#margo green

[coffeecakecafe]

doodles between comms because I have Obliterated my way through Relic and most of Reliquary in less than a week. I’m so tired I keep trading sleep hours for more time to read about the horrors

[mother-lee]

almost heaven

[collageofnudes]

Margarita Dumas (Margo Dumas)

part 2 / 8 (part 1 , part 3 , part 4 , part 5 , part 6 , part 7 , part 8)

[simply-ivanka]

[slaughter-books]

Day 19: JOMPBPC: Paperbacks

Four beautiful green paperbacks! 💚

[gordo--livingstone]

i have a normal amount of feelings about that scene in heartsong where gordo is crying and demanding that mark flash his eyes at him after robert "dies"

[glassd0ll601]

[achilles-the-boy-of-gold]

I LOVE MARGO ROTH SPIEGELMAN SO FUCKING GODDAMNED MUCH HOLY FUCK

[asymptotic-rage]

Paper Towns is an amazing deconstruction of the manic pixie dream girl trope.

I don’t understand how anyone could read “The fundamental mistake I had always made…was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl,” and not understand that the whole of point the book is that Margo is not a mpdg and that Q is wrong for treating her like one. The whole of the book is that Margo wanted to cultivate this image and persona but ultimately it just makes her feel worse.

This quote from Margo summarizes a lot of it: “I was the flimsy-foldable person, not everyone else. And here’s the thing about it. People love the idea of a paper girl. They always have…Because it’s kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.”

Growing up, I felt this so much. All of this pressure to be funny and smart and pretty and perfect, but the truth is that no one can be all of those things all the time. We are all people, with all of the complexity that that entails. When we pretend not to be, we lose out on having people love us for all the parts of ourselves.

So much of it is related to being a woman too. This pressure to make ourselves smaller so that we can be a supporting character. Every time I show a man that I know something he doesn’t, I can feel how uncomfortable (at best) and angry (more likely) they are. Paper towns is a great reminder that I am not here for anyone else’s development. I am my own story.

[bazpitchs-violin]

i’m aware of john greens tumblr again and just thinking about how in 2016 i made a tumblr account that i was expressly not supposed to make because i wanted to make a post about how i noticed that john green quoted that one line from “where i lived and what i lived for” by henry david thoreau a lot (“live deep and suck the marrow out of life”) and i remember being like does he like 1) poetry, 2) henry david thoreau, or 3) (and the most exciting) dead poets society?????

it’s a core memory tbh. it was the summer i reread every one of his books back then in one week and then my best friend compared me to margo roth speigleman because apparently i was a manic pixie dream girl to him.

anyway idk if mr green will ever see this but i would still like to know if there was a reason it was always that line

[urjunkdrawer]

John green you magnificent bastard why do you have to do my heart like this first it was the fault in our starts and now with paper towns

Like at the end when Margo realized how much Q actually cared about her and then when they both realize the are destined for different life paths and they finally kiss and then she cries because she thought he’d give up his life plan and travel with her and she realizes how much he means to her so she decides to keep in contact with him 😭😭😭😭

I am in shambles

[mother-lee]

appalachia

[collageofnudes]

Margarita Dumas (Margo Dumas)

part 3 / 8 (part 1 , part 2 , part 4 , part 5 , part 6 , part 7 , part 8)

[steevejr]

i <3 my 5 Margo gods. I think I finally struck a good balance between variety, trope, and subversiveness. and they are all nerfed to a degree so no one needs to ask “why doesn’t war, the largest god, simply kill the rest?”

[slaughter-books]

Day 28: JOMPBPC: Books In A Bag

Rainbow books in a bag! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[potterandpromises]

Guy who picked up John Green’s books because he wanted a teenage smut fest: Well this shit fucking sucks.