John Green does not know who I am but has been more of an avuncular presence in my life since 2007 than my actual uncles.
TIL what avuncular means.
p.s. You’re doing great, kid. Proud of you. Do you have a five year plan? How’s that boyfriend of yours? Oh yeah? Never liked him anyway.
skittyblackfire asked:
Dear John,
I recently moved to a house with a bath; would the soaps you try to sell me (and successfully I might add) be good for bathing or are they specifically for your hands and hair?
Also, in the FAQ a sample pack is mentioned but I can't find it in good.store can you help me?
With love and enthusiasm,
Corine
Corine! Welcome to the Fine World of Baths!
Every bar of Sun Basin Soap is perfect for your bath (or your shower), and our shampoo bars are also amazing for your hair.
But if you are really looking to give yourself an extraordinary bath, might I recommend our Viridian Sun Bath Box, which contains:
THAT will truly take your bath experience to a whole new level, and 100% of the profits go to charity.
So many very kind people have responded to my last tumblr post by saying, “I never read your books, but I like your work on YouTube and tumblr.”
MOTHERFUCKERS MY BOOKS ARE STILL IN PRINT. THEY ARE AT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. REMEDY THIS SITUATION IMMEDIATELY.
It’s still so weird to me that the guy who wrote the fault in our stars and experienced global adulation and then global reprobation from the backlash and everything from SNL skits to being soft canceled on tumblr ….
was me.
Like, that guy was me. He lived in the same house I live in. One time he walked down to the river and cried and then yelled at himself for crying because who cries about having such a ridiculously good life.
I guess my big takeaway from that whole experience is 1. past me gave current me a lot of opportunities and freedoms for which I am grateful, including the opportunity to support cool people doing cool stuff, and the freedom to write about whatever I want (a memoir in the form of five-star reviews! A book about tuberculosis and its discontents!).
And also 2. the actual experience of Proper Fame is so unpleasant that I do not know how anyone who lives with regular pop culturey fame continues to seek it after getting a good hit of it. I admire the people who do–they get to make a lot of difference in the world in many cases. I am just baffled by them.
I would like to write books that seek large audiences again someday, but I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to. I may need to stay in these small happy places where I’ve been able to live over the last five years.
But the complicated and ever-evolving tension between on the one hand wanting to have my own life, a life that truly and fully belongs to me, and on the other hand wanting to make stuff that is beloved by people and useful to them and so on … it’s a hell of a labyrinth to navigate, and I’m nowhere near out of it.
Today will be the biggest day in http://good.store’s history, and one of the biggest days in the history of our company. More evidence that donate-the-profit models can also be growth-focused models. Profit that goes to the business owner is, after a point, mere Smaug-level hoarding. There are better ways.
It’s Black Friday, the biggest shopping day in the United States. The difference between good.store and most Black Friday purchasing opportunities:
100% of our profit goes to charity. In the last two years, you’ve helped us donate over $5,000,000 to expand access to cancer care and fight maternal mortality in impoverished communities.
We make the best coffee, soap, and socks you can buy. It’s a great gift. And best of all, you can actually feel good about where you money is going. good.store!
oh and if you use the offer code tumblrthanks, we’ll give you 25% off whatever you buy today and today only as thanks for a great year … advertising our coffee and other products … on this platform that famously loves advertising.
macybay947 asked:
I don't drink coffee myself, but I was thinking about getting some Awesome Coffee for my parents for Christmas because I've heard so many people say it's better (as well as humanitarian reasons, of course). They currently drink Folger's Classic Roast. Are any of yours comparable to the flavor? I want to make sure they like it..
You’re looking for Octavia, our darkest roast. Your parents will love it. Also please use the checkout code TUMBLRTHANKS to get 25% off so it’s not even that much more expensive than their usual coffee! Thanks. -John
I had a weird year. My brother got cancer. I worked for several months as unexpected CEO. Our community took on large corporations to expand access to TB care. Weird.
But maybe the weirdest part of this very weird year: Rediscovering tumblr, and finding the experience lovely and funny and just altogether surprising.
So thanks for letting this unpaid intern hang around. I’ve got a simple pitch for you, and a thank you:
At http://good.store, we make awesome products–from soap to coffee to socks Hank designed during chemo–and then donate 100% of the profit to charities working to expand access to healthcare. This silly idea has raised over $6,000,000 in the last two years.
So as thanks for a surprisingly delightful time on tumblr this year, I want to offer you a 25% discount on anything at good store. Just click this link right here, or else use the code TUMBLRTHANKS at checkout We’ve got great gifts, great subscriptions, and much more. Code will be good until Monday. Thanks.
I just want to keep my job even though I don’t know how to make memes. Buy our coffee. We’ve got holiday gifts for the coffee lover in your life.
Awesome Coffee is different because 1. we source our beans directly from small farmers collectives, 2. it’s better and fresher than grocery store coffee, and 3. ALL of our profit goes to fight maternal and child mortality in impoverished communities, whereas almost all other coffee makes rich people richer, which is the dumbest thing that can be done with coffee (or other forms of wealth).
