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I've decided to kick off 2018 by posting a bunch of old unfinished art I never got around to finishing but want to show off.
This was going to be a piece making fun of "furry vs. brony drama". Most furries and bronies are friends, and indeed, many people are in both groups. The brony-hating furries and furry-hating bronies are definitely nowhere near as numerous as they might like to think. (Obviously this piece was more relevant when the brony fandom was a lot newer on the scene.)
This was going to be a piece making fun of "furry vs. brony drama". Most furries and bronies are friends, and indeed, many people are in both groups. The brony-hating furries and furry-hating bronies are definitely nowhere near as numerous as they might like to think. (Obviously this piece was more relevant when the brony fandom was a lot newer on the scene.)
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For quite a while I thought Bronies were some kind of fringe fandom. A crazy, fun fandom -- but a fringe group that maybe involved a few hundred people at most. Then, along comes Bronycon 2012 with 4000 fans and I was quickly disabused of that notion.
And, yeah, I remember the brony vs. furry drama. In a way, that's how I got involved with Bronycon and wound up where I'm at, today (I'll save that story for another time). Thankfully, that debate pretty much ended around the same time as Bronycon 2012 (as I recall). I observed at the time that while not all brony artists are furry, a very high percentage of them (and an extremely high percentage of the GOOD ones) were also from furry fandom.
There's lots of discussion within brony fandom about "where do we go from here." Pony con attendance has been dropping, but that may just be due to natural attrition. When Bronycon moved to Baltimore in 2013 and, despite some dire predictions, still hit 8000 members the convention -- as well as the fandom, as a whole -- achieved "orbital velocity" as one of our staffers put it. Brony fandom isn't as white-hot was it was in 2014-2015, but neither is it going away any time soon. As one of our guiding lights, Pixelkitties, put it recently, "There's so much more tiny horse in our collective future."
And, yeah, I remember the brony vs. furry drama. In a way, that's how I got involved with Bronycon and wound up where I'm at, today (I'll save that story for another time). Thankfully, that debate pretty much ended around the same time as Bronycon 2012 (as I recall). I observed at the time that while not all brony artists are furry, a very high percentage of them (and an extremely high percentage of the GOOD ones) were also from furry fandom.
There's lots of discussion within brony fandom about "where do we go from here." Pony con attendance has been dropping, but that may just be due to natural attrition. When Bronycon moved to Baltimore in 2013 and, despite some dire predictions, still hit 8000 members the convention -- as well as the fandom, as a whole -- achieved "orbital velocity" as one of our staffers put it. Brony fandom isn't as white-hot was it was in 2014-2015, but neither is it going away any time soon. As one of our guiding lights, Pixelkitties, put it recently, "There's so much more tiny horse in our collective future."
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