Bunyan Heinz Butler

Bunyan Heinz Butler, known by the alias Dinosaur Sunday (born: Bunyan Heinz Butler, 1967) is a kratom addicted trucker, stoner, cryptid-hunter, woodsman, and internet poster from Tonopah, Nevada. He is commonly referred to by his reddit screen name BunHein or his nickname Bun. He is known for writing incoherent, drug fueled longform posts on the social media site Reddit. His signature writing style and absurd experiences have gathered him a small cult following from both fans and foes alike.
Bunyan began posting on the BunHein account in May 2020. Despite previous posts seeming "out-of-character" Bun had confirmed that he shared a "computer room" with his nephew, Bestfriend Butler, and his unnamed Cousin who would use his account from time to time. By late 2020, Bun had taken full control of the account.
== Early Life ==
== Post-Divorce ==
=== Jojo and Basil ===
As Bun's ex-wife was moving out, Bun left the door open one day, accidentally letting her two cats escape. Jojo would later be found by Bun but Basil is still missing to this day.
== First Tonopah Arc ==
=== Landlord, Roommate, and Uncle ===
Shortly after the divorce, Bun's Sister sent her nephew, Bestfriend Butler to live with Bun to recover from a krokodil addiction. Bestfriend is an adopted Vietnamese family member of Bun, although Bun was convinced he was blood related. No direct age of Bestfriend has been given, but Bun claimed he was between "15 and 23". 
 
Bun considered Bestfriend to be his tenant first, his nephew second, and his roommate third. Tensions were high between the two, as Bestfriend's frequent drug use and inconsistent schedule bothered Bun, and Bun's unauthorized and dangerous use of Bestfriend's Mazda, as well as a taxation on incoming food drove Bestfriend to abandon his uncle. Bun would not see Bestfriend again until his sister's wedding. 
Bestfriend returned for an official move-out just before a monsoon caused a flash flood that would destroy Bun's first trailer. The two were stranded together and became separated sometime before Bun arrived in Bearfleet. 
=== Pets ===
==== Cherish ====
Months after the divorce, Jojo returned to Bun's trailer. Feeling guilty about what her hardships, Bun renamed her to Cherish so that he could Cherish the remaining time he has left with her. He had shown a great amount of love and care for Cherish, even to the extent of claiming she was a completely different cat from Jojo so that his ex-wife or Stepdaughter wouldn't try to take her away. 
She is a ragdoll cat with long grey hair, green eyes, and a pink nose. Her feet are colored white, which Bun referred to as her "white boots". 
==== Skidmark ====
Bun acquired Skidmark in 2020 from a family friend. He was drawn to the dog after it pulled a hamster from under the fridge and killed it. Skidmark was likely Bun's favorite animal and best friend. He frequently traveled with Bun into town, to the gas station, and around the woods. Despite being put in numerous situations by Bun and even being traded for a Pekingese, he was a loyal companion. 
==== Dill ====
With increasing tangue vermin problems, Bun wanted a stocky fighting dog with the capacity to kill. He adopted Dill, a "Skap Miller Dog" in 2021. Dill became a killing machine on Bun's property, murdering tens of tangue vermin and tearing out an otter's belly near Lake Tahoe. 
Dill was a casualty of the flash flood later that year. Bun buried him twice - once after he drowned, and once again after continuous flood water pushed the dog up from the grave where tangue vermin were feasting on his corpse.
=== Tangue Vermin Invasions ===
Bun lived near one of the only natural ponds in the Tonopah area. As such, his property was under attack from invasive aquatic animals he referred to as tangue vermin. Although he disputed the claim that tangue vermin were nutria, Bun's description and photos of the animals gave enough evidence to draw the conclusion that they were, in fact, nutria. Bun spent much of 2020 and 2021 culling the local tangue vermin population by crushing them with cinderblocks, dropping M80s into their dens, scorching them with monster energy cans full of kerosene, poisoning them with anti-freeze, and driving heavy mining equipment over them. By mid 2021 Bun claimed he had exterminated the entirety of the tangue vermin population on his property, but in early 2022 they had begun to return.
=== Disputes with Local Mine ===
Nye County, where the city of Tonopah is seated, is historically known for its mining industry. Bun's trailer was positioned on mine property, where his family had created a "shared" property between the homeowner and mine in order to pay off debts. As a result, Bun had been involved in multiple land disputes including unlawful dumping of basalt into his backyard. Entertained by the outrage, the Miners, lead by Shoot the Miner, made a habit of jovially harassing Bun. 
To solve the excess basalt problem, Bun turned to dumping rocks into a nearby pond, shaving off particles of the rocks to season his food, and even attempted smoking the basalt. This problem has not yet been fixed, but it had quieted down after Bun's return to Tonopah. 
The Miners themselves were another issue entirely. Shoot the Miner pushed Bun's delusions about Hard Leon and Escaped Convicts as well as other myths including alien abductions and mole people. Other Miners had tricked Bun into drinking a 2 liter bottle of urine that had been left out in the Nevada sun and convinced him to use dried feces from their outhouse as a fire starter.
Despite the jokes, the Miners had shown to indicate genuine care for Bun's wellbeing. During the Flash Floods, Shoot the Miner encouraged Bun to leave the property with him. Taking it as yet another prank, Bun stayed behind. Bun then supposedly witnessed Shoot the Miner's truck being struck and annihilated by a lightning bolt, although Shoot the Miner either survived or was never actually hit by lightning at all.
=== Reddit ===
Between late 2020-2021 Bun made frequent posts to a plethora of different subreddits. The vast majority of subreddits shrugged Bun off as either a troll or a drug-fueled maniac. However, he found a pleasant home on /r/hot_dog. The forum warmly welcomed Bun's off-the-wall posts about his favorite food, and within six months Bun had tripled the amount of user-submitted posts to the subreddit that the second highest ranking member had. In May 2021, Bun submitted his iconic "Oh Look, Another Few Days Without Posts" rant to /r/hot_dog where he expressed frustration at the lack of posts to the sub. This post is by far Bun's most popular, as not only is it the #1 post of all time on /r/hot_dog, but a screenshot of the post frequently makes the rounds on social media as a meme. "It says "you found your people," but I'm pretty sure we are all glad that we found you too u/BunHein. r/hot_dog wouldn't be the same without you!" -T3sttickler in /r/hot_dog
=== Hard Leon ===
One of Bun's more prominent obsessions was that with the "flat-faced-fox" Hard Leon. By description, Hard Leon was a mange stricken coyote with a face that was "flat like a board". No legitimate depictions of Hard Leon have been seen, although both Bun and Shoot the Miner had claimed to have an encounter with Hard Leon. The threat of Hard Leon is seemingly negligible despite Bun claiming that it had attacked and killed the elderly or small children. Still, Bun had made it a goal to kill the animal for the greater good of society. He had attempted to raise Hard Leon awareness with posts to /r/cryptids and /r/interestingasfuck. 
 
=== Sister's Wedding ===
Bun's Sister's Wedding of May 2021 was a definitive turning point in Bun's internet posting. It was from this moment that his writing became less coherent, more aimless, and was likely the birthing point of the Bunyan we know today. The events of the wedding had traumatized Bun greatly, specifically seeing that his nephew had not been killed by Hard Leon as he expected, but had just returned to live with his mom. 
Moments following the wedding include Bun's infamous /r/self post where he recalled his entire extended family calling him, including Bestfriend, who supposedly made the comment: "Fuck you Bun. Everyone in this family hates you and you’re an embarrassment on this family." -Bun recalling what Bestfriend told him on the phone after the wedding.Users on /r/self were no help to Bun. They shamed Bun for being in the wrong, with one user who scoured through his post history noting: "he’s fought someone at a wedding and is frequently violent, spit up some chips on the floor when his aunt or family member were taste testing chips, smashed a possum to death and wants to kill a rabbit ..... I’d say his family isn’t wrong for cutting him off" -/u/xcincly"I didn’t do much wrong except for just generally be raunchy and gross. I’m not sexual at all in nature, I just like to hiccup, burp, vomit, fart and burp and sneeze and cough and whatnot. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal but that’s apparently a big reason." -Bun on why his family wouldn't talk to him.
== Exodus from Tonopah ==
Following the wedding Bun seemed to fall into a downward spiral. A mix of bad luck and acting out made Bun both a perpetrator and a victim for the next two months that would irreversibly change his life. 
=== Controlled Burn of June 2021 ===
For an unknown reason, a large brushfire raged near Bun's property. He claimed it was done by the local mine, although there is not much evidence supporting this. Much of the local ecosystem was destroyed, which was an issue for Bun as a self proclaimed forager. While Hard Leon was chased out of his home, the tangue vermin were able to survive by hiding in Bun's pond, much to his frustration. As a result, this event was one of many reasons Bun decided to flee to Florida. 
=== Flash Floods ===
The final turning point in Bun's journey to Bearfleet were two flash floods. The first of the flash floods swept through his house. Bun was able to save Cherish and Skidmark by hiding on top of the fridge, but Dill was pinned beneath the couch and drowned. When scouting the area the next morning, Bun was caught in a smaller flash flood where he was pinned beneath a tree and waterboarded for, depending on which claim was true, between 8-12 hours. By the time he returned to his trailer, the second flash flood was just about to begin and there was no time to evacuate. It was at this time that Bestfriend had returned for his Mazda, and both him and Bun were stranded as the floods destroyed Bun's home. Bun was silent on Reddit for nearly a month without contact after expressing that him and Bestfriend were stranded. 
== Bearfleet ==
=== Dinosaur Sunday, Massive Hippy Stoner ===
Towards the end of Summer 2021, Bun updated his fans from Bearfleet, Florida. Sometime in between the flood and his new apartment, he became incredibly fond of marijuana and had began growing it in his apartment. Thus, he adopted a second personality by the name of Dinosaur Sunday who was a "huge, massive, hippy stoner who just loves to damn listen to Every Little Things Gonna Be Alright by Bob Marley". There was no indication as to why or when Bun decided to shift his identity in this way, although it was likely under environmental circumstances. Frequent DMT use would end up blurring reality from fiction in Bun's mind. 
=== New Friends ===
==== Christmas ====
Bun was quick to make friends in Bearfleet. One night while walking Skidmark, Bun was robbed at gunpoint by a tall, deaf albino named Christmas. He offered him some of his home grown marijuana and the two became fast friends. 
==== Boe Cherish and Wilson Cherish ====
Bun's apartment was home to many cockroaches, most notably a cockroach couple who Bun named in tribute to his daughter's hamsters, Boe and Wilson. Upon seeing another dead cockroach who had hung itself on his blinds, he renamed the cockroaches to Boe Cherish and Wilson Cherish so that he could cherish the remaining time he had left with them - which wasn't much time. Wilson Cherish was burned when his stovetop sanctuary caught fire, and Boe Cherish died on the flight back to Nevada. Bun mixed Boe Cherish with hashish and smoked him outside the airport in his honor. 
=== Three Dogs Incident ===
During his time in Bearfleet as well as his extensive drug use including the introduction of DMT to his regimen, Bun began rampantly referring to things in his life under different identities. While many assume this was schizophrenia, there isn't any genuine medical evidence to back this up. There is no simple way to describe the Three Dogs Incident. The events can only be speculated, but the tale can be inferred as follows: 
Bunyan began referring to Skidmark as "Vernon" just before moving to Bearfleet. At first this seemed like a nickname. In Bearfleet, one night Bun decided to also call Skidmark "Remus" after a long debacle on what else he could call his dog. From this point on, Bun suited the names to individual personalities within one Skidmark. By this mental process, Bun had convinced himself that he had not one dog, but three separate boston terriers with their own physical manifestations that only came around when the others weren't there. This situation would not climax until the Dog-Swap Incident. 
== Return to Tonopah ==
=== New Job, New Life, New Reddit ===
Bun returned to Tonopah in early 2022. A new mobile trailer was constructed where his previous home was destroyed by the flood. This is likely what Bun had been waiting for in Bearfleet. He returned to his former job with his Peterbilt 379 as an independently contracted trucker. This opportunity had allowed him to venture across the Southwest and had set the stage for this era of events. 
Unfortunately, during this time, Bun had also diagnosed himself with heart cancer, and incredibly rare form of cancer that he claimed would kill him by the end of 2022. There had been no official diagnosis on his heart cancer. 
On March 16, 2022, a viral tweet by @coolestdudeyet showcasing many of Bunyan's stories reached thousands of Twitter users. Bun was met with a great force of enthusiasm, curiosity, and shock. "Jesus Christ OP. This is one of the few times I've been truly flabbergasted online lol." -@coolestdudeyet
"I have a profoundly distinct mental image of this individual just from their overuse of "pretty well much" in every other sentence" -@PoorDunce
"This belongs in the literary canon of the 21st century - I will never write anything this beautiful" -@Discourse_Stu
"The ones I posted indicate something great, like looking at the scaffolding of a skyscraper. Delving into his post history reveals the true scope." -@coolestdudeyetThis moment would forever change Bun's online status, as it birthed an entirely new fandom under his Reddit account. From then on, much of Bun's posts would indicate that he was aware that many people are watching his daily activities. Bun's presence on Reddit shifted from that of a passive poster to one who was actively involved as a micro-celebrity. 
=== Moderation ===
After being banned from ~50 subreddits, Bun began creating a few of his own, the most prominent being /r/voles and /r/pronghorn. Both of these subreddits were largely ambiguous in their use, with Bun himself showing both love and disdain for either animal. However, it wasn't the content of the subreddits that made them so popular, but Bun's authoritarian control of them. 
Likely unknowing how to actually "ban" a user, Bun frequently assigned users a BANNED flair that discouraged approved users from communicating with trolls and troublemakers. This has of course caused extensive drama. He banned any mention of other animals on /r/voles and /r/pronghorn unless they are done by himself. He had also made a habit of selling t-shirts made from poorly designed photoshops (by Bestfriend) of the animals. He had made over $100 in RedBubble sales from doing so. In Bun fashion, all sales of voles or pronghorn products on either subreddits were strictly prohibited unless done by himself. 
=== Clover Montana Sunrise ===
Bunhein's Ex-Girlfriend and possible Sex Worker 
Sometime in early 2022, Bunyan fell in love with a woman by the online persona of CloverMontanaSunrise, or Clover. She was described as "a busty half African American half Latina" or simply a "hybrid" of the two races with a triple-D breast size. 
Bun was planning on proposing to clover but they broke up before he got the chance to
However on 10/7/22 Bun Purchased a ring to propose to Clover despite the problems caused by doing a 'Dr. Doolittle' in Bed.
=== Dog-Swap and Shylo ===
=== Step Daughter ===
Not Much is known about Maddie, she took care of. bun and briefly ran his Social media accounts when he was in hospital after his heart attack and subsequent diagnosis of 'Heart Cancer" which he then beat less than a month later.