Best pony hands down

The media recently have been covering a series of mutilations within the brony community. They headlined it as a new fad, another set of lines and borders the brony community would be willing to break to express their love of My little pony: Friendship is magic. Interviews with these individuals express their joy and happiness for their predicament as their hands have been shown to have been cleanly chopped off, and by their claims, overnight, healed over to form these supposed "hooves" as the bronies liked to call them.

Of course the media are quick to call these people crazy and deluded, lost in their own world and that every brony in the world should seek help for their affliction. Hasbro got a lot of flack from overly concerned parents that were quick to blame the toy company and it's related franchise. Families and friends of the "victims" have also banded together under an anti-brony flag and have spoken of the suffering the show has caused them. New episodes tried to pop up addressing the issue, various PSAs were released in all media Hasbro could get their hands on, even government propaganda against people looking at things outside of their recommended age range had begun to pop-up in reaction to this social uproar. Every older man and woman who expressed a love of a show for little girls, were not only seen as merely weird now but scary too. The bronies had quickly come from a figure to be ostracized, to a figure and "movement" to be afraid of,

But the involved people, truly involved, knew better, the collective anonymous of /mlp/ knew better. The world might call them crazy but they knew that this was beyond something as easily explained as a few pockets of spaghetti within the fandom. This was not the affliction of autistic ponyfags, gone mad with their love of ponies. And they've seen some shit to know this with certainty.

Bronies knew these people, these loud and proud bronies that would fight to the end for their right to collect toys, show off body pillows and dance terribly to terrible terrible brony music. We all knew these faggots were stupid, that was for certain. But they didn't come off as crazy by any measure of the word, besides utter retardedness.

One of the first signs was this sudden rise in popularity of a certain mint coloured unicorn mare who at this point had fairly fallen into old meme, yet still generally loved. Her inability to sit properly caused a plethora of memedom that made her known as the anthropologist we all know, and interest had spontaneously reignited as if overnight. Threads in /mlp/ became swamped with these Lyra threads. Posts, hundreds, thousands of them every second and everyday to such an extent that /mlp/ ceased to function with its usual business of tulpas, draw threads, humanised art and clop. Any attempts to the contrary of Lyra were hijacked, overwhelmed and very quickly forgotten in the sea of hands and hooves. Everything was Lyra lyra lyra, and thats spread through the bandwagon sites like Equestria daily, down playing it as just another trend within the fandom of my little pony.

Very quickly Lyra was viral once more, and everypony thought it innocent enough.

And then the news reports came. Pictures, videos and photos were posted of these strange Lyra fans. Over and over pictures they would post, thousands of them, never the same one.

Never, the same ones.

"Lyra is best pony hands down." Would be said in every single post, with posts alternating from a picture of Lyra holding and playing with a real pair of severed human hands and then a post of a human being time stamping pictures of their hooves as they clumsily hold the paper signs to their chests. Men and women and even children were in these pictures, all their faces plain to be seen.

In reaction to this overwhelming opposition, anonymous were forced out of their home. The denizens of /mlp/ forced to be refugees with their hated brother ponychan. The ponyfags at the time didn't realise it, but /mlp/, for the first time, knew that that they would find a common enemy in these "Lyrafags."

The ponyfags were generally in the party of blaming this as some sort of orchestrated prank from /mlp/ to further make the fandom impure. To finally extinguish the positive notoriety they'd been working so hard to build. /mlp/ for once didn't take the chance to troll the idiotic claim. Bronies needed to stick together and hopefully they'd weather this storm.

Somehow, it would surely all just die down and go away.

Pretty soon Ponychan was taken too and soon the "survivors" splintered off into smaller communities. Everyday now communities would pop up and then vanish, as they continued to be hijacked by "them."

Like all bronies do, they began to discuss what was going on in whatever way they could. Skype, IRC, all the various ways of communication where nothing is public but to a select few.

With this self imposed segregation, the fandom had now fallen to hard times, rumours and claims were all the facts that could be gathered. Rumours and claims and theories of knowing the people in the pictures were being made all over, apparently. None of these bronies were quite well known to be Lyra fans, in fact the majority were known to be within the ranks of the various mane 6 factions of the ongoing best pony debate. Others being within factions of various OCs and background ponies. Lyra was just another popular pony in a sea of popular pony characters.

As the discussion grew many variations of the same story kept popping up. These particular bronies had been known to last being seen as being quite their autistic selves, causing a shit storm over who best pony was. They were commonly associated with such threads as they fiercely fought for their best pony, in youtube, 4chan, equestria daily, bronysquare, all over the brony community.

And then one day they picked a fight with a user named Lyra Heartstrings. All over the fandom they fought. hundreds of fags of every spectrum of the best pony factions, repeatedly over and over, the phrase "hands down" being repeated between them over and over.

At some point that brony would just bow out of the fight, abruptly, as if his tantrum had been suddenly cut short one night. And then this brony would appear on the news the day after, with his hands missing and smiling and crying tears of joy as he stares at his hooves.

This is a message and warning to you bronies. From all that we've discussed we can only come to a few theorised conclusions and think up a few measures. These are by no means certain to help, but its either that or lose yourself to the madness.

If you see a user named Lyra or Heartstring or Lyra Heart strings, do not respond, no matter how tempting. Don't even draw her attention to you.

Never say "hands down" in a discussion about best ponies.

Sleep with your hands tied to your back and sleep on your back.

Do not open your eyes if you hear anything at night. Ignore it, it was probably the wind.

Do not look at any strange lights. Run away from it and close your eyes.

Do not answer when you are called out at night.

Turn off your computer before you go to sleep.

Never say her name in type or speech.

Sleep until you can't sleep anymore.

Author's Note:

So recently I got some flack for writing a story that was not within the "universe" of my little pony.

So here I'm writing about the fandom. Let;s see if this doesn't get approved for the same reason. Same kinda story and even less reference to the "universe" my little pony.

If you hadn't noticed-Unreliable narrator,

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AnormalUnicornPony

AnormalUnicornPony #1 · May 9th, 2013 · · ·

Mein Gott! Another troll! I must burn my trail so he doesn't see me! My reputation is ruined!!!!

Also a little funny, a bit too serious and dry for my taste though.

CeresBane

CeresBane #2 · May 9th, 2013 · · ·

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only trolling the mods.

I mean seriously... not allowed to write about the fandom? Are you high?

AnormalUnicornPony

AnormalUnicornPony #3 · May 9th, 2013 · · ·

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Yeah... Probably high, maybe a little high on life... or something else... Paint... Retardation... Alcohol.... Pixie sticks.... Ahhh..... Pixie sticks.

I thought it was all right just a little too dry and serious to be really good. Good concept but just a little meh. Sorry man but feedback will help you excel right? Better than not doing your best anyway... Unless that's what you want? Freakin' confused.

Well! Time to go grocery shopping! I have a potluck to go to!

Oh yeah and good luck with the mods!

CeresBane

CeresBane #4 · May 10th, 2013 · · ·

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I know what you mean by dry and serious.

It's impersonal because the narrator is informative and doesn't put much of himself in it.

Traditionally this story should tell like funny face. Where you are a person who meets Lyra heart strings.

But... if I did that I'd lose the fear factor of the mystery of Lyra. Since I'd need to reveal whether Lyra was actually in the real world chopping up hands and driving people crazy or if its some psycho.

Tried to make the scariness, the mystery of it all as people mysteriously post en mass and disturbingly in an organised mass hijacking and spamming of forums and message boards to such a point that normal people can't fight it.

And those that do try to argue or fight, end up joining these people with no hands and hooves.

communication on the internet breaks down in secluded pockets of community, since going on public places on the net would make you a target for "them."

So you think my internet version a zombie horror, not scary? The fact that anything you're told by the narrator is completely from his observations and conjectures. Where the only fact is... he's a person telling you these things and something has been happening out there. that no one with any certainty can explain.

AnormalUnicornPony

AnormalUnicornPony #5 · May 10th, 2013 · · ·

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Hmmm.... I understand.

I think I know what was missing in this story that would have made it more along the lines (at least from my perspective) of what you were going for though. Maybe if you had a person who was seeing these things in the story it would have made the delivery a bit better.

Not to say that hypothetical character should have had a detailed background or even much of a personality. Personally I think that this level of serious delivery with a character that people could try and think of as themselves (letting their minds fill the gaps and immerse themselves in the story) the guy seeing this spookiness and well losing it in the end.

Reading the story (NO offense) it came off like a good idea for a short video without that anchor to let the reader feel scared that it was they that had their wrists on the line. Kind of like the book world war Z. The book came off as so detached that it was more fun than a 'scared' fun when I read it at least.

Good concept though.

sweeT2010Tooth

sweeT2010Tooth #6 · May 10th, 2013 · 1 · ·

2554181 I actually like the informative writing style. The broader discussion of the topic - as opposed to what happened to a single person - gives the reader subtle hints that the "Lyrafags" can attack anyone. It gives off the same vibe as any creepypasta I've ever read. So, "hands down" this is a pretty good read...oh, wait maybe I should've said something else. Oh, well what's the worse that can hap--

Tnte89

Tnte89 #7 · May 10th, 2013 · · ·

I am terrified its late I'm half asleep I just read a creepy story and I'm hearing creaking noises through out my house. They just started when I finished the story and I swear I heard something scratch my window. God save my soul I'm terrified! I am not kidding!

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