Gretchen Felker-Martin / Micah Elliott Martin / scumbelievable / nonameinanytongue - Transgender media critic, author of MANHUNT, nuclear-grade turbocoomer, FAT, totally does not have a rape fetish

[Soggy paper straw]

DREADNOUGHT

The official summary:

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At the end of the world, three broken girls entrusted with the piloting of biomechanical monstrosities known as Dreadnoughts are all that stand between humanity and annihilation at the hands of the Lilim, a race of monstrous giant women from another world. As sanity and civilization teeter in the balance, Leah, El, and Kelly struggle to reconcile their hated minds and bodies with the perfect engines of destruction with which they must bond to survive.

The more correct summary:
This novel is an AU(=Alternative Universe) fanfiction of Evangelion, where all the characters are Mary Sue's (some with dicks) who rape each other.

To Sam
This book is dedicated to Sam. Pretty sure Sam is a friend of Micah. Here is Sam, from Micah's Tumblr.

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https://twitter.com/samzorn

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The review

This book is bad. It is a random mix of queer teen drama, fetish porn, and body horror.

This review is a very quick overview of the novel, focusing on the creepy fetish content. For more in-depth analysis by chapter, here:

Detailed analysis by chapter is here:
Chapters 1-4
Chapters 5-brain melt
Chapter 5-End (THANKS @AMHOLIO )
Bonus: how old are the characters actually?

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The world-building is non-existent. Micah doesn't give a fuck about world-building, and he lets the reader know. If you have not watched Evangelion, good luck! By the end of the book you will have understood a bit more, now you just need to re-read this masterpiece (of shit) again!
This is what he writes about the monsters the protagonists are fighting:

Spoiler

They’re from another dimension. They came here to kill us, Leah, and we don’t know why. We don’t know why they do anything.

People tried it, Leah, when the lilim found our world and we managed to take some of them prisoner. They tried to fuse with the armor and it did things to them neither of us can imagine. We still don’t understand why.

The qweer teen drama is something out of an edgy Netflix show that all the quirky girls with pronouns in their bio seem to love on Tumblr.
There are some unintended funny moments, like how the main trans character actually tries to get a vaginoplasty in the middle of the world ending. He gets rejected because he is too good as a pilot UwU. Well, Micah wants you to weep about this injustice.

Spoiler: Anyway, fuck cancer patients

Back when they’d had the luxury of worrying about cancer

Near the end the protagonist finds this part of the world where everything is very different (read the review by @AMHOLIO if you want to know more). The important part is that it is full of T girls - and that it is laughingly BAD.

As she fell a world unfolded beneath her.
Throngs of women shuffling across a barren plain toward a tower the color of ash, slab-sided and featureless. [...]There were girl-children with them, and transsexuals like Kelly with their big frightened eyes and hunched shoulders. They were crying. All of them were crying.

Now, onto the porn. We got: mommy kink, breastfeeding fetish, fat fetish, (pimple popping kink?), rape fetish, underage fetish, girldick fetish, and BDSM. With a sprinkle of bestiality and necrophilia for good measure.
Yes, this is still the same book where the protagonist, and likely the other characters, are 16 years old.

These parts are from the prologue where the main character is 13 or from later in the book but in reference to young(er) children.

Spoiler

Pulling her thermal leggings up over that crescent of soft, heavy flesh felt more shameful than squatting to piss in front of the older woman

She felt almost hot, though she was dry between her legs.

All the times I’ve roped you like the pig you are and punished you and called you those little-girl dirty words you think are so vicious. This is how you thank me? I loved you when your own mother wouldn’t. I loved you. [Old charactere who took care of the protagonist]

I am going to die here in this joyless fucking place after five years of jerking off teenagers with mood disorders

She raised the pistol, thinking suddenly of Hatcher’s fist inside her, of her first period and the other woman’s insistence that an orgasm would relieve the cramps

This is after the time skip, the protagonist is now 16.

Spoiler

I want to pin her to the floor and put my hand inside her. I want to knead her belly like fresh dough. I want to— [...] I should have raped her because that’s what this feels like now. [This is the MTF character]

At night she fantasized that he came to her room and lifted her out of her bed in his arms as though she were a baby and her body would spasm and flicker against his, blurring through different positions as she clawed and humped his outline like a randy tomcat

She clenched, the walls of her cunt squeezing greedily [a possibly 16 yo girl is having sex with an older soldier]

She knew that somewhere high above the biomech’s insertion slit was open, that its red edges wept in readiness for her, beads of moisture glowing on the lips of that dark wound. Hand over hand she dragged her aching body up the dreadnought’s armored slope. Pits and gashes in the armor gave her just enough purchase to drag herself onward. Gravity clung hard to the softness of her naked body. [Description of the entrance to where the kids pilot the creatures]

She gripped the doughy crescent of her belly’s nadir hard enough to bruise.

Multiple page of a BDSM scene between the older woman mentor and the 16 yo protagonist (it may or may not have been a flashback, thus making the protagonist even younger)

Kelly could feel her daddy in the room all of a sudden. Not her father, that nebulous person-shaped thing at the dinner table, but her daddy, the cringing animal who came to her on all fours late at night and laid his face in her lap and sniffed like a dog and wept against her bare white thighs which she’d criss-crossed in the years that followed with a razor’s raised and livid kisses. [Kelly is the ""girl"" with a dick]

she suckled at one soft, fat breast. It tasted like sweat and sugar. It tasted like fresh milk, warm and sweet. Was there milk? It hurt so badly to be under her. She hoped it never ended

She stroked Taurus’s head, imagining what it would be like to use a dreadnought only for pleasure, to pry loose the armor at her crotch and dig her fingers into the feathery remnants of her amputated genitals, to press her lips to Taurus’s, to twine her legs through its. It would be like fucking a sex doll. Like letting Hatcher jerk her off. One real person, fucking, one fake thing, just a collection of holes and a vacant expression. She kissed Taurus’s temple and marveled at the cool, sweet hardness of its skin. [whatever the fuck this is]

@gigatard I've written a shorter review of this abomination for the OP. Do whatever! I have put together the "best" quotes ; and the links (if you just want to use those)

 

[AMHOLIO]

Chapter 5-End (THANKS @AMHOLIO )

Semper Fi to you too brother.

If you have not watched Evangelion, good luck!

This is probably the biggest, most glaring flaw, and it's an awful one to have. Not everyone has seen Eva, and even if this work is for trans people and trans people ONLY, Eva isn't their bible, a lot would still be confused. Or they read this first, then get disillusioned with Gretchen ripping off the series if they watch it. He might as well have replaced all worldbuilding terms and nicknames for things with the word "Smurf" and it would make as much sense to the average person. There's working to understand a story, then there's forcing your audience to watch an entirely different show with much better writing than yours to get it.

 

[Pitbull Victim]

I really can't get over how his overwritten shit prose sounds like a somehow more ridiculous version of Garth Marenghi:

Garth Marenghi: (sitting at his desk, reading from one of his novels The Told) Nina's eyes popped out of what was left of her back. Why oh why had she opened that tomb? The sand turned red. This was because she was bleeding on it. Blood - ruby-red blood, her blood. Blood… and piss and shit. This was the worst day of her life.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

@Soggy paper straw

"She stroked Taurus’s head, imagining what it would be like to use a dreadnought only for pleasure, to pry loose the armor at her crotch and dig her fingers into the feathery remnants of her amputated genitals"

So basically he wants to finger his exploded practical joke cigar of a crotch wound?

 

[AMHOLIO]

continued.

These two are using big words to obfuscate how he makes no sense. It also shows how he's never been around children for long periods of time (fortunately) since children make bad choices and mistakes all the time: they just don't know better.

lol seething about Avatar

He's the last person who should ever talk about pacing considering his writing.

Honestly, at this point, it feels like Gretch thinks of child transition as mainly a way to spite their mothers.

Ironically he has a good relationship with his own mom. What the fuck got tossed around in his head to make him like this? (also thank you, will be checking out the Dreadnuts thread tomorrow!)

So basically he wants to finger his exploded practical joke cigar of a crotch wound?

I think he still has his cock, so worse, he wants to finger someone else's.

 

[easy]

Really looking forward to this thread. Snakes' readthrough of manhunt is one of my fave threads on the site, it kept me so entertained through a real slow week at work.
It's been said a lot, but I'm always so taken aback by how mysoginistic Micah is. Every time he even mentions a cis woman in his books, the tone is dripping with loathing, disdain, jealousy. It's not even that he is writing from the particular perspective of one of his characters: no matter what perspective he writes from, the hate bleeds through the pages.

If someone hates women so, so much, why would you want to try and become one?

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Really looking forward to this thread. Snakes' readthrough of manhunt is one of my fave threads on the site, it kept me so entertained through a real slow week at work.
It's been said a lot, but I'm always so taken aback by how mysoginistic Micah is. Every time he even mentions a cis woman in his books, the tone is dripping with loathing, disdain, jealousy. It's not even that he is writing from the particular perspective of one of his characters: no matter what perspective he writes from, he hate blleds through the pages.

If someone hates women so, so much, why would you want to try and become one?

Humiliation kink

 

[AMHOLIO]

If someone hates women so, so much, why would you want to try and become one?

Spoiler: amguess

So if I was a schlubby male who grew up on the fringes and had a hard time fitting in or making friends, I'm guessing the mindstate ends up being a weird thought train where you start as a dude with wants then get into a community that reaffirms bad thought patterns and turns you into this

So okay, you're a dude. You're a little weird, your not as big of a fan of masculine sports or outdoors stuff, you're shy and like reading or video games or other stationary hobbies. You might already have a predisposition have a bad grasp of social cues due to raising, autism, adhd, anxiety, or any number of things. You're not the most attractive, you're not the most charismatic, and everyone seems to be getting it better than you. You're lonelier and it fucking suck, and you're now full of self loathing because it's all your fault you're terrible at shit. The thing you want most, companionship and the touch of a woman, and instant gratification of sex, is hard to obtain. You spend time jerking off for comfort, stress relief, to pass time, etc. It's the instant dopamine button for you outside of other nerd activities.

Maybe you tried talking to people. Maybe you had some success and have more friends, or maybe you even got a girl once, but it failed and you keep striking out against women anyways. Or you half assed it because you want gratification now and got frustrated. Or maybe you psyched yourself and are too afraid to talk to women. After all, like Micah said, they're mysterious and beautiful like Monet paintings, they fill you with awe. Your self loathing just convinced you you're not worth it and the fear of humiliation and rejection is too much.

Anyway, now you're frustrated. You're tired and you're looking to take it out on other things. Anger and testosterone fueled. Now you start thinking that maybe it isn't you, maybe it's them? Maybe they're shallow, too occupied with what a guy looks like and what men can do for them instead of what women can give to them in return. Maybe they're just not as good as any waifu or porn genre you love. They need to be more sexual, they need to be less sexual, they need to act weak and submissive because that makes them easier to talk to and easier to dominate and it makes your peepee hard. They need to be this or that. They should just be like you but with a vagina so you get along, maybe even a futa. Who knows, you discovered you want to be the woman because it too makes your penis hard for whatever reason.

Whatever it is, you're tired of intense self loathing and embarrassment so you lash out or subtly resent women for your own inability to get them. Who knows, maybe your mom is a whore or a single mom who kept getting taken advantage of by men, maybe it was your sister or other women in your life. You still love women, you even have a liking to those who take care of you so you can sit and play video game all day, but now you got a shit mentality.

You're not always active IRL. Harder to talk to people in person, harder to articulate yourself, harder to get involved. You choose the internet: more people there like your interest anyway. From games to fandoms to even porn, it's easy to hunt for someone you have a common interest with and get an instant free community who likes and appreciates you. You get involved in communities, you make friends, and some of these friends share the same sentiments as you. Some are even trans and flaunt it, and talk about why they became trans. They hated themselves then they had their come to euphoria moment and realize their hatred and jealousy towards women meant they really did want to be women all along. Now they have more friends, more fun, happier life, and euphoria (boners) all the time. God, you want to be like that. That sounds like a solution. And cool people who are hot in your AGP mind are swearing by it. No effort of talking to people, just taking pills and dressing cutely, and women get ALL the complements so easily, those selfish cunts don't know how easy they have it...

And now your "egg cracked" and your trans! You stay in your same communities, but you join trans reddits and discords for more help and support, more friends. And you realize they're smart and cool, and totally get womanhood better than any real women. Cis women aren't as good as you and your fellow trans friends, you guys know the struggle, you know how it feels to be oppressed and still are oppressed and the struggles of being, women just aren't as deep, and cis people in general are retarded. You're better and hotter than ever, your trans friends say so.


So hating women never went away. It evolved into claiming the piece of the attention pie for yourself, becoming the superior ethnic religious gender group since you have the good traits of men and the feminine bits of womanhood that you wear BETTER than women, and you are surrounded by a cool group of hot men-women (in theory, sometimes you build up the futa idea in your head then you meet fellow troons in person and it's not as sexy as you wanted, others are already attracted to men with fem qualities in pseudobisexuality so it's great) who are smart and enlightened and not like those FUCKING RETARD ASS NORMIES who don't understand you and are now actively genociding you now that you've become your true self.

Secretly, you still don't see yourself as a woman. You'll never really, since it gives you the edge over people you hate. ...but even then, you can't quite be the sexual dynamo you wanted to be and nothing compares to the touch and attention and smell and feel of a real live woman. Even if they don't share your rabbithole of fetishes, or think you're weird. You're superior to them now, you have more power than cis men to call them out on their sexist misandry towards you and your fellow trans women (and even cis men because you feel sorry for all the nerds not yet converted and have sympathy for the old you). You slam your gavel of social justice against these terfs since the best way not to be disregarded for your opinion on women and to show your superiority is to become a woman "plus". You're better and smarter, and you can fucking say it now.


....but even deeper, secretly, deep down, you still hate yourself. You're still full of the self loathing you never addressed. It's too goddamn hard to face, and while you think it's hidden well, it surfaces whenever you talk on social media or ask for validation after a long day. And you really don't want that rage inwards at yourself anymore. It's too hard. You have to keep pushing it outwards, on transphobes, on terfs, on women, on anyone fucking else. You took the panacea, that should be good enough, you don't need years of therapy or self reflection, it's too scary and horrible and frustrating and oh god you're going to die alone and unloved, someone help you...!


TL;DR: They trooned out to feel better and because of their fetish. They never saw themselves or their trans friends as women, but like a superior group of better than women thinkers. They still have self loathing they unleash at women whenever triggered because they've been avoiding self reflection so long, are in a cult that prioritizes their own feelings above all others, and are so bad at controlling their emotions that they still lash out even though they're "women" themselves and aren't supposed to. It never went away, it just evolved.

 

[DoNotFeedTheSneed]

It's been said a lot, but I'm always so taken aback by how mysoginistic Micah is. Every time he even mentions a cis woman in his books, the tone is dripping with loathing, disdain, jealousy.

Micah is yet another shining example of the Incel to troon pipeline in action. I'm almost certain that he trooned out because he was resentful of the fact that women never wanted to fuck him

 

[Dr. Butt]

I was doing the Italian Spiderman head-shake the whole time I read the OP. Couldn't even unspoiler any of the quotes from his "writing" after that first block. This man is dangerous and in all seriousness, it's good to have an archive of his words and behaviour.

 

[Burning Fanatic]

Not sure if this is only on my end, but some of the images and other attachments aren't loading properly in the OP. If I'm not the only one, @gigatard, are you able to resubmit them?
Otherwise, thread should be ready for another review and eventual move.

 

[Humbert Humbert]

I read excerpts from the first two stories in the OP, realized that this thread was going to take a while to properly read and analyze, and threw in the towel (for now). Despite being Humbert Humbert, I’m actually a bit disgusted with what the little I have read.

The content itself reads like the fantasies of a degenerate sex pest dressed up and presented as thought provoking literature, while failing to grasp how rape was tastefully handled as a plot device to a greater story in the construction of all of the classics and respectable media that employ it. Knowing that said degenerate content is written by a tranny that engages in typical Twitter tranny activities only adds to the repulsiveness of it.

I’ll have to read the rest of the thread at a better time, I am invested.

 

[Soggy paper straw]

I hope this is not something already posted on the Manhunt reading thread

Manhunt being "popular" is one of the clearest examples of manufactured consent. The book has ZERO popular appeal. Not even the usual trans cheerleaders have read it, hiding behind things like "I don't like horror", "it is just not for me, but you go girl! Express that valid anger for your oppression" (probably said while looking for exits).

However some people actually liked it. How do they look like? What kind of people?

Let's meet Drew Necci. Manhunt "touched [his] heart"; he "thought it was brilliant".
Drew believes AGP is totally normal (Autogynophilia pathologizes normal female behavior; Example 2)

Spoiler: Other archived content

Goodreads archive
Twitter
Tumblr
One of the greatest minds lost to hormones - "The Jonas Brothers are capitalist pigs."
Old livejournal

...why do they all have such terrible internet infosec? Then they cry doxXxing
Like holy shit, he posts photos of his meds and new name certificate

He also finds kids a lot more endearing now that he takes hormones - because he is now a woman.

Spoiler: Of course Drew looks like this

The usual skinwalking another woman example

Now imagine if the MSM put these photos next to the review. Not so appealing to the masses, is it now?

 

[Law]

First appearing as a side character in the Tawdry Sad Adventures of Joe Lavery and Mallory Ortberg, now this super-sized incel is ready for his own ongoing series! Will the virtue-signalling sycophants who praised his creepy revenge fan fic feel regret? Will he ever defeat his nemesis, swamp ass Jesse Singal? Will Nicole Cliffe be stupid enough to let this walking mountain of hate and perversion near her children? One thing's for certain - he will never be a woman! Tune in weekly on Twitter dot com!

 

[Need4Sneed]

I gotta say that this is pretty funny.

https://twitter.com/scumbelievable/status/1644899192777703424

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Wait, so why didn't he like it?

I really can't get over how his overwritten shit prose sounds like a somehow more ridiculous version of Garth Marenghi:

Garth Marenghi: (sitting at his desk, reading from one of his novels The Told) Nina's eyes popped out of what was left of her back. Why oh why had she opened that tomb? The sand turned red. This was because she was bleeding on it. Blood - ruby-red blood, her blood. Blood… and piss and shit. This was the worst day of her life.

You know, "horror writer, though I prefer the term dream weaver" might be a good subtitle or tag for the thread.

I'd also like to be the first person to suggest that Micah's "Gretchen Felker-Martin" persona is a deliberate homage with troon additions so that Micah has an eventual out about the person he's chosen to be in public on the internet:

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

• Claimed he grew up around a cult. No idea if he meant other people he was around or the particular religion he grew up in. He said he grew up in Baha'i, and I could not tell you a thing about it other than Felkner-Martin are last names that don't scream Iranian to me. He hasn't spoken against Baha'i so I'm not sure what he feels towards it.

I still find it funny both Diamanda Hagan and Felkner-Martin grew up Baha'i.

Ironically he has a good relationship with his own mom. What the fuck got tossed around in his head to make him like this? (also thank you, will be checking out the Dreadnuts thread tomorrow!)

I look forward to your thoughts. Sadly, I picked the less hilariously bad Dreadnought to cover. Which honestly makes it more insidious. Gretchen's Dreadnought is the sort of thing that peaks people. April Daniels' Dreadnought is the sort of thing that makes a YA reading thirty-something mum go "Oh, the poor dear."

EDIT: If anyone cares.

 

[3MMA]

@gigatard

Dude. His dox is here. If you’re going to reference other Kiwis’ work, it’d be nice to get acknowledgement.

Consider putting those screenshots under spoiler tags. It’ll make for an easier read.

His affair with Nicole Cliffe is worth noting as well.

First appearing as a side character in the Tawdry Sad Adventures of Joe Lavery and Mallory Ortberg, now this super-sized incel is ready for his own ongoing series! Will the virtue-signalling sycophants who praised his creepy revenge fan fic feel regret? Will he ever defeat his nemesis, swamp ass Jesse Singal? Will Nicole Cliffe be stupid enough to let this walking mountain of hate and perversion near her children? One thing's for certain - he will never be a woman!

This is still missing from OP and very relevant to Ole Felcher-Martin. The Gretch’s polygross relationship with Cliffe opened doors for him, enabled him to get coverage in pozzed magazines and literary circles. Cliffe is married to a venture capitalist bro, and it’s def worth looking in the Lavery thread, if you need a cliff notes version of these things to fit in your OP.

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ETA: emphasis added. + Proof that the relationship with Cliffe (which started out contentious,) almost cost Gretch his book deal for Manhunt. Cliffe enabled this rape-murder fanfic coomer to the world of reviews and other publicity and exposure.
Credit to @Trianon source here.

 

[White-Kettle Shufflepunk]

Is it bad I kind of want Gretch to try writing an angry capeshit novel? He seems like one of those "I've realised that the MCU is largely slop, and I've decided to make this my personality" types. Lot of banging on about how superheroes are cops. It'd be great.

 

[Dr. Butt]

Cliffe is married to a venture capitalist bro

Not just a venture capitalist - a literal billionaire. He's so rich that there are no photos of him anywhere online. I think someone in Joe's thread found a little thumbnail of a face turned slightly away from the camera that might be him, but that's it.