#salt is salt

[labyrynth]

the irony of “canon jiang cheng” losers insisting that jc is inherently a terrible/abusive/toxic/whatever nonsense person and then collapsing in a dead faint at the suggestion that sometimes wwx made bad choices or choices that hurt people

“writing jiang cheng as a better person always comes at the expense of making wwx a WORSE person!! they can never build up their own favorite character without acting as if MINE is HORRIBLE”

nah babe you’ve just been doing that to jiang cheng for so long that your perception of both of them has become so warped you can’t even recognize canonical actions of your own blorbo anymore. wwx DID pull some shitty and selfish shit, and he DID shut people out and break promises.

he’s not just your poor widdle sweet victim. he has agency, and he used that agency to make decisions that hurt people.

the insistence that wwx is perfect and can do no wrong does injustice to both of their characters.

[arctic-hands]

English Wikipedia only ever talks about the negative effects of salt/sodium. Which, yeah fine not everyone is disturbingly hypotensive, syncopeic, and constantly on the verge of dehydration no matter how much they drink because they're constantly losing it all in the bathroom and therefore don't need to go hog wild on the salt on damn near every meal to not pass out in three different ways, but I want to hear the good effects from salt too.

For instance, even discarding the anti-I-go-faint properties, I've noticed on days where I don't get enough salt my ability to digest and process food gets impaired, which often resolves when I eat/drink something salty. But I can't find anything about salt's role in digestion so I don't know how or why that works. Why does gargling salt water help a sore throat? And I feel like my brain gets a boost immediately after intaking salt. Also, let's talk about iodine! I've got ninety-nine health problems but goiters ain't one!

Anyway, let's give a sickly round of applause for sodium chloride!

[fireladybuckley]

Made this after a lengthy discussion with @firemedicdiaz about cleaning the wound on my leg. (Me = me, You = Jules).

I know I’m a scientist but sometimes I forget, okay?? 😂😭

[thunderstruck9]

John Salt (British, 1937-2021), Black Ford in Field, 1972. Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 in.

[crehador]

so when food is too salty we might say "打死卖盐的" basically meaning "did you beat the salt merchant to death" but one time in an attempt to be a little polite and a little funny to the chef (my mother) i said "……是不是又跟卖盐的有矛盾了" meaning "are you... having a dispute with the salt merchant again" and now it's a whole thing in my family

anyway point being there has been another altercation with the salt merchant

[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.

[hjartasalt]

One time I was working as a waiter at a burger joint where the fries were tossed in salt and coriander and as I was bringing food over to the table for these two huge beefy guys one of them asks what the green stuff is so I go "it's coriander" and his friend goes very seriously "he can't have coriander" and I'm thinking shit ok maybe he's allergic and guy 1 starts pulling up his sleeve to show me something and I'm thinking shit shit shit he's probably breaking out in hives rn and it's my fault but he just shows me his arm and he has this huge cursive font tattoo that just says "I fucking hate coriander"

[myclericalromance]

i went to a tiny counterserve diner once and accidentally poured sugar instead of salt all over my hashbrowns and was eating them sadly anyways. the waitress took them away and started making me another one and I tried to protest, but she just snorted and said "we're not catholic here". now every time i'm doing something painful out of obligation i think about how that is not repenting, this body is not a catholic establishment, there is no nobility in suffering.

[utilitycaster]

I should note, I hate the soulmates "we would fall in love in every universe" trope for the aforementioned "where's the tension and interest and really anything worthwhile" reasons. However, "we would find each other in every universe" fucking rips. We would interact meaningfully in every universe but sometimes we are lovers and sometimes we are friends and sometimes we are bitter enemies and sometimes we'd simply both be in the same HOA.

[metamorphesque]

i don't pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.

― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

[labyrynth]

mdzs fandom truly is remarkable. some of y’all’s opinions on consent are fucking deplorable tho and if this is how you think consent actually works i’m getting the authorities on speed dial.

[fleshmonger]

Rotating Sandwich Mood Board

Rotating Sandwich Mood Board

[salt-baby]

yes, doctors suck, but also "the medical ethics and patient interaction training doctors receive reinforces ableism" and "the hyper competitive medical school application process roots out the poor, the disabled, and those who would diversify the field" and "anti-establishment sentiment gets applications rejected and promotions requests denied, weeding out the doctors on our side" and "the gruesome nature of the job and the complete lack of mental health support for medical practitioners breeds apathy towards patients" and "insurance companies often define treatment solely on a cost-analysis basis" and "doctors take on such overwhelming student loan debt they have no choice but to pursue high paying jobs at the expense of their morals" are all also true

none of this absolves doctors of the truly horrendous things they say and do to patients, but it's important to acknowledge that rather than every doctor being coincidentally a bad person, there is something specific about this field and career path that gives rise to such high prevalence of ableist attitudes

and I WILL elaborate happily

[rhube]

I feel like we have a spiritual successor to None Pizza with Left Beef: NONE CHEESEBURGER.

[cinemaocd]

I read daily about robustness tumblr culture and how it's impossible to monetize etc. blah blah blah

but no one ever talks about the life's blood of tumblr: GIFSETS.

Tumblr has longevity because it is the gifset website. A movie trailer drops and within an hour there are already multiple gifsets. Just there reminding us this movie is coming out it looks pretty good. A tumblr user thinks: I wish I had memory box containing every facial expression and movement made by Colin Firth in that 5 hour mini series of Pride and prejudice and some other tumblr user devotes their life to making that happen. Some dead guy has a birthday and a tumblr user gifs every single one of his dozens of films and puts them in a single gifset just because it makes fans of the dead guy happy.

Gifsets are amazing because gifsets are silent and they ask nothing but that you look at their pretty dancing images and smile fondly and click the like and reblog. A gifset didn't elect trump. A gifset didn't gaslight your grandma into believing that covid is an alien plot. A gifset just went floating by with no other thought than to look pretty and be appreciated.

[salted15]

personally i think he should be given a really big hammer nothing wrong will happen i promise

(i very recently started commissions btw !! since this post has been so successful i thought i'd edit it and do a shameless plug dkjfghsdkfgh)