FancyPhoenix

Huh... Well wouldja look at that... I guess I never really thought more of it, but now that I've seen all those images, I guess you're right. Villains do seem to like to touch things (mostly chins I see) with their hands/appendages. I guess it could be a sign of showing their superiority and confidence/arrogance. Gotta pay more attention... Wait.. Didn't Discord kinda do that too? Meh.. Bad quality, but you get the idea. If that's not invading personal space, then I don't know what is. And didn't he also poke Fluttershy in the head to make her mean?

Mom, what the serious buck?! Yeaah... So I walked into my parents' room today to get my mom's cellphone for her. I look upon her bedside table and see THIS sitting on top of it... . At first I wasn't sure what it was, but the stamp on the hoof confirmed my fears. I picked the thing up and moved it to the bed to take a picture. As soon as I set it down, IT SPEAKS!! Loudly! And of course at that exact moment my mom walks in... She knows I'm a brony, and she's okay with it. Maybe a bit too okay as the next thing she says is "I saw this at the store and I thought you'd like it" She bought me a friggin' babies toy! Yes, I love MLP, yes, I collect the blindbag figurines, but I don't want a toy designed for 1-2 year-olds, that says "Thank you for wiping my nose" when you touch it. (Seriously, Hasbro? -.-') Well, I guess it's the thought that matters. EDIT: What is it with today?? Just had another one, though this one is more awesome than awkward or embarrassing I'm on a train right now. Usually when I purchase train tickets, I like to do it in advance online so I get the mobile ticket. In most cases I still print out a paper copy just in case my internet shuts off at the wrong moment, but this time I forgot to do that... I checked at the station that my mobile ticket opens in the browser fine, because without it I'd be screwed. It works so I board the train. Soon the conductor (that the right word?) comes to my place and I start digging my cellphone for the ticket. I open the browser and see a flash of the train ticket, before the browser starts reloading the page!!! Of course at this point we've entered some rural part where there's no trace of 3G or GPRS, so no ticket... I start to frantically fiddle with the phone to get to my messages to see if there's something there to help me out. As I'm going to messages, the conductor, a lady of around 25-30 years, must've seen my pony-background picture, because she waves her hand and says "It's okay. Gotta believe a fellow brony", holds out her fist to me for a brohoof to which I respond and WALKS AWAY!! My life is complete, I have been saved by ponies! Can't buckin' believe it! XD

Yeah, so earlier today at work I started thinking about my own headcanons and I just thought what ideas has the fanon or fan-canon given you about MLP characters or world? About characters I'd say some of the biggest things I've gotten from the fanon are the sexualities of some of the ponies. For example, in my headcanon Braeburn is homosexual, due to the mass of fanfictions pointing that way Also because of the same reason I think of Rainbow Dash as a lesbian or at least bisexual. This might be just my own thinking, but I think that earth-ponies have much longer lifespan than the other pony races (except for alicorns) This is because of Granny Smith of-course. When you think about the episodes "Winter Wrap-up" and "Family Appreciation Day" they make her look like she's at least 200 or maybe even 300 years old. Also another one that stems from fanfiction is the idea that changelings weren't always like they are now. In my headcanon changelings were once some other race of ponies who were transformed to look like they do now by Discord. (Read the fanfic "Becoming Whole" by Chivalry for explanation on this. That has the best backstory for changelings I have ever read.) So yeah, here's some of my crazy thoughts Share your own fanon to headcanon experiences

Well I just had another one of those moments. It wasn't really embarrassing as it was cute I woke up, thinking I'd be home alone, so I put on my Rainbow Dash t-shirt (I don't wear pony-shirts around my siblings because they don't know I'm a brony) I walked out of the room and the first thing I see is my three-year-old niece and my sister who had come for a surprise visit My niece looks at me for a while, then her eyes go wide and her face almost literally starts to shine as she points at me and squeals "You've got a horsie-shirt!!" Me and my sister just look at each other for a while and then she starts to laugh and says to her daughter "I think it's a pony, actually. What's her name?" I say it's Rainbow Dash and my niece tries to pronounce it and it's soo adorable :3 (Note that this whole conversation happens in Finnish, and a three-year-old isn't the best one in pronouncing English ) Afterwards me and my sister talked about the whole brony thing, and she seems to be okay with it

Well I don't think it'd be as embarrassing now that I'm "out of the stable" but last January I was sitting on a bench in the hallway at my school and there were a few friends of mine sitting next to me. None of them knew I'm a brony. Every time we start talking about something that we need to check up online (who some actor was, when was someone famous person born, etc.) they tell me to look it up because I'm the only one with a smartphone in my circle of friends. Well this one time we had something for me to check, so I take out my iPhone and unlock it. I had forgotten that I had listened to Winter Wrap-up that morning and then just locked the phone without going to the home-screen first. So when I unlock the phone, the first thing that pops up is the background pic for that song, which just so happens to be the MLP-logo I quickly lock it again and put it back in my pocket, but my friend who's sitting right next to me was looking and he goes "Please don't tell me that was what I think it was?" Embarrassed, I tried to tell him it was just a video someone linked me, but he doesn't buy it Not sure if he knows even now that I'm a brony... He hasn't brought it up ever since.

Nice to see that I'm not alone in thinking the way I do Just now, reading through my original post and looking at it in a new light, I realize that my rant about this "Markus" was just me being really butthurt over something that happened a long time ago, and those feelings being resurfaced by the talk with my friend. I just think it was something I needed to get out of my system, since this is a subject I feel very strongly about. I do agree with what most of you have said, that one should not blindly love everyone, but that those people should earn that love first. And that tolerating does not mean accepting everything some people do, but accepting their differences as long as they don't directly hurt you or anyone else. Thanks to all for your replies. I think this is a topic that deserves to be discussed, since "love and tolerate" is essentially one of this fandom's basic principles, or at least was supposed to be one.

Yeah, so. I was out eating with a non-brony friend of mine, and we got into a small debate about the "love and tolerate" -aspect of bronyism. He said he didn't think it was a thing that could work. "You can't just love and tolerate everyone! Even if everyone in this world was a brony themself, you can't love them all," he said. I asked him to give me an example, to which he had actually thought of something. He asked me: "What if Markus (name changed just because...) was a brony and expected you to be his friend again just because of that reason?" That got me thinking... Now, before you can really understand the situation, I need to tell you a bit about the relationship between me and this "Markus". Markus has been on my class ever since pre-school. For the first 5 years of school, he was completely invisible, to the point that I actually didn't know he was on my class until 5th grade. He was always a very small, unsociable kind of kid, and he was thought to be a bit "loco in the coco," like Pinkie would say. On 5th grade I started to notice the small mouse-like creature standing alone in the corner during recess. Next I noticed how some "tough-guys" of the class took it upon themselves to make the life of that creature as miserable as possible. I was bullied at those times too, so I decided to see if there was anything I could do to make them stop bullying him. So I stepped in, got into a fight, got detention because the teacher didn't believe I was just helping Markus out. So I decided I'd never again stick my nose into other people's business. After the incident, I started seeing Markus more and more. It was almost like he was following me. After we left grade-school behind us (Finnish school system is complicated, not gonna explain it here ) I found out that he was actually really grateful of what I'd done. We became sort of friends. Sort of, because when he started spending more time with me, I started to notice that those talks about him not being completely right in the head weren't totally made up. He was a strange fellow, very clingy, sometimes even annoyingly so. He would sit right next to me in the hallway and push himself right to my side. It got to the point where people started spreading rumors about us being more than friends. That was a tag I didn't want placed upon me, because being gay was strictly looked down upon among my peers, and I was at a situation where the earlier bullying had just stopped, and I didn't want to start a new round of the same crap I had been forced to take so far. So I distanced myself a bit from him. I thought it would be okay, because he had made a few more friends by then, who he liked to hang out with. So I started to stay a bit further away, deliberately sit a few rows away from him, start less conversations with him and the stuff. Might have been bad thing for me to do, but I didn't really cut myself completely off, just left him a bit more with his other friends. Either way, he took notice of that, and what happened was something I didn't expect. He made a complete 180 degree turnaround, going from friend to a bully in almost one day. At some point the bullying I had faced earlier had started again for some reason, and now he was there with them making fun of me. Needless to say, I felt betrayed. I talked to him about it, but he just made fun of me through the entire conversation. So I thought, fine, if he wants to be like that, then let him. I completely cut myself off from him. I didn't speak to him, I ignored him, I didn't even look at him. I was hurt, and I had a right to be. I still think I do. What I did when I took a little distance, did not give him the right to do what he did. After that, it just got worse, to the point where if I said something about him and he heard me and didn't like what I said, he could grab a baseball bat and start swinging it at me. It went on until the first year of high-school, when he dropped out. Haven't seen much of him afterwards, and I don't really want to... So yeah, that question from my friend really got me thinking. Before, I had seen it a bit more black and white, thinking that if someone is a brony, there has to be something good, something to love and tolerate in them. Now I don't think that anymore. After all that happened between me and Markus, I don't think anything he'd do would change my mind about him. I just can't feel anything but loathing for that person anymore. Some people might think that I should just forget and forgive, but I don't think I can. And I don't think I need to. He hurt me too bad back then, he doesn't deserve my forgiveness. What are your opinions on this question? Do you have someone you could never love and tolerate even if that person became a brony? Do you think being a brony is reason enough to become friends with someone who hurt you in the past?