Walk like a ghost, let your feet off the ground

We all know that feeling, we think our image descriptions are not good enough. We think they’re too short and insignificant. We wonder if it’s worth it posting one at all, but it’s always worth it. And here is why:

Even if an image description doesn’t mention everything in the image, it tells you a million things which aren’t in the image.

If your description is [ID: Reaction image of a nodding woman. /end ID] it tells you one million things. Such as: The image is not a tweet adding further information or context, it’s not a screenshot of a Snopes article debunking the post, it’s not someone disagreeing.

Those six little words, that nodding woman, it might not seem like a lot. It might seem like you can skip right over it, like it’s not worth mentioning - but it is.

An image could always be a wall of text explaining why OP is wrong, and simply knowing that’s not the case is super useful. Knowing that it’s just a reaction image, just a meme, just a photograph, is super useful.

whoever the living fuck is roleplaying with him as a cat please stop he is currently only responding to anything with meows and purrs or eventually comes back to that no matter WHAT I do for the love of god

"Seeing Spots" (Left)

This piece is dedicated to the trans women in my community who were the first to defend, educate, and befriend me when I was a newly out kid in rural Appalachia. "Seeing Spots" is a piece about the PFLAG meetings in dusty churches, the stained glass painting the floor in dots of rainbow light like a promise. It's a piece about the first time you really and truly get your lights knocked out in a bad fight. It's a piece about growing up, a whitetail deer with fresh spots yearning to be a buck. It is a piece about reverence and fear and adolescence and ultimately, it is a piece about love.

"I Dug Her Grave With My Bare Hands" (Right)

"When I talk about my pre-trans self she's a young girl and I killed her and dug her grave with my bare hands and one day I will lie down with her again and our bones will intertwine." - Rhinco