Well shit, looks like I can’t keep myself away from spoilers.
These are the only spoilers I saw (not like last season when I watched all the preview clips of the premiere).
Tag: Brony
Tommy_Oliver: It's funny, I'm seeing a lot of people talk about how bad bronies are and because of that they're shying away from the fandom, or at least expressing their interest publically
Tommy_Oliver: But, by doing so, you're just helping to perpetuate the stereotype
Tommy_Oliver: If YOU like ponies and don't act like that, you SHOULD be visible, so that way we can have a presence that is the antithesis of that stereotype. If everyone who likes the show and isn't a douche shies away from MLP
Tommy_Oliver: then only the detestable people are left, and the stereotype is no longer a sterotype
Tommy_Oliver: but a fact
Tommy_Oliver: Which is why I still openly love ponies, and will still go out wearing a pony shirt from time to time, and will still say without hesitation that, yeah, I like this show
Tommy_Oliver: Cuz I'm not gonna let a negative perception of our collective whole sour me to something I genuinely enjoy
Tommy_Oliver: If people wanna make assumptions about me based on what I like
Tommy_Oliver: fine
Tommy_Oliver: But that just means those people making assumptions are just as shallow and vapid as the perception they're projecting on me
Tommy_Oliver: I've met all of you guys through this show, and you're some of the best people I know. So to think that the entire community is terrible is obviously erroneous.
Tommy_Oliver: Yeah, we have some bad apples, but what community doesn't?
Tommy_Oliver: But for me, it was never about the community. What brought me here was a good show, and what kept me here was good people
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I firmly believe that this attitude will save the fandom.
http://needs-more-pony.tumblr.com/post/67225127483/discussion-every-brony-clops
I see what you mean now. Honestly, I still say go for it.
What you do as an individual isn’t going to affect the perception of the brony community at large. Whether you acknowledge your other persona or now, there are still people out there who are going to think ill of bronies (just like they do furries).
EDIT: Follow the conversation thread up through here instead of the post link.
I think you’re right. I also think that people shouldn’t say that cloppers are a minority of the brony fandom, but rather they’re discreet.
http://needs-more-pony.tumblr.com/post/67225127483/discussion-every-brony-clops
My personal opinion is people just need to not freak out about the idea of clop. I demand a general respect for my interest in clop content. In return, I respect the fact that many people don’t want to ever have to run into clop content, and I do my best to accommodate them. I have both SFW blog and a NSFW blog. And I keep them separate. The only people who find my clop blog are people who actually want to.
Essentially, everyone should respect each other. Non-cloppers should acknowledge and respect the existence of cloppers, while cloppers should respect that not everyone is into what they are, and keep their content discrete.
It’s pretty much the same dynamic that should be for bronies vs. non-bronies. Non-bronies need to respect that bronies exist and there is nothing wrong with that, and bronies need to not offensively effusive about their interests.
So yeah, I’d say acknowledge both of your identities. And don’t give a damn about people who may look down on you.
Never be afraid to just be yourself, but always respect the boundaries of others.
Thank you for your input. I agree with what you’ve said. However, my concern is not with others’ perceptions of me as an individual. I am more concerned about the perception of the brony fandom as a whole.
As I said, I fear that bronies are going the way of furries in that both bronies and furries get hate for having large proportions of sexual perverts which might actually be justified. I see bronies (and furries) defending their fanbase(s) against these accusations by saying something like, “Every fanbase has a messed-up side, but it’s only a minority.” Is that still true for the brony fanbase? The furry fanbase?
Warning: “Grammar Nazism” below.
*discreet
*philosophy
Answer to the title: Of course not. But apparently many do, and aren’t ashamed to admit it. Read on.
I’ve mentioned in two separate posts that I have a “SFW” brony identity, and a recent Twitter exchange (referenced here) is pushing me to acknowledge that they’re the same person.
First things first: Why the separation? The easiest answer is that I wouldn’t want to lay clop (and other sexual content) on people who are not interested in it.
But many people at the very least acknowledge the SFW identity from the NSFW one (and less often the NSFW from the SFW). I have tried to maintain a strict separation between my two identities: I have not acknowledged the other from either, and I try not to take things that show up under one and post them on the other.
The reason for that has more to do with the perceptions of clop in the brony fandom, from both inside and outside. A common accusation made by haters and trolls is that many/all bronies clop. Of course it’s a false generalization to say that all bronies clop, but whether “many” do or not is harder to determine.
I fear that the brony fandom is going the way of the furry fandom: Haters say that a large majority of fans get off to sexual content, and that might actually be true. I do not want to contribute to that. (The only difference is that brony conventions are SFW, unline furry conventions. [The largest furry conventions allow NSFW content (“yiff”), but it’s placed in restricted areas, if I recall correctly.])
What do you think? Are my concerns justified? Should I go ahead and acknowledge my other identity?
Maybe it’s Maybeline.
Maybe it’s Haybeline
Maybe it’s Neighbeline
yess
XD
From “Wonderbolt Academy”
Just randomly on this post. The original is tagged #lightning dusk; it’s “dust”, right?
(Whew, I thought I had it wrong this whole time!)
wait, what now?
When did this happen?
I asked on another post what subreddit it was. Now I have the answer. Here is the post, by the way.
The fan base is HUGE! There’s so much out there for it and I’ve always been curious about it. The show is targeting small children yet there’s a much bigger adult fan base.
I’m 19 and it old my 9 year old sister I liked my little pony and she laughed at me and called me a baby. (She loves it now)
So why do you like clop? MLP porn? I’m just curious and don’t judge at all.A lot of people were introduced to mlp through clop. There are a lot of artists who do R34 exclusively or almost exclusively and when they make fanart of something they’ll draw what they know. This is how I was introduced to the show. Other than that the show itself is heavily neotenized and more anthropormphized than previous generations as well as the bed room eyes, plot, and happy accidents that happen in the animation.
In re puddincakes: Interesting question. Well, I enjoy many types of Rule 34, but clop has its own way of getting to me. (In re notableclopblog: I personally was introduced to the show through safe-for-work means.)
First let’s note that MLP:FiM has many female characters, which is expected since they were designed to appeal to young girls; add to this the fact that the main six are very close friends. It’s very easy to imagine that they take it one step further. Many do this through shipping; fan work can be found for all fifteen possible parings among the main six. Perverts like me take it another step further with clop. (And clop can also be found for all fifteen pairings.)
The art style also plays a role. Very human facial expressions play a role, as in the “wet mane” meme, as well as the anatomy: Their legs and hooves are very wide compared to those of real horses, and to be frank I’ll say that artists’ attempts to make their forms more equine turn me off.