Aug
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Where are they now? · 10:22pm Aug 7th, 2018
I don't know how you feel about Horse News, but I still follow 'em. :B
They've started a series of legit fandom journalism articles, investigating where big-name, old-school fandom figures have gotten to in the intervening years. I'm talking people like Alex S and PinkiePieSwear... though their wanted list includes ROBCakeran, so I'm not too sure what their methodology is like, there. c.c
But their first installment was about a guy who wrote an MLP resume, and it turned out to be quite interesting. The second is about MadMax, who they were unable to turn up anything on. :(
Anyway, I just thought this was neat, and people might want to check it out. It seems like they have leads on quite a lot of people!
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The funny thing about our fandom is that a lot of the friendships made still persist outside of the fandom or once someone has 'left'. We've had a number of people we've reached out to from the Barcast simply not want to go back to pony world, rather than anything else. It's an interesting web of lines.
I've always liked Horse News.
Sad Sigh...
Eh. I never bothered with them, and they never bothered with me, so the disinterest has always been mutual :P
Still is kind of amusing someone suggested Rob for that list.
Edit: I think,,, and I might be wrong... but I seem to remember Rob mentioning he was friends with several people from there before he came back to the writer side, so maybe that's why?
The problem with Horse News isn't the articles, it's the comments. They have transphobia and worse in every comment thread and the management leaves it up, even when it targets specific individuals.
>not having the domain horsene.ws
Are you even trying :| :| :|||||||||||
Did anyone ever trace the word alicorn as a reference to winged unicorns back further than Piers Anthony? They should research that. I know that's were I got it from.
4916278 Eeyup. And let's be honest 99% of the time it's targeting one specific individual.
MadMax is a sad story, like a lot of those big names that vanished for no reason. I'm interested in how much they bother Alex S. He always struck me as one of those who got ashamed of their pony work for what ever reason.
The banner pretty is pretty much the site's atmosphere in a nutshell. A bunch of 4Chan overlap, excessive bigotry left in the comments, and then there was that thing where they lynched KP over stuff that, it turned out, wasn't actually her fault.
They should also make a "Black List" of people. This list would include people who have made some very "questionable" stuff during their time in the fanbase both active and in-active just so others can avoid them and not waste time and effort on them.
I find it weird that Rob is on there but TheDescendant and AbsoluteAnonymous aren't. I always forget how much people don't know/care about fanfic. (Not being superior there. Fimfic is just its own little world.)
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That would end in tears, especially if done by Horse News. Everyone has a different definition of "questionable".
I have only ever had one interaction with Horse News. The first Bronycon I went to, I was on the Equestria Daily panel. A couple of guys who later turned out to be Horse News people asked a somewhat pointed question to try to get us to badmouth their site, but whoever answered the question just gave diplomatic answer, something like there's enough space in the fandom for plenty of reporting. Then those two guys tracked me down after the panel and said they were happy with the answer, and for some reason wanted me to sign their business card. I don't get it.
I mostly only ever see them if I happen to google "#savetree". :V
Anyway, I'll one up you on the list (which in fairness as they say is just a list of requests): DigiBro is on it. DigiBro, not DigiBrony.
Disappointed I’m not on the list.
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You are correct, and they are would be wonderful people for them to look into, and now I'm sad. :(
I would like to see them try to track down The Rogue Wolf, the guy who wrote Misunderstandings. It's a shame we'll never get any closure beyond that last chapter.
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We know where you are. Anyone who goes to a con sees you at least a half a dozen times.
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Simultaneously
I’m everywhere.
I’m everyone.
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#IAmAlsoBiscuit
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Digi at least dropped out from the fandom. If you don't follow the anime community, it is reasonable to have no idea where he is. Rob is still very much active in MLP, and never really dropped off the map.
I'd love to know how NotACleverPony's doing. Glad to see I'm not the only one who remembers Kreühn! I mentioned him in a chat, but nobody seemed to know who he was. Was TommyXe not as big a name as I'd remembered?
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I happen to just be finishing Chris Lavers' excellent 2009 (nonfiction) book The Natural History of Unicorns. On page 94, he wrote: "The unicorn's most prominent feature is the horn on its head. This cranial spike is usually called alicorn by modern writers, a term popularized by Odell Shepard to avoid, in his words, the repeated cacophany of phrases such as horn of the unicorn, unicorn horn, unicorns' horns, the substance of which unicorns' horns are made, and so on. Alicorns are thus unicorns' horns, an alicorn is a unicorn's horn, and alicorn is the material of which a unicorn's horn is composed. The term is based on the old Italian word alicorno, which seems to have been born of three parents: Arabic (al for the), French-Romance (li for the), and Latin (cornus for horn)."
The reference is to Odell Shepard, The Lore of the Unicorn, London 1930.
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My Little Pony: Blacklisting is Magic
As always, ask yourself: What would Pinkie Pie do?
The answer is not, "Make a blacklist."
It seems like an easy solution when you see obvious trollposts about "Purple Tranny", but the problem is that people disagree about what's obvious. Somebody's going to think it's obvious that someone criticizing the Affordable Care Act should be blacklisted.
Also, the people who volunteered to construct a blacklist would probably be the very worst people to construct a blacklist.
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I knew about the substance part, didn't know the etymology or that it also meant the horn itself. Cool.
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Gods. I miss AA. She was a shining light of bestshipping and I really wish she were still around.
This fandom was fairly unique back in the day. Fanfic was given equal time on the only real persistent website in the fandom. I mean, the actual show staff never touched it (unlike art, videos, etc,) but it wasn't just relegated to FFN. Which is amazing as far as I'm concerned. I do wish more people were willing to give it a chance. 90% of everything is shit, but there is (or were) a lot of people writing for this fandom. And even if you don't believe talented individuals would bother, the infinite monkey effect would have to produce some good stuff.
I'll stop. Ranting to the choir does no one any good.