The Awesome Coffee Club

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goodgrammaritan asked:

I'm glad you're back on tumblr. I met you at a library a million years ago for a Paper Towns event. I worked at a bookstore at the time and told you I'd put An Abundance of Katherines on the Staff Recommends shelf, and you put your hand on mine and said, "Thank you. Really." in the sincerest tone I've ever heard, and then signed my books (including an anagram of my name in my copy of Katherines), and I've met a few authors in my time but never one as utterly sincere as you, and it meant a lot, and you're awesome, and I'm going to continue to buy all your books.

And your soap. Your soap is good.

Thank you for being who you are.

Thanks. We do make very good soap.

selfconsciouswriter-deactivated asked:

I'm sure you've heard this thousands of times before, but "we so rarely get to thank those who shaped us" as Neil Gaiman says, and I just wanted to say thank you for "The Anthropocene Reviewed."

In podcast as well as book form, it's meant so much to me, and accompanied me through some hard times (I reread "The World's Largest Ball of Paint" on the days when I feel like I'm losing sight of hope - which is, even to me, "a prerequisite for my survival").

I'm so grateful to have had Vlogbrothers, Crash Course and "The Anthropocene Reviewed" to keep me company through my college years - thank you so, so much for all that you do.

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P.S - As my annotation would suggest, this is truly one of my favourite ways to describe what it means to love literature.

My greatest dream has always been that people would annotate and dogear and highlight my books. (As long as it’s not a library copy!!) Books belong to their readers, and when readers care enough to make that book fully theirs by interacting with it so deeply that they change the book itself, it just means the world to me.

Thank you for bringing so much of your self to your reading of The Anthropocene Reviewed.

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Scars on your body show that you have lived; scars on your heart show that you have loved.

Nina Dul

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Scars on your forearm show that once when you were twenty you got an infected cut while driving with your girlfriend through the Yukon Territory and your arm swelled up like an inflated balloon and you didn’t know where to even begin trying to find a hospital or clinic so you stopped at a random house that had a red cross outside of it and the lady who lived there turned out to be a nurse and drove you to the doctor’s office where the doctor was like “we gotta drain this but I don’t have any anesthesia” so he told you to ball your shirt up and bite down on it while he cut you open and he drained an astonishing amount of fluid from your arm then stitched it up with a single stitch and charged you five canadian dollars for the entire affair.

dauntlessjai asked:

hey john!

a common inside joke about the BCG vaccine has been going viral once again recently. it’s about how latin americans can always spot one another because of the vaccine scar they have on their arms, since we all got the shot as a baby and are usually crazily proud of it (is this a weird flex?).

there is countless memes going around, one of them shows a non latin-american pedro pascal fan calling it a sexy beauty mark after seeing him shirtless.

even though all of this is hilarious, it feels weird to see this subject come up without you being in it. I thought I would share just for the funsies, but also, do you guys not take this vaccine in the US? Is it just because TB doesn’t have a lot of cases yearly? Is it because of something else? Do you also have this sexy beauty mark?

Most people in North America do not, in fact, have this sexy beauty mark.

The BCG vaccine is more than 100 years old and remains the only vaccine for tuberculosis–even though we could’ve already developed new vaccines if the rich world gave a shit about TB.

BCG is effective at preventing death and serious illness from tuberculosis in young children, but it has very little (if any) efficacy in adolescents and adults. For this reason, it makes sense to give the vaccine in places where lots of kids contract TB. In the U.S., rates of active TB are low enough that young children hardly ever get infected, and so it wouldn’t have much impact on our burden of tuberculosis.

So that’s why some people have that sexy beauty mark and others do not!

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