So how many of us with Tumblr accounts got the email this morning informing us that Tumblr has been ‘acquired’ by Automatic – a company I’ve never heard of.
My only question is – are they going to go back to reasonable posting guidelines and STOP TREATING US LIKE KINDERS????
My email came complete with instructions on how to delete my account.
I’m going to be honest, I joined Tumblr back in 2012. I did so to have easier access to Karl Urban news and pictures. I stuck my big toe in that pond to discover that man had some of the craziest fans who would take your head off over things that didn’t concern them. I had an 18 year old with mental issues try to pick a fight with me over something he misconstrued and didn’t understand the subtle art of apology when I informed him he missed the point. His friends were PMing me, apologizing for him. I didn’t buy that either. I had a 16 year old try to tell me I wasn’t supposed to comment when I reblogged stuff. Role playing people who didn’t get role playing. The place was a bastion of underaged, hormonal idiots to whom everything was either ‘pure’ or cause for war. Of course, when The Hobbit came out and I found Richard, my Richarding took over. I couldn’t imagine NOT checking Tumblr several times a day. I lived there. I lived on the Richard thread. LIVED on it!
Oh and Richard has his share of crazy fans, but we won’t go there. I think my go round with Whozits Whatzits is pretty epic. And probably still discussed behind my back.
BUT I DIGRESS!!!
Life has settled down since then and I don’t visit any specific threads anymore. Occasionally, Richard or Karl will cross my dash, but most of my dash pictures now consist of food and flowers and funny stuff and puppies and kitties. And yeah, political stuff. I fear many of my former left-leaning friends have unfollowed and blocked me as sometimes, yes I do comment on The Stupidity.
Anyway, I get this email this morning and I’m hoping that Tumblr relaxes. I mean, we’re pretty mostly much adults here, right?
Suuuuuuuuuuuure.
In other news, I need to find my lease. My former landlord is being a complete twat. You would NOT believe the text message I received from her at 2 AM this morning. Cleaning carpets I understand, but the landscaping fee and the lightbulb fee and the demand for immediate sending of MORE RENT…
Idontthinkso.
Have some Richard.
zee's muse 
Find that lease!!
Thank you for the Richard pics
Made my day!! 😘❤️
Yeah, that’s a priority today. if we can’t. when we go to Savannah on Friday, I’ll look up the property company who middle manned the lease and see if they have a copy of it.
I’m quite certain I’m not responsible for the removal of a downed tree that came down during the hurricane. I think it’s PETTY to claim I’m responsible for designer lightbulbs that she never told me where to get them to begin with. And to demand RENT 5 weeks after I moved out… She can take the carpet cleaning and the 5 days I was still there from my security deposit. But we’re going to argue about ‘landscaping’ and ‘bulbs’ and what not.
Listen I wouldn’t concede anything right now
Try to tell her she agreed you could stay and stand your ground
Oh I have no problems with paying for the 2 days I lived there until. And truth is I don’t mind going to the 5. But I’m NOT going to send her a check – not when she still owes me money from my security deposit.
I’m in Tumblr too but I only followed some Hobbit trails there first and laters found the awesomeness or Richard (yeah, I was late). My biggest Hobbit crush is still Fili. I do follow some fandoms but not ad actively as earlier and I never got very deep into them.
“Or” should be “of”
I no longer actively follow anything. it comes across my dash or not. I am a member of a private group for a specific actor. *coughs*
I do most of my richarding there 🙂 That’s about all of my tumblring these days.
My Richarding there is now pretty much limited to the other Richard Well Wisher I follow and the private Group. A few years back, a group of people shipped him with another actor and pretty much ran off everyone who didn’t ship the twosome. It was pretty nasty. These rabid fans make fandom look bad.
Of course, now they no longer ship them – as it’s obvious the other actor has ‘moved on’ *eyeroll*, but the damage they did to the fandom lingers on.
Oh, you’re talking about that time. Indeed, it was bad
It was disgusting. And the sad thing is when others did the same to them, I was blamed (wasn’t me) and the hate mail, as well as personal incorrect comments about me on other websites was just beyond the pale. I know several people who left the fandom over it, I lost ‘friends’ over it. I suppose in the long run, they weren’t friends and I don’t miss them one iota!
But now that ship has sunk, so what do they have now? I’ve blocked all their blogs and I don’t go looking so I don’t know.
Horrible that it happened to you, I’m so sorry to hear that.
You know, it is what it is, and it didn’t change me or my thinking a bit. I know people who left Tumblr over it. I’m still Richarding. And I still believe his private life is HIS private life.
I agree with you ❤
Well you have a wonderful garden and I am very happy to be here, toxic people come in all forms some claim to be fans of Richard and still are mean to others. Some are lapdogs to those mean people. I think they are the antithesis of what Richard is about.
I feel extremely lucky to have found you and this lovely blog and the wonderful commenters here. 😘
Yes, i would definitely take care to find the lease. I cannot believe the greed of some people and what they expect you to pay. Once you find the lease if nothing is stated in there about certain things, i know you will tell her up front, no question about that. Reg
“fandoms” and actually most places on the computer you find people you just enjoy making life miserable for others. I guess it is why I spend most of my time only reading a few blogs and reading the other part. i don’t need people like that in my life and I prefer the peace and quiet of a good book . So please find your lease – then tell her to go to……
I was counting on the security deposit to purchase wheels for Spawn. And then we decided we needed the funds to survive the month of September. I think we’re going to be okay, but I’m going to be catching up a lot of back stuff come October 1st and those funds would come in handy.
So the demand I send her 5 days of rent when she was supposed to have my security deposit returned to me by Aug 31st is just obnoxious. Add to it she’s charging me for stupid shit PLUS she’s charging me for things that weren’t done when I moved in. so no. We’re finding the lease.
I’m hoping that Automattic will bring tumblr back…
Those ‘new’ rules have pretty much destroyed it. The bot is stupid!
Maybe they can reverse some of the stupid rules… At least that is my hope.
Automattic owns WordPress.com. Hopefully they’ll ease up a bit on the Tumblr rules. Hope you find the lease soon! Stand firm.
Oh great! Means we’ll get updates in formatting that we don’t want or need!
Lol. Always looking in the bright side, huh?
Despite the bots being a pain in the backside, to be honest, the change to Tumblr hasn’t affected me much as I’d thought, my blog is all about Richard so it’s pretty innocuous! It will be interesting to see what this new change in ownership brings.
I hope you get a just outcome with your landlady – is there a tenants’ advocate who could handle things on your behalf if she continues to play nasty?
A lot of my posts have been ‘hidden from everyone, but me.’ – including pictures of me in a bathing suit. They say I’m naked, and even when I challenged it, they STILL say I’m naked. Please! I don’t care anymore. I’m still there because I have friends who are there. I don’t even go into the Richard tag anymore.
I rarely go into the tag, unless it’s to check if I’ve missed anything I’d like to reblog – Guylty’s Roundup usually covers that though – but generally the posts I want to reblog from people I follow give me enough material. Certainly things are much quieter than the heady Hobbit days!
I’ve had to appeal numerous posts that have all been successful, but it’s a totally unnecessary consequence of a stupid change.
Mezz that is an excellent idea about getting advice from a tenants advocate 👍👏
I’ve contacted the real estate agency that brokered the deal. I’m hoping they have a copy of the lease. We’ve been looking and so far, no dice.
Fingers crossed sweetie pie!!