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Let’s Face It: Kurt Cobain Sucked.
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Two decades after the Nirvana front man’s self-administered demise, we reflect upon the grunge icon’s hallowed legacy. And as it turns out, he probably doesn’t deserve any of the reverence.  
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[[File:MyLittlePonyWindy.JPG|Right|thumb|My Little Pony unicorn, Windy, from 1983.]]
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'''My Little Pony''' is a commercial brand by [[W:Hasbro|Hasbro]]
  
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My Little Ponies were first produced from 1982 to 1992. They were relaunched with a different look in 1997, 2003 (these ponies are distinctly modern but retain the style of the original eighties line), and 2010, as ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]''.
  
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It’s an illogical statement, I know, but I’ll say it anyway: I’ve more or less always been a pretty big fan of Nirvana, but at the same time, I’ve always detested Kurt Cobain.
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The original My Little Ponies included [[unicorn]] and [[Pegasus]] ponies as well as the standard "earth ponies", along with a huge range of colors, symbols, and body-types. There were also larger, Clydesdale-style male ponies ("Big Brothers" in North America, "Mountain Boys" in Europe). The entirely-female modern line includes [[Pegasus]] ponies and, as of 2006, two unicorns.
  
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Yes, as a ‘90s child, I’ve always fostered a certain affinity towards the “Nirvana sound,” if you will, but I never really bought into Kurt’s retroactive deification, either. From a musical standpoint, Kurt was clearly the least talented of his bandmates, and his faux-philosophical, anti-Guns N Roses, new-new-wave, ultra-liberal shtick more or less opened the floodgates for a million, billion wusses like Trent Reznor and that crybaby from Radiohead to make miserable, woe-is-me alternative the default setting for mainstream rock to this day.
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My Little Pony original characters of note include:
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* [[CherryFiller]]
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* [[Sweet Peep]]
  
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Here, on the 20th anniversary of Cobain’s suicide -- or, depending on how much of a crackpot you are, the date Courtney Love either killed her husband or hired somebody (but not that dude from The Mentors, of course) to do it for her -- I believe it’s a most opportune time to reflect on just how overrated Kurt Cobain was, on every conceivable level.
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== My Little Pony and furry ==
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First and foremost; Kurt Cobain was a shitty guitar player, a fact that doesn’t keep him from routinely being ranked on top 100 all time greatest guitarist lists, you know, just ‘cause. With a voice that sounded like dual recordings of Edward Furlong’s screaming outtakes from “Terminator 2" and Pepe Le Pew doing a drunken karaoke ballad, Kurt’s “signature” singing style was similarly a less-than-impressive display. It may not have been as imitated as the “Vedder Voice,” but seeing as how easily fourth-rate alt rock acts like Seether and Puddle of Mudd were able to faithfully recreate that soulful Cobain howl, I think it’s safe to say we weren’t dealing with an all-time crooning legend, either.
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As for Cobain’s music, I think the entire Nirvana discography is horrendously overrated. Cobain himself absolutely hated “Nevermind” and “In Utero,” considering the first to be an overproduced turd and the second a reluctant compromise between him and the record company. All in all, the band was responsible for perhaps only one and half truly decent albums -- the beautifully unpolished “Bleach” from 1989 (a grimy, under-produced classic that stands out as the band’s one truly uncompromised release) and the glorified B-side collection, “Incesticide” -- and before you give that one too much credit, just recall that half that album more or less consists of cover tunes, which is also a criticism you can lob at the band’s much revered “Unplugged” set, too.
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My Little Ponies were already fairly popular among some members of the [[furry fandom]] prior to surge in popularity that resulted from the "Friendship Is Magic" series. Among the artists in this category are [[Frisket (Frisket17)|Frisket]], [[HavocFox]], [[Mayra Boyle]], [[Tserisa]], [[Whippetluv]], and [[Doug Winger]]. Others make custom [[sculpture]]s.<ref>''[http://community.livejournal.com/anthrocon/638886.html Custom My Little Pony Pre-orders ^_^]'' - Anime Amy, {{lj-comm|anthrocon}} (8 June 2009)</ref>
  
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For a composer that’s frequently hailed as the voice of a generation, Kurt’s lyrics were suspiciously cryptic, disjointed and largely apolitical. Whereas Bob Dylan at least referenced social issues in his “decades-defining” songs, Cobain’s lyrics were really just a grab-bag of fragmented poetry pieces, seemingly tossed together at random. In fact, he actually said that’s how he wrote his songs, on numerous occasions. For an alleged voice of an entire decade, old Kurt’s music had astoundingly little to say about anything at all.
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[[My Little Pony MUSH]] ran from 2004 (with a long stretch of downtime) to 2005, and had a significant furry presence among its players.
  
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As far as the much-acclaimed “Nirvana sound,” by now, we all know it was mostly just a restructuring of classic rock tunes -- “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is basically just “Louie, Louie” and “More than A Feeling,” only played faster and shittier, while even early Nirvana tracks “Spank-Thru” convey a certain Credence Clearwater Revival-esque vibrato. Cobain’s adulation/imitation of the Pixies is well-documented, so there’s really no need to drudge up how much of the Nirvana discography is derived from “Surfer Rosa” and “Doolittle.” However, I’ve always thought the Nirvana’s “iconic” sound was actually more of a rip-off of Steve Albini’s post-punk outfit Big Black -- just take out the synth and amp up the distortion, and you’ve more or less got “Nirvana” before there was a “Nirvana.”
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=== The brony fandom and furry ===
  
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And of course, how could I talk about Kurt Cobain’s revolutionary “creativity” without talking about the second-most iconic track off  “Nevermind?” A song, by the way, that is a direct rip-off of the Killing Joke song “Eighties,” which itself is a rip-off of The Damned’s “Life Goes On.”
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In regard to the 2010 version (''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'') the creators of the show have reciprocated the feelings of the  brony fandom, referencing bronies and pegasisters in the ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTPqjKk_xCo Equestria Girls]'' promo and even marketing directly to the adult demographic<ref>[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/04/madman-dvd-dubbed-brony-box.html MADMAN DVD Dubbed "The Brony Box"] at Equestria Daily</ref>. Probably the most significant call out came in the canonisation of the character Derpy, whose name and personality was collectively created by the fandom. Other fan names have become canon outside of the TV show such as the name Lyra being adopted in the toy line.<ref>[http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Lyra_Heartstrings#Depiction_in_merchandise Lyra Heartstrings] on Friendship is Magic Wiki</ref> Derpy - along with other fan favourites [[wikipedia:Doctor Who|Doctor Whooves]], Octavia, Carrot Top, Berry Punch, Colgate, Vinyl Scratch/DJ Pon-3, Lyra and Bon-Bon - appeared on the poster distributed at [[wikipedia:San Diego Comic-Con International|Comic Con]] 2011.
  
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Compared to the glut of Seattle-area bands, I still find it weird that Nirvana, out of the deluge of groups, is the one that gets the most credit for kicking off “The Grunge Revolution.” Yeah, “Nevermind” is said to have been the turning point, but a lot of people tend to forget that both Soundgarden and Alice in Chains’ big mainstream breakthroughs were released long before Nirvana’s 1991 opus. And any number of bands -- from The Melvins to Green River to Mother Love Bone -- could rightly lay claim to pioneering the “grunge movement,” years before Nirvana was even a fully-formed idea in Kurt Cobain’s noggin. The theory I’ve developed over the years was that the Grunge Takeover had always been something of a ploy by David Geffen and his kindred to supplant the dried-out hair rock movement, and Nirvana was just the right act at the right time to get all of the engineered publicity to turn the tide; with enough mass marketing and enough sound mixing, really ANY of the Seattle area bands could have had a “Nevermind” sized breakthrough. Clearly, Cobain’s ascension as pop icon had a whole hell of a lot more to do with luck than it did talent...and most certainly, ambition.
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The brony fandom has a significant crossover with the furry fandom. According to the 2014 State of the Herd Report<ref>[http://www.herdcensus.com/2014%20STATE%20OF%20THE%20HERD%20REPORT.pdf 2014 State of the Herd Report]</ref>, 21% of bronies consider themselves furries as well. Many furry artists have branched into pony art, and several of the brony fandom's celebrities are or have been involved in the furry fandom in the past.
  
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And what about Kurt Cobain, the individual human being? Well, for starters, he was bold-faced hypocrite, the kind of soul that liked to champion himself as a defender of women’s rights when he himself admitted to once molesting a developmentally disabled girl in his youth. His notebooks were filled with hateful diatribes against “jocks,” decrying their meat-eating dispositions, when Kurt was responsible for intentionally killing cat when he was a kid. He routinely mocked the macho excesses of the hair metal movement, even though he was pumping lethal drugs into his veins habitually and publicly priding himself on his own sexual conquests, too. And the ultimate tragicomic punch line to the Cobain life story? After literally making a fortune regurgitating the same-old, same-old “my parents are sell-outs and the break-up of our family royally screwed me up” drivel, he then proceeded to become a sell-out himself who voluntarily decided to break up his own family by blowing his brains out.
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Many things familiar to furries have equivalents in the brony fandom:
  
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A lot of people like to speculate how Cobain’s music would’ve progressed had he not played the shotgun clarinet that fateful spring morning in King County. Odds are, he probably would’ve progressed down the Metallica path, abandoning the tried-and-true Nirvana sound for something a little more radio-friendly. Legend has it that the never to be “last” Nirvana album was going to be a stripped down, mostly acoustic, “Automatic For the People”-inspired detour, which is exactly the kind of thing you hear before a band starts playing half-hearted, bland-ass music that clearly indicates the outfit’s lack of good ideas anymore. The “In Utero” studio follow-up, as such, would have likely been Nirvana’s “Monster” -- a critical flop that signified the slow, boring downfall of the formerly influential and inspiring.
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* An extremely active art scene - one of the best-known and most active image boards is [https://derpiboo.ru// Derpibooru].
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* Costuming - ranging from simple earbands and tails to full pony [[fursuits]].
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* Meetups - similar to [[furmeet]]s, and varying from casual get-togethers to gatherings of hundreds of people.
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* Conventions - many take place every year, all over the world.
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* Avatars - like [[fursona]]s, many bronies have a [[ponysona]] to represent them in the fandom.
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* Vocabulary - like the [[furspeech]] of the furry fandom (or indeed, most fandoms) a vocabulary of fandom-specific words exists. Some of the terms are taken directly from the show, such as "anypony" (anybody), or "fillies and gentlecolts" (ladies and gentlemen). Others derive from memes (for example: 'plot' to mean a pony's backside).
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* An adult scene. Sexuality is explored in the brony fandom as freely as in the furry fandom, and some aspects of the vocabulary reflect this: most notably, "clop" being the brony equivalent of [[yiff]],   which is also used as a euphemism for adult material. <ref>{{cite web|url = http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wingboner-clopping|title = Wingboner / Clopping|publisher = Know Your Meme|author = "Epic Fail Guy is a Brony", "RandomMan" et. al}}</ref>.
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* [[Troll]]s - sometimes nicknamed 'parasprites' in the brony fandom.
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* A writing community, mostly organised on [http://fimfiction.net Fimfiction], with a few also using [[wikipedia:FanFiction.Net|Fanfiction.net]].
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* Roleplay - this generally takes place on forums and IRC.
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* News sites - [[Equestria Daily]] is the biggest and most active.
  
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Of course, that scenario skirts perhaps the most important aspect of who and what Kurt Cobain was, and that was a sad-sack junkie. In reality, any fantasizing about what Cobain would be up to “today” is just pointless, since had Cobain not offed himself when he offed himself, he no doubt would’ve been dead before he turned 40, anyway. Perhaps the allure of Cobain is that he had the good sense to kill himself at a time when it was still fashionable and attractive -- going down at one’s peak is a hallmark of the legends, while disappearing into a decade of drug dependency, only to resurface as a bloated, O.D.’d corpse five years after last releasing an album just makes you Layne Staley.
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What is Cobain’s lasting legacy, ultimately? Well, for one thing, he made suicide and flannel shirts fashionable -- at least one of which is still considered en vogue at the moment. And his stardom went a pretty long way in “normalizing” heroin addiction as a common occupational trait among rock stars. Musically, he’s probably the most culpable party responsible for the rock and roll industry’s shift away from good-time, nostalgic party and driving music to music more befitting anti-depressant-fed teens that paint their nails black and cut themselves on the third floor of their suburban mansions. Yes, he was responsible for eliminating the grandiose vapidity of Guns N Roses from the national consciousness, but nobody really brings up the fact that all Nirvana really did was replace it with a more nihilistic form of grandiose vapidity.
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* A heavier emphasis on music. Although there are a number of furry musicians, the brony fandom's musical output is comparatively more popular among members of the fandom, and music is regarded as important as visual art by most. There are a large number of brony musicians who create new music and remixes regularly, often releasing entire albums. The most popular brony song as of 2014 is The Living Tombstone's ''Discord'' remix, which has more than ten million views on YouTube.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPfMb50dsOk Discord (Remix)]</ref>
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* Cosplay (that is, specifically costuming as canon characters) is more widespread, as the show contains a very large number of characters.
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* Younger demographic - the brony fandom's age demographic is skewed well toward youth, with a large proportion in their teens or even younger. As a result, there are efforts to keep the fandom child-friendly and to segregate the adult and non-adult sides. Many of the major conventions are family-friendly, and encourage children and parents.
  
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At the end of the day, though, I suppose Nirvana had some good songs, and if given the option of listening to a decade of bands that sounded like Silverchair and Oasis or a decade of bands that sounded like Trixter and Firehouse, well, shit, the answer ought to be downright obvious. But all of this retroactive mourning and retroactive reverence -- now stemming from youths who weren’t even born when Cobain made the choice to end his own life -- that he gets?
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In 2014, Lee Tockar, a voice actor on the show, was a [[Guest of Honor]] at [[Anthrocon 2014]].<ref>[http://www.anthrocon.org/node/17345/2014-guest-honor-lee-tockar Official announcement] on the Anthrocon website</ref>
  
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Well, that’s just stupid, and unfortunately, contagious.
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== See also ==
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* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]''
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* ''[[W:My Little Pony|My Little Pony]]'' on [[Wikipedia]]
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* ''[[W:My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]]'' on Wikipedia
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* [[Cake Pony]]
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* [[:Category:My Little Pony multiplayer worlds|My Little Pony multiplayer worlds]]
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* [http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/Apocalypse_Pony Apocalypse Pony] article (about AP parody) at [[W:Robot Chicken|Robot Chicken]] wikia
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==References==
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* [http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_US/ Hasbro] oficial website
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* [http://www.mlparena.com/ My Little Pony Arena]
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* [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/MLP-lovers?hl=en My Little Pony Lovers] at Google Groups
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* [http://www.canternet.org/ Canternet] [[IRC]] website
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* [https://ponychat.net/ PonyChat] IRC website
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* [http://www.bronyshow.com/ Bronyville podcast]
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*** [https://bronycan.ca/ BronyCAN website], [https://www.facebook.com/BronyCAN Facebook], [http://ask-bronycan.tumblr.com/ Tumblr] and [https://twitter.com/BronyCAN Twitter] (British Columbia)
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*** [http://www.bronyexpo.com/ BronyExpo website], [https://twitter.com/BronyExpo Facebook] and [https://twitter.com/BronyExpo Twitter]
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*** [http://canterlotconvention.com CANterlot website], [https://www.facebook.com/CaNterlotCon Facebook] and [https://twitter.com/CANterlotCon Twitter] (Ontario)
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*** [http://www.babscon.com/ Bay Area Brony Spectacular (BABSCon) website] and [https://twitter.com/babsconsf Twitter] (California)
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*** [http://www.bigappleponycon.com/ Big Apple Ponycon] (New York)
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*** [http://bronyfanfair.com/ Brony Fan Fair website] and [https://www.facebook.com/BronyFanFair Facebook] (Texas)
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*** [http://www.bronycon.org/ BronyCon convention website] (Maryland)
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*** [http://derpycons.com/ DerpyCon South website], [https://www.facebook.com/DerpyConSouth Facebook] and [https://twitter.com/DerpyConS Twitter] (Louisiana)
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*** [http://www.equestriala.com/ Equestria LA] (California)
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*** [http://www.everfreenw.com/ Everfree NorthWest] (Washington state)
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*** [http://www.fiestaequestria.com/ Fiesta Equestria], [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fiesta-Equestria/465591543463252 Facebook], [http://fiestaequestria.tumblr.com/ Tumblr] and [https://twitter.com/FiestaEquestria Twitter] (Texas)
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*** [http://www.GrandBronyGala.com/ Grand Brony Gala website], [https://www.facebook.com/TheGrandBronyGala Facebook], [http://thegrandbronygala.tumblr.com/ Tumblr] and [https://twitter.com/GrandBronyGala Twitter] (Florida)
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*** [http://www.mwbfkc.net/ Midwest Bronyfest] (Missouri)
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*** [http://mlp-msp.com/ MLP-MSP] (Minnesota)
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*** [http://mylittleponycon.com/ My Little Pony Fair website], [https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Little-Pony-Fair-and-Convention/230605296972598 Facebook] and [https://twitter.com/MyLittlePonyCon Twitter] (Tennessee)
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*** [http://nightmarenights.net/ Nightmare Nights Dallas website], [http://nightmarenights.net/ Facebook], [http://nightmarenightsdallas.tumblr.com/ Tumblr] and [https://twitter.com/NightmareNights Twitter] (Texas)
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*** [http://www.pon3con.com/ PON3 Con] (Nebraska)
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*** [http://www.ponyvilleciderfest.com/ Ponyville CiderFest website], [https://www.facebook.com/ponyvilleciderfest Facebook], [http://ponyvilleciderfest.tumblr.com/ Tumblr] and [https://twitter.com/PonyCiderfest Twitter] (Wisconsin)
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*** [http://rotlcon.com/ Running of the Leaves Convention] (Colorado)
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*** [http://trotcon.net/ TrotCon] (Ohio)
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* '''Asia''':
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** Japan: [http://ponycon.jp/ JapanPonycon website], [http://poniko-jpc.tumblr.com/ Tumblr] and [https://twitter.com/japanponycon Twitter]
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** Philippines: [http://phponycon.weebly.com/ PHPonyCon]
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** Thailand: [http://thaiponycon.com Thailand Pony Con website], [https://www.facebook.com/ThailandPonyCon Facebook]
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** [http://ponycon.org/ European Pony Convention Union (EPCU)]
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** Finland: [http://www.crystalfair.fi/ Crystal Fair website], [http://crystalfair.deviantart.com/ deviantART] [https://www.facebook.com/CrystalFairCon Facebook], [http://ask-aurorapony.tumblr.com/ Tumblr] and [https://twitter.com/crystalfaircon Twitter]
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** France: [http://www.bronydays.org/?lang=en Bronydays website], [https://www.facebook.com/BronyDays Facebook] and [https://twitter.com/BronyDays/ Twitter]
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** Czech Republic: [http://www.czequestria.cz/ Czequestria website] and [https://twitter.com/Czequestria Twitter]
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*** [http://www.galacon.eu/ GalaCon website] and [https://twitter.com/gala_con Twitter]
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*** [http://lunafest.eu/ Lunafest website], [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lunafest/582805341803697 Facebook], [http://lunafest.tumblr.com/ Tumblr] and [https://twitter.com/lunafestival Twitter]
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*** Netherlands: [http://www.hwcon.nl/ Hearth's Warming Con website] and [https://twitter.com/HWConvention Twitter]
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*** Poland: [https://www.facebook.com/MyLittleKonwent My Little Konwent Facebook] (mlk2014.pl forwards to Facebook)
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*** [http://bronyscot.org.uk/ BronyScot website], [https://www.facebook.com/bronyscot Facebook] and [https://twitter.com/BronyScot Twitter]
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*** [http://www.buckcon.org/ BUCK website], [http://summersuncelebration.co.uk Summer Sun Celebration Minisite], [https://www.facebook.com/BUCKCon Facebook], [http://buckcon.tumblr.com/ Tumblr], [https://twitter.com/BUCKcon Twitter], [https://plus.google.com/u/0/117007229687701100178/posts Google +], [https://www.youtube.com/user/BronyUKCon Youtube], [http://ukofequestria.co.uk/forums/buck-convention-discussion.43/ BUCK Forum], [http://askbritannia.tumblr.com/ Mascot Ask Blog], [http://askbritanniamlp.deviantart.com/ Mascot deviantArt]
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* '''Oceania''':
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** Australia:
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*** [http://www.ponyconau.com/ PonyCon AU]
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*** [http://sydneigh.com.au/ Sydneigh website], [http://sydneigh.deviantart.com/ deviantART], [https://www.facebook.com/BronyConSydney Facebook], [http://tumblr.sydneigh.com.au/ Tumblr], [https://twitter.com/Sydneigh2014 Twitter] and [http://www.youtube.com/user/SydneighMLP YouTube]
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My Little Pony unicorn, Windy, from 1983.

My Little Pony is a commercial brand by Hasbro

My Little Ponies were first produced from 1982 to 1992. They were relaunched with a different look in 1997, 2003 (these ponies are distinctly modern but retain the style of the original eighties line), and 2010, as My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

The original My Little Ponies included unicorn and Pegasus ponies as well as the standard "earth ponies", along with a huge range of colors, symbols, and body-types. There were also larger, Clydesdale-style male ponies ("Big Brothers" in North America, "Mountain Boys" in Europe). The entirely-female modern line includes Pegasus ponies and, as of 2006, two unicorns.

My Little Pony original characters of note include:

My Little Pony and furry

My Little Ponies were already fairly popular among some members of the furry fandom prior to surge in popularity that resulted from the "Friendship Is Magic" series. Among the artists in this category are Frisket, HavocFox, Mayra Boyle, Tserisa, Whippetluv, and Doug Winger. Others make custom sculptures.[1]

My Little Pony MUSH ran from 2004 (with a long stretch of downtime) to 2005, and had a significant furry presence among its players.

The brony fandom and furry

In regard to the 2010 version (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) the creators of the show have reciprocated the feelings of the brony fandom, referencing bronies and pegasisters in the Equestria Girls promo and even marketing directly to the adult demographic[2]. Probably the most significant call out came in the canonisation of the character Derpy, whose name and personality was collectively created by the fandom. Other fan names have become canon outside of the TV show such as the name Lyra being adopted in the toy line.[3] Derpy - along with other fan favourites Doctor Whooves, Octavia, Carrot Top, Berry Punch, Colgate, Vinyl Scratch/DJ Pon-3, Lyra and Bon-Bon - appeared on the poster distributed at Comic Con 2011.

The brony fandom has a significant crossover with the furry fandom. According to the 2014 State of the Herd Report[4], 21% of bronies consider themselves furries as well. Many furry artists have branched into pony art, and several of the brony fandom's celebrities are or have been involved in the furry fandom in the past.

Many things familiar to furries have equivalents in the brony fandom:

  • An extremely active art scene - one of the best-known and most active image boards is Derpibooru.
  • Costuming - ranging from simple earbands and tails to full pony fursuits.
  • Meetups - similar to furmeets, and varying from casual get-togethers to gatherings of hundreds of people.
  • Conventions - many take place every year, all over the world.
  • Avatars - like fursonas, many bronies have a ponysona to represent them in the fandom.
  • Vocabulary - like the furspeech of the furry fandom (or indeed, most fandoms) a vocabulary of fandom-specific words exists. Some of the terms are taken directly from the show, such as "anypony" (anybody), or "fillies and gentlecolts" (ladies and gentlemen). Others derive from memes (for example: 'plot' to mean a pony's backside).
  • An adult scene. Sexuality is explored in the brony fandom as freely as in the furry fandom, and some aspects of the vocabulary reflect this: most notably, "clop" being the brony equivalent of yiff, which is also used as a euphemism for adult material. [5].
  • Trolls - sometimes nicknamed 'parasprites' in the brony fandom.
  • A writing community, mostly organised on Fimfiction, with a few also using Fanfiction.net.
  • Roleplay - this generally takes place on forums and IRC.
  • News sites - Equestria Daily is the biggest and most active.

There are also a few differences between the scenes:

  • A heavier emphasis on music. Although there are a number of furry musicians, the brony fandom's musical output is comparatively more popular among members of the fandom, and music is regarded as important as visual art by most. There are a large number of brony musicians who create new music and remixes regularly, often releasing entire albums. The most popular brony song as of 2014 is The Living Tombstone's Discord remix, which has more than ten million views on YouTube.[6]
  • Cosplay (that is, specifically costuming as canon characters) is more widespread, as the show contains a very large number of characters.
  • Younger demographic - the brony fandom's age demographic is skewed well toward youth, with a large proportion in their teens or even younger. As a result, there are efforts to keep the fandom child-friendly and to segregate the adult and non-adult sides. Many of the major conventions are family-friendly, and encourage children and parents.

In 2014, Lee Tockar, a voice actor on the show, was a Guest of Honor at Anthrocon 2014.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Custom My Little Pony Pre-orders ^_^ - Anime Amy,   anthrocon (8 June 2009)
  2. ↑ MADMAN DVD Dubbed "The Brony Box" at Equestria Daily
  3. ↑ Lyra Heartstrings on Friendship is Magic Wiki
  4. ↑ 2014 State of the Herd Report
  5. ↑ "Epic Fail Guy is a Brony", "RandomMan" et. al. "Wingboner / Clopping". Know Your Meme.
  6. ↑ Discord (Remix)
  7. ↑ Official announcement on the Anthrocon website

External links

Conventions

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