What's up I'm Egg (they/them) I'm queer, an adult, and this is my pinned post
My queue is a time loop simulator and has been since June 2023, I have diligently tagged all posts with "time loop spam" and "unreality" since September 2023 if you do not want to see them. I have a "Time loops" tag for general posts about loops, "time loop posts" tag for the posts that will be queued, and "removed from time loop posts tag" for the ones that are no longer being queued.
I WILL tag platonic things with the ship tag <3 this is for sorting purposes mostly because I hate distinguishing types of relationships in my tagging system
DO NOT SEND ME DONATION ASKS: I do not answer asks calling for donations, or reblog donation posts, unless it is from a mutual, a friend, or a friend of a friend. All my condolences.
I am irregular at answering asks and doing reblog games, but I do appreciate the thought 💜
Previous pinned post was about my twewy discord server, which you can find here
I am proship, I work in a library, I am a tag wrangler for Ao3. Sometimes I post about it, especially when recruiting is taking place
I am also ComposerEgg on ao3, find my fic there. Browse my bookmarks if you want some good material! You can chat with me about my fics here or at my writing blog, @composereggwrites!
I have a carrd, which I try to keep updated, and it also lists all the zines I've been in.
I have a ko-fi, and as you might expect by this point, it is ComposerEgg
Icon by @medi-melancholy (very good art)
tagging system notes under cut, also a funny list of reasons I've blocked people
Tagging system:
Fandoms: usually acronyms, unless it is 1-3 words
Twewy
Isat
Tma
Danganronpa
Gravity falls
Undertale
Tgcf, mdzs, mxtx
Ships: whichever ship name I like best. I should work on standardizing this. Always a smushname. I WILL tag things platonically and romantically with the same ship name
Technically falls under that but any form of queer separatism like aphobia, transandrophobia, transmisogyny
Anti-ship
Anti-kin
Anti-endo
Posted hate for ship I like where I've seen: joshneku, jonmartin, blupjeans, others but this is off the top of my head at 7am
It's really funny actually in the past there was a 1:1 ratio of blupjeans hater to aphobe, literally all of the haters were
Posted xReader fic in tags I follow
Too many rp promos in tags I follow
Supported the bullying of John Green on tumblr (that was sexual harassment on top of an anti-led crusade)
Disliked cats a bit too much (as in literally the animal)
Saw your takes while browsing replies to a random post and didn't like them a bit too much
At least 1 person for having my deadname
Vibes
Spam bot
Asked me to boost a donation post (not my friend or friend of friend)
Actively encouraging people not to vote and encouraging "burn it all down" accelerationist takes as if a violent political upheaval won't kill many people who need aid the most
If concrete reasoning no long applies let me know somehow I guess if this is fucking you up lmao, I don't think I make enough hit posts for it to matter but dm a side blog like @composereggwrites or something, I think it works like that, if it doesn't someone let me know ??? Idk just give an contact any way you figure out idc that much
Well, the good news is that you've broken the time loop.
The bad news is that the reason you've broken the time loop is because whatever force was responsible for maintaining it looked at the shit you did on that particular iteration and thought to itself: "you know what would be really fucked up?"
currently maybe possibly single-handedly crashing whatever servers eton hosts its archived student newspapers on because me and a friend are getting obsessed with a single outspoken prefect from 1883
@queenlua Happily! This is going to be long, so here's some set dressing first:
Eton College, for anyone unfamiliar, is a prestigious boys' school in England that has famously educated MANY MANY politicians, royals, nobility, and other assorted famous people. All you really need to know about it is that's it's incredibly posh and expensive and exclusive
The Eton Society (called “Pop” internally) is a self-selecting body of senior students at Eton that have historically held a decent amount of power at the school. If you’ve ever attended a school with a prefect system/house system etc you probably know a little bit about how obnoxious this kind of group can get. Now imagine they're all called Lord Godfrey Pickerington or something. Are you getting it? Is the set being dressed? Good.
Now that the scene is set, here’s our tale!!
I stumbled into Eton’s archives while doing research for a fanfiction and we’ll just leave that admission where it is!! It was in reading old issues of their student-run paper, The Chronicle, from 1883 that myself and @carebewear started becoming fixated on one guy in particular.
Cecil B. Gedge (from this point on known as Gedge) was a member of the Eton Society in 1883/84. He won a few Science awards during his time there (Biology!!) and seemed to like rowing during school sports events. He went on to become a barrister, which will make sense once you know more about him.
The best part of Gedge, though, is his appearances in the minutes for the Eton Society meetings. At least at Gedge’s time, the Eton Society seemed really fond of staging debates (more like loosely organised discussions) on a wide variety of topics.
Here are some of the riveting questions they discussed!
And my personal favourite: "Are Ghosts Real?"
(They were very divided)
Gedge first came to our attention in debate about the annexation of New Guinea, in which he apparently started an "abusive attack on the British army and missionaries":
Wow! Based Gedge!? He continues to spit period-typical truths about things like how we shouldn't tax bicycles actually because it would disproportionately affect poor people. YIMBY Gedge?? He would've loved light rail.
The final nail in our Gedge obsession was a debate on women's suffrage, in which Gedge vehemently advocates for women's right to vote and then gets no supporters at the end of the meeting. But I appreciate that he said it anyway and kept saying it. He is more persecuted that Christ, to me.
Here are some more, from anti-conscription sentiment to indirectly calling his classmates stupid to weirding everyone out by saying he wants to donate his body to science (his friend dissecting him for fun):
We started getting the feeling people might not have liked Gedge that much, mainly since one of the Society members wrote a poem about all his friends and Gedge isn't in it.
In 1884, there was some extended drama in the Chronicle where someone whom I groundlessly suspect was Gedge under a pseudonym ("A Socialist"), wrote to the editor complaining that the "debates" published by the Eton Society were "bad" (genuine quote) and that they should make a REAL debate society at the school that ALL boys, not just the self-selected seniors, could participate in:
To make a long story short most of the vocal members of the Eton Society threw up their hands at this and refused to do anything, basically boiling down to "Just because we're the prefects of the school doesn't mean we should have to actually DO anything!! Unfair!!" and also this quote which reads exactly like at least a thousand real tweets I've seen in my life
Liberal. Gedge, of course, was there giving practical suggestions, but the discussion was ultimately cut short because their principal died and they had to push a memorial issue of the paper. We have a working theory that the staff might've used that interruption as an opportunity to get the boys to cut it the fuck out.
Anyway it's a little unclear what happens to Gedge after that. He isn't credited as being in the 1884 Eton Society in the larger school register but it's unclear if that's because he wasn't re-elected or if he just graduated. Either way, he went on to become a barrister in London, which makes a lot of sense. Sadly though, he passed away in WW1, which we were really normal about
Thank you Lt. Gedge, for truly embodying the eternal spirit of an outspoken debate-kid, a friend to the lefties, a proto-yimby, a terminal back-talker, and the kid in a biology class that's a little too excited for the dissections. I hope your life, however short, was a rich and bright one. Thanks for the incredibly entertaining afternoon, brother 🫡
Was thinking about how Xie Lian's neck looks post-canon / without the shackle ( ◡‿◡ *)
(Also I colored this in the evening while my blue light filter was on the screen so please view with blue light filter on xD)
