a love letter to virtual community care 🌱💞 | Kernel Magazine
cw: police, mental illness, inpatient hospitalization` It’s 3 a.m. I’m waiting for my cup of Shin Ramyun in the microwave. Whispering into my headphones mic, I talk to two people I met a week ago through a MMORPG (massive multiplayer online) video game from my childhood, Maplestory. Maybe the
Kernel | a love letter to virtual community care 🌱💞 Issue 1 nonfiction a love letter to virtual community care 🌱💞 written by Theresa Gao cw: police, mental illness, inpatient hospitalization It’s 3 a.m. I’m waiting for my cup of Shin Ramyun in the microwave. Whispering into my headphones mic, I talk to two people I met a week ago through a MMORPG (massive multiplayer online) video game from my childhood, Maplestory. Maybe the reason why the usual social anxiety disappears is because I’ve never met these people before. We get to know each other in Discord “voice chat”, which means we commun
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