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

slow news day I guess

The latest incarnation of the My Little Pony franchise has attracted an unexpected demographic: Adult men. The men, who call themselves "bronies," have formed an extensive online community, including a roughly 100-member group in Portland.

They're self-described geeks, nerds or video gamers in their teens to mid-30s. They discovered My Little Pony after noticing a glut of pony-related activity while browsing Internet forums. Curious, they checked out the show and got hooked.

"I've gotten raised eyebrows from friends," says Jim West, a 20-year-old brony from Olympia.

But don't call them girly men. Yes, some bronies are sensitive types. But they also rock climb and play sports, have girlfriends and maintain active social lives.

http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2011/09/seriously_my_little_pony_grown.html

oh dude we have been lolling at these guys for a while

TS: My Little Pony vs. Care Bears

Jesus you're fast. I was coming here to write - "Dan P to thread".

E! - I summon you to Pulp top ten 0_o

ha - I should have known that you guys would already have these goofballs on your radar

let me try that link again: TS: My Little Pony vs. Care Bears

when these dudes get into reggae, they're called jah bronies

or pot bronies

#savederpy

http://savederpy.tumblr.com/

fake copypasta is fake

https://twitter.com/ichlugebullets/status/174252689650225152

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

he looks and acts like a cross between data and wesley crusher.

the calls are coming from inside the house...

wait I thought this whole thing was like an ironic thing 4chan people did

no this student is doing this in earnest

more like boneries

i liked sailor moon when i was a pre-teen, that's not so far off being a bronie.

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

not a single wet dick amongst them

http://bronies.com/map/

i think at least two of them are girls.

after the whole d3@thdr0ne revelation I wouldn't count all of these guys as sexless

one is sort of hitable.

swim goggles girl is pretty cute tbh

there's always a fedora guy, isn't there?

alright. we're in agreement that's a girl then

this bronie dude will hit it:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/Eisbaer29/kingofalldouchebags.jpg

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.

fedora guy is so wrong, in so many countless ways ...

how many of the guys pictured in this thread qualify as "grown men" tbh?

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

I am considering becoming a brony

tbh i don't believe this is real.

after the whole d3@thdr0ne revelation I wouldn't count all of these guys as sexless

What was the "revelation"?

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.

that he existed and occasionally had sex. sometimes even consensual.

xpost

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.

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.

raver hat guy seems to be a bit of a media whore

http://media.oregonlive.com/ent_impact_home/photo/10010749-large.jpg

Just imagine how disgusting the inside of that hat must be after wearing it around all day at these awesome brony events.

he's just happy that he's not being upstaged by Fedora Dude. Fedora Dude just abides, man.

"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?"

"Chewing on a pen" is my favorite brony in that picture.

I like so not gonna happen guy at the left end, in the green shirt.

is that j0rdan s. next to the pen-chewer?

Me too! There ought to be a poll. xp

"chewing on a pen" is the only one i'd guess has ever had some stank on his hang-low.

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.

"chewing on a pen" is the only one i'd guess has ever had some stank on his hang-low.

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

uh you guys are mocking a bunch of high school students

god forbid

I feel like I've spent my entire life mocking high school students

"I get older, they stay the same age."

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.

I don't know what rad shit y'all were doing age 14-17
But I wasn't doing anything more honourable than this

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

(should note said cabbage patch was usually to "The Days of Swine and Roses" by TKK)

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.

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"

I hope Degrassi does a brony ep

i was a risible nerdy virgin through the vast majority of time i was in high school ... game recognize game, yo.

fedora looks like he stepped offa a 1979 Specials EP cover.

is this just what furries do now? do furries still exist? is there some venn diagram overlap here? I still don't 'get' this.

Yeah, they all seem like they'll be ok in the long run. Fedora will grow out of his suit, even. Not sure why their sex lives have anything to do with it.

RIP Wheels ;_;

furries are eternal, man ... or at least since "the shining"

there's always a fedora guy, isn't there?

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, February 27, 2012 10:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

such a truth bomb

I think these are just nerdy fanboys who like a cartoon. xp

I owned a fedora as a teenager. yikes! never got the courage to wear it out though

I don't see a whole lot of difference between nerdy fanboys who like this cartoon and nerdy fanppl who like all manner of things and attend conventions about them. Right down to their penchant for silly hats.

xp I totally have a fedora pic of me from jr high.

I desperately wanted a porkpie hat in the days of third-wave ska. Thankfully e-commerce was a little less developed and I sure as fuck wasn't going to find one locally.

guys, I owned a fedora, a bicycle cap with the name of my German camp on it, a Dr Seuss raver hat and a green baseball cap with a cartoon mascot from a Japanese baseball team on it by the time I was TWENTY; I think I have put in my time in the bad hat trenches and am allowed to chuckle at those that came after me

oh, also a reversible skull cap

there are a lot of bronies who are not into like furry shit, but there are definitely furry bronies

I came pretty close to ordering a t-shirt with the japanese baseball player on it that the dude wore in the big lebowski

idg reversible skull cap - does it reverse into a normal looking baseball cap or something

like, 'oh shit some hot chicks are coming by - quick, before they see me!' *reverses skull cap*

one side was black with a partial headband around the front; the other side was a red striped pattern

i'm fascinated with just how much goggles girl looks like a videogame character http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/05/07/WorldEndsYou460x276.jpg

at any rate, nothing could really hide my non-perscription Dwayne Wayne sunglasses

http://i.imgur.com/9seGZ.jpg

i was rather fond of a gilligan-style hat when i was a college freshman, which was my bad-hat phase.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B002ZSWPD0/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&s=miscellaneous

unless you count baseball caps.

oh shit I had one of those too, also reversible

xxp speaking of jet set radio, here's a contest to get ur graf in the rerelease of the game

http://www.jlh-design.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/bucket_hat.jpg

more like this one, actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPB1uLEBkD0

JSR is getting rereleased? on what platform? whoa!

XBLA and PSN iirc

mocking people with alternative lifestyles, what have we come to

at any rate, nothing could really hide my non-perscription Dwayne Wayne sunglasses

OK, I take back my previous statement

aw one day I will get an xbox that fell off the back of a truck.

we need to start a 'bad hats you have owned' thread

eisbaer that is known as a BUCKET HAT and it is ALWAYS HIP

goggles-girl does kind of look like Tank Girl, come to think of it:

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjE3ODMxNzU3NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTQzMTM3NA@@._V1._SY317_.jpg

when i was in elementary school i had dwayne wayne flip-up sunglasses over my regular glasses for awhile, to match my dad. NOT HIP.

I went on a high school orchestra trip my freshman year of high school. This was when I had long hair. I ended up buying some french-style wool beret and wore it around WDW most of the next day, after we performed in the Magic Kingdom.

Wool beret, long hair, Florida in spring. Makes perfect sense.

did you wear a fanny pack

pics pls

my friends had 1. clip-on shades via magnets and 2. glasses that grew dark in sunlight

huge nerds

I had another pair of sunglasses that were round frames with square lenses inside them, and another pair of those shutter sunglasses Kanye started wearing around circa Graduation

fyi I never spent more than $10 on any of these

was gonna try to work "bronyoner" in somewhere, but it's all about hats now

and i was way nerdier in hs than any of those posers

I actually lost track of that beret a few years ago and am still fuming about it for some reason. I think I wanted to use it for a halloween costume.

never owned a fedora

pretty sure i owned a top hat, tho

^^^ respect

i've always wanted a fez

there are at least two girls in every high school in california that wear big tank-girl style glasses

"nerdery" maybe seems not quite as mocked as it was when "we" were kids (realize i'm writing to a wide audience but i'm assuming i'm around the upper end of the median at 35) ... it seems like a LOT more kids are into stuff like video games, anime, cartoons than when i was a teenager.

not sure how or why this is but i bet it has something to do w/ everyone having cable and internet

my brother is holding on to his collection mid-90s Kangols, waiting until they're cool again

a fez?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cIEJkD82e60/TKUq2M0wGeI/AAAAAAAAD8o/jC2I2fK6E5M/s1600/Akbar-and-Jeff.jpg

my brother is holding on to his collection mid-90s Kangols, waiting until they're cool again

wow, I didn't know LL was your brother

http://whitedudesinkangolhats.com

<3 akbar & jeff

I had another pair of sunglasses that were round frames with square lenses inside them, and another pair of those shutter sunglasses Kanye started wearing around circa Graduation

fyi I never spent more than $10 on any of these

― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:11 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

didn't know you grew up on the atlantic city boardwalk

6'5" 350+ pounds wearing Kangols and vests my mom sewed while running a comic book store

kind of amazed my brother wasn't a Juggalo tbh

kangol douche

akbar and jeff may well have been my spur for fez-love, i confess.

https://p.twimg.com/AmxnkUNCMAEMdXF.png

pegasisters

SINCE PATRICK IS LIKE DERPY

A AWESOME PONY

so many unbuttoned flannel shirts. is being in highschool like being in 1995 forever?

i don't even want to parse what this derpy controversy is

john derpyshire

I am sorry, goole. I think we are back in1995.

I had a hat like Blossom's with a big ole flower right on the front. THe single dorkiest thing I ever owned was probably a letterman jacket from my high school that, because I didn't play any sports, said "Orchestra" across the back. Super cool. I made my parents buy it for me and wore it approx 3 times. My dad was still trying to get me to wear it up until a couple years ago.

bronie

Derpy

Kind: Pegasus
Sex: Female

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110401135031/mlp/images/thumb/8/8a/DerpyCompetition1.png/250px-DerpyCompetition1.png
Derpy in the episode Sonic Rainboom

Derpy Hooves is the fan-given name of a lavender grey Pegasus pony given by the show's internet following due to her having a cross-eyed "derpy" expression in the first episode. The name has since been adopted by the crew and Hasbro. Starting with Feeling Pinkie Keen, the show's crew began giving the pony crossed eyes intentionally, as a nod to the fans. The character is addressed by Rainbow Dash in The Last Roundup as Derpy, where she speaks for the first time. The scene was later altered so Rainbow Dash no longer names Derpy, and her voice has been changed.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110130193104/mlp/images/thumb/6/69/Derpy_derping.png/250px-Derpy_derping.png
The face that started it all.

Origin
Alert viewers of the show noticed a googly-eyed Pegasus in the series's first episode, standing in the background in the crowd in Twilight Sparkle's welcoming party. After the image was captured and posted on 4chan's comics and cartoons board /co/, fans began speculating of the nature of this odd pony.[1] The name she was given, Derpy Hooves, is derived from the slang term "derp", which is associated with someone who behaves in a silly manner and is often connected with crossed eyes.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110809095624/mlp/images/thumb/7/73/Derpy_id.png/250px-Derpy_id.png
Derpy in Feeling Pinkie Keen.

Wall Eyes
This gray Pegasus with a bubbles cutie mark was one of several background ponies, chosen from a palette and placed in the scenes on the whim of layout artists. At first, the pony's face wasn't supposed to be visible in that particular scene, but a later layout change uncovered it.[2] Jayson Thiessen, the supervising director of the show, stated that he noticed and was amused by her expression. Since Hasbro had already given the episode green light, he didn't order fixing Derpy's eyes.[3] Thiessen relayed in a Q&A that he was so delighted after discovering popularity of Derpy that he requested altering Derpy's eyes in all episodes that hadn't been sent to the Hub yet.[3]

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110805073423/mlp/images/thumb/7/73/I_heart_Derpy.jpg/250px-I_heart_Derpy.jpg
First officially licensed Derpy merchandise, from WeLoveFine.com

Name
Lauren Faust has acknowledged the fan following of Derpy. Before the name Derpy was used by the production crew, Faust stated that in one of the unaired episodes at the time, Winter Wrap Up, there is a mention of a "featherbrained" Pegasus named Ditzy Doo whose appearance is never established on-screen, and should Ditzy make an appearance the show may assign Derpy's design to her.[4] Faust later stated that it seems the name has "landed on Derpy Hooves."[5]

Even though background ponies have no official names, an animator from the Philippine studio working on the show said that Derpy was nicknamed Stoneface, Bubbles, Bubblehead, and Ditzy by the crew.[6] Thiessen later relayed that the Canadian crew has adopted the name Derpy.[7][8]

Derpy is featured in her Nightmare Night paper bags costume in the Castle Creator flash game, with the file name for her asset containing the word "Derpy".[9] A December 2011 update to the game contained another Derpy asset, wearing a reindeer cap and a red nose, this time with its file name containing the phrase "DH_definitely_canon".[10] The day Hearth's Warming Eve aired, The Hub's Facebook page posted a message encouraging readers to "spot fan favorite Derpy" in the episode.[11] She is called "Derpy" on-screen in The Last Roundup, detailed below.

Charity auction
Lauren Faust participated in a charity auction for the 2011 Japan relief effort by donating several of her My Little Pony Friendship is Magic production sketches. In addition to sketches drawn in 2008, she drew a new sketch of Derpy, which sold for 2,151 USD.[12] The character was explicitly called Derpy Hooves by the auctioneer.

Merchandising
Officially licensed apparel sporting Derpy was first made available on August 2011 at the online store WeLoveFine,[13] though the store carries fan-designs which refer to various characters by various fan-given names. More designs were later made available on WeLoveFine and at Hot Topic retail stores.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101218195618/mlp/images/f/f1/Derpy_muffins.png
Muffins!

As a Background Pony
Derpy first appears in the first episode of the series in the background of several scenes and, as noted above, makes her googly-eyed appearance at Twilight Sparkle's welcoming party.

Derpy can be seen throughout the season trotting through a park, helping with storm preparations, participating in the Running of the Leaves, visiting Ponyville's market, and more. She is one of the ponies admiring Pinkie Pie's "baked bads" in Applebuck Season, delivering the line "muffins" among the crowd, along with Minuette and Amethyst Star, whose mouths also match the spoken line. She appears with intentionally crossed eyes in Feeling Pinkie Keen; when Twilight spies on Pinkie Pie, a series of objects falls on her head: a flower pot, an anvil, a cart of hay and finally a piano. A camera pan reveals that the items were dropped by Derpy and her friend Raindrops, who are hovering next to a movers' truck. In Green Isn't Your Color, she is heard gasping in shock at Fluttershy's catwalk antics.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111102120758/mlp/images/thumb/8/8e/Derpy_Mayor_wrestling_S2E03.png/250px-Derpy_Mayor_wrestling_S2E03.png
Wrestling with the Mayor

As a Scripted Character
Derpy appears in nineteen episodes of season one as a background character. For season two, she has gained a scripted-character status rather than an arbitrary background pony, and she is considered a "Where's Waldo"-type challenge for the fans.[14]

In the remastered version of the opening sequence that is first used in Lesson Zero, she appears in the top window of the first train car.

She is one of the ponies under the effects of Twilight Sparkle's spell on her doll, Smarty Pants, in Lesson Zero. When Princess Celestia removes the spell from everyone, Derpy finds herself fighting with the Mayor, and returns to her derped-face self. In the photo on the right her face is the same face shown in the very first episode of season one.

Derpy is dressed in several brown paper bags in Luna Eclipsed, and participates in Applejack's apple bob activity during Nightmare Night with Golden Harvest. However, while bobbing for apples she accidentally pulls the plug, causing all the water in the bob to go down the drain.

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111113154461/mlp/images/2/2c/Derpy_S2E6.png
Filly Derpy in The Cutie Pox

She makes a brief cameo in Sisterhooves Social among the crowd listening to Granny Smith's announcement. In The Cutie Pox, a wall-eyed Pegasus filly with the same color scheme as Derpy appears briefly for one shot in the schoolyard, with most of her body obscured by Apple Bloom and another filly. Derpy makes a brief appearance in the doorway to Fluttershy's chicken coop in May the Best Pet Win!, an episode otherwise devoid of background ponies.

She appears briefly in The Mysterious Mare Do Well among the crowd cheering after Rainbow Dash saves the old folks falling on the balcony. She appears in Sweet and Elite along with many other ponies during a shot in the song Becoming Popular, wearing the same paper bag that was part of her costume in Luna Eclipsed, in addition to a pearl necklace. She pops out of a well in-between Heartstrings and Bon Bon in Secret of My Excess. She rides the train to Canterlot in Hearth's Warming Eve. Later, she pops out from behind the curtain to wave at the audience before the show. She walks away sad afterwards when the Stage Manager stops her. At the end of the episode, she talks in the background with Amethyst Star.

She appears frequently throughout the musical sequence The Flim Flam Brothers in the episode The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000, as well as in the crowd watching the competition. She appears in Hearts and Hooves Day in three village shots, one standing next to an unknown filly and twice standing next to Doctor Whooves on the bridge. In A Friend in Deed, she appears twice, first flying upside down in the snow globe Pinkie Pie finds in Cranky Doodle Donkey's things and the second time by a stand in Ponyville square with two other ponies.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120123144534/mlp/images/thumb/3/31/Derpy_Hooves_Flying_S2E14.png/240px-Derpy_Hooves_Flying_S2E14.png
Derpy with Rainbow Dash in The Last Roundup.

Speaking Role
Derpy has a significant speaking role in The Last Roundup. The scene starts with Rainbow Dash getting the tip of her tail singed by a lightning bolt, coming from a gray storm cloud that Derpy is bouncing on. Dash tells her, "Now, careful, Derpy. Don't wanna do any more damage than you've already done", pointing to the broken and crashing roof of the Ponyville town hall. Derpy replies, "I just don't know what went wrong" and shocks herself from another bolt of lightning from the cloud she's bouncing on. She flies by Rainbow Dash and compliments her work, but bumps into a pillar, and sends it hurtling to the ground. Rainbow Dash tries to stop it but she smashes through the floor with the pillar. Derpy sticks her head in the hole asking if Rainbow Dash is okay and asks if there's anything she can do to help, but Rainbow Dash flies up and tells her to sit there and do nothing. When Derpy sits down in response, the floor below her starts to crack and she falls through, grabbing Rainbow Dash and pulling her down along for the ride. When the Mayor gives her speech in honor of Applejack, Derpy sticks out of the hole in the broken floor and cheers for Applejack, but she lets go and falls down once again. Her eyes are crossed through the majority of the scene.

Production
Derpy is voiced by Tabitha St. Germain in the original cut.[15] Germain was not aware at the time that Derpy is female and voiced her "with a neighbor's son in mind."[16] The episode (and Derpy's scene) was storyboarded by Sabrina Alberghetti and Nicole Wang.[17][18] Alberghetti was reminded of herself in the portrayal of Derpy as an "accident-prone klutz".[19]

Subsequent Alteration
The episode was removed from iTunes a week after its release, and put back up on 24 February 2012, with Derpy's scene altered: a few words are ommited from the dialog, in particular Rainbow Dash does not name Derpy; Derpy's voice is different and more feminine; and Derpy's eyes are not as acutely crossed in a few of the shots in the scene. This alteration does not appear in The Friendship Express DVD.

Appearances
The following charts details Derpy's appearances in the show, using approximate times from various videos available online.

Holy crap!

fucking mods

Wasn't there some sort of controversy where some group thought the character was offensive, or the producers panicked and thought it might be?

The other possibility is that they don't want brony influence that obvious in the show

I have seen this episode (like I said, it is my 4 yr old's favorite show), and I thought it was offensive -- the voice seemed like the one that bullies use when they mock retarded people. I was really uncomfortable with it.

Germain was not aware at the time that Derpy is female and voiced her "with a neighbor's son in mind."[16]

this is messed up on at least one level

DERPY is a word that teenagers use to make fun of each other

it would be a bit like having a character in an 80s show called HOSER or something like that

maybe a little rough for the target audience of my little pony?

derpy means "retarded," though? also did anyone who wasnt canadian say hoser in the 80s?

yes, thanks to Bob and Doug MacKenzie

derpy means "awkward" or "stupid", not literally "retarded", though kids use it the same way i used "retarded" in high school (ie not literally meaning retarded)

if you have ever made the comical noise DURRRRR to indicate confusion or foolishness then you would be familiar with the root of the word

i guess the question is whether DURRRRR refers to retarded people or not

it used to

well, DURRRRR you have it

I've never thought of "derpy" as having the same valence of ableism that "retarded" does.

it does, but in a very distanced and softened way. like saying "duh" to indicate stupidity.

WHICH PONY ARE YOU?

http://www.bronyland.com/pony-personality-test/?q=NTM3OXwxNjE4ODk

http://www.bronyland.com/images/quiz/banner_twilight.jpg

tee hee Yes, I trust just about everypony; it's better to assume the best in ponies!

Bronies, go fuck yourselves:

I live in West Virginia, and the word nigger has no power here... because it's used so often by everyone ON everyone in the friendly sense of "wazzup mah nigga?!" that the offensive meaning is not valid. Derpy Hooves could have done this for the "retarded" meaning, render it archaeic and obsolete in language, overall improving the Englisih language by removing a meaninglessly offensive word.

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fez-diagram.jpg

"wazzup mah nigga??"

"nothing much, retard!!"

having a hard time now thinking of ICP as more progressive and considerate than bronies...

lol wv. you fucks.

just spent half an hour trying to find a mlp:fim song for my wife, who's been watching this with our daughter. turns our it was a parody of california gurls called "Equestria Gurls".

Guessing that being from West Virginia is what makes that guy a fuck, not being a brony.

I live in West Virginia, and the word nigger has no power here... because it's used so often by everyone ON everyone in the friendly sense of "wazzup mah nigga?!" that the offensive meaning is not valid. Derpy Hooves could have done this for the "retarded" meaning, render it archaeic and obsolete in language, overall improving the Englisih language by removing a meaninglessly offensive word.

Ricky Gervais has moved to WV? Heavens!

Why do they think it's bad to have a name that occasionally means "retarded", but fine for little kids to sing the song "Ring a Ring o'Roses", which is referencing how people died in the black death?

Still really wish I hadn't learned that "derpy" has hit the euphemism treadmill, I'm so fond of how it sounds as a word.

Brony 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_aRKeDfqYo

So much fontrum.

Ride it. My brony.

*face palm*

I legitimately like the show. It's cute and has well drawn characters and stories, and the humor is actually based on the characters and not just sub-Adult Swim screaming and randomness. That said… No.

On the other hand, that person clearly has some sort of mental issues, so now I feel bad for laughing…

the unboxing vid has to be some kind of lowpoint in society whether it's fake or real.

i interviewed a lot of Bronies last weekend!

tune in to chaki's radio show this friday nite to hear me (and the bronies) talk about it!!

http://www.fccfreeradio.com/?page_id=4075

also:

http://whitedudesinkangolhats.com

― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:19 PM (3 weeks ago)

holy shit @ seeing someone i know IRL on page 2 of that tumblr

you know kevin james?

i wore a kangol hat in 2004. there's still a picture of me wearing it on my credit card ugh :(

I didn't know Kangol made trucker hats

trying to be real w/ u and this is what i get

awww

I'm only zinging the 2004 Whiney, you are a changed man

wait Whiney what weirdo European credit card puts your picture on it

My BofA bank card had my picture on it in the mid-2000s, but no cards I've had since then. I thought it was a great idea.

my 18-year old metalhead shut-in stepbrother is into this shit and even has an online girlfriend as a result (she's 14, but hey). what's funny is that he's always asking my stepmom for My Little Pony stuff and wants to be sent to one of those meetups, so my stepmom occasionally asks me "do you know what a pony convention is? what's with this pony stuff?" thanks to this thread, now I know

*shudder*

My oldest kid wanted to go to MacDonald's cause she knew they gave away MLP. Urgh. I hate MLP so much, but ah well.. We went anyway. They were not there, got sth else instead. I am beginning there is a god after all. lol

I don't even want to think about how many MLPs are in my house.

When I was 21, my girlfriend (who was 18) was really into Powerpuff Girls. I wasn't a huge fan, but I developed a habit of watching Powerpuff Girls even when she wasn't around. I put a stop to it after some buddies called me out.

Powerpuff Girls ruled tho

Thank you, voice of authority.

I am dying over (she's 14, but hey)

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSwjZUA3L0OnCtzVdzAE_y-UoGBH-eTGAuw-UbRrZ_k2hadMTwoIrjQKHie

Powerpuff Girls was pretty cool

Isn't this MLP show one with a scriptwriter who worked on tha tshow?

I remember being all "wait, really????" about Powerpuff Girls when I happened to flip onto an episode that featured HIM as the villain

I am dying over (she's 14, but hey)

― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:12 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too

I am also now picturing FBS stepbro as the guy in Heavy Metal Parking Lot who says something along the lines of "This is my girlfriend, she's thirteeeen."

Don't know if it's changed tack since it was on in the early 00's but I didn't know Powerpuff Girls was considered the same as MLP... Always saw it in the same league as Dexter's Lab, Fairly Odd Parents, Spongebob etc i.e. Stuff that's actually pretty funny/appeals to grown ups on a regular level as well as kids. Some of the characters: Mojojojo, HIM, the Professor etc are pure comedy.

Powerpuff Girls was only a set number of seasons! And yes, it was clever and had funny jokes for all

The MLP reboot is along similar lines. It's fairly amusing.

FBS stepbro reminds me of 12-y/o Shelley Marsh from South Park and her 20-something metalhead boyfriend Skyler:

http://southparkstudios.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/southpark/vertical_video/import/season_03/sp_0307_10_m4.jpg?width=200 http://southparkstudios-intl.mtvnimages.com/shared/sps/images/shows/southpark/vertical_video/clip_collections/south_park_rocks/sp_Rocks_01.jpg?width=480

Powerpuff Girls was pretty cool

Isn't this MLP show one with a scriptwriter who worked on tha tshow?

― mh, Thursday, March 22, 2012 4:27 AM (2 hours ago)

yes. that's mostly why so many dudes are in to it this time around. this isnt the "gi joe for girls" we grew up with,

The MLP reboot is along similar lines. It's fairly amusing.

― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:55 AM (55 minutes ago)

i watched a few episodes last weekend as part of my ~research~ and i stopped liking new cartoons after ren & stimpy, but its pretty great! its nothing like the "gi joe for girls" MLP we grew up with-- its funny and clever and the art is cool.

when i was conducting my interviews, one of the main things that came up w/ these dudes is that they legit feel like they've never come across a show before that deals with friendship and how to be a friend so effectively (!!!)

also lauren faust is v v pretty <3 <3

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

ws!

for a terrifying second I thought I'd clicked on the Skrillex/MLP thread

i saw no less than five of these last weekend:

http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Apparel/TShirts/My-Little-Pony-Brony-TShirt-138545.jsp

http://i.imgur.com/BGM1N.jpg

when i was conducting my interviews, one of the main things that came up w/ these dudes is that they legit feel like they've never come across a show before that deals with friendship and how to be a friend so effectively (!!!)

mathematical!

ON THE AIR TALKIN BAOUT IN ABOUT 20 MINUTES:

http://www.fccfreeradio.com/?page_id=122

TALKIN BAOUT ***BRONIES****

STUDIO 1A!!

i'm tryin but these guys suck

'that was real life bro'

by which i guess i mean corey chaki apparently sux? damn

i'm on now

4chan was leaking out?

haha 'i'd be like, not a brony!'

if you missed the live broadcast of my brony interviews, you can listen to the recording here.

my segment is 24:24 - 56:30.

also its on itunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/illogical-contraption/id472533923

(the most recent episode obv).

I hope you emphasized how all Bronies are wusses

Grady that was pretty classic! "I tracked a group last week..", "lots of flesh on the beach.." among my favorite lines. But I didn't make it through the kids' interviews.

I finished listening to this but you should of asked the bronies if they actually like /b/ because /b/ has so much hardcore, racist and gorey shit and I just don't picture bronies enjoying that kind of stuff.

and if they do enjoy 4chan than I have an entirely new perspective on what a brony is.

i don't know what to tell you, captain lorax.

"hardcore, racist and gorey shit and I just don't picture bronies enjoying that kind of stuff."

common thread is responsibility-free infantilism?

not to be all cap'n save-a-4chan but its like half the internet at this point

you mean the half that's republican?

i dont even get that joke

maybe more libertarian-y? but i feel like the regressive nostalgia reads more republican.

I was enraged for some reason when I saw little pony toys sitting alone at some family run pizza shop I went to a little while ago and felt much better when a little girl ran up to collect the toys she forgot

I mean it didn't have to be a girl but it made me feel like the world was still a world when a little kid ran up excitedly to collect toys is all I'm saying

what a world.

it were ponies all around 'ere

not to be all cap'n save-a-4chan but its like half the internet at this point

― ♆ (gr8080),

I don't think you understand. /b/ revels in its racism, gore, pictures of mutilated kittens and penises etc. It's not like half the internet. It's clearly leaning towards ultra-sicko territory and not just a halfway house for bi-curious-sickos. Sure the internet is awful, but admitting to being a /b/tard is admitting that your closest home on the web is one of the darkest abscesses of filth and likewise your mentality has got to be pretty stuffed up with shit as well.

I can imagine bronies as people that appreciate anonymous for supposedly starting or at the very least encouraging /b/rony love. But then it goes either one of two ways. 1) Bronies feel like home in a place where people try to outscum eachother or 2) they don't know /b/ or only know it in passing. Frankly I would like to know whether bronies are genuine /b/tards or not. Maybe some of these brony kids are secret sickos - well much more sick than your average joe.

like that quiet kid in class that acts sort of normal but is secretly dreaming of a million different ways to murder his classmates because those thoughts are soothing to his sicko side

You sound...curiously knowledgeable about all this.

i hear bronies accept the government's version of 9/11 events!

"I was enraged for some reason when I saw little pony toys sitting alone at some family run pizza shop I went to a little while ago and felt much better when a little girl ran up to collect the toys she forgot"

don't all the toy story movies operate on this emotional dynamic?

Lorax you're allright in my book.

fwiw, my brony cousin strongly dislikes Family Guy so I don't think he would be into /b/

Maybe he just has (different) taste

has this beautiful objets d'art been posted yet?

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02092012.png

lol @ Lorax itt

The Lorax doth protest too much, methinks.

"my brony cousin"

(9:49:54 AM) Whiney: I DONT CARE ABOUT FUCKING BRONIES

Way to reject his fanbase.

hahahaha

wtf @ that webcomic

isn't it great??? i love it so much.

You wanted to share something you love. Nothing wrong with that, Simon. Every group has jerks. It's just how it goes. You're a good guy, Simon. Sure, there are dickhole Bronies in the online community but I know better than to judge the whole by a few jerks.

No one has ever said these words outside the diseased vibrations of a fantasizing bronie's mind while he imagines what woman could ever love him.

gave me a new display name anyway

How dare you impugn the writing talents of choochoob✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧? xp

choochoobear at gmail.com

I'm just going to assume, despite context, that that email address is "choochooboobs"

xp: aw

lol

"choochoobear" or "choochooboobs" are both pretty o_0 as far as email addresses/nicknames go, esp. for men (even bronies).

http://i.imgur.com/3Teh2.jpg

wtf. there is def some thrill at defying expectations at work with this whole bronie thing

Revelatory.

ok, so that's not real. i feel silly.

well, Mordy, there's objective truth and artistic trugh

*truth

What is it with these guys and hats?

The crossbow is definitely listed in the "customers who bought..." - i guess the rest were too, at some point, but the stuff actually aimed at children has been edited out.

Any time I hear "fedora" I think of ask.metafilter's famous "fedora guy":
http://ask.metafilter.com/78970/Trials-of-a-Responsible-Hedonist

bronies are a natural market for Takashi Miike films, though.

i don't see the crossbow or any of them on my amazon page

the new guy at my work wears a fedora at all times, including indoors

the day he started there was a ripple of bitching around the lunch room along the lines of "I could tell he'd be annoying from the moment I saw his hat"

I am now thinking 1. perhaps he is a brony and 2. I'd better not mention it what with the whole crossbow thing

Could be a PUA who thinks he's peacocking

Could be a rude boy. Pick it up! Pick it up! Pick it up!

http://www.avclub.com/articles/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-royal-wedding,72535/

LOL that's long enough to be a Harpers piece.

"The Impenetrable Agony of the Brony"
By Lewis H. Lapham

http://join-the-herd.org/wp/

http://bronies.lefora.com/2012/05/03/hashing-out-the-draft/#post0

I hate.

oh my god

hey hey we're the bronies
people think we brony around

http://bandcamp.com/tag/my-little-pony

http://futret.bandcamp.com/track/suddenly-fucking-dragons

this is actually hilarious

pp totally knows the whole my little pony theme song

FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC

no ponies its actually kind of a pain in the ass

sorry 'cutie mark'

no ponies its actually kind of a pain in the ass

― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Friday, May 4, 2012 12:59 PM (4 minutes ago)

lol

http://i.imgur.com/jcGPC.png

well

ugh

who'd have thought that men who are into little girl cartoon ponies would be sexually fucked up

and by into I mean INTO

I am posting only to break up this thread connection:

Meet 'bronies' -- grown men who are fans of My Little Pony [Started by Darin in November 2011, last updated Friday, May 4, 2012 7:51 PM by Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt) on I Love Everything] 17 new answers
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hahahaha

lol Abbott

I've watched the show. It was good but nothing that compelled me to want to watch it again & again or devote myself to a community of similar fans of the show. I want to call it weird, but the truth is at this point I'm the only economically comfortable white male between the ages of 14-59 that I know that isn't into this. I hate being a mediocre reactionary but something about this phenomenon is creepy and just plain not right. Get off my lawn.

well i guess we now understand the 4chan connection

but the truth is at this point I'm the only economically comfortable white male between the ages of 14-59 that I know that isn't into this

get new friends

yeah, that's crazy. i don't know anyone who's into it, and i know a lot of economically comfortable guys in that age bracket.

and i'm a geek, and i like cartoons, and so do most of my friends

guys i saw a brony in real life the other day

was he wearing a fedora?

chubby dude in mlp t-shirt, cut-off sweats, and white boat shoes

i had the most depressing childish urge to shout "BRONY!" but i figure his life is hard enough

well, he made it hard by pretending to like my little pony cartoons.

Bronies for Ron Paul ‏ @Bronys4RonPaul
Welcome! This past weekend I learned there were zombie ponies called changelings & Ron Paul won MN/IA.

Ya jeez, I don't think I know anyone who's even seen this new show unless they were babysitting or something. My friends probably all remember the original My Little Pony from when they were kids, but AFAIK none of them have the amount of nostalgia attached to the show that would propel them to be fans of "Friendship is Magic."

Is it like, subtly subversive like the Powder-Puff Girls? I guess I'll have to watch an episode to see what the appeal is. Unless the appeal really is just "hey, these cartoon ponies make my dick twitch."

mo better bronies:

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

and then there's this:

http://cdn2.mamapop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SoCal-Bronies.jpg

I've spotted a few needy-looking guys with "brony" shirts IRL. They all look like that.

And before anyone says something cute no that guy in the lower right is not me.

wonder how big the juggalo/brony crossover audience is

Juggalony

And before anyone says something cute no that guy in the lower right is not me.

'twas the furthest from my mind ... really!

wonder how big the juggalo/brony crossover audience is

being a Juggalo is like being at an all-inclusive resort ... so not much methinks!

though i could be wrong.

just when you think alienated teenagers are finally over being into wacky stuff that concerns grown-ups, they go and get themselves into some new wacky stuff that concerns grown-ups

bronies are simply juggalos who are lovers, not fighters, and i support them and their ways

that buy does look eerily like latebloomer

Is it like, subtly subversive like the Powder-Puff Girls?

it's by the creator of Powerpuff Girls

i think the obvious and natural crossover habitat for bronies is the land of furries, not juggalos -- but as i said, who knows?

There are many tribes in the Juggalo nation

lol new d/n for me...

latebloomer is legion

it's by the creator of Powerpuff Girls

There's no direct Craig McCracken work - it's his wife Lauren Faust who was producer and showrunner for the first series.

I feel like some of these bronies will be lucky enough to grow up and become like the Smang It guy

https://dantetheus.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/hhhej.png

we should all be so lucky to grow up to become like the Smang It guy.

it's his wife Lauren Faust who was producer and showrunner for the first series.

I was evidently given some inaccurate information by a brony friend

bronies are simply juggalos who are lovers, not fighters, and i support them and their ways

― del griffith, Saturday, May 5, 2012 1:54 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

lovers of sex crime

when i was conducting my interviews, one of the main things that came up w/ these dudes is that they legit feel like they've never come across a show before that deals with friendship and how to be a friend so effectively (!!!)

/b/ or just garden-variety aspergers?

Meet 'bronies' -- grown men who are fans of My Little Pony [Started by Darin in November 2011, last updated 4 minutes ago by the late great] 51 new answers
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that too!

what if a 16 year old dude really wants to like, dye his hair light blue and cut it into a mohawk and wear a dog collar to school. if friendship ponies is what it takes to help this guy learn to just be his self then i'm okay with friendship ponies.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wRvD8S80L._SL150_.jpg

Speaking as a 16 year old Canadian male, I can safely say that The Powerpuff Girls was awesome ... just look past the sugary-sweet femininity and you'll find an incredibly sharp sense of humour.

had a six-year-old niece and her family over this morning, so we watched a bunch of MLP. it's pretty good! excellent character and background designs (reminiscent of powerpuff girls & g tartakovsky), ambitious & artful visuals, constant jokes & slapstick and at least one song in most episodes. scripts are smart without being showy about it, deliberately light and silly, but they they take the fantasy/adventure trappings quite seriously. it's not subversive like the powerpuff girls or aggressively hip like adventure time, but it's a good deal more emotionally resonant than either. interesting mix of pretty-fetish girl stuff and messages of collective empowerment and self-respect. one of the most appealing things about "ponyville" is that it's a place where everyone is celebrated for their differences and no one is excluded. i can definitely see why it's been a hit outside its apparent target demographic.

Yeah, I find it really frustrating that I have to defend my enjoyment of this rather cute show because of some obsessive fans ruining it for everybody. Like, it's one thing to enjoy watching something, it's quite another to define yourself by that activity (see: Star Trek, Dr. Who, Star Wars, insert anime title here). That said, bronies are comparable to furries – people who are emotionally, physically, or geographically isolated/abnormal who want to find an accepting community that they can belong to. Mostly harmless.

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/116/9/2/cloppers_are_not_zoophiles_by_aitselom-d4xmdp7.jpg

EXACTL – wait

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/257527888/bronycon-the-documentary

What will the funds be used for? The short answer is quality.

Executive producers are Michael Brockhoff and John de Lancie (the voice of Discord on MLP)

Q, what are you thinking?

http://pppproject.deviantart.com/

no

But why? Where are their vulvae? Their penises? How do they poop? How do they suckle? If these questions keep you up at night like they do me, join the Pony Plot Perfection Project.

*curls up in ball, cries*

I love it when people date each other because of looks.
Its really pathetic when people judge you based on looks or interests.
And then there is that guy like Brandon Cyrus who calls everyone beautiful, then only asks the cute ones to text him.
If you are one of those people who use women just for sex, money, or are dating them just because of popularity and looks, go fuck yourself. You are a pathetic excuse for a man/woman. And this world would be better off without you.
A good example of a relationship is me and Samantha.
She listens to shitty ass music to the point where I want to burn down a church.
But I love her no matter what.

Want to know why some men treat women like shit? It is because of those self centered girls who think they are the greatest person in the world because they are popular or pretty. You aren't, and you should go fuck yourself.
You are a fucking women, so act like you have a place in society. Sexism towards women is because of these types of girls. I myself am sexist towards women, but only those types of women. Women like Hillary Clinton or Oprah have each and every bit of my respect.
/end rant/

probably should have googleproofed that name, don't wanna embarrass anyone

Hilary Clinton that is

This doesn't seem brony related

its a rare glimpse inside the mind of a real life brony

ponybs

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120405202820AAWwDum

http://i.imgur.com/5cBgQ.jpg

https://twitter.com/#!/wltphoto

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http://mynationalistpony.tumblr.com/

http://i.imgur.com/YgsjQ.png

so sad

is that... a rap?

YOU BEST NOT FUCKING FORGET THE NAME BUTTERCUP DEW

never thought I'd be waking up to read a fascist brony rap

I have a hard time believing that dude is real

then, I remember humanity

I wonder if Derbyshire is a brony.

well thanks for that

"never thought I'd be waking up to read a fascist brony rap"
^first line off the new eminem single sweeping the nation

nah, that would be "never thought I'd catch Haley reading fascist brony rap/I hate you Kim"

RATM is BACK! in 2012!

hahahahahahaha

Stepbrony update - he's currently hitting "like" on a bunch of pics of ridiculous anime girls w/ big boobs, apparently unaware that every time he does, his entire family can see it in their news feed. Last post was a screed about how much he hates teenagers (he's 18) that got 40+ comments, mostly talking school shooting fantasies and satanic imagery, somehow devolving into this

I say "moar" and don't put a period on purpose, and you come and correct me, that has happened a lot of times,why are you acting mad because I said you were afraid of heights? This is like the Rainbow Dash thing, you were one of my best friends, why act all butthurt over the smallest things?

damn that is like a zen koan.

http://i.imgur.com/eDZ8N.jpg

The "sexy" humanoid pony art in the upper left hand corner is killing me.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/94234033/Survey-of-the-Brony-Subculture

4 Hindus

oh dear

http://htmlimg2.scribdassets.com/6pts8rc0001m2uk5/images/11-f3511f73c3.png

DNW

the race distribution on that kinda makes it clear that this is some white people shit

"Native American/American Indian: 10"
singletear.gif

I didn't think life could get more hilarious after I learned about the word "brony" and then I read a survey that talked about "ponysexuality"

http://vimeo.com/42481478

That video makes me realize I need to make some changes to my life.

become a brony?

man, this is gonna be even more embarrassing for these guys to live down than an ICP stage.
50 year old men with brony tattoos are gonna be the saddest post apocalyptic survivors

omigod "neighslayer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFK8d4gYxyc

Watching that brony video made me really depressed.

me too

i honestly feel bad for those guys
like i wanna take them out and get a beer and tell them it gets better

There but for the grace of Princess Celestia go I…

yeah, suburban neckbeards are really sad. it's kind of bordering on an American hikikimori/NEET culture developing. if I ever have kids I'm considering having no Internet, cable, or video games

it's kind of bordering on an American hikikimori/NEET culture developing.

learned a new word today

ponysexual?

that was yesterday

how about bronysexual: people attracted to grown men obsessed with little girl ponies. now that I think about it, the only bronysexuals out there would probably be serial killers.

boys who like girls who kill boys who like ponys...

always should be someone you really feel sorry for

I have a hard time believing that dude is real

then, I remember humanity

ILX - then, I remember humanity

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659165156/music-is-magic-a-documentary-on-brony-music

Together we make a better team than Pinkie Pie and Gummy. We hope to not only film the entirety of Everfree but also spread the word of brony culture through the music and the minds of those that make the magic happen.

I can't even.

That also lead me to the discovery of a Brony/Tuner subculture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02aENkq4rps

Together we make a better team than Pinkie Pie and Gummy. We hope to not only film the entirety of Everfree but also spread the word of brony culture through the music and the minds of those that make the magic happen.

the film shall be accompanied with an interpretive dance, with a special appearance by Underdog Lady Suzanne Muldowney:

http://s88984348.onlinehome.us/udlady/udlady2.jpg

There's always an interpretive dance.

"This is also the very first MLP plushie to feature a special hole in her butt that you can stick your penis in! It has a circumference of a little over 6.5” and a depth of about 6”. You can pull it inside-out for cleaning but it is highly recommended you don’t finish inside her as fleece can be quite difficult to clean! The clothing also serves as a great way to keep the hole concealed so you don’t have to keep her hidden in a closet somewhere!"

kinda nsfw

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4qx5pKB371r6nosgo1_500.jpg

is that an etsy perversion or an actual licensed hasbro product for which the ponysexuals have invented a sick new purpose

i guess i shouldn't be surprised i saw that.

Full-length documentary, kickstarted to double the goal: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/257527888/bronycon-the-documentary?ref=live

It should be noted that two people kicked in $10,000.

so fucking hot omg

The plushie mentioned upthread is apparently an unique item that MLP fan "Hoppip" of Surrey, UK has handmade and is selling through The Dealers Den ("Furry Auctions...And more!"). Starting price was GBP 55.00, and it's now up to GBP 125.50, with 15 bids. That's already getting pretty close to my bid ceiling, and with nearly six days to go, I might have to dip into next month's rent just to stay in the running. Wish me luck!

A hand-made plushie of Lyra from the TV show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She's about 19" tall and made from fleece - perfect for hugging! Eyes and cutie mark are embroidered directly onto the fabric (by http://ethepony.blogspot.co.uk/ ). She's stuffed with fire retardant fiber filling - the same stuff you find in pillows. She took about a week to make, on and off. Comes from a smoke-free home.

The plushie also comes with removable handmade trousers and cotton + elastic underpants.

This is also the very first MLP plushie to feature a special hole in her butt that you can stick your penis in! It has a circumference of a little over 6.5" and a depth of about 6". You can pull it inside-out for cleaning but it is highly recommended you don't finish inside her as fleece can be quite difficult to clean! The clothing also serves as a great way to keep the hole concealed so you don't have to keep her hidden in a closet somewhere!

If you would like the plushie without this "feature", just tell me after the auction and I will remove it free of charge.

Please treat her gently, I will not accept returns or repairs for any rough play you get up to.

someone had to be first

beg to differ

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx5fn6suyx1r9324ao1_1280.jpg

what the hell

how frustrating that you can't even finish inside the thing

I imagine that gets more wtf - the pictures are a pretty good indicator - but I only made it as far as "ponysona" before feeling that I had somehow ended up in the wrong universe and should read no further (also, caps)

I TAKE HER BATH ALL TIME SHE WANTS AND IS NOT IN MY BATHROOM I PAID FOR THE HIGH QUALITY SPAS FOR HER EVERYDAY, IN FACT I PERSONALLY FILLED HER HORNS AND HOOVES.

I PREPARE HER A LARGE BOWL OF SALAD WITH WITH BERRIES, CARROTS, ROMANIA LETTUCES, BLACK TRUFFLES, WHITE TRUFFLES, CHERRY TOMATOES, THOSE TINY CORNS, THIS SLICES BELL PEPPERS, BREAD CRUMBS HOME YES I BAKE A WHOLE LOAF A BREAD AND BAKE TO A CRISP AND CRUSH TO MAKE BAKE CRUMBS, SLICES OF ORANGE WITH THE PEEL, EXTRA PINTO NUTS AND PISTACHIO WITH OUT THE SHELL, HOME MADE RUSSIAN DRESSING WITH EXTRA HORSERADISH AND A HINT OF PATRON TEQUILA.

'ponysona'

worst bergman film

That last bit seems like it was written by the brony equivalent of George R.R Martin

actual white truffles i doubt it

YES I BAKE A WHOLE LOAF A BREAD AND BAKE TO A CRISP AND CRUSH TO MAKE BAKE CRUMBS

those tiny corns

I love how it starts off all "perfect for hugging" but then devolves into how you can fuck it in the ass.

that should give you some insight into the psychology of bronies

tim @ kfc .edu as a brony?!?

attn brony watchers

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=92493#unread
featuring http://bronymusiciandirectory.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/psycosis.html

This man is a crime against humanity.

https://p.twimg.com/AmxnkUNCMAEMdXF.png

whatever website that is is way too big on enforcing the gender binary imo

http://i.imgur.com/if1qL.jpg

a awesome pony

First entry in the Yellow Pages "pony" section.

Guys I can't believe you're not crying about Derpy right now! HASBRO KILLED DERPY!

This is like when they turned the green ranger into the white ranger... its an outrage!

Cause in my mind Tommy Oliver was the the green ranger he smoked a lot of weed and just grooved around the streets of Angel City... but then he like skips out of town when he loses his powers and then comes back as White ranger? What does that mean? Did he move on to cocaine? Thats NAGL for a power ranger... And why does the WHITE ranger get the baddest ass mount and a knight sword and shit?!

ok I will stop derailing the brony thread now.

um the website that i work for has a kind of oddly strong contingent of bronies for whatever reason, like they have their own forum and little club on the site (we have some community functions that let you do that)...so yeah i don't really know what to make of it, but we've definitely laid down an edict for ppl to leave them alone and we never make fun of the whole thing, as weird as it is to me....and tbh they are unfailingly some of the nicest, most polite frequent commenter we have, and i interact with a few of them on twitter fairly regularly....and they are nice you know...so....

i don't know. it's totally weird to me but hey i guess we are all gonna die someday and whatever floats your boat.

the devil's greatest troll was convincing the world that he sincerely loved my little ponies

http://i.imgur.com/5U3pV.jpg

That costume is amazing. I want to hire that guy to walk around with me while I did totally mundane shit, like go grocery shopping.

the flip flops

Could be mandals, definitely bonus points. The dude under there is probably naively pure, but would love to hire him for a year, feed him drugs and have him go berserk in costume and follow me around as I went about my day. Then I'd get bored and fire him and his fellow bronies would find him lying in the gutter, his costume torn and soiled. Then they'd take him in and try to rehabilitate him back to broniedom, but the man they knew would only ever exist again in their memories. One day his fellow bronies would return to a ransacked apartment, never to see him again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/us/na ... wanted=all

Correction: December 30, 2011

An article on Monday about Jack Robison and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college students with Asperger syndrome who are navigating the perils of an intimate relationship, misidentified the character from the animated children’s TV show “My Little Pony” that Ms. Lindsmith said she visualized to cheer herself up. It is Twilight Sparkle, the nerdy intellectual, not Fluttershy, the kind animal lover.

brony pretends to have cancer

https://twitter.com/#!/WhyAmSky

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/hp2trl

Isaac Crowe ‏@WhyAmSky
I always dreamed of living in Equestria. Where I would actually be happy...

:{ now I feel bad writing that bizarre Huysmansesque blurb about bronies. I wonder what these people would be like in a different era, perhaps in tighter-knit societies ... family men by 25?

In Harry Potter they would be Huffle Puff or whatever they're called

yeah, but what would pottunias be in ponyville?

how much wood could a woodchuck chuck

https://p.twimg.com/AvD9EGuCQAAG2_N.jpg:large

otm

like a wise man said way upthread, there's always a guy w/ a fedora hat involved w/ this sort of thing:

http://www.ntdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/29_Brony2_web_ap.jpg

These people (ESPECIALLY FEDORE GUYS) are *ruining* my childhood MLP love.

Fedoras make me so angry I can't even type straight..

this version of Fedora Guy dubs Kid Rock songs over My Little Pony, for his shits and giggles.

let's not overlook the fire

it's been always gurnin' since the world's been turnin'

bronies honour the fire

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/060/5/e/panties_and_stockings_for_pinkie_pie_by_stapledslut-d4rfm8t.png

^ nsfw

why am I laughing at that

because the face

ANDREW W.K. CONFIRMS MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKING APPEARANCE AT MY LITTLE PONY CONVENTION

ANDREW ANSWERS “WHAT WOULD PINKIE PIE DO?” AT CANTERLOT GARDENS 2012!

New York, NY - (June 12, 2012): Rock 'n' roll party man, Andrew W.K., has announced that this fall, he will bring his special brand of fun to Canterlot Gardens in Ohio, the premiere My Little Pony fan convention! Celebrating the national resurgence of My Little Pony popularity since the release of Hasbro’s “Friendship Is Magic” cartoon, W.K. will attempt to answer the question “What Would Pinkie Pie Do?” In this panel, W.K. who's beloved for such anthemic songs as “Party Hard” and “We Want Fun,” considers himself to be the living embodiment of the positive, party pony, Pinkie Pie, and will talk about how to make your work as fun as your party and your party as important as your work.

W.K. has spoken in the past of his support for the growing “Brony” sub-culture, which is the unexpected male obsession with My Little Pony and “Friendship Is Magic”. This fan-base if comprised of men in their teens, up to 40 years of age. Lauren Faust, who helped to draw adults to Cartoon Network with her work on The Power Puff Girls and Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends, also helped to revamp the My Little Pony franchise with sophisticated writing and nuanced characters. The results are drawing animation fans of nontraditional ages, genders, and lifestyles.

dude is like the PHD of trolls

and FUN

god damnit W.K. get back to work

everything about this cracks me up so hard

I can count at least two genders in that line up of Bronies above.; maybe they should put the injection moulded plastic down and investigate the possibilities offered by that.

how heteronormative of you

also dude LOL NERDS Y DONT THEY GO GET LAID INSTEAD is p tired even when it's about bronies

okay the juxtaposition of post/display name there is killing me

https://www.canterlotgardens.com/

pathetic nerds who DO get laid are so much worse than the ones who don't

They're usually the ones who won't stop talking about polyamory.

Yeah, I know some of those nerds. I know I'm probably a terrible person for not believing that their lifestyle is a real thing, but it pretty much seems to me like they just want an excuse to cheat on each other.

That might be making fun of a different subset of people than the ones we're making fun of in this thread, though.

i can assure you that they are interrelated

What some of these guys might need is some counseling from original Bronie Bro, Peggle mascot Bjorn:

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080721185237/peggle/images/0/07/Bjorn.jpg

Even fire cannot kill the bronies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gEkkzB7EQ

http://cardiganponi.tumblr.com/post/26444462697/important-message-about-the-bronycon-orgy

•_______________•

Crap, I was wondering about that.

Lauren Faust, who helped to draw adults to Cartoon Network with her work on The Power Puff Girls and Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends, also helped to revamp the My Little Pony franchise with sophisticated writing and nuanced characters. The results are drawing animation fans of nontraditional ages, genders, and lifestyles.

― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Tuesday, June 12, 2012 9:03 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

ha i did not know this. now i feel some guilt by association for liking Fosters (and have some vague memory of thinking Power Puff Girls was aight in the 90s).

no guilt! all three shows are pretty great.

i would enjoy the odd ep of PPGs!

http://th02.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/203/3/b/aurora_by_sgtgarand-d585ql4.png

bat-cutie mark

http://gawker.com/5930849/bronies-unite-against-jerry-springers-attempt-to-humiliate-them

http://i.imgur.com/cihk7.jpg

Cackling here

I don't know what to make of that.

https://twitter.com/Kinkie_Pie

bronies unite! take back the night!

super-patriot rainbow dash looks hilarious

srsly though this thread title needs to be changed, i've been checking this thread for i don't know how long and i still haven't met any other bronies on it

important-message-about-the-bronycon-orgy

meet "cronies" - senior citizens who are fans of my little pony

"clop"

"slow clop"

s1ocki we're waiting for that message!!!

i feel like bronies are just juggalos with an internet connection

not sure if that's a truth bomb or a misfire

juggalos have internet too imo

"clop"

^ hope the OED's up on this

urbandictionary is up on it

http://i.imgur.com/UPEuL.png

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A BRONIE

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

haha bronie more like pwnie amirite

*slaps ade on back*

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2011/03/gctnhmlpm.jpg

boom tubes iirc

boom hooves

#savekerpy

I would read a Hungry4Ass brony tumblr all day

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9hwyfX0W81qaecjjo1_500.jpg

oh man

60.

I Googled patriotpony1986's OKCupid profile and the rest of it, and it just gets sadder and sadder and sadder.

It's also probably a hoax: the pic's connected to a Norwegian dude on a MLP site.

yea i didn't think it could be real

lol i just came here with that

59.

Here's more of the profile:

My self-summary
I am a proud conservative American and brony (male My Little Pony fan). I work very hard to enmesh the philosophy of Ayn Rand within the framework of tolerance and love espoused by Pink Pie and friends. I'm something of an intellectual, and would love to discuss politics or cartoons with somepony near me in the future. Please understand that if we were to meet, I AM THE MAN in the relationship.

What I’m doing with my life
Trying to finish the first draft of my e-book entitled Serfdom in Equestria, an expose on the liberal agenda slowly eroding freedom in the My Little Pony universe.

I’m really good at
Fashion

The first things people usually notice about me
My swag.

Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food
My Little Pony, The Fountainhead, The Bible

I spend a lot of time thinking about
The war on men's rights currently taking place in the United States.

On a typical Friday night I am
Arguing with imbeciles on the Internet.

The most private thing I’m willing to admit
I have a rare penile deformity. Ask me about it! If only Dr. Paul would start seeing male patients...

I’m looking for

--Girls who like guys
--Ages 20–31
--Near me
--For new friends

You should message me if
You don't mind supporting a high functioning autistic who has been on social security disability for seven years.

Ah, I just saw that screencap on tumblr. The full profile makes the fakeness clear.

I did see a kid who looked very similar to him (wearing a fedora and a my little pony t-shirt) when I was out last weekend -- I know we have joked about the fedoras but I didn't really expect a brony to be that stereotypical-looking.

did you see the group shot at the top of the thread

I was near a anime/comic convention last weekend and saw not one, but two young men wearing brony shirts, and I can safely say that 2/2 were exactly as you imagine (#1: fedora, #2: very long hair & short beard)

did you see the group shot at the top of the thread

Sure, but not every one had a fedora! Maybe that's how they are able to identify each other in public? ¯\(°_o)/¯

every last one of these people has a fedora

every

single

one

society judges belittles them for their tastes, so it's how they show their class, sophistication and rejection of modern values outwardly

the worst thing that "nerd culture" ever did to itself was to fetishize poor socialization.

nerd = poor socialization

culture = what we call a pile of fetishes

stop smokin so much w33d man, help you think clearer

i mean to say what is nerd culture other than fetishizing poor socialization

it's a good point, but I think there's a way for the whole nerdy fandom popcultural milieu to exist w/o letting its adolescents grow up into adults who are still proud of how bad they are at getting along w/ people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDS_YABbh6w

atheist, nod, wisdom, frankfurters, little, pony, chimney, santa, burp, guadeloupe, brassiere, nimrod, candelabra

i mean to say what is nerd culture other than fetishizing poor socialization

― the late great, Wednesday, August 29, 2012 8:51 PM (14 minutes ago)

fetishizing other stuff to soothe the pain of poor socialization