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When beloved mutuals are like oh no tumblr might be going down add me on discord! like okay I love you I’m kissing you on the mouth I’ll die without your little posts but am I going to message you? are you going to message me? we all know this is not going to happen.we r open pasture creatures we both need a place to post freely

#honesty appreciated #will still miss you guys

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MARGOT ROBBIE'S outfits in BARBIE (2023)

“Barbie really is interlinked with fashion, because how you play with her is by dressing her,” says costume designer Jacqueline Durran. “Clothes are her form of expression.”

#barbie movie #i liked it #but i do wish it went further #in its feminist statements #like: patriarchy hurts men too #AND sometimes i stereotypical barbie hurt you ken #making those statements explicit #and completely impossible to miss #also: considering IRL Indigenous people said they hated the line about Barbies as analogous to Indigenous populations that must go!

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Homeless LGBT Emergency

Hello everyone. Things have gotten very bad as I am no longer employed and we have lost any chance of recovering while we stay in this city. We have been homeless for almost three years and, even while I was working, we still struggled to find any kind of stability. We are having to drop everything we've been working towards to escape to a city where we have a chance to escape homelessness, and it is very likely we have to leave the state entirely. My last paycheck came in and has already been spent as we had to pay our monthly bills and replace our tires.

I'm reaching out where I can for help covering temporary shelter, food, bills, gas, and funds to put towards securing a place in a new city. We have to leave as soon as we can as it is getting expensive to remain here without income. Our health has been bad and our mental health has been worse so something needs to happen soon. Please share this if you can and any help is appreciated, even if it's a bunch of people sending a dollar each.

Venmo: @garbageconnoiseur

CashApp: $garbageconnoisseur

Reach out for PayPal or Zelle. Please no hate or unsolicited advice. Things have been very hard and I just cannot deal with it right now. You will be blocked. Thank you for everyone's help.

#signal boost

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#i do love this dog #and the bird is cute too #snoopy #woodstock #Peanuts gang

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Remember my brilliant scareslug idea? Since that didn’t work at all I decided to do the exact same thing again and made a 1.70m-tall scarecrow for llamas. Well, for one very bad llama. I built it outside the pasture right in the spot where Pampe always jumps the fence.

Pampe’s reaction was worrying.

#the last picture #im dying #lmaooo

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two households both alike in dignity

#i laughed

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Min Huang

#stars on the sea! #ok it's sun #still lovely

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taking your own advice is so hard. it’s “make bad art” this and “kill your perfectionism” that until i sit down with an idea i like. the i have to execute it perfectly Or Else

#mood

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TikTok is worth it for this video alone. Gonna have this on repeat for at least a week.

#the president's mugshot #orange one gets canned #only briefly #is it possible to support prison abolition but also strongly desire the life imprisonment of the orange one #i do not know #but i know that man is guilty as fuck #trump sucks

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#speak truth to power #american history #it's ugly #we cannot hide from that reality #most of history is ugly #but it happened #we need to talk about it #and act #we must act to ensure it will no longer be like that

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July 25, 2023 - Striking stuntman Mike Massa walks in the SAG-AFTRA picket line while on fire. [video]

#*alicia keys voice* this! [man]! is! on! FIRE! #sag aftra #they continue #amazing #all of them #fabulous #and fiery

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Y'all I wish it was "no thoughts head empty"- instead I'm "many thoughts head full" bitch I am at capacity

#SUCH A MOOD

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Don’t Add Fanfiction To Your Goodreads Shelf

Hi folks, I know some of you like to use Goodreads to track all your reading and don’t want to distinguish between books and fanfiction.

I am, however, begging you not to do this. It is extremely jarring and disconcerting to be a fic author and find your works somewhere in the wild where you did not personally put them. Fics are not books, are not published in the same way as books, and exist in a precarious legal space.

Please don’t attempt to elide the separation that exists between fandom and the world of official publishing.

#copyright #precarious legal situation indeed #psa #this has been a psa #goodreads =/= your personal bookshelf #fan fiction #fic

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#hozier #de selby part 2 #domhnall gleeson #shout out to the commenter who said this is “peak female gaze” #thank you youtube commenter cynicalmadhatter #i appreciate u #thank you hozier and domhnall gleeson for being beautiful #Youtube

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Just a kid from Brooklyn

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Western Canadian Literature: “The prairie is cold and empty, like my marriage.”

Eastern Canadian Literature: “The sea is cold and empty, like my marriage.”

Cultural differences.

#canada #jokes at canada's expense #kinda #humor #the quality kind #why do i relate to most of these #perhaps #i too am #cold and empty

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text alternatives are about the purpose of the image, not about every little detail

The questions you ask yourself when creating the primary text alternative for an image should not be 

What catches my eye about this image?

What are my favorite details?

How do I represent every element of this image using words?

It should be 

What is the image for in context?

How would I quickly tell someone about it?

“In context” is important. 

Think your friend across the room who is scrolling Tumblr on their own phone and not looking at your phone which you, too, are using to scroll Tumblr, and a short post makes you laugh. You’d probably say whatever text is in the post (potentially abbreviated) and then if, say, a meme was used, you would say what the meme is, not what the photo is.

Imagine (I say, as if you have never seen this online) if every time someone used a memetic image they included a wall of text explaining the content of the image, with subjective, redundant or even incorrect details:

A photograph of a man in partial profile from the right arm up. He is standing outside with city buildings and a teenage or young adult boy’s face in the background. He has light brown skin, dark coily hair, and a short beard. His mouth is open, and he is wearing a backwards neon pink baseball cap, silver-framed futuristic sunglasses, a candy necklace, a neon green t-shirt, and a wide silver cuff bracelet. He has one wired earbud in, and is holding up a white bottle without a label that is shaped like a bottle for salad dressing. The caption on the bottom is yellow text all in lower case. It reads, “cheers I’ll drink to that bro.” The log in the bottom right corner says “bracket adult swim dot com bracket”.

instead of its moniker/purpose

meme: Eric Andre cheers I’ll drink to that bro

If you know the meme, you know what that means. In the context of Tumblr, a user can be expected to know the purpose & significance of a meme, because that is literally what a meme is! 

If you don’t know the meme, in nine words and 36 characters you have enough information to search for or ask for more. With the long description, you have no clue what the image actually is on the whole nor what purpose it is serving on the page until the the second to last sentence.

It takes me about ~2 seconds to look at the meme in question (shown below) recognize it, and read the caption.

The long text description above takes more than 51 seconds for Natural Reader text to speech software to read aloud. 

The short one takes only four (4) seconds.

Which text alternative do you think provides the most equivalent experience to someone looking at the image?

For additional information on established web accessibility standards for text alternatives, you can go to:

WCAG 2.X: Understanding Text Alternatives

WCAG 3.0 Guidelines Working Draft: Text Alternatives

#visual analysis #alt text #how to alt text #best practices