Pippin spam!

and other stories from a soon-to-be college grad.

Including “Seriously, just Hire Me Already, I’m Fucking Awesome” and “How am I Supposed to Get Experience if No One Will Hire Me Without It?” 

fytortall:

Tortall Fan Cast: Tristan Staghorn

bwahahahahaha

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bakerstreetbabes:

spockisinthetardis:

ohcrap-itsactuallymydivision:

cutiebatch:

If I could describe Greg Lestrade in one photo this would be it.

#Its not my division if I cant see it

See no divisions, hear no divisions, speak no divisions.

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Applied for a graduate assistantship. I really hope more start opening up soon. I need one if I’m going to go to grad school, and I want to go so bad

So my plans for grad school next year might be falling through.

Which means I might have to move back home after I graduate

(which I would hate to do because my family dynamic is just not good for my brain space right now)

but that might get better because my brother might be out of the house in August-ish if he goes to college.

But I’ve been advised against deciding one way or the other because I might get a graduate assistant position

which means I might be able to afford grad school.

But that means I might need to find an apartment in Kalamazoo.

And that means I might need to look for a summer job here

rather than going back home, where I might have a job at a daycare already lined up

And it’s making me anxious, because I might be really bad at not having a plan and I might be really bad at not knowing.

Actually, I am really bad at not knowing.

fishingboatproceeds:

karinwolfe:

fishingboatproceeds:

bookbending:

Maybe opinion isn’t the best word to go with unbiased. Style overview, maybe?

Teens don’t sound like that; we get that road trips are a metaphor for adolescence; manic pixie dream girls (or boy); they’re all the same; teenagers aren’t as smart as he makes them seem; people only like his books because the Internet.

John Green, everyone.

Yes, to be clear, since people are getting upset, I WROTE THIS. I was making fun of myself. But now I feel the need to defend myself against the terrible accustations that I earlier made, so fine:

1. Lots of good novels involve the use of heightened language and/or don’t attempt to perfectly replicate human speech. 

2. Road trips are a good metaphor for adolescence, and I have used the metaphor twice: In Katherines, where the road trip lasts about ten pages, and in Paper Towns, where the road trip lasts about 30 pages. Road trips comprise about 3% of my published work. I’ve devoted almost as much space to Moby Dick, and probably more to jokes about testicles. (TFiOS is sometimes accused of featuring a road trip, but it doesn’t. It does contain travel, but then again, so do most human lives in the contemporary industrialized world.)

3. Augustus Waters is not a Manic Pixie Dream Boy, and Hazel’s initial misimagining of him (and Gus’s initial wish to be misimagined) falls away pretty quickly. Both Alaska Young (in LfA) and Margo Rothe Spiegelman (in Paper Towns) are imagined by the boys who adore them as manic pixie dream girls, but in both cases, this inability to see a young woman as fully human has disastrous consequences, and in Paper Towns the dirty pernicious lie of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl is repeatedly and violently destroyed. In fact, that’s essentially the plot of Paper Towns.

4. Stop telling teenagers how smart they aren’t.

5. The Internet has definitely been good for (and kind to) my books, but for the record, nerdfighters report enjoying TFiOS about as much as, for lack of a better term, “regular people.” If my books were read primarily by people who liked them because the Internet, you’d expect the ratings at goodreads* to be high initially but then as word spread out to “regular people” and they started reading the book, the ratings would go down significantly. (This happened to Paper Towns, for instance, and it happens to most books by authors with built-in fan bases.) But with TFiOS, the ratings have been very stable: The first 50,000 ratings averaged 4.55; the most recent 50,000 ratings have averaged 4.54.

(For the record, there are lots of good and fair criticisms of my books, and I certainly don’t think they are amazing or anything. I just don’t think these particular criticisms hold up to scrutiny.)

* Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

Reason #173 why John Green is one of my favorite people. 

bartheswasright:

egriz:

thatonefatass:

candyexorcist:

tmohzone:

pizoxuat:

arcenci:

sherlockshiverandshake:

castielattano:

lobbygow:

brash-and-bold:

rageroomies:

spreaditlikeavirus:

loveofotaku:

finyb:

obfuscobble:

quinze-corbeaux:

laundry is so lame
i will just put it away
at a later date

panicsheep:

my brain orders left
turn right to face my pillow
true incompetence

themaskedstray:

A wolf tooth necklace
A gift from my loving girl
A pack we have formed

slogandstuff:

Crackey bump in wall
Mystery since I moved here
An open door hides

*turns head left… oh no…
まにまにの
紅白鬼と
斬馬刀
(manimani no | kouhaku oni to | zanbatou)
(drifting, | red and white, the demon and　| the horse-slaying blade)

Really? A fucking wall
I’m writing about a wall.
Where did I go wrong?

strange yellow round fruit
really dont know what you are
found you on the street 

Godfuckingdamnit

Sis don’t lick the salt shaker

Stop that shit at once

Oh look there’s my bed

how I’d love to sleep on that

shit I have homework

wow great a pillow

so soft and all that good shit

lemme lay on you

Oh girl in my class

I like your blue pencil

I’m going to steal it

My shitty printer

has been out of ink for like…

three goddamn weeks now

there is a table

with not much on top of it

just a dumb table

A stack of homework,

waiting to be completed

hahahaha NOPE

I made a damn tail

for a stupid cute dino

DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO

Look at that futon

I assembled that futon

Once I slept on it

Steven, you’ve been here

just as long as I have, man.

Glad I’m not alone.

I see a white door

A calendar hangs there

Dude, why do you care?

A Pony in air

When did I hang Pinkie Pie there

Nopony will know

The fucking heater
Dries out my throat at night:
I sound like I smoke.

Campus is pretty
Especially in the snow
But it’s fucking cold 

edwardspoonhands:

P4A is the best time.

Happy P4A!

dft.ba/p4alive

http://www.indiegogo.com/p4a2012

http://www.projectforawesome.com/