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I’m really impressed that I recovered enough to say “Thank you, sir” while urine was running down my leg.
This is the last thing I’ll reblog on the topic. Is a lie.
Muslims and Christians and Jews and atheists gathered together as nerdfighters in a rehabbed monastery in Manchester.
Olympic gymnast and all-around lovely person Jennifer Pinches hosted Question Tuesday.
I read about the Literal Heart of Jesus while standing in a monastery’s cruciform church…
I’m just so full of gratitude and joy and all the good stuff right now. Scrolling through the nerdfighters and evening of awesome tags this morning, I just keep crying. I don’t even know why.
It’s really hard to effectively express how grateful I am for nerdfighteria and all the stuff we’ve done and made together. Every time I try to talk about it, I always feel like I come up short, or like it sounds insincere. But last night it seemed like we all felt it—and to be in that big room surrounded by people I love was just the most wonderful and fortunate thing.
Thank you. Thank you.
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The thing about Jennifer Lawrence is that every movie she’s in, you just think, I would be terrific friends with this person.
Which is actually a very weird phenomenon when you think about it, because, like, I probably wouldn’t be terrific friends with a young widow who loves ballroom dancing, or a bow hunter from District 12, or a shapeshifting mutant.
And yet….
How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1
In which John Green kicks off the Crash Course Literature mini series with a reasonable set of questions. Why do we read? What’s the point of reading critically? John will argue that reading is about effectively communicating with other people. Unlike a direct communication though, the writer has to communicate with a stranger, through time and space, with only “dry dead words on a page.” So how’s that going to work? Find out with Crash Course Literature! Also, readers are empowered during the open letter, so that’s pretty cool.
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To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012
In which John discusses the surprises and pleasures of being anything at all while attending the Harry Potter conference LeakyCon and walking around downtown Chicago. Also, I read from some humiliating high school fiction.
I literally can’t talk about how much I love Thoughts from Places.
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This is a photo of me stagediving at LeakyCon. It was taken by the lovely and charming Evanna Lynch. Life is weird/beautiful.
Anyway, while I was crowdsurfing—I was out there for quite a while—I had time to think about some things:
1. The Harry Potter fandom is uniquely wonderful, and the greatest luck of my professional life is probably that so many HP fans became early nerdfighters, because the whole culture of nerdfighteria came not primarily from us but from those early nerdfighters.
2. Although it is hard for me to express it in a meaningful, individual way, I am really grateful to everyone who identifies as a nerdfighter. We’ve done so much amazing stuff together that none of us could ever have done alone.
3. I love being a nerdfighter, and I love being a nerd, and I seeing people be so honestly themselves is such an inspiration to me.
4. How are all these people—many of whom are very small—holding me aloft?
5. The metaphor here is too obvious.
6. There’s probably a better, more interesting metaphor that I’m not thinking of.
7. I guess the real metaphor is not you-can-only-make-stuff-if-people-hold-you-up; the real metaphor here is that together-things-happen-that-can-never-happen-alone, which is a very important thing for an introverted and socially anxious person like me to realize. I guess these days this is a politically charged statement, but it seems to me manifestly true: You make nothing alone. Human beings are not mere competitors, and human life is not merely competition. We are collaborators. To be human is to catch the falling person.
John Green recently requested quote posters, and here’s my TFIOS themed addition to the bunch.
I designed the glasses and book myself and liked the glasses so much I made a pop art thing with them too.
As my boyfriend pointed out: There is a reader in the word “books” and a book in the word “readers” tee hee.
Anyways, I may be getting this printed for my own wall. We hear you John!
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When I saw that John reblogged that fantastic Spider-Man image, I knew I had to make this.
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Their first fight was over what to have for dinner.
“Pizza,” called John from the couch, an expression of mixed concentration and hunger on his face as he grappled with his X-Box controller, once again trying to bring Swindon Town to victory over its latest Goliath opponent, “Pizza is the dinner of winners, the fuel of champions. I mean, really…when people try to describe how great a thing is, they should actually say that it’s the best thing since sliced Pizza. OH MY GOD, OTHER JOHN GREEN TO OTHER JOHN GREEN WITH A FANTASTIC GOAL! WHAT. A. FINISHERRRR!”.
Tyler rolled his eyes as John burst into song, momentarily putting down the bowl of salad he had been posing with. Of course, he wasn’t going to eat the salad. There weren’t any stock images of women eating salad, after all.
“I’m getting Taco Bell and there’s nothing you can do to stop me,” said Tyler with an insolent grin. He watched as John paused the game and glanced at him with mingled lust and starvation, “Well… almost nothing”.
God bless.
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John Green says something.
(From the TFiOS audiobook. No spoilers.)
I was hoping someone was gonna post this!
Real human being.
Hashtag Real John Green.
This might just be the most inspirational and beautiful thing I have ever heard John say, ever.
John has such an elegant way with words.
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