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

There are plenty of good stories written as sequels or expansions to public domain works. These are usually best when they're telling a completely new story that just uses the familiar world-building as a jumping off point. I have no idea if what Patrick's making will be good or not, I haven't read it and I don't really plan on it. I'll just say that, generally, there are no good or bad concepts, only good or bad execution.
Patrick is writing a sequel to a generationally beloved morality play and turning it into a murder mystery where a skull gets caved in with a tombstone. Even without reading the final product, I think we can all agree that Patrick has proven that there are in fact bad concepts

I look forward to him out patricking himself on this one by announcing his sequel to It's a Wonderful Life, except it's Falling Down with gratuitous sex in space
 
Pat's not even the first person to write a Scrooge story lately. A couple of years ago, I ran into an author named Curt Locklear who was on a road trip attending various festivals and civic celebrations, trying to sell his Civil War books. I signed up for his email list because he was a super-nice guy and I think that authors doing self-promotion is cool and should be encouraged. Anyway, I haven't bought any of his books but I do get emails from him about what he's up to. A few weeks back, an email landed introducing his newest book:

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The description from the email:
An innocent man accused of murders. Plenty of ghosts. Hard-fighting, clever dwarfs. A masked killer lurking in the mines. Excellent Victorian-styled romance. Gun battles. Secret tunnels. A miracle. Plot twists!

A clever teen pickpocket. Multiple, amazing, literary characters. Daring escapes!

And two of the most unqualified detectives ever!

Be ready to be surprised, scared, and enchanted. Scrooge and Cratchit – Detectives: A Dickensian Christmas Mystery is termed 5 stars and a winner. Take some of Charles Dickens’ most memorable characters, add brave new characters, include a few despicable criminals, and some spine-chilling suspense, and you’ve got your next favorite book. Who, if anyone, will survive for Christmas?

And a review:

The renowned detective agency of 19th-century London, Scrooge and Cratchit, team up with Sherlock "Lockie" Holmes and the Metropolitan Police to solve a series of mysterious kidnappings, murders, and general mayhem. Following a visit from the ghost of Jacob Marley, Scrooge realizes the crimes are far more than "run of the mill." The investigations grow increasingly supernatural as the detectives must deal with half-men/half-dogs to discover a most wicked plan behind the crimes intended to take over the entire city and destroy the detectives in the process.

A couple of things stand out in this inventive and entertaining story to make Scrooge and Cratchit Detectives: The Dark Malevolence by Curt Locklear an exceptionally pleasant reading experience. The first is the use of an old-style English language throughout the book and the second is the treatment of famous Charles Dickens' characters in completely different roles and settings. Just the teaming up of Scrooge and Cratchit as super detectives over one of the most famous detectives in fiction (Sherlock Holmes) makes the story a true page-turner. Master of creative writing is an accurate descriptive for Locklear as he brings his characters to life and weaves mystery, suspense, and the supernatural into everyday characters and events. The twists and turns come fast and furious while keeping the reader totally connected and involved with the characters and the plot lines. Scrooge and Cratchit Detectives is a perfect fit for book clubs, fans of Dickens and his characters, and readers who simply love a great story with empathetic protagonists and really easy to "boo" against antagonists.​

 
Patrick is writing a sequel to a generationally beloved morality play and turning it into a murder mystery where a skull gets caved in with a tombstone. Even without reading the final product, I think we can all agree that Patrick has proven that there are in fact bad concepts

I look forward to him out patricking himself on this one by announcing his sequel to It's a Wonderful Life, except it's Falling Down with gratuitous sex in space
It's like Great Expectations meets John Wick... IN SPACE!!!
 
I don't think it's particularly important whether the concept of this Tiny Tim novel itself is flawed or not. A good author could take these makings and do something real with them, but the point isn't the trappings of the work, it's the underlying themes. It's what you do with the concept that counts.

I recall a Howard Waldrop alternate history short story in which the 1930s author Thomas Wolfe survives the brain swelling that killed him in our timeline. He's hanging out on a Zeppelin where JD Salinger is one of the stewards, and Fats Waller is playing at the piano, but none of that is the point. Wolfe watches as Waller and the others have a good time, but he can't join in as once he did because he still recovering from his illness. It's a story about a man who is having to fight his way back to what he once was.

Patrick is so distracted by the superficial features of his story that he doesn't seem capable of establishing these themes or other ideas. That's what the story should really be about, but he's so far below that level of writing it's a little painful to watch. It's like the opposite of the sensation Wolfe has in the story I just mentioned. I'm sitting by and watching someone do something rote and pointless. This is no kind of a party at all.
 
There's been an update to the google quash:

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6k was added to the initial 5k of fees:

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Bringing the total of fees owed to 11k:

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Also, someone (Pat) was trying to settle:

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Quick note for those who might be unfamiliar with this case, on 3/22/2021 Brinton Resto (Pat's lawyer) filed a subpoena to Google requesting information about the owner of the website "onaforums.net". This is a separate case to the one that Pat lost late last year, if he loses this case as well then he'll owe an additional 11k. (This figure assumes that no additional legal fees will be incurred).
lmao :story::story:
music that plays when pat sues you:

can anyone web savvy tell me what info a google subpoena would even potentially provide? wouldnt it be less that cloudflare? what is he spending money on? he is such a dumbass it is hard to even discern what his end goal is.
 
Within hours of me dragging Patrick for his lack of productivity and pitiful daily word counts, he’s claiming to have gone from 200 words on Tuesday to 2000 on Wednesday. Dance, fat fuck! Dance!
200 words is a pathetic thing to announce. That's less than 1/4th a page, or two decent paragraphs. Out of curiosity, I transcribed just the diagenic text from a weeb comic to check if one issue had more than 200 words. I stopped on page 8 when I hit 366 words. This was not a dialogue/narration dense weeb comic.

This post itself is 80 words, nearly half the way to Fat's """milestone."""
 
200 words is a pathetic thing to announce. That's less than 1/4th a page, or two decent paragraphs.

This is a man who pins a celebratory tweet whenever he gets more than 100 followers on a given day and who shares a picture when he successfully makes himself toast and tea in the morning.

No accomplishment is too small to be shared for Mama Raven's special little guy.
 
Pat's not even the first person to write a Scrooge story lately. A couple of years ago, I ran into an author named Curt Locklear who was on a road trip attending various festivals and civic celebrations, trying to sell his Civil War books. I signed up for his email list because he was a super-nice guy and I think that authors doing self-promotion is cool and should be encouraged. Anyway, I haven't bought any of his books but I do get emails from him about what he's up to. A few weeks back, an email landed introducing his newest book:

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The description from the email:


And a review:

The renowned detective agency of 19th-century London, Scrooge and Cratchit, team up with Sherlock "Lockie" Holmes and the Metropolitan Police to solve a series of mysterious kidnappings, murders, and general mayhem. Following a visit from the ghost of Jacob Marley, Scrooge realizes the crimes are far more than "run of the mill." The investigations grow increasingly supernatural as the detectives must deal with half-men/half-dogs to discover a most wicked plan behind the crimes intended to take over the entire city and destroy the detectives in the process.

A couple of things stand out in this inventive and entertaining story to make Scrooge and Cratchit Detectives: The Dark Malevolence by Curt Locklear an exceptionally pleasant reading experience. The first is the use of an old-style English language throughout the book and the second is the treatment of famous Charles Dickens' characters in completely different roles and settings. Just the teaming up of Scrooge and Cratchit as super detectives over one of the most famous detectives in fiction (Sherlock Holmes) makes the story a true page-turner. Master of creative writing is an accurate descriptive for Locklear as he brings his characters to life and weaves mystery, suspense, and the supernatural into everyday characters and events. The twists and turns come fast and furious while keeping the reader totally connected and involved with the characters and the plot lines. Scrooge and Cratchit Detectives is a perfect fit for book clubs, fans of Dickens and his characters, and readers who simply love a great story with empathetic protagonists and really easy to "boo" against antagonists.​

I dunno. A Dickens-era murder mystery sounds cool and all, but he’s going to have to top Fat Rick’s tale of Tiny Tim saving Christmas from the fascist armies of Tronald Dump and Pladimir Vootin.
 
lmao :story::story:
music that plays when pat sues you:

can anyone web savvy tell me what info a google subpoena would even potentially provide? wouldnt it be less that cloudflare? what is he spending money on? he is such a dumbass it is hard to even discern what his end goal is.
I believe that he was after the identity of the owner and operator of ONA forums to sue them directly. A rascal would probably need to confirm that

I really don't know why he picked Google to subpoena, but looking for a person's identity as owner/ooperator when llcs exist and are probably being used is some prime tomlinson
 
A Christmas Carol wasn't a story with unexplored corners waiting for some intrepid soul to venture into. It shared the tale of a soul plagued with the vices of greed and pride seeing the error of his ways and repenting of his evil. If someone was going to try and continue the story, then thematically it would mesh if you carried the same exploration into other vices. Instead of greed, it could be someone consumed by gluttony or anger, and Tiny Tim could help them learn some self-control and empathy. Given that Fat has neither of those virtues, he clearly cannot write such a book.

Nothing that Fat has hinted about in his book suggests that it bears any connection whatsoever to the original book, save for the names of a couple of characters, and the setting. Of course, given how Fat portrayed an alien space station as substantively identical to the modern American Midwest, I doubt we're going to get much of the richness of 19th century London... And we certainly won't be getting any characters that are recognizable from the Dicken's books. Tiny Tim was such a pure-hearted boy that he was able to extend love to a man Dickens described as, "...a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self contained, and solitary as an oyster." And Tim's generosity of spirit gave Scrooge the inspiration and hope he needed for the change of heart that saved his soul and made him a new man.

And Fat wants to take this paragon of virtue and turn him into a serial killer, hell-bent on revenge.

I cannot express the depths of my contempt for the lowliness of soul and depravity of spirit contained in the corpulent, porcine form of Patrick S. Tomlinson. That man's feeling for his fellow humans is so constrained that it cannot reach beyond the limits of his own skull. He literally cannot write a character that isn't himself, because he cannot fathom that creatures other than himself exist. Every virtue that he sees in someone else is one that he has pretended to himself, every vice he perceives in those he hates is one he gleefully exercises. There isn't an ounce of genuine compassion or empathy for another person in his soul, so the idea of him taking the embodiment of charitable love that is Tiny Tim and defacing him by turning him into the flesh-glove for all the wretchedness that is Pat Tomlinson is utterly repellant to all wholesome sensibilities.

tl;dr: Fat has so much awfulness of character that it couldn't be contained within a single human form, and therefore it made him fat. Not just fat, but morbidly obese. And his writing is an abomination before God.
Another example of a kiwi putting more actual thought into the story than Pat ever has. He could easily have developed Tim as a character who despite in his childhood being pure of a heart, as having developed his own vices along the way, as many people do. Maybe he doesn't repeat Scrooge's own mistakes but makes his own along the way which makes him a flawed person. Then he could frame Tim's revenge quest in terms of his anger over Scrooge's death feeding that into Wrath and him realizing this in the end. But pat just wants to make violence FUN and make a basically idiotically Bad Guys Get Theirs story. Usually in the kind of story that he is trying to copy (Noir Revenge), the character is already anti heroic and it's clear they aren't a good guy (Payback, Get Carter, etc). Hell, even Rambo is more nuanced that anything Pat could write because it acknowledges that Rambo is a person whose soul has been irreparably scarred by the experiences he's had. He sort of acknowledges that what he does (at least in the last 2) isn't for Justice, and revenge isn't going to help him, it's just him doing what he does; violence. Rick lack's any ability to create this subtlety. Pat's story is going to have all the nuance of a screenplay where lord byron is kidnapped by the hunters from Predator and has to use his poetry to convince them not to kill people anymore.
I haven't seen Slap Shot or the sequel so I can't comment on it.

Patrick Tomilson is fat, gay, and he cheated on that half marathon.
Slap Shot 2 was good because while they did do what a lot of bad sequels do and change the format, there was actually a reason for the team to still be the Chiefs. The main conflict of the story was that the Chiefs were hired be the opponent for a Harlem Globetrotters style hockey team in a family friendly league and that just wasn't who they were. So it kinda shared a thread with the first one where some players felt Dunlop (the coach) was perverting a sport of hockey by having their team play an aggressive style heavy on penalties and fighting which one guy referred to as "wrestling shit" in order to sell tickets and try to keep the team from folding. Either way i'd recommend the first if you haven't seen it, and the second is entertaining for what it is, but not the classic the original with Paul Newman was.
 
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I really hope Quasi refuses to settle, and we go down the road of financial discovery. Hell, I’d chip in to pay Quasi enough to ensure that a ruthless forensic accountant gets his hands on Patty’s financials — and that they’re made public. If book rights are on the table, his publishers’ sales figures for his poorly performing titles would be germane (and hilarious).

Have we seen any photos of his parents? I’m especially curious what kind of ham beast birthed this defective. Odds are she’s fat and beastly, and I’d like to gaze upon her hideousness myself.
 
According to the rascals on ONA it's kinda dubious that Rick even has a bank account on his own, apparently stuff like political donations are all done in the name of his wife.
So you're telling me that, if/when Quasi comes for his assets, Fatrick may well get a second divorce?
 
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