#tatwd

[absoluteprick96]

#turtles all the way down #book quotes #john green #tatwd #the fault in our stars #paper towns #an abundance of katherines #will grayson will grayson #let it snow #the anthropocene reviewed #hank green #quotes #book #literature

[namedafterflowerstournament]

Botanic Tournament : Daisies Bracket !

Round 1 Part 6

#botanic tournament #tournament polls #daisies bracket #round 1 #saison marguerite #the most popular girls in school #tmpgis #mpgis #most popular girls in school #daisy ramirez #turtles all the way down #tatwd

[nerdfighternichole]

Here is a great article from US Weekly about the Turtles All The Way Down movie with lots of details about it! This mental health focused mystery will come out on Max on May 2nd! It's from the book of the same title, so good!! 🧡🐢 TATWD

#TATWD #mental health #turtles all the way down #dftba #nerdfighteria #nerdfighters #john green #books #movies #hbo max

[actual-sleeping-beauty]

Against All Odds, John Green and Hannah Marks Made a Movie of Turtles All the Way Down

“Maybe that’s you acknowledging that there’s this distance between you and the reader now, or even that there’s this distance between you and the self you were when you wrote Looking for Alaska or The Fault in Our Stars,” he thought to himself. “Once I did the time jump, I realized I could be kind to that character in a way that she couldn’t be kind to herself in the moment.” It was also a note to self: “I was going back and saying to myself: You’re so sick, and I’m so sorry, more than anything. I’m so sorry, and you’re going to get through this.” I try to covertly wipe my moist eyes as one of the world’s most beloved YA authors continues. “I remember thinking as I was writing that, like, Does that mean this is it? And maybe it did.”

god i just. john's books have accompanied me through my adolescence and my young adulthood (i've brought my copy of tfios to multiple countries) and i am so grateful for them. and i need to reread tatwd because when i first read it i hadn't yet had the kind of debilitating mental illness experiences i've had now. i'm so intrigued by where john's fiction will go from here, and so hopeful for him that it manifests. i truly think his writing gets better with every passing work. the anthropocene reviewed truly helped save my life this past year. i am just so grateful.

#i know this is word vomit and doesn't make sense #but in my defense i'm crying about this article #john green #tatwd

[firefly-fez]

Re-reading Turtles All the Way Down. I think my favourite part of the entire book is Aza’s fear that she is a fictional character.

Because, of course, she is a fictional character.

It’s just… the way that medical language describes mental health, although it has it’s uses, is so clinical and cold that describing the difference between reacting to a stressor and chronic anxiety as “irrational” worry…kind of doesn’t quite get it.

Like let’s say your anxiety presents itself like this. Your loved one is late. You expected them to be home by now, but they’re not. They haven’t texted a reason. You haven’t heard from them. So your mind starts spinning and you imagine them dying in a horrible car accident and that’s why they’re late and they might never come home and they could be dead right now.

Given that you have no evidence anything bad has happened, and there are many reasons they might be late that have nothing to do with harm coming to them, this could be characterised as “irrational” worry. But the chances of them being involved in a car accident are not zero.

The chances of the bad thing you fear happening are never zero.

So how do you live with it?

You have to recognise that your emotions are there for a reason. Fear has a purpose, it’s their to protect you, but if you find that fear has stopped protecting you and it’s started hurting you instead, that’s when you have an anxiety problem.

The nature of anxiety (in my experience) has nothing to do with whether or not the fear is warranted or plausible, and everything to do with whether or not the fear is helping you deal with the problem (which is what fear is supposed to do!) or getting in your way of dealing with the problem.

The medical language of “irrational” worry can be unhelpful to you when you’re in that mindset, and it might make it harder for you to recognise when worry is anxiety, because it’s just not going to feel irrational. It will feel like a valid response to a real danger.

And Aza’s anxiety that she is a fictional character, when she is, of course, a fictional character is just such a good way of representing that mindset.

And the story itself — Aza is afraid that being a fictional character means that none of this is real, none of this means anything. But even though the fear is true, the conclusion that leads her to fear it is not.

She is a fictional character. And all of this is still meaningful. All of this still matters. All of this love is still real. All of this hope is still meaningful.

Your fear is justified, but the conclusion you draw from your fear is untrue.

Not only is it a fantastic literary way of depicting an anxious mindset, it’s a fantastic literary way explaining how to live with an anxious mindset.

I don’t know if Alaska Young ever made it out of the labryinth of suffering. But you know what? I think Aza Holmes did.

That’s a pretty damn good story.

That’s a hell of an ending to an anthology.

#turtles all the way down #john green #tatwd #okay i know tatwd isn’t TECHNICALLY the end to john green’s anthology #but i mean like his fictional works only okay #i don’t know if there’s a term for an authors body of work but only the novels #like… there’s oeuvre #for their entire body of work #but like. #what about just the novels. just the fiction. #sorry the anthropocene reviewed we live you but like. you know what i mean. #idk if tatwd even marks the end of john’s fictional stuff tbh #he might come out with another one #but like. the parallels between alaska young and aza holmes? #it FEELS like an ending #and a bloody good one at that

[weiner-enjoyer]

this book is just so correct. like nothing can be more correct than this.

i am, ofc, talking abt john green’s ‘turtles all the way down.’ i will henceforth be referring to john’s writing as aza’s thinking because it makes sense to me

i am obsessed with this book. the way that our mc, who almost certainly has ocd (but im only halfway thru so no spoilers) portrays and talks about her anxiety in a way that just makes sense, which is just crazy because she spends so much time thinking about how incredibly finite language is, but nonetheless uses it perfectly. and there is a very large possibility that it makes sense to me because i understand exactly what those conversations with herself are like where her thoughts are in italics and the real aza is in normal text. i know exactly what is meant when she says that thinking is just not a choice. i know exactly what she means when she talks about how incredibly temporary states of ‘normality’ are.

but the fact that i already know and therefore the description will obviously make sense does not undermine the fact that john wrote a book about me. kind of. obviously im not stalking old friends to find their missing billionaire dads, but he psychological part. the part that is just so normal until you have to talk about it, because how do you explain something like that? language wasn’t meant to describe intangible values. but you go through this every day, so it’s such routine to you that it seems normal.

and anyway, i need to get back to reading. but i’m so obsessed with this book.

#john green #turtles all the way down #tatwd #i love this book #i love john green #i love.

[metaphysicalmortal]

I might be fictional. - John Green

#TATWD #Turtles all the way down #John Green #Quotes #anxiety #thought spiral #quotes #mental mess #aza holmes #derealization #fiction

[a-paper-town-for-a-paper-girl]

An awful vacation Is all worth it for one good post on tumblr dot com

#tumblr 2k14 #tumblr 2014 #tumblr filter #university aesthetic #2014 grunge #soft grunge #fake grunge #arctic monkeys #alex turner #john green #turtles all the way down #tatwd #reading #studyinspo #studying #music #airplane #annotating books #2014 revival

[littlest-library]

"we never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see..." - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

★★★★★ my favourite book of all time. there. I've said it. I'm sad that I finished it so quickly because now it's over and I can't read it for the first time again. It took less than 30 hours so it might be one of the quickest times that I've read a book. I've never related to a character so much, as someone with OCD I felt like maybe just maybe someone else understands what the inside of my head is like... anyway, I liked this book very much x

#bibliophile #book blog #book review #bookish #booklr #books #bookworm #literature #turtles all the way down #turtles all the way down fan art #tatwd #tatwd fan art #john green #nerdfighteria #green brothers #ocd #mental health #Aza Holmes #Davis Pickett #tumblr aesthetic #collage #digital collage #fan art #my fanart #orange aesthetic

[jaruto77]

“No one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.”

Turtles All the Way Down

I finished reading Turtles All the Way Down today, and I hate but not hate John Green for writing this book. I absolutely loved it, and I related to Aza way too much. However, I think that’s because I’m also diagnosed with OCD. The panicking of not doing a certain ritual because something inside you is making you play on their rules and forcing you to do it because it says you will die if you don’t.

I wasn’t a big fan of Daisy. I didn’t hate her; I didn’t like her. I don’t have any strong opinions of her in any direction. I do enjoy knowing that her and Aza remain friends long into their lives.

Then, there’s Davis. I really like his character. He’s how I was when I was in high school except he had a blog. It’s what I’m doing now because I want to. I like the idea of being somewhat anonymous and just writing what you think and feel. I have a journal that I already do that with.

My interpretation of the ending is that Aza and Davis do end up together later in their lives. I think that because 1.) the obvious last sentence of the book and 2.) an older Aza says “because I know a secret that the me lying beneath that sky could not imagine” after the younger Aza says that she might not ever see Davis again.

I’m a sucker for a happy ending.

-Jaruto (May 22)

#turtles all the way down #tatwd #john green #book quotes #aza holmes

[dawsonscreekwasalwaysbad]

for years i've been saying "turtles all the way down shouldn't be made into a movie, but if it is, timothee chalamet should play davis" and yet, here it is, a movie adaptation of turtles all the way down in which davis is not played by timothee chalamet

#YOU HAD ONE JOB #'but he's too old' I DON'T CARE. #TAKE HIS SKINNY ASS BACK TO HIGH SCHOOL #tatwd #turtles all the way down #honestly it doesn't look TOO bad i think i am gonna watch it if the reviews are good #but why does EVERY john green book have to be turned into a movie #ESPECIALLY THIS ONE!!! #not only is it made of language (as p much all books are) it's also ABOUT language it INTERROGATES language #which makes it extremely good at being a book #which makes me worry about how that's going to translate across the medium #also they COULD NOT have picked a more generic tall white boy to play davis #phoebe talks

[donttellourtherapist]

Going to seriously be quoting TATWD in my next therapy session because John Green is a genius and has so many depression-lite metaphorical quotes that can be used to describe both depression and OCD (we have both).

#the tightening gyre #tatwd #OCD #actuallyOCD #tw sewerslide

[thebitter-sweetcupoflife]

"It sounds to me like you're being cruel to yourself." After a moment, I said, "How can you be anything to your self? I mean, if you can be something to your self, then your self isnt, like, singular."

"You're deflecting, "I just stared at her. "You're right that self isn't simple, Aza. Maybe it's not even singular. Self is a plurality, but pluralities can also be integrated, right? Think of a rainbow. It's one arc of light, but also seven differently colored arcs of light."

"Okay, well, I feel more like seven things than one thing"

"Do you feel like your thought patterns are impeding yourdaily life?"

"Uh, yeah," I said.

#authors #life #life quotes #inspiring quotes #bookworm #english literature #for you #book quotes #book blog #bookish #booklr #books & libraries #bookblr #john green #tatwd #english #writing inspiration #inspiration #rainbow #hurt/comfort #therapy #quotes on tumblr #positive quotes #just a pinch of crazy #literature #quotes #poetic? #writers on tumblr #long reads #short reads

[courieus]

“Dr. Singh told me once that if you have a perfectly tuned guitar and a perfectly tuned violin in the same room, and you pluck the D string of the guitar, then all the way across the room, the D string on the violin will also vibrate. I could always feel my mother’s vibrating strings.”

— John Green, Turtles All The Way Down

#John green #turtles all the way down #tatwd #quotation #book quotes #quotes #books & libraries #bookblr #bookworm #bookish #book quote #mother #mommy issues

[silliott]

Turtles All The Way Down

Spoiler warning

I read this book a bit ago but I want to start “reviewing” the books I’ve been reading because I’ve gotten back into reading and I love to rant.

I had to read this book for my ‘Independent Novel’ for class, im 15 (my birthday was today actually!) and in 9th grade at a pretty hardcore school. I’m supposed to finish reading it by October 1st but I just got hooked and couldn’t stop, I already returned it to the library 😭.

The book is about a girl named Asa Holmes, but her friends call her Holmesy. She, though it is not directly stated, shows signs of OCD, intrusive thoughts etc. You follow her along as she struggles and attempts to deal with her problems as a 16 year old girl.

There is a missing person who was very rich, and holmsey knew/knows this person’s son named David Pickett. Her friend and Her really want to solve this mystery because there is a large sum of money for solving it.

This is where it gets kind of disappointing, the book had potential to not dabble into romance and all of that, since I am asexual and not necessarily into romance I’d prefer a non romantic focused book for a change but it’s John Green so I’ll allow it this once. While she is trying to solve the mystery of Davis’s father she falls in love with Davis. This was very frustrating to me, though it helped shine a light into the unseen difficulties people with OCD have to deal with when it comes to romance, I, again would enjoy a book NOT centered around romance. Davis ends up giving her a large sum of money to not uncover the mystery and she goes on with her life regularly; studying and hanging out with her best friend who writes Star Wars fan fiction. Well as regularly as she can, she constantly worries about bacteria and illnesses and recently she’s been getting more frequent intrusive thoughts that bother her and trigger her “thought spirals”

She gets into an argument with her friend over her selfishness and the way she constantly brings others down, how she is kind of a nuisance. While arguing they’re in the car and it gets so heated they crash. Holmsey is hospitalized but her friend ends up okay

They forgive each other and holmsey becomes content (or as content as she can) with her “issues”. She and David don’t last, he and his brother, now without parents, have to move away and Asa realizes she isn’t in the right place for a relationship anyway, as much as she wanted to kiss David it was just not going to work because it caused triggered her thought spirals to the point she drank hand sanitizer which caused serious liver damage.

I was disappointed with the ending of this book as it seems like it had the potential to be something it didn’t, the ending was not happy but that isn’t a bad thing, it was nice having a realistic ending but I wish there was more, it seemed lackluster and rushed

Even though some parts were disappointing I still really enjoyed the book and I read it VERY quickly, I would give this an overall 8/10 and I would re-experience this book for the first time if I could.

(I’m apologizing in advance because I am reviewing this book weeks after finishing it, I finished another book before this one but this is one I really did want to review. If I have some details wrong or there’s a detail I left out that you think I should add and share my opinions on please let me know, just don’t be rude about it! Tell me your opinions on this book if you want to, I would love it hear how others feel about this book as it is pretty popular)

#john green #tatwd #turtles all the way down #book review #books and reading

[queen-of-the-seven-kingdoms]

"Our hearts were broken in the same places."

#quotes #john green #tatwd #turtles all the way down #books #queen.graphics