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The Mary Sue Interviews My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic’s Tara Strong

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:47 am, February 15th, 2013

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic airs a very special episode tomorrow on The Hub in which the lovable and charismatic Twilight Sparkle is changing. To find out how much, we spoke with the talented woman who provides her voice on the series, Tara Strong. Hear what she had to say about Pony fandom, the upcoming Teen Titans Go!, and the one animated venue she’d still love to visit.

Brony Graffiti Artist In Argentina Makes My Little Pony Edgy

by Jill Pantozzi | 10:14 am, December 27th, 2012

Artist Shinoda has decided Argentina needs more color. Rainbow colors to be exact. The 16-year-old recently started painting towns Brony style and needless to say, they stand out from the crowd. See which My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic characters are now gracing the streets of Argentina.

(ShinodaGE via Wired)

Lightly Stroking Your Circuitry: PBS Talks Geek Fandom

by Zoe Chevat | 5:49 pm, September 7th, 2012

Ooh, fandom, you strange, sometimes beautiful, sometimes not-safe-for-work beast. Trying to explain you to outsiders can be tricky, and fraught with misunderstanding, but visual aids usually help. Even if those visual aids are quite…revealing.

In the above video, fans lend their voices and their fanfiction excerpts to the noble cause of explaining, in simple terms, what fandom is, why so many of us are engaged in it, and why it continues to be popular. Part of PBS’ Off-Book video series, this particular discussion of fandom is mostly for the uninitiated, but it’s still fun as a fan to watch familiar pictures of convention cosplayers, Bronies, and various fanart fly by in a semi-scholarly fashion. It’s hardly the most broad handling of the topic, though it gets some good main points across. However, the video makers seem to have gone out of their way to find some fairly obscure fandom tracks to explore. Somehow, I don’t think using erotic Transformers fanfiction or the (thankfully brief) Colorado shooter James Holmes trolling fandom flare-up makes a good case for fans largely being rational, if passionate, people, and not crazy loners hanging out in our basements with a high-speed web connection.

Judge for yourselves, Internet.

Fans Do Cool Things

The My Little Pony Team Express Their Love of Bronies

by Alanna Bennett | 11:45 am, July 16th, 2012

It’s been an exciting week for bronies…Is a sentence I never thought I’d be writing in a professional capacity when I grew up. But it has been! There’s been the announcement of a new comic book series based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, to be published by IDW. There’s been the teaser trailer for season three of the show (viewable after the jump). And now, amongst all the revelry, the cast and a writer for the show are publicly talking about their overwhelming love for bronies and the “social phenomenon” they have wrought.

Bronies Buck Traditional Masculinity With My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic [VIDEO]

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 5:46 pm, June 11th, 2012

Thanks to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, normative masculinity might be expanding to include values and interests usually relegated to women. You know, like respect and ponies. Thankfully, men no longer have to shy away from the magic of love, friendship, and tolerance, at least in the online Brony community. Watch Mike Rugnetta use gender theory in order to analyze the emergence, and importance, of Brony culture.

(via I Heart Chaos.)

Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: The Doctor & River, Peanuts Style

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:36 pm, April 29th, 2012

By artist aninhat-t who has some other delightful Doctor Who related creations in their RedBubble shop. (via Doctor Who tumblr)

Things We Saw Today: Wheatley Catch

by Jamie Frevele | 5:29 pm, December 31st, 2011

It was a good year for video games. By Sage. (via Diary of a Death Starlette)

Things We Saw Today: Alternate Universe Kim Possibles

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:13 pm, November 3rd, 2011

DeviantArtist EastCoastCanuck has created a wonderful piece depicted Kim Possible in well, all possible alternate universes. From left to right: Gokim The Super Saiyan (GBZ), Kimtos The Goddess of War (God of War), Kim Yagami (Death Note), Kim Jordan (Green Lantern), Kimora The Keybearer (Kingdom Hearts), Kimthor The Norse Goddess of Thunder (Marvel) and her male version Zim Possible! Also check out the second one featuring Batkim (DC Comics), Kim Widow (Marvel), Kimyx Vance (VALVe), Sailor Kim (Toei Animation), Spiderkim (Marvel), Kim Lockheart (Square Enix) and Ron as Robin-Ron (DC). Think that’s enough awesome for one day? No way! Check out what else we saw today…

Parody of My Little Pony Teaches Us That Addiction Is Terrifying [NSFW Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 11:27 am, October 15th, 2011

Well, good morning! What better way to start your weekend than with a foul-mouthed parody of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic? Max Gilardi is responsible for this, which must have been inspired by the one and only legend/creator of Ren and Stimpy, John Kricfalusi. Nothing dirty for the eyes, but quite a bit of NSFW language, which is hilarious when coming out of adorable ponies.

(via Oh Have You Seen This?)

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