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all-men-must-die: werefollowingthebutterflies: redvelvetcupcakemurder: universe-juice: chocobo-strider: the-disney-words: SHARE TO SAVE TUMBLR! - Let’s try and get 100k notes True shit 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 ^ Yahoo will do to Tumblr what Six Apart did to Livejournal I totally agree with how advertising could be bad for Tumblr’s current users. Yahoo’s obviously expecting returns if they’re willing to pay the rumored price of over a million dollars, and unless they increase ads and tie ins with their own services such as their mail and “news” they’re going to lose money. So it seems pretty obvious that there are going to be some changes if Yahoo, or even Facebook which is also rumored to be interested in buying it out at the last minute actually does. Those could be having to log in with a Yahoo or Facebook account, or a larger amount of ads and sponsored posts. But whatever it will be, it seems like they’ll care more about profits and larger numbers of users than the already exiting users. So that leaves us with the question of what we can do about it  - here are a couple of my ideas, but feel free to add on! Contact them - This may seem obvious, but it’s a good place to start. I’d suggest commenting on their facebook page. Since its public they’ll probably watch it more closely than some email account, and it will get more attention. Get AdBlock Plus - This blocks ads and prevents the site owner from collecting revenue from ad views. More importantly, post publicly and maybe even contact Yahoo saying you’re doing it in protest of their attempt to capitalize off of Tumblr. Content advertisers will hate - Nobody wants to advertise on a site that publicly denounces ads, or consumerism. Or even easier than ranting on these subjects, just post a lot of porn ;) I am actually being serious, most companies won’t want to be associated with it. Tagging it with #yahoo could also make a point.. It’s such a big decision to buy out a company that I really believe if we make a big enough protest against it they might reconsider. So if you want Tumblr to stay how it is, go let them know! I AM PANICKING. ON ANOTHER NOTE, GET THE FUCK OUT YAHOO. YOU DON’T EVEN GO HERE.  There’s also a petition, people! If anything can help keep our site the way it is, it’s worth doing. Petition here

all-men-must-die:

werefollowingthebutterflies:

redvelvetcupcakemurder:

universe-juice:

chocobo-strider:

the-disney-words:

SHARE TO SAVE TUMBLR!

- Let’s try and get 100k notes

True shit

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 ^

Yahoo will do to Tumblr what Six Apart did to Livejournal

I totally agree with how advertising could be bad for Tumblr’s current users. Yahoo’s obviously expecting returns if they’re willing to pay the rumored price of over a million dollars, and unless they increase ads and tie ins with their own services such as their mail and “news” they’re going to lose money. So it seems pretty obvious that there are going to be some changes if Yahoo, or even Facebook which is also rumored to be interested in buying it out at the last minute actually does. Those could be having to log in with a Yahoo or Facebook account, or a larger amount of ads and sponsored posts. But whatever it will be, it seems like they’ll care more about profits and larger numbers of users than the already exiting users.

So that leaves us with the question of what we can do about it  - here are a couple of my ideas, but feel free to add on!

  • Contact them - This may seem obvious, but it’s a good place to start. I’d suggest commenting on their facebook page. Since its public they’ll probably watch it more closely than some email account, and it will get more attention.
  • Get AdBlock Plus - This blocks ads and prevents the site owner from collecting revenue from ad views. More importantly, post publicly and maybe even contact Yahoo saying you’re doing it in protest of their attempt to capitalize off of Tumblr.
  • Content advertisers will hate - Nobody wants to advertise on a site that publicly denounces ads, or consumerism. Or even easier than ranting on these subjects, just post a lot of porn ;) I am actually being serious, most companies won’t want to be associated with it. Tagging it with #yahoo could also make a point..

It’s such a big decision to buy out a company that I really believe if we make a big enough protest against it they might reconsider. So if you want Tumblr to stay how it is, go let them know!

I AM PANICKING. ON ANOTHER NOTE, GET THE FUCK OUT YAHOO. YOU DON’T EVEN GO HERE. 

There’s also a petition, people! If anything can help keep our site the way it is, it’s worth doing. Petition here

(Source: my--teen--quote, via scheherazodd)

cryingalonewithfrankenstein:

helenofdestroy:

A very unusual genetic color variation in white-tailed deer — rarer even than albinism — produces all-black offspring in that species which are known as “melanistic” or “melanic” deer.

reblogging because no, really, melanistic animals are real

(and cool)

(via inspector-pervert)

teenwolf:

THIS MIGHT HURT

I don’t speak latin, but I spent five minutes listening to it over and over to pick out the words and put them in google translate to try to make sense of them. What I got is “on devinctus occuro spiritos pronte tale on de monte” which google says means “on such bonds meet the spirit of the ready on the mountain”. Can anyone back me up on this or am I just completely off?

I’m not sure if anyone is aware, but there’s a tourney going on over at afterelton.com, and Teen Wolf is losing! I didn’t see anything about it in the tags I usually frequent, so I figured I’d make a notice myself. We didn’t make it to the championship round only to lose.

Click here

Remember that you can vote once per hour, and voting closes next Saturday.

bloodmoon-rpg: Blood Moon RPG is a wonderful Teen Wolf rpg that is full of kind people. This is a group that diverges from canon after season two and is already in motion, but due to a recent misunderstanding and a disagreement we have lost many important characters. Because we were so far into our plot when these characters left, the players will get to start fresh with them. Our most wanted characters at the moment are the wolves so if you apply please consider them. Open Characters: Isaac Lahey Erica Reyes Scott McCall Vernon Boyd Danny Mahealani Sheriff Stilinski Melissa McCall  Please come apply! Application || Description || Rules || Questions

bloodmoon-rpg:

Blood Moon RPG is a wonderful Teen Wolf rpg that is full of kind people. This is a group that diverges from canon after season two and is already in motion, but due to a recent misunderstanding and a disagreement we have lost many important characters. Because we were so far into our plot when these characters left, the players will get to start fresh with them. Our most wanted characters at the moment are the wolves so if you apply please consider them.

Open Characters:

  • Isaac Lahey
  • Erica Reyes
  • Scott McCall
  • Vernon Boyd
  • Danny Mahealani
  • Sheriff Stilinski
  • Melissa McCall 

Please come apply!

Application || Description || Rules || Questions

(via sassy-uncle-peter)

is it too much to ask for a Peter-centric fic that’s not rapey or psychotic-themed? I just want one where Peter isn’t the bad guy, where he’s not just a side character that isn’t to be trusted. where he doesn’t have to worry about falling because he can actually trust someone to catch him. I know he’s done bad things, but that isn’t all he is, and he doesn’t deserve to be treated like that’s all he is all the time.

Chris Argent/Peter Hale

xxwrittensinsxx:

This ship seriously needs a name. Come on Chris/Peter fans, let’s put our brains together and come up with something. What I’ve come up with: Peris - that’s not horrible right? right? I mean, it doesn’t quite have the ring of Sterek or Scissac, but it’s not worse than Pydia (no offense to the ship). I like it *ducks flying garbage*

pretty sure the ship name is Petopher. Peter and Christopher. but there are others out there that don’t involve their names. for example, sassy wolf and the huntsman

[x]

(Source: dailyanimals, via isaacnronebeta)

hungrylikethewolfie: guzusuru: attention-bot: Teen Wolf: It’s a show about a 20-something greaser and the teenagers that harass him. Idea by Guzu. NOT MY ART BUT I helped make this happen. Punchbuggy is fantastic always go follow her every blog. BEST

hungrylikethewolfie:

guzusuru:

attention-bot:

Teen Wolf: It’s a show about a 20-something greaser and the teenagers that harass him.

Idea by Guzu.

NOT MY ART BUT I helped make this happen. Punchbuggy is fantastic always go follow her every blog.

BEST

(via clevergenius)

OOC

sassy-uncle-peter:

Welcome to my new followers! If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the rest of the Pack along with our new Sheriff Stilinski! 

And don’t forget that we still have many positions open, so go check out the list of available characters over on our main page and see if you’d like to apply for one.