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[stimmingandstruggling]

“the governments of the world have been twitching uncomfortably for years now as they realize how hard it is to control a populace who have real time access to all of the information about everything ever, on a tiny computer that lives in their pocket.”

“we built this brilliant beautiful thing out of plastic and wire, and it was deliberately and maliciously lobotomized by people that thought it gave the pack mules too much freedom. too much power.”

been thinking about these narcissist cookbook lyrics in light of the tiktok ban

[kuobun]

borgor

[iseetheisland]

i made dis because I like when the bug hunts narcissists ♡

[clearlypissed]

[aweirdundertalehetalian]

Nitro+CHiRAL middle-aged(?) men with guns.

Gotta be my favorite aesthetic.

[necco-wafer-man]

Okay So until just now I forgot to follow @jammechanics as a music artist on spotify so I didn't notice them dropping The Hook and I got real excited just assuming it was just a more polished version of Bug's original demo

And if you havent heard this song

And really I was expecting just Bug and not matt so when I heard Mr. TheCookbook's voice and realized it would be a killer duet I out loud said 'fuck yea' earning me odd looks on the bus

But holy shit the line "he must have been a sinner after all he took the bait" always was this killer stomach drop moment but Matt's delivery was insane and it contrasted the kinda lighter? More melodic? tone from Bug as the angel in such a cool way ahhhhhh

[bunycube]

chiral boys i sketched in class n coloured later

[sitting-on-me-bum]

The Camouflaged Looper: This Inchworm Makes Its Own Flower “Costume”

Meet the caterpillar with incredible ability to disguise itself by attaching pieces of plant to its back.

Synchlora aerata, otherwise known as the camouflaged looper or wavy-lined emerald moth.

© Chris Helzer / TNC

The larva of the wavy-lined emerald moth (Synchlora aerata) feeding on plains sunflower(Helianthus petiolaris). The caterpillar disguises itself by gluing bits of the flowers it eats to its back as camouflage

[steeiydan]

i need more pee memes to make bad keiaki edits with

[sy5t3merr0r]

canonical interaction

[kuobun]

The red means I love you

[lucky-numberme]

about goshdang time I made some proper fanart for @narcissistcookbook and their good tunes. this one's an homage to one of my favorite albums of all time 🔥 (Edit: Matt has since commissioned this piece from me and has the rights to sell it!)

[ID: A graphic design of a rib cage in front of a shining sun. A garden hose twists around the rib cage and lets out a stream of water and various objects that fill the bottom of the design. In between the waves of water the following objects are nestled: an alarm clock that reads 4:30, a can of diet cola, a dragon hissing smoke, a smartphone with an incoming call from Mx. TNC (with a wolf icon), and a raven carrying a note that reads "promise you'll leave." Mushrooms cling to the sides of the rib cage. Text reading "This is how we get better" frames the top and lays over the bottom of the design. End ID]

This is How We Get Better and all Narcissist Cookbook's other music is available at all the usual music places

ko-fi | commissions

(textless version under the cut)

[ID: Same image as above, but without the words. End ID]

[bagel--bytes]

The Narcissist Cookbook has many many good songs (if calling them songs even does them justice), and many of them feel like they’re holding a mirror up to me, so many of them see right through me it’s almost alarming, but only one of them feels like DAVID feels.

I first listed to DAVID the first time I ever listened to the Narcissist Cookbook. I had found them somehow, I don’t remember if it was recommended to me or on some playlist, but I was shuffling through their songs and DAVID came on, and that’s when I knew that I had found something completely unique.

It’s one thing to remind a listener of themselves when you’re talking about things they like about themselves, it’s even pretty easy to resonate with people about things they maybe don’t like, but to make someone come face to face with some of the worst parts of themselves? The parts they don’t want to even acknowledge exist? No song had ever done that before, and I haven’t found one like it since.

DAVID is the story of a very specific experience, one that I have not had, but the feelings it created and the reactions it brought, horrifying as they are, are very very real, and I know plenty of people, including myself, that know what they’re talking about. That song makes my skin crawl, my gut twist, because I know, and I hate that I know. I’ve witnessed “the monster stories I’d been laughing at for years—[slipping] through the bars of their cage,” in my own life. I’ve had moments when I realize “[…]I am not above being a scared little white man. I am not too smart to fall for all the rhetorician bile.”

It’s been on my mind a lot, especially when I’ve been seeing videos of people that have nothing to do with Palestine or Israel being harassed and attacked.

Listen to DAVID. Don’t fight the sinking feeling in your gut, or the crawling of your skin. Listen to DAVID and do not forget it.

[clearlypissed]

[halloweeneva]

insp. NOT ENTIRELY ALONE - The Narcissist Cookbook