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The Art of Asty
@theartofasty.bsky.social
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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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nataliehall.bsky.social
She moves slowly
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
theartofasty.bsky.social
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
theartofasty.bsky.social
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

kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/p-li-n...
Přílišnost (Excess), by Kostnatění
10 track album
kostnateni.bandcamp.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
theartofasty.bsky.social
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 · 3d
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 · 4d
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
theartofasty.bsky.social
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
theartofasty.bsky.social
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
theartofasty.bsky.social
I don't belong here
I shouldn't be here
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
theartofasty.bsky.social
So

Do we all agree Trump had Epstein killed
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
theartofasty.bsky.social
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
theartofasty.bsky.social
at what point of "I'm 29 but i keep getting intense random flashes of pain in my hand and finger joints" should i consider checking with a rheumatologist
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
theartofasty.bsky.social
Fellas can you be too mentally ill to live
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
theartofasty.bsky.social
I have mixed feelings about Mamdani but seeing Cuomo eat shit twice in a row is like a Christmas miracle
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
theartofasty.bsky.social
When will Coffeezilla understand that all the financial horrors and crimes he does reporting on are not bugs, but features of capitalism
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
theartofasty.bsky.social
Can the US please collapse already? I’m sick of them funding, arming and training the most psychopathic criminal groups imaginable in my country, and then turning around and blaming us for the horrors because we’re brown.
November 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
theartofasty.bsky.social
It’s so fucking stupid that the only people willing to give GUILLERMO DEL TORO a budget and a distribution platform are fucking Netflix
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
theartofasty.bsky.social
It seems like the only thing AI has truly managed to revolutionize is digital minstrelsy and misinformation, what a time to be alive

youtu.be/nboFLnATNcs?...
WE ARE COOKED FR
YouTube video by HasanAbi
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October 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
theartofasty.bsky.social
Having BPD, I have a negative identity, I do not know who or what I am, but I’ve learn to at least be able to tell what I am /not/ and to this day I still refuse to bend to the pressure of becoming what other people want me to be, even when it costs me everything and everyone.
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
theartofasty.bsky.social
THE BOX
YOU OPENED IT
I SIT
October 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
theartofasty.bsky.social
Why the fuck is that Monster High Alien collab doing a better job at adapting the original Giger design than pretty much every Alien sequel that ever came out
October 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
theartofasty.bsky.social
The fluffy
October 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
theartofasty.bsky.social
what makes Hollow Knight and Silksong soulslikes, more than the difficulty or the combat or parries or dodging, its their consistent and continuous theme of civilizational collapse and grotesque abuse of power from those at the top of the power hierarchy.
October 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
theartofasty.bsky.social
how do you guys dispose of knives safely? I have some very old knives with extremely degraded handles that I want to replace, but I've been hesitant on throwing them away cuz throwing straight knives into the trash sounds extremely dangerous for the people handling it
October 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
theartofasty.bsky.social
Putting devil symbols on my garbage bin to disuade the catholic majority in my country from stealing it
October 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
theartofasty.bsky.social
Look what just waltzed into my bedroom
October 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
My friend Sama'a and her husband have two small children to feed in the middle of a warzone, and every dollar helps. Please give what you can.
September 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM