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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 3h

Sharing because I always worry that I'm missing something when adding alt-text and it has pointers. I also didn't know there was a reminder feature built-in :D

azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 13h

Please add alt-text when sharing images, so that blind and low-vision people aren't excluded from the conversation. Some context and copy/paste or a brief description are often enough. Checking the "reminder to add alt-text" box in your accessibility settings helps a lot.

Thank you.

Six panel, cartoon-style graphic titled, why use alt-text?
First panel: slow internet. Next to a line drawing of a phone showing a social media post with an image, where the alt-text is visible while the image is unavailable. Text reads: Alt-text is shown in place of unloaded images.
Second panel: Findability. A line drawing of the top of a phone, showing the search bar, reading "dog with banana". The text above it reads: Alt-text helps to search content.
Third panel: screen readers. In lieu of the image, a blank square with alt-text shows up; the text above the box reads: Alt- is read out to people using text-to-speech software.
Fourth panel: translation. There's a line drawing of a phone, showing the Google translate box, reading "English to Deutsch". The text above reads: Alt-text can be translated.
Fifth panel: readability. There's a line drawing showing very poor writing inside a dialogue bubble; next to it the clarifying text "a character says 'hello, guys'" The text above the drawing reads, Text in images can be made legible.
Sixth panel: disambiguation. The line drawing of the phone again, showing part of an image that, depending on how you look at it, seems to be either a bunny or a duck. The clarifying text reads, "my pet bunny".

An infographic titled “Writing Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, color, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.” Source: veroniiiica.com Credit: Puzzle

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 12h

HOLY SHIT MY FIC LMAO

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 16h

Posted a preview thingy for my #FieldsOfMistria longfic "it's not love (it might be closer to despair)" on tumblr, check it out. If you want. Or something. :) AO3 to the full thing so far if you're so inclined as well :)

www.tumblr.com/quinnthebard...

archiveofourown.org/works/681034...

screenshot of tumblr post that reads: I've been having fun writing chapter 21 of it's not love and definitely not because it continues the plumbing saga. nope not at all

anyway, here's more of the plumbing saga lmao

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 1d

Since I had ditched bsky for a bit, I never posted about my fic update so here it is. Enjoy lol. Mind the tags / rating!

forms of worship
Caldarus / Farmer
rating: E

archiveofourown.org/works/72029061

fic title: forms of worship
author: quinnntessentially
summary: The barest brushing of fingers. The tickle of someone's hair against his skin. The shivers induced by the lightest graze of his claws along the farmer's neck.

It all feels like some sort of worship and after years of being revered...

Perhaps it is time he learns to pray to a deity himself.

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 1d

Since I had ditched bsky for a bit, I never posted about my fic update so here it is. Enjoy lol. Mind the tags / rating!

forms of worship
Caldarus / Farmer
rating: E

archiveofourown.org/works/72029061

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 1d

I've been reading an unholy amount of doctor who fanfic lately, holy shit

Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe if I take a bath and daydream about my fic the words will come out easier afterwards lmao

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 2d

I'm coming back to this (shouting to the void) that this fic idea is haunting me so bad that I keep imagining what I could do if I was comfortable with art and the amv thing I'd make for it to the song Zenzenzense from Your Name hahahahaha

I'm fine. Super fine.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=yinV...

Zenzenzense (English Version)

YouTube video by RADWIMPS - Topic

music.youtube.com

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 2d

Also I posted my first smut in years to AO3 lmaoooo

A lot has happened 😂

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 2d

Also, if you haven't and you like cozy farm sims, get Fields of Mistria. Do it. Do yourself a favor. Join me

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 2d

I've been resisting the urge to start posting second longfic because it is so half assed in planning and I don't want to have to wing it too hard lmao. I have low restraint and it is so hard not to just go nuts here guys. Halp

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 2d

I know I disappeared for a bit because big angy about age verification but they still haven't done shit to me (come at me bros)

ANYWAY I've been thriving in my Fields of Mistria fic corner and hope y'all are having fun with your own projects as well

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Liddy From The Titty Committee @mswriterperson.bsky.social · 2d

Also on my Caldarus/Eiland ship nonsense for #FieldsofMistria for this fic, I ended up having a lot of fun writing them and hopefully will flesh out a Past Lives story after the full game comes out~

Reposts are my favorite!

Link: archiveofourown.org/works/70946561

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 2d

"The Possession of Alba Díaz" by Isabel Cañas was real good. Perfect for spooky month. Check it out :)

app.thestorygraph.com/books/ae523b...

Picture from my reading journal of a quote that reads:

"All she ever wanted, all she had ever lived for, was the inverse of this perverse imprisonment. To command her own life. To command her own body, to decide to whom it was given and when."

The Possession of Alba Díaz, by Isabel Cañas

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 2d

Nature is healing

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 2d

Yessss!! Behind him is the FFIX piano collections book on the Daguerro theme page. Pls, my child, serenade me

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 2d

I forgot to update y'all but Geralt is cone free now and he is so pleased! It was four weeks of helping him do damn near everything but it should be so much better for him in the long run. Enjoy a pic of the happy boy on my piano

My grey cat, Geralt, sitting on top of a piano.

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 2d

Oh hai!

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 12d

That reminds me, before I get zapped, I need to figure out who to yell at in my state government and do just that

Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 12d

if I disappear on bsky its because I'm not going to be bothered using their verification services because of the OH law. I'll just drop this app so fast before I use a workaround lmao

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 15d

The more I write about Eiland for my Caldarus / Eiland / Farmer fic the more I love him lmao

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 18d

feeling really thankful for my cat's vet today. She's been so attentive and kind during my cat's healing process (which is going well!). Like, I can get ahold of her nearly at any time with my silly questions about things and she did a free check-in to see how its healing and its just so nice T.T

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · Feb 2

Been enjoying Fields of Mistria and need to practice drawing men so I present you a few of the bachelors ✨

Balor, dude with the blue hair and cape, winks into the camera extending a hand to you as he holds a very nice jewel in the other

Hayden, dude with the yellow shirt and big tits, holds a basket of veggies while petting a horse that nuzzles him from behind

Ryis, the dude holding a log with the cute dimples, smiles at you while carrying wood to transform into a chair

March, the dude with the hammer and chip on his shoulder, hammers something into submission

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Fields of Mistria ✨ Out Now in Early Access @fieldsofmistria.bsky.social · 22d

Capybara parade 🐾

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Quinn 🌻🎶🌟 @quinnthebard.bsky.social · 22d

this just broke me

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