SELECT 
  q_images.*, 
  q_images_links.*, 
  q_common_descriptions.description AS alt, 
  q_images.image_id AS images_image_id 
FROM 
  q_images_links 
  LEFT JOIN q_images ON q_images_links.image_id = q_images.image_id 
  LEFT JOIN q_common_descriptions ON q_common_descriptions.object_id = q_images.image_id 
  AND q_common_descriptions.object_holder = 'images' 
  AND q_common_descriptions.lang_code = 'en' 
WHERE 
  q_images_links.object_type = 'product' 
  AND q_images_links.type = 'M' 
  AND q_images_links.object_id IN (
    '36649', '36651', '36660', '36661', 
    '36662', '36666', '36669', '36673', 
    '36678', '36679', '36680', '36683', 
    '36684', '36685', '36686', '36687'
  ) 
ORDER BY 
  q_images_links.position, 
  q_images_links.pair_id

Query time 0.00087

JSON explain

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    "cost_info": {
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    },
    "ordering_operation": {
      "using_filesort": true,
      "cost_info": {
        "sort_cost": "30.00"
      },
      "nested_loop": [
        {
          "table": {
            "table_name": "q_images_links",
            "access_type": "range",
            "possible_keys": [
              "object_id"
            ],
            "key": "object_id",
            "used_key_parts": [
              "object_id",
              "object_type",
              "type"
            ],
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            "rows_examined_per_scan": 30,
            "rows_produced_per_join": 30,
            "filtered": "100.00",
            "index_condition": "((`portal`.`q_images_links`.`object_type` = 'product') and (`portal`.`q_images_links`.`type` = 'M') and (`portal`.`q_images_links`.`object_id` in ('36649','36651','36660','36661','36662','36666','36669','36673','36678','36679','36680','36683','36684','36685','36686','36687')))",
            "cost_info": {
              "read_cost": "52.01",
              "eval_cost": "6.00",
              "prefix_cost": "58.01",
              "data_read_per_join": "2K"
            },
            "used_columns": [
              "pair_id",
              "object_id",
              "object_type",
              "image_id",
              "detailed_id",
              "type",
              "position"
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "table": {
            "table_name": "q_images",
            "access_type": "eq_ref",
            "possible_keys": [
              "PRIMARY"
            ],
            "key": "PRIMARY",
            "used_key_parts": [
              "image_id"
            ],
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            "ref": [
              "portal.q_images_links.image_id"
            ],
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              "data_read_per_join": "22K"
            },
            "used_columns": [
              "image_id",
              "image_path",
              "image_x",
              "image_y",
              "is_high_res"
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "table": {
            "table_name": "q_common_descriptions",
            "access_type": "eq_ref",
            "possible_keys": [
              "PRIMARY"
            ],
            "key": "PRIMARY",
            "used_key_parts": [
              "object_id",
              "lang_code",
              "object_holder"
            ],
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            "ref": [
              "portal.q_images.image_id",
              "const",
              "const"
            ],
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              "prefix_cost": "130.01",
              "data_read_per_join": "17K"
            },
            "used_columns": [
              "object_id",
              "description",
              "lang_code",
              "object_holder"
            ],
            "attached_condition": "<if>(is_not_null_compl(q_common_descriptions), (`portal`.`q_common_descriptions`.`object_id` = `portal`.`q_images`.`image_id`), true)"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Result

image_id image_path image_x image_y is_high_res pair_id object_id object_type detailed_id type position alt images_image_id
0 58357 36651 product 60313 M 0
0 60314 36687 product 62270 M 0
0 60349 36686 product 62305 M 0
0 60373 36685 product 62329 M 0
0 60412 36684 product 62368 M 0
0 60477 36683 product 62433 M 0
0 60584 36680 product 62540 M 0
0 60615 36679 product 62571 M 0
0 60632 36678 product 62588 M 0
0 60917 36673 product 62873 M 0
0 61032 36669 product 62988 M 0
0 61158 36666 product 63114 M 0
0 61385 36662 product 63341 M 0
0 61649 36661 product 63605 M 0
0 61670 36660 product 63626 M 0
0 61829 36649 product 63785 M 0