shailenewoodleysource: “I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters - not horror film scary, but vulnerable scary.” Now that Shailene Woodley and I are basically best friends (which is to say that we are occasional pen pals) I can tell you that I feel TOTALLY 100% CONFIDENT that she is going to be the perfect Hazel. She’s amazing.
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shailenewoodleysource:

“I really respond to human scripts, scripts that are raw and real and risky. I love playing scary characters - not horror film scary, but vulnerable scary.”

Now that Shailene Woodley and I are basically best friends (which is to say that we are occasional pen pals) I can tell you that I feel TOTALLY 100% CONFIDENT that she is going to be the perfect Hazel. She’s amazing.

Hey, bro, cool story. DFTBA sells a bunch of shirts, and we market to ugly people and nerdy people and small people and big people and pretty people and we’re doing okay and plus we don’t need physical stores with LITERALLY THE WORST MUSIC EVER CREATED BY HUMANS PLAYING AT EAR-BLEEDING VOLUME SO THAT ALL OF YOUR PURPORTEDLY COOL AND BEAUTIFUL EMPLOYEES ARE MADE DEAF BY THEIR WORKING CONDITIONS. So that’s another way of doing it. Also I hate your jeans.
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Hey, bro, cool story.

DFTBA sells a bunch of shirts, and we market to ugly people and nerdy people and small people and big people and pretty people and we’re doing okay and plus we don’t need physical stores with LITERALLY THE WORST MUSIC EVER CREATED BY HUMANS PLAYING AT EAR-BLEEDING VOLUME SO THAT ALL OF YOUR PURPORTEDLY COOL AND BEAUTIFUL EMPLOYEES ARE MADE DEAF BY THEIR WORKING CONDITIONS.

So that’s another way of doing it.

Also I hate your jeans.

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hermionejg:

myoldestmemory:

Song I wrote for a class. There are no effects in this song, just pure voice and Uke how I sang and how I played.  It’s pretty much live, except I sing harmonies to myself, which I can’t do live, obviously.

“The Great Perhaps” (lyrics from the novel Looking for Alaska by John Green)

for optimal listening- put yo headphones in :)

I can’t stop listening to this song and crying. It’s the good crying, but f, this is beautiful.

Wow, this is a very good song about Looking for Alaska. Wow.

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tmichaelmartin:

This week, I’m doing a huge END GAMES giveaway. If you buy the book by Tuesday, May 14th, at 11:59 PM EST (U.S.) and email me your receipt, here are the possible prizes:

- 3 people will have a character named after them in my next book

- 5 people will win a signed, first edition copy of every book I write for the rest of my life

- 7 people will win autographed, handwritten first draft pages from the END GAMES manuscript

Thank you so much for your support, y’all.  I can’t begin to you tell ya how much it means.  

(Info is in the video above; direct link @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUSAv9UyLC4 )

This guy, T. Michael Martin, is a nerdfighter and YouTuber who also happens to be an incredibly good novelist. I’ve just read his book THE END GAMES, and it’s the zombie book I wish I could’ve written. It’s smart and funny and terrifying and really lovely.

Get the book. It’s freaky good, I’m telling you.

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kenyatta:

fishingboatproceeds:

Q: I just read an article on Buzzfeed; in it, Shira Lazar suggests that Vlogbrothers could logically become a paid subscription channel because of the devotion of Nerdfighters. What are your thoughts on this?

asked by bramtic

(Rebloggable by request.)

A. That’s nice of Shira to say, but why would we do that?

Let’s say that you’re a nerdfighter and you’re living in poverty. (Lots of nerdfighters are.) Why would I exclude you from the community just because you don’t have access to the same resources as someone who is wealthy? That would go against the inclusionism that’s the core of nerdfighteria.

(I’m not just saying this in a feel-good, altruistic way: It would also be a terrible business decision, because at some point in the future you will probably not be poor, and you will be able to support our work by contributing directly or buying a poster or a book or an album or whatever. But you will never know that you like the stuff I make if you were denied the opportunity to watch it in the first place.) 

What makes a lot more sense to me is going to the community and saying: Hey, some of you can pay for this and some of you can’t. That’s cool. If you can pay for it, please do, and in exchange we’ll be able to turn off ads for everyone, which is nice, because ads are gross and annoying and I hate them. If you can’t pay, that’s okay, too.

YouTube’s apparent forthcoming paid subscription model isn’t built like that at all: It’s built to be exclusive and paywalled, which I don’t think works for creators who want to build the awesomest possible audience.

I love Shira but I think she’s missing the distinction between an audience and a fan community.

An audience leans back, consumes content, and pays for things like subscriptions which gives them special access to things. They’re done with the show is done. It’s over when the season is over.

A fan community has a deep emotional connection to not just the creators but to each other and will find ways to support one another within (and sometimes beyond) their means. Their attention to the thing may vary but their identity never does. (Fans don’t stop being fans just because you’re in the off season.)

One isn’t necessarily better or more appropriate than the other. Some creators/story universes are able to support both. It’s important to understand the difference between them, though.

Yeah what Kenyatta said.

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Q: I just read an article on Buzzfeed; in it, Shira Lazar suggests that Vlogbrothers could logically become a paid subscription channel because of the devotion of Nerdfighters. What are your thoughts on this?
asked by bramtic

(Rebloggable by request.)

A. That’s nice of Shira to say, but why would we do that?

Let’s say that you’re a nerdfighter and you’re living in poverty. (Lots of nerdfighters are.) Why would I exclude you from the community just because you don’t have access to the same resources as someone who is wealthy? That would go against the inclusionism that’s the core of nerdfighteria.

(I’m not just saying this in a feel-good, altruistic way: It would also be a terrible business decision, because at some point in the future you will probably not be poor, and you will be able to support our work by contributing directly or buying a poster or a book or an album or whatever. But you will never know that you like the stuff I make if you were denied the opportunity to watch it in the first place.) 

What makes a lot more sense to me is going to the community and saying: Hey, some of you can pay for this and some of you can’t. That’s cool. If you can pay for it, please do, and in exchange we’ll be able to turn off ads for everyone, which is nice, because ads are gross and annoying and I hate them. If you can’t pay, that’s okay, too.

YouTube’s apparent forthcoming paid subscription model isn’t built like that at all: It’s built to be exclusive and paywalled, which I don’t think works for creators who want to build the awesomest possible audience.

Absolument Moderne: Why I like this cover

absolumentmoderne:

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Hi folks,

I thought I’d take a minute to let you know why I think the cover design for John’s new book The Fault in our Stars is brilliant. I am almost as dismayed by the negative responses to the cover as I was impressed by the amazingly wonderful designs submitted by many of you earlier…

In light of the coverflipping discussion on tumblr:

It’s worth remembering that when I announced the cover for The Fault in Our Stars, everyone hated it. 

“The design is too minimalistic and everyone does judge a book by its cover.”

“This just feels so bland and unimaginative.”

“No one likes the cover John.”

“After all the nerdfighteria designed covers on Fishingboatproceeds, this cover is hideous, so bleeh, so uninspired, I am going to paste a high quality print of one of the best fan created covers on my preordered copy. 3rd graders have done better covers in art class. In fact I ask an elementary art teacher friend of mine to get her best students on this project. TFIOS deserved a better dust jacket.”

These are comments from my announcement of the cover, which was met with such widespread disgust that I enlisted my lovely wife to defend the cover on her tumblr in hopes of quieting the storm. There are literally thousands of negative comments about the cover in the comments for that video. In six and a half years, no other vlogbrothers video has ever received such negative feedback.

hermionejg: I #coverflipped one of my favourite YA books: Heist Society by Ally Carter. Feat a cheeky bit of Kandinsky (appropriate). This is great. Inspired by Maureen Johnson, designers all over the Internet are imagining what the covers of novels written by women might look like had they been written by men and vice versa. This cover flipping is a great reminder of the deep-rooted sexism in the publishing industry. I would add that male authors rarely get awesome Kandinsky-ish, abstract covers either. (And when they do, the books rarely sell well.) It was a huge struggle, for instance, to get enough support for the minimalist, abstract cover The Fault in Our Stars ended up getting, because so much market research and anecdotal evidence indicates that such covers fail to attract readers. I believed in “treating the novel as if it were a genuinely good novel,” as I said over and over, but ultimately it happened not because of me but because 1. Rodrigo Corral is a very famous cover designer, 2. my publisher Julie Strauss-Gabel would not accept anything else, and 3. the head of sales, Felicia Frazier, had faith in Julie’s vision for the book. That’s a fortunate and rare combination. Other cool cover flips can be found here.
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hermionejg:

I #coverflipped one of my favourite YA books: Heist Society by Ally Carter. Feat a cheeky bit of Kandinsky (appropriate).

This is great. Inspired by Maureen Johnson, designers all over the Internet are imagining what the covers of novels written by women might look like had they been written by men and vice versa.

This cover flipping is a great reminder of the deep-rooted sexism in the publishing industry.

I would add that male authors rarely get awesome Kandinsky-ish, abstract covers either. (And when they do, the books rarely sell well.) It was a huge struggle, for instance, to get enough support for the minimalist, abstract cover The Fault in Our Stars ended up getting, because so much market research and anecdotal evidence indicates that such covers fail to attract readers. I believed in “treating the novel as if it were a genuinely good novel,” as I said over and over, but ultimately it happened not because of me but because 1. Rodrigo Corral is a very famous cover designer, 2. my publisher Julie Strauss-Gabel would not accept anything else, and 3. the head of sales, Felicia Frazier, had faith in Julie’s vision for the book. That’s a fortunate and rare combination.

Other cool cover flips can be found here.

Happy Birthday, Hank!

Today (just today!) nerdfighters around the world have loaned more than $50,000 to entrepreneurs throughout the developing world, from Rwanda to Kosovo.

That’s more money than the kiva nerdfighter group loaned in its first YEAR. Happy Birthday, Hank!

If you want to join the lending binge, check out the nerdfighter kiva group!