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I've said it before and i'll say it again: THAT IS NOT A FUCKING METAPHOR, JOHN GREEN

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not expecting anything but I made a kofi just for fun, so if you've enjoyed this blog and @john-green-out-of-context over the years and you have a couple of spare pounds rattling around, you can make my day and buy me a coffee :)

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I just got my first anon hate, does this mean I'm officially popular on tumblr?

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i know people make these kinds of posts with fictional characters a lot but like. hank green truly is one of The Most Guys Ever. like. he's one of the earliest youtubers who is still on there. he's a 43-year-old tiktok star. he's a science educator. he got cancer and his response was to make a tier list of the press's coverage of his cancer announcement. the president of the united states sent him a message of support and he told the president that he was pissing out the cancer. years earlier he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and his response was to write a polka song about it. he created vidcon. he's the ceo of a company that produces a shitton of educational series (well, not acting ceo at the moment due to the aforementioned cancer). his guitar says "this machine pwns n00bs" on it. he invented 2D glasses. one of his earliest videos to get popular was about animal sex. between him and his brother, he was known as "the science one" (or "the music one") while his brother was "the writer one," and then he wrote two new york times bestselling novels. his most controversial opinion is that butt is legs. he's done so many things that there is a website dedicated to counting the number of days since he started a new thing. he and his brother use their internet following to (among other things) fight maternal/infant mortality in sierra leone. he has a baked bean furby. hes even bisexual

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WHY IS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS SO SAD NO ONE PREPARED ME FOR THIS

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unfortunately i do find this funny

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happy pride month to hank green and hank green ONLY

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So at the risk of being weird about someone with an illness, over the last few weeks Hank Green has gone from someone who i think is generally pretty cool, whose content i enjoy and whose work i generally admire, to being someone i actually actively look up to.

That's not because ✨ his battle with cancer is so touching and inspiring✨ or any of that weird inspiration porn bullcrap. I mean, i don't know, maybe this is still problematic. And also i want to make clear that if Hank decides to retreat from public life for a while, that's completely understandable and i think he should do whatever he needs to do to stay healthy and happy.

All of that being said, what i find so inspiring is the vulnerability and openness he has maintained, and the curiosity with which he has approached a new, scary phase of his existence.

He's being very open about things, inviting us to witness this in a way a lot of us wouldn't otherwise in our lives see someone - hearing about the vocal cords, the hair, the nausea, the weird pains. He's sharing some thoughts on life from his new vantage point. He's admitting when he's scared or sad, and also talking about the other complicated realities he's experiencing, like not wanting his identity to be swallowed up in cancer, not wanting to be pitied, and also feeling happy and grateful that it's treatable, he has access to treatment, etc.

And besides all that, he's continuing to be visible as the same person he always was, learning about cancer and chemo and radiation and the body and all of this with a level of zeal that would be surprising from just about anyone else, and sharing it, along with all other sciency and existential thoughts.

I think that's really cool. Because for a lot of us, "you have cancer" sounds like a death knell and what happens between "you have cancer" and either "you're cancer free" or death is kind of a black box. An apocalypse on the individual scale. Hank is taking the top off the box to show people some of the contents. And i don't know, i just think that's really cool - maintaining curiosity and openness and vulnerability and selfhood, and continuing to make visible what most of us turn away from, is a really bold choice.

It's a reminder that "the end of the world" or an apocalyptic event isn't actually The End, and people go on being delightful, curious, tender, scared and happy throughout what comes after the event that changes everything. Like Hank isn't some sanctified figure, he's literally just a guy - but i think that almost makes it even cooler of him.

Anyway. Thanks Hank. Wishing you a speedy recovery :)

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I'm assuming you're gonna post a lot of hank green so I won't ask about all posts in general but could you tag this particular post as

#cancer

Please? It's pretty popular so I have a feeling it might come up on my dash a lot

https://www.tumblr.com/hankgreenappreciation/718590978744860672/i-never-go-on-twitter-because-you-know-its

Done, sorry for not doing it originally!

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"average bisexual starts 3 businesses a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average bisexual starts 0 businesses a year. Businesses Hank, who lives in montana and starts over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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in hysterics

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I just remembered like ten years ago I saw a video where Hank said something like ‘...but I’m not bi enough to care’ and I made this. It’s funny because I don’t identify as bi anymore but apparently he does! These things evolve over time and they can take a long time to figure out. Happy pride month <3

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um also did Hank just come out as bi while making memes and talking about Ryan Gosling Reynolds or was I supposed to already know that

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Help my last post has breached containment and is being reblogged by people who don’t even know who Hank is… and people who think he’s John

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I never go on twitter (because, you know, it’s twitter) but I just had a look at it to check up on Hank and I’m glad to see he’s being *extremely* Hank about this

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I never go on twitter (because, you know, it’s twitter) but I just had a look at it to check up on Hank and I’m glad to see he’s being *extremely* Hank about this