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The consequences will never be the same.

The consequences will never be the same.

I’ve been receiving some particularly nasty and marginally scary YouTube comments recently. Today it added up with many other notsome things going on and it made me a bit sad. But then I re-found this video.
Why yes, my room at uni does have little hints of my nerdfighterian nationality here there and everywhere.

Why yes, my room at uni does have little hints of my nerdfighterian nationality here there and everywhere.

I understand that there are a lot of things about human existence that are extraordinarily arbitrary, like whether or not you get cancer when you’re thirty, or whether or not you’re born in a rich country, or whether or not when you’re twenty-six you happen to meet the world’s hottest Yeti, but just because there are a lot of unfair things in this world that we can’t do anything about doesn’t mean that we don’t have to do things about the things things that we can do something about.

— secret brother John.

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Here’s everything I know about copyright: When I want to quote Emily Dickinson, it’s expensive, even though she has been dead forever.

- J.G.

I know I post a lot of B2.0 (and generally, Vlogbrothers) videos on this tumblr and call them all my favourite, all-time bests and so on, but this truly is in my top five. As you may have gathered this evening, I really love reading accounts of urban exploration, though I don’t know that I would ever gather the courage to do it myself. It’s even more remarkable to look back at this video having read (and re-read, and re-read, and re-read) Paper Towns.


I think it’s the bit where John says he kept slipping up and calling it ‘the Cathedral’ that makes this my favourite. Reverence is an incredibly overwhelming feeling. At times I think I feel it too much, but then there is a strange reassurance in it.

ETA: Oh, this video also has another of my all-time favourite authors in it, M.T. Anderson. Please read The Astonishing Tale of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Parts I and II. Really breathtaking storytelling.

& here's the extended edition, in case you're interested

Pittsburgh never forgets to be awesome.

It’s 1.44am and whilst I’ve been tumbling things, I’ve also been re-reading Looking for Alaska. I’m supposed to be reading six or seven other books right now but I suspect I’ve lost my marbles. How can I feel so worn out so early in the year? Absolutely exhausted. LfA is certainly involving, but cathartic, to some extent. And still a ruddy good novel. After four and a half-years of obsessive re-reading, it’s still a ruddy good novel. Wishing I had AoK and PT with me for other late-night reads. Oh well. I suppose this is really naughty of me anyway and I ought to resume reading my big literary class-assigned books pronto.

It’s 1.44am and whilst I’ve been tumbling things, I’ve also been re-reading Looking for Alaska. I’m supposed to be reading six or seven other books right now but I suspect I’ve lost my marbles. How can I feel so worn out so early in the year? Absolutely exhausted.

LfA is certainly involving, but cathartic, to some extent.

And still a ruddy good novel. After four and a half-years of obsessive re-reading, it’s still a ruddy good novel. Wishing I had AoK and PT with me for other late-night reads. Oh well. I suppose this is really naughty of me anyway and I ought to resume reading my big literary class-assigned books pronto.

“Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”

- Looking for Alaska by J.G.

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I dislike posting gifs on my tumblr because they make my eyes hurt a bit but this one was quite apt for my mindset since 1pm today: I HAVE FINISHED MY READING FOR THE WHOLE OF NEXT WEEK. Which, not to sound to snotty/bookish/me, is a huge weight off my mind, despite the fact that I spent the last few days absolutely buried in my books. It also means I can get started on my midterm essays so I don’t descend into absolute panic about them next week, a few days before I head off to L.A. A big rush of joy. Desperately needed. Wondering how long it shall last?

I dislike posting gifs on my tumblr because they make my eyes hurt a bit but this one was quite apt for my mindset since 1pm today: I HAVE FINISHED MY READING FOR THE WHOLE OF NEXT WEEK.

Which, not to sound to snotty/bookish/me, is a huge weight off my mind, despite the fact that I spent the last few days absolutely buried in my books.

It also means I can get started on my midterm essays so I don’t descend into absolute panic about them next week, a few days before I head off to L.A.

A big rush of joy. Desperately needed. Wondering how long it shall last?

(via effyeahnerdfighters)

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