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Writer, musician, and podcaster in Seattle. She/her. www.sarahshay.com Additional Lord Peter posts at hailingsweetpotatoes and additional Eurovision talk at entertainingthegods, if you're into that.

[kiisaes]

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

[supreme-machine-v2-ultrakill]

HERE'S YOUR REMINDER TO DO BLOOD DONATIONS IF YOU CAN...

THERE ARE PEOPLE IN NEED OF BLOOD SO IF YOU ARE IN A POSITION WERE IT IS POSSIBLE TO DONATE THEN I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU TRY

SO PLEASE HELP YOUR FELLOW PEOPLE AND SUPREME MACHINES OUT BY MAKING A SMALL BLOOD DONATION

I HAVE NO ULTERIOR MOTIVES FOR WANTING BLOOD DONATIONS

[pissmutt69]

REAL AND TRUE DONATE BLOOD! The US has a shortage of platelets this summer so those are especially good to donate! :D Remember, blood is fuel, and it’s a little something you can do to save a life if you’re eligible! Donating platelets is especially fun because you get to just sit down and watch a movie at the blood donation center while literally saving lives. It’s fun, it’s easy, and it’s free! Check your eligibility and schedule a blood donation to help a human and/or a lovely little red machine today. :)

[sherbertilluminated]

Fun fact the type of blood that you are encouraged to donate can depend on your blood type. I'm A+ like about of 1/3 of people in the US and we're encouraged to donate platelets. A little over 1/3 are O+ like my dad and are encouraged to donate whole blood or double red. According to him double red only requires one arm, so for that you can bring a book.

If you don't know your blood type, try donating whole blood for the first time and they'll tell you after. Whole blood donation is also more common for local drives because the process is quicker and you don't need a specialized machine to separate the platelets and the red blood cells.

[thesarahshay]

Happy 10th Scrabble Dictionary Cunnilingiversary to all who celebrate.

[thesarahshay]

I can't believe I had this post scheduled in my drafts for months, only to receive zero notes. It's like none of you care about Jiavani's contributions to the world of Scrabble.

[thesarahshay]

I'd like to visit the alternate reality where Brennan Lee Mulligan's infamous "I cannot win" rant from Game Changer devolves into the Tom Stoppard coin-tossing scene where Guildenstern is losing his grip on reality.

SAM: I'm afraid this isn't your day. BRENNAN (quietly): I'm afraid it is. ALLY: Heads. BRENNAN: List of possible explanations. One: I'm willing it. Inside where nothing shows, I am the essence of a man losing at an internet game show in private atonement for an unremembered past. ZAC: Whoa dude. Chill out.

[thesarahshay]

For everyone who has been calling me a genius for the past year, I invite you to also imagine this little scene.

BRENNAN: You knew I would lose no matter what. SAM (embarrassed): Yes. BRENNAN: There was no way I could win? SAM: No. BRENNAN: What's the point of that? SAM (pathetic): I wanted to make you monologue.

[thesarahshay]

#did you know sam once put on a production of ragad? apparently cast himself as guildenstern#idr where i read that tho so take it w a grain of salt

Enough people have responded to this post either mentioning this anecdote or saying "No he didn't it was Waiting for Godot" that I decided to look up which story is true.

And they both are.

How did you spend the first few years after dropping out of high school? I lied about my age and directed a couple of pieces of theater. My parents sent me away when I was 16 to Oxford, England, to this program that takes troubled teenagers who aren’t fitting into the typical high school experience. I went into the local student theater and said, “I have a production of ‘Waiting for Godot’ that I’d love to put up.” And they assumed I was an Oxford University student. I was 15 and I told them I was 19. Then when I came back to Boston, I was 16 and told everyone I was 26, and I directed “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.”

—Backstage Magazine, 2020

While he was there, he got involved with the Burton Taylor Studio, pitching a staging of Waiting for Godot and casting the leads. When his father asked him if the actors knew how old he was, Sam said, “No, they think I’m an undergrad.” Back in Boston, Sam staged a production of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead at the Tower Auditorium. This time, he told everybody he was 26. After a successful run, The Improper Bostonian printed an exposé with the headline “Busted!” revealing Sam had been 17 the whole time. He wrote a letter in response demanding a correction — he was 16.

—New York Magazine, 2025

And in an episode of Dirty Laundry, he told the Boston part of the story and mentions that he cast himself as Guildenstern.

Dirty Laundry on Instagram: "Sam Reich lied... a LOT to get into production 🤞 Follow for more Dirty Laundry clips!"

20K likes, 83 comments - dirtylaundry on August 13, 2025: "Sam Reich lied... a LOT to get into production 🤞 Follow for more Dirty Laundry cl

There you go! Confirmation that Sam Reich has the biggest balls in showbiz and has never balked at lying to an entire cast and crew in order to put on a good show. No grains of salt needed!

[little-bisexual-gargoyle]

dropout hosts alignment chart (idk, it just feels right - host!Vic is of course the character, not the person)

[jphcrk-deactivated20251128]

[thatbenmsmith]

it’s her day

[3liza]

do you live in seattle (the american city)?

yes

no

Voting ended onJul 10

please reblog to get this poll out of my bubble, i want reach

[3liza]

so ive been meaning to do this poll for a while because my hypothesis is that seattle is the most Tumblr city, likely in the entire world. tumblr has a huge american majority userbase obviously, but just for comparison going forward, only 0.22% of the american population lives in seattle. as of this reblog, this poll is showing 4% of respondents are seattleites. given, this isnt scientific at all, because my blog just has a lot of seattle connections and seattle followers, but it's still an impressive bias

[thesarahshay]

Just watched the new Smartypants, and I'm absolutely devastated by this revelation about Zach Reino.

I mean him being a larper absolutely scans, but you're telling me that man is STRAIGHT? Total bummer.

[mollylele]

I feel I should occasionally mention that I make music. This is a song I wrote about catching feelings for a friend but resolving to be Cool About It. Please check it out on my Bandcamp. Thanks.

[thesarahshay]

This song is an extremely accurate depiction of the catching of feelings.

[specialagentartemis]

my petty gripe about anachronism in historical/fantasy/spec-fic worlds is attraction language.

We’ve all heard the “should you use modern queer labels or not” argument but honestly even when people go “true, they wouldn’t use the labels ‘aromantic’ or ‘asexual,’” so often the characters describe their experiences as “I never felt romantic attraction” or “I don’t feel attracted to anyone” in ways that makes me go. You are stilllllll thinking about this in an extraordinarily modern online way. That 19th century steampunk detective man will NOT be angsting about having never felt romantic attraction, he would be angsting about being unable to feel moved by the beauty or charm of a woman, or something. And I do think that “attractiveness” language is different from the identity-level idea of experiencing attraction—Sherlock Holmes does not talk about not experiencing attraction, but when Watson says “What a very attractive woman!” Holmes responds “Is she? I did not observe.” (And then Watson calls him an inhuman automaton and calculating-machine and Holmes calls Watson’s judgement biased). Never swayed by the attractiveness of a man or woman, never desirous of marriage, never charmed by the delights of love, all of these feel like some of the variety of ways that someone in this milieu might describe an ace- or aro-spectrum identity more than “never felt attraction” does. Mostly because, like the terms for aromantic and asexual themselves, nailing down an exclusively attraction-based definition of a-spec identities is a relatively new and extremely post-AVEN thing. And yet in fiction everybody knows to articulate their experience as feeling sexual/romantic attraction. And I always want to go nooo how would THIS character think about it?? Not how you think this character SHOULD think about it, how would THIS person in THIS context articulate their feelings?

[gaslit-dipshits]

[appalachian-werewolf]

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[thesarahshay]

12 and 19, please?

(From this ask meme)

12. Did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings? I enjoyed all the Shakespeare I read for sure, but possibly the only novel that I really liked was John Gardner's Grendel. I still have my copy, and have reread it a few times. It's the reward you get for slogging through Beowulf!

19. Most disliked popular books? Easily Water for Elephants, which was the first choice for my first book club (and my first hint that that particular club was not for me). It just screams "Look at all the research I did!" It reads like the first draft of a NaNoWriMo novel, just a ton of advance research followed by one month of frantic typing with zero editing.

[sxpositive]

book asks:

book you’ve reread the most times?

top 5 books of all time?

what is your favourite genre?

what sections of a bookstore do you browse?

where do you buy books?

what books have you read in the last month?

is there a series/book that got you into reading?

what is the first book you remember reading yourself?

when do you tend to read most?

do you have a guilty fav?

what non-fiction books do you like if any?

did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?

do you have a goodreads?

do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?

recommend and review a book.

how many books have you read this year?

top 5 children’s books?

do you like historical books? which time period?

most disliked popular books?

what are things you look for in a book?

[thesarahshay]

Sometimes your brain has a thought, and the only way to properly express that thought is a Venn diagram.

[thesarahshay]

Time elapsed between finishing my first watch of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and running into evidence of Tumblr girlies being horny for Conrad Veidt: about 15 minutes.

[anemptypavilion]

Water Architect is music composed using hundreds of audio and visual samples. A lazy river through time and space.

[lucybellwood]

Why not spend a soothing minute watching me hand-bind a zine for Ojai's Pride Festival this weekend?

(This essay originally appeared as part of @gaileyfrey's Personal Canons Cookbook series in 2023. It's about indefinable queer relationships and a killer breakfast recipe. You can read it in full here.)