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The Art of Asty
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Surrealist painter
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The Art of Asty @theartofasty.bsky.social · Jul 22
An extremely important message to all my followers.
I know it's a fuckload of text, but please, bear with me
Hi I need to come forward about something to all my loved ones, friends, acquaintances, supporters and audience. My mental state has been on a steady and consistent decline for the past 2-3 years things have gotten so bad that these days I hardly have the will to do anything, and I mean, anything. I often starve myself for 1 or 2 days at a time because I just don't have the energy or will to cook for myself, I will only eat when the headaches have gotten too unbearable or when I'm going through some emotion I'm trying to drown out with food, so I will go from starving myself for several days to binge eating, which is how I've managed to continue gaining weight. I struggle so much at cleaning both myself and my living space that I've developed constant rashes because of showering only once or twice a week, only doing so more often when I'm going to see other people because I can't stand the idea of anyone perceiving me in this state of disrepair. There's currently two garbage bags sitting open in my living room and there's still somehow assorted trash littered throughout my apartment, I can only gather the energy to clean the apartment when I'm supposed to receive visits, and even then it has gotten so hard that I have just started to avoid visits more and more. As many may have noticed, my artistic output has also come to a screeching halt. The last full painting I managed to will myself into finishing was almost a year ago. since then I've only been able to complete a handful of charcoal sketches, with more and more time passing between them, and yet I still have to keep pushing myself to taking new commissions that I'm struggling to even start, because, well, I need to eat. I make about 70 dollars a week from handling finances at my mother's small business, which is just enough to be able to afford food for myself and my cats, but I also have to pay the light, internet, water and credit card bills (these last ones currently have a $2000 debt that I accrued through… This period has also been littered with a litany of personal tragedies, I've lost more friendships than I can count due to my erratic and unstable behavior, and the few I still have I feel slowly but surely drifting away, I lost my oldest cat that I had since I was 15 to circumstances that I still blame myself for, and another one of my cats has twice gotten dangerously ill, which I had to pull through with the help of fundraising efforts and more credit card debt in order to save him. I injured my back thanks to being fat and having Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and I often find myself completely bedridden for weeks due to pain so bad that standing, walking or sitting becomes a fantasy. I've lost a massive chunk of my audience both to several bans from the fascist leadership at twitter dot com and the complete lack of new artistic output in months, which has made it increasingly difficult to continue making any money from my art, both from passive income off of print sales and patreon, as well as from selling commission work. I've become more and more isolated, I push my friends and loved ones away because I just, legitimately feel like their lives would be better off without me in it, and I know that the lives of the many who have cut ties with me are now better thanks to not having to deal with this absolute mess. I'm dangerously mentally ill, I have Borderline Personality Disorder that I've been battling since I can remember, and good god, it is a fucking lonely fight, I promise you that if you don't have this disease you couldn't even begin to understand the kind of absolute nightmare that it is, there's a reason it has such a high suicide attempt rate. I've gone through therapy in this period too, I did get better, but as soon as the program ended, I could sense myself slipping back into the hole because I simply lacked the resources to maintain the progress long term. The suicidal behavior has come back, it's creeping in the back of my mind every day, I've thankfu…
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gamedev friends:

what is your take on piracy? do you care about it? is it an issue for small developers like you? or is it a complete non-issue?
December 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Why the duck did Frieren develop such a fucking Nazi fanbase
December 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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critical support for comrade Candace Owens in her mission to destroy the american far right from the inside
December 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Silksong got robbed but I’m not surprised tbh
December 12, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Seeing my favorite person in the world slowly but surely turning into a commie
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December 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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You guys aren’t in an FBI list since 2016? Lame
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Every time I even have the slightest thought of updating some component on my PC, the techbros start hoarding it til its price goes up tenfold, fuck my life lmao
December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I need a big strong hairy man to give me head pats and tell me I can draw without having an anxiety attack
December 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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I hope Francis Fukuyama’s coffee is especially cold today
December 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Tarantino has made some of my all time favorite films, but I am happy to see everyone from the common folk to the film industry clowning on him for his dogshit takes
December 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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I slept like 18 hours what is wrong with me
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December 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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I’m sorry to say but that Iron Lung movie just looks like a high budget YouTube video
December 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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The masculine urge to have 8 eyes and a set of chelicerae
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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It’s hilarious that the baked piss filter became pretty much permanent for most AI image generation because of the data inbreeding
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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What’s your genetic abnormality?
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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You know he loves you when he holds you close and kisses you even after seeing you puke your guts out in the middle of a date 🥰
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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She moves slowly
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Trying to start drawing again after months of not doing any art due to crippling mental illness and feeling like I have to learn it all over again
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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I've had a really rough time enjoying new music in recent years (probably from debilitating depression), so I think it's noteworthy to shoutout this album because it's the first thing in a while that has REALLY captured my attention and joy

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Přílišnost (Excess), by Kostnatění
10 track album
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November 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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This isn’t about circles, the general public is defaulting to skepticism in response to the absolute overflow of deceitful slop that has covered every aspect of media thanks to LLMs

believe it or not, “normal, we’ll adjusted people” don’t like being lied to
priestessofdada.bsky.social Lynn Cole 𓆉 @priestessofdada.bsky.social · 27d
Depends on the circles you hang out in. Most normal, well adjusted people don't care, but I told yall this would happen. Nobody listens to me.
theartofasty.bsky.social The Art of Asty @theartofasty.bsky.social · 28d
The worst thing AI has done to culture in just a couple years is not that people think AI generated things are real, but that they now think real things are AI generated
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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It sucks that computational hardware is a finite and difficult to create resource with so much potential for the betterment of humanity, and that’s all being wasted in the currently fashionable tech financial bubble for a product that tells mentally ill teenagers to kill themselves
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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The worst thing AI has done to culture in just a couple years is not that people think AI generated things are real, but that they now think real things are AI generated
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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I don't belong here
I shouldn't be here
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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So

Do we all agree Trump had Epstein killed
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I've considered using twitter again but if I wouldn't be able to deal with the murderous rage that would be invoked if I see a single person come up in my replies tagging grok to ask it some imbecile shit
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM