker.
 
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