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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"
Now he's highlighting words grognard-style with *asterisks* and _underlines,_ to the seeming exclusion of #hashtags--but then he folds the hashtags back in again, so he either uses hashtags for something different than emphasis, or his crazy is inconsistent.
A dude who's old enough to _underline_ things like he's having Usenet flashbacks, and yet he asterisk-*bolds* 1984 which is a title and should be underlined if you're using a typewriter, italicized in a word processor. Shameful!
BORN TO LOVE VOLCANOS
SEEN 'EM ON PBS (sorry, but you see, there's no such thing as a coincidence, or a tangent)
I transcribed the Lord of the Rings digression because of how it's bats, but it's a kind of bats that even filthy casuals can understand:
You'd think #CSLewis was the only writer in the #inklings now that #Tolkien has been supplanted by a chintzy commercial fake, which honestly makes me wonder: all right who DID make "the offer he couldn't refuse" to Peter Jackson? Why was he so confident that he could make ALL THREE movies?
That's unprecedented and also very bad adaptation of novel to film. As a result the three Peter Jackson #LOTR movies do not have a good narrative flow, and must constantly be bolstered with creaky expositional inserts. It's like they had just one packaged script and then broke it into three movies.
So...that must be what happened, right? The reason Peter Jackson was so confident was that he'd been supplied a parcel more or less: "give us *exactly this* #LOTR movie and we'll make your dreams come true." I wonder how he's enjoying the offer now?
I suggest he was picked for his triviality.
Unless "Heavenly Creatures" turns out to be an undiscovered masterpiece I don't see any evidence in the rest of Peter Jackson's oeuvre to suggest that he's got any feel for #Tolkien no matter how much he loved it as a child. He has no sense of mystery, of magic, of horror. He's staid and trite.
Ernest follows with his theory that "they" made Lord of the Rings look bad on purpose via the movie adaptation, in order to make Narnia look good, but <insert reasons Ernest hates Narnia here>.
I'm not going to argue specifically that Peter Jackson did a good job with the LoTR adaptation, because--isn't that agreed-on? Even if you're a Tolkien fanboy who's grumpy about Tom Bombadil, there's no one arguing that the movies are bad, and these specific arguments are strange. Jackson's accepted to have blown it with the Hobbit--and remember, that's the one with three movies made from one book. LoTR is three movies made from three books. Suppose Ernest is too busy fart-huffing to fact-check his recollections? He also could have cited whatever Amazon's doing if he wanted to argue that a "they" wants to make LoTR look bad.
And I'm not even a Tolkien fangirl or anything; if those people actually read Ernest's #movie #criticism he'd get to have the discourse he craves.
It is pretty funny that he hasn't seen Heavenly Creatures, though. The Parker-Hulme case it's based on is pretty germane to his 24/7 LARPstyle.
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?
Probably, yeah. I'm sure there's more to it, but those extra-long spergy bits where he's going off on Lewis and the Space Trilogy seem to be related to Larper thinking King Arthur characters are real.
Like Aunt Carol points out, Larper seems to include a lot of obscure allusions to things in his writings, and he seems to assume that readers will just know what he's talking about, and why. I think that's a major point of confusion - I couldn't make heads or tails of it either, at first. But once you realize that he's talking about an anime, for example, it does make sense (like his weird tangents about Gilles de Rais being a good boi). In a manner of speaking?
Sort of like ChrisChan, and how he'd drop references to Excel Saga or Samurai Pizza Cats into Sonichu, and to the casual reader it all sounded like garbled non-sequiturs. Once you KNOW the references - well, it's still garbled non-sequiturs, but you can at least appreciate where Chris was coming from when he wrote it.
Is he into guro? I thought at first he was talking about the furry sex scene, but Room 237 is the room with the rotting corpse woman. The second to last skeet, he's being coy, but also sort-of-kind-of-definitely letting you know that hugging a rotting corpse is a "sexual fantasy" that he is qualified to comment on the "accuracy" of. †
Damn, that's a name I haven't heard in a minute. Context: Gardner was a popular science writer, who wrote a lot of nerd books on math, physics, and appropriately enough for Larper, pseudoscience.
From what he's skeeting here, my guess is that Larper's takeaway from Gardner's work is the standard "quantum physics proves, like, ANYTHING is possible, maaaan!" stuff you hear from higher IQ crazies, which is ironically something Gardner himself was against.
CS Lewis was named Jack. Tyler Durden was also named Jack. Makes you think.
Interesting how he brings up that "born again" was the bane of his childhood in the 70s and 80s. Old prejudices don't die easy, and like a lot of Gen X, he seems to have learned to hate and fear Christians at an early age.
Oh, fuck me, I don't know if can read all this shit.
Right off the bat, he's talking about characters from the anime Fullmetal Alchemist (Winry and Elrik) as if they exist. Obviously.
Next few skeets, he speculates that CS Lewis made some kind of Satanic pact to steal Charles Williams' career (Williams was a friend of Lewis, and is also written in, Saramah Rosechu style but actually good, as a character in the aforementioned Space Trilogy). He then convinces himself that Lewis and a Satanic NWO cabal secretly wrote the script to the LotR movies and used Peter Jackson to debase Tolkein's work, because... they're evil, and Tolkein was a Catholic so they hated him, I guess?
Then CS Lewis sacrifices his girlfriend to Satan, and that's why she died (see the movie Shadowlands). Larper figures this out because one of his headmate's friends, Mordred from Fate (anime girl pictured in my post above), is a necromancer. And she knows necromancy when she sees it.
CS Lewis was sad about his girlfriend dying. HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR.
THANKFULLY, Larper knows the truth. Obviously, CS Lewis was sad because he was horny. Lots of weird sexual innuendo for several skeets, and I'm not exactly sure what he's getting at (did Lewis kill his gf for necrophilic reasons...? #seeabove #shining #guro †). There is, however, one section that stood out to me, where Larper states Lewis "felt stung and sullen from suddenly feeling outclassed and horny at the same time".
Speculation: this reads like a self-confession. Larper is constantly picking fights with people who outclass him: socially, intellectually, and academically. I wonder if Larper actually gets off to being mindcucked by people like Peterson and M. David French?
More anger at Lewis betraying Charles Williams, more malding at St Paul (Larper goes after him in a lot of other tldrs, says he's an antisemite and blames him for denying the triune soul, which I guess is one of the things Larper uses to justify the validity of his having a harem of anime girls in his forehead).
More speculation: Larper mentions a somewhat obscure detail about the Space Trilogy: Charles Williams' poem "Taliessen through Logres". This is one of those blink-and-you'll-miss-it details in the Space Trilogy, and suggests to me that Larper may have been forced to read the Space Trilogy in college, which (given Larper's attitudes towards educators and intelligent people who aren't him) may have caused some resentment in young Larper.
Either that, or he's just a turbosperg.
Can confirm, because I noticed that detail when reading the Space Trilogy, too, and the only reason I did is because I'm a turbosperg.
Brings up Lewis "fagging", which FYI is a reference not to gay sex, but to a semi-formal system of schoolboy hazing and mentorship in the UK, kind of like the Bonger version of frat pledging in the USA, but with less beer pong and more fox hunts. Larper knows that the fagging traumatized Lewis sexually, which is why Lewis is horny all the time, like when he killed his girlfriend to gain necromantic powers and got sadhornycucked for his trouble.
Lewis pretends to be a scholar, just because he's a scholar (weird how that happens), and then Larper uncovers more of the Shadowlands/Tolkein/Peter Jackson conspiracy, when Lewis, the writer Aldous Huxley, and JFK all die on the same day. A trinitarian sacrifice, mirroring the one that Lewis #performed on #his #girlfriend.
Larper says one of the three dead men that day (Lewis, Huxley, JFK) is an odd one out.
I'm honestly not sure who he means. I would assume it's JFK, but this is Larper, so Huxley or even Lewis might be the guy he has in mind. No idea.
Finally, a friend of his ends the spergout in top form, by pointing out that Dr Who started the day after Lewis died. (is that one of Lou's alts?)
A slapfight.
Mark Harris, about the NYT "closet" piece.
A block.
#entrepreneurship
Caltech.
More block-evading.
August Derleth, and of course C. S. Lewis.
John Wilkes Booth.
Rome.
Extremist Christians.
This one's great; the other person is using his "you're evil, no I will not explain" tactics against him, just a little less verbose. It's interesting to see that Ernest's debate style only works versus people who are committed to normalcy and a shared reality; he had to block his clone.
This starts out as a reasonable take--Derleth popularizing (ymmv) Lovecraft's work into "The Cthulhu Mythos," with very specific monsters and rigidly-defined areas of doubt and uncertainty--and then it turned into comparing Catholicism and a nuclear bomb, with no return to Lovecraft. And also he meant Catholicism not as the church structure, but as an actual cosmic force.
For surface-level quantum physics plus a centuries-long Catholic coverup, Ernest should look into Prince of Darkness (1987), the John Carpenter movie where Satan exists on the physical plane as green Gatorade and Victor Wong leads a team of grad students to figure out WTF.
From the #computer in the #corner you can tell Caltech is in on it. #normal
HaHA, Caltech! You _blocked_ the #heroic #transwoman Chara the Ever-Correct! Mistress of Science and the Quantum Polychemical Multiverse! But can you possibly guess what Chara #might do to #counter your move??! You stupid intelligent fucks.
I know Lou is quite fond of his public figure murder fantasies, and while he would never be able to conjure the same wealth of literary allusions as Larper, Lou's basically a Brutusian, in aspiration if not in character. A low-brow, lazy, inconsequential one.
But what about Larper? Has he ever fantasized about shooting Trump? (or Elon, or Biden, or Fetterman, or some random guy on Disqus)
#TANGENT, I think Larper fails to understand what it means to be a "tragic hero". A tragic hero doesn't mean everything you do is horrible. It means you're an exceptional character who has a specific flaw that leads to your downfall, despite your best intentions. Brutus' flaw was his naive idealism, and the downfall wasn't him killing Caeser (which was a good thing ackshually, at least in the logic of the story), it was that the Revolution was doomed by the cynical self-serving bastards around him, and Rome became an Empire anyway.
Taken literally (and literally), Booth to Brutus would mean that Booth's assassination of Lincoln was itself a noble act, but Booth should have known that America would slide further into tyranny anyway, because most people are assholes and don't have the same idealistic commitment to a glorious past that he had.
_Not_ that Booth's assassination was the equivalent of him fucking his own mother.
I know comparisons between Trump and the Roman Empire are popular on both sides of the political circus, from extreme TDS to extreme TES, but Larper seems to be trying to take the comparisons quite literally. Trump's not a general, he didn't use a military coup (followed by importing endless waves of foreign voters) to secure his powerbase, and he's certainly not been assassinated (#yet ~ Lou the Tittycat). You could maybe say that whatshisface, that tranny kid who tried to shoot Trump, was a Brutus figure, in the sense that his assassination attempt failed to stop Trump, and may have even be the push that brough him to power anyway, but it's a stretch. (a real Brutus would get rid of Trump, while also inspiring Barron to destroy the American Republic once and for all)
It's almost like Larper is smart and well-read, but not as smart as he thinks he is, and these rants he goes on, he tends to make large errors early on, which lead to the next 10,000 words becoming increasingly off-base.
Ernest muses on movies. He loved Megalopolis. Frisk also told him it is eerily like his visions.
He then went searching for mentions of Megalopolis.
He continued this last argument in his usual superior and gratuitously insulting manner.
Horses.
He is killing Solana, and all crypto, deliberately.
He may also destroy Joe Rogan's career.
#chemistry.
Cooking.
Would reading a sapphic Arthurian romance at age seven have fixed him?
Ernest then got into an argument over Scott Adams.
He blames the Clintons for the state of the Democrats.
He likes 80s Genesis.
This is fair at least.
In American Psycho, the thing that truly confirms that Patrick Bateman is off his rocker is that he thinks that Genesis were better after Peter Gabriel left. So does Ernest. Hmm.
R.A. McCandless is an author, but I haven't read any of his books, nor do I know if he's an author or an "author." But I like his style here. Usually Ernest goes after furries/troons/socjus people who bend the knee to keep peace, or normies who flail a little bit until they realize they're dealing with an insane bully and block.
This guy is addressing Ernest's entitlement and unearned superiority, and seems to be amusing himself to do so. I wonder if Ernest knows he's beaten, or if he'll come back as a different headmate and spin McCandless into part of the #Caltech #Illuminati.
More pushback; love to see it. This is just equal and opposite stubbornness, with a tiny bit less idiocy.
rando: Scott Adams lies about so much stuff I don't trust him about prostate cancer
Ernest: But my dad died of prostate cancer
rando: But Scott Adams is a liar
Ernest: But my dad died of prostate cancer
Weird how none of his totally real headmates who have lived lifetimes told him about the history of modern gynecology; they would have been there for it, right?
No #hashtags in that long thread, despite going on about the spiritual fog surrounding the evil citadel of #Caltech. Did he forget, or is he aware of the... niche appeal of his more esoteric rants?
I think Ernest would probably either like, or have a long-winded hate boner for, Neal Stephenson.
Ernie's right, though!
This is, after all, why I voted for Trump. How can we know we didn't like Trump the first time, if we don't elect him a second?
OOO OOO please Google Pnictogen's name, "Steampunk" McCandless, find the link to this site, and laugh at him with us. It would be ever so much fun!
I love this. The idea that there's an army of Pnictogen-loving sleeper agents planted all over academia, just waiting for the right signal from Ernest, at which time they will wreak vengeance on CS Lewis for all the (imaginary) stuff he did to Charles Williams and Tolkein.
This one I'm not sure about. He's all over the place with Castle Bravo (the nuclear bomb test) and AKIRA in this part, and there's no clear thesis to it all.
What I'm wondering about is his comment re: Godzilla (whom he annoyingly calls "Gojira".)
Is Ernest saying "Castle Bravo was bad, but it was worth it because we got some cool Godzilla movies"?
Or is he saying "Castle Bravo was bad, but it was worth it because it literally #conjured Godzilla into existence ~ Mothra"?
This bit is equal parts funny, sad, and revealing. I've got this mental image of a bespectacled, blonde bodybuilder, with a white nerd shirt and pocket protector against his firmly outlined pecs, pushing young Ernest into a locker, stealing his lunch money and pantsing him as the cheerleaders point and laugh. "You better watch out, punk!" Chad Brainenheimer bellows, chugging a blast from his inhaler like a shotgunned beer, "Come third period, Ph 127 ab. Statistical Physics of Interacting Systems, Phases, and Phase Transitions, you show up without my homework completed, you're DEAD!"
It's pretty clear that Ernie hates anyone even remotely as intelligent or bookish as he is, so I imagine CalTech was hell. This Aryan "Nerd-jocks" thing seems to be his way of otherizing his fellow students, and of justifying his inability to get along with people, even when everybody around him was just as big of a chemical-obsessed dork as he was. His people. Or should be, if he weren't such an insecure narcissist.
I'm not surprised he only managed to hold down a job for a few months.
Larper simping for L Ron Hubbard is weird, but kinda makes sense when you think about it like a madman with astonishingly poor taste.
One thing I'm wondering; with all this sperging about Castle Bravo, is it somehow tied in with Hubbard's idea of nuclear detonations launching thousands of brain-possessing spirits everywhere? (Chara, Mono the Unicorn, and all the other headmates) Not sure if he's drawn that connection yet, but once he does it's #over.
~ Rainbow Dash the Pegasus, I guess
Oh, and question: what the hell is ? Is that another headmate?
Zombies, Neil Gaiman, and C. S. Lewis.
The Bluesky CEO wants to do something, but Pnictogen won't allow that. And she knows it.
Chara is quitting Bluesky anyway, perhaps after destroying it. Kris will stay, though.
These posts start a meltdown against David Atkins.
Mono steps in.
Caltech neo-Nazis.
The Republican dream of dictatorship.
The thing that takes Ernet's scribblings from crazy to unreadably crazy is that his 4 or 5 different kinds of mental illness (hallucinogen persisting disorder, psychosis, grandiose delusions, magical thinking, paranoia and probably several others) all fight amongst themselves to take control of his typing fingers. The result is this rambling, unfocused stream of consciousness that, once you do untangle it, just reveals itself to be completely psychotic anyway. The irony is that the only "multiples" he has in his head are different brands of crazy fighting to "front" at any one time, sometimes not even managing a complete sentence before another takes over.
I see he's being more clear that this is all tied in to his video game, like @Solid Snek explained. He's throwing in screenshots and (slightly) clarifying that this is his version of characters/real historical people.
Ahahaha.
But I like his concern that, although they're training the AIs off of his writing (the best writing ever), the AIs are being nerfed to make bad connections and confabulations and logic spirals.
Was it Livejournal that gave you the option to upload a pool of avatars, and then you could pick which one for each post? RPers would have different pictures of their character, so they could pick the angry face or the sexy face depending on the post--or if they played different characters, they'd switch avatars to help make it clear.
Seems like a function BlueSky could use, given their denizens, but #apparently they're #evil #now so I dunno?
I see he's being more clear that this is all tied in to his video game, like @Solid Snek explained. He's throwing in screenshots and (slightly) clarifying that this is his version of characters/real historical people.
But I like his concern that, although they're training the AIs off of his writing (the best writing ever), the AIs are being nerfed to make bad connections and confabulations and logic spirals.
Was it Livejournal that gave you the option to upload a pool of avatars, and then you could pick which one for each post? RPers would have different pictures of their character, so they could pick the angry face or the sexy face depending on the post--or if they played different characters, they'd switch avatars to help make it clear.
Seems like a function BlueSky could use, given their denizens, but #apparently they're #evil #now so I dunno?
I assume that's behind (at least part of his) spergery, at least. His narcissistic hatred for "nerd-jocks" and likely some bad experiences at Uni must contribute to it, too, e.g. why does he think LEWIS is a murderous occultic liar, but seems to accept Undertale and the Fate games as a True and Honest accounting of his own pre-Merge CWCville? My best guess: because no smartass CalTech professor ever gave him a B- on an essay about Astolfo the Anime Femboy.
But yeah, it's looking like a pretty strong theory; passages like this make it clear that Larper really and truly believes these characters exist somehow, and his reaction to different authors seems to have a direct correlation with how closely he thinks their fantasy writing matches his own internal CWCville lore.
This part's fun. It's weird how he hops from some quasi-racist ruminations on ebonics ("black people have a smaller vocabulary because their great-great-great-great-grandparents spoke in click noises"), to arguing that wh!te settler Christofascists are engaged in Orwellian Newspeak because they don't use "punchy and concise" language "requiring fewer words to get lots of info across":
This is, of course, almost directly opposite of what Orwell was actually saying - according to Orwell, Newspeak was designed to be as concise as possible, requiring the fewest possible words to convey the largest senses of meaning, because that is what eliminates shades of meaning and narrows thought. e,g, "All mans are equal" is nonsensical because the idea that "equality" could mean something as specific and narrow as legal or spiritual equality (and all the philosophical consequences that derive from this observation) was forever lost on Newthinkers. And meanwhile, "woke" would be fine as a realworld alternative to Newspeak words like "Ingsoc" or "goodthink/rightthink", precisely because it's so broad and all-encompassing as to be essentially meaningless except as an emotive marker to denote proper adherence with social justice.
(you can even see this in action sometimes right here on the Lousphere, like when Lou reskeets gibberish like "trans rights are women's rights / gay rights / climate justice / racial justice / landback / etc etc", which are slogans meant to narrow the meaning of intersectional social justice, by paradoxically making the singular concept of "wokeness" as broad and non-specific as possible)
But maybe that's just what #CalTech wants us to #think?
Was it Livejournal that gave you the option to upload a pool of avatars, and then you could pick which one for each post? RPers would have different pictures of their character, so they could pick the angry face or the sexy face depending on the post--or if they played different characters, they'd switch avatars to help make it clear.
Seems like a function BlueSky could use, given their denizens, but #apparently they're #evil #now so I dunno?
![prince-of-darkness-b[1].webp](http://uploads.kiwifarms.st/data/attachments/7366/7366768-234d38ffc38564b1225eab2964607bd4.jpg?hash=hJN4L9hR47 "prince-of-darkness-b[1].webp")
? Is that another headmate?
