Hi. What you're viewing now is a relic, in the hopefully distant future. Here stood a monument of what was good about the internet. It didn't die because of mismanagement. It didn't die because its users couldn't afford it. It died because the systems that ran it cost too much to maintain. That's not the fault of any of the users or the staff. That's the fault of Capitalism.

This was a good place, that refused to sell out, even in its last seconds. It resisted the Call of Profit, and we all rejoiced. It was a true, and beautiful little slice of the world. It was everything social media should have been. In a better world, it would still be here. Not without flaws, but only because the hands that shaped it were mortal.

But we still have Eggbug.

Please, carry forward the lessons learned here. The mistakes made. Please carry forward the understanding that all things will crumble before you're ready - unless you're tearing them down yourself, and sometimes even then - and prepare. Learn. Adapt. Grow. Be kind.

Carry Eggbug with you, and you'll always have a friend. Carry Eggbug to the far corners of the digital world. Put them on your neocities, your discords, your forums, your chats, your laptop backs, your distant, strange little places.

Eggbug is all that we have left, aside from our memories, once those servers close.

You, in the far future, reading this back on some archive - remember well the lessons of Eggbug.

Be kind. Try your best. Rally to those you love and keep them close.

Fuck Computers. Fuck Software. Fuck Capitalism.

Love Eggbug.

I'm on Bluesky, Discord, Tumblr - all the same, unique name. Seven letters. You know the seven, if you want to find me. I'll be here. I'll always be here, with Eggbug.

Balketh, out.

I'm just gonna keep posting what's helping me feel better until I can't.

by which i mean, if you were reading a book and a male character of royalty was referred to as a princess would that be confusing to you as a reader than him being called a prince?

Cohost is shutting down. I'll still be chilling here as the lights go out. But here's where you can find me and what to expect from each place, organized from active to least active:

• tldr here's my linktree

• tumblr behold
  This is where I post the most now! Between sharing cool art I find and Palestine fundraisers, I'm either doing DC Fandom shenanigans or promoting Lunar Boy. If you like my DC au stuff, the master tag for a more complete look of my au is #jl remix. You don't need to know anything about the characters to read the stuff I make. I always aim to make my stuff accessible to newbies so that you too can geek out about my sick interests. Sometimes I'm goofposting, sometimes I'm writing analytical essays on stuff because media criticism is fun. That's under #media criticism and #jesncin DC meta. Feel free to drop an ask about anything, just don't be mean. I will be cross-posting my cohost specific essays and the additions to them to tumblr. Updates have been pretty daily from jesncin there!

• instagram check it out
  Sometimes I get frustrated with how persnickety insta's format is, but I do love that it's where most normies and book reading communities are. So! You can expect art from me there. And now that they've bumped up image swiping limit to 20 pics, that's enabling my twisted comic needs. The key to this place is my insta stories! I'm usually goofing around there, but sometimes I post thoughts. There are freakishly detailed insta story reactions of me watching animated TV shows collected on my profile. It's the most casual "in the moment" jesncin experience lol, something about stories disappearing in 24 hours just frees me into saying whatever. Insta stories update pretty often. Actual posts on the other hand, update whenever I have more polished art to share. I usually aim for art posts every week, but that can change if I'm busy.

• twidder/twix you let out a sigh as you click
  Boooo unfortunately I have to be here for industry reasons. I've been a bit inconsistent about this place since I've warmed up to blogging so much. The couple of times I've gone viral on there sucked so I'm always wary of how I go about non-art tweeting (I'm not even that popular geez). My aim has been to share cool art I find and goings on that interest/matter to me. I'm purposely restrained about DC fandom tweeting on there since I find cape twitter annoying. Too many people bait posting and talking out of their butts for clicks. I'll figure something out. Updates are inconsistent! I don't have a set flow to this one.

• tik tok leave some dirt for the dirt man
  Huh??? Don't take this one too seriously. I'm super casual about video stuff because I do not want to get caught in any content production + algorithm chasing habits that these apps run on. So my tik tok is currently a sporadically updating video archive of cool or goofy things I find and want to share. jesncin has footage of one of the first ballroom events in Jakarta??? jesncin's sharing cool keris from the museum???? You can find it here! I cross post some of these to either insta or insta stories. Also inconsistent updates, makings vids takes a lot of work and time.