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@hankgreenappreciation
not expecting anything but I made a kofi just for fun, so if you've enjoyed this blog and @john-green-out-of-context over the years and you have a couple of spare pounds rattling around, you can make my day and buy me a coffee :)
oh wait just realized i can edit my own posts.
like you can't edit reblogs anymore but you can still edit your own post even after it has a thousand notes or whatever.
i have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.
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"
I've said it before and i'll say it again: THAT IS NOT A FUCKING METAPHOR, JOHN GREEN
Thanks for tagging me in this. I agree that what Gus thinks is the metaphor is not the metaphor in The Fault in Our Stars, but I do think there is nonetheless a metaphor lurking there.
In The Fault in Our Stars, Gus is indeed engaging in classic teenage attention-seeking by putting a cigarette in his mouth but not smoking it, and he justifies this by claiming it's a metaphor for his agency, for his control over what happens to him. "You put the killing thing between your teeth but don't give it the power to kill you." As if you have the power.
But of course, the reader knows this is not a good metaphor. This is not how power or agency work--you don't actually have control over what happens to you, and (as Gus eventually realizes at the very end of the novel) you don't have any say in whether you get hurt in this world.
The actual metaphor is that despite our furious attempts to establish a feeling of agency, we never actually have it. And so of course Gus is wrong when he says, "It's a metaphor." The actual metaphor is that when Gus desperately needs to express his agency over what happens to him, he's not even strong enough to buy a pack of cigarettes, let alone make a choice about whether to smoke them. That's the metaphor--Gus thinks the cigarette stands for the control individuals have over their fate; the actual metaphor is that the cigarette stands for the control we lack, for the fault that is in our stars.
I just got my first anon hate, does this mean I'm officially popular on tumblr?
i know people make these kinds of posts with fictional characters a lot but like. hank green truly is one of The Most Guys Ever. like. he's one of the earliest youtubers who is still on there. he's a 43-year-old tiktok star. he's a science educator. he got cancer and his response was to make a tier list of the press's coverage of his cancer announcement. the president of the united states sent him a message of support and he told the president that he was pissing out the cancer. years earlier he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and his response was to write a polka song about it. he created vidcon. he's the ceo of a company that produces a shitton of educational series (well, not acting ceo at the moment due to the aforementioned cancer). his guitar says "this machine pwns n00bs" on it. he invented 2D glasses. one of his earliest videos to get popular was about animal sex. between him and his brother, he was known as "the science one" (or "the music one") while his brother was "the writer one," and then he wrote two new york times bestselling novels. his most controversial opinion is that butt is legs. he's done so many things that there is a website dedicated to counting the number of days since he started a new thing. he and his brother use their internet following to (among other things) fight maternal/infant mortality in sierra leone. he has a baked bean furby. hes even bisexual
In 1998. his Winter Park High School classmates named him “Best Dancer.” He’s had an album on the Billboard Charts, and he won an Emmy for a web-based adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. He co-founded DFTBA.com, the Awesome Coffee Club, the Awesome Sock Club, and Sun Basin Soap--but doesn’t make money from any of them. Instead he’s led these brands to donate over $5,000,000 to a hospital in Sierra Leone. His companies, when he stepped down as CEO due to the cancer, had over 115 full-time employees, all of whom receive a living wage and good benefits. His production company, Complexly, has made educational videos with 5 billion total views, and helped hundreds of millions learn through SciShow and Crash Course. He is the sweetest dad to the world’s most amazing six-year-old, and the spouse of one of the funniest people you’ll ever meet, and he is loved--ferociously--by his brother. He truly is among the Most Guys Ever.
WHY IS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS SO SAD NO ONE PREPARED ME FOR THIS
Good job to everyone on not spoiling TFIOS for this person even 12 years after its initial publication. For several years it was almost impossible to approach TFIOS cold, but it’s lovely to see it starting to happen again.
p.s. sorry for the sad parts.
unfortunately i do find this funny
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happy pride month to hank green and hank green ONLY
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So at the risk of being weird about someone with an illness, over the last few weeks Hank Green has gone from someone who i think is generally pretty cool, whose content i enjoy and whose work i generally admire, to being someone i actually actively look up to.
That's not because ✨ his battle with cancer is so touching and inspiring✨ or any of that weird inspiration porn bullcrap. I mean, i don't know, maybe this is still problematic. And also i want to make clear that if Hank decides to retreat from public life for a while, that's completely understandable and i think he should do whatever he needs to do to stay healthy and happy.
All of that being said, what i find so inspiring is the vulnerability and openness he has maintained, and the curiosity with which he has approached a new, scary phase of his existence.
He's being very open about things, inviting us to witness this in a way a lot of us wouldn't otherwise in our lives see someone - hearing about the vocal cords, the hair, the nausea, the weird pains. He's sharing some thoughts on life from his new vantage point. He's admitting when he's scared or sad, and also talking about the other complicated realities he's experiencing, like not wanting his identity to be swallowed up in cancer, not wanting to be pitied, and also feeling happy and grateful that it's treatable, he has access to treatment, etc.
And besides all that, he's continuing to be visible as the same person he always was, learning about cancer and chemo and radiation and the body and all of this with a level of zeal that would be surprising from just about anyone else, and sharing it, along with all other sciency and existential thoughts.
I think that's really cool. Because for a lot of us, "you have cancer" sounds like a death knell and what happens between "you have cancer" and either "you're cancer free" or death is kind of a black box. An apocalypse on the individual scale. Hank is taking the top off the box to show people some of the contents. And i don't know, i just think that's really cool - maintaining curiosity and openness and vulnerability and selfhood, and continuing to make visible what most of us turn away from, is a really bold choice.
It's a reminder that "the end of the world" or an apocalyptic event isn't actually The End, and people go on being delightful, curious, tender, scared and happy throughout what comes after the event that changes everything. Like Hank isn't some sanctified figure, he's literally just a guy - but i think that almost makes it even cooler of him.
Anyway. Thanks Hank. Wishing you a speedy recovery :)
I'm assuming you're gonna post a lot of hank green so I won't ask about all posts in general but could you tag this particular post as
#cancer
Please? It's pretty popular so I have a feeling it might come up on my dash a lot
https://www.tumblr.com/hankgreenappreciation/718590978744860672/i-never-go-on-twitter-because-you-know-its
Done, sorry for not doing it originally!
"average bisexual starts 3 businesses a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average bisexual starts 0 businesses a year. Businesses Hank, who lives in montana and starts over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
in hysterics
I just remembered like ten years ago I saw a video where Hank said something like ‘...but I’m not bi enough to care’ and I made this. It’s funny because I don’t identify as bi anymore but apparently he does! These things evolve over time and they can take a long time to figure out. Happy pride month <3
um also did Hank just come out as bi while making memes and talking about Ryan Gosling Reynolds or was I supposed to already know that
Help my last post has breached containment and is being reblogged by people who don’t even know who Hank is… and people who think he’s John
