#salted herring

[jacqcrisis]

Put salt in your baked goods. Put salt in your desserts. Just do it. Please. Salt isn't just for savory, it's literally a flavor enhancer so even a pinch can take a meh recipe to one people can't stop eating. Listen to me. Your cookies and cheesecake bars are bland and uninteresting. I'm taking your hand. I'm guiding you with a gentle touch to the back. We can do this together. Trust me.

#baking #just do it just put THE SALT IN THE COOKIE DOUGH #inspired by the coworker who bragged her recipes dont need salt and brought the blandest cheesecake bars to the potluck #you need some salt i promise #just a little #just skooch #'the recipe doesnt call for salt' THEN ITS PROBABLY WRONG

[jackinthebox80085]

“I’ll save you the pain of watching your demon b die”

Lute thinks it is a mercy to die rather than see the one you care for most die.

Vaggie let Lute live.

Lute saw Adam die.

#fuckkkk #I’ll let you draw your own conclusions for their relationship but you can’t tell me it didn’t hit lute HARD when he died #and her dialogue? #sir sir ADAM #his name? #pour some salt in the wound why don’t you? #Vaggie is going to regret letting her live #and Charlie needs to watch her back #hazbin hotel #hazbin lute #hazbin adam #hazbin vaggie #vivziepop #hazbin spoilers #guitarspear

[saprozoicworm]

keep her down, boiling water

#song is seether by veruca salt #i just needed to finish something bc im currently in a huge rut #anyway wendy is so cool shes such an interesting character #and one of my favorites but i don't draw her enough #cw bright colors #bright colors #south park #wendy testaburger #possible eyestrain #eyestrain

[c-rowlesdraws]

If what you feel is new, That's just first bloom (Who are you? Where are you growing to?) As you inch towards the clues Bless whatever brings you here and to...

this started off as a quick companion sketch for my Nona (& Friends) playlist, but of course became something much more involved. If she'd had a portable tape player, I feel like Nona might have taken some moments to relax like this.

(fanart for the book Nona the Ninth, from Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb series)

#nona the ninth #nona the 9th #the locked tomb #the locked tomb fanart #nona tlt #my art #she's wearing her salt chip fish shop shirt! #her t-shirt collection is important to me

[wasyago]

its much easier to do makeup when you only have one eye

#if one more person in this goddamn campaign gets wave tattoos im killing them. #PLEASE there are more things in the world you don't have to all get fucking wave tattoos im begging you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #anyway yes. not the final tattoo design. couldn't chose between these and the bright pink ones #jrwi riptide #lizzie lafayette #my art #sketch #its very funny to me that lizzie wears makeup while also being on a ship in the middle of the ocean constantly #her eyeliner smudges and drips because of the salt and water but she keeps reapplying it

[catmewniverse]

I believe fully in girl dad Isa

#kh #kingdom hearts #sea salt trio #sea salt fam #the idea of isa bonding with xion specifically warms my heart so much considering how poorly saix treated her #my art

[pencil-amateur]

I think the part where lisa is like "you probably didn't even drive back when you were alive. you probably rode on one of those bicycles with the big stupid wheel in the front" and the creature looks at her and she's like "you did" is really funny

#she's so rude. I love her #personally I think he died around 1889 at around 19 because I like the idea that he came back a century after death #so if that's about when he died he would've been around to see both penny farthings and the beginning of commercial cars #take my headcanon with a grain of salt though because there's probably a more accurate way to figure out when exactly he lived and died #I've just only seen the movie once lol #lisa frankenstein #lisa swallows #the creature #creature swallows #EDIT apparently he died 1837 so he would not have ever seen one of those #look at this guy. he doesn't even know what a bicycle is

[asolitaryrose3]

Been thinking abt this way too much

#emily prentiss #paget brewster #criminal minds #wlw post #the salt and pepper hair is sending me insane #god the feelings this brings out in me should be illegal #I would let her do unspeakable thing to me if she wanted

[uncanny-tranny]

The weirdest dichotomy I've felt as a trans man is that, when I was a kid, I knew I was never allowed into a "sisterhood." I always felt like an interloper around girls, and, because girls can be observant and intelligent (despite popular belief), I was treated as an interloper.

Now, as an adult, I'm treated like I was always part of "A Sisterhood" that I shunned, that I refused to join, so I ought to be punished for that horrific transgression.

I absolutely know other trans men* who did feel part of girlhood/womanhood, and there is literally nothing wrong with that. However, I just find it frustrating to be... denied my own experiences, my own story by (mostly cis) people who are uncomfortable with the idea that some people never felt part of "their circle." It's a weird arm of transphobia that simultaneously expells you from conformity but also blames you for not conforming (because you were never even given the opportunity to conform because, again, you were forced out of any space to conform to). Do you see what I mean?

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #i don't blame the people who didn't ~allow me in their spaces~ because it's a *symptom* of the world which i grew up in. it's not the cause #the only reason i ever liked being with girls when i was younger was because my bestie was in those spaces and i loved being around her #i think many girls knew i didn't really feel/act comfortable nor did i act like i belonged and they reacted to that #feel like maybe i ought to salt circle this post

[spooksier]

if i was president of fanfiction it would be required that before anybody writes fanfiction set in s4 of tma they must answer my comprehension test which is comprised of only one question “how do you feel about basira hussain” and if they answer wrong theyre immediately sentenced to 50 years of hard labor in the salt mines

#ask! #tma #ive read a lot of s4 tma fanfiction that pissed me off can you tell #MELANIE BASIRA DAISY GEORGIE. GET BEHIND ME #MY BEAUTIFUL WOMEN #the wrong answer is anything that positions her as unreasonably cruel or mean. to the salt mines with you

[bugoutreviewgirlie]

One thing that gets me is that people will say they want flawed characters, but when said character exhibits said flaws, suddenly Ladybug is a bad person for undervaluing Chat and Marinette is a bad main character because she--

*checks notes*

--shows symptoms of ADHD, and had symptoms of PTSD from years of constant bullying.

#ml fandom salt #sorry guys not to overgeneralize but I just find these arguments against her really inane #miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #maribug

[majosullivan]

HOW ARE WE FEELING RIGHT NOW NEVERMORE FANDOM? ARE WE ABOUT TO LOSE IT? ARE WE HANGING ON BY THE THINNEST OF THREADS?

#OH THE BLOOD FROM ANNABEL’S CHEST SHAPING INTO THE HEART SHAPED HOLE IN HER SPECTRE FORM #SICK AND FUCKING TWISTED #so it’s confirmed that the deans actively fucked with Annabel’s memories to spilt up her and Lenore #so until we get Lenore’s memories of the event #I’m taking Lenore being the one that killed Annabel with at most a grain of salt #nevermore #webtoon nevermore #nevermore webtoon #lenore nevermore #lenore vandernacht #annabel lee whitlock #annabel lee nevermore #white raven #lennabel #lenore x annabel lee #annabel lee x lenore

[nixthelapin]

I think the writers totally missed out on using Alya and Lila as foils for both being foxes, but using the power of illusion and misdirection in very different ways.

Lila: using emotions and threats to set a trap for LB (and CN, but she’s got that personal grudge)

Vs. Alya: using her intelligence/cunning to get out of a trap (and get LB out too)

And just in general being very different people:

Lila’s entire character is that she’s a liar who will do anything to avoid the truth, while Alya is the investigative reporter who uncovers truth.

Lila as someone who hates and is out to get both Marinette and LB vs. Alya who loves and supports both

I just think they could’ve done a lot more with this, especially since they made both girls a fox character, specifically surrounding the Fox Miraculous (I know Lila never had the real one, but she did pretend to for her akumatization)- that’s not nothing!

But nah, instead Alya just becomes brain dead around Lila, believes all her lies without question (no matter how stupid or nonsensical), and doubts everything her best friend tells her when it comes to said lies. Wasted potential.

#Alya is way to smart to fall for Lila’s nonsense #heck even if I buy that she believes the stories she should’ve dropped her the second she learned LB’s identity #one of the first things Lila told Alya was that she’s bffs with LB #ml salt #miraculous #mlb #ml critical #alya #alya cesaire #rena rouge #rena furtive #Lila #lila rossi #volpina #hoaxer #fox #fox miraculous #ladybug #Marinette #marinette dupain cheng #ml writing salt #ml writing criticism

[ladyofthenoodle]

i realized the other day that i haven’t really talked all that much about the last handful of episodes of season 5 and haven’t really touched on the ending of chloe’s story at all. and i really only see people who are upset about it talk about her last few scenes so i do want to offer an alternative take on it, which is basically: to me, chloe’s story ended in tragedy. i don’t really care what astruc has said on twitter or what was leaked in bibles or scripts. i’m looking at the story we actually got, the one that ended with this moment.

does marinette tell her off right before this? yes. and this should be a moment of victory for marinette, right? she’s finally free from chloe, in every way.

but we don’t see marinette after this. this is the last shot of marinette in the episode before it cuts to chloe’s reaction. marinette’s face is still there, but only as the contact image on chloe’s phone. marinette herself is gone. the rest of the episode only shows us chloe and lila. from here on out, we are not in marinette’s story. we’re in theirs.

and it’s here, when we move out of marinette’s story, that we see chloe’s is tragedy. chloe is the villain in marinette’s story and the victim in her own. this is not just about protagonist centered morality, though that plays a role. it’s about not just whose side the story takes but also what marinette is allowed to know and see. marinette only ever gets the smallest glimpse of chloe’s home life and family, but as the viewers we get to see more. and it is after marinette dismisses her and hangs up in revolution that chloe stops being a part of marinette’s story, and, in that moment, loses the role of the villain. freed from marinette’s story, we see her alone, sobbing, because she’s left with only her own story, where she is the victim.

and it’s notable that chloe tried to reject that story. she chooses marinette’s story, again and again. that’s why she called marinette in the end. chloe would rather play the villain. calling sabrina, asking for comfort, would be accepting that she’s a victim, which chloe isn’t ready for. unfortunately, marinette doesn’t give her a choice: marinette’s story doesn’t have room for chloe anymore. she’s fought her demons and has new ones to face. the only role left for chloe to play in marinette’s story is the girl ladybug couldn’t save.

so yeah, this ending is tragic. and i genuinely hurt for chloe in that moment. but i never once thought we were supposed to see her as unredeemable or celebrate her being sent off to her mother. i don’t know what the story plans to do with chloe next - whether she’s gone for good or she’ll come back worse or come back better. but i know this moment, by taking us out of marinette’s perspective, asked us to sympathize with a girl suffering at the end of her downward spiral.

#miraculous ladybug #chloe bourgeois #im always nervous to post anything about her because some chloe stans are so aggressive on my posts #which maybe is why i haven’t seen anyone else posting much about this either? #anyways if you with me that’s fine just don’t be a dick about it or pour salt in the replies #thanks ✌️ #using my noodle

[nocturnasnadderaneas]

ultimately this is gonna be the reason why i will never understand people who insist that the light fury as character is perfectly fine. because she’s not fine, she’s not even an actual character.

she’s a plot device. dean deblois said this himself. she is the generic wife mate to toothless and mother of his offspring. these are objective facts. i actually think that it’s almost gross that dart, ruffrunner, and pouncer have more actual personality and character than she does. this isn’t even mentioning thunder, the “descendant of the great alpha toothless,” as they say with a much quieter, less grandiose mention of light fury. because oh right, she’s here too, we guess. and not at all a narrative object we threw in here just so toothless could reproduce.

and that’s thing: most, if not the entirety of the light fury’s popularity comes from what she could have been. headcanons, redesigns, fix-its and alternate endings and alternate universes. fanon. made up. nothing but hopes and dreams.

“queen of the hidden world,” but is and or was she really? i feel like being the queen of all dragons would at least get you mentioned as such instead of just as the ‘king’s wife’, essentially.

#i'm not saying you can't like or love the light fury! #i’m saying that you should want more for instead of saying all the hate she gets is baseless and stupid! #do you know that most of the hints and snippets when get about her personality and character come from the mobile games? #it’s genuinely sad. #nadder squawks #httyd #httyd: thw #thw salt

[iwasbored777]

Marinette: *wants to date Adrien*

Adrien: *doesn't want to date Marinette*

Marinette: *still wants to date Adrien*

Adrien: *dates Kagami*

Marinette: *dates Luka*

Adrien: *breaks up with Kagami*

Marinette: *breaks up with Luka*

Marinette: *wants to date Adrien again*

Adrien: *doesn't want to date Marinette*

Marinette: *doesn't want to date Adrien anymore*

Adrien: *wants to date Marinette now*

Marinette:

#LIKE BOI I'M GLAD YOU WANT TO BUT #YOU GAVE HER A LOT HEADACHE #Miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #Adrienette #ml multiplication #ml spoilers #Ml meme #AND THIS ISN'T SALT #STOP SALTING ON THIS POST