Theatre kid with a diploma in nothing

He/they • Tmnt geek • Academically smart but not socially smart • feel free to request any tmnt artwork (no NSFW)

[puppiiiowo]

Gave the whole gang some minor design tweaks

[kosmogrl]

[aces-and-anime]

[nodiploma-onlyturtles]

9 month difference 😦

[nodiploma-onlyturtles]

I haven't read much TMNT Comics and from what I heard this is a trend I've noticed:

TMNT TV shows: Yeah we're gonna keep it nice and light, for the kids. We'll breach the limits, sure. Go a little dark sometimes, but nothing that'll make a kid cry excessively and have nightmares

TMNT Comics (and the Rise movie): THEYRE ALL DEAD. (lightly exaggerated)

[deadlyflan]

It's target audience influence that dictates how the business(es) that run the money-making set their project ratings.

Kids watch TV and movies. They buy toys and parent-approved merch. There's lots of money here because there's tons of kids and parents approve of the brand. Casual sales through the welcoming all-ages branding are crucial.

Fanboys/Fangirls/Fans(non-defined) drive to comic shops and conventions. They buy the comics and the higher-end, more limited edition merch. There's money here because while there's fewer shoppers, the price points are higher. Also, these folks are nostalgia-addicted and/or utterly, hopelessly dedicated. This can get darker, be weirder, and the mainstream families will never know.

[nodiploma-onlyturtles]

[nodiploma-onlyturtles]

The ninja turtles have taken over my life again

[nodiploma-onlyturtles]

I haven't read much TMNT Comics and from what I heard this is a trend I've noticed:

TMNT TV shows: Yeah we're gonna keep it nice and light, for the kids. We'll breach the limits, sure. Go a little dark sometimes, but nothing that'll make a kid cry excessively and have nightmares

TMNT Comics (and the Rise movie): THEYRE ALL DEAD. (lightly exaggerated)

[nodiploma-onlyturtles]

I can't be the only one who loves this loading screen for the new update

LOOK AT ITTT AHHH ITS SO CUTEEEE 💕💕 I saw it, fell in love and tried to show my dad but then it disappeared 😞

They're so silly I need to squish them into a hug then set them on fire

[doubleloner]

tag your traumatized man comfort character

[encloying]

do not tell me he has not longed for elder faerie, longed to talk to him and have his support as he incessantly has all this time. he believed he was unworthy of being by his side and should have had his life ended by him, as every king should their knight when they betray their duty; elder faerie's love was viewed hard to reach because salt deemed himself unworthy of it. now more than ever is it impossible because of his death, lacking a proper goodbye, completely unknown by silent salt.

"it's purple in some shots" well this serves even more on my part because purple roses represent royalty, enchantment, and admiration. ss and ef both play royal traditional roles as a knight and a king, which typically do not hold each other in equal respect and thought, but that was challenged by them. they treated each other like equals even to their last moments together. and while silent salt was in the tree, likely believing he deserved to rot there out of penance and self-disgust for the lives he ruined? elder faerie still gravitated towards the tree out of longing and grief, no matter what salt had done. he still held him equal out of everything he'd done because he knew he deserved nothing that came to him. he didn't care who he was, whether it be the salt of solidarity or the devil of silence - he accepted him regardless. salt was likely enchanted by the genuine ethereal beauty that the faerie kingdom held, the same beauty elder faerie held, the magic that came with it all.

he absolutely obviously admired elder faerie and while i know i probably don't need to elaborate on this i will anyway. he considered him as a last resort quite literally because he held the ancient magic that was needed to achieve his goal. he respected him enough to flatter him with eloquent speech (hence the "silver tongue" dialogue) and keep working with him enough to grow something he had dreamed of. he wasn't a very talkative person, obviously. elder faerie was someone he could really open up to about all his worries - his knights, the other Divines, the Creators. he knew as a leader, that if he showed unease, his knights would likely follow - so he went to the only person he could that he grew unexpectedly close with.

the faerie kingdom was like a safe sanctuary to him, very different from the Barrens. he trusted him and admired him MORE than enough to end his life in dishonor and ask him to do something that would be exquisitely agonizing and exhausting all for the safety of their own kind. remember that roses symbolize many subtypes of romance in different cultures; he was absolutely bewitched by elder faerie.

[requyem]

As someone said in my comments: they're having a suicide off

[eternally-sleep-deprived]

If chapter 12 is actually like this I WILL cry, but it would lowkey be such a good ending

[nodiploma-onlyturtles]

That indescribable painful feeling I feel when a story is well written, but it's badly written

Like I'm talking beautiful plot and story telling, but then you have a paragraph that's one HUGE run on sentence with no commas and multiple people speaking in that paragraph.

[nodiploma-onlyturtles]

This is gonna be so epic trust

[beltsourcookie]

ougggghhhhhhh silent salt has to be one of the best beast cookies thats just written. actually good. like in a sense that there was a lot of care into crafting his story—that it literally makes you actually pay attention to the story instead of spacing out

everybody knows that the ingredient of salt itself has negative connotations, "being salty" is used as a negative emotion, not exactly bitter or sour, but to be annoyed usually; followed by that, one of the greatest mistakes a baker can make is confusing sugar for salt and making an entirely salted brick of a cookie

literal poetic cinema. one simple mistake leading to an ultimate consequence. and it translates over to his story.

not only that but while silent salt is meant to be a scary cookie due to his ingredient—there has always been flavorism(yes we are using that word) in the cookie run universe where non-sweet cookies are the equivalent of evil and undeserving of rights

and after reading what had happened to silent salt, it feels like, this beast cookie, too, has experienced the same harshness that modern salt cookies have to deal with

throughout history, sugars/flours/milk will spoil or attract pests, but salt will always be an ingredient that helps to protect food

[edit]: all the beast cookies are literally different from him. milk spoils. sugar attracts pests. flour does both and is unsafe to consume raw. spices will lose its intensity over the course of time.... but salt? salt is something that doesnt do any of this. it cannot 'go bad'.

if you coat everything in salt, then you can usually preserve it (and thats what he did)

salt is extremely important in health whether it's for regulating the body or used in saline medicine

everybody likes to think that salt is bad because of misinformation on health or an experience of something 'too salty' BUT

salt is actually good. it always has been vital. it's the reason why humans are alive. it heals. it's been used to cleanse. it's used to enhance food. there are many good things about salt itself.

and it perfectly reflects onto silent salt's entire character. his job is to protect everybody and wants to be good. he's humble. he uses his power to try to improve the life of other cookies.

it's just absolute heartache to see his fate unfold. but he was the one actually experiencing the deepest heartache himself.

bonus: tears are salty too (but imagine if silent salt had no water to create tears)

[nodiploma-onlyturtles]

What if the reason cookies of saltier dough are hated is because higher up cookies of Eternal Sugar's garden spread propaganda around Beast Yeast that was against salty dough and encouraging sugary dough to bring more cookies to the garden and to spread hate towards the Kala Namak Knights--especially Silent Salt. And then the stigma just kinda caught on and was unfortunately engrained in society long after the beasts fell.

[beltsourcookie]

i was thinking the same thing about this concept as well, but in a more different light than just eternal sugar's garden

planning to write a separate post on it (more of a personal analysis), but it is very likely that all 4 beast cookies played a role in soiling the kala namak knights' reputation and it carried into the future like you said

not only that, but there was no remembrance of salt cookie and the kala knights' legacy; it was simply buried with them in beast yeast and erased by the story of the other beast cookies

[beltsourcookie]

ougggghhhhhhh silent salt has to be one of the best beast cookies thats just written. actually good. like in a sense that there was a lot of care into crafting his story—that it literally makes you actually pay attention to the story instead of spacing out

everybody knows that the ingredient of salt itself has negative connotations, "being salty" is used as a negative emotion, not exactly bitter or sour, but to be annoyed usually; followed by that, one of the greatest mistakes a baker can make is confusing sugar for salt and making an entirely salted brick of a cookie

literal poetic cinema. one simple mistake leading to an ultimate consequence. and it translates over to his story.

not only that but while silent salt is meant to be a scary cookie due to his ingredient—there has always been flavorism(yes we are using that word) in the cookie run universe where non-sweet cookies are the equivalent of evil and undeserving of rights

and after reading what had happened to silent salt, it feels like, this beast cookie, too, has experienced the same harshness that modern salt cookies have to deal with

throughout history, sugars/flours/milk will spoil or attract pests, but salt will always be an ingredient that helps to protect food

[edit]: all the beast cookies are literally different from him. milk spoils. sugar attracts pests. flour does both and is unsafe to consume raw. spices will lose its intensity over the course of time.... but salt? salt is something that doesnt do any of this. it cannot 'go bad'.

if you coat everything in salt, then you can usually preserve it (and thats what he did)

salt is extremely important in health whether it's for regulating the body or used in saline medicine

everybody likes to think that salt is bad because of misinformation on health or an experience of something 'too salty' BUT

salt is actually good. it always has been vital. it's the reason why humans are alive. it heals. it's been used to cleanse. it's used to enhance food. there are many good things about salt itself.

and it perfectly reflects onto silent salt's entire character. his job is to protect everybody and wants to be good. he's humble. he uses his power to try to improve the life of other cookies.

it's just absolute heartache to see his fate unfold. but he was the one actually experiencing the deepest heartache himself.

bonus: tears are salty too (but imagine if silent salt had no water to create tears)

[nodiploma-onlyturtles]

What if the reason cookies of saltier dough are hated is because higher up cookies of Eternal Sugar's garden spread propaganda around Beast Yeast that was against salty dough and encouraging sugary dough to bring more cookies to the garden and to spread hate towards the Kala Namak Knights--especially Silent Salt. And then the stigma just kinda caught on and was unfortunately engrained in society long after the beasts fell.

[walentywka]

quick everybody say thank you devsis for yet another tragically doomed yaoi

[thepalladium1]

WHATEVER MAN. 9 DAYS