Venture into the deep past of the cosmos with Crash Course Pods: The Universe. In episode one, John Green and Dr. Katie Mack start at the beginning -- the first 60 seconds of the universe 13.8 billion years ago.

Episode one is out now! Listen on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts!

I just cannot wait for y'all to see Turtles All the Way Down. It's so moving, and so funny, and somehow Isabela Merced and Cree have found a way to make a movie about best friendship that makes the love between best friends feel every bit as important and worthy as romantic love, which was one of my biggest hopes for the movie. I hope you'll watch it with a loved one or two, because it's best when shared. (Like most things.)

Max will not like me saying so, because of course they want the maximum possible number of logins, but I say get one max login and invite ten people over to watch it.

I'm glad you're back on tumblr. I met you at a library a million years ago for a Paper Towns event. I worked at a bookstore at the time and told you I'd put An Abundance of Katherines on the Staff Recommends shelf, and you put your hand on mine and said, "Thank you. Really." in the sincerest tone I've ever heard, and then signed my books (including an anagram of my name in my copy of Katherines), and I've met a few authors in my time but never one as utterly sincere as you, and it meant a lot, and you're awesome, and I'm going to continue to buy all your books.

And your soap. Your soap is good.

Thank you for being who you are.

Thanks. We do make very good soap.

I'm sure you've heard this thousands of times before, but "we so rarely get to thank those who shaped us" as Neil Gaiman says, and I just wanted to say thank you for "The Anthropocene Reviewed."

In podcast as well as book form, it's meant so much to me, and accompanied me through some hard times (I reread "The World's Largest Ball of Paint" on the days when I feel like I'm losing sight of hope - which is, even to me, "a prerequisite for my survival").

I'm so grateful to have had Vlogbrothers, Crash Course and "The Anthropocene Reviewed" to keep me company through my college years - thank you so, so much for all that you do.

P.S - As my annotation would suggest, this is truly one of my favourite ways to describe what it means to love literature.

My greatest dream has always been that people would annotate and dogear and highlight my books. (As long as it's not a library copy!!) Books belong to their readers, and when readers care enough to make that book fully theirs by interacting with it so deeply that they change the book itself, it just means the world to me.

Thank you for bringing so much of your self to your reading of The Anthropocene Reviewed.

Turtles All The Way Down | Official Trailer | Max

Scars on your forearm show that once when you were twenty you got an infected cut while driving with your girlfriend through the Yukon Territory and your arm swelled up like an inflated balloon and you didn't know where to even begin trying to find a hospital or clinic so you stopped at a random house that had a red cross outside of it and the lady who lived there turned out to be a nurse and drove you to the doctor's office where the doctor was like "we gotta drain this but I don't have any anesthesia" so he told you to ball your shirt up and bite down on it while he cut you open and he drained an astonishing amount of fluid from your arm then stitched it up with a single stitch and charged you five canadian dollars for the entire affair.

Scars on your body show that you have lived; scars on your heart show that you have loved.

Nina Dul

hey john!

a common inside joke about the BCG vaccine has been going viral once again recently. it’s about how latin americans can always spot one another because of the vaccine scar they have on their arms, since we all got the shot as a baby and are usually crazily proud of it (is this a weird flex?).

there is countless memes going around, one of them shows a non latin-american pedro pascal fan calling it a sexy beauty mark after seeing him shirtless.

even though all of this is hilarious, it feels weird to see this subject come up without you being in it. I thought I would share just for the funsies, but also, do you guys not take this vaccine in the US? Is it just because TB doesn’t have a lot of cases yearly? Is it because of something else? Do you also have this sexy beauty mark?

Most people in North America do not, in fact, have this sexy beauty mark.

The BCG vaccine is more than 100 years old and remains the only vaccine for tuberculosis--even though we could've already developed new vaccines if the rich world gave a shit about TB.

BCG is effective at preventing death and serious illness from tuberculosis in young children, but it has very little (if any) efficacy in adolescents and adults. For this reason, it makes sense to give the vaccine in places where lots of kids contract TB. In the U.S., rates of active TB are low enough that young children hardly ever get infected, and so it wouldn't have much impact on our burden of tuberculosis.

So that's why some people have that sexy beauty mark and others do not!

Here is a Draft I Wrote on August 24th, 2023

Hello. Today is my 46th birthday. I am really happy to be here. I am especially happy to be here because my previous selves did so much work--including when they did not want to be here--to make sure that I would have a chance to walk in the woods on a very hot August day and marvel in gratitude.

People are like, "He's not very active on here," but do y'all know how many unsent drafts I have clapping back at the haters who still think Paper Towns is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl novel?

Are you really John Green? Or someone he hired to deal with us? Which is a decision I would respect lol

Like I'd pay someone to be on tumblr for me when I can get those fresh hits of dreadrenaline myself.

'oh he's so funny now.'

mf i was always funny.

gonna buy this god-forsaken web site and charge all y'all $8 a month to edit reblogs.

gonna buy this god-forsaken web site and charge all y'all $8 a month to edit reblogs.

I do miss writing novels! Even as I'm loving writing about TB....

As a teenager with a chronic illness and multiple neurodivergencies, your books meant so much to me and made me feel seen. I had both my parents read TFIOS, and while both enjoyed it, my dad and I particularly bonded over it. He ended up reading the rest of your books with me (Katherines was a particular favorite of his, as a numbers guy who likes trying to solve problems). We read Turtles as soon as it came out, and I sobbed at finally seeing my thought spirals put to paper. Thank you for everything, it's good to see you around.

People on this site often express sympathy for me because some 16-year-old anarchomarxists were mean to me in 2015, but I want to be very clear about something: I have a great job. I love my job. I am so, so grateful to have my books read so generously by people like you and your family, possiblyelven. Thanks for giving me and my work a seat at the table in those big, difficult years. It's good to see you around, too.

Why is anon switched off?

So that people cannot send me asks anonymously, but instead have to be their "real self," which is to say as an anime avatar that is the backup to the backup of their real blog, which is itself a blog that nobody in their IRL world knows about.

Sometimes I forget that I am a coffee company.

This picture looks like a sitcom starring four cool people who are trying to help their Weird Dad navigate the 21st century.

(But it is in fact promo for the Turtles All the Way Down movie, coming to Max on May 2nd.)