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Patrick essentially gives you three options on how to deal with him:
1. Ignore him
2. Troll him
3. Offer him unrequited support for everything he does
The vast majority of people who come across him choose 1. Maybe whisper to other authors about him, but don't publicly express your negative opinions of him. Shit, Brian Keene was happily an Ignorester until Rick decided to start up with him for no reason, as victims often do.
Jackie is a strange case of dueling psychologies, where she's just as narcissistic and self-important as Rick, but as long as they run parallel they can avoid fighting with each other. Ooga just saw him as another white devil who can help advance his career without offering anything back.
Most everyone else - Hildy, Paul, Shane, that fucker with the elf ears avatar - they're all weak little barnacles who need to attach themselves to an alpha like Rick to stay alive. They're Branch Davidian members who let Koresh fuck their wives and daughters, because on a deep subconscious level they understand they are lesser to him. So Patrick makes the rules, and they dutifully follow it.
1. Ignore him
2. Troll him
3. Offer him unrequited support for everything he does
The vast majority of people who come across him choose 1. Maybe whisper to other authors about him, but don't publicly express your negative opinions of him. Shit, Brian Keene was happily an Ignorester until Rick decided to start up with him for no reason, as victims often do.
Jackie is a strange case of dueling psychologies, where she's just as narcissistic and self-important as Rick, but as long as they run parallel they can avoid fighting with each other. Ooga just saw him as another white devil who can help advance his career without offering anything back.
Most everyone else - Hildy, Paul, Shane, that fucker with the elf ears avatar - they're all weak little barnacles who need to attach themselves to an alpha like Rick to stay alive. They're Branch Davidian members who let Koresh fuck their wives and daughters, because on a deep subconscious level they understand they are lesser to him. So Patrick makes the rules, and they dutifully follow it.