Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

Would you like to join in on #FicRecFebruary? Toot about a fic you love and use the hashtag #FicRecFebruary and share the love for your favourite fics! No obligation or pressure to toot every day, just a fun masto-centred reccing fest for the month of Feb.

I'm reccing a different fic every day in February, to encourage myself to toot more often, and would love if others joined in. Boost this to get us all reccing more this Feb!

Folks, it’s encouraging to see more of you writing alternative text on images here so people who use screen readers can also take part but please make sure the text really is the equivalent of the image.

So, for example, if you’re posting a screenshot of some text, don’t just say “Excerpt of article” or “A tweet by so-and-so” but actually copy/paste the text from it (many platforms let you do this with images these days).

Folks who use screen readers have the right to hear what we see.

#a11y

*downloads luvs from the fediverse* ​
*uploads luvs to the fediverse* ​

Astielle is my free webnovel about the Starlight Hero (Minnow), her nemesis the Moonlight Monster (King Karzarul), and his nemesis the Sunlight Heir (Prince Leonas). It is an endless reincarnation cycle enemies-to-lovers speedrun and slow burn about trying to avoid the main quest by doing every possible sidequest instead. It's got monsterfucking, villain-coded dandies, horrible little gremlin women, and way too much lore. #fiction #fantasy #romance #erotica

https://kittyunpretty.com/astielle/

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Are there best practices yet for running #fandom events on Mastodon?

The GlitchCat #SundayPost offers news and updates from our corner of the fediverse to yours.

§ From Our Users :—

• @Satsuma and @Lady have beeen watching ‘Guardian’ (cdrama) at a very slow pace of one episode a week (in a discord group with some other folks).

• @Lady also published a pornographic pokémon oneshot, but I’m not sharing the link to that here so you’ll have to be enterprising if you really want to read it.

• @Lady also also has been working more on her indie website publishing workflows but there haven’t been any real releases of anything yet.

Send us your wuxia and xianxia work. We are especially looking forward to reading work by BIPOC and racialised folk. http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/azimuth/wuxia-xianxia-special-submissions-call/

I don't always encounter alt text for images on Mastodon. But when I do, I notice the alt text descriptions are higher quality than they were on Twitter. In general, I feel like describers are sharing the intent of images more and sharing their visual interpretations more often. When describers do this, the pictures come alive in my mind. In short, alt text feels less robotic on Mastodon and more like my sighted friends narrating their lives and observations to me. It's really awesome and special to watch. Keep up the great work, describers!