rottingmuse

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2day’s junk

#art #fart #digital art #artists on tumblr #bullshit #collage #digital illustration #line art #does anybody else feel an incredible sense of shame and vulnerability when they post their art #or is that like not normal #notorious b.i.g.

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We understand

(understand, misunderstand, understand)

#art #fart #glitch art #glitch #abstract #abstract art #art journal #digital art #dinosaur jr. #quote #lyrics #bullshit

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#collage #digital collage #digital art #artists on tumblr

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I simply am not there.

American Psycho quick study

#it felt appropriate to watch this as a supplement to Culture of Narcissism #i'm slowly learning my way around Sketchbook #American Psycho #Patrick Bateman #movies #art #illustration #digital art #digital illustration #artists on tumblr #sketchbook #sketch

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All the stars are closer

- SZA as a dreamy video game NPC ✨- 

#yes i deleted and reuploaded #because i wanted to do some final edits #but anyway #this was really fun #i don't really do digital art #but i have a drawing tablet that was given to me as a gift years ago that has just been sitting in my closet #and i finally got bored enough to bust it out #n now i'm obsessed! #send me requests and shit #also if you have a good recommendation for a platform to post art on that'd b appreciated?? #posting on insta feels hollow #and tumblr feels more like a moodboard than a place to seek and share art #so yeah #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #sza #kendrick lamar #music #video games #npc #retro #lofi #aesthetic #fanart #autodesk #sketchbook #drawing

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I am 24 but what’s a Jung it sounds unsexy

As opposed to that quote about “the horrifying ordeal of being known,” do y’all ever feel so positively UNKNOWN and UNSEEN that it frightens you? Like there’s a self that you feel on the inside, and you believe to be “you,” but it seems like nobody else sees that version of you? And they’re interacting with someone that isn’t you but a projection of their experience of you? What’s more, perhaps nobody will ever know your true essence and you will die without ever being fully realized????? I’m only two beers in honestly

#local teen #I have been here for too long

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“BRING THAT SHIT IN, UH” - Zack de la Rocha

#good evening I feel like absolute dog farts #every day I crawl on my hands and knees to my brain #and I’m like please let me fucking paint and make work of substance again #and she’s like No #so this is what you get #art #fart #Molotov #protest #bullshit #rage against the machine #ratm

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Oh hey. I thought of something else. There’s another part of this book where he’s talking abt how Americans are narcissists not because they’re projecting parts of themselves but are looking for mirrors that reflect themselves in others? Like, one sees nothing of substance in themself even worth projecting, so they seek out people they think are cool and smart and great to reflect off of and sort of be great by proxy. And I think that is making me reconsider in a way that dumb post I made about people not interacting with the “true you”; perhaps it’s not that people are projecting *their perception of you* on to you, like I had been thinking. They’re not really thinking about you or trying to understand you on any meaningful level at all. Rather, they are just looking at *their own image in the reflection of your eyes*. And we can’t connect because it’s like when you reach out to a mirror sometimes thinking “maybe I’ll go through this time” but the fingertips of your reflection block you. We spend so much time caught up on the “self” and so little time trying to really understand anybody else that we don’t know how to be together.

Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. New York: Warner Books, 1979.

#talking out loud #like even when interacting it’s about looking for bits of yourself in them #we’re all caught up in our dumb egos and world views and our competition to be better than everyone else #so much so that we can’t fucking experience each other in a shared space #America where society is built on performance and competition but we somehow don’t understand why we’re lonely and unfulfilled

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Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. New York: Warner Books, 1979.

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Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. New York: Warner Books, 1979.

#every single page of this book has something that absolutely rocks me #so it was hard deciding on one section to post but I felt like this is a good summary of what I’ve read so far #yes I’m fully aware that I don’t make shit anymore I just post pictures of what I read on every platform #narcissism #ego #lasch #books #american politics

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It's easy to be a socialist in a little privileged first world country. Venezuela and Cuba are waiting for you, you little lazy useless f*cktard. Hope ignorant people like you rot in hell for supporting such evil ideologies. CAPITALISM WILL LIVE FOREVER LIKE IT OR NOT, move to Cuba if disagree then. GO AND DARE LIVING ACTUAL SOCIALISM.

Whoa mad as hell and for what?? Have a blessed day my friend.

#VENEZUELAAAAAA #ask #text

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I give you all nothing and yet you continue to follow me. Respect

#i’m so sorry

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Honestly I should just nuke my online presence and move to a cheap middle of nowhere apartment in the Midwest

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An old abandoned barn that I used to drive by everyday on the way to work burned down today, as if to punctuate that “apocalypse” feeling of late.

#2020 is unreal #this is some parallel reality #like this barn was just some random fucking thing that i happened to see all the time but it feels weird for it to burn down

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Goodnight all, I hope tomorrow you’re closer to finding whatever it is you’re looking for

#much love

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I feel like there’s a reason why MLK is practically the face of 1960s protest: nonviolence can be more easily forced into subordination. Nonviolent protest does not threaten conservatives’ OR liberals’ platforms, and allows both to keep the angry masses under their thumb. Versus a Malcolm X, a Black Panther Party, etc. that will *demand* their needs and their rights through whatever means necessary.

I posted this to Twitter but I think it’ll be better received here: In the past few months, I’ve read Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, and James Baldwin. When are we gonna talk about how they were all, to varying degrees, anti-liberal? I don’t see that in any of the aesthetic Instagram infographics.

Malcolm X, from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)

Maya Angelou, from MAYA ANGELOU: POEMS (1981)

James Baldwin, from The Fire Next Time (1962)

#peaceful protest is easy to peacefully ignore #those on top are not concerned until their image or their person is threatened #for example the aurora PD filtering their emails so that all the emails about elijah mcclain’s murder go to spam #versus in person protest that inconveiences them and goes viral online

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I posted this to Twitter but I think it’ll be better received here: In the past few months, I’ve read Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, and James Baldwin. When are we gonna talk about how they were all, to varying degrees, anti-liberal? I don’t see that in any of the aesthetic Instagram infographics.

Malcolm X, from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)

Maya Angelou, from MAYA ANGELOU: POEMS (1981)

James Baldwin, from The Fire Next Time (1962)

#not sure if posting this much of their text would be considered copyright or whatever #so i might delete lol #we’ll see what happens #i mean i credited them #liberals #liberalism #leftist #democrats #BLM #malcolm x #james baldwin #maya angelou