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Ernest Tomlinson / Pnictogen Wing / The Pnictogen System / Chara Dreemurr / Kara Dreamer / monophylos / Chelydros / Undertale LARPer - Unemployed middle-aged Communist furry lunatic troon acid casualty whose headmates include videogame characters and his own dead brother, "Undertale Swapped My Gender"
Does Ernest actually know/know of the people he namedrops and insults, or is this what happens when your #compulsive #hashtagging includes people with Bluesky accounts?
This is a mystery. He usually goes after big names like Sam Altman or the Bluesky team, trying to get a reaction; but Howard and the other computer scientists he attacks in that thread seem fairly obscure, and I'd guess he knows little or nothing of their work. (Another targeted UW prof, Steven Gustafson, barely even uses Bluesky. Maybe Ernest trawls the bios.) He tagged fchollet.bsky.social (François Chollet) several times for instance, and then deliberately came into his replies just to tell him he's "no *actual* scientist." Pnictogen, like a lot of trolls, seems to think he wins the moral high ground when he gets blocked. Or at least he pretends so.
"This happened because I tweeted about it (on Twitter)" is one hell of a take.
Paranoia combined with delusions of grandeur is a classic psychosis combo. I wonder if the drugs brought on full-blown schizophrenia, or whether the psychedelic soup in his head is something new to #science?
You post something about a hot topic issue or broad social trend, that thing you posted about continues to evolve, and you credit the global development of Thing In Question to that tweet you sent three years ago, which was read only by Lou Gagliardi, about how a video game dragon was totes angry at Elon Musk or whatever.
You know what he reminds me of? Time Cube. Like a more articulate version of Time Cube, with some Otherkin/Otakukin and Munchie snowflake crazy thrown in for good measure.
Every little section of that, taken on its own, reads as a fully-realized morsel of crazy; and yet these morsels remain coherent enough that it all manages to flow together into something even more crazy.
Nigga seriously believes that the US military and their academic underlings have suppressed information about the heavier elements on the Periodic Table, in order to stop people from discovering that Wakanda is real (we can rationally deduce its real because Africans were eating radioactive dirt, apparently, and it tasted "spicy" to them, leading them to discover such world saving magic elements as Einsteinium and Oganesson), and this is being done because... #evil #corporate, I guess?
CS Lewis wrote a book where the Moon appears. You know who else wrote a book where the Moon appears? Aleister Crowley. Makes you think huh. Give me an exhaustive list of names, celebrity political commenter David French, for I believe these enemies of mine to number in the millions, and deliver this list of CS Lewis readers, before the next full moon, to an anime girl who lives on a soiled mattress in my brain.
Forgive the question (I have a hard time remembering all of Larpers headmates), but the Jeanne he's referring to is this one from Fate, correct?:
Some anime wiki says that this particular character is actually NOT Joan of Arc, as you might expect, but is in fact a kawaii creepy uwu anime girl version of the notorious pedophilic serial killer, Gilles de Rais.
So yeah. I guess he's got a trooned out, literal Satanist, child-molesting killer knight from the Middle Ages in his head? It's no wonder he hates Lewis (a Christian Medievalist) and the Space Trilogy in particular.
- For people who haven't read it, the Trilogy features, amongst other things, medieval heroes (reborn King Arthur characters, including a pagan-turned-Christian wizard Merlin) destroying demons and vile medieval heretics similar to Rais. Fate, the anime series, is also about reborn Arthurian medieval heroes, although in Fate they're not Christian. They're just sexy waifu BDSM slave girls, or more usually sexy waifu genderswapped BDSM slave girls, who have edgy catfights amongst themselves for no discernable reason.
Forgive the question (I have a hard time remembering all of Larpers headmates), but the Jeanne he's referring to is this one from Fate, correct?:
Some anime wiki says that this particular character is actually NOT Joan of Arc, as you might expect, but is in fact a kawaii creepy uwu anime girl version of the notorious pedophilic serial killer, Gilles de Rais.
So yeah. I guess he's got a trooned out, literal Satanist, child-molesting killer knight from the Middle Ages in his head?
Oh man, I thought the French Jeanne d'Arc spelling was another of his affectations, but he mentions Gilles de Rais a lot in this thread so you must be right.
Oh man, I thought the French Jeanne d'Arc spelling was another of his affectations, but he mentions Gilles de Rais a lot in this thread so you must be right.
Yeah, that's definitely a Fate thing. I don't know a heck of a lot about Fate ("it was a porno game that went respectable and autistic weeaboos tend to love it"), but Jeanne Alter is something I've heard mentioned a lot by Fate fans, and Larper himself makes the connection explicit here:
Jeanne, Alter, AND Arturia Pendragon are all characters from Fate - confusingly, since Larper doesn't explain any of this, and I guess he just assumes we the readers know he's talking about anime girls rather than historical characters?
Again, for the benefit of anyone who isn't a history nerd, Gilles de Rais was one of IRL Joan of Arc's chief knights, notorious for being a pedophilic serial killer who was put to death by medieval authorities after confessing to rape-torture-murdering dozens of kids, at first in attempt to appease a Satanic demon named Barron, but later probably because he discovered he liked it.
The idea that Gilles de Rais was the inspiration for Bluebeard (a fairytale character who married, then murdered, a bunch of young girls) is a pretty common one, and while I don't think it's popular with scholars, it's not the craziest notion. Certainly holds more weight than the idea that your brain can be inhabited by dead relatives who polymorphed into video game characters.
Meanwhile, the idea that Gilles de Rais really did rape-torture-murder dozens, maybe hundreds, of kiddos, is very strong and well-supported. Unlike some other early modern "witch trials", which were short on evidence and long on motive for false accusations, Gilles de Rais was a man in otherwise reasonable social standing, with mountains of evidence and credible accusers against. Very few people think he was innocent of the major points levelled against him (fucking and killing countless kids etc), aside from some occultists (who agree he was guilty of Satanism, but argue that it was a good thing actually) and the odd euphoric atheist who only learned about Rais from Cradle of Filth songs.
This latter category (euphoric atheists who think Rais was a good boi because FUCK XTIANS) may be where Larper is coming from here.
But actually... this is a little crazy, I hope Larper isn't rubbing off on me, but as I'm reading through his ramblings on CS Lewis being a self-hating polycule (polyculophe?), just like the #Romans who #can't #do #math I guess, I get to parts like this...
... and I'm starting to wonder (fear, maybe) that part of the reason Larper hates CS Lewis so much, if not the SOLE reason, is because Lewis was a medievalist, and
(wait for it)
Lewis' scholarly interpretation of mythological characters like Merlin and King Arthur, are significantly different from what Larper considers to be the "canon" Merlin and Arthur, as established by the Fate/Stay porno novels Larper knows and loves.
I know it sounds crazy - like who in their right mind would start a years-long, 100k+word crusade against a long dead Oxford professor beloved by millions, just because he wrote some books where the characters from an as-yet-unwritten anime porn game, didn't behave like the characters in that as-yet-unwritten anime porn game?
Yet Larper is clearly NOT in his right mind, and to me, reading through his rants here, that really seems to be what he's saying.
Again, for the benefit of anyone who isn't a history nerd, Gilles de Rais was one of IRL Joan of Arc's chief knights, notorious for being a pedophilic serial killer who was put to death by medieval authorities after confessing to rape-torture-murdering dozens of kids, at first in attempt to appease a Satanic demon named Barron, but later probably because he discovered he liked it.
But actually... this is a little crazy, I hope Larper isn't rubbing off on me, but as I'm reading through his ramblings on CS Lewis being a self-hating polycule (polyculophe?), just like the #Romans who #can't #do #math I guess, I get to parts like this...
... and I'm starting to wonder (fear, maybe) that part of the reason Larper hates CS Lewis so much, if not the SOLE reason, is because Lewis was a medievalist, and
(wait for it)
Lewis' scholarly interpretation of mythological characters like Merlin and King Arthur, are significantly different from what Larper considers to be the "canon" Merlin and Arthur, as established by the Fate/Stay porno novels Larper knows and loves.
Well holy shit. I honestly would not be shocked if that’s exactly what is going on. Or at least a big component of it.
Because that’s the thing with these otherkin/system types: The whole concept pretty much involves fictional characters being entities that exist independently of the context of their game/book/movie/whatever, in a way that makes absolutely no fucking sense in regards to normal people’s ideas of time or logic. You’re somehow the “reincarnation” of a character from a book that was only published five years ago and takes place in a different universe? Sure, why not.
I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if he considered the Fate versions of these Arthurian figures to be the “real” ones, and thus is pissed at Lewis’s different take on them. Does it make any sense considering that these figures have been reinterpreted in dozens of different ways over the years and Lewis wrote these books ~60 years before the existence of Fate/stay night? Of course not, but we’re dealing with headmate logic here.
I think he's also using it instead of "Mx." as a unisex honorific, although he calls himself "Mx. Chara Dreamer" so I dunno. It probably is meant to seem French; I'm neither smart enough nor schizophrenic enough to intuit his reasoning.
I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if he considered the Fate versions of these Arthurian figures to be the “real” ones, and thus is pissed at Lewis’s different take on them. Does it make any sense considering that these figures have been reinterpreted in dozens of different ways over the years and Lewis wrote these books ~60 years before the existence of Fate/stay night? Of course not, but we’re dealing with headmate logic here.
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more it makes "sense" (in the same way it makes "sense" that some random kid convinced ChrisChan he was a supersoldier that escaped from Chris' imaginary world).
Larper is an Otherkin, meaning he thinks like an Otherkin. To him, these vidya/anime girls are literally real; and not only that, they're his close friends and, in at least one case, his dead relative.
And this fixation he has on Lewis' Space Trilogy is bizarre, too, since it's one of the least notable things Lewis wrote. People know Lewis from Narnia, and to a far lesser degree, Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity. The Space Trilogy is extremely obscure, the equivalent of ReLoad to a Metallica fan, or the 1979-1984 Star Wars newspaper comic strip to a Star Wars fan. Yet Larper spends more time and energy on the Space Trilogy than all of Lewis' other work combined. That makes NO sense - until you remember that the Space Trilogy is the one series Lewis wrote where Larper's headmate Fate/Stay characters feature heavily in the plot.
Imagine if some guy wrote a bunch of books about your mom, and he got absolutely everything about your mom wrong. In fact, he didn't just get your mom wrong, he seemed to go out of his way to make your mom into the opposite of how you know her to be. Storybook Your Mom was turned into a fat retarded groyper pooner who made shitty hot chocolate and NEVER tucked you in at night, cuz she was too busy snorting crack with Albanian mobsters. And now millions of people (including ASSHOLES who are smarter, richer, and more successful than you are!), all love the Your Mom story, and think your mom is really, truly, just like Storybook Your Mom. You'd be pretty pissed off, right?
Ah! Right! Yeah, see, THIS one makes sense now, too.
Merlin is a character in Fate:
Why is Larper so angry about Merlin dying in That Hideous Strength? Why is "Chara" saying "Merlin is my headache, as the Pendragon, Sir Mordred doesn't like him"?
(Mordred is also a character in Fate)
It's because Larper thinks his headmates are friends with Merlin, and CS Lewis was lying about his friend; both about his friend dying (how could he be dead? He's sitting right next to me!!!), and about his friend's personality and disposition (let me tell you, the REAL MERLIN is blah blah blah thirty extra skeets).
He doesn't care that CS Lewis was drawing on a mythological character with at least two thousand years of history. I don't even think he cares about the literary merits of Lewis' work, even though he pretends to, when he's trying to sound educated and smart by talking down to his readers.
Rather, as fucking zonkers as it sounds, I think this whole fight may stem from the fact Larper believes that Merlin is NOT Myrddin the time-honored Celtic folk figure, but is in reality a twinkass anime fuckboi, sitting on a pile of discarded pizza boxes in the corner of his computer room.
Rather, as fucking zonkers as it sounds, I think this whole fight may stem from the fact Larper believes that Merlin is NOT Myrddin the time-honored Celtic folk figure, but is in reality a twinkass anime fuckboi, sitting on a pile of discarded pizza boxes in the corner of his computer room.
This was unironically enlightening; it does make sense along with the theory that Ernest isn't playing but is actually fucking crazy. He isn't hallucinating video game twinks giving him advice, but he's dead serious about this web of obvious correspondences where he alludes to things that everyone else should know and is obviously being paid by Caltech to pretend they don't understand.
Strange he doesn't have a vendetta against the Lerner/Lowe musical Camelot for the same misrepresentations; that's barely a step away from the Kennedy Administration and then you're right in the the conspiracy version of Kevin Bacon.
but he's dead serious about this web of obvious correspondences where he alludes to things that everyone else should know and is obviously being paid by Caltech to pretend they don't understand.
Right. This, I think, is a major source of confusion; Larper just says shit, and at first glance it seems to be nothing more than a word-salad completely disconnected from reality, even if it follows some sort of surface level logic.
But it actually makes way more sense if you look at Larper's writings through the eyes of a man who thinks video game characters are real; to him, the "fact" that Merlin isn't Myrddin seems obvious, so obvious that he doesn't have to explain it, and if you the reader get confused then it's just because you're stupid, or because you're lying and gaslighting him (or worse, maybe you're a cop!)
It's like trying to read James Joyce or Umberto Eco, if they were retarded, and had a literary perspective almost entirely limited to some chemistry classes taken decades ago, indie video games, and anime porn.
I'm really glad some of y'all broke down what is likely driving Ernest's anger at CS Lewis, because it didn't make any sense to me and I was starting to worry I'd go mad just trying to read even more of his insane tweet chains. I can't even wrap my mind around that kind of madness. He's all the reason I need to never try acid or shrooms.
So the likely reasoning is that he's convinced his porn game versions of Arthur, Merlin, etc are "real" and that Lewis personally wrote his novels to ruin their reputations?
There are no coincidences.
Fight Club.
Okay THEY didn't get it.
Mother's Day musings.
Caltech ravings. Ernest's father was Patrick Keith Tomlinson. His mother Margarita was from Chile.
Stylish.
Orwell.
Frank Miller and G. K. Chesterton.
?
Martin Gardner.
Headmates.
Pele.
John Huston.
Tony Reed.
Joking with Matt Yglesias and Helen Lewis.
Dreamt Heater.
Hemingway.
Mead.
Stanley Kubrick.
Cute.
C. S. Lewis again.
