Iknow, I just so not find it anymore 
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Can ticks bite through workout leggings that are thick-ish? Or am I better off just putting on sweatpants or something?
Also @Missa, why are you eating Yoshiki? 
idk just a craving!!!
(Actually I was trying to see if I could find his wine in stock anywhere and GrubHub-ing the liquor stores around me seemed like the best method)
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im so lazy to make my all collection in vkgy…
probally will take years to finish.
It’s looking more and more likely that I’ll be a Satanist by years end.
“I GaVe bIrTH tO yOu”
Lmao I did not ask you to. You’re a non-entity anyways so why does that matter? You think because you did something I never asked for that you have leverage over me when you don’t even care about me? You didn’t even raise me.
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Went to the gas station two or three days ago and had facial hair and this guy said “Can I help you sir?” Shaved yesterday and went back today and the same damned guy called us ladies.
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I watched this interview some time ago and god its awful its just so weird, awkward and so badly organized. The questions were absolutley ridiculous
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I think I’d really like a lot of old-school 80’s/90’s VK if I actually took the time to explore it…
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Casually including VKei & Memes into my Internship Application cause why not.
tho it’s basically a full Meme’d Application haha
You would.
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Zess you were an amazing VK talent scout back in the day, you should continue introducing people to the contemporary gems in the scene if you haven’t stopped. I haven’t the slightest clue what bands in 2023 stand out and are worth listening to.
Also random thought, passionfruit-banana smoothies are amazing and very nutritious on top of that.
Can we get an Wig/Actual hair ratio in VK? cause i just realize that after following alot of Cosplayers on Twitter alot of em are actually wearing wigs even though their hair is completely ok. Maybe for time reasons.
Awe thanks!
Truth is, I don’t have time for it anymore. I set out with the goal of creating good discussion within the Reviews forum. I didn’t like the way reviews were “”“”“written”“”“” back in the day, and I put that in generous quotes. Users could only discuss new releases in polemic terms, as if the only numbers we were allowed to use were 1-3 and 7-10. A one liner of “This release sucks, 8/10” was not an uncommon thing. Discussion now is much better, if less frequent, because people take the time to explain why they feel what they feel and maybe leave off the number rating when it doesn’t make sense.
If you’re asking what bands in 2023 are worth listening to, the answer is nothing you haven’t already heard. HUMAN ERROR? Dokuga? JILUKA? peach? You probably know more than I do. I find it a disturbingly common trend that a new band is announced, releases a few releases with low reach, and then goes on hiatus forever. It’s also undeniable that at this time bands are more focused on domestic activities. Streaming also changed the game, and I’m starting to find it moderately difficult to get my hands on files of my own unless I buy myself. All these things come together to shrink the pipeline.
I swear I’m not hiding new visual kei bands under my trench coat, it’s just that new bands are a) less common and b) a step down from the quality of a decade ago. DazzlingBAD is not iT. Feels like a lot of senior leadership left the scene and no one is mentoring the youngins. That’s part of the reason why I’m so excited at this wave of 2010 bands revivals - we could definitely use the leadership! When ZigZag is your chief export, perhaps the scene needs to have a serious conversation with itself (this isn’t a dig at ZigZag, but rather how they’re able to come up so easily in their kid-friendly niche because other bands are flopping. Hard.).
I also find the visual adjacent scene more active and refreshing than visual kei at the moment. You get all the pomp and melodrama of visual kei, still sung in Japanese, except these bands just don’t claim visual kei. Ironically, I find that scene way more diverse than visual kei, even though we dote endlessly on how diverse the scene is. Lots of cool bands in there like UROBOROS, Unlucky Morpheus, DUSTZ, Ancient Myth, QUEEN BEE, etc. Went over like ten of them in another topic here.
Idol groups also falls into this category, since @colorfuljinsei has also described how there are some ties between visual kei and idol metal, even if the two don’t seem immediately connected. But then again, visual kei is just boy band metal, and idol groups are girl band metal, so it’s not that much of a reach. But yeah stuff like BABYMETAL, Aldious, BAND-MAID, HANABIE, etc. all sit here.
There are even times when doujin-aligned bands like Imperial Circus Dead Decadence and Vermillion-D Alice Syndrome sound more visual kei than current visual kei bands, so it’s all a matter of what you’re looking for.
Bonus round: This is probably my favorite release of 2023, and it’s a cross over between visual and non-visual artists that I never anticipated.
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maybe you could add something in here
@blossomingRuin made the thread originally regarding the hair color, but maybe we can turn it into a wig vs real hair thread instead
Considering having a social media / internet break but i’m so deathly afraid of boredom, even though I have so many hobbies and things to do. Shit is just so ridiculous on the interwebs that I just really need to cleanse myself from all the toxic waste that I have sucked into my soul from being chronically online. I’ll make that my mission on the coming week.
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I’m still on my social media break. It’s been over a year now and at first it was hard but then after a week the cravings went away and now I don’t know nor care about what’s going on. Last week my wife was talking to me about how the MIL says I shouldn’t be mad that my name came second in the post she put on Facebook and that sounds like a supreme first world problem I couldn’t care less for. It feels good to limit the toxic energy you let in. Hope it works out for you too!
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I did this last summer. I remember sleeping a lot more than I usually tend to do which was a sign internet nonsense was taking away a fair amount of my time with bed, and I also spent more time reading and being creative, however, the urge to lurk around was very real.
unless work reasons are to be, I’m never installing any other social media apps again, and most of them have desktop versions now so that part is even easier. perfectly smooth brain is a very refreshing feeling.
it’s not just vk, a lot of celebrities wear wigs to make their hair appear healthier and fuller, britney spearse would be an example of overdoing wigs and extensions to the point it gave her traction alopecia.
typically, wigs are hair saving measure because hair bleaching and hair styling in the long term fries hair, and since all of it is dead by the time it’s grown out, you either live with a crow nest or abuse a replaceable wig with the styling.
it comes down roughly the same cost-wise in the longterm to grow out natural hair or have a set of wigs.
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