Nicely done. I managed to get in a good, quality post right before this with no pics, so I guess I already mastered it.
And you missed a step:
which persuades the eye to tell the brain to tell the hand to reach over and click on the post.
Unless, I suppose, you assume your readers are mindless (brainless?)
Which I suppose would be true for most of steemit.
I did skip a few steps there, I had to guess that only a mindless gesture could have landed anyone on this page!
The same could be said of the trending page. Sadly.