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| [[Image:FIM.jpg|right|350px|thumb|I think this is triggering my epilepssdffshaghahtaj]]
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| The '''My Little Pony''' franchise consists of a series of toys and cartoons created and owned by [[Hasbro]] (yes, [[Wizards of the Coast|that Hasbro]]). As anyone with even a passing familiarity with the subject will know, the target demographic is [[loli|small girls]], and Hasbro generally regards the animated component as an advertisement for the line of toys (just like with [[Transformers]]). The franchise has been around since the eighties and retained popularity with the little girls for whom it is made, but the most recent revision begun in 2010 has seen an explosion of popularity on the internet, amassing a cult following of adult (or semi-adult) men as a result of the ''My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'' cartoon. There's also a healthy female audience, but they're largely not spoken of, since it's not viewed as weird when girls enjoy lovable, marshmallow horses.
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| Pony fans, present on the net in disturbingly large numbers, call themselves '''bronies''', ponyfags, and a variety of other monikers, and while every enthusiastic fanbase on the Internet tends to sow [[rage|drama]] everywhere they go, the bronies have had their notoriety given a leg up by moderator temper tantrums and mass banning across 4chan.
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| ==How Did This Happen?==
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| [[Image:MLP01.jpg|right|thumb|This is the true face of the 80s.]]
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| The MLP franchise has a long history, beginning all the way back at the dawn of time (also known as the 1980s). Hasbro created a line of toys and an animated cartoon to go with it as advertising, and the <STRIKE>story</STRIKE> horror had begun. [[Dark_Age_of_Cartoons|The original series was remarkably terrible dross]], alternating between being boring, patronising, and reinforcing negative gender stereotypes. The franchise saw a couple of updates and revisions over the years between then and now; the originals are now referred to as Generation 1, or G1, and it also went through a G2 and G3 (and a sort of sub-edition referred to as G3.5) before the completely new and substantially different <s>[[4E|4th Edition]]</s> Generation 4 appeared in modern times, causing epic shitstorms - is anyone else getting deja vu?
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| Everything pre-G4 is generally regarded as pretty terrible without much in the way of argument between anyone (except perhaps five-year-old girls, and they bite if you insult their ponies). To produce G4, however, Hasbro brought in Lauren Faust, known for her previous work on shows like the ''Powerpuff Girls'' and ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'', and also known for having a major bone to pick with stereotypical girl's entertainment. She saw the posting as a golden opportunity to make a girl's show that wasn't completely terrible and set to work with gusto, assembling her team and churning out a show - subtitled "Friendship is Magic" - that went to air on Hasbro's own TV channel, The Hub, aiming to teach young girls lessons about friendship and being a decent person without perpetuating horrible stereotypes about fashion and other such "girly" pursuits, which I'm sure we can all agree is pretty cool. Except for [[That Guy]], but he's a [[Matt Ward|faggot]].
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| The problems began when [[:/co/]] discovered the show. Up until a few episodes in, MLP:FiM had gone unnoticed and ignored by most people outside its target demographic. When someone linked a blog lamenting the "death of creator-driven animation" (targeting the new show specifically) on /co/, however, the denizens investigated. To their surprise, some of them - despite being so far outside the target demographic they couldn't hit it with a [[Deathstrike Missile Launcher]], let alone an [[Vindicare|Exitus rifle]] - actually ''liked'' it - and immediately began to share and spread it, like a four-legged Syphilis. This began an explosion of pony popularity on 4chan, as /co/ soon became consumed by the subject and it rapidly spread to almost every other board. A traditional civil war erupted between fans and raging, anti-pony lunatics, who regarded the flood of pony posts as invading waves of [[cancer]]. After the mods began issuing board-wide decrees telling everyone how angry it would make them if ponies were posted on their boards, the ponies became so prolific and the situation so bad that they were [[Exterminatus|near-globally banned from 4chan]].
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| Considering how Touhou had spread like this previously on /tg/ and /v/, but never warranted such a ban, that was one ''hell'' of an accomplishment, and also perhaps a hell of mismanagement by 4chan staff all around. Maybe because Touhou is actually kinda human and not considered furry by types that fall into rage convulsions at the sight of talking animals.
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| In the meantime, as with all things popular, the fandom had escaped into the wild and began their great induction to the wider internet. [http://www.equestriadaily.com Brony-targeted] [http://ponibooru.413chan.net/ websites] began to appear, garnering huge audiences; the terrifyingly creative and almost-religious fanbase started producing musical remixes, fanart, pornography, and horrible, horrible fanfiction faster than a [[Peasant Railgun]] in full swing, getting their obsession all over the internet and attracting global attention and media coverage both positive and negative.
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| ==What the Hell?==
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| [[Image:InsanePinky.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Had the regulars of /mlp/ actually been [[loli|cheery-eyed schoolgirls]], the clusterfuck that has engulfed the entire Internet would never have come to pass.]]
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| The popularity of the show is inexplicable to some, but fans usually chalk it up to good production, interesting characterisation, and legitimately funny humour, both character-driven and some traditional slapstick; the series also throws out a lot of pop culture jokes, with recent episodes featuring references to the old "Chocolate Rain" [[meme]], ''The Big Lebowski'', and even a shot-for-shot parody of the ending of [[Star Wars D20|Star Wars: A New Hope]]. Others chalk it down to one big [[/b/|"iro]][[gay|nic"]] joke that escaped and somehow ended up seeding a legit fanbase.
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| Less often do they mention the disturbingly large amounts of [[/d/|pornography]] ([[furry]] or otherwise) the fanbase has produced, although some of them do like to talk a lot about the creativity of the '''brony''' fandom (presumably while hoping nobody [[Games Workshop|catches on to what they mean]], or they are quite simply "ignoring the elephant in the room"). Although to be perfectly fair, fandoms always gets Rule 34 sooner or later and the more popular, the more massive it's collection is.
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| Much of the show's popularity can probably also be attributed to the deregulated ease of access - since Hasbro basically regards the show as advertising for their shitty toys, they couldn't care less about mass piracy and high-definition TV Rips of various appearing on Youtube within - literally - hours of airing, so the entire series is freely available to view without even having to torrent it - and the engagement of the creators with their unexpected fans, frequently responding to comments on DeviantArt and even appearing in person at fan-organised conventions.
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| Everyone else, on the other hand, can't get their heads around how grown men could go apeshit for a cartoon about colourful ponies designed for little girls, and this dissonance in some causes a lot of rage and accusations of [[Sisters of Battle|paedophilia]] or [[Eldar|homosexuality]]. It doesn't help that the so-called "brony" ranks are padded out with a large number of overly-vocal enthusiasts who are, as is the case for [[Maradonia Saga|Gloria Tesch]], sorely lacking in intelligence and are suffering from an unbearable amount of unwarranted importance. Their enraged responses to perceived attacks on their passion can be [[Chris-Chan|comical]] and/or [[Matt Ward|cringe-inducing]], so a lot of common [[troll]]s are mixed in with genuine haters.
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| There do exist fans of the show who are not completely beyond fucking hope, and who simply treat it as one of their favorite cartoon programs (read: [[Reasonable_Daemonette|heresy in moderation]]) and are able to discuss it without sounding and/or looking too much like [[chris-chan|a giant sperglord]]. Much like the [[Lamenters]] Chapter of Space Marines, however, who were founded during the cursed founding but suffered no real mutation and are ultimately damned by the Imperium at large due to their origins, these less abominable souls are damned to being immediately clustered by the public with the unholy and freakish ranks of the bronies.
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| ==On [[:/tg/]]==
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| [[File:Pony rape.png|250px|thumb|This [[Pretty Marines]] Dreadnought was jealous of Pinkie Pie's color scheme. Either that, or it mistook her for a [[Dwarf|Leprechaun]] and thought [[Cake|Lucky Charms]] would fall out if it [[Fist of the North Star|ripped it open]]. [[/tg/|Experts]] are not entirely sure which; draw your own conclusions.]]
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| Fa/tg/uys have a historical record of wishing to be the little girl, but the days when /tg/ stood for /totally gay/ and/or /[[Touhou|touhou games]]/ have long since passed and are merely a happy memory now, so our beloved board responded to the Pony plague in much the same way that /tg/ responds to everything it doesn't know how to feel about: [[RAGE|violent anger]].
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| For serious, it's just another iteration of the same thing. We saw it before with [[Touhou]], we'll see it again some other time and wish that Ponies were the least of our problems. Regardless, /tg/'s mods never learn from their past mistakes, and fired up the [[Commissar|Commissariat]] - discussion of ''My Little Pony'' on /tg/ is now [[Extra Heresy]] and will be responded to with bans.
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| Ponies are still common-as-hell on /b/, /f/, and /co/, but they're infrequently brought up on the other boards anymore, /tg/ included. The addition of the /mlp/ board gave ponyfags a general board to post their content. The mods make it too much trouble to fight for it anywhere else.
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| The general reaction to any mention of ponies on /tg/ varies between simple exuberance, to indifference and apathy, to [[Khorne]]-pausing [[RAGE]] depending on how well you roll, though the second scenario is more prevalent overall. Even with the bans in place, fans on /tg/ have proven their time-honored ability to [[/tg/ gets shit done|get shit done]] and produced a veritable arsenal of Pony-flavoured [[RPG]]s, including titles like [[Don't Rest Your Hooves]], [[Ponyfinder]], [[Poor Unfortunate Foals]] and other things that can be found on the internet and had their genesis in /tg/. It just goes to show that even when something's completely ridiculous, /tg/ won't be prevented from dicking around with it and trying to make some win in the process, or at least prying some laughs and mockery out of it. If you go looking around the seven Internets, you can even find fanfiction about the main cast playing [[D&D]], which is like product-placement inception when you remember ''it's all owned by [[Hasbro]] now''. [[Just as planned]]. While 40K has fallen to the filthy plague of pastel-coloured horse loving man-children, regular Warhammer has not, owing to the fact that WHFB has largely into obscurity outside the Tabletop scene due to being overshadowed by it's futuristic, grimdark counterpart.
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| Overlapping fanbases have resulted in large amounts of crossover fiction and fanart - including the somewhat bizarre meeting of MLP and [[Warhammer 40,000]], amongst others - and they are guaranteed to incense at least a few people every time they rear their mutated heads. Including you, once you reach this page's gallery section. Look out, here it comes!
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| Oh yeah most of the Dawn of War cast also did VA work on FIM, most notably Farseer Taldeer's who voices Princess Celestia.
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| ==/mlp/==
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| [[File:Mlp_in_a_nutshell.png|thumb|180px|right|A short glimpse into the ride that never ends.]]
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| The "My Little Pony" board was created on 4chan after the exodus and condemnation of the ponyfag population from /co/ and subsequently everywhere else, leading to a board-wide ban of anything pony-related. However, MLP-related discussions still went on several boards of 4chan and bans did not help much in suppressing the population either. With luzly public rage spectacles and Inquisitorial-grade bannings happening all around 4chan, mostly on /co/ and /b/, [[moot]] came up with 1 idea to satisfy haters and fans: Keep the bans to please the haters and dump all the fans into one quarantine board to contain all the "OHH LOOK A PONY, YOUR DAY IS RUINED" shenanigans. Thus, after much derping around, /mlp/ was born.
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| /mlp/ on the outside, is mostly tolerable. The board's content is a combination of /b/, /tg/, and /co/, basterdized with pony. They keep to themselves and know the general rule of 4chan of not posting pony-related material on other 4chan boards with the sole intent of pissing people off and publicly condemn any others who do. Any other requests to raid other boards are dismissed using the: "We are not your personal army" line. Basically, think of "bronies" with all the insanity involved but far less obnoxious to outsiders. They're also in good relations with /k/ and /pol/ and also relatively enjoying warm relations with /tg/, but that's because /tg/'s a total bro.
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| /mlp/ also hates much of "love and tolerate" brony culture and mindset as much as everyone else, even the term "brony" for them is treated with disdain, preferring themselves to be called: "nor/mlp/eople", "ani/mlp/huckers", "horsefuckers", and "clop faggots" to name a few as a way to distinguish themselves from bronies. Thus, to their credit, they at least realize that they're [[Slaanesh|freaks]]. Despite sounding hilariously ironic, /mlp/, at large, loathes the USI-rampant culture of bronies who think they're entitled to a special privileges and/or attention by the show's staff and the rest of the world, simply by watching a show not made for their demograph. Said bronies are still unable to comprehend that despite them being an unexpected audience, the show's staff is still aimed towards its original demograph, which are little girls (who still outnumber and give Hasbro more money), rather than manchildren with entitlement and unwarranted self-importance issues. In short, kind of like why we hate the likes of [[Chris-Chan]], hipsters, [[That Guy]], and basically any misguided, overzealous fanbase out there.
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| The vast majority of /tg/ fails to see the irony inherent in this.
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| It's this hate that caused /mlp/ to create their own subculture of dementia that shifts from "Ohh gods make it stop" to "Wut?".
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| ==Gallery==
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| <gallery>
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| File:My Little Captain.jpg|A [[Derp|SPEHSS MARE-EEN]] mini.
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| File:Spacemare-ens.JPG|''".....We stood at the end of discord and would have fallen, if it were not for the God-Princess and her Ponies of Friendship. Forged in love, tempered in tolerance, we are the living weapons of friendship: The Space Mare-eens."''
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| File:Borealemlp.jpg|Hereseh my Batul brothars, hereseh!
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| File:Ponyified Wardian Heresy.png|Heresy unending within heresy.
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| Image:SPESS MARE-EENS.jpg|Even /tg/ has not been immune.
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| Image:40k Ponies.jpg|In the grim darkness of the far future, there are only ponies.
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| Image:more40kponies.jpg|Ridiculous amount of ponies, that is.
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| File:Evil ponies.jpg|Nothing must be spared.
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| File:Forever_alone_pony_brony_luke_is_the_new_meme_myoc.jpg|Typical constituent of the 'expanded demographic'. Note the eerie resemblance to fa/tg/uys.
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| File:Chaos Space Mareeens.jpg|Chaos Space Mare-eens of Khorne, Slaanesh, and Tzeentch.
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| File:Plague Pon-e.jpg|Papa Nurgle's version.
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| Image:Adeptusmechanus_techpony.jpg|A tech-filly of the Ponyius Mechanicus.
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| Image:Equestria Heresy.png| Venerate the God-Empress of Ponykind or else.
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| File:Empress celestia.jpg|[[Rule 63|The Empress Protects]].
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| Image:My rare hesperax by hattonslayden-d35k7or.jpg|Rarity as Hesperax? Dark Eldar would find that sick... yet strangely erotic.
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| Image:Idealized.jpg|[[Dark Eldar]] + Rarity = [[/d/|WHY BONER?! '''WHY?''']]
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| File:XV25 Dash.png|The Tau'va is now 20% cooler.
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| File:Librarian Sparkle.jpg|Through the tolerance of our enemies do we earn our salvation.
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| File:Commissar Applejack.jpg|If you will not serve in combat, then you will serve on the bucking line.
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| File:Grey Knight Rarity.jpg|Lo', though the time is dark, my face shines.
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| File:Terminator Fluttershy.jpg|I LOVE NO EVIL FOR I AM LOVE INCARNATE!
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| File:Pinkie Pie flamer.jpeg|Initiating party protocol 23.
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| File:Assault Marine dash.jpg|Eat powerhooves!
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| File:Collection.jpg|The Emperor's Ponies of Death.
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| File:Chaotic discord.png|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-zreLMC3FI *Plot Twist*]
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| Image:Pony Cultist.png|C-C-C-COMBO CANCER
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| Image:Marines vs Ponies.jpg|Suffer not the pony to live.
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| Image:Mlpexterminatus.png|The Imperium has judged these mutants and found them.... wanting......
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| File:CelestiaExterminatus.jpg|The Imperium has ju.....FAITH IS A LIE, TRUTH IS A LIE.
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| File:Termies vs dash.png|Praise the Emperor and strike down his foes.
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| Image:FUKLAW_PONY.jpg|'''EXTRA HERESY!'''
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| Image:2181 - crossover warhammer 40k.jpg|Heretical and ''terrifying''.
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| Image:11487_-_commissar_crossover_fluttershy_fluttertank_hat_sword_tank_warhammer_40k.jpg|Impersonating the Emperor's Commissars is extra heresy and punishable by BLAM.
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| File:LunaHeresycolored.jpg|This picture is heresy within heresy. A work of infinite fractal heresy without beginning or end.
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| Image:Hoofed heretics.jpg|''[[Azariah Kyras|He]] walked me through the ruins of Victory Bay, celebrating the slaughter I had carried out there! If you had been there, you too would see what a rotten veil of lies our chapter has become!"'' - Avitus
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| Image:Ponyfinder_page26.jpg|Nor Paizo. [[Ponyfinder]] is your new RPG.
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| File:Ponyfinder page28.jpg|Ponyfinder Pegasus datasheet
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| File:Ponyfinder page27.jpg|Ponyfinder Unicorn datasheet
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| File:Ponyfinder april1st.jpg|Ponyfinder Rainbow Dash datashe...wait.
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| Image:Pony4str.png|[[-4 Str]]
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| File:MyLittleMagesExpanded.jpg|Have to give 'em credit. Foul as the underlying concept might be, its presentation was carried out well.
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| Image:Boardponies.jpg|what is this I don't even
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| File:MyLittlePwny.jpg|Suffer not the furry to live
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| File:WTF_chart_bronie_sociological_analysis_flowchart_by_broniepologist-d4f95jq.jpg|A brony attempts to rationalize his faggotry. It's bullshit, and if you find yourself agreeing with any of it, you're out of your fucking mind.
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| File:Warhammer 40k pony angry marines HERESY mlp fim by yourou-d3asnso.jpg|<s>Anyone still not convinced the faggots have gone too far?</s> [http://1d4chan.org/images/1/1f/Animated_yiff_furry_marines_1211613516571.gif There are worse abominations.]
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| == See Also ==
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| ;/tg/ Related:
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| * [[Ponyfinder]] - the [[Pathfinder Roleplaying Game|Pathfinder]] splatbook for MLP races and classes
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| * [[Don't Rest Your Hooves]] - the [[Don't Rest Your Head|horror]] of Saturday-morning cartoons
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| * [http://fav.me/d4chl14 Savage World of MLP] - the [[Savage Worlds]] splatbook for MLP
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| * [[Rainbow Warriors]] - A [[Space Marine]] chapter whose colours are disturbingly similar to Rainbow Dash.
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| * [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=80240.0 My Little Dwarf Fortress] - use your hooves to [[Dwarf Fortress|strike the earth!]] Now with 441 different pony hairstyles.
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| * [[Poor Unfortunate Foals]] - A completely homebrewed system for horror roleplaying as fillies and colts lost in the Everfree Forest of the MLP setting.
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| * [http://ponyglue.ytmnd.com/ /tg/'s general outlook on the My Little Pony phenomena can be accurately portrayed thus.]
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| ;Elsewhere
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| * [http://boards.4chan.org/mlp/ 4chan's pony board] - The new dedicated board for ponyfags and is SFW(Most of the time). Has surprisingly copied /tg/'s ability of being immune to trolls.
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| * [http://derpibooru.org/ derpibooru]- Pretty much /mlp/ lite and more pictures and not fully there on the trolling part (most have a "don't like it, filter it" mindset)
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| * [http://broniepologist.deviantart.com/art/Bronie-Sociological-Analysis-Flowchart-267486038 Behold as a Deviantart sperglord completely ruins any fondness you may or may not have for the series]
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| ;Video Review
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| * [http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-review-5658418 Opinionated review of My Little Pony FIM]
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| * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWRPNLrrzSc A fairly accurate depiction of a archetypical brony.]
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