Quotes from the Fandom #3: “To Be a Brony” Edition, June 27, 2011

This week two users from Ponychan show us the true spirit of Brony-ness and what it means to be a part of this community.

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“Thus is the pony theory:
Feed bronies hate->Bronies love you.
Feed bronies love->Bronies love you.
It is the polar opposite of the rest of the Internet.
We changed a negative to a positive, and now are left with a good thing.”

-MasterMask (Ponychan)

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“I had a Philosophy teacher a couple semesters ago. I remember one lecture he gave while I was there. It was a hypothetical situation about if somepony planted a bomb in a building, he contacted all the news stations and says he will detonate it in 30 seconds, giving nopony inside any time to escape. In that 30 seconds, all the people inside were scared, crying, and praying that they would not die. Everypony else was watching in, loved ones worried for people stuck in the building.

After the 30 seconds were up, the bomb malfunctioned and did not detonate. Everypony was saved. There was mass celebration, everypony was hugging and crying. Parties broke out and everpony was in a euphoric state of mind.

It made me think about us, here on Ponychan. In the last week, I saw two “raids,” and a thread that made people yell and hurt each other with their words. While these acts themselves were bad, what happened afterwards was intriguing. Hug threads, party threads, and feel good threads went up, many ponies posted in them, and everypony was sharing kindness and laughter with each other.

Everything thrown at us has made us stronger. In the heat of conflict, we hold together as Bronies. Our love is tested and grows more powerful by the day.

We probably lost a couple Bronies in these hard times, but our resilience and our tolerance has made us stronger, more caring, more loving of each and everypony. A Harmony, if you will.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Ponychan, and every fan of the show has showed me real examples of the Elements of Harmony.

Here we are free to show our true feelings, critique others, and praise and apologize without fear. I see people give honest reasons of why they feel certain ways, and people genuinely responding in a good and helpful way.

Honesty.

Many Bronies never stray from the ideas of Love, Trust, and Friendship. People Parasprite us, people lash out in anger or frustration, but each time I see them receive tolerant and loving responses even if nopony agrees with them. Each time we show adherence to the show, this chan, and each other.

Loyalty.

We put up fun threads to entertain and make the day better, we have laugh threads and hug threads, and cute little story threads. Even a couple of supposed “parasprites” end up making the day fun. We Laugh and laugh hard with our bronies, and even laugh in the face of gore raids and ugly, ugly things that are supposed to hurt us.

Laughter.

We help each other in times of need. We have all seen threads where people say what happens in their lives that made them sad/mad, and almost every post is one of kindness and compassion. We lend a hand to our bronies, even for the little things like putting up a picture for somepony who asks for it. After the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, I saw threads go up immediately to support them.

All of these are Kindness and Generosity.

And then there is Magic. My Little Pony: Friendship is magic is True Magic. Not in the sense of creating fire out of nothing, telepathy, or flying.

Magic in the sense that it has become a phenomenon from the most unusual of places.
Magic it has touched the hearts of many and made them kinder and better people
Magic in the sense that it is ever spreading, making more and more people see that love and friendship are not fairy tale ideologies that exist only in fiction, but are real and are ever growing.
Magic in that even in the darkest of times, in times of trial and tribulation, we stand back up with our heads up high and our hands extended to others.

My fellow bronies, I have been here for slightly less than a month. But in these few short weeks, I have become more attached, more intrigued, more caring, more loving, and more a part of this community than I have anywhere else.

It may sound silly to those who don’t know or understand MLP:FiM, it may even sound silly to some of you. But I hold my badge of a Brony as proudly as I hold my badge of being an American and of being a human being.”

-Amonisis (Ponychan)

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I’ll see you next week with more quotes!

-Ben Sims
(mbulsht)

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