Paper Towns - Blog Posts

Мы просто прикалывались, и дела на этом поприще шли довольно неплохо.

Джон Грин “Бумажные города”

Если бы всякое несчастье, происходящее в этом мире, доводило меня до нервного срыва, я бы давно уже слетел с катушек.

Джон Грин "Бумажные города"

this book is genuinely FIRE, haven’t seen the show tho, but i recommend the book x100000

John Green - Looking for Alaska ⭐⭐⭐

First drink. First prank. First friend. First love. Last words.

Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words--and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Fran ois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps. My thoughts on the book: The book was well written and the characters were all somewhat likeable. I do think I would have liked the book more if I hadn't seen the series first.

Mood 10:02 pm

Don’t you ever just want to run away from everything. People, Everyone. Just get into your car and never return. You the open road and a Guns N’ Roses Album blasting on the stero. I want to just up and leave the terrible town. Go to California and do crazy things. Stand on the top of the Empire State Building and pretend to howl like a wolf. Or maybe start a band in the back of a person house. John Green should write a book about my life.

-I need a biopic about my life

Census Designated (2023) - Jane Remover, Dir. Quadeca

some recent shots ～(^з^)-♡

“In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.”

— John Green / Paper Towns

Paper Towns (2015)

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.

I want to see this movie so so much