part 353 whalers on the moon

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We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The fuck is with Tumblr's hivemind hateboner for John Green

[(Anonymous)]

tumblr has a hivemind hateboner for anything that's white, male and successful.
But I think they hate white teenage girls even more.

[(Anonymous)]

mostly because he acts like the savior of the young adult lit genre when he really isn't and acts like his books are so innovative when they really aren't

it might be kind of overwrought but i can definitely see where they're coming from

[(Anonymous)]

And the they hypocritically make PSAs to artists to be confident and proud and praise themselves for their art.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

i feel as though being proud and being self-congratulatory are two different things

and there's a limit to how much you can praise yourself for your art before it becomes grating, as well, and besides you do have to kind of look at it and see whether it really warrants the amount of praise you're giving it. you can be confident and still accept that your art isn't (yet) the greatest thing since sliced bread.

so basically john green has passed the limit between justifiably proud and kind of self-aggrandizing considering the objective quality of his work

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't sound like that to me from what he has posted?

http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/post/88287487983/a-note-on-yesterdays-posts

[(Anonymous)]

His books are total shit and he views himself as an ~*~innovative writer~*~ when all he's doing is capitalizing on Pixie Girl stories with completely unbelievable dialogue. To ay nothing of the fact that many of his books, like The Fault In our Stars, contain offensive, inaccurate and ridiculous bullshit in them. Like how the main characters kiss in Anne Frank's attic (y'know a place to remember and respect people who fucking died in the Holocaust) because they are like, totally connected to Anne, because like, she totally died of disease too. And when they kiss the people around them CLAP.