disclaimer: I don’t have any visual disability or any other disability that would give me a salient accessibility need for alt text. if you have a disability like that and want to chime in, please do! your opinion means a lot more than mine on this. I do benefit from alt text too but probably not nearly as much

anyway, I tend to mentally categorize alt text into three categories. the first is a very clinical description of the image that meanders around, overdescribing things with no real intent or tone behind it:

a picture of a woman. she is wearing a black fishnet top. you can see her nipples through the top. she is wearing black leggings, and you can see a bulge in the leggings. the background is a white-painted room with red neon lighting. everything looks red because of the red neon lighting.

this is… less than ideal. it communicates what the picture is of but in a way that is incredibly boring to read. it also doesn’t capture the intent behind the picture. how am I supposed to feel about each of the details? often a photographer will deliberately emphasize certain things with lighting, shadow, framing, poses, camera positioning, and a million other things. and all of that is lost with this description

put another way: photography is a very subtle art and this alt text is too unsubtle and too literal to do it justice

the second kind is written like a description in a novel:

in a small room with a soft, intimate red glow, [name] poses invitingly. she is almost beckoning the viewer forward, or even daring them to approach - showing off her perky breasts through a black fishnet top that presses into her skin sensually. she is spreading her thick, soft thighs, showing off her bulge that strains eagerly against her tight black leggings

this is my favorite kind. it usually expresses the mood of the scene perfectly and sometimes leaves me a little breathless after I’ve read it. I don’t just feel like I know what the picture is about - I feel like I’ve experienced it. and even if the image loaded, often I’ll read the alt text just to get that little bit of extra context on what the artist wanted to emphasize or express

but then there’s a third type:

in a small room with a soft, intimate red glow, [name] poses invitingly, almost daring you to approach. your eyes are drawn to her perky breasts, visible through a black fishnet top that you want to rip off of her. noticing your interest, she spreads her thick, soft thighs, showing off her bulge that strains eagerly against her tight black leggings. now all you can think about is how much you need to get on your knees and taste her

this is just my subjective opinion, but this makes me a bit uncomfortable and I don’t like reading it. I have a knee-jerk negative reaction to being told how I feel or what I want to do. and also, sometimes I don’t want to feel like a part of the scene, or like the intimacy of the pic is targeted at me specifically

but I’m curious if others are bothered by this too. this might just be a me thing

Time for another #ArtFuck attack, on @p1nkab0ut1t.bsky.social's delicious tentacled researcher Zinnia! (And her assistant Chris in the background.) She needs her suit to handle gravity, but zero-g fucking is the perfect solution.

#lewd #lewdart #HWRhiannon #alien #nsfw #NSFWart

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I can’t believe I’m saying this, but my cursory experience with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has me kinda feeling like it’s somewhat good? and even somewhat true to the original spirit of Star Trek

specifically it seems to have the most important elements of a Star Trek show which are:

• presenting viewers with a utopia and making it clear that it’s possible for us to achieve this utopia
• showing that Starfleet is an organization of explorers and peaceful negotiators
• just generally trying to be inspiring, positive, and uplifting

I missed all of that, and it’s good to have it back

with that said, I’m not going to be able to keep watching it (I only watched S01E01 and S02E01 to get a feel for the show) because there are many things that I don’t like too:

• the slop levels have markedly increased compared to the TNG and DS9 eras, and that’s saying something because there were entire TNG/DS9 episodes that were nothing but braindead filler slop. but yeah all of the writing in this show just feels like it was rushed out the door - even in the moments when the captain is meant to give an inspiring speech, where just a little bit more time in the oven would have done a lot
• the characters are all immature for the sake of comedy and/or drama I guess, even though an important part of Star Trek IMO is how much society has progressed emotionally and interpersonally
• it’s a little bit irony-poisoned which unfortunately seems like it might be a necessity for modern TV shows :/ it’s doing that postirony thing where every moment of sincerity or positivity could be interpreted as “haha funi parody” or it could also be interpreted seriously
• it does that modern TV show thing where every quiet scene feels oppressively tense which I find exhausting
• the show goes out of its way to be disturbing, seemingly at least once per episode, because I guess that’s what people expect from scifi these days?
• also every character has a super edgy ultra traumatic Baldur’s Gate 3 backstory that they will not shut up about. the show centers around a whole crew of highly traumatized barely-functional people who are emotionally immature and I find that frustrating and very un-Trek. and the show fixates on this as if it’s going to hook me with the characters’ emotional immaturity and unrelatable scifi trauma

highly relevant pic

(the artist is Tarakanovich btw and they are Very Good 🥵)

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@shijikori ohhh I am very glad that you like them! if you make some kind of lewd art out of them then of course I would love to see it :P

tbh maybe I should post about my lewd ideas more often - I have a lot of them although many of them just boil down to variations on monsterfucking, mind control, and orgasm control lol

my queer ass will never read the word “gridlock” the same way again