The Purest Egg

WELP I haven't touched this thing in like, a year. I might get back to this place, might not; it's kind of hard to find active communities, particularly for more niche interests.

I was thinking about an anti argument, a rhetorical, loaded question, quite probably intended to shut down any arguments against censorship: "so you think hate speech should be allowed to exist, is that what you're saying?"

And you know what?

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How is it possible that I haven't updated my drivers since 2006? I didn't even have this computer in 2006!

Edit: It is February. I have restarted my computer. My desktop appears. I move the mouse, but it freezes.

I open the task manager. Nothing is running. I click "more details".



I'm in Hell. Updating my drivers does not, in fact, save my computer from freezing all over the place.

I uh... I had a mental breakdown. There goes posting regularly, I suppose...

Or maybe I *won't* be posting every single day because gdi writing is hard work and takes a lot of time.

I'm really not used to not living in fear every time I utter a squeak because I stg the TINIEST slip up could get you killed on Tumblr so I just shut up for the most part. Even if I said anything people would seemingly misinterpret what I said on purpose while insisting their POV was the only proper one (even if they were basing their entire arguments on headcanons that weren't canon but "probably were, I mean that's how most people see it" and I was not in that fandom for long).

Now that I can, like... post stuff, and be relatively certain nobody's gonna scream at me for it... or follow people and be relatively certain they're reasonable adults with an actual grasp on reality... I have no idea what to do, or what I'm capable of accomplishing in a day, or what. I mean, I'm still nervous hitting "post", but at least I can actually do it.

Hell, instead of quitting entirely I've gotten bolder on my tumblr, reblogging a couple of hot takes I genuinely agree with and actually talking in a reblog of a post about water (though, as I get used to DreamWidth, I imagine I'll stop using tumblr entirely at some point. Slow death, here.)

( Brief, Somewhat Personal Stuff and Also Stuff Regarding Abuse, Exclusionism, and Racism on Tumblr )

Anyway, uh... Illuminating Eve is absolutely not a 16-page outline in development hell, it's just that I'm not good at planning yet. Soon! In the mean time, I'll post other things and deal with the guilt of not working on that one big project myself because the rational part of my brain won out: if I focus solely on the horror fic on my DreamWidth, people will expect nothing but the horror fic, and I don't wanna pidgeonhole myself like I accidentally did with the Pony Storm of 2015.

The original is to the left, my edit is to the right! What do you think?

*screams into the void*

I know I have no audience to speak of, but in case I get a random interested passerby, hi! I'm Pure Egg, amateur digital artist and writer, and I'm writing an IronWillShipping drama/horror fic. It's just a prototype sketch, but what do you think of this title card? It would go at the top of every chapter, along with the whole title/summary/rating/warnings thing. Although the actual body would be under a cut, the title card might make the above the cut post obnoxiously long or it might spark some interest in the story that maybe the summary wouldn't be able to.

Whatever your opinion, I'd love some feedback!



( Edits and Past Versions )

Hi! I'm Pure Egg. I draw and write things!

I'm not entirely sure what to say, since I don't really know who I'm talking to. I'm an eternally anxious and depressed bean. My memory is terrible. I, uh, jumped ship from Tumblr and I was going to wait for Pillowfort, but a recent rule of theirs is a little too anti-shippy, so I jumped over here instead. Tumblr culture is terrifying; I can't stay there.

I'm a 20yo ace multishipper and moe blob digital artist. I like books, video games, animation (both Eastern and Western), some of my favorite genres include Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror (although gore usually squicks me), and Solar Punk, and specific fandoms I enjoy include Warcraft, assorted RPGMaker games, Mega Man, and Pokémon. Pokémon shipping wank, less so.

I liked My Candy Love before they started charging you for every word that comes out of a character's mouth, and I also liked Artix Entertainment games until the axe rape scene in DragonFable.

I'm usually pretty forgiving of that stuff, but DragonFable had been a family friendly game that I grew up with, and I'm pretty sure their website still says the game is family friendly (last I checked, which was long after the axe rape scene), so that's got to be the opposite of a fair warning. Imagine playing Pokémon but then a random NPC is violently and graphically raped in Lavender Town and the graphics are more close up and detailed too.

Speaking of rape, I'm in the process of writing an IronWillShipping dark fic with an AO rating and clear warnings describing the content contained within, Artix.

Oh, yes, I'm also a salty bean. Lots of salt. Also apparently hitting enter in the tags automatically posts your entry instead of separating your tags, so uh... whoops. Tune in for Part II?

Part II
Anyway... sometimes gross or terrifying thoughts enter my head and I can't get them out, but dark fiction, for me, is a way to take my mind off of scary real things and instead focus on the scary fictional things. It depends on the time, depends on my state of mind and what sort of terrified I am, but I'd much rather be thinking about terrible things happening to fictional characters than terrible things happening to me.

Which is why I really don't appreciate it when a video game that had been comforting to me for a decade suddenly turns into a horror game when I really don't need horror at that moment. It's something I'm prepared for with RPGMaker Horror or M-rated fanworks. It's not something I expected from DragonFable.