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Trisarahjtops
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Mowgli, a black cat with wide green eyes and "I am an innocent baby who can do wrong" energy looks up at the viewer. She is seated on a blue wooden kitchen chair. The picture has been cropped closely around her, but also visible are the tile floor, an edge of a dining room table, and part of the refrigerator.
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Here I am going around as though there aren't wonders in the world and then I step outside and there's this thing right in front of me
A western screech owl -- a small owl with an oval body and in this picture no visible ear tufts sits on the metal railing of a staircase and looks towards the camera. It was about 15 feet away from me, though the picture makes it look closer. I took the picture from above it as it's about a half-flight of stairs beneath me. The picture was taken at nighttime but phone camera technology makes the scene look clear and well lit. Background is a wide ditch with green grass and an empty road.
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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This recipe greatly overestimates how much dishes I plan on washing later
A cupcake recipe with three phrases highlighted in the first few paragraphs of instructions: "small bowl," "a [second] small bowl," "in a separate bowl" and "in another bowl." Full text of recipe: Preheat the oven to 350 F (180 C, or gas mark 4). Lightly grease a muffin/cupcake tin or fill with paper liners. In the small bowl of your food processor or by hand, whip together the egg replacer powder and water until thoroughly combined and thick. In a small bowl, combine the cocoa and boiling water. Stir well and set aside to cool. In a separate bowl, stir together the flour, banking soda, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl, use an electric mixer to beat together the butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg replacer and vanilla and beat for two minutes. With the mixer set on low, add the flour mixture alternately with the cocoa/water mixture, beginning and ending with flour. After the last of the flour is mixed in, beat for 1 minute, until smooth. Divide the batter among the 12 liners. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
November 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Uh oh you guys, Mowgli turned into a vampire 😨
A black cat, spooky and cute, is sprawled across the carpet laying on her side with her head turned and looking at the viewer. Her mouth is open enough to show two upper fangs. Her green eyes which are usually clear and bright caught the camera flash and are glowing a foggy otherworldly green color.
October 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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It has begun.
10-day weather forecast showing rain, cloudy skies, and temperatures in the mid 50s. 9 out of the 10 days have a rain prediction.
October 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Uncanny resemblance
A small plastic triceratops figurine, aka the "actual" me!
October 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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It's me!!

Artist: Vicki Szukalla
Me, a white woman with chin-length hair taking a selfie in front of a small oil portrait of myself. The colors of the portrait are mostly true to life skin tones but with sharper pink, green, and yellow highlights-- a realistic style painting but with unexpected warmth. The facial expression in the portrait is neutral and the model is gazing into mid-distance. The face is thin with a strong nose and broad forehead. The real life version of me has a slight smile and I'm looking to the side. A closer view of the portrait. The signature V. Szukalla is on the bottom right of the painting.
October 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Mowgli, my cute black cat laying in a cozy rocking chair and looking at the camera with green eyes and cat-like judgment. A knitted blanket hangs over the back of the chair.
October 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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With Mowgli, I want to clarify I suspect she climbed into the dumpster because she was a tiny baby who did not have a follow up plan for how to climb back *out* of a dumpster. I believe she was not a victim of unkindness, but rather her own hubris
Mowgli, a black cat with green eyes and a cute round face sitting on a cat window perch and looking slightly downwards with an alert and curious expression.
October 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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This popcorn maker has joined the ranks of my espresso machine and Mowgli for "Best Things Found in Dumpster."
A simple popcorn maker - basically a red metal cylinder/base to put popcorn kernels in and a funnel on top where the popcorn comes out -- midway through popping a bowl of popcorn. The glass bowl is underneath and half full of popcorn and fluffly popcorn is overflowing from the machine and falling down to the bowl. This takes place on a cluttered kitchen counter.
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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A lovely boule of bread, golden brown with slightly darker parts around the scoring on the top. It is in a ziploc bag and a hand is resting on it. It's being carried on my lap and signs around me (a yellow handrail, hard gray floors) indicate I am riding public transportation. I hold the bread but sometimes I think it is the bread that holds me.
September 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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The same black cat with extremely intense green eyes approaching the viewer with alert ears and an attentive tail. Background is apartment furnishings.
September 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Actual creature that lives in my house
Perfect picture of a black cat on a chair, her face is very in focus and the background is blurry (I took the pic in "portrait mode," which is designed to make what is closest very clear) Her pupils are dilated, making her eyes look extra wide and kawaii and her ears are perked up
September 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Someone asked me to mend a frayed cuff and it's not a perfect color match but I am happy with how my little embroidery patch turned out!
Close up of a hand holding the cuff of a corduroy pant leg. The fabric has a patchwork pattern of green and brown. The embroidered patch is about half an inch long extending from a neat hem to meet with a green square on the fabric in as natural a mimic of the pattern as I could get it. The stitches more or less are similar to the texture of the corduroy. They are a lighter green than the fabric and reflect the light in a more shiny manner.
August 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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I don't have a picture of her in her cabinet (confidential) but here she is on my suitcase after I got back from a trip she wasn't invited on
An extremely baby-looking (in demeanor -- she is an adult cat) black cat with wide green sad eyes lying on a small suitcase. Her front paws are curled demurely inward. Note that, contrary to other pictures I have shared, this time the carpet has been freshly vacuumed. In the background are sliding closet doors, indicating this is a bedroom.
August 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Oh no you guys, Mowgli has already moved out of her castle and into this box....
Mowgli, a cute black cat with green eyes laying in a shoe box she can barely fit in and looking back towards the viewer. Background is a beige carpet that needs to be vacuumed, a vacuum that I will use soon I promise, and a cat toy shaped like a coke can
August 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Left my laundry too long and now there is a laundry gremlin 😱
A very small cute black cat peaking out from a pile of laundry thrown in the corner. She is a black cat so the most dominant visible feature is green eyes peering out. Important to note the cute ears as well. The laundry visible is a towel and a plaid dress shirt and then other indiscernible items -- I made sure not to air any dirty laundry that would be embarassing.
August 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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screaming, hollering, carrying on
A black cat with green eyes on a tile kitchen floor. Her mouth is half open in a loud meow, showing her tongue and teeth. Her ears are upright and she is staring intensely.
July 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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pouting, sulking
A black cat with green eged and a downtrodden expression looking forlorn. She sits on carpet at the boundary of it becoming kitchen tile. Behind her is a colorful play tunnel. Despite her food reluctance, she remains plump.
July 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Remember to take care of yourself in these trying times

(full comic and more at patreon.com/trisarahtops )
A cute cartoonish yellow triceratops (me) drawn having the time of her life splashing around in a mud puddle. She is wearing a fancy pearl necklace and a pink hair bow as though she got dressed up nicely to do this. A sign nearby says "Trisarah's Spa" and written sound effects say the noide this stomping makes is "splut splut splut"
June 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Glaring is up 20% in this household
A small plump black cat glares at the viewer with big green eyes. She is sitting on a beige carpet that needs to be vacuumed
June 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Do you think this appointment at the computer store got cancelled and it is just somehow still sending me reminders or is it a sign I should go?
Text yesterday from an automated response system: "Reminder for your Genius Bar Reservation on Tueaday, June 10, 2025, 11:40 AM" "Reply 1 to cancel your reservation at any time." Me: 1 No response from the response system (ironic), but then this morning I got the same reminder and prompt to press 1 to cancel. I replied with "1" and have not recieved further messages or confirmations of cancellation.
June 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Mowgli the wondercat has been diagnosed with kidney disease.

We are trying our best to be brave :)

(Early stages, years of happy life ahead, she is unaware anything is wrong; I am not taking the news of her mortality well at all, what do you mean she will not live forever?)
A black cat's tail seen sticking out of a toy plastic tunnel that the rest of the cat is hiding inside (the tail is all that is visible) Background is a carpet that needs to be vacuumed.
June 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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When you get your sewing machine serviced, they leave a scrap of stitched fabric to show it has been tested and works and it always makes me weirdly emotional
Photo of a sewing machine, cropped to the needle and presser foot. The presser foot is down, the needle is raised, and beneath the presser foot is a neat rectangle of fabric with a line of straight stitches and a line of zigzag stitches.
April 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Can someone help my mom figure out what this emoji is so she can be cool with her younger coworkers?
(The sticky note is her writing it out for me and clarifying she didn’t know how to make the triangle symbol with her phone)
Text from my mom, it starts with this string of characters, probably an Asian-style emoji: o(*_ ^ _*)o Mom asks “Is this an owl? The young folk at work mistakenly think I understand their language” She included a picture of a sticky note with the same emoji but with a triangle for the presumed nose, explaining later that she didn’t know how to make that symbol.
March 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM