#this is just for fun (and salt)

[buggachat]

i do just have to say though.................... i feel like people who really really loved the movie's portrayals of the characters are adding aspects of the show characters onto them? you know what i mean? like i see people say that adrien and marinette were more likeable in the movie than the show, when movie adrien didn't perform a single act of kindness in the entire 2 hours despite kindness being a core trait of adrien in the show? marinette was normal and not particularly weird at all and just kind of a generic protagonist? were adrien and marinette actually more interesting in the movie than the show, or are you just cherrypicking the aspects of them you like the from the show and putting them on the movie characters to make your favorite amalgamation?

marinette fell for adrien not because he showed vulnerability and forgiveness and kindness and opened his heart up to her.... but because he awkwardly tried to help her up after being kind of weirded out by her? so like i guess she thought he was hot and that was basically it? chat noir fell for ladybug not because she was strong and confident and showed determination in the face of fear... but because she begrudgingly helped him up in the middle of a battle? so like i guess he thought she was hot and that was basically it? they fell for each other over just the bare minimum interactions? most of their relationship was a montage? like, did the movie do the work to convince you of lovesquare's romantic potential, or did you go into the movie already shipping them because the show had already convinced you?

thats totally a valid way to enjoy the movie ftr! i'm just saying.... idk it's weird to see people praising the movie for being "better" when i feel like a lot of the enjoyment of the movie actually hinges on watching the show as context for their characters. and i guess im just a cringe slow-burn enjoyer but i find it weird that people are using "faster" as a synonym for "better"

#ml movie spoilers #ml movie #to be clear i dont hate the movie it's fine #it was fun enough to watch #we dont talk about plagg #i guess im mostly just '?' about people dismissing all the work the show put in #i just know people are gonna use this post as an excuse to hate on the show but auauaggghhh i really dont care if you hate the show lol #in fact thats kind of the point. i find it weird people are using the movie as an excuse to dunk on the show when the movie didnt #actually do anything particularly substantial #ml fandom salt #<- i guess? i'll tag it to be safe

[lazylittledragon]

i've spent the past few weeks learning to make pasta from scratch and i think everybody should do it actually!!

#ramble #food #it's v fun #and So rewarding #also it's nowhere NEAR as hard as you think it is i promise #i cook for the fam once a week and i always just make the same sort of thing #so this year i'm only using recipes from cookbooks i own #all of these are from the classic italian cookbook by marcella hazan and they're AMAZING bc it's all things you already have in your kitche #the sauce for the meatballs is just tomatoes and salt and it's incredible

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #𓄿 #hi i'm READY to write a thesis about murderbot i am having way too much fun with this #i created a pretty excel spreadsheet and everything #i don't know why i did this but now i can look at them while i think about this more! so i figured i'd share them haha #i didn't count uses of 'friendly' but special shoutout to when MB is all alone in its cold cubicle missing 20% of its body mass #and starts putting on a show because 'the friendly noise would keep it company' 😭😭 #i feel sick thinking about murderbot all alone on its own not knowing what its like to have friends watching media for 'the friendly noise' #also YES okay i wanted to make a point about miki there but i just #couldn't bring myself to talk about that more so... yeah #also uhhh this data is very subjective #i didn't count particularly ironic uses of 'friend' and generally did not count every instance of friend and sometimes it was a hard call #also i probably shouldn't have counted the times murderbot refered to drones or secsystems as its friends (often after hacking them) #but murderbot does seem to care about them and shows kindness and respect and sometimes points out that a system is friendly #so while i don't think MB means “friend” in the same way referring to them as when it refers to ART for instance #i still think its CUTE and also kinda funny how many times that happened so i decided to keep those!!! #but yeah take my data with a grain of salt lol

[noxious-fennec]

A redraw of an old thing because exam season is the only time i get creative energy ig

#but no fr i just came home from 2 consecutive exams. like consecutive as in one after the other in 2 hours #next week is all finals and theyre all like 2 hours 1 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon like bro #whatevs tho medical update THE MEDS ARE WORKING alhamdulilallah i feel im getting way more energy :) #2 years on immunosuppressants and at least 3 months of corticosteroids which means no salt :( BUT we are getting thru it #im cooking again :') #ok enough my life is not what you're here for. idk if cbeeduo at the end of 2023 *is* but idc #i just rly missed them yk and the vibes and the place i was in plus i have fun drawing them so suck it #i hope my good cbee mutuals enjoy this love yall #my art #dsmp fanart #cranboo #ctubbo #cbeeduo #fashion notes for the cool peeps still reading is i am dying on the hill that cranboo was decked in a 70s aunt wardrobe argue with the wall #also tubbo cowboy cus. like. look at him. #will probably draw tommy next i rly miss him. nothing big as always im a doodle kinda guy at heart #anyway xoxo love yall still here <33 #fennec.art

[xhanisai]

Anyways, I do hope that the Awakening film has encouraged more people to watch the show and fully see what the main characters are actually like and how fleshed out they are and how unique they are. Like a "oooh I really enjoyed this fanfic let me check out the source material" sort of thing.

I need more people to see how much Adrien adores Marinette's weird and silly goofy self whilst Ladybug adores Chat Noir's silly jokes and how she can always count on him. I need more people to see why Marinette fell for Adrien and why Chat Noir fell for Ladybug and why those feelings began to muddy themselves up because they were also simultaneously falling for each other's alter egos at the same time.

I need more people to see how amazing and wonderful Plagg is and I need them to see what happens when Chat Blanc pisses on the moon.

The film is enjoyable on its own if you treat it as its own thing but the show has EVERYTHING.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug and chat noir #this is NOT salt by the way #you can enjoy two things and find flaws and pros in both #the show will always be my top favourite and superior adaptation with the manga following a close second #but the film really is fun especially when you just wanna switch off your brain and vibe with the gorgeous visuals and songs

[gayangelcrimes]

Why was there never a Hotel California episode why was there not an episode about a hotel in the middle of nowhere that looks pretty normal at first glance but the food is strangely bland because they don't use salt, and some of the other guests have no idea what year it is, and the staff are strangely insistent that they can't leave right now, and when they look closer all the people there are ghosts that aren't aware they're dead, and the hotel is cursed, and they're trapped in there

#hm i should make an original post tag #spn #yes it's obvious but it would be so fun #idk what the resolution would be. burn the place to the ground? hex bag or cursed object they have to destroy? just fucking run? who knows #all i know is the bland food is dean's first red flag #sam keeps going on about how the place has bad vibes or whatever and dean goes yeah they don't use salt and sam's like how is that relevant #but it IS relevant. take that sammy

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

not spop-related but i can't post this on my main blog so.

i do find it funny how most of the fan depictions of belos were far more interesting and detailed than s3 belos. i've seen fanart and fanfics of him where he's a complex villain struggling with religious guilt and then the canon is just like.. lmao yeah he's pure evil. kill him.

#i feel like belos is the opposite of catra #a potentially sympathetic villain who is reduced to Evil Man Who Deserves Death™ #don't get me wrong i'm not saying he should have been forgiven or anything #he didn't deserve forgiveness #and he didnt really need a redemption arc #but did they have to throw away all of his complexity just to appease the anti steven universe community? #that's what it felt like #fun fact: you can write a sympathetic/complex villain and not redeem them #it's perfectly doable #but oh well #toh critical #toh salt #toh criticism #anti toh #toh discourse #belos #emperor belos #philip wittebane #bad writing #i was so excited for his character at first #especially around hollow mind era because the layers were peeling back #and we were seeing a really interesting and intimidating villain in the making #sigh #my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

[arctic-hands]

For real tho health freaks who scream about how sugar and salt will kill us all and try to push for restrictions on things like candy and chips for SNAP recipients or politicians who try from time to time to replace food stamps all together and give out Government Approved Staples like bread and peanut butter and Government Cheese are gonna kill a whole lotta sick and disabled people like

Diabetics

POTS sufferers

Hypotensives

People with peanut allergies

People with celiac disease or wheat allergies

The lactose intolerant

People who can't eat solid food

People who are undernourished for any reason and need all the calories they can pack on

So-called "picky eaters" who can't tolerate certain tastes and textures without getting violently ill

A myriad of other human conditions that cannot be neatly tallied into categories because the human body and human experience is vast and infinitely variable

But I don't think ableds really care about us and our health like they like to claim so they can harass us about it, do you?

#tag yourself I'm five out of ten #health food is gonna kill me one day i swear to God #vasovagal syncope/POTS was actually a fun disease to have since the treatment is honestly junk food #to get my sugar and sodium levels up quickly so i don't pass out #but then the United States government in their infinite compassion slashed my food stamps in half #and now i can't afford 'luxeries' like enough chips and candy i need to not faint and concuss myself. again #add the celiac and to a lesser extent the lactose intolerancy and now two fruit allergies... #and I'm paying three times the amount for like fifteen food items and that is accounting for the food inflation even ableds are facing #whatever food shortages ableds are going thru right now i swear to you it's much much worse if you're sick/disabled #stop policing what food people buy with the money their given i don't care if it's a paycheck or welfare #SOMETIMES I'll get a pitiful and defensive 'well how was i supposed to know?!' when i confront people bugging me about this #you don't know so shut your trap about it in the first place #most people just ignore the reason and accuse me of making up excuses to eat 'unhealthy' foods tho #health nut #ableism #systemic ableism #food #Salt blessed Salt

[kondietorei]

alas the classic outfit swap

bonus doodle underneath ^^

drew this after realizing i only drew one sea salt ice cream orz

#my art #strifehart #cloud strife #squall leonhart #kingdom hearts #once again idk if i should tag their ff games... weird gray area #i love putting these two in the most ooc situations #a treat! for me #yes. naturally they would switch clothes. and hang out. and have fun. and share sea salt ice cream 2gether #right uh huh just as nomura intended #i had to do a lot to salvage this one #feeling ambivalent on how it turned out #i learned a lot but i wish i went with a more interesting pose #its okay guys next year. next year every1. #anyway i forget that valentines day is supposed to be about romantic love #2 me it has a broader meaning..!

[lilacthebooklover]

fallen hero headcanons & theorising my beloved

#1800 words in #and there's not even any dialogue yet #eternal sugar's just too fun too write #eternal sugar cookie #eternal sugar crk #idk about you guys #but i'm an “internal monologue until the character decides to speak” sort of writer #shadow milk crk #shadow milk cookie #fallen heroes #crk fallen heroes #crk fanfic #burning spice cookie #burning spice crk #silent salt cookie #silent salt crk #mystic flour cookie #mystic flour crk #beast yeast #cr kingdom #pure vanilla crk #pure vanilla cookie #crk theory #crk headcanons #i love giving the beasts personalities & backstories #even if this all turns out to be wildly wrong #i am having a blast #they should've hired me for the writing team smh

[juniemunie]

"Why did you send the dragons away?"

The young man lowered the sword.

“Bring the dragons back” he ordered. “Sail to the Hidden World, find Toothless, and bring everyone’s dragons home. Stop this pathetic moping and start fighting again, Hiccup.”

“I could spend the rest of the night correcting that nonsense” he declared, “but that would ruin the arrangements. So here’s what will happen."

He throws him a small beautifully made object, the front was transparent and hard, like ice, and behind it were all these rune numbers set in different circles, and at least seven arrows, all moving at their own pace.

"You’re going to meet three people. One will show you the past, one will show you the present, and one will show you the future. The Ticking Thing will help you track the time...among other things. After that, then you can make your decision. I hope for the dragons sake you make the right one.”

-...-...-...-

A Snoggletog Carol parody where book!Hiccup crashes into httyd 3 after its ending is such a fun idea

Yes Christmas was a month ago but idc

This is all based from @10blue10's fanfic, Coming Home, which is such a creative fanfic fix-it! Go read it if you are just as frustrated with the third movie like I was!

They allowed me to make art based off this, so I want to add more of the book characters and I've got a couple ideas of who I want the Snoggletog's Ghosts of Past, Present, and Future to be :^) (hint: its very obvious)

I might also make another version where Toothless is getting the same treatment....

#httyd movies #httyd #httyd books #junie art post #hiccup horrendous haddock lll #book hiccup #movie hiccup #this is all very crack pls i dont want a fight #this is more or less just for fun #while also a good vent #thw salt #thw criticism #the hidden world criticism #book hiccup comin in clutch basically to say 'THAT IS NOT WHAT OUR ENDING WAS ABOUT' #just replace httyd:homecoming with this

[gillyburnsthings]

"... as long as I draw breath."

- A Court of Fey and Flowers, Dimension 20

#pyrography #woodburning #dimension 20 #a court of fey and flowers #kp hob #delloso de la rue #it was originally just going to be birds and flowers and then i just kept adding stuff in #so now there's a salt goblin #and the green hunter #and a moth for binx #and the letter is supposed to be in that regency style where you write in multiple directions to save on paper #adding stupid little details is the most fun thing in the world #calligraphy is my mortal enemy #artists on tumblr

[fuedalreesespieces]

one thing that always gets me whenever i read inuyasha modern au fics is that inuyasha is supposedly "the slacker" or the guy who doesn't try hard on anything academia related, and that always struck me as odd bc you're telling me inuyasha wouldn't be competing with, say, koga for rank 1? that he wouldn't study his ass off in the subjects he's actually interested in? that he wouldn't pour his everything into extracurriculars he cares about? he has his aloof moments in canon but ultimately he's a hard worker and i think that trait should be reflected in aus!

plus if we're thinking about the setting here, inuyasha's canon behavior is greatly influenced by his upbringing (and later lack thereof). putting him in an environment (modern au, lack of youkai discrimination) where his talents are cultivated instead of looked down upon would give us a very different character. it's always interesting to me whenever i see canon-typical inuyasha behavior in an au where his mom is alive because it suggests that his mistrust and gruff behavior are just part of his personality and not largely a result of childhood events. i feel like modern aus are an opportunity to see how he might have grown if not for the death of his mother + father & the consistent threat looming over him as a child. what would his personality be like then? how would his first meeting with kagome go considering that? his dynamics with his older brother? his goals? it's something that could be explored in a fic taking place in the feudal realm but it's kind of difficult to just subtract the discrimination aspect that comes with that setting...just things to think abt ig!

#also saw a reblog so IM CLEARING MY NAME LMAO #koga would not even be in the top five #he was just the first person who came up when i thought of inuyasha competing w someone lol #also needs to be said that i haven't read that many modern au fics #probably because i'm not the biggest fan of em #but this is just smth i noticed from the ones i read #i also see a lot of miroku and inuyasha being besties in these fics #which isn't bad or anything but i feel like he'd be friends with sango before miroku since they seem to mesh better #also to clarify i am NOT hating on fics that do any of the things i mentioned #headcanons are headcanons and ppl should have fun! #this is just my opinion lol take it with a grain of salt #i've only ever written like three inuyasha fics and haven't even finished the manga so i'm no expert on his character #anyway enough of my rambling #inuyasha #inuyasha a feudal fairy tale #inuyasha meta #inumeta #sango inuyasha #koga inuyasha #kagome higurashi #miroku inuyasha

[xhanisai]

I can’t believe I have to say this again.

But like.

Do not leave comments that bash on the actual show whilst ‘complimenting’ my fanworks. It does not make me happy at all IN FACT I really HATE it when people do that. 

I create stuff for this fandom because I adore the show with all its flaws and everything. I grew up with the show and I adore the characters so much. So when I receive comments or tags saying stuff like “Ugh if only the writers knew how to write like that” or “You should be in charge of canon cos canon is shit lol”, it just fucks up my mood and it makes me feel grossed out. 

There are millions of things out there to write or say to other people about their work without having to bring down canon and what the actual professionals have worked on.

Keep your gripes about the show off my work.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug and chat noir #ml fandom salt #i've been getting too many of this crap for years and some of them just get too personal #like for example in one of my AUs for fun i had marinette be able to speak chinese in a different dialect #and i had someone who praised me for it BUT bashed on the show for making marinette clueless about mandarin #which kinda pissed me off cos like #i have chinese in me but don't speak any of the languages there so does that mean i'm invalid too? lol #and in one of my recent writing i had someone lament that they wished i was writing for the show #like okay i know you mean it in a good way and you're not directly bashing the show #but the reason i can get away with creating and characterising the way i do is because i am working on them all ALONE #with no zag or money or producers getting in the way #and the stuff i create is always aimed to an audience that #is at least 15 years old #anyways if i keep going the tags will be longer than the river thames #my point is #keep your gripes private or off of other people's work #i wanna hear about what you LIKE about what i've created #not what the show has failed to do for you and whining about it

[salted15]

How about a scared Meta Knight freaking out after his face was revealed to Dedede for the first time during star allies, only for Dedede to comfort him and say he's still the strongest knight in the galaxy? (Bonus if Meta Knight falls for him then and there)

"Is somethin' wrong?"

#ANON #ANON I HAD A FUCKING FIELD DAY /POS #i really like dialogue i just dislike making comics jfdghlksdjfhglkjsdfghsdlkjgh #this was fun tho :] #meta knight #king dedede #metadede #lightly salted art #mdnl

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

I've found this on pinterest and...

Curls... CURLS?! Where does people see them? Since when sharp spikes represent curls? Just because author called her latina after show ended, her messy straight hair didn't become curly.

Even Glimmer's hair looks more "curly-coded".

It's so similar how fans see Adora being abusive and betrayed Catra because season five said so, forgetting everything that was shown before. Authors said that Adora was wrong so that's true. Authors said that Catra is latina so her fur is actually her skin color and her straight hair is actually curly.

@my-nitpicking-self posted about this earlier and yeah, it's so hilarious. did people think that thick hair automatically equals to curls? catra's hair was thick and likely a bit frizzy. that's it. it wasn't curly in any sense.

i've seen fanart of her with curly hair too. and while i don't want to dictate how people draw her, i do think it's absurd to act like she had curly hair in canon, when she didn't. her hair wasn't even wavy, it was just straight.

#the fun part is nate didnt even say that catra was meant to be latina #if i remember correctly he just hastily confirmed a fan theory and said that they meant to make catra a woc #and fans took that as a free invitation to declare catra as the face of all latina women #yikes #spop critical #spop salt #spop criticism #spop discourse #spop #she ra #anti spop