My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Part 11: The End is Neigh!

[Freyera]

Thanks, Frey.

I'm just genuinely curious about it all.

We're here for you!

[De Lupe]

Official horoscope ponies. Virgo pony is best constellation.

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Wooooo! Good morning! I slept awesomely tonight!

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The show was originally made to appeal to prepubescent girls. But it's since grown far far beyond that.
With it's wonderful animations, songs, characters, and humor... and surprisingly meaningful plot and morals (especially for a children's show), Friendship is Magic has attracted quite possibly the largest, most iconic fanbase sense Startrek.

Naturally, the show's producers, writers and animators have fully embraced the shocking reception, constantly throwing subtle little nods to the adult fans in the show here and there. And the series is absolutely chock-a-block LOADED with references that only adults would get. Such as a few references to Apocalypse Now.



The fandom itself is incredible. We produce such staggering amounts of amazing and beautiful artwork and music and fiction... and bronies are among the nicest group of individuals you will ever find on this planet.
Unless you go on 4chan. But we don't talk about 4chan...

The amount of money bronies have raised for various charities since the fandom was in its infancy is also completely astounding.

And while we're on this... the voice actors of the show have REALLY embraced the bronidom culture. Tara Strong, the VA for Twilight Sparkle - the main character - is constantly updating her twitter with shoutouts to bronies, and she makes a real attempt to show up to each and every big brony convention possible.

In one of the most recent ones, actually, she even cosplayed as her own character. It was marvelous.


And, on this topic... John de Lancie, of Startrek fame (played Q), has been in at least two episodes so far, voicing one of the main villains the show's seen. And he is just completely speechless for what we are and how massive we've grown as a community.
In fact, he started a Kickstarter account a while ago, asking for funding to make a documentary about us. A positive documentary, to counter all the bad press we've been getting from media outlets like Fox News.

Here's an interview with him about bronies.

In mere days, Bronies the world over had donated three times the amount of money he had been asking for. And this documentary is, I believe, very nearly finished.

It sounds wonderful and fun to watch. But I'm not going to.

Sorry...

Thanks for the extensive explanation.

[Flutterguy]

Damn antihistamines and their drowsy effects.

[De Lupe]

It sounds wonderful and fun to watch. But I'm not going to.

Sorry...

Thanks for the extensive explanation.

That's our Mixxy. He likes his extensive explanations. Hehe


One thing extra:

Hasbro has adopted several of the fanon characters (many of whom are nothing more than background characters who exist to give the illusion of population) as official characters. Dr. Whooves, Octavia, and Vinyl are three of the bigger ones, and of course, there's Derpy.

She even got lines:


Her whole reason for existing can be credited to 1) the animation error that gave her her googly eyes and 2) how much life has been given to her by the community.

[Pendulous]

Thanks for this link! I didn't know about this interview. I've been a Star Trek fan for as long as I can remember, and Q has always been one of my favorite characters. <3

There's also his own panel he had at BronyCon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUZHU1TBGcw

[Freyera]

Wooooo! Good morning! I slept awesomely tonight!

Glad to hear it, Joyous

[GarGar]

There's also his own panel he had at BronyCon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUZHU1TBGcw

Oh sweet, I have a bunch of stuff to watch now. Thanks!

[Freyera]

Oh sweet, I have a bunch of stuff to watch now. Thanks!

Gar gargargargar

[GarGar]

Gar gargargargar

Heeyy Freyeyey. What up?

Wow. Your avatar looks even cuter now. ;D

Right? I originally did it as a joke, but I'm finding myself really liking it now.

[Chrysia]

Somebody just tried to convince me that WoW has a more extensive, more consistent lore base than Tolkien's Middle-Earth.

I...I need something to wash away the stupid.

[Lysah]

Somebody just tried to convince me that WoW has a more extensive, more consistent lore base than Tolkien's Middle-Earth.

I...I need something to wash away the stupid.

Dwarves, elves, treants...Tolkein clearly copied WoW when he was writing his book.

[Freyera]

Heeyy Freyeyey. What up?



Right? I originally did it as a joke, but I'm finding myself really liking it now.

I'm bnored, Gar

[Chrysia]

Dwarves, elves, treants...Tolkein clearly copied WoW when he was writing his book.

Normally, I'd chuckle.

Right now, I just...can't.

[Freyera]

Normally, I'd chuckle.

Right now, I just...can't.

Oh hai Chry! :3

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Glad to hear it, Joyous

Thanks! Now I gotta rush because I forgot to keep track of time.....

Byebye people thingies!

[Chrysia]

Oh hai Chry! :3

Oh hai Frey! \o/

[GarGar]

I'm bnored, Gar

I read that as "I'm boned" at first. o_O

Well I was bored a little bit ago, then Mixy and Pend linked those two John DeLancie interviews so they have my full attention now! \o/

[Freyera]

Thanks! Now I gotta rush because I forgot to keep track of time.....

Byebye people thingies!

Bai Joyous thing!

Oh hai Frey! \o/

:3

I read that as "I'm boned" at first. o_O

Well I was bored a little bit ago, then Mixy and Pend linked those two John DeLancie interviews so they have my full attention now! \o/

This keyboard is goofed. It misses sometimes. Sorry