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Life is Weird. Also beautiful.

In which John Green describes his years-long relationship with Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which began with the James Joyce novel Ulysses and now includes the top two spots of the new York Times bestseller list.

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"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world monocular."

John Green

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I live for the day when I meet someone with a name as daft as his characters’. [submitted by thesockthief]

I live for the day when I meet someone with a name as daft as his characters’.

[submitted by thesockthief]

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It says: “Forgive: Then you can escape the labyrinth.” Made it this afternoon and felt inspired to add some John Green flare to it :) [submitted by howitfeelstobeyoung]

It says: “Forgive: Then you can escape the labyrinth.” Made it this afternoon and felt inspired to add some John Green flare to it :)

[submitted by howitfeelstobeyoung]

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[submitted by brifgr]

[submitted by brifgr]

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thequietwallflower: My friend Katherine and I made some Hectic Glow shirts. It was much fun. Seriously. I cannot wait to wear this sucker. And on the back, I wrote “Don’t forget to be awesome” in Swedish (because THG is a part-Swedish hip hop band) I used google translate, so it’s probably not completely accurate, but that’s life. haha I’m pretty proud of this:)

thequietwallflower:

My friend Katherine and I made some Hectic Glow shirts. It was much fun. Seriously. I cannot wait to wear this sucker.

And on the back, I wrote “Don’t forget to be awesome” in Swedish (because THG is a part-Swedish hip hop band) I used google translate, so it’s probably not completely accurate, but that’s life. haha

I’m pretty proud of this:)

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Still life I made of three things I’m proud to own. What did I chose first? The Fault in Our Stars, of course. Unfortunately the cover is slippery and one of the salt and pepper shakers fell on the ground. submission from pinstripetrousers

Still life I made of three things I’m proud to own. What did I chose first? The Fault in Our Stars, of course. Unfortunately the cover is slippery and one of the salt and pepper shakers fell on the ground.

submission from pinstripetrousers

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I painted this today. :) submission from crumpledhornsnorkack

I painted this today. :)

submission from crumpledhornsnorkack

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John and Hank’s first happy dances! Here and here respectively; asked by Caitlin

(Source: privilegetoloveyou)

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Crash Course: Ancient Egypt: World History #4

In which John covers the long, long history of ancient Egypt, including the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, and even a couple of intermediate periods. Learn about mummies, pharaohs, pyramids and the Nile with John Green.

Our friends at Thought Bubble, who do the amazing graphics and animations for the show, are kickstarting a documentary. Check it out and join us in funding it: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sapiencefilm/sapience-the-search-for-wisdom

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Hieroglyphs, Egyptian gods, and more: http://dft.ba/-egyptA

Mummies!: http://dft.ba/-mummies

Pyramids!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid

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