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This Ends in Death

2018-07-06 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:57 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Books & writing, Personal life) · mode: Announcements · tags: self promotion, community lore

Answering John's 'How Does This End?', Hank jokes that it ends in death, reports the survey backs three weeks of vacation (though he needs pressure), offers a hammer in the bushes, praises Orion's UK signing sheets, announces Kristen Sieh as main narrator of his audiobook with Hank reading one chapter, and thanks commenters for life-giving answers.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — A reenactment of reading John's title: it ends in death; texting John for the word

  • ★★ Reenacting how he read John's title 'How does this end?', Hank goes from calm to growling and answers: it ends in death, a word for which John once gave him. (playful) — 00:00:19 · John Green

00:00:40 — Survey results back three weeks of vacation; Hank needs pressure and plans his days ahead; John's text: eschatology

  • ★★★ The survey results say people are fine with the brothers taking three weeks of vacation. — 00:00:40
  • ★★ Hank doesn't know how he will take vacation: flexible space may not be good for him, since he needs to know exactly what he has to do. (unsure) — 00:00:44
  • ★★ Hank plans to schedule his vacation days far in advance so he can't skip a week for lack of good ideas: he needs the pressure. (hedged) — 00:00:55
  • ★★ While John asked for vacation, Hank spent three weeks feeling he should upload more, such as a donut video on hankschannel or a take on the FDA's new nutrition labels. (playful) — 00:01:05 · hankschannel

  • ★★ John Green (quoted): John texts back that the word is eschatology, which covers the whole human apocalypse, not just individual death; eschatological anxiety is fear of apocalyptic events. — 00:01:20

    “it's the whole human apocalypse, not just individual death”

00:01:36 — The router hammer on the floor, to be hidden in the bushes by the Big Dipper ice cream shop

  • ★★ Hank has left a hammer he hit a router with on the floor for a long time; he has a tidying problem and will hide it in the bushes by the Big Dipper ice cream shop for anyone who wants it. (playful) — 00:01:41

00:02:01 — Orion's UK signing sheets with blinking Carls; choosing the audiobook narrator, Kristen Sieh, and Hank reading one chapter

  • ★★ Hank is almost done signing sheets; the UK edition sheets differ page to page, so sped up they make a stop-motion effect where the Carls fade in and out and one blinks. — 00:02:01 · An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
  • ★★ Whoever at Orion, his UK publisher, thought of the effect is amazing; Hank didn't expect it to work so well, but it looks so cool. — 00:02:17
  • ★★ Choosing the narrator gave Hank so much anxiety; all candidates were good, but he chose the one who made him feel he was listening to April, which was beautiful but a little upsetting and uncanny. — 00:02:37
  • ★★★ The main narrator of Hank's audiobook is Kristen Sieh, who was in Orange Is the New Black, The Blacklist and House of Cards. — 00:03:03 · An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
  • ★★ The book switches perspective for one chapter, and Hank will narrate that chapter himself; he can't wait to get into making the audiobook. — 00:03:13 · An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

00:03:30 — Thanks for the life-giving comments on John's question; sign-off

  • ★★★ The comments left on John's video after he asked what people get out of Vlogbrothers were life-giving to Hank; he can return to them whenever he needs a lift, and thanks John and the commenters. — 00:03:30 · John Green, Vlogbrothers

In the description and comments

  • ★★ Hank consumes many books as audiobooks; getting the narrator's test audio was a bigger moment for him than seeing the cover or the printed book. — video description · An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
  • ★★ In the description Hank says 'this ends in death' means everything eventually, not so much Vlogbrothers. (hedged) — video description · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★ Hank is very uncomfortable with the idea that the Vlogbrothers channel will end in the death of one of the brothers and doesn't know how to feel about it, which he guesses is a pretty big part of the human experience. (unsure) — video description · Vlogbrothers
  • ★ Hank asks whoever finds the hammer he hid in the bushes to let him know, preferably on Twitter, so people know it has been found. (playful) — video description · Twitter
  • ★★ Hank is so happy to work with Kristen Sieh; besides the TV shows he mentioned, most of her work is in theater. — video description

Humor (significant)

  • Hank reenacts calmly going to check John's new video, then growls on reading its title. — 00:00:13

    “It ends in death, John”

  • Hank texts John a garbled request for 'the philosophical word for death and talking about death'. — 00:00:34

    “I mean the translation algorithms are getting so good now.”

  • Hank admits a tidying problem: the hammer he hit a router with has lain on the floor for ages. Does anyone want it? — 00:01:51

    “I'm gonna hide it in the bushes by the "Big Dipper" ice cream shop.”

  • Mid-video, John's replies about death keep arriving on Hank's phone. — 00:02:26

    “Now, John, you just won't stop texting me about...”

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Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Also: Projects: hankschannel

Works: House of Cards · Orange Is the New Black · The Blacklist

Organizations: Big Dipper Ice Cream · Food and Drug Administration

Concepts: eschatology

Characters: April May · Carl

Only in the description or credits: Kristen Sieh · Orion Publishing Group · Twitter

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