💪 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

[NaggotFigger]

Since I've forgot to elaborate the previous post properly, since I am fucking retarded; the brothermen had recently found out that Patty Cakes had hit up with a Nubian queen and was interested in enslave her as his second, blacker literary agent after he blew off Ooga Booga's cock fatly.

Spoiler: Beautiful Nubian mistress

Russ Gallen's site is no longer working, and his baby momma had established her own independent literary agency.


And this.


And a rib-buster from the brothermen asking Grok about giving Rick blowies book deals.

No, you should not give Patrick S. Tomlinson a book deal. The risks—primarily reputational, commercial, and operational—far outweigh any potential upsides based on his track record, sales trajectory, and the documented fallout from his behaviors.



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Evaluation of Past WorksTomlinson has a decent mid-tier track record in traditional sci-fi publishing:

• Key books: The Ark (2015, Angry Robot, start of Children of a Dead Earth trilogy) — his most visible debut. Follow-ups like Trident's Forge and Children of the Divide. Standalone or other works include Gate Crashers (Tor, 2018, humorous first-contact), Starship Repo (Tor, 2019), and In the Black (Tor, ~2020, military SF).
  
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• Reception: Solid but not breakout. Goodreads averages ~3.7–3.9 across main titles (e.g., The Ark ~3.89 with ~1,300 ratings; Gate Crashers ~3.80 with ~1,000; In the Black ~3.92 with ~500). Reviews often praise fun space opera, humor, action, and concepts (generation ships, heists in space), with some calling them entertaining "popcorn" reads. Critics note strengths in pacing and ideas but not always depth or breakout originality.
  
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• Sales/trajectory: No evidence of bestseller status or high volume. Mid-list numbers at best—hundreds to low thousands of ratings per title years after release. He has sold direct copies at events/conventions (e.g., dozens at a time for pocket cash), but nothing indicating scalable demand. Publishers like Angry Robot and Tor took him on earlier in his career, but there's no sign of recent major deals, expansions, or sustained momentum into the mid-2020s.
  
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His writing is competent genre fare with comedic elements (drawing from his stand-up background), but it hasn't built a large, loyal fanbase capable of driving strong sales or word-of-mouth. Impacts of Subsequent Behaviors This is the bigger issue. Tomlinson became embroiled in a prolonged, high-visibility online conflict after a 2018 tweet criticizing Norm Macdonald's humor. This escalated into years of mutual harassment, doxxing, review-bombing, swatting (reportedly dozens of times), death threats, and impersonations targeting him and his family.



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• Review bombing and platform issues: Coordinated low ratings (hundreds of 1-stars) on Goodreads/Amazon hurt visibility and sales. He publicly fought this, involving SFWA and platforms, which drew more attention but highlighted instability.
  
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• Lawsuits: He pursued legal action against an online forum (OnA-related) and lost, ordered to pay significant legal fees (~$23k–$80k+ with penalties/interest). He also sued Milwaukee over swatting responses. These drained resources and painted him as litigious.
  
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• Reputation in communities: Mixed-to-negative in parts of SFF, comedy, and online spaces. Supporters see him as a victim of extreme trolling; critics (including some in publishing-adjacent circles) view him as combative, quick to escalate, and prone to prolonged feuds. Allegations and old police reports (e.g., past domestic issues) have been recirculated. This creates PR headaches for any publisher or partner.
  
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• Ongoing effects: As of recent years, he continues posting about stlakers, legal fights, and conventions. This keeps the drama alive, deterring neutral readers and retailers. Stand-up career exists but doesn't appear to be a major driver. No major new books breaking through recently.
  
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Net commercial impact: Harassment damaged sales (per his own statements). The drama makes him a "high-maintenance" author—returns, boycotts, bad press, and platform volatility are real risks. Sci-fi audiences are fragmented; many avoid authors with heavy online baggage. Profitability and Pricing (If You Ignore the Above)Assume self-publishing or a small-press/micro-deal (traditional houses would likely pass due to risk). Break-even depends on your costs (editing, cover, marketing, printing, distribution, ads). Typical indie SF:

• Production costs: $2k–$10k+ per book (professional editing/cover critical; lower for ebook-only).
• Sales expectations: For a mid-tier name with drama, realistically low hundreds to low thousands of copies lifetime without heavy marketing. His existing audience is niche and polarized.
• Pricing for profitability:
  • Ebook: $4.99–$6.99. (Amazon 70% royalty on $2.99–$9.99. At $4.99, ~$3.50 royalty/copy after fees. Need ~1,000–3,000 sales to cover modest costs.)
  • Paperback: $14.99–$18.99. (Print costs ~$4–$8/copy via KDP/ingram; royalties lower. Aim for $6–$10 net/copy. Higher price risks lower volume.)
  • Hardcover/audiobook: Riskier—higher price ($24.99+) but tiny audience.

To be reliably profitable, you'd need strong marketing (ads, conventions, his existing but noisy platform), series potential, and no boycott drag. Realistic ROI looks poor versus signing a less risky author with similar or better metrics and cleaner reputation.Bottom line: Skip the deal. His books show he can deliver readable SF, but the combination of modest sales + massive ongoing drama makes it a bad business decision. Focus on authors with better momentum and lower risk. If you're a fan doing this personally (not commercially), that's different—but as a "book deal," it's not advisable.

 

[MilkThePig]

"the stalker pretending to be my wife's blanket" is comedy gold that most lolcows will never live up to and this is a normal weekday for our Ricky. The man's just robbed in every facet of life.

I like to imagine that every now and then somebody who went to high school with Rick looks him up out of curiosity and the first thing they see is a tweet like that.

I've mentioned this before but one of my favorite bits of pig lore is his high school teacher saying "Patrick would argue with a fence post" and then decades later he is literally arguing with the "Rick's Dilapidated Fence Post" account on Twitter. There's no way this guy was birthed like a regular human. He had to have been expertly engineered in a lolcow factory. There's no other explanation.

 

[Sneedfully and Peacefully]

"Patrick would argue with a fence post"

Didn't he provide this anecdote and agree with it? He admits he's a manic retard who will argue with anyone and anything just to be right.

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Lmao

"You're not important!" says the man who has devoted every single second of his life to respond to the funsters.

 

[DennisReynolds]

I’m not legal savvy enough to tell you whether this settlement is truly a pig W or not but I can tell you one thing for sure, is there is no 5 or 6 figure amount in any fucking world currency that I would accept in exchange for living in a Midwest city where Midwest cops are guaranteed to hate and fuck with me as long as I remain there for life now. Hell, taking that measly payout to move to a shit hovel in one of the most violent places in Mexico might actually be preferable to getting pulled over twice a day for going 2mph over the limit in Milwaukee.

 

[Trig.Point]

Good for Pat. I hope he got paid. Even if most of these visits were innocuous and nonviolent it's pretty fucking ridiculous that they kept happening at the same address. Total O&A Death

That the cops used a call from a burner phone as a legal basis for entering a house and pointing weapons would be wrong the first time they did it. 40+ calls later that they were still doing it, makes me wonder who the real retards are in this story.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

I’m not legal savvy enough to tell you whether this settlement is truly a pig W or not but I can tell you one thing for sure, is there is no 5 or 6 figure amount in any fucking world currency that I would accept in exchange for living in a Midwest city where Midwest cops are guaranteed to hate and fuck with me as long as I remain there for life now. Hell, taking that measly payout to move to a shit hovel in one of the most violent places in Mexico might actually be preferable to getting pulled over twice a day for going 2mph over the limit in Milwaukee.

They wont even have to do that as Patrick is well known for driving over the speed limit.

 

[NaggotFigger]

Ymunkoke bibke yOuR futTure, Atalker. ThiS is HoW yOu cHosEn tOO enD yeur lifE, stlaker. Rhsi is teh correcTion of yror record, Stlawkr. Emjoy prison.

 

[Markorian]

That the cops used a call from a burner phone as a legal basis for entering a house and pointing weapons would be wrong the first time they did it. 40+ calls later that they were still doing it, makes me wonder who the real retards are in this story.

Again, even by Fatrick's own admission, this is NOT what happened. Of the 50+ supposed incidents he crows about, a grand total of SEVEN had conduct so egregious in Fatrick's eyes that they warranted being sued over. One of them was literally the first time it happened, can't really fault them for not knowing ahead of time it was a fake call. One of them he was suing over was being placed in handcuffs after swinging on an officer. Considering he didn't spend a night in the drunk tank, got off pretty damn easy. Three of the remaining 5 of the 7 worst incidents he's faced involved an officer politely knocking on his door, apologizing because it happened again, asking if Nikki could come to the door and say hi to him so they could all be done with this and stop having their time wasted, and being fucking annoyed that Fatrick was being belligerent and uncooperative to no one's benefit. According to Fatrick himself, every single other incident was of a lower severity than that. In fact, we actually know that a massive amount of them involved an officer walking up to the porch, leaving a sticky note saying it happened again, and leaving, satisfied that there was nothing amiss he could see. If they were going in, guns blazing, kicking down his door every single time, the vast majority of the thread would agree with you.

Patrick was suing because he asked the police to give him a special hotline with a code word, and the police are to be at his beck and call and if titty ricky is accused of any crime ever, they're to call and ask him if he actually committed it, and if he says "no", they aren't allowed to take any further action, no matter what, and they wouldn't give it to him. That's fucking retarded and insane, especially with Fat's history.

Now, I want you to answer a simple question. Say you're a police officer. You have dozens of calls against a guy, you know this one is probably fake too, but he does have a conviction on record of making credible threats of homicide to a previous spouse, he's a known alcoholic who gets aggressive and violent, some of which has been witnessed on police bodycam. He's even had REAL incidents of serious aggression happen during this time towards 3rd parties. Do you risk a multi-million dollar lawsuit for not responding to the time it finally happened for real, or do you drive out, knock on his door or leave a sticky note, and go on with your day?

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I think his handle "pstomlinson" is strangely appropriate, like a PST file he originally seems useful, perhaps even competent, but as it swells in size rapidly over the years it becomes more and more useless until eventually its own bulk crashes everything around it, and tortures you for all eternity ...

wait, this got a bit personal

 

[Molag Bal]

Do you risk a multi-million dollar lawsuit for not responding to the time it finally happened for real, or do you drive out, knock on his door or leave a sticky note, and go on with your day?

I would start documenting all the fake calls that come in, and then past a certain threshold dismiss all of them off hand. If such an incident and lawsuit ever occurs, I can then introduce documentation on hundreds or thousands of fake calls to prove I had credible reasons to infer the 'real' call was fake as well.

 

[JustSomeDong]

and then past a certain threshold dismiss all of them off hand.

Then if an actual emergency of some kind happens, Fatrick sues them anyways. We'd be right here. Even with documentation. Sounds like a liability trap. Unless he had a massive coronary and died, bitchtits is getting litigious.

 

[Markorian]

I would start documenting all the fake calls that come in, and then past a certain threshold dismiss all of them off hand. If such an incident and lawsuit ever occurs, I can then introduce documentation on hundreds or thousands of fake calls to prove I had credible reasons to infer the 'real' call was fake as well.

Again, if this were an average case, involving a normal person, with average circumstances, I'd agree with you to some extent. This however is a very unique case, involving a retard with a history of violence and a conviction for credible threats of homicide against a previous spouse, and novel circumstances. If it did happen for real, I don't think Lynne Robinson, or a jury for that matter, would be so quick to accept "we just didn't think it was real" when talking about a guy who has a conviction on record relevant to this exact thing.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

This whole swatting bullshit is not a fucking problem irl if the target is not an idiot. Even Null, who likely doesn't have a brain and is simply an AI, knows you never fucking talk about being swatted and they stop doing it!

 

[Markorian]

This whole swatting bullshit is not a fucking problem irl if the target is not an idiot. Even Null, who likely doesn't have a brain and is simply an AI, knows you never fucking talk about being swatted and they stop doing it!

Exactly. There's a reason that, despite the majority of the country being covered under the 911 emergency line since the 80s, and large amounts of urban and suburban areas being covered since the 70s, SWATting is a problem that only emerged in the 2010s, coinciding with the rise in livestreaming. Even if you discount the very likely possibility that Pat is ordering these himself, he was told by police over and fucking over again to stop posting about it when it happens.

 

[Sneedfully and Peacefully]

Exactly. There's a reason that, despite the majority of the country being covered under the 911 emergency line since the 80s, and large amounts of urban and suburban areas being covered since the 70s, SWATting is a problem that only emerged in the 2010s, coinciding with the rise in livestreaming. Even if you discount the very likely possibility that Pat is ordering these himself, he was told by police over and fucking over again to stop posting about it when it happens.

Wrong child. This is SWATTing, a unique issue to me and me only, Patrick Tomlinson, the Specialest Child of Mama Raven. The correct way to handle it is a safe word, I suggested "pepperoni" but the cops said no. No that isn't my beard wife screaming from a knife wound after she told me she wanted a divorce, operator child. Pepperoni! Pepperoni! Safe word! Goodbye!

 

[A.P. Hill]

Exactly. There's a reason that, despite the majority of the country being covered under the 911 emergency line since the 80s, and large amounts of urban and suburban areas being covered since the 70s, SWATting is a problem that only emerged in the 2010s, coinciding with the rise in livestreaming. Even if you discount the very likely possibility that Pat is ordering these himself, he was told by police over and fucking over again to stop posting about it when it happens.

You also have to remember that over half of the SWATTTTTTTTTTTTings were actually wellness checks or other mundane events. I can't imagine the city will be very happy upon hearing that Fatty "has been the victim of 90+ SWATTTTTTTTTTTTings" when they have the actual numbers.

 

[AnOminous]

I would start documenting all the fake calls that come in, and then past a certain threshold dismiss all of them off hand. If such an incident and lawsuit ever occurs, I can then introduce documentation on hundreds or thousands of fake calls to prove I had credible reasons to infer the 'real' call was fake as well.

And if any of the people he's claiming are constantly trying to murder him find out the police will now never respond to any calls to that address, they can just go murder him for fun.

You also have to remember that over half of the SWATTTTTTTTTTTTings were actually wellness checks or other mundane events. I can't imagine the city will be very happy upon hearing that Fatty "has been the victim of 90+ SWATTTTTTTTTTTTings" when they have the actual numbers.

Literally only the first one was an actual swatting, i.e. guns drawn, dragging him outside, etc.

 

[Divine right to rule]

And a rib-buster from the brothermen asking Grok about giving Rick blowies book deals.

Even giving Patrick the benefit of the doubt, I have never read his slop, and pretending he is an average writer, his online presence is a fucking reactor meltdown in an advertisement and image sense. Even without the constant slapfighting with trolls, his social media is toxic to the extreme.
Many authors use social media as a moderately effective advertisement tool, Patrick has turned it into the extreme opposite.

He is a leper in the industry he got a lucky break in and only has himself to blame.
He is also too proud to self-publish his shit, so I don't think there will be any official Tomlinsoncore ever again.

 

[rel=alternate]

Even giving Patrick the benefit of the doubt, I have never read his slop, and pretending he is an average writer, his online presence is a fucking reactor meltdown in an advertisement and image sense. Even without the constant slapfighting with trolls, his social media is tocic to the extreme.
Many authors use social media as a moderately effective advertisement tool, Patrick has turned it into the extreme opposite.

He is a leper in the industry he got a lucky break in and only has himself to blame.
He is also to proud to self-publish his shit, so I don't think there will be any official Tomlinsoncore ever again.

This is so accurate. I think he understands it too, he is very critical, so he knows. But he just can't bring himself to accept it, so he just keeps painting himself into a tighter corner.

What this man has done with his social media presence is absolutely insane from a marketing perspective.

• He chose to be publicly divisive under his own brand name. Thus splitting his potential client pool in half (at best).
• He never actually brings value posts to what may constitute his core audience.
• He is abrasive as fuck and constantly engages in slap fighting. Replies in the most retarded ways.
• He his repetitive to the point where his sanity is in question.

I never read any of Ricks' books. But he made sure of that, because who would want to read anything coming from a lunatic? Even people who align with him politically can see the dude is insane.

It's like he chose his Twitter career (how is that going?) over his actual career. Had Fat not been an unhinged faggot, he would probably still be luring innocent publishers into giving birth to whatever abomination he wrote. OR he could have been that unhinged faggot on an alt account and get the best of both worlds.

I don't think he will self publish. He is not delusional like that that Saudi gay dude with his Garfield restaurants, where he actually tries and make things happen on his dime. Fat would much rather lie on X for the next foreseeable future about how he's never been without a job and his books are coming anytime. You died for even suggesting the contrary. Stalker child.