John Green - Blog Posts
The way the fucking book ends read it guys read “the fault in our stars” by John green please but anyways formal apology don’t know what was up with me in those last few posts kinda going through it I’m good tho I hope someone loves me like how Augustus waters loved Hazel grace Lancaster.
Can someone tell me what poet wrote “So dawn goes down today, nothing gold can stay.” It’s in the book and I can’t find it for the life of me
“Writing does not resurrect. It buries.”
WRONG VAN HOUTEN WRONG HAZEL WRONG JOHN GREEN WRITING KEEPS A MEMORY ALIVE WRITING DOES RESURRECT THE DEAD
Great way to start a chapter NOT
“You gave me forever within our numbered days”
UGLY CRYING I CANNOT FUCKING DO THIS IM GONE BRO WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING TO MYSELF WHY AM I READING THIS
YALL CANUCKS GOT ONE AGAINST OILERS YAHOO STILL UGLY CRYING BUT YIPPEE
“I’m in love with you,I am. I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I’m in love with you.”
Oh Augustus Waters the man that you are.
Books I’m Reading Right Now:
Made You Up - Francesca Zappia
Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Looking for Alaska - John Green
Does he love the stars?
Maybe he'll love you like he loves the stars. Maybe he tells the stars about you like how he tells you about the stars. Maybe he'll remember every scar and freckle like he remembers the names of those supernovas thousands of light years away.
"But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."
-John Green, Looking for Alaska
"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."
- John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
I cannot tell you have great full I am for our little infinity- Hazel Grace- John Green- The Fault In Our Stars
We have five legs, four eyes, two and a half pairs of working lungs …, but we also have two dozen eggs- Augustus Waters- The Fault In Our Stars- John Green
That’s the thing about pain it demands to be felt- Augustus Waters- The Fault In our Stars - John Green
someone protect these straight people at all costs
Mr Van Houten
Ben iyi bir insanım ama berbat bir yazarım. Sen berbat bir insansın ama iyi yazarsın. Bence iyi bir takım oluruz. Lütfen bunu düzeltin, Hazel için anma konuşması. Benden yazmamı istedi ve bende çabalıyorum. Ama biraz sihir iyi olurdu. Mesele şu ki hepimiz hatırlanmak isteriz. Ama Hazel farklı. Hazel gerçeğin farkında. O, bir milyon hayran istemedi. O sadece bir tane istedi ve isteğine kavuştu da. Belki genişce sevilmedi ama derinden sevildi. Çoğumuzdan daha fazlasını yaşamak değil midir bu zaten? Hazel hastalandığında öldüğümün farkındaydım ama söylemek istemedim. Yoğun bakımdayken 10 dakikalığına içeri sızdım ve onunla oturdum, ta ki yakalanana dek. Gözleri kapalıydı. Rengi solmuştu. Ama elleri hala onun elleriydi. Hala sıcaktı ve tırnaklarında koyu lacivert bir oje vardı. Onları öylece tutdum ve ne kadar değersiz bir dünya ola bileceğini anladım. O kadar güzel ki. Ona bakmakdan sıkılmazsınız. "Benden zeki mi?" diye paranoya yapamazsınız çünkü zeki. Kalp kırmadan komik ola biliyor. Onu seviyorum. Öyle bir seviyorum ki. Onu sevdiğim için o kadar şanslıyım ki Van Houten. İncinip incinmeyeceğine dair tercih yapma şansın yok ama seni kimin incitebileceğini seçebilirsin. Ben seçimlerimden memnunum. Umarım o da memnundur . . .
~ Okay Hazel Grace ?
~ Okay.
I didn’t know I had to have a whole PHD in English to read a John Green book
unstoppable force (the undying urge to call a man babygirl) versus immovable object (hating men and therefor having none around)
I'm currently reading "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green. I put it off for a while, but here I am! I'm a bit excited because I have anxiety, so I'm hoping to see if I relate to some of this book. Tell me your thoughts about it (but try not to spoil, please)!!
Happy (almost) World Hippo Day!
Hi People of Tumbler! World Hippopotamus Day, February 15th, is coming up soon, and I wanted to share this super dope holiday with you! I have been celebrating World Hippo Day since I was a kid, and it’s a day that’s a lot of things for a lot of people. Many who celebrate of use the day to learn about the majestic nature of nature’s best creature: the hippopotamus, and to others it's a day to advocate for hippos, or an anti-Valentine’s Day of sorts. To me, it is all of these things, and it is also a day to spread hippo joy. Every year I try to spend the day handing out tiny hippos to random people, and it seems to make them happy. I think that hippos would be happy to know that they make people happy.
This year, World Hippopotamus Day falls during a charity livestream fundraiser called the Project for Awesome (AKA the P4A) that is held by some really cool internet people like Hank and John Green. The P4A raises money for organizations like Save the Children and Partners in Health that work hard to decrease world suck, and just generally make the world a better place. Due to the US gov's pause in USAID, the global fight against preventable & treatable diseases like TB, HIV, & Malaria is suffering a huge setback and now more than ever Nonprofits dedicated to fighting these diseases need support. More info on the P4A and fighting global inequity can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBjQgizWRBA . If you are able to please look into donating to these wonderful causes or to the P4A, or spread awareness about them. It's what the hippos would want. Project for Awesome Website Link
In celebration of World Hippopotamus Day I am posting some world hippo day crafts that you and yours can enjoy and use to spread some World Hippo Day joy. Imma be tagging all of these posts #World Hippo Day . I hope all yall have a wonderful World Hippopotamus Day and a great P4A. DFTBA
*And just in case you were wondering, Hippos are susceptible to Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), because everything ties back to TB https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33423384/
I will not be overwhelmed with grief for those who we choose not to save. Nor will I become numb to their suffering.
I can’t fix everything but I will do what I can. I’ll do something. I swear it.
The main problem with owning a Pizza John shirt is that now everyone knows when I’ve done the laundry because it will be the first thing I wear.
That and the fact that it’s 20 degrees outside and I will be wearing the t shirt anyway
My professor telling me that she knows John Green from his first time on Tumblr was not on my 2024 bingo card
Trying to explain to my professor why I know so much about tuberculosis without sounding insane.
“Well, you see, popular young adult novelist John Green got really invested in the topic and learned so much about it that he changed career paths and became a non-fiction writer and spoke to the UN and did a bunch of advocacy and I watch his videos so…”
Imagining trying to explain to my 12-year-old self that John Green is your favorite non-fiction author and Hank Green is your favorite fiction author
Paper Towns is an amazing deconstruction of the manic pixie dream girl trope.
I don’t understand how anyone could read “The fundamental mistake I had always made…was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl,” and not understand that the whole of point the book is that Margo is not a mpdg and that Q is wrong for treating her like one. The whole of the book is that Margo wanted to cultivate this image and persona but ultimately it just makes her feel worse.
This quote from Margo summarizes a lot of it: “I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else. And here’s the thing about it. People love the idea of a paper girl. They always have…Because it’s kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.”
Growing up, I felt this so much. All of this pressure to be funny and smart and pretty and perfect, but the truth is that no one can be all of those things all the time. We are all people, with all of the complexity that that entails. When we pretend not to be, we lose out on having people love us for all the parts of ourselves.
So much of it is related to being a woman too. This pressure to make ourselves smaller so that we can be a supporting character. Every time I show a man that I know something he doesn’t, I can feel how uncomfortable (at best) and angry (more likely) they are. Paper towns is a great reminder that I am not here for anyone else’s development. I am my own story.
Don’t understand how John Green could write something like “I’m stressed about work, even though my work is absurdly inessential.”
There’s a reason I return again and again to all of his work. I deeply feel that my life has been saved with the hope and wonder and joy he has given me. Art is not a luxury. It’s a necessity.
Pizza John 2.0
Unused design for the Pizzamas Fan Art Contest