Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family
sleepy af
also https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/
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And a reminder - please DO add image descriptions in your posts. They make Mastodon a better place for all, and especially for our moots with visual disabilities.
Image Descriptions are cool! 
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SAUNAS FOR THE SAUNA GOD
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Finally had time to sit down and bang out a bunch of the work for the new #Hometown release. As usual you can check out everything I am working on, related discussions, and the status of the work:
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Helping kickstart some language study buddy vibes here with two new hashtags:
#ARMYLearnsKorean for all kinds of content—resources you’ve found, recent learnings, practice writing (or speaking even!), tips, questions, etc.
#ALKCheckIn for some accountability every Wednesday KST (feel free to check in on a different day if that doesn’t work for you). Share how your studying has been going, anything you’ve learned, study plans for the coming week, etc.
Let’s help and encourage each other! 💜
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19) What's your favourite episode, song, moment, etc. from your current fandom?
i dont play favorites but please enjoy whatever the hell jk’s doing here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEjUQB10cN4
20) Tag three fandom friends on Masto!
thanks to @annathecrow for the tag! kinda feel like everyone here who’s interested has already done this at this point but maybe @Lady and @ljwrites could be convinced? :D
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16) What are 3 tags that will make you click no matter what?
i tend to sort more based on recs than tags
17) Fav fest you've prompted/read/written for?
i don’t think sundial-exchange is happening this year but it’s always resulted in a bunch of great fics
18) Share an upcoming fest you're excited about!
fandom nominations for https://candyheartsex.dreamwidth.org close today at midnight EST!
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13) When did you last travel for a con, concert, fanmeet, or cupsleeve event?2012? am aiming to get to wiscon offline in 2024 tho
14) How did you get into your current fandom?
guardian — heard about on dreamwidth & then watched w/my then girlfriend
swcw — kinda slid into this one sideways, i think some fic authors i follow got into it maybe?
kpop — fic recs on dreamwidth
15) What's your favourite trope?
time travel
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10) What's the last fandom merch or craft you got?
this lovely guardian postcard from yue 💖
11) Rare pairs, big ships, or gen?
rare pairs, or more accurately small fandoms. I like hanging out in fannish spaces where you can at least kinda know everyone
12) Are you multi-fandom or mono-fannish?
very multi-fannish as evidenced by my #DecRecs submissions lol
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7) Who's your ult OTP?
this is not a relevant concept to my relationship with fandom
8) Share a pic that would convince someone to fall for your current fandom!
are there people who can get baited into a fandom from a single pic? not even sure where to start with this tbh
9) Have you ever met a fandom friend IRL?
several! no one currently on fedi but purringvulcan, sadieyuki, flannellizard, & i all spent a weekend together in DC back in 2016 & i’ve since hung out with them offline a few times each for various occasions. my best friend and i have also been dragging eachother into various fandoms for over a decade now
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4) What was your first fandom?
first fancon was harry potter (leaky chicago), first fanfic i wrote was james bond (long story), but the emotionally correct answer here is star trek tos
5) How often has fic made you cry?
…struggling to think of a time i’ve cried over a fic tbh. im sure its happened! but not recently lol
6) Rec a fic that you love!
i reread stark_burnt_heart’s How Does Distance Look? when i can’t sleep (so…often) & when the light goes out by
janonny is the classic postcanon guardian fixit for me
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originally from https://fandom.ink/@bts_fanfic/109480796231157795 w/the text based list here: https://tinyurl.com/4373urj7
1) How long have you been in fandom?
It’s difficult to pin down exactly (does being fannish irl with friends count, for example?) but definitely over a decade!
2) Which fandoms are you in now?
Guardian & cdramas in general (I have a lovely watchparty group that I hang out with), star wars (prequel era mostly), & kpop are my main three
3) Do you create transformative works (fic, fan art, podfic, etc.)?
Not that you can currently find online ;)
I don’t usually do question memes but I got tagged in one the other day and I have 20 minutes to kill…
#Ao3TagOfTheDay the plot is sex and the character development is also sex
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this yuletide fic based on -- of all things -- a corporate 30-year-plan pdf is... a lot. So good, so devastating, highly recommend https://archiveofourown.org/works/43673575
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Today I'm really struggling physically and mentally with my hand pain. So for #DecRecs I'm reccing "Elder, an Aesthetic" by MarbleGlove https://archiveofourown.org/works/40189629 (gen, #TheUntamed, 8k words)
This is a very soothing fic about learning to live with disability
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finally following up on this… 
Here is the list of problems that our instance has identified with the Mastodon 4.0 upgrade, and how much work I think it will take to address these issues. I think we will probably want to fix all the things which aren’t labelled “Hard” before we merge in the latest changes here.
https://gitlab.com/kibicat/mastodon/-/snippets/2476610
Comments welcome!
cc: @darius who I know has been looking into this stuff for Hometown.
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The culture of describing media on Mastodon is something to be treasured - there's a reason a lot of us hesitate to share undescribed images. The fediverse has a pretty thriving disabled community, and image descriptions often convey more focused information that someone who (for example) can't parse error messages might not otherwise understand.
A lot of media is hard to describe - we never know what to say when we post music, for example - but even something cursory can give context.
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Gonna reshare our image description advice thread from April - feel free to share the above around with anyone who might need it!
Alternatively, share these other resources on the same subject:
- @AmaBagins's thread from a Digital Accessibility Tester perspective, which has a bunch more resources: https://mastodon.art/@AmaBagins/109321545433041372
- @M0YNG's extensive guide, which covers lots of different fediverse UIs: https://m0yng.uk/Image-descriptions-on-the-Fediverse/
- @Curator's short and sweet guide for artists: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/108197411515405526
Writing image descriptions can be a hard habit to pick up, and it can be tricky to do, but it makes a difference and you can get good at it and develop your own style.
Thanks for your time!
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Todays #DecRecs is for https://stickerguy.com because i’ve had this glow in the dark sticker from @pagrus up for like two years and, even tho the location means its only getting fairly dim LED light, it somehow still glows bright enough to read from across the room
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poll that i'm intentionally doing here and not @MindmeshLink
do you identify yourself as "disabled" primarily *to other people* in any context
like, not just saying *what disability* you have, ie "depressed", but do you tell other people "i'm disabled" or put "disabled" or "cripple" or any variant of it in your bios online
i am not asking "are you disabled and do you identify at all with the concept of disability" to be clear, this is a social phenomenon wondering, and nondisabled people are included and should say "never"
sleepy af
also https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/
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