#wordpress drama

[nyancrimew]

he's back at it, yet another serious death threat has hit car hammer explosion man

[ankle-beez]

photomatt mullenweg be like "by telling me to pee my pants you are basically telling me to die of dehydration. btw"

[juno-box]

sooooo the CEO of Tumblr & Wordpress is being sued on allegations of wage theft & human trafficking.

[what-if-doctor-who-was-yuri-yaoi]

MATT.

[mneiai]

Exactly the sort of stuff one might expect from Tumblr's parent company.

[rimmsel]

[tinystepsforward]

You write fanfic.

fhdfhdhgd i sure fucking do

[newsfromthehouseofbourbon]

January 7, 2024: Welcome to 2024!

Okay, I have been writing (and there is a LOT). However, I've had to deal with bedbugs for the past six months (and going). I have no time to go into the logistics (and the blame sits squarely on the shoulders of my stepsister), but I'm here to have some fun and tell you about what is going on with the HOB.

Without too much detail of the private conflicts that plagued this project since its creation upon the heels of the success of @tkwrtrilogy2, @tkwrtrilogy, and @tkwrtrilogy3, there has been an overhaul. Also, the latest addition to the trilogy will make its debut on Wattpad (but will come here eventually).

First, the OVERHAUL: Welcome to the HOB Universe.

You're asking yourself: WTF is this? Well, the best explanation of it can be seen here. All that applies is that this takes place in 17th-century France rather than Middle Earth.

I will be overhauling the Tumblr for @lesecretdelamaisondubourbon. There is a reason, but to find that out, you'll have to read the memoir about all of this (TBA). Either way, it comes on the heels of family drama and the death of a friendship that was supposed to last forever (according to her). But, the book (known by the title XIV) is going up on Wattpad, so while it is being overhauled over here, you can read it in its proper order over there.

XIV: The life and times of Louis XIV as told by Louis XIV--if you haven't figured that out yet. It is part of Book III; his father's story (@thesecretofthehouseofbourbonbook) is Book II.

Now, about that other book: The original title of the book (that was going to be written by my former co-author) was Monsieur. If you guess that the book was going to be about Philippe I, Duc d'Orléans (younger brother of Louis XIV), you were right.

If you think this is a retelling of centuries of rumor and innuendo, you would be wrong. This will be his story--told by Philippe. Under the title of Son of France (Fils de France in French), this is the story you were never told. After 383 years, it is time.

His story officially began in January of 2024, and he will be following his brother Louis here once he debuts on Wattpad. Stay tuned for more. He's part of the universe now.

[tkwrtnewsfeed]

Newsfeed #137 November 1, 2023 (1 Hísimë)

I know it has been a while, but if you only knew what I have to go through regularly, you would understand why it takes me so long to do anything. I will go into that on another day. It is special because today, the world gets the first look at Book II: The Saga of Thranduil--Extended Version.

If you are a member of the Facebook Group, then you can get it there. If you are not, you will have to go here. It will be available in both places from now until November 7, 2023. It would be appreciated if you would leave a comment on this thread about whether you liked it or not because I sent it out for beta readers for a reason.

I have been in talks with a lot of publishers on demand who want to publish this book. One of them overzealously wanted to turn the book into a Netflix series. (do not ask). I would rather film the story in order, which begins with @tkwrtrilogy3. At over 1200 pages (currently), the entire trilogy is long enough to have a television show (but I would want it to include @oflordsandkingstkwrtbook and @tkwrtsongofsevenrivers). I am aware of that. To be honest, I would like to be the one to write the script as I also know how to do that (from experience). But, because my stepsister (Roseann Grotjan) stuck me into a Britney Spears situation, I do not have access to my money or any way to negotiate the publication of any of my books (and I have several) on my own, so this is going take a while. I have millions of adoring fans willing to scare the BeJesus out of her in order to get their favorite book in print and onscreen.

But. someone leaked to me what a perspective book cover of The Saga of Thranduil would look like. I will post one of the mock-ups because seriously, who is going to notice? It is a mock-up, so it is not a final design. Also, I didn't choose it. It was chosen for me to persuade me to choose this particular company. There are at least seven or eight of these people trying to persuade me to publish this book. One of them has actually read the book, and it made them cry.

They want to sell it in hardcover and paperback. Wouldn't that be nice? My bestie (@fortunatelyclevercandy) wants me to wait. I will not tell you why because I know why, and I'm about to do what she asked me to do. I want literally no FREE PR around it.

Oh, that is a lot I know. But if it were not for my stepsister, the state of Missouri, and the crappy hellhole they put me in the middle of nowhere with shitty internet (on purpose), I would be farther along, and everybody probably would have several copies of this book series by now. The moral of my story is: do not trust your family after your father dies and leaves you some money. They might just get the idea in their head to take it from you to make $20/hour as your guardian by claiming that you're crazy when you just asked them about your own trust fund. But I digress.

Enjoy The Saga of Thranduil--Extended Version. You will be the ones who will decide which version of this story gets published. You will be the ones that will make it possible to see the Elvenking's life story in a book store, online, or even on Netflix.

[snixx]

middle/high school me didn't form parasocial relationships with celebrities they formed serial parasocial relationships with random lesbian 20-something bloggers with a penchant for being 24/7 haters on increasingly obscure platforms (often that they had abandoned years ago) and would stay up till like 4am every night reading their posts from like five years back and collecting the Lore

[meerawrites]

Franklin (Apple TV): a poignant reminder 

Franklin is based on the 2005 book A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff, which I would also recommend to history lovers as I would recommend La Chevaliere d’Eon’s papers. Franklin is out on Apple TV now and even if you aren’t a history buff it rounds itself out as a compelling story about power, deception, identity and family.

[igarashi-sensei]

More stills on the drama.

[digitalzombie]

Blood on the Tracks, Vol. 1 by Shūzō Oshimi—Review

So far, so good.

[socialjusticefail]

This is probably going to go over the heads of a lot of people about WordPress, an open source content management system (CMS). Automattic is the company that owns Wordpress.com and provides hosting of WordPress websites.

WordPress.org is for the organization that does handles the open source CMS.

There is a company called WP Engine. That company also does hosting of WordPress websites for clients. A while back the open source license for WordPress did allow for the abbreviation of WP to be freely used, but that changed at some point. A comment on this article explains it in more detail.

Also, I found this article which explains why the head of Automattic and WordPress needs to be fired. That article is wondering why the head is doing this to WP Engine and not any other outfits that have WP in their names.

[ayahmdeesworld]

Series Review: Master's Sun

Spoiler Alert! Last weekend, since I didn’t feel well because I caught a cold, I checked and browsed random trailers on Netflix. I rewatched the Korean drama series Master’s Sun. That was actually my third time watching it. I don’t know, but I enjoyed the scenes and the chemistry between So Ji-Sub and Gong Hyo-Jin. This is the synopsis: An arrogant man, Joong-won (Ji-Sub), hires Tae Gong-shil…

[parkisisoliv]

Easy Peasy

It's not easy to accept the truthMost of all, when you already know it.I have known it since the beginning.I knew we wouldn't end up together.But it was fun to pretend things were real.It's was exciting.I enjoyed fantasizing about us.Created my version of what we could be like,Daydreaming about the daily routine.Believe it or not,I was never able to see us lasting long.There's something about our…