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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is the last week to order Glass Scientists acrylic charms from the shop! Pre-orders close after May 27th for this very final restock—after that date, these charms will no longer be available. If you want them, pre-order here: arythusa.storenvy.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'm making one final batch of Glass Scientists acrylic charms! PRE-ORDERS are open for one month starting TODAY--These charms will ONLY be available through pre-order and WILL NOT BE RESTOCKED! arythusa.storenvy.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The Glass Scientists (FINAL) UPDATE: That's all ❤️ www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Second-to-last page, y'all 😥 It's been wild www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

THE THIEF AND THE DUCHESS Or: “KIDNAPPED from my heterosexual man husband by sexy lesbian sky pirates!! And they all keep flirting with me?! Whatever shall I do??” A new sample storyboard sequence based on a pilot script I wrote a few years ago <3 bit.ly/3NGyHwG

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The Thief and the Duchess

Or: “KIDNAPPED from my heterosexual man husband by sexy lesbian sky pirates!! And they all keep flirting with me?! Whatever shall I do??” A new sample storyboard sequence based on a pilot script I…

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Hyde gets to be cringey and monologuey one last time www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I can’t stop thinking about Shane Hollander from #HeatedRivalry. He’s sooooooo fucking awkward and stiff in a way that feels so specific to SEVERAL half-Japanese guys I know IRL and also kind of me (half-Japanese and kind of a guy)

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: In retrospect, this looks kinda gross www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Jekyll and Lanyon make plans for the future ❤️ www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Frankenstein has just discovered the concept of friendship and now it's all she can think about www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

At my annual physical and the conversation was: 10%: my health 90% the doctor ranting about how she had just seen Wuthering Heights and she HAD to tell someone about how much she hated it 🤣

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: At some point I'm going to have to talk to my therapist about why, when I really, REALLY like a character, I just have to see them getting slapped and punched all over the place www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

SHOP UPDATE!: Remainder rewards for THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME III pre-order campaign are now available! Limited quantity--once I run out of these last remaining copies, they're gone!

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Hyde in this panel is me during the entire second half of January (unending transphobic* flu from hell) www.theglassscientists.com *the flu was transphobic because it almost prevented me from having top surgery

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Frankenstein reveals the secret to her cunning discovery www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: A little backstory is in order www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Jasper and Rachel partake in shenanigans in the graveyard www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: YIKES I fully forgot to upload today's page amidst all my top surgery travel!! Apologies, it's up now!! www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Rachel and Jasper get a chance to reconnect www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: You are cordially invited to the Society for Arcane Sciences! www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I made a little 2025-in-review post, if anyone's curious what I've been up to: open.substack.com/pub/arythusa...

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Anyway, the Lodgers have unionized now www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Okay this character is an EXTREMELY deep cut from an early early version of this story, and I will be impressed if anyone remembers him www.theglassscientists.com

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Nico Colaleo @nicocolaleo.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I hate to e-beg, it's embarrassing and I feel pathetic, but all I want for the holidays is to help my disabled mother with her medical bills so she can continue getting the care and treatments she needs. Please donate or share, I appreciate it so much! LINK: gofund.me/15682d815

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Donate to Holiday Help for Nico's Disabled Mother, organized by Nico Colaleo

Hey everyone and Happy Holidays 2025- This is Nico Colaleo (creator of Ollie &… Nico Colaleo needs your support for Holiday Help for Nico's Disabled Mother

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

@arythusa.bsky.social waited two years after coming out as nonbinary before starting on testosterone because they wanted to look more like a soft anime prince boi than a manly lumberjack. Fortunately, they found a compromise by going on a low-dose of HRT! www.ohjoysextoy.com/low-dose-hrt...

Low-Dose HRT and You by Sage Cotugno published 2025-12-16 on https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/low-dose-hrt-and-you-sage-cotugno

Today’s comic is drawn by Sage Cotugno, an Asian American trans mask non-binary person, with pronouns They/Them, who is depicted as both free and post-HRT in the comic. The comic is drawn with clean, sharp lines and colored in blues and oranges that make the whole thing pop.

Narration - I came out as a non-binary in 2019, but didn’t start HRT (hormone Replacement Therapy) until two years later
We see a younger sage having their hair buzzed from behind. They’re thinking to themselves:
Damn, my head looks like a giant egg.

Next, we're shown two stereotype depictions of different men. One is a lumberjack with a big, giant ax, bushy beard, and huge chest. The other is a elf like woodland creature elegantly holding a hand to their head to dramatic effect with sparkles around them.The Lumberjack has these notes floatinga round them:- Huge Beard and muscles- 24/7 flannel lifestyle- Part-time paper towel model, full-time American hero
The Elf-man has these notes:- Cat-ears somehow??- Deadly cheekbones- Heir to the moon kingdom.
Narration - I hesitated in part because I had never wanted to look like a traditionally masculine man.
I pictured myself as more of a soft, anime prince boy.

Sage shows themselves at the Gender Buffet, picking up different bits of food and adding it to their plate
Narration - I wished I could pick and choose which masculine traits I would end up with…

Suddenly, a huge wave with the label T-Gel Tsunami comes crashing down onto Sage
Narration - But I knew from my research that it was more of an all-or-nothing kind of deal.

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We see a small sage sitting on top of the hill looking out at the clouds, Lion King style, forming in the clouds themselves, is the Elfish masculine trope that Sage craves.
Narration - I began to suspect my soft boy dreams were some quixiotic fantasy like wanting to be a dinosaur or a wizard. Surely real trans people don’t want things like that!

A doctor springs out of the page, with their hand in the air
Narration- But then my doctor said...
Doctor- Actually, lots of them do!

In this next panel, we see a giant banner with the word low-dose HRT on top of it. It is adorned with needle and pill visualizations. Behind it is the doctor showing off the banner while Sage looks on, and imagines a bull’s-eye of hitting the perfect place for their trans-masc dreams.

Doctor- There's two roots trans folk often take: They either want to go 'all the way' towards one end of the binar, or land somewhere in the middle. People in the secondary category often choose…
Sage interrupts- Gasp! So it’s like a magical soft boy pill??
Doctor - well, not exactly…

A pink ribbon unfurls across the bottom of the page stating, "Read the rest on Oh Joy Sex Toy .com"

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Fell down a TERFblr rabbit hole for an hour after finding out that an old friend is (most likely) a TERF I should stop but I’m fascinated by their headcanons about womanhood

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Lanyon is just doing his best (and it isn't nearly enough) www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Don't ask about the last time Lanyon slept www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: The flower budget for this funeral must have been off the charts www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The limited edition Jekyll and Hyde enamel pins are available in the store NOW, just in time for the holiday season! arythusa.storenvy.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

"It was one thing to take on a gaggle of scientists who had likely never done a day’s hard labor in their life. Frankenstein was another matter entirely . . ." This is the final preview of the bonus epilogue story for The Glass Scientists: Volume 3!

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Jekyll serving face from beyond the grave www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: I'm back on my Catholic icon bullshit again . . . www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

At last, my continuous spine design is complete again!! 🪒 What do you think of the final look?? 👀 There's now less than a month left in the Glass Scientists: Volume 3 pre-order campaign--don't forget to pre-order AND fill out your (separate!!) pre-order gift forms!

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Chapter 17 of The Glass Scientists is now complete! If you've been waiting to catch up, now's a great (or terrible, maybe?) time to do that! www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: One Hell of a finale www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: All right, ya filthy animals, here's your "Confrontation" reference www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"All he could think of was shattered skulls and burst entrails, every horrible thing that might befall a human body at the end of a fifteen-hundred foot plummet through the skies." Excerpt from the epilogue in The Glass Scientists: Volume 3! Pre-order: bit.ly/4fRwKHv

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: Jekyll and Hyde light up the sky www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: The singer addresses his audience* www.theglassscientists.com *sneaky Decemberists reference here

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

This Saturday, October 11th, I'm going to be participating in the @blacknanimated Charity Stream-a-Thon! Come hang out with me and a fantastic lineup of talented artists as we chat and draw!

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: In which Hyde has a somewhat concerning glint in his eye www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The Sisters Grimm airs on Apple+ today!! I got to serve as sup director for a talented team of directors, board artists, revisionists, and editors and to work alongside amazing designers, animators, and production folks. So glad it's finally out there for the world to see ❤️

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I'm making a new enamel pin for The Glass Scientists 😗 If you're interested in getting one (or both) could you please respond to this poll so I can better estimate how many to order? open.substack.com/pub/arythusa...

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

"Jasper was no trained fighter. All his experience came from mud-wrestling his brothers, and they played DIRTY." Here's another preview of the epilogue story exclusively for The Glass Scientists: Volume 3! Pre-order for exclusive rewards!: linktr.ee/arythusa

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: A heart-to-heart at the end of the world www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Another bit of preview art for the epilogue story to The Glass Scientists: Volume III! Frankenstein arrives on the scene, and she's got a new ride 👀 Pre-order today to read the full epilogue AND receive exclusive pre-order gifts: linktr.ee/arythusa

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The Glass Scientists UPDATE!: POV - You are doomed by the narrative www.theglassscientists.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

The trailer for the show I sup directed on just dropped! :D The Sisters Grimm airs on Apple+ starting on October 3rd! Tune in for spooky-chill fall vibes 🍁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHsy...

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The Sisters Grimm — Official Trailer | Apple TV+

The tales you know are only half the story. The Sisters Grimm premieres October 3rd on Apple TV+ #TheSistersGrimm #Trailer #AppleTV

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