Aubrey McCoy, the bearded half of the Bleubird blog empire, put on his knightly armor today in order to defend his wife, her friends, and twee hipster bloggers everywhere from the slurs of one woman who would dare question…a swimsuit.

But that was not enough for knightly Sir Flouncelot – he followed poor Page over to her own instagram where he continued to berate her…over her comments about a swimsuit.

And now I’m going to make bathtub bellinis while you folks contemplate the irony of a grown man who follows a girl over to another internet location in order to tell her she’s a bully and acting like a high schooler…because of a swimsuit. Think it over. I’ll wait.

ETA: Looks like the comments are getting deleted already.

It was just 5 months ago that Gala Darling, her mood is a choice, was gushing about being able to “fluff around in xoJane’s hot pink offices” as the site’s Beauty Editor. Well it seems her fluffing days might be over:

Gala is also no longer listed on the site’s staff roster. Since there doesn’t seem to be any statement given by either party about why Gala is no longer part of the fast paced world of internet lady mags, we assume she has simply become so busy with her Blahcadamy that she can no longer find the time to share her eyeliner tricks or give advice about how to cure your eating disorder overnight.

I for one can’t wait to see what new trainwrecky lol farmer Jane Pratt  selects to replace her.

J. of J’s Everyday Fashion, end of post bold type question asker, has a personal style blog. Like many people with blogs, J. wants to promote her site and her content – but some are saying her latest attempt to self-promote might be taking it too far.

It seems Kendi at Kendi Everyday put up a post about inspiration vs. copying in the outfit world.  J. then commented on this post…by copypasting an old blog entry of her own into the comments section:

When another commenter asked her why she felt the need to use someone else’s comment section to republish her blog posts, a storm of “snide” responses from J. came forth, which were apparently then edited to remove the snide. Kendi herself finally stepped in, thanking the commenter TinaMarie for calling out J. for her comment hijack and for her “feedback and comment on the post. I appreciate that you would back me up! That really does mean the world to me” before essentially telling them all to knock it off:

I don’t believe that J was trying to do anything other than post her opinion on my blog. But if she was and had different motives, at the end of the day it didn’t hurt me or my blog in any way…I SO appreciate your sticking up for me, it’s nice to have a friend on the internet. At this point though we should move on from the back and forth. I’m afraid nothing good will come of it if it keeps going down that road.

The drama continued, however, when J. responded to Kendi with some pouting about how Kendi’s response “feels like applause for some seriously inappropriate comments”, before finally dying out.

Seriously, wtf is this? Is this how bloggers are going to promote themselves now? Comment sections on most blogs are already full of one sentence fawning posted only so the commenter can put in a plug for their own site. Are bloggers now going to just post their own content all over other blogs?

Almost every comment system available has a way for people to have their username link back to their own url. If you are an actual participant in a community and leave thoughtful, interesting, funny comments, people will eventually click on your name and check you out. There’s just no reason for such blatant self-promotion, people. Have some dignity already.

Emily over at Cupcakes and Cashmere somehow found time in her hectic life to post an instructional video…about coffee table styling.

We’ve had our coffee table (first seen here) for a while now, but it wasn’t until recently that I finally got around to styling it. At times I had it completely empty, but when a table’s not comfortable enough to put your feet up [note to self: don’t make that mistake again], at least it should look appealing. It was hard to find a configuration that I felt good about – which books to include and how many, if I should keep remote controls corralled on a cute tray or hidden somewhere else, and how many trinkets would make it too busy?

Full of helpful hints such as put books and flowers on a coffee table and then put other things on the table, this video is a real life changer! Seriously, do people really have such huge amounts of free time that they can waste it overthinking crap like this? I feel like this is the sort of thing that becomes some paramount daily living concern only for women who spend too much time on pinterest. But what do I know, I use my coffee table to rest diet Cokes and remotes.