Mastodon often doesn’t seem to love my art BUT I’m super proud of this little guy - still needs some work but I’m trying to make Inktober all about getting shit done, not getting shit perfect.

ALT TEXT: A little cartoon fox belts it down a woodland path on his bright blue bike, getting some serious air. He’s remembered to wear his helmet - he is, after all, quite fragile.

@amyherself alt text:

A cartoon fox jumping its mountain bike while going down a forest trail. The fox is wearing a helmet, doing a "superman jump with only its front paws touching the bike.

(Feel free to edit into your post!)
@nyquildotorg the image has alt text, unless what you’re saying is you don’t think mine is too playful / descriptive enough?
@amyherself huh. I can't see it here on Firefish... Did you add it after posting it?
@amyherself I do see it when visiting the post on your instance, but not here on Firefish. Weird.
@nyquildotorg ahh, interesting quirk of Masto / federation maybe! I’ve added some words to the post itself in the hopes of defeating that quirk, curious if you can see that (or maybe there’s just time needed for the propagation to other instances)…
@amyherself I suspect the issue is someone boosted this post, but nobody on my instance followed you. So the copy here on my instance couldn't get an update notification. I've since followed you, so I suspect your edit will cause it to update here.
@amyherself confirmed. Now that I follow you, your subsequent edit did come through. Now this means I get to beat myself up even more when I forgot to add alt text on the initial post!