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Newbiespud
25th Jun 2020, 6:00 AM
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It was dark times for some of us.
Luckily, it wasn't for me. But to some, I imagine it was.
Thank you brony community.
Luckily, it wasn't for me. But to some, I imagine it was.
Thank you brony community.
Yeah, for me it was:
Friend: "You should watch this, you will like it."
Me: "Okay."
Done. Not much of a leap...
Helps that I trust some people to know what I would like.
Friend: "You should watch this, you will like it."
Me: "Okay."
Done. Not much of a leap...
Helps that I trust some people to know what I would like.
More a friendly acquaintance than friend but same general idea for me.
I mean, my first brush with pony was in the Homestuck forums. I'm used to spending time in barely tolerated Internet subcultures.
I started watching before I even started using internet forums so I don't even know when the community sprang up.
I think I started watching around the beginning of season 2. I remember because they were doing a marathon of all the episodes up to the return of harmony.
I think I started watching around the beginning of season 2. I remember because they were doing a marathon of all the episodes up to the return of harmony.
I started in around S1 Bridle gossip, but it wasn't until near the end of the season that I found the community.
I found out about the show between seasons 1 and 2, and I found out about if from members of the community.
Original artifacts from the /mlp/ era are sporadic nearly a decade later, but off the top of my head I can point to both Cupcakes and Equestria Daily as dating back to January 2011 (although I doubt one would have much luck tracking down the original posting of Cupcakes). I do know of one older fanfic, Severance (also grimdark), though I don't know how much older it is.
Original artifacts from the /mlp/ era are sporadic nearly a decade later, but off the top of my head I can point to both Cupcakes and Equestria Daily as dating back to January 2011 (although I doubt one would have much luck tracking down the original posting of Cupcakes). I do know of one older fanfic, Severance (also grimdark), though I don't know how much older it is.
Newbiespud, no offense meant as I know you didn't mean it negatively and more as a "the fans managed to make others see men liking colorful ponies as more acceptable" way, but the way you phrased that makes it sounds like "the brony fandom is about making men feel ok about the fact they're enjoying a girl's show about colorful ponies."
Especially when coupled with the joke is based on Cutie Marks not being seen as manly.
Don't worry, and I apologize for bringing it up. Thank you for taking the time to respond to me.
Can't get it... in the world the show FiM does not exist. So no fandom, and no ponies with cutie marks. Or do earlier generations exist here? That explains, if so,
Shining's GM was using parts of our GM's homebrew setting, including the Cutie Marks.
I blame Derpy.
Someone was exclaiming about how they brought her back (dropping things on Twilight).
I figured I'd check out the clip... okay, that's actually funny. Let's go ahead and.. no, wait, I'll want context, first episode... Hey, this is pretty good. Okay, now can watch that one... annnd I'm hooked, aren't I?
Someone was exclaiming about how they brought her back (dropping things on Twilight).
I figured I'd check out the clip... okay, that's actually funny. Let's go ahead and.. no, wait, I'll want context, first episode... Hey, this is pretty good. Okay, now can watch that one... annnd I'm hooked, aren't I?
...Am I the only one here who was lured into watching the show by the, um... Archetypal side of the furry fandom? Fluttershy-chan wa sou kawaii desu... As for when, pre-S2, not sure exactly how early, but...
There are lots of ways into this fandom. My first sight of it was Cupcakes. Followed by Cheerilee's Garden.
It was my Spanish Reenactment buddy got me into it. He goes "I promise you'll like it." And I goes "Really???" And he goes "I give you my word as a Spaniard!" to which I retort "It's no good. I've known too many Spaniards." then he got all serious and was like "I swear on the life of my father, Domingo Montoya, You will enjoy this show." And well, there was only one thing to say. "Send me the link."
(I exaggerate. Slightly.)
(I exaggerate. Slightly.)
Any story about Over-powered one time use characters like Shining?
There was a Pathfinder Campaign a buddy was running that I was supposed to be offshore for most of, so he basically gave me carte blanche for Character Design. I made a Young White Dragon with class levels in Slayer. The party wound up calling him Toby.
He was... mildly broken. Like, 300' charge radius, five natural attacks with his lowest attack bonus being a +20 (We were level 14 at the time) and his BAD saves being +10 or so.
Mind you, it worked out because that particular GM had decided our games hadn't been challenging enough lately, and Toby is the only reason he didn't TPK us on multiple occasions.
He was... mildly broken. Like, 300' charge radius, five natural attacks with his lowest attack bonus being a +20 (We were level 14 at the time) and his BAD saves being +10 or so.
Mind you, it worked out because that particular GM had decided our games hadn't been challenging enough lately, and Toby is the only reason he didn't TPK us on multiple occasions.
I remember first noticing the newly forming fandom around the time Bridle Gossip aired. A lot of screencaps from Pinkie Pie's little song started cropping up all over DeviantArt at the time.
Funny thing is I didn't actually connect it to My Little Pony at the time. Since the design style was so different than what I knew of the franchise. So my first thought was "whatever that is, it's apparently popular."
Then season 1 appeared on Netflix and I went "wait what?" Finally got curious enough because of the show's apparent popularity to start watching it a week later, and caught up around the time MMMystery on the Friendship Express first aired.
Don't quite remember when I started becoming active in the fandom though. I know it was related to discovering Legends of Equestria and EQD, but I can't put a date to it.
Funny thing is I didn't actually connect it to My Little Pony at the time. Since the design style was so different than what I knew of the franchise. So my first thought was "whatever that is, it's apparently popular."
Then season 1 appeared on Netflix and I went "wait what?" Finally got curious enough because of the show's apparent popularity to start watching it a week later, and caught up around the time MMMystery on the Friendship Express first aired.
Don't quite remember when I started becoming active in the fandom though. I know it was related to discovering Legends of Equestria and EQD, but I can't put a date to it.