Meet 'bronies' -- grown men who are fans of My Little Pony

http://i.imgur.com/c4dTX7B.jpg

i know a few bronies these days. one of them's the only person i've ever met, to my knowledge, to have an active restraining order against him.

@blowryontv
RNC's Sean Spicer just quoted Twilight Sparkle of "My Little Pony" in defending Melania Trump plagiarism charges. Did not see that coming.

you didn't?

http://67.media.tumblr.com/c1c7a4010dc63ffdf21c48ce6abd9d21/tumblr_mqm7uw8P4S1r62kifo1_1280.png

http://67.media.tumblr.com/52f626237253070da5cc2549cead08aa/tumblr_o73kfzEnJf1rmerh9o1_500.jpg

I predict great things for this kid

that profile was discussed upthread - it's a spoof, sadly

Meet 'bronies' -- grown men who are fans of My Little Pony

This is it.
The screenshotted first use of brony.
The beginning of our sins. pic.twitter.com/Fct04u80j2

— Snoopledoops (@SnoozySnoozie) May 20, 2017

saw a dude in a brony T-shirt walking out of a Festival Foods with a handgun on his belt

Have we discussed that female bronies are called "pegasisters"?

oh dear

y’all

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/06/my-little-pony-nazi-4chan-black-lives-matter/613348/

"It's just cute, funny, sexy, art."

saw a dude in a brony T-shirt walking out of a Festival Foods with a handgun on his belt

the article about the reddit revolt linked in that piece is also a good read

This idea of what counts as political and what doesn’t is another thing the fandom took from 4chan—where racial slurs are just jokes but anti-racism makes you a “social justice warrior.”

https://www.equestriadaily.com/2021/04/the-indianapolis-fedex-shooter-was.html

"I hope that I can be with Applejack in the afterlife, my life has no meaning without her. If there's no afterlife and she isn't real then my life never mattered anyway."

I have questions

i'm opting for not asking

i dont get it guys https://t.co/mgStiJtQKq

— hayley from Paramore 🥀 (@yelyahwilliams) August 3, 2021

(I had no idea she sang that song!!!)

This is amazing.

Federal agents in Moscow have raided and ended a My Little Pony convention on the grounds that it constituted "gay propaganda." Even painting the animal's mane in the Russian tricolor couldn't save this one. https://t.co/KIv00sKoeN pic.twitter.com/p68hiFCmWm

— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) February 17, 2024

just to be clear a lot of those "grown men" who were into MLP did in fact turn out to be women because, you know, There Were No Signs. i guess when russia is raiding MLP conventions for spreading "gay propaganda" that's pretty obvious but i do want to say it for the record.

i got a friend who writes genuinely actually good MLP fanfiction. people shit-talk fan-fiction but i respect people who do it well. it's really hard to capture the voice of a character when it's not your character. it's also a good way of getting your writing actually read - people want to read stories about characters they're already invested in. i've tried to write fanfiction occasionally but i'm never really satisfied with the results. (yes i do hold my writing to an unreasonably high standard.)