Brief but overdue pinned post. All bullets are links.

Don’t delete IDs from my posts, and don’t tag ships on my posts unless you know I don’t mind the ship in question. Thanks.

If you’re coming to my blog with a question about image descriptions (IDs) or alt text, you might be looking for:

If you have a question about aromanticism or asexuality:

Other places you can find me:

And just in general, if you can do anything to help:

on discord at 6:27 PM: i think blorbo fucked government bureaucrats in exchange for a fake identity and forged birth certificate

on discord at 6:53 PM: i think blorbo could prove the riemann hypothesis

we don't talk enough about Merle Highchurch being Fantasy NASA's special favorite research biologist. give me a Merle whose papers about plant life across the local planar system get so many citations that he can get away with putting framed self-authored erotic poems about his favorite alien plants up all over his office. they're not gonna fire him

A drawing of the fun gang from Deltarune with an orange floral background. Susie is standing to the left, looking back with a warm smile. Kris is leaning against her shoulder in the middle with a soft expression, face mostly obscured by their hand reaching to hold Ralsei's. Ralsei is wearing their princess dress on the right hand side of the image, leaning forward with their eyes closed and a contented smile, their head resting on top of Kris'.ALT

oughhhhh i missed these three goobers so much...

(they/them or she/her for ralsei on this please!)

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Mudkip!!

[ID: Digital art of two Mudkips from Pokemon. They are small, quadrupedal creatures with a fin on their head, a thick tail, and orange gills on their cheeks. One is purple and the other is blue. Both Mudkips are tilting their heads and sticking their tongues out at the viewer. End ID]

i think it would be awesome if dess never even ended up using the lost girl motif. when other people talk about her it plays, because everyone sees her as a poor lost girl, but she knows exactly where she's going.

carol's boss theme will be mainly lost girl though

"oh boy a new character i like, who's pretty obviously vision-impaired even though canon didn't really acknowledge it! i can't wait to go on tumblr and reblog some awesome fanart of them!"

the total lack of image descriptions:

new low achieved: saw people talking about his vision impairment and also not describing their fanart of him in the exact same post

anyways if you're going to draw or otherwise post about a blind or low vision character then you need to either learn how to write image descriptions, or learn how to reach out and ask volunteers to help write them for you. you need to consider the real life disabled people you interact with on the internet, because they are in fact here.

if you struggle with writing image descriptions for whatever reason (your own disability, second-language speaker of the language you'd be describing in, anxiety about doing it wrong, etc), then that's nothing to be ashamed of, but just to repeat the above for emphasis: there are many ways to ask people to write IDs for you, and you should take advantage of them. in an ideal world, all posts should be described, but if you have limited time or energy, you should prioritize posts that are about blindness or blind characters (or even better, posts about disability and/or disabled characters in general). there are resources and crowdsourcing efforts that want to make this easier for you, so please use them!

if it wasn't clear already, i'm sure that the frequent inaccessibility of posts about blind/low vision characters (and more generally, disabled characters) comes almost entirely from ignorance, rather than from active malice — but it's, like, still not a great look to be posting about a character losing an eye, but never writing any image descriptions or alt text for those posts, you know? not in a "let's rile up an angry mob to cancel you about it" way, because that's shitty, but in a "hey, friendly reminder that if you're that obsessed with that character, you can probably also learn how to write IDs so real people with similar disabilities can experience your posts" way. if you didn't know before, that's okay, but the important part is that now you do. and you can do things about that

This whole chapter was so pretty!

Kris, Susie and Ralsie on a cliff face in front of Pinks shop, looking at the sunset and enjoying the breeze.ALT
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additional id: the second image is a close-up of the first, showing kris, susie, and ralsei in more detail. the third image is a still, unanimated version of the first. end id

a digital drawing of a blue bird with a crested head and long tail feathers, perching on a branch and facing to the right. it has black and white markings, with a black patch on its throat. the border is dark blue and gold, and the background is a patchwork of green and brown with lighter simple leaf patterns.ALT

The black-throated magpie-jay, a member of the corvid family from Mexico. Sometimes it interbreeds with the closely related white-throated magpie-jay, resulting in intermediate color variations.

keplercryptids:
“hiirenvirna:
“mothman is weird as hell and i love him
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[image description: a drawing of Indrid Cold from the waist up. He’s a thin man with light golden brown skin and slicked-back white hair. He’s wearing a white tank, an orange...

mothman is weird as hell and i love him

[image description: a drawing of Indrid Cold from the waist up. He’s a thin man with light golden brown skin and slicked-back white hair. He’s wearing a white tank, an orange crystal around his neck and red-tinted sunglasses. He’s smiling and holding a glass of eggnog. There’s a table behind him with several more glasses of eggnog and empty plates, and there are sketches of buildings and street scenes on the wall.]

[ID: art of Lup from The Adventure Zone, wearing a sleek strapless blue dress with a faintly reflective red shine. Lup is an elf of medium build with freckled brown skin and long, curly brown hair, sticking out her longue and posing with her hands on her hips. There’s a reference photo of a similar dress. Above, there’s a doodle of Lup smiling at Barry and him blushing, captioned: “cutest girl alive x guy who wears blue jeans all the time.” End ID.]

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