Anachronous

Laughed out loud at that one, good show! The sad irony is that we're not too far off from this being a reality.

I suddenly feel somewhat ashamed. My ego, how it stings so.

You go to Boston College? God, that and BU are two colleges I'm absolutely dying to attend. I'm acquaintances with quite a few alumni from there and they've all been standup guys! I can't come to this but I'd absolutely love to hear how this turns out.

I did it by complete accident one day since I firmly believe that making an active attempt to "convert" people is an exercise in both futility and social maladjustment. I had just gotten an iPhone and I was at Stage Crew one afternoon, helping set up props and costumes, making sure they were all prim and proper for the show later that night. One of my subordinates, a sophomore that I was decent friends with, asked if both if I had his number and if he could see my phone. I handed the device over to him. "Yeah, just add yourself in my Contacts and I'll show you it in a bit!" Being a bit jumpy, said kid added himself and then hit the Home button to play with my disappointingly scarce amount of apps. My Home screen wallpaper is one of Rarity - it's attached! - and being Internet literate as a result of hanging out with me and my friends, the kid noticed it immediately. A look of shock and awe struck his face. "Y-You're a brony!? You? That's so cool!" At this point, I'm desperately trying to explain to him that it's really not too big a deal and that he's making a bit of a scene. Having established myself as something of a role model for a few students where I study - himself included! - my capacity to enjoy something like MLP:FiM came as something of a dynamic shock to him. Fleshed me out a bit, made me more sensitive and relatable, I suppose. After he had calmed down a bit, he began to pepper me with trivia about the fandom and the show and what it's like being a brony and how you "do it right." It was a delightful conversation, in retrospect, and I was able to make it clear to a potential brony from the very exposition of their fandom that there are certain faux pas that are to be avoided such as "trying to convert your friends actively even if they show no interest" and "incessantly dropping references to the show in idle conversation that no one gets but you." A couple of days ago, the same kid comes up to me during our strike session wearing a Rainbow Dash tee under his sweatshirt. "Hey, Franky, I watched through the entire first season! It was great, I think I truly might be a brony!" And so it began... 'twas ever so fun, the conversations that followed. He maintains that Fluttershy is best pony and loathes Rarity whereas I'm the exact opposite. We discussed the show, the fandom, the realms of the fandom, Equestria Daily, user generated content and a few other things. What made it truly fun was the fact that our bronydom was not the defining factor to our interaction. No, rather, it was a supplement to an already enjoyable experience that made things more connected and fun. He's considering joining a few communities online and I might steer him here if he asks for my assistance. Cool kid, he is. Very amiable, spunky even. So yeah, that's my shtick. I accidentally made a brony and I wouldn't have done as much any other way.