Okay so like bronyday plus two or three?
\nWith an old and worthy friend of the blog I was exploring the appeal of MLP to us boys of the ‘80s.
\nI 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.
\nI 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. Touch\u00e9, bougie Christianity, the older I get the deeper I tip my hat to you.
\nit’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.
\nIt’s the weirdest thing, I read Iron John in a college class once just to know that had been a thing that happened
\nI’ve seen, in the last few years on the internet active attempts to cultivate communities of male identity out of
\nChristianity
\nsecularity
\nwhite supremacy
\nanti-feminism
\nanti-racist feminism
\nand the one that felt true was My Little Pony fandom
\nha!
\nha!
\nha!
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