It was just a simple extraction, done while I was conscious - it took a while and a lot of force, but they didn’t have to break any other teeth or get too invasive. My mouth was numbed, so it was more intense than it was painful.
Appreciate the good wishes!! 
my first step into stepping away from social media & improving my mental health is to prob make a new account JUST for vkei stuff and stay away from politics & other issues. i also hope to actually post new art for once in my adult life.
instagram is FUCKING ANNOYING and i want to share my vk collection elsewhere. the only reason i’m keeping that is to keep track of my faves ;w; (garasama only has a twt for his kyosuke himuro persona that he barely uses, i don’t blame him)
I want to see the art 
But all over, yes. Staying away from politics on social media is probably a good thing to do.
This is probably off topic but as I was listening to kiss me goodbye earlier I just couldn’t help but think that Atsushi Sakurai is just an absolute prize of a human being.
ugh i have absolutely no energy this day
I feel you
Social media really is falling off 
or better yet don’t make one.
Why don’t we all enjoy the precious time we have offline?
If you have something to say to your friends or loved ones don’t wait even if it’s something you don’t want to say or feel like saying it.
Even if they act like they didn’t want to hear it after all. It takes more energy to keep it in then out.
wait does this forum count as social media?
Some Boris news here
Social media is a tiered construct. There’s more than one kind of social media. In itself, it is just a way for people to connect digitally. So it would be sort of correct to call a forum “social media”, but that’s not the colloquial meaning anymore. It usually refers to large-scale, online gathering places like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, MySpace, YouTube.
Social media has to have a few things working together in order for it to meet this criteria in my mind:
This flows in a rather vague chart in my mind from websites where you need to put in personal information to websites that operate on some level of anonymity, from centralized to decentralized services, and even what the focus of being there is all about. They’re not all the same, and they’re not trying to be.
My personal issue with social media is several. Being connected is good, but being hyper-connected is dubious in my books. We went from landline phones to a rectangle that can connect all of us to each other and fits in our pockets in like 50 years; that is super-fast technological acceleration where the results of it are still playing out. We’re not gonna be able to see this era for what it is until the next one is well underway. All I know is that for me, I need to find that sweet spot between being not connected enough and overly connected.
Hyper-connectivity leads to my next point. If something horrible yet localized happens on the other side of the planet, I don’t see what I gain from exposing myself to that stimuli. “Awareness” is overrated, especially when being aware and unable to meaningfully contribute compounds on my exhaustion and weariness. There’s only so many things that I can spend my time, energy, and focus on, so I have to pick my fights. The ability for my emotions to impact others I don’t know to such a strong degree (and vice-versa) should not be understated, and the tendency for negativity to resonate much more powerfully than positivity isn’t something I should have to pull receipts for. PhillyD coined the phrase “emotionally exhausted” and I love it, because it fits beautifully. And it’s true.
The next is a more personal anecdote, but I see a lot of people too busy living in the digital world and not busy enough living in the real world. Many are simply existing, unable to enjoy offline time because we forgot how, don’t have the ability to spend money to do so, don’t have anyone to spend it with, and the list of hobbies has atrophied to the point where people don’t wanna do anything they aren’t already doing. Sometimes you don’t call your lived ones to say something because even though you miss them so much, you have nothing to say.
Emotional inertia? Not really sure what to call it, but it’s why I ditched a lot of my friends not too long ago. When given a choice between constructing your own reality out of thin air versus refining your experiences based on the cards that have been dealt, I can see the appeal of the former. Everyone’s always got their Sunday best on when it comes to social media, and it gives off the impression that everyone’s living their lives more fully than yours, so then some double down on looking their best and I see that as leading into a cycle of self-doubt if you let it. Honestly though, it’s a trap, because no one can exist forever in either the real or the digital world. Even if the two are becoming one, you must go back and forth between both several times a day. People too preoccupied with their digital persona are like gym rats who skip leg day.
Moderation is key when it comes to social media, and for me moderation is as close to zero as I can get. I can’t function with it, and while functioning without it is inconvenient, if the only thing I’m missing are friends of convenience then I think I’ll manage. If that sounds excessive, good: someone’s gotta be as obstinate as Richard Stallman and refuse to move the goalposts sometimes. That’s why I’m glad @suji is taking control of her experiences; it’s the best answer I’ve come up with right now to take advantage of the positives of social media while blocking out the litany of negative baggage associated with it. You just gotta find your own way.
Good
So it turns out that if you just sit in bed for a month watching Netflix/Youtube and do nothing else, you’ll be really fucking sore once you have to start doing physical labour again.
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sooo… am i allowed to say that have double standards regarding gatekeeping?
so just for a heads up i just watch the latest Tekken 8 gameplay analysis, and i’ve seen alot of people saying “this isn’t Tekken anymore” or “This looks like Mortal Kombat and plays like Street Fighter and I HATE IT” and mind you, some of these people had been complaining that the franchise basically wasn’t evolve much since Tekken 5 (18 years ago btw) and my opinion is: "FFS THEY CAN’T PLEASE EVERYONE. IF THEY DIDN’T CHANGE YOU GUYS GONNA SAID “IT’Z BEEN THA ZAME ZINCE TEKKUN VUAIV UUUUUU” AND IF THEY CHANGE YOU GUYS GONNA SAID “WHUT IZ THIS!!! THIS ISN’T TEKKUN ANYMORE REEEEEEEEE” If you guys didn’t like or even refuse the change You could always pretend that the game isn’t for you anymore, and is chasing a different type of audience from a different franchise that’s always ready to replace your “Elitist prick” spot and make it a better community. and before you said "Have you seen the example during mid’00s-the early 2010s? where the publishers attempted to “expand the marketability but alienate the Hardcore fans in the process?” Yes. “But they’re not going to stick arou-” we don’t know yet. most of the examples i’ve seen are single player games not the Multiplayer ones. the publishers need to expand to expand the playerbase otherwise the franchise would be dead due to the lack evolution.
yet when it comes to this:
suddenly my opinion about
If you guys didn’t like or even refuse the change You could always pretend that the game (Girls) isn’t for you anymore, and is chasing a different type of audience from a different franchise (Company) that’s always ready to replace your “Elitist prick” spot and make it a better community.
Doesn’t apply here. because i can’t believe that someone would be crazy enough to donate an insane amount money and buy an otherwise (Sorry vkstans) useless merch.
except their “gachikoi’s” (slang for Idol stans in japan) who’s extremely parasocial and doesn’t want their oshi’s (bias, fave bandmen) to be involved/interact with opposite gender in any way, shape, or form (this is also the case with the male idols/vtubers aswell) and mind you these girls didn’t just work for themselves but also the companies that hired them (You know how it goes right? you generate money for agency and you’ll get a huge amount of cut. just like any talent agencies) and the way these girls make money is to either to embrace the parasocial aspect or actually be entertaining with their antics (that doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive) like, it’s their job. they eat from their Hardcore and parasocial fanbases money. Idol industry (all of em. Hololive included) are the industry with “lies” in mind. they are real people pretended to be Anime gals and guys that’s pandering to teenage girls or middle age single men and women. (Especially Hololive and Some Nijisanji Members)
are they predatory?
Yes.
are the people involved is at fault?
no because it’s a job.
and in hindsight. being a Corporate vtubers That offers girlfriend/boyfriend/gayfriend experience doesn’t seem as bad as becoming an actual idol, pornstar, or a camwh*re/manwhore
Cause at least they’re anonymous. and they’re free to interact with the opposite gender/or even having a partner as long as nobody found it out.
and you don’t have to follow the physical standards to become one.
(I not gonna forbid you if you want to actually look good)
Not to mention. the societal jugdement is only limited to online Nobody is gonna judge IRL
TLDR: Me being anti gatekeeper in one community while also being an avid gatekeeper in the other (and i not even a hololive fan)
You’re entitled to your own opinion, but if you’re one of those people who actively harasses male vtubers after they play a video game with their female coworkers on stream once, and calling yourself an “avid gatekeeper” implies you might be, you should step away from any interactions with the vtuber community for a few days and take an objective look at your own behaviour. Chances are, you won’t like what you see.
No? i watch some of the guys and they can be pretty funny at times.
besides:
From my understanding, only Hololive (japanese branch) who’s actively encouraging these kind of parasocial behaviour whereas everywhere else it’ll be looked down upon. my point is that Hololive talents already know what to expect when they’re joining the company. some of them are even fans before joining, and wanted to emulate the same kind of experience that their senpai is providing (with their own twist of course) Meanwhile some people are implying that they were forced to do that kind of thing, i mean the main appeal of Hololive was all girls school comedy show mix with idol premise but now these newfans wanted them to collab with Stars and make them Nijisanji 2.0? (Nijisanji is the one that i actually watch and i tired of seeing that “only Nijifans wanted Hololive and Holostars to become one”) i mean wtf is the point of segregation then? People watched different company for a different reason and instead of changing things things they should just accept it or move onto somewhere else.
things heating up at the vk fandom.
Time to grab some popcorn.
what is it man?
