Hydra @kissthehydra - Tumblr Blog

worst part of the imperfects is that abbi never gets to tell alex her terrible science joke. you know he would have been all over that

#came to tumbler after aaaages just to reblog this

guooey

doityourselfbombs

reblog to give your local wizard an ICE COLD LEMONADE

sedoretu

I know so much of the pre-election messaging is like VOTE!!! VOTE!!! IF YOU DON’T VOTE YOU’RE A MONSTER!! and that can get tiring after so many elections. So I want to take a moment after this election to say: so many of you clearly did get out and vote, despite not always having the most inspiring options, and with SO much on the line 18-29 year olds specifically helped win some of the most important and impactful races across America. So from one of the many “just vote” scolds on the internet: thank you!!

aqueerkettleofish

Ya'll voted so hard the GOP wants to change the election age. Good work.

werewolfgirldick

txttletale

using tumblr has completely annihilated my ability to understand 'girl' as a normal word in the english language. when i see a weird shaped onion at the grocery store im like 'ok. girl'

#this

horreurscopes

why does cooking takes like six hours and eating like three seconds and washing dishes like seven days and seven nights

kissthehydra

and laundry like four months

sanguinewolves

listening to music isnt enough i need to replace my bones with it

bittergourdsoup-deactivated2024

i am in fact a boy who is always plagued by the sleeplytired

storybookprincess

not to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being sincere on the internet, but your presence matters to people & your absence is felt in ways you can’t possibly realize

i have a standing bi-weekly appointment for a medical treatment, and i ended up missing a few appointments in a row for various reasons. and when i came back to the infusion center earlier this week, the nurses couldn’t stop saying that they really missed me & were wondering why i hadn’t been in

it had never occurred to me that i was anything more than a job duty to them. it never occurred to me that they’d miss seeing me, even though i know that i miss seeing regular library patrons & wonder where they are when they’re away. i just never put two & two together that way

so yes, people would notice if you disappeared off the face of the earth tomorrow. yes, people smile to themselves when you walk in the door. yes, your presence matters to far more people than you realize

clottedscream

*pins you against a wall* you thought you could just come crawling back to us huh?

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cowboy

I'm scared all the time this is how I look always

pyrebomb

“Ship means something you want to see happen.” Bitch, no it don’t. This weird-ass modern culture of lobbying show-runners to make your ship canon didn’t emerge until the advent of social media. (And recent social media like twitter, not shit-you-forgot-existed like MySpace.) Shipping and fandom in general have been around much longer, so you can stop acting like “this is the way it has always been uwu” right the fuck now.

Until relatively recently, most fans I’ve known have been perfectly okay with their ships never being canon. I, personally, would be actively offended if certain ships of mine became canon. That is not why I ship them. What I want from canon and what I want from fandom are often entirely different things that only intersect on the margins.That is why fanworks are called “transformative” ffs.

dr-dendritic-trees

This exactly.

cardassiangoodreads

I’m so glad someone said this. A lot of my fav ships I specifically have no desire to see become canon, especially since they’re often in shows that don’t really do much with romance and I PREFER them that way. Shipping and fan fiction are separate things for me.

bethuselah

“What I want from canon and what I want from fandom are often entirely different things”

pineal-blinks

shipping isn’t always romantic idealization either which is an annoying recent mindset in fandoms, mainly its liking the dynamic of two characters and wanting to explore it in fanwork whether it be for sappy cute reasons or horrible awful unhealthy reasons, whatever is appealing/interesting to you about the pair.

derryderrydown

Don’t hide this in the tags, Petra! #sometimes ‘I ship it’ means ‘They would have fascinating sex’ #sometimes ‘I ship it’ means ‘They would damage each other interestingly’

backwardsorbust

If you are a white kid with a positive relationship (as in they are not abusing you and generally like you as a kid and want you to like them) with a casually racist family member have you considered guilt tripping them? It's been a highly effective tactic with my grampa. When he used to pop off with shit I wouldn't give him a dissertation like my mom and uncle did bcus he'd just dig in his heels and argue. Instead, I found a well placed "wow :( no it's fine I just like idk. I didn't know you were like that :(((( " worked WONDERS. If you want to deradicalize people, don't focus on writing essays for random trolls online. Just make your racist family feel bad for being racist. You might even be able to sneak some idk facts and logic into them after you've been doing that consistently while hanging out.

leebrontide

I'm middle aged now and have reached a status in my family and among my inlaws that I can even just douse them with a look of shocked disgust and they receive the message that what they're saying is way out of line for their social strata.

It seems to be slowly making inroads with some of them, because they start thinking over the bullshit they're parroting, and considering what about it is so nasty.

Letting them intellectualize their bullshit doesn't work. It's too comfortable for them to continue to regurgitate talking points they heard on talk radio. You gotta activate their anxiety about rejection, and prepare to actually do some rejecting.

If you want them to realize the ideas they're spouting have real world consequences, then they need to see consequences can happen to them.

Bonus: my kid sees me reacting with overt disgust and learns that racism is disgusting and horrifying, rather than something to be calmly abstracted and divorced from reality.