Oh that's lovely - a little piece of nostalgia for something that I may've never known, but still feel like I can feel through the piece!

A screenshot of my reply to the previous comment; the video has been uploaded and the Alt text box is clearly visible below the video.

A screenshot of my alt text for the video: "Me singsonging the words 'boring video of the wall' whilst taking a boring video of a wall."

Screenshots:

Yeah, it shows right below the video (I'll put screenshots in a second) and I definitely filled it in here…

"Everyone hates it!"

No, like seven people hate it. They're one in a billion.

Haha yeah it never happens! Although…huh, see and it used to be awkward to find where the alt text could be read. It was a little box off in one corner - but now I don't see it at all?

I know I put alt text on this video, for instance, but I don't see any option to view it. Did they take it away?

Mostly-bare branches against the bright blue sky. Handfuls of white flower blossoms spring out from the branches, paralleling and contrasting against the white wisps of cloud that streak over the sky.

📷 Beginning blooms against blue sky.

Ugh yes that too! If it's just an image, just do an image - and also, we can put alt text on videos too! At least ones we're uploading.

Thank you! I tried to think about how we often name things in our world; it's glittery, it's magic, you can burn it like coal - glittercoal!

Well I don't know when I'll get around to it, but it's in my library now at least! AND THAT TRAILER, UGH

Thank you! <3

I couldn't pass up the opportunity to make *something* glittery! XD

It's the people putting in alt text just to trick the system who bother me most. The ones who put a punctuation mark or a single random word or the like, it's irksome.

If you don't have the time to put in alt text, that's fine I suppose - but I don't have the time to read your stuff and comment.

Authors, if you don't put your words from a snippet into the alt text - or if you just put the word "text" or even more confusingly "." - then I'm not going to interact with that post.

I have blind friends. If you can't spare 30 seconds to copy/paste so they can read it? I'll return that.

The upside of drawing knights fully armored up when fuckig is that sometimes I can just draw over the sliver of visible skin and make it "sfw" XD

Ebook screenshot from Flight of the Fates, book one, Fight or Flight: "Her gasbags were half-deflated, the envelope that contained them all hanging close to her topdeck with the ropes running there limp and lazy. I’d guess she was at around a third capacity on the lifting gas, probably getting holes patched in her empty bags or maybe even having one or two replaced, but I wasn't a canvaslad so I couldn't be certain. Her wooden hull already had chunks missing from it, showing the metal and pipe underneath as men crawled over her like lice on an alleycat, forming wounds and encircling them as she laid there helpless. The sailfins that ran down her hull, articulated and rigid both, were in the process of being de-sailed, the canvas peeled back from metal stalks underneath like skin away from fingers. A few hours in port and she looked more like she was a few hours from the scrapheap. She wasn’t fancy enough for velvet, but I didn’t care. Neither was I. We were two of a kind, she and I - forgotten, taken in wherever we could be of use, and for only as long as we could be of use. Not fancy enough for velvet. Not fancy enough for pure glittercoal, either - she relied mostly on her gasbags, some on her thrusters and sails, to keep her aloft and moving. The glittercoal was just the last little bit, that added spot of magic to make it all work."

#WIPSnips "Process" from FotF#1, Fight or Flight

Definitely shared this at least in part before, but there's some description in here I quite like!

Even then, it was one of those "edge cases that most people kinda believe in but generally won't admit to openly for fear of ridicule" - which I suppose might still be the case, but I think we're now more in "thing that people wish for but secretly don't really believe in" territory.

They probably wouldn't think it's magic but they might think it's impossible.

If we're going with explicitly and specifically magic, the answer is probably "whatever year the prevailing belief in real magic declined" which I'm guessing would be…probably around the Victorian Era?

Genuinely, I think it might be as little as within our lifetimes. Maybe not *magic*, but if you took a smartphone to the eighties - touchscreen, integrated speakers, all-day battery life, not to mention the apps and connectivity available (presuming internet wouldn't magically follow, but still).

#DreamJournal

What I recall: intensely crowded with people as I tried to bake a pizza at a bake-your-own pizza joint (?) for myself, spouse, and a gf who doesn't exist, but I got to meet David Mitchell - nobody in the crowd recognized him, which I feel he'd be happy with; going unperceived.

Ooh, nice! I think ours is a Breville? At work now so I can't check, but I'll try to remember to later - and share some better pics of our teapots too!

Yeah, I can't recall the last time I actually read a paperback all the way through - would've been a decade ago probably. I like to have both: ebooks for reading, paperbacks for display.

Used to be paperbacks for reading, hardcovers for display - oy, sign of the time?

Hahaha it's a fun idea regardless of veracity! Truly the regional variations can be massive; there are words that if a Canadian or American said them to me, I'd immediately exit the conversation - but if an Australian did? I'd know that we were genuinely friends! XD

Ever been at the dentist and they ask a question, then when you answer, they pull the tools out of your mouth like "what? I didn't hear that."

Yeah, no duh. You had tools in my mouth! Also, no offence, but that's what I'm actually paying you for? So…I'm sure you're a great conversationalist but…

Fuuuuuuuck ugh that does sound good, yes, okay

Truly "fuck" is one of the most versatile words in the English language! It's:
-a verb (to fuck)
-a noun (I don't give a fuck)
-an adjective (fucking absurd)
-even a pronoun! (motherfucker)

Maybe more, too, I'm heading to bed so my brain's probably operating at about like…70%? Maybe less? XD

Plus they just look so nice on a shelf <3

Yeah, they're nice for that. Also an upside to the Indie side of things - epubs distributed through things like Itch, Smashwords, etc., because they tend to be at least genuinely owned files.

Not sure how they play with Kindle as I don't have one, but- yeah, paper gets around it all very easily.

The end goal is really clarity. Nothing else really matters that much about pronoun use.

Unless you're following a specific style guide - in which case, follow the style guide! Don't listen to me! XD
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Alternately you could drop the pronoun completely (which confirms that Jill is telling the jokes): "Jill went out with Liv, and told jokes the whole time."

If you can do so? Go ahead and eliminate pronouns. Cuts down on clutter, and clarifies at the same time!
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Punctuation can bring clarity too.

"Jill went out with Liv and she told jokes throughout."

Probably, here, Jill's telling jokes; Liv is being treated a little like a thing in this sentence - the target of an action. A comma can help too.

"Jill went out with Liv, and she told jokes throughout."
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