the empress
I only came onto tumblr 'cause of the gloriousness that is the Agron/Nasir storyline in Spartacus
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SHARE TO SAVE TUMBLR!
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A review by one of the folks sums it up perfectly:
“What worries me about Yahoo! buying Tumblr is how it would choose to incorporate the website into its email and homepage features. One of the reasons why Tumblr is so unique is because it’s a niche market. By adding more users who don’t fit into this niche, it would make it more difficult for communities to develop within Tumblr, and Tumblr would have to change to accommodate these new users. Tumblr as a website is not the kind that you can sign up for in a day and be on your way. It is a website crafted so that you can immediately post but must spend several weeks, sometimes even months, to build a community. With new users who would not be willing to spend time growing a community, Tumblr would have to be changed, which would alienate its current users. Those users have spent time and effort to make Tumblr what it is today, and they are the ones who spend time on the website daily. A user who is checking onto Tumblr because it’s attached to their homepage is not going to be as strong of a user nor as dedicated. By changing the website to suit this new user, you would lose the strong users while building an undedicated usership.
To any website that would think of buying Tumblr, they must understand that it is a website that cannot be changed to make it more user friendly to a casual blogger. I think that many Tumblr users would be less worried about a buy-out if they were promised that their communities and ways of using Tumblr would not be changed. No one is going to mind Yahoo! buying the website and gaining a few extra million dollars per year from the minimal advertising; what we will be upset with is if a company like Yahoo! then changes the website to increase casual users and decrease dedicated users. Yahoo! would gain nothing by losing this “cool” group of bloggers in an age group they so desperately want to reach, so they must cater to these individuals by leaving the website exactly as is.” - houseoftombombadil
As much as is does sound like a load of bullshit for someone to buy Tumblr, it’s a possibility. I Personally think it should stay independent and I hope David Karp keeps a hold of it like his own child. Or we make enough noise to where such major changes (if bought) will not happen. I would hate to see Tumblr turned into an advertising dump.We’re not a ‘hip fad group’ to be marketed to. I hate the fact that’s all we look like to businesses in the end.reblogging again for this
You guys, 100k notes won’t do anything. 100k signatures might or 100k letters to the creator of tumblr or yahoo. But 100k notes on a tumblr post is just going to make us all feel better while doing nothing to help the actual cause.
I hope everyone reblogging it signs the petition. Because there is one here.
(Source: my--teen--quote)
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Link reblogged from Champagne & Klaroline
TVLINE | That last scene between Caroline and Klaus was so loaded with emotion and potential. Is there any chance at all of having Caroline move toThe Originals? Or was that the capper on ‘Klaroline’ for now?
JP: It’s not the capper, per se. We’ll have to be more…
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REMINDER THAT THE UK RULED ONE FIFTH OF THE WORLD, WE DON’T NEED TO WIN NO SINGING COMPETITION TO PROVE OURSELVES TO EUROPE
Eurovision hasn’t even happened yet and we’re already coming up with excuses to why we didn’t win.
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Post reblogged from greetings from the dead
I don’t know what Eurovision is but it sounds like Europe’s Hunger Games
that’s it
that is literally what it is
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I am just so dreadfully sorry if you do not watch eurovision
because you don’t understand
on Saturday
Europe goes to war
(Source: silversarcasm)
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Post reblogged from fuck, I am hilarious.
do you ever get so annoyed at everything that you start to get pissed off at even little things like a spoon clinking against a bowl or sounds of people talking
yeah, it’s called PMS
(Source: grffindors.com)
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Photo reblogged from "If you were to take a trip..."
If you’re having a bad day, just watch this sleeping kitten.
Its tiny black nose, its little cushioned black jellybean toes, the halo of silver moonlight hairs on the silky black fur.
MY COMPUTER SCREWED UP AND THE GIF STOPPED AND I GOT WORRIED
shh don’t shout the kittens trying to sleep
This is one of the best gifs on Tumblr
