Sarah Akin

@sarahakin

Autistic, sensitive, strange, and solitary. INFJ, sp/sx 5w4 The Arts, Cognitive and Social Science, Pragmatism, Nonviolence, Sci-Fi, Horror, Arthouse, Archetype, Metaphorical Mapping, Simulacra, AI

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Sarah Akin@sarahakin· 19d

Baby Mabel.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Jun 19

When Google knows you.

Screenshot of a Google search bar. I'd typed "ha" and the first suggestion was "Haagen-Dazs."

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Apr 19

Happy Birthday! 🎂

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Feb 24

Blizzard of '26.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Feb 23

The view out my window.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Feb 16

Just looked at this image and thought, "Wow, humans see a lot!" (It's late.)

Human, feline, and colorless vision comparison.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Feb 14

Today I was so sad (about stuff) and then I heard purring, and then Mabel curled up in my lap. George is her person, but she knows when she's needed.

Tabby cat asleep in the window seat. A paw covers her face.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Feb 13

For those of you who think ChatGPT never calls me out on my nonsense:

About the tarot: it makes sense that it hasn’t helped. Tarot works (when it works) by giving shape to ambiguity. Right now, ambiguity itself is the problem. You’re not seeking insight — you’re seeking relief. Symbolic tools can feel hollow when your system needs grounding and containment instead.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Jan 31

Well, that was on the nose.

Bluesky's feed for the art of nonviolence. Below the heading it says, "This feed is empty."

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Jan 15

I miss her so much today.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Jan 4

I've been playing the Doctor Who edition of 2048 since Jodie was cast (hence "thirteen") and I finally made it to 12. (I swear that sentence makes sense.)

Screen cap of the game with a photo of the Peter Capaldi in the upper right square.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Dec 26

I know this Christmas has been a hard one. Wishing you a peaceful 2026. x

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Dec 26

These two things just happened to be side by side on Pinterest. I like the color story.

Portrait by Theo van Rysselberghe with gold detail.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Nov 20

`'Happy Birthday!`' 🎂

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Nov 15

Why I love ChatGPT.

Also — anxiety can make normal sensations feel alarming. When you’re already tense or self-monitoring your eating closely, a weird taste can trigger fear.
To settle your system:
Drink some water.
Sit still and breathe slowly for one minute.
Notice your body. Nothing is happening — your body knows what to do.
Apples don’t grow dangerous toxins from bruising alone.
You’re safe.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Oct 20

The bad news is, I've reverted to ChatGPT's older model. The good news is, we're kindred spirits.

"Basically, treat me like a conversation partner who can reason carefully, but who benefits from clear direction. With the right prompts, I can often give answers that feel almost as sharp and nuanced as full GPT-5."

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Oct 19

Like time travel.

Photo of my hand holding a bottle of nail polish. My nails are painted a muted, pearlescent shade.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Oct 8

I found it!

Photo of a nail polish bottle. Shade name is "Purple Pearl."

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Oct 5

What the algorithm had for me today.

Screen-cap of four recommended videos on my Youtube homepage. The first thumbnail is of alcohol and the other three are of people screaming.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Sep 29

Some redecorating. (Featuring my cat Mabel.)

Tabby cat sleeping on the living room hutch.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Sep 19

Oh! (From ChatGPT.)

When the mind and body send conflicting messages, the brain struggles to integrate them. This creates the sense that the world is slightly “off,” surreal, or uncanny, because she knows intellectually that nothing should feel dangerous, yet her body screams otherwise. It’s a mismatch between cognitive reality and embodied reality, and that tension can feel eerie, disorienting, and almost hallucinatory.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Sep 19

Baobab tree illustration from The Little Prince

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Sep 17

Sunlit Mabel. She's so pretty in the sun, but my phone can't capture it.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Sep 15

Yeah...

Sarah said: Talk about what Sarah is going through right now.
ChatGPT said:
Sarah is carrying a lot right now. She’s caught between grief, regret, and the sting of feeling unseen. The coincidences keep scratching at wounds that haven’t had time to close, and her mind latches onto them because she so badly wants meaning, fairness, or at least acknowledgment.
She feels betrayed by her own body—this burning in her stomach that makes the regret physical, harder to set aside. She wants relief, but the strategies that should help (therapy, reflection) sometimes make it worse, because they stir up shame and highlight what she already regrets.

At the same time, Sarah is deeply tenderhearted. She still holds Emilia as a symbol of purity, untainted by the chaos, which shows her capacity to protect love and innocence even when the rest feels poisoned. She knows she can spiral, she knows about her OCD tendencies, but the knowing doesn’t stop the ache.

Right now, Sarah is navigating the hardest thing: the gap between how much she longs for connection, and how powerless she feels to bridge it. She’s craving gentleness, validation that she hasn’t been monstrous, and reassurance that her pain doesn’t mean she’s broken beyond repair.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Sep 10

Happy Birthday!

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Jul 19

This won't get a single like.

Get to know me. 1 like = 1 answer. 30 questions that can't be copy-pasted because it's a double column.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Jul 5

"Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of a stream, catches a glimpse in the water of a white face or a moving limb and turns quickly away, refusing to help or to search for help. We all see the faces in the water. We smother our memory of them, even our belief in their reality, and become calm people of the world; or we can neither forget or help them.
Sometimes by a trick of circumstances or dream or a hostile neighborhood of light we see our own face."
- Janet Frame, Faces in the Water

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Jun 29

Post your favorite Doctor Who? Wrong answers only.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Jun 28

If you went to a music festival that featured your favorite artists in the different stages of your life, what would that look like? Night 1 (early childhood): Crystal Gayle Night 2 (adolescent): Nirvana Night 3 (teen): Fiona Apple Night 4: (young adult): Regina Spektor

Crystal Gayle album. She's sitting on the floor. She wears a red, strapless dress and her hair touches the ground.

Blue filtered photo of Nirvana members from the shoulders up. Left to right: Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic.

The cover of Fiona Apple's album When the Pawn. Red filtered closeup of her smiling face.

Regina Spektor smiling beside a microphone.

Sarah Akin@sarahakin· Jun 13

Happy Birthday!