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

Some people def wanted to fuck Popeye and Olive Oyl back in the day because Tijuana Bibles are a thing

see now THAT is some entertaining My Little Pony shit there

Nobody is attracted to these ponies. They're making it up in order to feel like they're a part of something.

^^^ friendzoned by Derpy

Also i stand by the idea that this is way too sordid and pathetic to be funny. Not being a fan of the show, but engaging with it obsessively as an adult to the point where you actually identify as a "brony"

Plenty of examples of people sexually attracted to unreal beings outside of bronies - pop stars, porn stars, also characters in mainstream films and actors who become identified w/their characters in the viewer's mind, Tijuana Bibles, Lara Croft – which seems worth mentioning for context. And many of these cases are condoned/promoted/accepted.

Bronies fixating on MLP prob stands out as especially weird because -

The character is an animal, albeit anthropomorphised but still an animal (bestiality)
The character is from a show aimed at very young children (suggestion of paedophilia)
The character is female/effeminate but very far removed from an actual girl or woman

Not being a fan of the show, but engaging with it obsessively as an adult to the point where you actually identify as a "brony"

And then there's this element - the identity/club/subculture element, publicly identifying

Plenty of examples of people sexually attracted to unreal beings outside of bronies - pop stars, porn stars, also characters in mainstream films and actors

"unreal"?

e.g. Captain Jack Sparrow

plus tacit acknowledgment from most people who are or were Beatles/Backstreet Boys/Bieber devotees that the object of their affection isn't really real. The Beatles are not the boys at school you actually kiss at the disco

I don't know what your issue is, treesh. I can get behind DJP's opinion here, but judging how deeply people engage in things they're interested in is kind of a bad look imo. People surround themselves with shirts, posters, and other crap for all kinds of interests. tbh bronies are no worse than Packers fans or w/e

I compare 'em to Star Trek fans.

Not the rapey bronies, just the ones who collect the figurines and wear the t-shirts.

oh, definitely

HOWEVER, I have yet to see as much Packers slash (and good lord, you've got Aaron Rodgers right there in your face) or "I'm taking Uhura to the prom" shit as I have with MLP culture.

people are really real abt their trek fandom, whence the slash in slashfic

not so much now, but you know, back in the day

naw i dont think dissing adult dudes who want to fuck MLPs is bad! doi, its gross. i just don't think they're the norm.

http://www.qotd.org/search/single.html?qid=45288

is our culture a desert island?

TS wanting to fuck a cartoon vs. wanting to fuck a picture of a chair

tbf, the chair looked 18

A certain kind of sports fan is depressing to me too (cf that movie with patton oswalt.) i guess who am i to say what is worthy of emotional investment maybe my obsessive interest in certain writers is the same sort of thing etc. but still: bronies, and inept, oft-ridiculed people in general bum me out. Xp mh

i'll tell u that your love of tao lin is def more embarrassing than anyone's love of bronies

fair point tbh.

And my school admiration is even worse in retrospect. I've had many embarrassing obsessions in my life so my pity for bronies is probably informed by the pain of identification.

Wtf shd have read "hs admiration for woody allen"

Still, theres something undignified about identifying as a brony, esp as an adult

the ponies seem so boring

marry fuck kill treeship
tao lin, rainbow dash, bradley cooper

Still, theres something undignified about identifying as a bronydeafheaven fan, esp as an adult

just had to check to see if Phineas and Ferb had a different title in the US

Weren't you the same guy who called me out for misspelling Pingu?

Thanks for looking out for me.

lol sorry pp i don't remember no Pingu incident tho

i am probly a Ferbie or something

anyhoo it wasn't u misspelling it was Mordy repeating the same name 2 posts later and sometimes there are weird US/UK name change things that happen, was weirded out when i found out youse call T.K.Maxx

The TJ TK Maxx thing is very weird esp since I think it's the same jingle and everything.

i have a theory - there was an existing British store called T.J. Hughes, maybe they name-changed to avoid the similarity a little

did you know UK kids were forced to watch the "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" in the 80s?

No worries, NV. It was a rookie mistake on my part.

I still can't get over Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles myself. I mean, what are they, ninjas in a half-shell?

xpost!!!!!!!

basically anything martial arts related in the UK was an immediate X certificate, not sure how Karate Kid snuck thru there

3 ninjas?

straight to video iirc

I'm still back on TK Maxx, I mean waht

anyway, ironically after all the moral panic about copycat martial arts violence, the biggest problem TMNT caused was kids lifting manhole covers to go and have adventures in the sewers

oh and at some point round then there was a ban on importing tortoises cos of the number that were getting flushed

*wipes tear from eye, salutes the Union Jack*

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

ty gr8080, that means a lot

http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/266/2/0/the_british_brony_by_vokaloidrinchanfan-d4apcv4.jpg

that one super weird tumblr says this show is one long extended white nationalist allegory and i for one am inclined to believe it