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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Being a Brony.

- What is a Brony?
- Why are you watching cartoons that are for kids?
- So childish!
- Are you gay?

These are among the questions that i got for watching MLP - FiM or even mentioning them.
What is it?
Its My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic.

MLP-FiM a reboot from the 80's cartoon.
Here i explain how i get hooked to the show since November last year.
My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic is a reboot from Hasbro's 80's cartoon series of the same name but different theme. When i was a kid, i remember watching a few episodes of this 80's series and kinda turned down by it since its all "girlish" and crybaby kind of theme. The new characters are created by Lauren Fraust (Creator of Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) are art concepts that she had in her mind and drew it as a hobby based on the 80's cartoon character. Then it is turned into an animation and as a reboot of the show.
Lauren Fraust.

I almost forgot that this thing existed anymore until when i first bumped into it again on an internet forum called as 4-Chan. They have an imageboard and funny threads that i usually go there for the lulz. Then in early January 2011, many posts are invaded by the new Generation of MLP, which it is called as G4 ponies. I didn't even give a damn about it until there is a war broke out in the /b/ board where many posts are totally spammed by the MLP picture images and boards. Then it was the internet's meme where ponies are love and tolerating trolls that are raging at them. By the time it seems like no end in the board. The Admins finally can't take it and start banning everyone posting ponies. This caught my interest. How can a harmless image macros and memes can cause bans in the members of the community.
Troll much?
Then the banned members retaliated. Posting pictures of "Mods are asleep, Post Ponies". That waged on for about a month when finally the mods created /mlp/ board just for the Ponies and lifted the bans.

This got me curious. Then for the first time i watched it in one of the threads in /mlp/ board. Episode is "Sonic Rainboom". I am unusually picky in watching shows, movies and dramas. What i usually want in a drama/movies/animations is the artstyle, story and voice actors. I want them to be perfect, and needless to say, THIS IS PERFECT. They have all of it. Artstyle is simple, defined and colourful. Story is really creative and the Voice Acting. Its so good and lively. How can a 80's reboot can be this good. Songs are amazing too. This is actually a really good show and I shamelessly admit that I love this show.
RD and her Sonic Rainboom

Now about Bronies. The concept of the show is actually targetted towards kids about 5.- 7 years old and mainly girls. But something else happened when Adults 20-40 years of age began to show love for the show. They became fans of the show, they created blogs, forums and even charity just in the name for the show. Last year they even have hosted BroNYcon (Brony Convention in NEW YORK) and it is a huge success. Later on in Season 2 of the show, the company, Hasbro and the animators, Studio B in Canada showed support for the fandom. Many references were placed in for keen eyed watchers for them to catch. One of it is Derpy (a fan favourite pony) , a pony with an animation error in the earlier episode which caused her eye to be a little off.
Derpy

The fandom has grown to even larger day by day. Fans outside the show’s demographic, especially teen and adult male fans, have come to be known as bronies”. Although fans are generally known as bronies all across the internet, Also, female fans of the show have been referred to as pegasisters” on occasion, though this isn’t as popular as the term brony. Many slangs are also created like "brohoof" for fistbump, Everyone was changed to "everypony".
Brohoof
This fandom too has gained me a lot of new friends that came from a lot of places and many of them are really good pals. Another thing about this fandom it the art that came with it. I have never seen so much art being produced no matter digitally or traditional sketches and paintings. I have also learned how to draw with them guiding me and creating my own style of drawing. 
My own fanart.

Thats all i have to blabber about after a looooooong time abandoning this blog. So i think its time to revive this with a really long td:lr post. <3

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