Okay so like bronyday plus two or three?

With an old and worthy friend of the blog I was exploring the appeal of MLP to us boys of the ‘80s.

I think that a fully realized world in which being a good person results in things working is exactly the escapist fantasy we need right now.

I also wonder if it’s instead just a signal that I’ve forgotten childhood and grown sentimental enough to breed. I wonder if it’s that after abandoning the idea of being bound to allegiance I’m looking for something to swear allegiance to such that it matters. I wonder if those things are different. Touché, bougie Christianity, the older I get the deeper I tip my hat to you.

it’s really interesting how guys post femslash that works the same way as other fandoms where fems post guyslash, as a mechanism to explore emotions, vulnerability, the same hurt/comfort dynamics, etc. This is not how I remember Fairchild/Freefall pairings working in geocities gen13 shrines when I was 14.

It’s the weirdest thing, I read Iron John in a college class once just to know that had been a thing that happened

I’ve seen, in the last few years on the internet active attempts to cultivate communities of male identity out of

Christianity

secularity

white supremacy

anti-feminism

anti-racist feminism

and the one that felt true was My Little Pony fandom

ha!

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