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We’re having a full-fledged abortion discussion in the Nerdfighter group, and it’s positively wonderful. 
People on both sides of the argument with varying degrees of feeling towards it, and ideas and thoughts being discussed civilly instead of with yelling, screaming, et cetera.

I love the Nerdfighters because this kind of thing is possible. It’s possible to take a highly controversial topic and actually talk through it, see things the other person’s way, instead of just shouting your own views over and over again. 

Thank you, all of you.  

Anonymous
as much as i love the notgdca, i don't really like being part of the literal heart. i do love supporting people and helping them with their problems, but lately it only really ever makes me depressed. i'm usually okay with the literal heart because it's a great place, but sometimes i just don't even want to look at my dashboard. i don't want to leave, but at the same time, i hate constantly having those posts up. help? also, sorry about the horrible lowercase, my shift key is broken.

You can make it so that notifications and such aren’t a thing, but… I don’t know. I think it’s a place where people feel safe griping and being frustrated and such because this is everyday life for us. Chronic pain and things like that are reasons to complain, and sometimes we don’t feel safe complaining to other people because they don’t /get/ it the same way. 

I wish I could help more.  

Sam B is a Wizard God among people

D’awww. You guys. 

lupinswilly:

gregsawesomeblog:

DAVRA DAVRA DAVRA DAVRA DAVRA

Anonymous
Can you post the link to the NotGDCA LGBTQ+ tumblr again? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Sure! It’s http://notgdca-quiltbags.tumblr.com/.

liamdryden: bradofarrell: griffinsandunicorns: daxterdd: rt-hon-harry-koschei-saxon: doctor who master post for all episodes with the very first doctor, click here. for all episodes with the second doctor, click here. for all episodes with the third doctor, click here. for all episodes with the fourth doctor, click here. for all episodes with the fifth doctor, click here. for all episodes with the sixth doctor, click here. for all episodes with the seventh doctor, click here. for the tv episode with the eighth doctor, click here. for all episodes with the ninth. tenth and eleventh doctor, click here. Yay! Oh dear God.  There’s so much of it. but how OH MY GOD Anybody who has ever approached me with opinions on Doctor Who based solely on 2005-2011 GET TO WORK 

liamdryden:

bradofarrell:

griffinsandunicorns:

daxterdd:

rt-hon-harry-koschei-saxon:

doctor who master post

for all episodes with the very first doctor, click here.

for all episodes with the second doctor, click here.

for all episodes with the third doctor, click here.

for all episodes with the fourth doctor, click here.

for all episodes with the fifth doctor, click here.

for all episodes with the sixth doctor, click here.

for all episodes with the seventh doctor, click here.

for the tv episode with the eighth doctor, click here.

for all episodes with the ninth. tenth and eleventh doctor, click here.

Yay!

Oh dear God.  There’s so much of it.

but

how

OH MY GOD

Anybody who has ever approached me with opinions on Doctor Who based solely on 2005-2011

GET

TO

WORK 

littleboatofwater replied to your post: 123Samothy A Bergman 4 Michaela 5 Black as sin 6 None 7NOVA 8Not being able to protect loved ones 9 No 10 No 11 Yes 12 1 13 Yes 14 Read 15 0 16 Actual Cannibal Shia Lebeuff 17 An mixture, though apear outgoing on the outside 18 Rebel 19 The colour of the ocean after a storm 20 Ignorance 21 Acting 22 Yes 23 Black 24 “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend” 25 Either a way off or a way to recreate civilization but better depending upon your mood

Your name is Samothy?

No. But it might as well be. That’s what a lot of the Nerdfighters call me. 

magic62442:

John Green’s talk at the National Book Festival

The National Book Festival

was absolutely fantastic. 
Well, for the most part. The waiting in line for two and a half hours to get stuff signed was less fantastic.
But mostly it was fantastic.

John talked on a number of things that I honestly don’t have the brain to relay right now, but I’m sure there will be video.

While getting stuff signed, John really liked my “This Star Won’t Go Out” shirt that I made with Sherlockstark, and was surprised when I told him I’d made it with another nerdfighter, and it was all-around fantastic. 

John Green is a marvelous human being. He extended his signing time over an hour to make sure that everyone got stuff signed (Over 1,800 people!), and gave a talk that was absolutely incredible regardless of his social anxiety and such. 

He had a compliment for every person who he signed stuff for, too.

Thanks, Nerdfighteria. You’re ALL the superlatives.  

Anonymous
So. I'm going to meet John Green tomorrow. What do I say to him? What should I bring for him to sign? What if I freeze up and just stand there staring at him and regret it for the rest of my life? What if he thinks I'm an extrodinarily unintelligent person who can't even pass APUSH? What if it's so crowded I don't even get to meet him? What should I wear? Gahhh. So stressed.

You’ll be fine! Just remember that John Green is a kind and understanding person. Which he is. 
And remember that you’re also a kind and understanding person, which you probably are.
And that you’re both made of awesome.

And hey, I’ll be there, too! :D

(For anyone with no idea what’s going on, the National Book Festival is today!) 

timescrewseverybody:

To Dance Again

From the Nerdfighter gathering yesterday. In the Natural History Museum. It was amazing.

Bringing this back because I happened upon it again, and do I really need a reason to bring it back?

A List of Nerdfighter-Recommended Books

notgdcareads:

Over at the Nerdfighters of the Greater DC Area, we have set up several book lists in the past. This post will consolidate them for easy reference if you’re ever looking for nerdfighter-approved books. For more, don’t forget to check our archive. And yours truly is always available for book advice!

If you’ve read any of these books and would like to review them, please do so. We’d love to hear more of your thoughts!

Young Adult Fiction:

  • The collected works of John Green (Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns, An Abundance of Katherines, Let It Snow, The Fault in Our Stars), which are nerdfighting literature 101.
  • The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
  • The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  • 13 Little Blue Envelopes and The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  • Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
  • The Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper
  • The Uglies trilogy and Extras by Scott Westerfeld
  • The Magicians by Lev Grossman
  • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Science Fiction:

  • The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov
  • The Thirteenth Reality: The Journal of Curious Letters by James Dashner
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Matched trilogy by Ally Condie
  • The Uglies trilogy and Extras by Scott Westerfeld
  • Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fantasy/Adventure:

  • The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
  • The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  • The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
  • The collected works of Neil Gaiman
  • Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
  • The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
  • Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
  • Kiki Strike series by Kirsten Miller
  • Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
  • The Sight by David Clement-Davies
  • The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien

Fiction:

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The collected works of Stephen King
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (accompanied by the Lizzie Bennet Diaries)
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  • The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
  • Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
  • The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
  • The Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nonfiction:

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

thehealthywarrior:

findnmyway:

6&16 (:

I would marry the man who did this with me on the first date. Especially 8.

For anyone who misses this on the Nerdfighter group

gotmagicwithoutwands:

I will be absent from the group for the forseeable future.  Although I have met great friends there and appreciate them greatly, some of the major participants in the group have become extremely problematic for me lately.

I’m not angry or upset anymore, I’m just done.  I don’t feel that the group is somewhere that I need to, should or can be.  I am emotionally and mentally exhausted and not for the first time.  I probably won’t be attending any gatherings in the near future because some of the major players who attend them are also the individual with the problematic behavior.  

It has gone far beyond not being positive to actually being unhealthy for me to be actively participating in the group.  It really sucks that something that has been a positive resource in my life is now something that I cannot participate in, but it happens.

If anyone from the group would like to stay in contact with me, feel free to add me  on Facebook, follow and/or message me here, etc.

We’ll miss you. You’ve always got intelligent points to make, and good conversation. 

I had some fun at Barnes and Noble.

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