Not what I expected coming from John Green
I said what I said.
queer-talmid asked:
thoughts on recent solar flare?
It’s weird because I know that all life is contingent upon the Sun, and I’m grateful and everything, but I still feel like that motherfucker is coming for us, you know?
woa... i didnt know he was so old...
- co-founded vidcon
- co-founded crash course
- wrote the fault in our stars and looking for alaska
- started the world’s best coffee company that donates all its profit to charity
- obsessed with tuberculosis
- got bullied off of tumblr by 13-year-old anarchomarxists but then triumphantly returned to reclaim his desolated kingdom
- wrote the 1928 jazz standard “Coquette”
figuring-it-out52 asked:
I just finished the turtles all the way down movie and I am bawling because it made me feel like I will be fine, a little less deeper within. That I will have a full life despite being an anxious person. That I am loveable and not useless. That I might be slower at some things but it's okay. Thank you. For the movie. And the book. The book had wrecked me equally. Thank youFor everything. Truly.
I’m glad the movie made you feel those things. I am even more happy to tell you that all those things are true.
Because I wrote a chapter of The Anthropocene Reviewed about the history of Diet Dr Pepper, the Dr Pepper Snapple Company reached out to me one day to inquire a brand relationship.
I am not one to turn my nose up at Big Soda money, so I agreed to meet with them. Two nice people showed up on zoom and they said what kind of relationship with Dr Pepper would interest you, and I said:
“I would like for Dr Pepper to be the official sponsor of humanity’s relationship with the moon.” My idea was that Dr Pepper and I would share stories from history about how humanity has understood and imagined the moon, and then at the end there would be a little tag line that was like, “Dr Pepper: Sponsoring Humanity’s Relationship with the Moon Since 2023.”
I still think this is a great idea. Who needs an Official Soda more than humanity’s relationship with the moon???
Then they asked me if I would, like, make tiktoks about how much I liked Diet Dr Pepper, and I said of course not that would be extremely boring.
Anyway, they never got back to me.
Crash Course Pods: The Universe episode 2 out now!
I am making a podcast with an astrophysicist, and it’s a real mind-blower.
i have learned more about star wars from one singular chapter of turtles all the way down by john green discussing whether or not a human being in a relationship with a wookie is weird or not than i ever have from any other part of my life
This is my legacy.
“[...] [A]ll my life, I'd been unable to think straight, unable to even finish having a thought because my thoughts came not in lines but in knotted loops curling in upon themselves, in sinking quicksand, in light-swallowing wormholes.”
– Aza Holmes, Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
viola-cola asked:
I don't usually cry at movies. Or at anything outside my head. The closest I get is that weird floaty feeling you get in your stomach when you read a sentence or line that resonates like a tuning fork. But I just watched the Turtles All The Way Down film and I was sniffling into my pillows like some kind of protagonist. And I remembered being sixteen and highlighting those lines in the book that made my stomach float. And I remembered wanting so desperately to be "better enough". And I guess, all this is to say, thank you. And thank everyone who made the film and everyone who made them get far enough to make it.
thank you thank you thank you.
I’ve received so many beautiful messages about the turtles all the way down movie. I wish I could reply to each of them. Thank you for caring about this movie. Thank you for bringing your deepest self to it.