https://twitter.com/ichlugebullets/status/174252689650225152
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 27 February 2012 22:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have a student who is a "brony", he looks and acts like a cross between data and wesley crusher. he receives educational support for asperger's syndrome but he really doesn't need it, he seems less disabled on a social level and more disinterested ... anyway he spends all of his spare time in class - which is quite a bit, he's super bright - drawing male my little ponies and writing fan fic about them
the weirdest part about it is that he doesn't seem to catch any shit about it from other students
― the late great, Monday, 27 February 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
he looks and acts like a cross between data and wesley crusher.
the calls are coming from inside the house...
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 02:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
wait I thought this whole thing was like an ironic thing 4chan people did
― iatee, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 02:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
no this student is doing this in earnest
― the late great, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 02:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
more like boneries
― Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Nutsack (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 02:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
i liked sailor moon when i was a pre-teen, that's not so far off being a bronie.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
― der Truthahn des Giftes (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
not a single wet dick amongst them
― der Truthahn des Giftes (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://bronies.com/map/
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think at least two of them are girls.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
after the whole d3@thdr0ne revelation I wouldn't count all of these guys as sexless
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
one is sort of hitable.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
swim goggles girl is pretty cute tbh
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
there's always a fedora guy, isn't there?
alright. we're in agreement that's a girl then
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
this bronie dude will hit it:
― der Truthahn des Giftes (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like guys who really play the absurd and goofy hat card bcz they frequently contrast it by wearing the world's blandest of casual wear.
― Male Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Nutsack (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
fedora guy is so wrong, in so many countless ways ...
― der Truthahn des Giftes (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 03:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
how many of the guys pictured in this thread qualify as "grown men" tbh?
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
the amazing thing about fedora dude is that he manages to pull focus from the dude in the center wearing a Nightmare Before Christmas raver hat
I mean, just ponder that
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am considering becoming a brony
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbh i don't believe this is real.
― jed_, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
What was the "revelation"?
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
I haven't watched any of these, but Powerpuff Girls definitely had crossover appeal and in-jokes for adult audiences. There are also dudes who are really into animation stuff regardless so... this doesn't seem that odd considering the writer and context.
There has to be some sort of version of Rule 34 that also states that if there's an entertainment media, there is a group of men into it somewhere.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
that he existed and occasionally had sex. sometimes even consensual.
xpost
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
thank (or blame) cankles for the bronies convention pic (he posted it on the OG my little ponies thread this summer).
dan OTM about fedora dude.
― der Truthahn des Giftes (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
For all of your gift giving needs: http://bronymerch.tumblr.com/
I am seriously considering sewing plush my little ponies because the bronies are willing to fork over mad cash for them.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 18:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
raver hat guy seems to be a bit of a media whore
― Darin, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just imagine how disgusting the inside of that hat must be after wearing it around all day at these awesome brony events.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
he's just happy that he's not being upstaged by Fedora Dude. Fedora Dude just abides, man.
― der Truthahn des Giftes (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
"yeah yeah, you have a wacky hat with ponies glued to it; could you tell us more about the dude with the tie and fedora?"
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Chewing on a pen" is my favorite brony in that picture.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like so not gonna happen guy at the left end, in the green shirt.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
is that j0rdan s. next to the pen-chewer?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Me too! There ought to be a poll. xp
― Nicole, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
"chewing on a pen" is the only one i'd guess has ever had some stank on his hang-low.
― der Truthahn des Giftes (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Some serious underestimating at what goes on at these kind of conferences. I guarantee a scary amount of those guys have gotten some play with their fellow enthusiasts.
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think you mean "sex-related stank on his hang-low" because I may be prejudging but, based on this picture, I am pretty sure a good number of the people in that picture are familiar with stank all kinds of places on their bodies
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
uh you guys are mocking a bunch of high school students
― mac and me (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
god forbid
― max, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I feel like I've spent my entire life mocking high school students
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I get older, they stay the same age."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
yup, sex-stank on the genitalia.
and they're kind of asking for the mockery, you know ... not that i was much better when i was in high school, mind.
― der Truthahn des Giftes (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't know what rad shit y'all were doing age 14-17But I wasn't doing anything more honourable than this
― mac and me (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
IIRC pictures of what I was doing have been posted to ILE, which mostly involved stalking the halls dressed as an extra from Degrassi High and doing the cabbage patch in my friends' kitchens
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
(should note said cabbage patch was usually to "The Days of Swine and Roses" by TKK)
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Most of those people look pretty normal to me, aside from wacky-hat guy. The only cue I could really take to suggest that they're all the risible nerdy virgins you think they are is the fact that they're at a brony meet-up.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
fedora looks like he wandered into the wrong room and was too polite to leave before they took the picture; I imagine 30 seconds afterward he was all "so just to clarify, the Mad Men meetup is on the right"
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hope Degrassi does a brony ep
― mac and me (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
iirc bronies are mostly pretty strident/outspoken about their distaste for pre-FIM mlp
just disinterest I would think? make sense that anyone into FIM would get into Powerpuff Girls but not necessarily '80s MLP (unless they actively want to seek ersatz nostalgia)
― just a dorp in the scrooge vault (sic), Sunday, 28 April 2013 13:09 (1 month ago) Permalink
i dunno about powerpuff girls, either, though. bronyism seems awfully dedicated to this particular instance of the beloved thing. it's not about "cute cartoon featuring magical little girls", it's about PONIES.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Sunday, 28 April 2013 13:15 (1 month ago) Permalink
Those 'kinds' of guys either end up as bronies or
― abcfsk, Sunday, 28 April 2013 13:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
i dunno about powerpuff girls, either, though.
Lauren Faust
― just a dorp in the scrooge vault (sic), Sunday, 28 April 2013 14:06 (1 month ago) Permalink
oh i know, but my mental image of the brony depends on total abject worship of PONIES, with no other gods before them
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Sunday, 28 April 2013 14:25 (1 month ago) Permalink
― wedgie jackson (Eisbaer), Sunday, 28 April 2013 21:14 (1 month ago) Permalink
― wedgie jackson (Eisbaer), Sunday, 28 April 2013 21:20 (1 month ago) Permalink
do the bronies wear fedoras or do they wear equestrian attire?
― Pat Finn, Sunday, 28 April 2013 21:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
wow that youtube channel
― goole, Monday, 29 April 2013 15:19 (1 month ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_0WgsuFdHw
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Monday, 29 April 2013 16:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 20:39 (1 month ago) Permalink
Why...
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 20:43 (1 month ago) Permalink
Beautiful, just beautiful. Keep making these edits.
― Moron Tabernacle Chior (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 23:26 (1 month ago) Permalink
what a beautiful world
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 01:20 (1 month ago) Permalink
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 02:58 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
nice
― goole, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 12:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
http://www.sbs.com.au/thefeed/blog/bronies-friendship-magic
"Any music... it can be electronic, dubstep, acoustic... as long as it references ponies".
― Moulden Honaro (S-), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 04:32 (1 week ago) Permalink
the three kinds of music
― Operation Gypsy Dildo (silby), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 04:45 (1 week ago) Permalink
we play both kinds of music: country and ponies
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 05:15 (1 week ago) Permalink
I remember sitting down with my little girl cousin to watch the old incarnation of MLP in about 2006? and thinking, "damn, this is pretty entertaining."
I've not seen Friendship is Magic, but damn, these guys are...odd. Has anyone come up with a theory as to why so many badly socialized young men are transfixed by this show for young girls?
Is this the hikikomori phenomenon arriving in the West at last?
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:24 (1 week ago) Permalink
I have not studied this in depth or anything but my guess is most of them just like being in some community and having something to talk about, sorta dig that they get to be absurdist in a 'look at me' way, don't actually enjoy the cartoons that much or I mean maybe it's moderately entertaining, who knows. and then a few are probably just perverts.
― iatee, Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:34 (1 week ago) Permalink
yeah, I guess so. also, this really doesn't bear much in common with hikikomori either, more of an odd interest blown up a few degrees. I should stop posting while sleep deprived.
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:36 (1 week ago) Permalink
dudes be nerdy
― http://threeframes.net (gr8080), Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:37 (1 week ago) Permalink
I would guess the chances that a 50 y/o 'brony' is a sick pervert at heart is like 95% whereas a 15 y/o brony it's prob more like 20%
― iatee, Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:39 (1 week ago) Permalink
do furries still even exist? that was more or less the same thing just w/ a higher pervert factor I think
― iatee, Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:41 (1 week ago) Permalink
these are the sorts of claims that would get the mods angry at you back in the heyday of rolling teenpop
― ttyih boi (crüt), Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:47 (1 week ago) Permalink
haha I think there actually is a lot in common w/ those two cultures
― iatee, Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:51 (1 week ago) Permalink
bronies and teen pop fans not bronies and mods
maybe bronies and mods too
― iatee, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 8:41 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol at the hopeful and naive suggestion that furries could be some kind of passing fad
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:53 (1 week ago) Permalink
the sgt. pepper cover from some furry-dominated alternate universe.
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:55 (1 week ago) Permalink
omg
― iatee, Thursday, 6 June 2013 00:55 (1 week ago) Permalink
i see LBJ
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Thursday, 6 June 2013 01:04 (1 week ago) Permalink
that megafurry.gif is all time
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 6 June 2013 05:18 (1 week ago) Permalink
― iatee, Thursday, June 6, 2013 2:51 AM (4 hours ago)
Pretty convinced these are polar opposites.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 6 June 2013 05:55 (1 week ago) Permalink
This is going to make some bronies very, uh, happy:
― South of Hamster (J3ff T.), Friday, 7 June 2013 19:16 (1 week ago) Permalink
holy shit i bet the marketing research for that was a circle of hell reserved for people who hit their dogs
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 June 2013 19:51 (1 week ago) Permalink
― abcfsk, Thursday, June 6, 2013 12:55 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
'look at me I like this trashy pop culture object that was intended for little girls, let's talk about it together online'. early ilm is total broniville.
― iatee, Friday, 7 June 2013 19:58 (1 week ago) Permalink
The former has connections to hipsterdom, the latter anti-hipster pride and anti-authority authenticity fetishizing, ie they're old man rockists (often literally - "I only listen to metal but this pony song touches me to the core".)
― abcfsk, Friday, 7 June 2013 23:44 (1 week ago) Permalink