vampirekin-deactivated20190403:
you forgot to hit anon sweetheart
TFW You forget to hit anon when defending your assholness under the guise of an unbiased anon fan.
Good. They can have their brony con and leave little children to their own cons.
I used to work for BronyCon. It was one of the bext experiences of my life. I loved it.
Were there problems? Of course. There are problems with any convention. But it was fun, and I loved getting to make magic for attendees of all ages - including the many children who were in attendance.
Don’t judge a convention by the toxicity of part of a fandom.
Look, I don’t mind Bronies. I just am not comfortable with the fact that grown men like to go to conventions with young children, especially girls. Allow them to enjoy their own, separate convention away from children.
But…that’s almost all conventions. Every conventions I’ve ever been to had children there as well as adults. There were children’s activities as well as 18+ programming, and everything in between. And I think that’s how it should be - something for everyone to enjoy with age checks and other similar precautions in place.
The idea that adults shouldn’t go to events because children are there and have to have their own conventions seems ridiculous to me.
No. Adults should not go to event made specifically for children. Children should not go to events specifically for adults. MLP is for children. It was made specifically for young girls and then adult men got into it and many of them made it unsafe for them. If there’s a con FOR CHILDREN parents and those affiliated with the con should be the only adults. If there’s a con FOR ADULTS adults should not bring children. If there’s a mixed audience then you have events for each, like with Doctor Who or Anime.
MLP does have a mixed audience though. Lauren Faust specifically made MLP:FIM to appeal to all ages and genders, though the target audience is younger girls. And it paid off with strong writing, entertaining and diverse characters, excellent music, and an overall fantastic show for anyone to enjoy. That’s why adult fans of MLP exist in the first place- because it is a fantastic show that can appeal to everyone. And it’s why it appealed to me. The show was then and is now a breath of fresh air during a time when there isn’t a whole lot on TV that interests me.
By that same argument, adults shouldn’t be allowed participate in events for Harry Potter, which is a children’s series. And yet I saw a lot of independent adults at midnight book releases, and only adults at the premiere of the last movie. Nancy Drew, Adventure Time, and Disney TV shows and movies are also children’s content, and yet they all have a sizeable adult demographic.
And finally, since I actually worked for BronyCon for a year (I don’t anymore), I can vouch for them and say that adult content is not allowed under any circumstances. It is a family-friendly convention. They do have some plus panels to talk about some things slightly above kids’ heads (discussing grimdark content and its impact is one that comes to mind), but no explicit content is allowed anywhere, period. Not in the panels, not in cosplay, not in art and merchandise, nowhere. If something gets out of hand, there are consequences. Panels get cancelled, badges get revoked, attendees get banned. BronyCon is about having fun and celebrating an awesome show, and that’s it.
Again, please don’t judge a convention or an entire fandom for a toxic subset.
We actually don’t do plus panels anymore. No one came to them. We do have panels that we expect, for example, swearing to be more likely to happen in (because that’s a thing with how people talk), and we schedule those later in the day (past 10pm) so that there is less of a chance of children attending them.
One of our rules is, if you wouldn’t see it in the show, don’t bring it to the con.
I’ve been working for BronyCon for over three years now. It’s pretty much the formative experience of my adult life. Nearly everyone I work with is a gift and I’ve learned so much from them, and doing the con itself is almost like magic. Adults and children both get really happy over this one thing, and since I generally consider children to just be small adults it’s nice to see them bond. Children don’t need to be, what, protected from the big scary adults?
I was a child when I got involved in the HP fandom alongside a ton of adults and a teen in a WoW raid guild where the leaders became surrogate parents to me despite only being college aged themselves. This whole…is it because the target demographic is not only children but female children? Well guess what, I was a female child too, and having adults participate in the same activities as me did nothing to harm me and and, in fact, really did help me grow.
<3 you dispatchrabbi emeraldsilver
Lots of people came to plus panels from what I saw. Even the grimdark panel last year was filled to the brim. Is that really the excuse for no more plus panels where a good idea for color-coded badge checking would work?
It’s a con where a bunch of fans cosplay and talk bout whatever it is they are a fan of and debate some things about it and show off art. What makes it different from comic con or ikkicon?
THIS
To everyone who says it’s too expensive to eat on a budget.
I love Twizzlers
Where the fuck are you people buying your food that it costs so little?!
Pretendland, I’m guessing.
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where is this food coming from, those cranberries in the last one cost like six dollars in my area
can’t remember the exact prices for the other stuff but it’s a lOT MORE THAN THAT
They need to get their head out of the mid 90s
all are dead
Pfft, noob.
Most of these have updated once and then stopped. Some of them never even got a post.
Sims 3 and Skyrim oh god
Pokemon Y and Tomodachi Life
Grand Theft Auto V and Assassin’s Creed III
Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, and Majora’s Mask.
Well, this should be fun…
Wolf among us and Animal crossing… ….That sounds bloody awesome!
Stanley Parable and watch_dogs…. Hack the voice, hack the game, hack the parable
Wow+Mass effect 3?? i can live with that
Minecraft and League of Legends? Uh…
Diablo 3 and Company of Heroes 2.
Not sure if grinding PVE RPG set in WW2, or squad based infantry combat set in the Diablo universe…
Dark souls 2+ Dragonball Raging blast 2.
huh… Goku should have no problem with those demons.I Am Alive and DRAMAtical Murder
Lmao, no. Lets not mix a survival game with a bl game.Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag + SMITE.
So, Gods and Pirates? That sounds like it could be a thing.
Link to the past and binding of isaac. i’m not sure which one is better, Isaac in hyrule or link in the basement.
I’m laughing at the Adventure Time one cause Finn has taken his hat off SO many times in the series, it’s not this great mystery in the fandom at all lmao
And that pic may not even be considered accurate to how he might look under any given time either, since his hair length fluctuates throughout the series depending on wether or not he gets it cut off in an episode. Continuity at its finest.
oh my god arnold’s parents is something i wanted to see since i was a little kid
I’m leaving this here cause this is important to me.
The Naruto thing comes from a filler episode where Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were trying to guess what Kakashi looked like. That is probably not accurate.
Isn’t that the episode where naruto thinks he has giant lips and kakashi finally removes his mask to reveal another mask? Also, a filler which is not canon to the manga?
On Tuesday’s episode of ABC’s The View, Marvel Comics announced that the character of Thor is now female thanks to a switch in possession of the Mjölnir.
The title, not the person under the mask, is switching gender because of who now holds the hammer.
“It’s a huge day in the Marvel Universe. Thor, the God of Thunder, he messed up, and he’s no longer worthy to hold that damn hammer of his,” said Whoopi Goldberg in an announcement set up by Marvel this morning. “For the first time in history, that hammer is being held by a woman. That’s right. Thor is a woman.”
Thor series writer Jason Arron stressed in a follow up statement that this is the new Thor. “This is not She-Thor. This is not Lady Thor. This is not Thorita. This is THOR. This is the THOR of the Marvel Universe. But it’s unlike any Thor we’ve ever seen before.”
Added Marvel in a statement, “no longer is the classic Thunder God able to hold the mighty hammer, Mjölnir, and a brand new female hero will emerge worthy of the name THOR.”
The new series, Marvel says, will “speak directly to an audience that long was not the target for super hero comic books in America: women and girls.”
OH MY GOD IM SO EXCITED
More about this.
“The hammer of justice is unisex” just got a whole new meaning
moriarty-the-timetraveling-lemur:
Can somebody please explain to my why everyone gets an extra hour in the ball pit???
It’s not everyone, just the people who paid to see nightvale preform at dashcon as compensation for nightvale canceling months in advance.
