y'know like nya

Esther Day is celebrated every August 3rd, the birthday of the late Esther Earl, an incredible human being that was active on tumblr & inspired the character Hazel Grace Lancaster from John Green's The Fault In Our Stars, as well as one of the inspirations for the novel itself

there's nothing i could say here that would do any of it justice, if you're not familiar with Esther or John Green's work then i can only leave it to you to check them out & promise you it's worth it

after her passing, her family established This Star Won't Go Out to support families struggling with childhood cancer & a book of the same name was published as a biography to her life & work

i can't stress enough when i say finding this book somewhere between highschool & college saved my life. i would not be who i am if not for it. i was around on tumblr when she was but we never interacted, it was maybe a few years afterwards that i found the community she left behind & her influence is still everywhere