The Morning After The Day Before

Yesterday along with the rest of Tumblr I went on a bit of a rampage about this whole Yahoo thing, and then I decided to try and stay positive in the face of annoying pop up ads, Tumblr becoming mainstream and someone potentially bursting my safe bubble. But it seems Tumblr shall not be silenced, it seems ever since this has emerged the bloggers that are usually dormant until 10pm have been woken from hibernation are are still going strong 24 hours later high on caffeine and gifs of cats, which are, quite frankly hilarious. Seems this debate won't be dying down anytime soon.

In other news, today I had my second exam, I'm officially over the halfway point and it feels so good. I won't go and say I smashed it because that's too optimistic, but I think it's safe to say I got the minimum pass. At least, I'd better have done. I didn't waste all that time yesterday procrastinating and watching Made In Chelsea in a bid to avoid revision only to do it all late last night and not pass this thing. Either way, my fingers are firmly crossed.

In the meantime, here's a picture of a horse eating grass. I can identify with it on a regular basis when I'm hungry and too lazy to move.

Courage Bloggers, Courage For Our Friends

Hold your ground! Hold your ground!
Children of Sherlock, of Homestuck, of LOTR and Harry Potter, my siblings;
I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.
A day may come when the courage of bloggers fails,
when we forsake our otps
and break all bonds of fellowship,
but it is not this day.
An hour of cancelations and deactivated blogs,
when the age of the fandom comes crashing down,
but it is not this day!
This day we accept!!
By all that you hold dear on this good Earth,
I bid you stand, Children of the Fandom!!!
STAND AND GREET FATE AS AN OLD FRIEND!

So obviously I've been keeping an eye on what's been happening on Tumblr today. Remember how I said Tumblr is full of people like me who hate change and are socially not ready to conform and all that. Well they're taking it pretty hard, it seems everyone is in 3 camps. There are those fleeing to Wordpress and Blogspot already. Then there are the few who are keeping their heads about this and trying to think positive. And then there is the majority who are just all having major breakdowns. Either way I've never seen Tumblr this busy during the day, my dash keeps popping up more notifications

Finding The Positives

Up until now everything I've been saying about the Tumblr take over has been really negative, and I think that's pretty much reflected by what other Tumblr people are saying. However, with every negative you have to find a positive right, so here is my (very short) list of things that are good about this.

- We now have Marissa Mayer, who I would like to remind everyone was actually poached by Yahoo from Google in the first place, so that's one plus.

- She also brought over a couple of other people from Google so it's not all bad.

- Marissa actually has her own Tumblr and actually has done for nearly 3 years now, so maybe, just maybe she understands the complex inner workings of the site, although her blog needs some serious work done on it before I accept her as a true Tumblr user.

- Everyone is freaking out about ads as well. Well there are ad blockers out there we can use, so it's not going to hugely affect us if we can block them.

But just in case things get really bad, just remember

WE ALWAYS HAVE WORDPRESS!