help me im a worm

Edited 2/24/2023: Hi and welcome! I try to describe all non-text posts I reblog here and occasionally post my own thoughts, images and writing here as well.

Posts with image descriptions are tagged “described”

Posts with information or captions that convey the contents of an image without being a formal description are tagged “functionally described” and come up in a basic Tumblr search for described posts

Posts that have alt text but no description are tagged “alt text included”

Some images get posted without description and are tagged “undescribed”

Pinning some stuff on descriptions:

1. I’ve read multiple opinions from people with low vision and people with no vision. My alt text and image descriptions are primarily based on the essay Against Access by John Lee Clark, which is to say, I don’t attempt to write unbiased descriptions and I try to prioritize details like texture over purely visual details like color. However, this is not the only way people write image descriptions, and completely blind people are not the only people who use image descriptions. I recommend reading How To Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions For The Visually Impaired by Veronica Lewis, which is a highly accessible blog post that goes over the basics of alt text and image descriptions.

2. I omit information sometimes. It isn’t “more accessible” for someone to listen to 10 paragraphs to know what a sighted person sees in a minute or less.

3. If you have a correction that a description needs to be made, such as misidentified ethnicity or incorrect pronouns, send me the post in question and I will change it ASAP. Same goes for spelling errors or grammar / formatting errors that will gum up screen readers.

4. I describe art and try to capture the mood & tone of the pieces I describe. This is a conscious interpretive choice on my part; image description is always interpretive. If I reblog your art that you made, and you want the descriptions altered, message me and I will do so ASAP.

5. If you make an “ID addition” on any of my posts I am blocking you. If you dislike or disagree with my description, make your own. You can even copy-paste my description to a new reblog and then add to it; I don’t really care much about credit. “Additional IDs” make images less accessible, spreading information (sometimes too much information) over multiple comments from multiple blogs.

shyyren:

he’s chisps :)

[ID. Two photos of a grey and white cat with green eyes sitting inside a box on a kitchen floor. The box once held a variety of Wise chips. Now it holds a very comfy cat. End ID.]

bananonbinary:

here’s your fucking feedback @staff

list of problems the removal of icons causes:

• i cant see my friends
• ruins the sense of community
• can’t tell at a glance who’s online right now and what they’re interested in
• literally cannot tell without scrolling back up who put a post on my dash if it has a single addition attached to it. or like. 2 paragraphs in the op.
• i cant click my own icon at the top of the dash to quickly view my own blog
• can’t tell who someone used to be if they change their username
• squashes the margins between the menu and posts, making the whole dash feel more cramped
• ruins the quick visual cue of how long each post is and where it ends when you’re trying to scroll past ones youve seen before
• people put a lot of creativity and individuality into icons, and now i never see them
• makes people who primarily reblog instead of make their own posts all but completely disappear

list of problems solved by removing icons:

• ?????
• who the fuck was asking for this
• ive never in my life seen a website or app that has profile pics forcibly HIDE them, so i guess you did it you made the dash unique again in the worst way

here’s some more feedback: maybe when you run an a/b test you should, idk, actually have a feedback form people can fill out about it somewhere

(via modmad)

antiterfbutch:

it’s so funny to me when terfs are like “SORRY for standing up for women. guess i am a MONSTER for protecting lesbians” and then their social media feed is like 99% evangelical christian propaganda

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friendlyfatigue:

remember when linguini brought a rat he found back to his apartment and got all embarrassed and was like it’s not much. to the rat

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horrorgay:

horrorgay:

ok so. who has been on here (tumblr) for an entire decade of their life?

10 years +

7-9 years

4-6 years

1-3 years

less than a year

less than a month

So this is a visual representation of “are the new users you’re changing the entire app and website layout/features for in the room with us right now”.

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enchantingruinscandy:

Putting powdered sugar on the post below

[ID. Photo of a sieve full of powdered sugar being shaken by an unseen person, coating the post beneath the sieve in powdery sugar. End ID.]

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thirdpunch:

[ID. A cat, sitting on a beam outside during a snowfall. They are completely dusted in powdery snow and look cold. End ID.]

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kurganfilledwithbearbones:

gingerswagfreckles:

froody:

froody:

Look. I’m going to be honest with you. Adopting that hard anti-plastic surgery stance while trans people’s lives and right to transition is at stake is absolutely horrendous timing. Knock it off.

Plastic surgery saves and rebuilds lives. While anti-aging culture and lookism are both detrimental to society, it’s important to remember that plastic surgery is healthcare.

Both things can be true. We don’t have to ignore the damage the predatory plastic surgery industry is doing to young girls to support trans people and suggesting we do is misogynistic and incredibly dismissive. Refusing to acknowledge the blatant harm an industry is causing is not going to protect anyone. Should we also not address the opioid epidemic because bad faith actors may use it as an excuse to further limit access to already difficult to get pain treatment? Of course not. These are two issues that BOTH have to be addressed, and the fact that addressing one could be used as an excuse by some people to exacerbate the second is NOT a reason to intentionally ignore those who have been harmed by the opioid epidemic. Similarly, transgender people having increasingly limited options to access gender affirming surgery is NOT the fault of feminists campaigning against the plastic surgery industry, and suggesting that it is is not only bigoted, but balls to the wall insane.

Trans people are being increasingly restricted from accessing gender affirming care because of TRANSPHOBIA, not anti-plastic surgery activists. If TRANSPHOBES are going to use the increasing backlash against the beauty industry as an excuse to limit gender affirming surgeries, the solution is to fucking CALL THEM OUT ON THAT BULLSHIT and why it isn’t the same. It’s not to basically win their own fucking argument for them by implying that all gender affirming surgeries are merely cosmetic and then intentionally ignoring the dysphoria cosmetic surgeries CAUSE??

Okay, look, well meaning post and all, but I really need people to accept that cosmetic surgery - fully elective, definitely cosmetic surgery - can be done for reasons that exist outside of trans dysphoria or sexist beauty standards.

A lot of people have bodies that do not get to be made normative under even the most generous frameworks. Port wine stains. Scarring. Extra digits. Things like that. Things that aren’t disabling, or even vaguely a hindrance, but can be very, very distressing to the individual. People who get their body differences edited aren’t traitors. Women who do it aren’t failed feminists.

Like. I ended up finding out that tattoos were a good choice for my scarring. But I was perfectly willing to invest a huge fucking amount of money into getting my scars worked on. Other people could be weird about them, sure,but they made me, specifically, feel inhuman and separated from the rest of humanity, a feeling I remember having since I was about, uh, four. Rhinoplasties have utility other than ~perfect nose~. A lot of plastic surgery is pain reducing.

There is room to accept that cosmetic surgery exists outside of the very real fact of women-punishing, and it’s important to accept that as a basic truth, because then you don’t force it into the false dichotomy of “trans care” vs “surgical misogyny”.

And it’s pretty easy to just be like…body autonomy means that, unfortunately. Sometimes you just have to accept that the person that lives inside the body they want to change gets final say. Even if they’re doing it for the “wrong” reasons.

I’ll share TMI real quick because it’s pertinent- I have been trying to make an appointment to get three huge keloid scars removed from my upper ear for literally two years now. The keloids are itchy and uncomfortable, and one of them occasionally weeps blood. My hair gets wrapped around them sometimes and it fucking hurts, but I don’t feel like I can cut my hair because then the scars would be constantly visible. Even my insurance agrees that getting them removed is a covered and necessary medical procedure due to the symptoms I experience.

Here’s the issue: because of the placement of them, in order to have a typical-looking ear again and to prevent rescarring, I need to get them removed by a head and neck plastic surgeon. It has been two years (Two Years) of phone calls, emails, voice messages, and back and forths to book a minor, medically-necessary outpatient procedure on my insurance plan, because they have such limited scheduling.

Plastic surgery being inaccessible has made my life a whole lot more uncomfortable. In fact, where I am and on my insurance plan, it is easier for me to book top surgery than it has been for me to book this stupid keloid removal. Again, repeat for emphasis, gender affirming surgery is more accessible to me in my part of the US than surgery for an actively-bleeding growth on my fucking head. I don’t even want to imagine trying to get seen for, say, a removal of a hypertrophic tattoo scar, or to get botox for migraines, or gods fucking forbid to go in for anything that isn’t deemed ‘medically necessary’ by some random asshole in an insurance office.

Making plastic surgery less accessible hurts people. Some plastic surgeons are very predatory, yes, but it’s also a legitimate medical field in which doctors work, like all doctors, to improve people’s lives. Being anti-plastic surgery as a whole is regressive and harmful.

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This is an al-Khwarizmi appreciation zone!! This blog loves Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi! The guy whose name became the root of ‘algorithm’ and whose book on mathematical concepts became the root of 'algebra’! The father of algebra itself! One of the key players in bringing 'Arabic numerals’ to Europe, eventually becoming the global number system! Inspiration to mathematicians for generations after his life! Devout Persian Muslim al-Khwarizmi!

cvckhold:

have you dyed your hair before?

no! i have virgin hair

yes! i have/had highlights

yes! it is/has been dyed “natural” color

yes! it is/has been dyed fun color(s)

see results or smth else ig

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sapphling:

i love when people get up in arms about kink as like a “new perverted phenomenon” bc of their boogeyman obsession with porn. brother gay people have been slapping each other and pretending to be dogs while we fuck since the dawn of time. you’re only just finding out now bc your hole is largely unremarkable and your manner unbecoming

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sewerfight:

Kind of a Reddit AITA post but sometimes it is a little funny to fuck with people in ways that deliberately conform to a stereotype of what they must think of you. the other day I was talking to my friend and I randomly said that I wanted a pet chimpanzee. I’d dress it in person clothes (dungarees and hats) and I’d teach it to love science fiction. And this girl nearby was like “you know how dangerous those things are, right? Also how unethical it is to keep an ape as your pet for your own amusement” and I was already seeing where the conversation was going so I was pretending ignorance like “yea but it wouldn’t just be for my amusement. It would have practical points too.” And she ignored that statement entirely to say “Well chimpanzees can rip faces off” and I was like. What’s the most frustrating thing I can say now. Finally settled on “Mine wouldn’t do that though.” and you could tell she wanted to hurt me very very badly. Like a chimpanzee would if I had one as a pet

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catmask:

catmask:

okay do yoh guys ever think about the fact that “high quality” is an actual descriptor like theres high quality tea leaves high quality fabrics high quality espresso beans etc but because of advertising everything that is said to be “high quality” on the package is just because it supposedly sells better. but not everything is high quality so it is a lie. a descriptor becomes meaningless because it sounds good. what if we were just honest. why cant you say this coffee beans arent the best but they will do the job. i would be happy with okay if it didnt lie

my autism diagnosis has nothing to do with this

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weaver-z:

There’s a user called Erika Horn (@erikahorn.art) on tiktok who made a “duet me” challenge so technically impressive that all of the duets are exactly like this LMAO

[ID. TikTok dueted by three different musicians. The OP, Erika Horn, mixes multiple styles while playing acoustic guitar, tapping long phrases, strumming, and using the body of the guitar as a drum in different sections, switching between styles fluidly while smiling calmly. The three men dueting her include a pianist, another guitarist, and a drummer. They all watch her, silently dumbfounded and not playing, until they all hit the final chord with her at the end. End ID.]

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