Sarah Shay

@sarahshay.com

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PNW writer and musician, when my immune system allows. I'll be dancing down the street, when I get to the border. 🇵🇸✡✊🏼 https://sarahshay.bio.link/

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[IDENTIFY WHO] A capybara
[EXPRESSION] looking relaxed
[DESCRIPTION] in a hot spa,
[COLOR] yellow Yuzu fruits
[DESCRIPTION] are floating in the water,
[RELEVANT OR INTERESTING FEATURES] and one is balanced atop the capybara's head.

You could argue that he looks very zen and above it all, but I think he's just unimpressed.

A very bad three-panel comic with three inconsistent drawings that are supposed to me. In all three, I am holding two pills in what is supposed to be my right hand, but looks more like a cartoon chicken silhouette. The joke is: I am currently on two meds I have to take twice daily. One has to be taken with food, and one has to be on an empty stomach. I haven't figured out which ones tells the truth yet.

A still from the animated series Bigtop Burger, showing a puppeteer holding up a marionette of a strange little clown demon, with a yellow and blue diamonded jumpsuit, red horns, and its tongue sticking out. The caption reads "Behold my little man."

Screenshot of a job listing on Indeed.com. Title is "Romance writer for webnovels (werewolf, mafia, billionaire)." Under "Education," it lists "Bachelor's (required)."

"Martin Scorsese," followed by a screenshot of a news article that reads "Martin Scorsese promotes generative AI for storyboarding." Below that, "Rian Johnson," followed by two images: a childlike scrawl of a simplistic human figure surrounded by X's, and below that the still from the film Knives Out that it was storyboarding, of the famous moment showing Ana de Armas sitting in the center of a dramatically backlit ring of dozens of knives.

A still from the music video for the song "Shum" by the Ukranian band Go-a. A thin woman (lead singer Kateryna Pavlenko) with pale skin and dark hair, wearing a long black trenchcoat, stands in a frozen forest with a large bird of prey perched on her outstretched arm. She looks badass as fuck. Yes this is the photo I already posted for the Bond version of this meme. Did I stutter?

A still from the music video for the song "Shum" by the Ukranian band Go-a. A thin woman (lead singer Kateryna Pavlenko) with pale skin and dark hair, wearing a long black trenchcoat, stands in a frozen forest with a large bird of prey perched on her outstretched arm. She looks badass as fuck.

Screenshot of a tweet from username @NicCageMatch: Just heard a guy at the dog park tell his dog "NO!" and then more quietly, "We talked about this!"

Screenshot of an email. Subject: Your supporters can now tip in Crypto. From: hello@BuyMeACoffee.com. Body: Hi Sarah Shay, You've probably had a supporter ask if they can pay in crypto, and you had to awkwardly say no. Not anymore.

A still image of the cartoon character Pikachu with a look of blank astonishment on his face.

Wikipedia screenshot: "Róa" (stylised as "RÓA"; pronounced [ˈrouːa]; translation: "Row") is a song by Icelandic electronic music duo Væb. The song was released on 17 January 2025 through Alda Music and was written by Gunnar Björn Gunnarsson, Hálfdán Helgi Matthíasson, Ingi Þór Garðarsson, and Matthías Davíð Matthíasson. It represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, where it placed 25th in the grand final with 33 points.

The song describes the story of frogs climbing a mountain, with an encouraging message to persist through hard times.

Screenshot from good.store of an item titled "Navigator - eucalyptus mint." A nicely styled photograph shows a purple bar of soap with foamy suds down one side, flanked by a sprig of what appears to be mint, and one that is undeniably rosemary.

Below a still image of Matthew Lillard and Michael Goorjian in the film is this text: "SLC Punk:
Two punks live in Salt Lake City. The film covers their all-day routine. The realism of the character-narrated movie may be discussed. One of the punks gets ill, stays in hospital for three weeks, comes out again. Three parties are covered and one concert including a fight between punks, rednecks and others."

Subtotal: $42.10. SEA regulatory response fee: $4.99. Regulatory bag fee: 8 cents. Delivery fee: $2.99. Service fee: $4.21. Estimated tax: $5.74. Tip amount: $6.31. Total: $66.42 (which means we paid more than 40% in taxes and fees).

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[IDENTIFY WHO] A capybara
[EXPRESSION] looking relaxed
[DESCRIPTION] in a hot spa,
[COLOR] yellow Yuzu fruits
[DESCRIPTION] are floating in the water,
[RELEVANT OR INTERESTING FEATURES] and one is balanced atop the capybara's head.

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A pale-skinned hand holds a glass bottle full of a light amber-colored liquid, with a handwritten label that reads "Magnolia Syrup 3/26." There are houseplants and a window in the background.

Photo of the Eurovision mascot costume on the streets of Basel in 2025. It's a horrifying, vaguely heart-shaped creature with strangely bulbous arms and legs, huge eyes that seems to be melting off its face, and a disturbingly detailed mouth. It has raggedy fur/hair on top. The whole thing is colored in seemingly random blotches of yellow, red, orange, and purple. There's a hole in the center for the wearer to see through, which gives the impression of a sunken-in nose, like the Phantom of the Opera.

Photo of the Eurovision mascot costume on the streets of Basel in 2025. It's a horrifying, vaguely heart-shaped creature with strangely bulbous arms and legs, huge eyes that seems to be melting off its face, and a disturbingly detailed mouth. It has raggedy fur/hair on top. The whole thing is colored in seemingly random blotches of yellow, red, orange, and purple. There's a hole in the center for the wearer to see through, which gives the impression of a sunken-in nose, like the Phantom of the Opera.

Photo of the Eurovision mascot costume on the streets of Basel in 2025. It's a horrifying, vaguely heart-shaped creature with strangely bulbous arms and legs, huge eyes that seems to be melting off its face, and a disturbingly detailed mouth. It has raggedy fur/hair on top. The whole thing is colored in seemingly random blotches of yellow, red, orange, and purple. There's a hole in the center for the wearer to see through, which gives the impression of a sunken-in nose, like the Phantom of the Opera.

Animated gif of the Statler and Waldorf puppets from The Muppet Show: two old men sitting in the balcony of an old theater. Statler is saying "Well, it's downhill from here" as Waldorf nods.

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for Jelly Roll Morton, jazz and blues performer and composer, born 1890. The photo is a black and white image of a Black man in his 30s with pomaded hair.

A prompt from a human submitted on the website your AI slip bores me reads "write me yaoi about 2 countries please." My reply: "Ooooh Romania you are so sexy," purred Moldova. "Let's combine our magic to destroy Russia and then fuck" Romania replied. They did, and it was sOooooooOOOoo hot

Screenshot of a tweet by Tyler, The Creator. It reads: Un-follow me now, this is gonna be the only thing I tweet about for the next week. I've wanted this for years fuck. What the fuck.

Tumblr post by user seravph on July 13, 2021:

"what's the worst fruit" I hope you fucking die i'm strangling you what the hell is wrong with you. 'the worst fruit'...has god not made all of these fruits in the same light???? cunt

Still of Gordon Ramsay from a cooking show with the caption altered to read "delicious. Finally, some fucking witches."

Four people standing in a line backstage at a show, one Benidorm Fest host and three performers (Miranda and bailamama). One of the performers has short bleached blonde hair, a mustache, and is wearing a short-sleeved white shirt with a red and white striped tie and black slacks.

A chart with many tiny green dots, one of which is highlighted in pink with my username. Clusters of dots nearby are labeled things like "speculative fiction writers & industry," "fiber arts and knitting community," "romance authors and book community," and, for some reason, "Unitarian Universalist ministers and community."

Image of actor Stephanie Beatriz on the show Brooklyn Nine-Nine, holding an adorable puppy up to her face and looking serious. The caption has been edited to read "I've only watched one episode of D 20, but if anything happened to Kokomo I would kill everyone in this room and then myself." The new season of the Dropout TTRPG actual play series Dimension 20 has a character called Kokomo played by actor Jacob Wysocki, and he is extremely wholesome and good and I want him to be healthy and grow up strong (to reference another meme).

A photo of me at four years old: blonde 80s bob, wonky teeth, wearing a navy dress with a red heart on the chest, holding my hands together and resting my cheek on them in an extremely adorable pose only a Sears photographer would think of.

A still from the TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," where Charlie Day (a white man in his 30s wearing a short-sleeved dress shirt and a brown striped tie, with rumpled brown hair and beard) features wildly to a wall covered in paper, with red lines and arrows connecting various circled elements in a classic conspiracy theorist way.

A small slip of paper held down against a black table, on which is written "1/6 - Karolin complimented my Hank Hill impression."

Against a stone wall, a hand holds a plastic sleeve containing a paper card with a 1960s illustration of a weird blue creature with its head encased in ice, labeled "COLD ROBBY."

Screenshot from my Storygraph end-of-year stats. It reads "You finished reading 54 books, across 14,440 pages!" Below that it showed my first book of the year was KJ Charles' "The Henchmen of Zenda," and my last was Lilan Jackson Braun's "The Cat Who Played Brahms."

Screenshot of a post from Merriam-Webster which reads "Take a screenshot of this gif and whichever new work you land on is YOUR word for 2025. The gif is paused on the word "sultry."

Screenshot of a list on Letterboxd titled "70s cult films where a queen gets cock-blocked by an innocent girl named Janet, and Peter Hinwood is there."

On a coffee table, a candle burns in a small glass jar. Around it are books, Hanukkah cards, a decorative plate in a stand, and a small stuffed rock with a silly face on it. Above it, a large jade plant grows out of a white pot, and a pothos vine hangs down from above, intertwined with a string of fairy lights

A screenshot from a film where a man in his 40s with dark hair, bald on top, and a big mustache is sitting at a craps table. He looks annoyed with a blonde woman who is leaning over the table to ask "Are you winning?"

Screenshot of the Zoom website, showing a settings area labeled "AI Companion." There are at least seven options, including "AI Companion on the web," and "Allow users to ask AI Companion questions about the meeting."

Screenshot of the Kanopy streaming service menu, with a list titled "Whodunnit Mysteries." The movies recommended are The Brothers Bloom, Agatha and the Truth of Murder, and Once Upon a Crime.

A still from the animated series Over the Garden Wall. A man looks at a glowing lantern with grief and devastation on his face, realizing for the first time that his daughter's spirit was never trapped in the lantern, and he had been deceived by an evil spirit for years to protect a lantern that actually contained the evil spirit's soul.

Twitter reply from account name Amanda Smith, @AmandaSmithSays. It reads "Christians really mistook 'please say happy holidays if you don't know what someone celebrates' to mean 'if something is obviously christmas-coded, just say holiday instead of Christmas and that makes it inclusive.'"

A short video showing two women in the kitchen of a cooking show. They both have septum piercings.

Screenshot from Facebook, showing a pop-up window with a cancel and submit button at the bottom. The header reads "Post as not in Japanese." Below that it says "Are you sure this post was not in Japanese?" and the message "Look up there, way up high, koalas in balloons." This is the message that pops up when you tell Facebook their guess at translation is incorrect. It's funny because the line shared is from the English theme song of the anime series "The Adventures of the Little Koala."

TikTok comment reading "You post like a dad, I love it." The creator response, from "The Baby Lasagna Official" reads: "Damn it...I genuinely thought I was hip and cool" followed by the sad emoji with a sweat drop.

Screenshot of text from the opening credits of the 1943 film "I Walked with a Zombie." It reads "The characters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictional. Any similarity to actual persons, living, dead or possessed, is purely coincidental."

A woman with short reddish hair and pale skin, wearing blue glasses and a green beanie, smiles with her mouth all the way open as she holds up a tote bag that says "Game Changer" repeatedly in red letters, in the style of those plastic "thank you" bags common at convenience stores and take-out establishments.

Screenshot of the Google Trends results for the phrase "sui generis." The chart starts November 14 and shows 10-20 searches over the next four days, then on November 19 (the day the interview with Mamdani that was clipped below aired) it jumps up to 100 searches.

On a game show set, actor/comedian Brian David Gilbert is wearing a dark blue button-down shirt with tiny white polka dots under a pair of stylish tan overalls. He has pale skin, floppy reddish-brown hair, a beard, blue eyes, and glasses.

A still from the TV series Community, featuring Jim Rash as the dean sitting at his desk, looking at his computer screen with a thoughtful expression. It is usually captioned with the line he says at this moment in the show: "This better not awaken anything in me."

Screenshot of the Dropout.tv store, showing one Game Changer Tote Bag in the shopping card, and a dialogue box over the page reading "Only 1 item was added to your cart due to availability."

Headline: "Seattle just elected a socialist barista as mayor." Source: Townhall, 17 hours ago. Sample text: Seattle's new mayo, Katie Wilson, is a socialist mayor challenging the status quo."

Screenshot from the Game Changer episode "Ratfish (Part 1)." On the left, a stock photo of a middle-aged man with dark hair and greying temples, in a navy blazer and white dress shirt. To the right, the name "Jack Stryker" (with a Y, to be clear), followed by his pronouns, age (55), profession (talent agent), location and bio.

On a black screen, white serif text reads "Your Room, on the bed. You're in your room in the Red Boar Inn. It's sparsely furnished, but comfortable enough, To the north is the door, and there's a closet without a door to the west. On the floor is a note that must have been slipped under the door while you slept. In a corner of the room is a lopsided wooden dresser."

Below this is break, then a right-facing pointed bracket, followed by the command "eat the dresser." Below that, the game has responded "You should get out of bed first."

The next command is "get out of bed," which resulted in the response "You get out of bed."

The next command is "eat the dresser." The game responded "I don't think that the dresser would agree with you."

Screen shot of a Tumblr search window. The search bar contains the phrase "Steven Brust," and below it is a warning that reads "Hold your horses! These search results are likely to contain content which does not comply with Tumblr's User Guidelines. To help keep everyone safe we're not displaying any content here." Below that is a blue button labeled "Learn more."

Two drag performers, Landon Cider and Meatball, are sitting at a desk with microphones in front of them. The caption reads "As long as that water's boing." The play bar at the bottom shows 22 minutes and 9 seconds (in case someone from Dropout sees this and actually decides to ping the captioning department).