#majorposting

- John Green: Looking for Alaska

- Patrick Ness: The Ask and the Answer

- John Green: Turtles all the Way Down

what she means: joe gibson went on to pitch in the majors for fourteen more years after shigeharu’s death as a tribute to his memory. he didn’t throw a single pitch that wasn’t for the sake of upholding the vow he made to goro and momoko, even though it must have eaten him up inside to keep going after his carelessness took a man’s life and orphaned a five-year-old child. for fourteen years he gave all of himself up to the hondas and lived for the sole purpose of one day fulfilling his promise to goro. he probably never let even a single runner get on base in all of the time he spent on the mound because to do so would be an insult to shigeharu’s memory. he carried the weight of his sins like a cross on his back for an eternity and slowly, surely, it killed him inside. even after being diagnosed with a fatal heart condition that surely would have cost him his life, he still took the mound and selflessly put goro’s childhood wishes above his own welfare. ultimately, he wasn’t even able to see things through to the very end, but he was able to earn goro’s forgiveness and find redemption within himself as a result. regardless of the kind of man he was before he killed shigeharu, joe gibson was a man who always kept his word.