Passing Notes in Class

steps in, looks around Boy I haven’t been here in long time! *gets a rag to wipe off the...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:41:16 -0800

*steps in, looks around*

Boy I haven’t been here in long time!

*gets a rag to wipe off the dust*

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Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:23:05 -0800

fishingboatproceeds: This is a photo of me stagediving at...

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:08:17 -0700

fishingboatproceeds:

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.

funnyordie: Why We’re Really Watching the Olympics Finally, a...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:21:00 -0700

funnyordie:

Why We’re Really Watching the Olympics

Finally, a gold medal in honesty.

fishingboatproceeds: robofillet: effyeahnerdfighters: colfr: ...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:20:23 -0700

fishingboatproceeds:

robofillet:

effyeahnerdfighters:

colfr:

Jennifer Pinches - the Nerdfighter gang sign on the Women’s gymnastics team final in the Olympics

Woo hoo! You can follow Jenni on twitter here. Best of luck to her and the Great Britain team!

DUDE.

Go Pinches!

I WILL REBLOG THIS FROM ALL THE PLACES.

goddamnedrhombuses: This is a GIF of Hank Green holding a cat.

Tue, 22 May 2012 06:41:57 -0700

goddamnedrhombuses:

This is a GIF of Hank Green holding a cat.

John Green's tumblr: What inspired you to write The Book Thief?

Mon, 14 May 2012 22:54:00 -0700

John Green's tumblr: What inspired you to write The Book Thief?:

mzfaq:

I grew up in Sydney and had a pretty normal childhood with my brother and two sisters. We lived most of our lives in the backyard, doing typical Australian things, but once in a while, it wasn’t Sydney anymore – because our parents told us their stories. That was when a piece of…

fishingboatproceeds: nerdfighteria-tardis: Reblog if you have...

Sun, 06 May 2012 01:28:25 -0700

fishingboatproceeds:

nerdfighteria-tardis:

Reblog if you have this

Reblogging this from WIL WHEATON. (Also, I do have one of these.)

"The first time that Katniss has to go into the cylinder and she goes up into the arena and looks..."

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:20:08 -0800

““The first time that Katniss has to go into the cylinder and she goes up into the arena and looks around and sees it for the first time,” says Lawrence. “Knowing that when that trumpet blows she could die. The thing that’s great about her is she’s not a murderer. She’s a hunter, but she’s not a killer. I told Gary, ‘I totally understand if you don’t hire me, but please remember that after Katniss shoots a bow and kills someone her face cannot be badass. It has to be broken.’ She has to be heartbroken because she just took another person’s life. It’s so tempting, especially with a cool, big budget franchise movie, but we have to remember that she’s a 16-year-old girl who’s being forced to do this. These kids are only killing each other because if they don’t, they’ll die. It’s needless, pointless, unjustified violence. So there’s nothing cool about her. It’s not like she looks around the arena and goes ‘Yeah, I got this, I’m going to do this.’ I think she looks around terrified and thinks, ‘Well there are all the million different ways that I can die.””

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-Jennifer Lawrence

This quote is the reason I have high hopes for the Hunger Games films. Kinda want to hug Jennifer Lawrence for fighting for the role, and the character of the role. Because this is exactly it. She’s not a badass, and what separates Katniss is that she only kills when it’s her only option. She is a broken girl who spent half her life taking care of her family and now has to try and save her own life in an impossible circumstance, as yet another way of taking care of her family. Against crazy odds. Against 23 potential killers. Against a dictatorship. Against freaking EVERYTHING. While trying to remain true to herself. That first kill, and any others after… they are terrible, for her and everyone. What she does to Cato is so stunning at that moment because it reaffirms who she is, right before the end. It’s what connects her to the world outside the arena, in Panem. It’s what makes her the Mockingjay. AND JENNIFER LAWRENCE GETS IT. I love her.

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Conversations

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:39:29 -0800

Period: I’m going to be easy on you this month.

Me: Really?

Period: Oh yes. Very little backache. No nausea. I, also, will NOT make you feel as if you need to shower and change every hour on the hour.

Me: Awesome! *happy dancing* Oh yeah, I can happy dance. Uh huh, my back don’t hurt, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh…

Period: I will only make your face explode.

Me: SON OF A BITCH!!!!!

effyeahnerdfighters: Blue steel (via holypalmers) HAHAHA!...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:15:23 -0800

effyeahnerdfighters:

Blue steel

(via holypalmers)

HAHAHA! This is the first thing that’s made me smile all day.

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Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:10:45 -0800

"You choose what to think about. And you may not feel that way every day, but the truth is, that you..."

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:05:36 -0800

“You choose what to think about. And you may not feel that way every day, but the truth is, that you choose what you think about. It’s one of the few things that you can choose and it is—it’s kind of the definition, I think, of being a person. It’s that you have this weird gift of consciousness and you get to choose how you direct that gift. Like, how you direct your ability to think about things. So, if you choose to think about the relative health of the romantic relationships of The Situation, you’re making that choice. MTV is not making that choice for you, The Situation is not making that choice for you, you are making that choice. If you choose to think about astrophysics, you are making that choice. Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever. You are choosing how you spend your life, and it will be spent. And that’s a very serious thing that you have to try to take pretty seriously, even though, of course, much of our lives—because consciousness is kind of a burden—needs to be spent turning that off, which is, you know, why God made television. But we have this responsibility to ourselves, to each other, but also to the people who came before us and the people who will come after us, to think consciously about what we’re thinking about. And that was, in some ways the beginning of The Fault in Our Stars for me, was trying to think about, what I should be thinking about. Trying to think how I should be orienting my life, what should I value, what should I prioritize. And I grew up—and so did most of you—I think, in a world that values a very specific kind of heroism. The kind where you jump on a grenade to save your buddy, or you die heroically because your family says that you can’t marry the girl you want to marry, and you’re fourteen and somehow you think that’s a deal breaker?—which is the plot of Romeo and Juliet, I ruined it for some of you, sorry; I should have prefaced that with a spoiler alert, but if you haven’t read Romeo and Juliet, that’s your fault—or in another of our great epics of heroism, The Odyssey—which I’m also about to spoil for you, but it’s a good reading experience, regardless. There’s this dude, his name’s Odysseus, he does some good warring, top-notch warring, and it takes him a long time to get home, because a bunch of stuff happens, and then he finally gets home and his wife has a bunch of suitors, and the correct response to that situation is to be like, ‘Hey! I was gone for a long time, and there’s no text messaging, you didn’t know I was okay, like of course there’s a bunch of suitors living here, that’s cool, but suitors it’s time to head on out and, you know, find someone else’s house to occupy.’ And instead, what happens is that the palace floors course with blood, and that is your happily-ever-after ending. And Augustus Waters in this novel really buys into that idea of heroism, that idea that the best lives are lived on the biggest possible stage, and that the best lives are lived with an eye toward the grand heroic gesture, whether it be sacrificial or otherwise. That, like, the good life, by definition, is the big life. Well, I’m here to tell you that even the biggest lives are temporary, including the life of Odysseus, including the life of Romeo and Juliet, because, you know, we’re temporary. And if that’s the only way that we orient our lives, if that’s the only thing that we value, we’re doing ourselves, I think, a great disservice. So, I wanted to write The Fault in Our Stars because I wanted to write a story that was about the kind of small heroism that almost all of us are going to have to choose; very few of us will have the opportunity to jump on a grenade and save many, many people. The vast majority of us will have to find tiny ways to take care of ourselves and each other in the best ways that we can figure out how to do. And that’s really what The Fault in Our Stars is about, ultimately. It’s about these two kids and their parents trying to figure out how to take good care of each other and trying to figure out how to leave the best possible world for those who will come after, and also live a life that honors those who have come before.”

- John Green, on The Fault in Our Stars at the Tour de Nerdfighting Event in Austin, Texas (21 January 2012)

edwardspoonhands: Worst Touchdown ever? Meet best touchdown...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:11 -0800

edwardspoonhands:

Worst Touchdown ever? Meet best touchdown ever.

edwardspoonhands: weasleycansaveanything: John Green: GAY is...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:14:20 -0800

edwardspoonhands:

weasleycansaveanything:

John Green: GAY is NOT an INSULT (x)

EPIC SET. Thanks for doing this…whoever did it.

Hank Green's Tumblr: NYTimes Best Sellers

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:25:01 -0800

Hank Green's Tumblr: NYTimes Best Sellers:

edwardspoonhands:

I am sitting in a van right now listening to John Green talk to one of his best friends about how bad he feels about becoming a #1 best-seller on the New York Times list.

Need some backstory?

John met Ransom Riggs in college. They did an independent study on Ulsseys together. Randy was one of…

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Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:56:31 -0800

All or Nothing: How to interact with a Virgo

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:34:17 -0800

All or Nothing: How to interact with a Virgo:

mindofataurus:

Do

Pay attention to hygiene. Virgo is a stickler for a bug-free, germ-free environment.

Arrive on time even if Virgo doesn’t. It’ll earn you bonus points in the long run.

Get all the details about a trip, job, event, or investment before asking Virgo to participate. You’ll come off like a…

"She’s on the floor again. Katherine screaming after dying from the boss"

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:26:05 -0800

“She’s on the floor again. *Katherine screaming after dying from the boss*”

- Hank Green, Hank & Katherine Play SUPER MARIO BROS WII #25 - RAGE (via memorableyoutubequotes)

Why being a girl isn't working out for me:

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:24:55 -0800

Body: Oh, guess what time of the month it is!
Me: Please, god, no--
Ovaries: ALL SYSTEMS GO0O0O0OO0OO0O0O0
Brain: I quit. i quit. kittens and cupcakes and no one loves me. oh my god salty snacks i am furius
Me: Please, guys, calm down--
Face: TIME TO RUIN EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER LIKED ABOUT ME. I'M GROWING MOUNTAINS, BITCHES.
Brain: And now I'm ugly! shbdksdnksbn
Torso: Time to practice labor. cramp this bitch up. GO GO GO GO GO GO
Me: STOP IT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!
Stomach: lol clothes cant fit you anymore. you are bloated. you are now a balloooooooon!
Me: I hate you all
Brain: I KNOW EVERYONE HATES ME I AM SO DEPRESSED. we need to procreate.
Face: Lol, i'm not done yet.
Uterus: what did i ever do to deserve this?
Brain: you just wait uterus. they're going to make you hold a baby for like 10 months straight.
Uterus: You mother fuckers.
Torso: CONTRACT!
Me: I quit being female, I am now a llama.
Brain: Me gusta.

Passing Notes in Class

*steps in, looks around* Boy I haven’t been here in long time! *gets a rag to wipe off the...

Photo

fishingboatproceeds: This is a photo of me stagediving at...

funnyordie: Why We’re Really Watching the Olympics Finally, a...

fishingboatproceeds: robofillet: effyeahnerdfighters: colfr: ...

goddamnedrhombuses: This is a GIF of Hank Green holding a cat.

John Green's tumblr: What inspired you to write The Book Thief?

fishingboatproceeds: nerdfighteria-tardis: Reblog if you have...

"The first time that Katniss has to go into the cylinder and she goes up into the arena and looks..."

Conversations

effyeahnerdfighters: Blue steel (via holypalmers) HAHAHA!...

Photo

"You choose what to think about. And you may not feel that way every day, but the truth is, that you..."

edwardspoonhands: Worst Touchdown ever? Meet best touchdown...

edwardspoonhands: weasleycansaveanything: John Green: GAY is...

Hank Green's Tumblr: NYTimes Best Sellers

Photo

All or Nothing: How to interact with a Virgo

"She’s on the floor again. *Katherine screaming after dying from the boss*"

Why being a girl isn't working out for me:

steps in, looks around Boy I haven’t been here in long time! *gets a rag to wipe off the...

"She’s on the floor again. Katherine screaming after dying from the boss"