#worldsuck

P4A time is full of so many stories about people doing incredible work around the world to decrease worldsuck. Most recently, that has included me and my nerdfighter girlfriend, Amanda, as we started a non-profit at the beginning of this year to better our community for adults. To give them structure to more be a villager and build the village. I'm real proud and hoping you'll check out what we've created and how we're made a difference in our community, and if you really believe in it, you'll support us with a vote, comment, or a like and and sharing it far and wide!

I also hope you'll partake and contribute to P4A in some way that you see fit. Maybe I'll see some of you in all the spaces that surround P4A time! Message me and let me know!

I enjoy that I keep coming back to Tumblr in nerdfighter related ways to tell stories and share something.

Best wishes and DFTBA,

For any confused mutuals, here is a link to what I'm talking about

Let me preface this with a disclaimer: I’m not Ukrainian. I’m coming from an American worldview and American alone. If you’re tired of reading what we have to say, and need to scroll to take care of your mind right now, scroll. Ignore this. This is mostly for me anyway, and I care much more about your health and lives than my notes or views.

If I think about it for a second, I can come up with an opinion that is consistent with my core beliefs, but I feel like there’s too much pressure and too many things for me to juggle right now.  I can’t give 110% to every issue at all times, I’m overloaded, I can’t care about everything!

I just want people to suffer less, is that too much to ask?  I’m not a politician, I don’t have to have answers ready for every conceivable scenario.  I don’t not care, I care immensely, I’m just burned out!

John and Hank have inspired me, and many of my friends, to continue helping to decrease world suck. Throughout the years that I have watched them, they’ve introduced me to lots of cool channels (like the Brain Scoop, Veritasium, etc.).

The brothers have educated me in literature, biology, world history, current world problems, and a lot more I can’t even think of. They’re simply awesome.

Erin

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John and Hank haven’t just affected my life, they’ve more like shaped it.

I was fascinated by their videos as a little middle schooler, and in high school, I still find time to watch them. They taught me to imagine thing complexly and to not be afraid of who you are and what you believe in.

Had it not been for them, I wouldn’t have hordes of nerdy (and totally not lame) jokes, poetic and beautiful thoughts from equally beautiful places, and ideas and concepts that I had never thought about before.

From them, I learned so many things about the world, and this in turn inspired me to be more curious about everything around me. I learned to imagine people complexly, and that doing the best things you can with what you have is awesome.

Their videos connected me to my college-bound brother and my homeschooled friend, but more importantly, myself. I think, from John’s enthusiasm about TFiOS, I was inspired to write the novel I want to instead of wishing I could.

In short, Nerdfighteria has a special place in my heard alongside the squishy ventricles and blood. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Carolyn S.

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The Green Brothers have shown me that I can be my nerdy self without having others bother me about it because, there are hundreds of us, we are all Nerdfighters.

It gives me a sense of security, while being able to enjoy living my life how I want to live it.

Thanks so much John and Hank for being there for all of us and giving us a part in the world.

I love you guys!!

Hank and John saved my life and they don’t even know it.

It was 2009 and I was struggling.

Then, I stumbled upon Accio Deathly Hallows, my first Vlogbrothers video and my first introduction to the Wrock community. Hank and John helped me find a community who cared if I was alive or not. But it did much more than that.

Nerdfighteria gave me a purpose, to decrease world suck, to do good with my life, and so I slowly started to.

Vlogbrothers gave me something to look forward to three times a week; it is still something I look forward to. It also showed me how not alone I really was.

John struggled with mental illness and Hank suffered from an invisible disease: here were two people who understood what I was going through.

I have never met either of them and I’m not quite sure I want to.

I wouldn’t know what to say, besides thanks, and they wouldn’t understand what that single word means. Because there really isn’t a way to tell someone that they helped keep you alive in your darkest hour, that they taught you how to smile again, how to laugh; that they gave your mother her daughter back.

Hank and John changed my life, so now I change others. I coach people with special needs and spend as much of my time working with them as I can. I do good wherever I can, because that is what Hank and John taught me. That is how they affected me.

Hank and John do so much more than just make me laugh.

They teach me. They open my eyes to the world around me. They encourage my nerdiness and remind me that it’s best to be myself. They inspire me to decrease World Suck, and increase Awesome. They show me that, while life can be really hard sometimes, that the world is really a beautiful and amazing place.

And yeah, they make me laugh.

The existence of Nerdfighteria has renewed my belief in worlds and communities of substance outside of college. I find a community based on shared interests, values and in being active, inspiring. I’m pretty new to Nerdfighters, so I’m still figuring out my place in it all, but I’m so glad it/everyone/John/Hank are here.

The emphasis John and Hank place on missions like focusing on awesomeness and decreasing world suck are great because I’ve really tried to keep them in mind and focus on increasing positivity or eliminating negativity (and not putting so much energy in to criticizing and analyzing but taking my knowledge and beliefs and turning them into action).

Plus, knowing Nerdfighters exist in the internet world has encouraged me to seek out similarly-minded people/communities IRL, which makes me feel less lonely. (Also, I’m an only child, so I love the vicarious sibling experience I get by watching John and Hank interact.)