I had to deal with telling people that I had got heavily back into Pokemon when I was 13, and I'm still into it at 17. So the love for My Little Pony doesn't really shock them much, though I've developed as a person massively since then, and I'm happy to be who I am. I'm proud for being a fan of MLP, and no one can take that away from me. Just imagine if you judged someone for liking the Harry Potter books, it's along the same lines as that. Anyone who feels unsure about telling people, just remember that it's for YOU to enjoy, and if you enjoy it, keep it a part of your life.
Oh no, I don't want Bronyism to be considered a religion to much baggage come with that. Even though I'm one of the most extreme bronies out there. I don't think I'm willing to click like on that. Also all my friends on facebook can't know about it until my surprise presentation at school. Back on topic. I am actually concerned about what my friends will think when they see my desktop backgrounds all being ponies and what they will think if I start collecting pony figurines. The thing is I know there will be a double standard, as no one gives a crap about my need to collect final fantasy and pokemon figurines. Oh and I wonder what they will think about what downs VVV in my signature? I have to wait a few weeks until the presentation, but I may try to make it happen earlier because holding all this in is killing me. I'm actually a bad liar. So when people ask if I know what I'm doing my documentary pitch about I have to say yes, but then say I can't talk about it. This has gotten some confused looks from my classmates as to why I can't just tell them my idea. Luckily they aren't forcing the issue much cause I am barely keeping it contained.
My entire alibi for the pony fad was "It's for memetics research". So, since ponies are technically a meme, it'd be truthful to use my alibi by saying the field of the documentary is memetics.
I have always been known for having slightly eccentric interests, and being slightly eccentric overall [hate sports with a passion, care nothing about driving, obsessive nature lover, despite being very much male] so I suppose that friends and family shook off my addiction to MLP as just something else I managed to find amusing. That said, I certainly don't hide my love for teh poni - all my merchandise is sitting proudly on a shelf, and I've been printing out posters as of late. I forced my mum and brother to watch a few episodes, and my brother seems to like the show a lot.
A little bump here on this thread now! But no, I'm not really ashamed of it. But besides, I'm known as a weirdo to many people so its probably not a big surprise that they see that I'm now a "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" fan. (x The problem with me is that I constantly talk about it tho, even to people that doesn't like the show! That usually happens to me when I'm a fan to something new, but I will probably calm down with this after a few weeks, my friends will at least be happy with it then. The only thing that worries me is that they may think am a fan of the older stuff of My Little Pony, which I'm not! They just give me some bad chills.. D: Thats the reason why I always write that I'm a fan of "Friendship Is Magic", I never write "My Little Pony" only.
Many of my friends are also Bronies. That makes it easier for me. My dad is critical of it, and my mom thinks it's hilarious. I make pony references and sing pony songs all the time.
It wouldn't surprise me if my dad thought I was gay just because I watch MLP:FIM... (x Witch I'm not. But its the same thing here, my mom always jokes about it. And neither of my sisters really understand the point of watching it.
Nah, I'm pretty open about my being a brony, though I've never been closeted about anything really. My bisexuality, my insterest in the furry fandom, my love of Pokemon... I just don't care what others think of me. Wouldn't want to associate with haters anyway.
This is pretty much the same as me. I'm not much a furry as I was before but it still stands. My family and friends are quite supportive so I guess I'm lucky in having no reason to hide it. ^^
Because if you don't live in an environment where there are other bronies, and you're not good at carrying a presence people can take seriously, bronydom is extremely isolating. I want to get to know people--I want to have friends, eventually even romantic interests. That's just not going to happen if I'm completely honest about everything that I am because some things--like bronydom--are off-putting to the shallow masses. And most people -are- shallow. I'm shallow; if I find out that I'm talking to a so-called "communist," I'll find it harder to be friends with him in the long run. I realize that's wrong, but that's just the way my unconscious judgments work. Now if I became friends with the communist, and then I found out about his political beliefs, we'd stay friends because I'd already know the kind of person I'd met. And that's my strategy with bronydom. I'm open about it, but only with people who've gotten to know me.
Being in secondary school, the general consensus is for everyone to act as one (e.g. Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Football, Sex, Sex, Sex). Since I break away from this, however, I'm generally rather reserved. So, though I'm not totally closeted, I don't say much about it.
Thats...spot on actually, since its not "normal" so society, people have been oppressed by those "norms" and are so unable to break the stereotype/assumption, as such admitting it to real life people seems like too much of an uphill battle to consider. I'm happy in my current position though.
No secrecy on my end. If my last class project wasn't enough to show how much of a brony I am, I don't know what then. I have only a couple of people who find it a problem. To everyone else, they say "thats cool" in a way that "its your thing" I'm also a former furry. Just as I was a former otaku.
I don't know if my family know that I'm a brony, I don't think they know that word exist anyway. I only know that my mum thinks my drawings with ponies are adorable and that my stephdad doesen't care, he took a look and was like "pretty" but in a way like he didn't bother. I haven't really been keeping it a secret, but ofcourse I have only been a Brony for one week. I'm going to try and convert my friends though, one at the time... Edit: What happened to the presentation that were going to be made and put onto youtube?
The only people who know about me being a brony, are my parents, and my best friend. I want to be open about it, but I'm not for one reason. The reason behind me not wanting others to know, is because in high school, the stupidest things spread like wildfire and its hard to escape ridicule in a small school such as mine. Luckily its my senior year, so once I'm in college, I'll be much more open. I know that "I shouldn't let others judge me" and "who cares what society thinks." I understand that, and completely agree, but I don't want to chance it in such a small setting.
I am not ashamed of it. But as I was bullied a huge chunk of my early school years I am careful of what I reveal about myself to people. I have only confessed about to liking ponies to people I trust this far, most of cool with it, and none can said to be a hater. I have also found one other brony among my friends, that is cool. Though my manners are not overly masculine, I do not seem to be a person who would be into ponies at first glance. I am mostly known for being obsessed with the occult and morbid, my favorite things when I was 7 was zombies, necromancy and vampires, as well as demons and other things related to dark fantasy. The ironic thing is, when it comes to blood and gore, the older I got the less intrest I had in it, which means I am actually more inclined to watch kid's shows today compared to when I was younger. I have a theory of why, the thing might be so that I have gotten so used to depravity that it is no longer any gratification, in fact ,if anypony asked me after an action scene if it contained any gore, I would not be able to tell. So that is my explaination for how a "gorehound" came to like something as unlikely as ponies. I might be a little weird as I also a nostalgiahound who rewatches old cartoons I watched as a kid, I actually watched the original My Little Pony show together with my sister as a kid, so it weirdly enough, ponies are nostalgic to me, which is how I came across a retrospective of the My Little Pony franchise and got intrested in a certain new incarnation called Friendship is Magic. By the way, even though I am completely desensitized to gore, things like cupcakes still shock me as I care greatly for the characters of MLP FIM and I am greatly emotionly connected to Rainbow Dash in particular. Which leads me to believe that the greatest flaw in horror today and why I am not affected is the lack of sympathetic characters, which FIM has plenty. I have probably demonstrated here that I have no shame whatsoever, but I am also a coward who is afraid of how people would react, that bullying has made me greatly paranoid of the intentions of the mainstream crowd.
