#thirst for salt

[rubypomegranates]

"All his rules for butterflies and birds. He treated me like a light thing. Loving things loosely and then letting them go."

Madelaine Lucas "Thirst for Salt"

[everythingiread]

Always the beggar for his love. I was like the desperate ocean, wearing away at him. The ceaseless questioning of the tide to the shore that I heard from our bedroom window all winter long. Asking, Do you love me? Do you love me?

Thirst for Salt, Madelaine Lucas

[novelsforhungrypeople]

A single glass of white could recall oysters and brine and lovers' spit and citrus fruits and sunburn, a glass of red grass and dirt and blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. Like the line from the poem Jude read aloud to me that afternoon in my concrete backyard, the pavement cracked with weeds, while we sat on the chipped garden furniture eating prosciutto with pearls of melon, smoked salmon with crème fraiche, cheese layered on thick crusts of bread, truffle honey, strong black coffee.

Thirst for Salt, Madelaine Lucas

[pennyserenade]

Jude thought we should be like a gift to each other, but I longed to be essential. That was love, I decided, as our intimacy changed and deepened over the course of the year. Not being able to do without. Wanting--that was just desire, fluid and changeable as the tide. Need was real love, the truest kind I'd known, born as it is out of what we lack, and that was how I felt about Jude back then--that he completed me, we completed each other, as in the old myth about the origin of love. And if I was essential, the other half of whatever he was, then he could never abandon me.

Madelaine Lucas, Thirst For Salt 

[dreamy-loser]

𝐵𝑜𝑜𝓀𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹 🐇🤍౨ৎ⋆˚.⋆

• starling house

• house of hollow

• the tainted cup

• women without men

• thirst for salt

• immortality

• wuthuring heights

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

so. eel banner

GUESS WHO ROLLED 💀 C’MON, C’moNNN, I CouLDN’t NOT rOLL FOR tHEM (and they were very yasashii, only 30 rolls each)!

AHHHHHHHHHH, THEy’RE pERFECG t

It was bothering me all these years that Jade and Floyd’s Dorm Uniform artworks don’t perfectly align to form a single cohesive image, so I’m so glad that the Mermaid Fin SSRs fix that!! Side by side like this, they look so devious and beautiful 😭

AND THE GROOVIES?????? HE LL o??????

bgjsvsjzvskwn!fahacwhwn ?-,-(~}#(FGrwnwjahGhhfqjjq I was right to anticipate that we wouldn’t get the twins crying (similar to Ortho and Sebek)… The Leeches are not super sentimental types unlike Kalim and Rook. That doesn’t make their Groovies or the context for it any less cool though!!

The color contrast is so interesting??? It makes the twins look way more blue than they usually are, and their bioluminescence (which can be turned on/off for their live 2D models) lends a new dimension to the art. The dynamic movement, the water droplets flying everywhere, the fins, THEIR fERAL EXprESSIONS???????? Jade’s being more cold and Floyd just totally unhinged, both so merciless as they beat the crap out of their opponent 😭

For anyone wondering, Jade and Floyd appear in their terrestrial forms by default when sent to Lessons. You can set them to eel forms though, which yields… hilarious results 🤡 Witness their l e n g t h

[theweeklydiscourse]

I’m sick of people passing off patronizing and condescending commentary about how naive and impressionable women are as useful and educational. These people will base their analysis of fiction on sexist notions about how easily women are “tempted “ by malevolent villains and then act as if that’s some revolutionary take. They’ll unironically construe the narrative in a way that takes away all agency from the female heroine and frame her decisions as entirely the result of the villain’s manipulation.

They wring their hands about how dangerous it is for women to be exposed to these stories and moan about how terrible it is that hot villains appeal to the “baser instincts” and tempt female viewers further (Yes, I actually saw someone make this argument) It’s truly bizarre to see people agreeing with such patronizingly sexist rhetoric and saying things like “I miss the days when villain romances were cautionary tales and not encouraged.” As if women thirsting after attractive fictional villains is some epidemic that threatens society.

It’s especially irritating when women are the ones saying these things. They want to believe that they are a rare exception that, unlike those other brainless girls, can understand that liking hot villains will threaten their morals and lead them astray…OH THE HORROR!! Please save your dramatic preaching for the next purity conference and stop pretending that your sanctimonious commentary has any substance whatsoever.

[moondirti]

wip wednesday except i haven’t written for this yet it’s just been plaguing me for a week now

spending your summers in a quaint coastal town, probably somewhere in the west. morning swims in a cool inlet beach, the sand sizzling underfoot. biking home in just your cover-up to wash up, before passing by a friends’ for lunch and white wine.

they’re summers of youth, of compromising luxury for memories you’ll be telling your kids. the sun-kissed days are all what get you through the college academic year sometimes, and you wouldn’t give them up for anything. or so you think–

because your bike breaks down near a lighthouse, and a man comes out to help. you know of him, briefly, the knowledge limited to the rumours that drift about town. just showed up one day. probably running away from something, taking up a job so archaic. doesn’t want to talk to anyone. reclusive. paranoid.

but he’s nice, actually. offers to fix up your chain while you busy yourself with a bowl of cherries on ice. handsome too, if you can get past the carpet of hair laid over every inch of exposed skin. none of the fumbling boys your age match it, and it’s an acquired taste you manage after an hour in his company, answering his intrusive questions with burning cheeks

in reality, john price was put there after a mission gone horribly wrong. the higher-ups said ocean exposure and routine would be good for him after what he’s been put through, like he’s a victorian woman in hysterics and not a military captain capable of dealing with his own shit.

but as you – young, salt-crusted sharkbait – are served to his front door on a silver platter, dressed in nothing but a skimpy bikini and denim shorts – he figures what he really needs is to keep you all to himself, curbing your last summer before graduation to one of carnality and, eventual, heartbreak

[dk-thrive]

It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn’t that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.

— Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt (Penguin Random House, 2023) (via Wait - What?)

[3liza]

ok today I actually used my gram scale to measure out 10 grams of salt when I got up in an attempt to eat that much during the day (recommended dose for POTS patients [not medical advice, different for each patient]) and they were not wrong that salt is in fact hitting

[lilacthebooklover]

here's hoping canon doesn't end up shipping any of the fallen heroes with each other because i've already built up an entire found family sibling dynamic for their past selves inside of my head. eternal sugar's the youngest, mystic flour the oldest (shadow milk may seem like the leader atm but his middle child energy is THERE). silent salt takes on the responsibility of keeping the group out of trouble (it's tricky, but they've grown accustomed to their friends' antics). burning spice declares themselves the others' biggest protector (they will throw hands with anyone who so much as glances at their siblings friends the wrong way). eternal sugar & shadow milk are so good at making everyone smile and laugh but also they're absolute gremlins who can and will start a ridiculously extreme prank war on a whim (shadow is not subtle in the slightest and cackles at the top of his lungs, sugar plays innocent while sporting the most devious smirks known to cookiekind). mystic flour is like a mentor to the younger four, the glue that holds them together and the light that guides them towards staying on the right track. spice & shadow regularly fight each other on and off their training grounds as a weird way to show affection, flour & salt pretend to be exasperated but find it endearing, they all value each other so much and share a house together while still protecting earthbread. they're entirely platonic and entirely family and until their soul jam corrupts, they care about each other more than anything <33

[i-am-trans-gwender]

I'm an atheist but saltwater makes me think there might be a God. You can die of thirst while surrounded by saltwater. There's no way nature just did that. It could only happen if God and the Devil are real as well as being one and the same.

[skyler-pog69]

2 sleeves of saltine crackers, no drink. 

[iliketrainmen]

Volkner bet Roark 20 bucks he wouldn't accept the deal to appear in Trainers magazine. Little did he know, there are very few things in this world that Roark wouldn't do in the name of a crisp 20 dollar bill.

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Alt version that looks a little more like a physical magazine

[wurm-food]

physically, I'm here. mentally, I'm doing tequila shots from himeno's tits.

[xhanisai]

Ay

Just because someone is upset with the route that season five has taken in the show and don't prefer a certain a ship dynamic or dislike how it's being portrayed doesn't mean they hate said ship dynamic.

All sides of the lovesquare is valid and you can have your favourites and least favourites without being an ass to each other about it.

Ladynoir stans can be upset about the show making our favourite dynamic platonic and adrinette stans can be happy about the romantic development of their ship. Just don't be so rude to each other about it sheesh.