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ID: a top-down picture of a mosh pit with text edited onto it: "There's three mosh pit rules / pick em up if they fall / if they want out, let em out / if they want in, let em in / these can be the rules of masculinity"

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"In recent years, there has been a rush on the internet to supply image descriptions and to call out those who don’t. This may be an example of community accountability at work, but it’s striking to observe that those doing the most fierce calling out or correcting are sighted people. Such efforts are largely self-defeating. I cannot count the times I’ve stopped reading a video transcript because it started with a dense word picture. Even if a description is short and well done, I often wish there were no description at all. Get to the point, already! How ironic that striving after access can actually create a barrier. When I pointed this out during one of my seminars, a participant made us all laugh by doing a parody: “Mary is wearing a green, blue, and red striped shirt; every fourth stripe also has a purple dot the size of a pea in it, and there are forty-seven stripes—”

“You’re killing me,” I said. “I can’t take any more of that!”

Now serious, she said it was clear to her that none of that stuff about Mary’s clothes mattered, at least if her clothes weren’t the point. What mattered most about the image was that Mary was holding her diploma and smiling. “But,” she wondered, “do I say, Mary has a huge smile on her face as she shows her diploma or Mary has an exuberant smile or showing her teeth in a smile and her eyes are crinkled at the edges?”

It’s simple. Mary has a huge smile on her face is the best one. It’s the don’t-second-guess-yourself option."

--Against Access, by John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind educator

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ID: A white spiraled seashell balanced on the tips of someone's fingers. Some of the material of the shell was replaced by and covered in clear quartz crystals durring the fossilization process, giving it a similar appearance to a geode. End ID

Super cool Fossilized Spiralite Quartz Shell 📷 fascinating

Photo Pacificminerals

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ID: screenshot of a tweet by @Debs_Kropotkin saying: Do you ever get overwhelmed by how our real world is a genuine dystopian nightmare but everyone just keeps acting like it's normal. END ID

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ID: a lego skeleton figure on a white background. End ID

things in this world that kick ass

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ID: a photograph of paintings on a white wall. The paintings are all of skys filled with clouds, many of blue skys with white fluffy clouds, some of darker skies with dark blue storm clouds. All the paintings are in gold frames. End ID

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yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

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ID: tumblr tags saying: It was so funny. The kid was like "gross". And dad was like "it's art (smiling emoji). Maybe one day you will feel that way too son". And he was like "no never gorss". And the dad was like "you know what that's true (smiling emoji) not everyone feels that way. But maybe someday you will and you'll see it's totally fine and normal". A+ dad. Dad of all time. Dad champion. Forage friends. End ID.

One of the most memorable interactions was Saturday. Into our booth strolls a small family, tempted by free samples of freshly brewed tea. We chatter and give them the spiel, that the tea is character merch and we’re a cozy health-based app called Forage Friends.

The young girl zeroes in on our pride pins.

“They have my pin!” She says excitedly. “They have my flag!”

The dad blinks. He is surprised, but also calm and positive when he sees it’s the lesbian flag. “Oh. That’s… different from what you told me.”

“That was months ago, dad.” And she rolls her eyes. Definitely a teenager.

I turn to him and say, “Yeah, dad.” And we share a little laugh about it.

He says, “No, it’s great. That’s amazing, honey. It was just news to me.”

“Well, I guess I just decided to stop lying to myself. About liking guys. Like right now.”

A little lesbian just came out to her dad and he was super cool about it.

I’m standing there in my tie-dye mask and my cheery blue apron pouring tea and making small talk and I’m trying really hard not to cry or compare it to my experience, the fire & brimstone, the disgust, the conditional acceptance as long as I never bring it up.

So as this beautiful bonding is going on, the girl’s even younger brother turns his gaze around. He’s in a snorlax hoodie and bored and wants to go look at the swords across the hall. But on the other side of our booth….

“WHY DO PEOPLE DRAW THAT?” He asks loudly, and we all turn to our neighboring booth.

Our neighbors were extremely lovely people. Every time we had a break we would talk, and we became good friends over the weekend. They kept apologizing that their booth was next to ours and we kept repeating that it was totally fine. Their booth was great. I even bought their merchandise.

The thing that was so contentious, that they felt the need to apologize for, was that they were selling explicit titty hentai stickers of popular characters. They were censored with little yellow R18 labels but the content was very clear.

So back to the family: I freeze and immediately go somewhere else to let dad handle this question. With adult customers I’ve been loud and positive about our neighbors. (“Man, how has it been boothing next to them?” It’s been great! They bring a lot of foot traffic and they’re kind and wonderful professional neighbors. If anything it’s a fun juxtaposition. We believe in artistic freedom. I bought a sticker too!)

But this is a kid, it’s not my place to explain anything…. But I was extremely curious about what this chill dad would say.

“Well,” dad says with a long measured silence between each word. “Sometimes people are horny.”

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ID: a digital drawing of a tiny otter holding a yellow flower. End ID

he has a flower for you!

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ID: a highly stylized piece of art, of a yellow sun in a blue sky. To the right of the sun is a burst of fire, which fades from yellow, to orange, to red, to blue and purple, and trails off into black. The light of the sun and fire burst are reflected in the waves below. End ID

Link to the artist:

Threatening Storm, Me, Pen and Ink, 2021

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ID: a table lamp in the shape of a nautilus shell. The shade is made of many peices of glass connected by metal, starting cream-colored at the opening of the shell and fading into blue as it spirals inward. It has an ornate stand. End ID

Nautilus Reading Lamp

The shape of the nautilus shell provides the perfect space to conceal a light bulb, the newest form of technology at the time. As a result, this lamp was a critical success and sold both in this original form and with the later alteration of a bronze mermaid for the stand and an actual nautilus shell for the shade. By Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (around 1899–1902)

source

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ID: many yellow My Little Pony toys arranged on a fuzzy white background. End ID

Yellow Ponies = Happiness 💛

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ID: screenshot of a rag reading #his pussy can reclaim. End ID

haha yeah his pussy was insa— oh sorry his pussy was neurodivergent

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ID: four photographs of fruit-shaped bus stops.

The first is a tomato. It is shiny and red, and the top is painted green to mimic leaves. There are also green 3-dimensional leaves and vines on the top. There is a large incomplete archway cut out of the side for entry, and inside there is a semi-circle ring of seats and an arched window in the back.

The second is an orange. It is completely orange, with a green vine on the top, connecting it to a tall green structure that makes it look like the orange is still growing on the branch. It also has two large 3-dimensional leaves, and a full archway for entering. Inside is a semi-circle of seats.

The third is a melon. It is light green, with many white lines making uneven geometric shapes. It has a dark green stem coming out of the top, and one leaf. It has a cut-off archway for entry, and inside is a semi-circle ring of seats and an arched window.

The forth is a strawberry. It is red with recessed black dots, mimicking seads. It has a green stem sticking straight up from the top, with a ring of leaves coming out of it. It has a full archway for entry, and inside is a semi-circle ring of seats, and an arched window on the back and on one side. End ID

Note: I may be wrong about the types of fruit they are.

Fruit-Shaped Bus Stops (1990) Location: Nagasaki, Japan

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ID: a crocheted scarf, made to look like piano keys. The white keys are made of white yarn, and the black keys are made of teal yarn. /End ID

Piano scarf! Of course had to have an accurate key arrangement and number of keys, this one was made for my brother-in-law.

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ID: a photo of a third generation My Litttle Pony toy, the Christmas Edition of Minty. Minty is a pastel green pony with pink hair and eyes, with three pink green and white peppermint candies for her cutie mark. This version also has pink hoofs that fade up into her green body, along with decorative snowflakes and snowmen on her legs and body. Around her eye is a glittery white snowflake. /End ID

G3 (Christmas Edition) Minty

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ID: a digital drawing of a person smirking, with a thought bubble containing the bear pride flag. End ID

"bear in mind" why yes, dont mind if i do