Pinkie P, someone (you?) said a while back that Ponychan was anti-gay, among other things. I don't go to Ponychan because I'm anti-idiot.

> Ponychan was anti-gay

Ponychan is anything but anti-gay

uh yeah that was me and i didn't mean all of Ponmychan. I meant the vocal minority and the fact that they're the minority doesn't matter because theyre the loudest

edited 3rd Jan '12 3:14:21 PM by PinkieP

@ kegisak

Yay!

It's been a slow day in there so far.

i have friends there... i dont know

Tell them to come over here, instead. If they're as nice as you, we'd love to have them in our little corner of the interwebs.

thank you *blushes*

Yes, more tropers for the pony thread!

Eh, hold on there. There is credence to it.

In spite of the large amount of lesbian content and lesbian shipping threads, there is exactly ONE m/m shipping thread in both /fic/ and /pic/. The fandom in general, when compared to others, has a negligible amount of m/m shipping and what there is is often poorly received, or received with caution and concern at best, something I can tell you from personal experience, having written a m/m ship fic.

Now granted the fandom isn't necessarily against male gay shipping, but it'd vastly underrepresented and makes many portions of the fandom uncomfortable. Not as bad as people being outright against it, but still enough to give pause. If it were not for the peer culture of 'love and tolerate', it would likely be skimmed over at best, rejected outright at worst.

New regulars are ALWAYS a good thing.

Terrifying at the same time though.

New people means new opinions, some of which may conflict with mine

The people on Rule 34 who get pissed off at humanized pony porn creep me out even more. They're ANGRY because the characters aren't ponies.

and you know what the creepy thing is? They're the majority! 0_0

edited 3rd Jan '12 3:20:52 PM by gingerninja666

three cans.

going for five. Or six.

Honestly, I just stay as far away from the rule 34 as I can, makes my life much easier.

edited 3rd Jan '12 3:25:20 PM by PerpetualLurker

I guess if you're going to make porn, make it canon porn.

New people means new opinions, some of which may conflict with mine

Hey, you survived L Mage's archive binge, right?

Just barely.

Archive Binges are the scariest to endure

edited 3rd Jan '12 3:26:51 PM by gingerninja666

Steady on there, Pinkie P. My father once gave me words of wisdom: Don't let the bastards get you down.

The ones who get mad at furry porn are outright rediculous.

I mean, I get not wanting to be associated with the worst elements of the culture. I am a furry, I've seen the worst we've got, and I consider myself to be an outlier of the culture at best. But by pure definition, MLP already is furry. I just don't get the little 'war' over it.

...are you my brother? But then again, my Dad said it in latin.

edited 3rd Jan '12 3:29:59 PM by kegisak

thanks bro.

OK, four cans. Any more and i might puke

Depends on what definition of "furry" you're using, I guess. I've always heard the term used to refer to people who have an affinity (not necessarily sexual) for works feature animal or semi-animal characters. I generally don't think of particular works as being "furry" or "non-furry" unless they're specifically made for that subculture. So I wouldn't really consider MLP to be a "furry" show. It's just one that happens to involve animals. But then again, you might be using a different definition of the term than I am.

edited 3rd Jan '12 3:34:57 PM by JapaneseTeeth

meh, im a furry, i'll admit that.

I've seen pretty much anything. Odd that most MLP rule 34 fans are relatively civil too Outside of the insane ones (or maybe they're all insane and some are just polite about it? XD)

Me too. I don't bother getting into the "levels of furrydom" I just enjoy what I enjoy

edited 3rd Jan '12 3:36:37 PM by gingerninja666

Evening, guys! I come to you from a binge of Cadfael so I am in a most beneficent mood.

edited 3rd Jan '12 3:44:37 PM by Drenius

Well, I use furry by the dictionary definition, of anthropomorphic - any non-human thing with qualities. Hence, the ponies are anthropomorphic. To a small degree than the norm (90/10 to the more common 40/60 [animal/human]), but still anthro.

The thing that makes me lean away from the furry fandom as a whole is simply the way it's received. I've been called 'the least furry furry' by a few people, simply because It's not an aspect of me that I don't excercise or talk about much. I enjoy cartoons, stories and whatnot with the material, but that's about the long and the short of it.

I know that sounds petty, but a large part of what defines a group is it's public perception. Everything is going to have degrees within it, but for the sake of convenience people will paint with broad strokes. So a person might call themselves a republican while only really supporting a few of the same things as a republican - let's say that they only support lower taxes and less gun control, for example. They could be very socially liberal, and may not have problems with the government helping out a bit, but if they self-identify as a republican people are going to assume their interests lie in certain places. Such it is with furry - I'm an outlier because I don't represent the public perception. If a person where to point at the public idea of furry and ask if I were that, I would say no. Very few people do, in the end, but it's the nature of the beast, unfortunately.

Bringing it back to the topic at hand, that's sort of the issue. By strict definition, most bronies can be said to be furries. It's simply that they reject the public perception, and thus the lable as a whole. They still fit it, but they reject it because of a very small part of it, and I understand that. It just strikes me as odd to the ''degree' which they reject it. It's like Armoured Closet Gay.

... Is it weird that, even though I do occasionally go to Ponychan, I don't see where the hate is coming from?

edited 3rd Jan '12 3:48:05 PM by nomuru2d

im too drunk to find the thread...

Poor Amonisis... I love that guy so much... He gets too much hate.

damn it, now im crying

edited 3rd Jan '12 3:51:37 PM by PinkieP

This is why I'm happy that I don't explore the internet that much. I don't see people raging against furries the way everyone here seems to claim that they do. Nor have I seen Bronies deny that they're furries. I just don't get the issue... at all.

I don't deny being a furry. I don't deny that ponies are an extension of my fur affinity on some level. Nor do I see any reason why I SHOULD deny it.

As I said, the only major argument I ever saw was when people were raging over humanized (as in, completely human) pony porn. That's just insane

edited 3rd Jan '12 3:53:49 PM by gingerninja666