Sarah Sunfire

@sarahsunfire.bsky.social

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New Orleanian, moves around a lot. My Substack, Hot and Disabled: www.substack.com/sarahsunfire, nonfiction essays. PhD in Rhetoric/Composition in-progress. Also writes fiction and horror. Views mine, not reflective of Ohio University

photo-realistic Lestat sketched in pencil
Bumper sticker that says: Mice die in mouse traps because they do not understand why the cheese is free. The same thing happens with SOCIALISM.
Screencap of an excerpt from a Wall Street Journal article: In May, Jaya Gupta, a 28-year-old partner at a venture-capital firm, saw a two-bedroom listed on a high floor of a luxury building for $10,000 a month. She offered three months' rent in cash upfront, hoping it would improve her chances. She lost out to an employee at one of the big Al labs. "Someone literally paid for the whole year," she said.
an onion slice in the shape of a PERFECT HEART on a round plate atop a dark placemat
a neon green bag of Limón potato chips and a red bag of Chile Limón potato chips
screenshot from an excerpt in my Substack comments: "amazed at your tone of superiority in this piece; it's as if you're the decisive voice on cool and boring [in] subculture. Which I'm sure is required to" (cuts off there.) You can decide for yourself if you want to read the piece in question: https://sarahsunfire.substack.com/p/when-did-it-become-cool-to-be-boring
Screenshot of the US West Coast and Southwest from the Watch Duty desktop app, showing an insane number of uncontained fires in Washington and dozens of uncontained or partially contained fires elsewhere
a buck — male deer — grinning for mysterious reasons with an Olympic gold medal from 2012 around his neck, though this photo was taken in 2018. English text says: BE_HAPPY BE_MORE I unfortunately cannot read/translate the Thai text.
Delirium from Sandman, liberated from the predator who might've credited himself with creating her and turning into a school of goldfish, wearing ripped fishnets with her trademark side-shaved hairstyle in fiery shades of red and orange, blue background
John Leguizamo as the to-die-for drag queen Chi-Chi Rodriguez in the film To Wong Foo: Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995), wearing a low-cut red vinyl dress with corset lacing, matching fishnet thigh-highs, and a gorgeous woven Mexican headpiece
Hot young John Leguizamo in black-and-white, wearing a cowboy hat and pensive expression
young John Leguizamo in a cowboy hat and black collard shirt, pensive expression, black-and-white photo
Total Views: 10,029 Link to the article in question: https://sarahsunfire.substack.com/p/when-did-it-become-cool-to-be-boring
John Leguizamo in a cowboy hat looking pensive and beautiful, black-and-white photo
screenshot of two unrelated skeets, one after the other, from Saeed Jones and Dr. Sarah Parcak: The Muppets????????? WHAT THE MUPPETS
Screenshot from the New York Times, text written by A.O. Scott: Nyong'o is Black and Page trans, and those objections follow a familiar anti-woke trajectory, rooted in this case in arguably anachronistic assumptions about the Mediterranean Basin in the Bronze Age, when the action takes place. What's interesting is that both Nolan's film and the pre-emptive ideological strike against it show how much modern souls still care about the ancient world and its stories. As someone whose journalistic beat has gone from new movies to old poems, I can't get too mad about that.
The bottle from Alice in Wonderland with the tag marked Drink Me in seductive font
black-and-white photo of a young John Leguizamo looking unbearably sexy and elegant in a black collared shirt and cowboy hat, a pensive look on his sculpted-looking face
Someone on Substack: I guess I see a different crowd. Where I live everyone young has pastel hair, tattoos, tons of piercings and presents as ambiguous gender. It is odd to even dress like a person with a job other than bartender barista. Where is this normal place you describe? I may move there. My response: Assuming you're in the US, have you never spent time in the Midwest, the rural South, or Appalachia? Go there and tell anyone you meet that this is the norm where you live (...Northern California? Pacific Northwest?) and they won't even believe you. If you want boring, America can hook you up, and if you do happen to like those regions, housing is cheap there too.
Rosa's Day off in fireworks sparkle font
Dark Willow (Alyson Hannigan) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, eyes BLACK, preparing to DESTROY YOU
Ronald McDonald outside of McDonald's in Bangkok, Thailand, his hands folded in gassho
a toned athlete climbing to the top of a flag pole, wearing the stars as a hater-top, the stripes as a sort of skort over white shorts, and blue-and-white sneakers with blue white-striped athletic socks
Screenshot from Scaachi Koul's newsletter, A List of People I am Mad At: Everyone is being so hard on the America 250 celebrations in DC. What if I WANT to stand alone in an empty field during a heat wave while Vanilla Ice grinds on a stage that’s steadily falling apart? What then???
Mimi, aka GhoulFritz, as a sexy and down-to-the-core-glamorous-but-still-not-holding-back-the-horror version of Pinhead
weather forecast for Athens, Ohio that includes a Moderate risk of Unhealthy heat today and a High risk of Unhealthy heat for the next two days
a sidewalk sign that simply reads COFFEE with an arrow pointing in the direction (presumably) of said coffee (not pictured). There are decorative multicolored fuzzballs hung on the sign for ornamentation.
The cover of Christopher Pike's Chain Letter 2: The Ancient Evil, depicting a sister sharp-nailed hand coming out of a mailbox bearing a crumpled letter, the font decidedly neon (yellow author name, orange title, aqua subtitle) and decidedly 80's. Tagline: "The letters of death..."
The Matrix font, saying: "Having to defend rainbow capitalism because the alternative is permanent erasure is not what we fought for"
Black-and-white sketch-comic: Old Horror Icons — shows the example of a "melted faced killer with a knife hand," aka Freddy Krueger, and "Creepy killer clown" with a sharp-toothed clown holding a balloon, Stephen King's It. Contrasted with Modern Horror Icons: A Room (Backrooms) A Guy's Girlfriend (Obsession) — showing a sad girl Credit to @NJ_Creepshow, a genius.
Illustration of a bird on a flowering branch in front of a rising sun. Text of poem from The Pierian: SARAH SUNFIRE To call love a finite resource is false scarcity But this world couldn’t hold us, Bound by star trails Caught in the lens of a cracked telescope We were one of us sun We were one of us moon We one of us hovered between planet and star Daylight obliterated our tri-cornered constellation before we configured sunset, twilight, moonrise A blue wave breaking over my face Pulling reflected light down with the tide Undertow, celestial heights Each a half-spin of the same motion Love sets fire to the need for meaning, In harmony, we do not hunger for “sense.” Love is not an escape Love will not remake history Love challenges us: heal the illusion of lack Allowing for wholeness beyond Poetry
Screenshot of YouTube comment on the Girls Like Girls (2026) trailer, courtesy of brookiecookie199: I'm seated. The theater employees are scared and asking me to leave because it's "not released yet" but l'm simply too seated
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Mom makes scrambled eggs for breakfast in a classically cozy kitchen: ta tea kettle waits by a hanging pot holder and a blond wooden table displays a bowl of strawberries and a plate of on-the-vine tomatoes, and an orange
a pink-haired teenage girl arrives at her friends house in a leafy California suburb
Maria from the children's game Guess Who? Dark hair, dark eyes, on-point brows, rosebud lips, dangly earrings, and a green beret
Stark Raving Mad, a TV show about a crazy writer and his editor and their antics. Neil Patrick Harris played the editor and Tony Shalhoub played Ian Stark and there's also a blond smiling girl in pearls and a sleeveless pastel dress shown here, but I have no idea who she is
Lori Petty lying on her back taking a casual selfie in oversized white cats'-eye sunglasses with red lenses and a pink hoodie, offering a kiss to the camera
Monkeys greedily eyeing a trashcan
a New York Times screencap that reads, "Good morning! I love scrolling through LinkedIn," with a bit of the next clause cut off, but that's the part you need to know.
Portia de Rossi in the 90's, looking over her shoulder and grinning radiantly in a black backless dress on the red carpet
a ring-tailed lemur stylishly showing off a black-and-white stripey tail
cover for Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls with the tagline: VAMPIRES... THEY ACHE. THEY LOVE. THEY THIRST FOR THE FORBIDDEN. THEY ARE YOUR FRIENDS AND LOVERS, AND YOUR WORST FEARS
A hideous 3-eyed sea monster with the wide-open mouth of a lamprey, wearing a cap and gown over his slimy looking body and gesturing behind a podium at Commencement. A crowd in graduation caps looks on. The text below reads: "And, as you head out into the world, your meaty torsos will be ripped apart and roasted to feed your new alien overlords — wait, why are you all booing?"
Stephanie Tanner, Gia Mahan, and a drummer whose name I don't think we ever learn but the important thing is they're all GIRLS and the band is thus called Girl Talk. Gia's on bass and vocals, Stephanie is on lead guitar and vocals.
Delirium, looking fierce, pensive, and righteously angry. Her hair is shades of red, orange, and blond and she wears ripped fishnets. She's transforming into a school of fish, specifically goldfish.
a Birkenstock sandal marketed as "cozy" but that means hideous fuzz underneath each strap, all in a sandy/taupe color
Lori Petty in red-tinted sunglasses and a pink terrycloth hoodie, offering a kiss to the camera
Text: Canvas (Learning Management System) An update has been posted All Canvas environments are currently down for emergency maintenance being performed by the vendor. Canvas is investigating this incident and will continue to post status updates on the Instructure Status Page.
text from the Wikipedia entry for Tommy Tutone's hit 80's song, "867-5309/Jenny": In 2004, Weehawken, New Jersey, resident Spencer Potter picked up the number for free after discovering to his surprise that it was available in the 201 area code, hoping it would improve his DJ business. 21|22] Unable to handle the overwhelming volume of calls, he sought to sell the number on eBay in February 2009.231241 Although bids reached $1 million, his inability to confirm the identity of the bidders led him to sell it privately to Retro Fitness, a gym franchise with a location in Secaucus, New Jersey, that felt the 1980s origin of the number tied in with their business's retro theme.
a meme of rough outline figures, two are making out (one represents Landlords, one represents Millennials) while the lonely Housing Market looks on
a screenshot of a 7th graders notebook with the list, quotes theirs: "Kingston" "Girlfriend" "Murder" "Basement" "Cheating" "friends"
a screenshot of the official Sunny Delight twitter account simply saying, "I can't do this anymore"
Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah Sanderson in Hocus Pocus (1993): long blond hair, mouth wide open in a red-lipsticked cackle and/or shriek, a wine-red corset-topped gown that shows serious cleavage
a 17-year-old girl next to Public Enemy's Chuck D.
The Indecisive Sweaty Guy meme choosing between two options: Get actual work done today and Live it up because you're home by yourself.
Winona Ryder and Connor Oberst saying an affectionate (read: KISS-LADEN) goodbye in front of a black car, from a gossip magazine with questionable morals
screenshot of a form asking about various hardships that one has witnessed or gone through. This one is "Sudden accidental death," and the first option is "Happened to me" but IF I HAVE DIED SUDDENLY HOW AM I FILLING OUT THIS FORM
Trent Lane, older brother of Jane Lane from MTV's Daria, sprawled on his back with a guitar over his chest. Is he going to play it? Who can say.