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

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

'Wanting to fuck cartoon characters' vs 'Wanting to fuck porn stars who always appear in layers of makeup, surgically altered breasts, contrived sexual situations and irl uncomfortable athletic sex acts'

― cardamon, Wednesday, February 12, 2014 7:13 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love the boilerplate mainstream porn caricature, it always makes it sound like some bizarre scifi cirque de soileil thing

or sex workers in makeup being as "unreal" as cartoon characters

i knew something bugged me about that line of argument and I couldn't forumlate it earlier

really glad that something brought dylann and h4a together

pr0nies

i would probably not fuck a horse

Depends on the horse, really.

one should not, must not

1 guy, 1 cartoon pony

for some rason I thought it saud "kiss men Im british"

2 Mares, 1 Bit

bronely guy just thinking baout things

I love the boilerplate mainstream porn caricature, it always makes it sound like some bizarre scifi cirque de soileil thing

Yeah, there are many kinds of pron incl all the amateur stuff and naturalistic stuff which don't really fit with 'unreal'. But there's still such a thing as your classic 'porn star', and there are still not too many fatties or pubic hairs in the majority of mainstream porn, right?

or sex workers in makeup being as "unreal" as cartoon characters

I'm going out on the shakiest of limbs here to say that sex irl doesn't always involve expensive lingerie and full makeup, and orgasms don't sound like that nor are achieved via those means, and etc etc etc

Not trying to do a moral crusade against porn here - this thread is for moral crusading against bronies - but still think there's mileage in asking if things generally held up as 'sexy', and acceptably so, in our culture are not closer to 'cartoons' than they or us would tend to admit, and you know, maybe these guys who find 'cartoons' 'sexy' are more of a mirror than a door

yo cardamon that is money + zizek-quality. the truth is that the bronies are even more honest in that they completely embrace the unreality of their masturbatory fantasies, unlike the rest of us who deny its refraction from reality by watching real women in stylized porn, or even more dishonest "amateur" porn as tho you can somehow approach reality thru means always illusory.

makes u spank

would Sasha Grey get reamed in the ass whilst wearing a My Little Pony costume?!?

is there such a thing as sex that isn't mediated, at some level, by fantasy?

intervene in a dispute in order to bring about an agreement or reconciliation.
"Wilson attempted to mediate between the powers to end the war"
synonyms: arbitrate, conciliate, moderate, umpire, referee, act as peacemaker, reconcile differences, restore harmony, make peace, bring to terms, liaise; More
intervene in (a dispute) to bring about an agreement.
"set up a tribunal to arbitrate and mediate disputes"
synonyms: resolve, settle, arbitrate in, umpire, reconcile, mend, clear up, patch up More
bring about (an agreement or solution) by intervening in a dispute.
"efforts to mediate a peaceful resolution of the conflict"
synonyms: negotiate, bring about, effect, make happen; More
2.
technical
bring about (a result such as a physiological effect).
"the right hemisphere plays an important role in mediating tactile perception of direction"
synonyms: arbitrate, conciliate, moderate, umpire, referee, act as peacemaker, reconcile differences, restore harmony, make peace, bring to terms, liaise; More

answer- yeah, yeah of course ffs

stop asking these silly questions, everyone can see you posing with a quill in the air as you do so

i was just saying if we are bringing in zizek/lacan, then from their pov it wouldn't make sense to criticize something because of its distance from "reality" because evading the real is the whole point of language and culture and thought.

no way sex is primordial essential real but i agree that to some extent pornography infringes always

I mean, it's difficult to talk about bronies because once we've exhausted the 'explicit bestiality and overtones of pedophilia' angle, all that's left is the reality/unreality, 'cartoons vs real people' angle. And that means getting philosophical, poss bringing in the aforementioned Lacan and Zizek.

But that feels fundamentally silly, bcoz we're talking about a subculture that registers as totally absurd + is actually very small, the number of ppl on 4chan and reddit and imgur talking abt bronies vastly outnumbering bronies themselves.

Dude fucking his cows on a farm has a certain ... aura that bronies lack.

But none the less sexual attraction to cartoon characters as a whole is pretty widespread and there's some good (perhaps vital) conversations to be had about that

i want to read some vital conversations about cartoon pornography