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"

[Berrakh]

ANOTHER Tomlinson?

I’m sure everyone’s made that crack.

 

[Spunt]

ANOTHER Tomlinson?

I’m sure everyone’s made that crack.

Literally the first reply to the OP.

The family line seems to be cursed. Cursed with moobs.

And there's nothing more self-absorbed and tedious than telling other people about your dreams, so naturally this is something Ernest wants to share.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Remember: Ernest claims not to be a computer person. I'm definitely not and it still seems straightforward: OP Simon says now that computing power is cheaper, it's OK to use less-efficient programming techniques if they're beneficial in another way, in a way that wasn't possible with computers of the past.

Ernest says this means OP never knew what he was doing or gave thought to his words.

Plurality tips.

Uh-oh: isn't this "telltale left-right difference" headmate theory the same thing the Zizians were talking about, and trying to induce with sleep deprivation?

 

[kazuhiro]

Ernest set up an AMA page, if you have any questions for him.

Spoiler: Long images

Beware, this is the kind of answer he gives.

Parts of this thread are missing, but let's face it, no-one is going to read it.

Chesterton, and Lewis.

Arthur.


Undertale, and The Emoji Movie.

The demiurge.

A laundry tip.

Hallucinating.

Lunacy.

Lewis.

Politics?

BeOS.

Lioness Pauling.


Randomness.

Arthurs.


BeOS again.

Pnictogen revisits a thread from June.

Money.

Drinking, and #investment.

 

[Big Nasty]

Uncle Dick sounds like a funny guy.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Parts of this thread are missing, but let's face it, no-one is going to read it.

I mean, I don't think I gained much by reading it, but I read it.

Kind of sad that one of the few people to have a nuanced take on Lovecraft beyond rabid apologies or kneejerk anti-racism is this yahoo. "Literary humility" is a decent way of putting it; HPL knew he was an amateur writer, but he was having fun writing fiction, swapping ideas/criticism with his amateur writer friends, writing tons of letters, pleasantly surprised whenever he was able to get something published for money.

Spoiler: distracted once again by Lovecraft

An HPL born in 1990 instead of 1890 would have ruled at social media and fandom networking; look at what he was able to accomplish with just a typewriter and stamps! Memes aside, he wouldn't have been a huge racist. Probably would have transferred that same energy to asexuality or disability, because that's the style of our time. Could have had a big drama and have to apologize about a childhood cat being named Gypsy by his parents, though. Would have still been a huge tea-aboo. Might have gotten into mukbangs, given the stories about how much chili HPL could put away... now I'm picturing Modern Day Lovecraft as a vertically-stretched version of Reviewbrah, which actually maps pretty well.

Not surprised that Ernest appreciates Lovecraft's less-popular Dreamlands works most; that seems like his speed.

On other writers, given his vast influence I'm fine with Mark Twain being a "nexus" but that's probably because I don't fully understand what "nexus" means in this context. (Probably "anime twink in a bikini with a giant moustache.")

Chesterton, and Lewis.

...wait, is Lovecraft in Ernest's head along with G.K. Chesterton?

Again, grudging respect for Ernest to be the only lolcow I'm aware of who has read Confederacy of Dunces. Not as relevant to his situation, though.

Arthur.

Xylowolfie is now reading actual Arthurian originals (in translation). I am so intrigued by their relationship, which we are apparently watching from the beginning. If Xylowolfie is in WA, maybe he's working towards joining the polycule.

Undertale, and The Emoji Movie.

This is the kind of rambling and obscure take that should really be posted on a blog with a permanent URL, not as a multi tweet-saga. It's beyond me to comment on the rambling and obscure take itself, other than to note that at the end, Ernest admits he hasn't even seen The Emoji Movie.

Hallucinating.

This is actually just language pedantry. He's not wrong (about ChatGPT), but the more you bring up stuff like this, the more your Internet conversation partner imagines a fedora and hears the faint strains of TMBG in the distance.

Lioness Pauling.

QED, man; puns. Dead giveaway. And harping on it; the right thing to do with this pun is draw a single cartoon or write a two-line dad joke; very few people are Isaac Asimov.

Sometimes Ernest really comes across as a dork out of time. He wasn't built for Twitter-speed integrated social media; this guy should be typing to himself and Xylowulfie on a Livejournal somewhere.

 

[kazuhiro]

Spoiler: Nothing NSFW

Arguing about Vonnegut, and Animal Farm.


#Mesoamerican pyrite mirrors.

He watched the movie X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes, which prompted various thoughts.


Thelema and Louise Caltech.

Cosmic symmetries.

Money.


Sir Mordred.

Ernest displaying Lou-like understanding of what alt text is for.

Sometimes Ernest really comes across as a dork out of time. He wasn't built for Twitter-speed integrated social media; this guy should be typing to himself and Xylowulfie on a Livejournal somewhere.

It's a mystery why Ernest writes the long screeds he does on fairly ephemeral social media. I think it's so he can do all his bullshitting, replying and arguing in one convenient place, before discarding it (or getting kicked out) and moving on somewhere else. Plus he loves the engagement he gets from the likes of Xylo.

No true scholar of Pnictogen will want to miss his Dreamwidth site. He didn't use it for long, but he wrote a lot while he was there. Profile page.

Post titles, in reverse order.


Archive 1, archive 2.
Last post.

Tags.

grudging respect for Ernest to be the only lolcow I'm aware of who has read Confederacy of Dunces.

As a treat, here's Ernest's reflections on Ignatius J.

 

[Spunt]

Yes, Ernest, Animal Farm was clearly NOT about the Soviet Union, despite having characters literally modelled 1:1 on Marx, Trotsky, Stalin and the Tsar. And "his most hopeful work", lol. But a lot of Commies are desperate to paint Orwell as exclusively anti-Fascist for obvious reasons. Yes, Orwell was a Socialist, but he was above all opposed to authoritarianism in ALL its forms. And he wasn't exactly shy about saying that either, over and over again. But because Orwell's works serve as some of the most withering critiques of Communism ever put to paper, and they can't cancel him, they have to perform the most ludicrous mental gymnastics to pretend he was actually only talking about Hitler when he talked about the animals taking over the farm from the humans and then gradually becoming the very thing they sought to overthrow.

And Ernest showing us his hatred of memes and his bizarre insistence that using memes means you're a fascist. I get that leftist memes tend to be terrible, but they do exist, and there's even some good ones. But for Ernest it has to be wordswordswordswords or it isn't proper discourse. Some ideas are simple, Ernest. Such as Animal Farm being very clearly about the USSR. That's quite a simple idea, and it's one that also happens to be correct.

Speaking of people he called Fascist for using memes, has he responded at all to Grok's Cultural Enrichment of Will Stancil?

 

[Aunt Carol]

Arguing about Vonnegut, and Animal Farm.

This one is interesting to see the double blocking, and one of the other two posters apologizing to the other for attracting Ernest. Again, nice to see a trans furry etc. with a spine to say they're allowed to dislike things, they didn't want a debate, and note that Ernest is making them into a strawman so he can move into his preprogrammed monologue.

As a treat, here's Ernest's reflections on Ignatius J.

See, this is what I mean about promising to pay any lolcow $20 if they read and write a book report on Dunces; Ernest is batshit and self-important, but he's mildly self-aware. Being able to confront the Reilly within is important.

Surprised he's not an "introject" yet, though. Ernest could work at a hot dog food truck in Washington, no problem.

Yes, Orwell was a Socialist, but he was above all opposed to authoritarianism in ALL its forms. And he wasn't exactly shy about saying that either, over and over again.

Orwell wrote openly about problems with Socialism and Socialist types, too, because a healthy movement allows that. Now that criticism is forbidden; you just have to memory hole all of that.

 

[Zemblan Physics]

It does seem like a lot of fun to set up your own system, sort of like when you were a kid and created fictional countries like the proud nation of GenItalia. I need some drama outside of KF, might give it a try. I sense there is an investment banker named Jeb ready to front, and maybe a cartoon horse.

 

[kazuhiro]

Speaking of people he called Fascist for using memes, has he responded at all to Grok's Cultural Enrichment of Will Stancil?

I haven't seen him mention two of his (many) mortal enemies getting into it, but he'd probably just say, "Let them fight." He may not be aware of it at all, happening as it is outside his own head.

Here's another argument he just started for no reason:

Jean-Michel Durand @onegeekarmy@mastodon.social
If you're a desktop Linux user, would you mind answering this quick poll? It's for... a thing.

My desktop environment is

GNOME
KDE
Something else


razze @razze@osna.social
@onegeekarmy repeat after me, it does not matter as long as it's Linux and floss


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze @onegeekarmy false (BSD >> Linux ~Chara)


razze @razze
@kris_of_pnictogen @onegeekarmy this is how we loose


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze I honestly hope you do. I would gladly see #Linux dead if it freed personal computing from toxic computer geekery. ~Chara


razze @razze
@kris_of_pnictogen so you want to see everyone on windows and maybe Mac?


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze @onegeekarmy and leaving aside my gratuitous swipe at the awful #Linux culture, it's *ridiculous* to tell someone that there's no difference between desktop application environments. it's Linux so they're ALL gonna stink, to some degree, but in my own experience KDE is far more likely to give a consistent UX than other options. but I admit that I'm trying to use Xfce right now. I wouldn't touch GNOME with a ten-meter pole, these days. ~Chara


razze @razze
@kris_of_pnictogen @onegeekarmy don't try to put things in my mouth, which I did not say


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze please don't blame me, Razze, for your inability to express the linguistic subtleties of "repeat after me, it does not matter". Who are YOU to be giving anyone orders like that? ~Chara


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze Anyway it seems like WINNING means a lot to you so I give you permission to feel like you've won this conversation. I'll be muting the thread now ~Chara


razze @razze
@kris_of_pnictogen ever heard of fun? I guess not with your bsd comment.


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze It's #Linux, Razze! Dealing with Linux (or Linux geeks) is never fun. ~Chara


razze @razze
@kris_of_pnictogen I'm getting the feeling bsd geeks are worse


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze when you find one let me know; I just use the stuff and avoid fandom. in any case you're quite wrong. BSD geeks, from what I have seen via Internet searching for help, aren't massive arseholes about it (cf. #Linux and yourself)


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze sorry, Razze. you're not gonna convince me you AREN'T a jerkass by trying to insult me. Trying, mind you, without succeeding. ~Chara


razze @razze
@kris_of_pnictogen not sure why you think bsd geek is an insult, so you were insulting me with calling me a Linux geek? That's what I would call escalating.


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze Ah, I'm glad I haven't insulted you then! No harm, no foul, Razze. Like I said, you DID win this conversation. I hope that victory tastes sweet! ~Chara


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze BTW...I always liked 'mh' so much better. ~Chara


razze @razze
@kris_of_pnictogen what is mh?


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze it gives me no small twinge of Schadenfreude to say, RTFM. Normally I despise people who say that to *beginners*, but you're not supposed to be one, are you? anyway what are you still doing here? Go and enjoy your victory, jeez ~Chara


razze @razze
@kris_of_pnictogen I clearly am a beginner in whatever you're referencing. Not even sure which manual to read. But saying RTFM is toxic in any conversation and not exactly encouraging.


razze @razze
@kris_of_pnictogen you are clearly one and only escalating and baiting. Not sure it would be the right call to ignore you though, thought you were joking at first, seems like you were not. You also already posted about your Fandom...


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze Yeah I've seen this pattern before, Razze, about a hundred thousand times in a row on Twitter, mostly. You're trying to "neg" me in some way and failing. Er, WINNING! I mean, you're winning. Anyway I suggest that if you're really bored or offended or whatever, block me. ~Chara


Kris Dreemurr (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing @kris_of_pnictogen@meow.social
@razze (btw I'm a #BeOS fan, not a BSD fan! please don't put words in my mouth. =)

Spoiler: More Mastodon posts

Ernest goes through Wikipedia's on this day.

Food.

That Linux argument.

Bitterness, loneliness.

Anime.

The Dark Tower.

Plurality.

Ernest posted about his partner in response to this.

 

[kazuhiro]

Ernest came back to Bluesky earlier in July, after getting banned in May. He is now "Kara the Sneppider.

Spoiler: Nothing NSFW

#CSLewis.

John Hendrix.

His book.

More.

Slapfight.

"Actually crying now."

Aspirin.


On meow, Ernest says he's been KFed twice.

Neurotypicals.

Science.

A dream.

Ernest starts a fight over Citizen Kane.

And numbers.


Pics of his trashy desk.


"Sexual trauma."


Ernedt laments that no one listens to him.

 

[Spunt]

Hi Ernest, glad you liked my thread! Please don't send Guts from Bezerk over to kick my ass with your "bezerker rage" (man who sits fatly at a computer all day arguing with people who ignore him).

You got banned from Bluesky and as soon as it expired (or you're just ban-evading with a sock, whichever) you returned and immediately returned to the exact same behaviour that got you banned in the first place. Or was it a different headmate that is responsible this time? Who is it now? Atticus Finch? Galvatron? The self-immolating air conditioner from the Brave Little Toaster?

 

[Aunt Carol]

Slapfight.

Ernest must really dislike memes/reaction images. Didn't he lose his previous Bluesky account partially because he insisted some guy posting a meme meant he other had memes with swastikas in them and was thus a literal Nazi?

Yet more proof that he's a man out of time.

Aspirin.

"our host luckily can tolerate heavy doses of aspirin and other doses that rot the stomachs of others" Yeah, everyone thinks they're special, until they have a GI bleed.

Neurotypicals.

Point of order: Ernest's replying as "Kris" to a "Chara Dreemurr" but they say "(Moonlight System)" in their header. This is a different meat human?

Ernest starts a fight over Citizen Kane.

What a bizarre argument, but again: love to see someone fight back. Rando is musing coherently on Citizen Kane, Ernest hops in to pick a fight but makes the rando guess what he's picking a fight about, and what his terse answers mean. And Ernst is disagreeing because he thinks that a character in a roman a clef is being portrayed respectfully, but refuses to explain how. This is like his Animal Farm argument all over again, but with fewer words.

And numbers.

These arguments with strangers are even weirder when you compare them to Ernest's lament that people "ostracize" him for having opinions about media. I don't think that's it, dude.

Here Ernest leaps into someone's philosophical musing, demands answers and that the person use his definitions, states his unprompted awareness that the rando is going to block him (perhaps people would not block Ernest if he didn't show up and immediately become hostile to them) and then clearly read the person's bio and tried to throw their status as a filthy job-haver against them.

This reminds me of when the Womb Wizard posts verbatim that she's going to fight with fascists, self-discloses to strangers on Facebook about her serial killer fantasies or her Druid magic, and then goes back to where she posted the fight declaration and complains that she's being "trolled" and is oppressed and has to go to bed now.

 

[kazuhiro]

Ernest continues his mad quest against C. S. Lewis and all who associate with him.

Ernest replies to a Toby Fox post and manages to trip over his own feet.

Point of order: Ernest's replying as "Kris" to a "Chara Dreemurr" but they say "(Moonlight System)" in their header. This is a different meat human?

It is apparently a different person, though not much more sane.



Undertale and its consequences...

What a bizarre argument, but again: love to see someone fight back. Rando is musing coherently on Citizen Kane, Ernest hops in to pick a fight but makes the rando guess what he's picking a fight about, and what his terse answers mean. And Ernst is disagreeing because he thinks that a character in a roman a clef is being portrayed respectfully, but refuses to explain how. This is like his Animal Farm argument all over again, but with fewer words.

Here's a bit more on where Ernest was coming from on Citizen Kane.

"Spoons."

Plus a bonus argument about Tolkien under the spoiler (link / archive.)

Spoiler

 

[Spunt]

Ernest is unhappy about the "consequences of spinning myths about real-life human beings", as he pretends to be his own dead brother to whom he has assigned non-binary pronouns.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Plus a bonus argument about Tolkien under the spoiler.

Two goobers talking about Tolkien, winding down the conversation into a larf, and Ernest comes in demanding rigorous academic debate. They talk to him politely, Ernest continues to bully, one of them tells him to "stfu" and he asks if that "ever works."

"Why does everyone hate me for no reason?!?"

 

[Spunt]

Two goobers talking about Tolkien, winding down the conversation into a larf, and Ernest comes in demanding rigorous academic debate. They talk to him politely, Ernest continues to bully, one of them tells him to "stfu" and he asks if that "ever works."

"Why does everyone hate me for no reason?!?"

Ernest clearly misses academia. I think given his shroom-powered flunk-out at CalTech, he has a huge complex about being wanted to seen as a serious academic and debate bro. It's why his rambling is different to, say, Pat Tomlinson. Pat only wants other people to think he's an expert at everything whereas Ernest wants to convince himself that he's smarter than everyone. I'll bet dollars to donuts his undergrad failure at CalTech gave him a huge inferiority complex that he countered with extreme narcissism. That's why he chunters away to himself on these bizarre soliloquies, long after everyone he was raving at has ignored or blocked him.

He's an unemployed burnout whose long-term abuse of psychedelics damaged his brain and left him, by his own admission, unable to tell the difference between fantasy and reality. He'll never be employable or succeed at anything. His creative skills are sorely lacking, and his more technical knowledge can't be harnessed to anything productive because of his unrecoverable neurological damage that makes him unable to focus his intellect on anything and think he has videogame characters in his head. As someone who is clearly a narcissist whose self-worth comes from his intellect, the fact that he has burned his brain out to the point of dementia must be a living nightmare, one he hides from by fantasising about Undertale characters and picking fights on the internet, always trying to prove his superiority. He coulda been someone! He coulda been a contender! But now he is nothing, and never will be anything, and that makes him very insecure.

I think he really believes that fictional worlds are real, a bit like the way CWC does, but rather than autism (though I think he may be autistic), it's caused by hallucinogenic brain damage. That's why he gets so impassioned and aggressive when talking about Lewis, Tolkien and other authors known for fantasy world-building. If those fantasy worlds are real, then their creators are Gods, so discussing those creators is a religious debate. I think that's why he sees these things as Serious Business.

 

[kazuhiro]

More Lewis lunacy.

Fantastic Four.

Tom Lehrer memories.

Their cats.

Charas.

Fleeing social media.

Falling on his sword.

Logging off.

Tolkien.

Reposting Lou.

Bluesky.

A visit to the ER.

 

[Aunt Carol]

More Lewis lunacy.

This is a variation of his "do you have any swastika memes," but it's more bizarrely phrased. Asking "how many antisemetic slurs do you have memorized" is like asking "how many kinds of flower do you have memorized?" Nobody wakes up, says "oh boy, time to start studying racism!" and breaks out a vocabulary list or flash cards. And if recognizing a word as a slur is damning, how would anyone call out slurs? Should the ADL wipe their reference page of WS symbols, so nobody recognizes them?

I'm thinking about this way more than Ernest is; it seems like he tries to use this tactic as a half-understood version of a Kafkatrap.

Fantastic Four.

Highlighting the funny: Ernest is being a dick for no reason to a dude making a light joke about Fantastic Four. However, Ernest says it's a movie about someone having heat-vision and invincibility conveyed by a yellow sun, which even non-dorks understand is Superman, a different film entirely. The rando doesn't rise to the bait but says he "tried to learn the difference between Fantastic Four and Superman" as a response, which Ernest misses entirely and uses to keep acting superior.

Does Ernest have history with this guy? This is a lot of abuse to suddenly visit on a complete stranger about making an entirely inoffensive joke. I guess this behavior explains why Lou and Ernest are such solid friends.

Logging off.

"the fun has quite gone out of it. uU_Uu" due to "unspoken rules of Internet social engagement." I'm pretty sure "if you're an asshole to strangers out of nowhere, they may not react well" is not a weird and obscure rule that only applies on the Internet. He could try breaking into friendly conversations at the grocery store or a park and demanding to know if the participants, strangers to him, have raped anyone. If he doesn't want to do that IRL, perhaps the rules are not so mysterious after all.

Poor Ernest; everyone is so awful to him all the time. For no reason!