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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 25/12/2025

I finished knitting the sweater that’s been my project for the past two months. I was between sizes so chose to go up, with the end result being a comfy, slouchy sweater.

A chest detail of a sweater i knitted. The main color is a salt and pepper wool, with contrasting bands in gradients of purple.

I’m smiling because I’m happy at having knitting the sweater I’m wearing. The main color is a salt and pepper wool, with contrasting bands in gradients of purple.

I added thumb holes into the cuffs so I can pull the sleeves down over my hands to help keep them warm.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 13/10/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁

A white woman wearing a purple dress with pearl earrings and a necklace of pearls and amethysts looks into the camera. She wears makeup and her blue eyes are bright.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 12/09/2025

Bursting at the seams, feeling fine.

A white woman with graying blonde hair and blue eyes leans forward into the lamplight and brushes her hair back over one ear. Her blush pink dress shows some cleavage, and she leans past a cushion with a burst seam, revealing the pillow within.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 20/08/2025

Cleaning up to move on, found this in my "wins" folder. You were welcome. Thanks for saying so.

A tweet from 9:07 AM, August 21, 2024 from an account called "your friendly cloud native gopher" that reads: "Huge props to the folks who do docs at isovalent/cilium"

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 28/07/2025

This is Allan, who lives downstairs and is also the ambassador for the street. My orange-flavored nephew visits occasionally as part of his diplomatic rounds.

A domestic shorthair cat with a mix of white and orange tabby fur sits on a coffee table, ears attentively forward and facing away from the camera. His tail is relaxed and curled slightly at the tip. He wears a rainbow collar to make him easier for birds to spot, as well as a locator tag.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 27/07/2025

Total banger from a Cornell law/tech professor. 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

"I pledge that I will not provide any service to Columbia University. I will not speak at conferences held at or organized by Columbia. I will not publish with Columbia publications or provide peer reviews for them. I will not provide outside tenure evaluations for Columbia departments. I will not contribute in any way to the institution until everyone who is responsible for this week’s shameful decision has resigned, retired, or been fired, and until Columbia repudiates their catastrophic choice."

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 18/07/2025

No makeup, no filter. Amazing how happiness beautifies.

A white woman with blue eyes and graying hair looks into the camera with a small, genuine smile at the corners of her mouth.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 15/07/2025

Succulent bloomed at dawn, by sunset she’ll be gone.

A potted succulent blooms a single five-petaled brilliant purple flower that lasts only from sunrise to sunset before withering.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 30/06/2025

#30daysofpride Catch-up day. 29. What do you love most about yourself? s/still/finally

A still from the game Undertale, where the player looks into a mirror and, upon interacting with it, receives the text bubble: "* Despite everything, it's still you."

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 15/06/2025

This handsome yearling with his velvet nubs was napping in the neighbor’s yard.

A yearling black tail buck with nubby new horns looks up from his nap in the overgrown grass of an urban house’s yard.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 13/06/2025

5/ Astarion, grandly pansexual vampire from Baldur's Gate 3, voiced by the incomparable Neil Newbon. Even when I hate him, I love him.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 13/06/2025

4/ Wei Ying, from Mo Dao Zu Shi (魔道祖师). Archvillain, soft cinnamon bun, and multiple-lifetimes One True Love of Lan Zhan. Do not piss off the angry gay flute necromancer. MDZS has many adaptations, but my favorite is the web series 陈情令 (The Untamed), which catapulted its two male leads to fame.

An unconscious Wei Ying (played by Xiao Zhan) rests in the arms of Lan Zhan (played by Wang Yibo), unaware that his greatest secret has just been revealed.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 13/06/2025

3/ Ferdinand Lyle, from Penny Dreadful. Dizzily effeminate, capable, a loyal friend, and in his own words, "resplendently who I am."

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 06/06/2025

Rare instance of a middle part.

A seated white woman wearing pink looks sidelong at the camera. Her hair is parted in the middle.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 04/06/2025

Runner up: Bright Rapheepong Thapsuwan HNNNNNG

Thai actor Bright Rapheepong sits casually, one arm raised to rest on a railing. He wears a graduation robe and looks into the camera with a slight smile.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 04/06/2025

#30dayofpride 4. Who was your first celebrity crush? While living as a woman? Probably Thai actor Earth Pirapat Wattanasetsiri. I mean, look at the man. He's also thoroughly married in deed if not in word to his screen partner, Mix. (Miss me with "delusional", sometimes delulu is the solulu)

Thai actor Bright Pirapat looks into the camera with slightly parted lips. His hair is casually styled and he wears a long-sleeved shirt.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 02/06/2025

Caught mid-brush of hair over one ear, don’t hate it

A white woman in a neutral colored linen dress and cardigan sits on her couch, brushing her hair back over one ear.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 06/05/2025

Service Canada worker taking my biometrics: “Your lipstick really pops in your photo.” I guess it does!

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 30/04/2025

“I’ll just write a few more paragraphs before I go to bed on time” is a heinous lie I tell myself #3am

me: I’m going to bed early tonight
me:
me: Is that the sun

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 27/04/2025

I’m not smoldering on purpose, it’s just, you know, my corneas literally smoldering from staring into the sun

A blue-eyed blonde white woman in a low cut black dress wears red lipstick. She looks into the camera, which is more or less coterminous with staring into direct sunlight.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 26/04/2025

It’s a beautiful day to be a pansy.

A bowl of purple violas outside in the sunshine of a beautiful Vancouver Island afternoon

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 23/04/2025

I don’t recall her singing?

Genevieve O’Reilly, left, as Mon “Mothra”? Really?

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 13/04/2025

Birthday flowers from a beloved friend.

A white ceramic vase full of pale yellow-and-white tulips sits on a kitchen table.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 08/04/2025

When an author posts a new chapter in a hurt/comfort fic

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 03/04/2025

It's peak Yoshino sakura season on my street.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 29/03/2025

These two images from Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism at the Oakland Museum of California completely caught me up.

A poster for Blackspace Manifesto:
Create circles, not lines
Choose critical connections over critical mass
Move at the speed of trust
Be humble learners who practice deep listening
Celebrate, catalyze, & amplify black joy
Plan with, design with
Center lived experience
Seek people at the margins
Reckon with the past to build the future
Protect & strengthen culture
Cultivate wealth
Foster personal & communal evoluation
Promote excellence
Manifest the future

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 18/03/2025

Because God hath wrought not only wonders, Jerry.

Several Japanese-branded tubes of desperately over-processed, thinly sliced "egg" that bears just enough resemblance to an actual sliced egg to cause the viewer to recoil in horror, stunned and agog at the hubris of man

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 10/03/2025

Transition is magic. 2021/2025

That was me on the left, presenting masculine in 2021: sad, obese, and trapped. On the right is me as of 2025, presenting my authentic feminine self: happy, healthy, and free.

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Sarahtonin @corleissen.com · 07/03/2025

One of my early pandemic sewing projects: my own masks. Made from four layers of Japanese dobby cloth on my grandmother's 1943 Kenmore 117, with a filter pocket at the top.

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