And here's the official site to prove it! It's going to be over the weekend of 22-23 October at the Royal Armouries Museum -- not a bad venue considering the "Heroes and Villains" theme! Leeds is not really the ideal location for me as it's rather a long way and so quite expensive on the train, and central Leeds doesn't have the cheapest hotels in the world, but I'll certainly go if I can. I do feel for southerners, who haven't had a pony con of any kind

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And so very few, if any, updates here until I get back. I'll be travelling home on Monday afternoon, but I don't know whether I'll be posting much until Tuesday. Looking forward to this!

I'll keep this fairly short, as I have a much longer report (with photos) on Louder Yay. If you're interested, you can read it here: part 1 | part 2. Suffice to say that I loved it. Although it wasn't as slick or star-studded as the big American cons (or BUCK, come to that), it had a wonderful, inclusive

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Here's an interesting article on all things unicorn in the Observer: Why the unicorn has become the emblem for our times.

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Well, actually I'm linking to my blog reports, since I'm too lazy to type up another lot here. The actual convention ran on Saturday and Sunday, but I've included stuff about the days either side as well, as parts of it are related. UK PonyCon itself was extremely enjoyable -- I'd rank it outright top of the five MLP cons I've attended. Story tagged because for some bizarre reason it became a minor convention meme and my friends wouldn't shut up about custard for the entire

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The train is literally driving somewhere around 30 miles per hour. But, look at the bright side: this breakneck ride gives me plenty of time to write my blog.

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In my last blog, I briefly mentioned that it had struck me how alien some of the BronyCon experience was to me in the UK. A couple of people said they'd be interested to see me expand on that, so here goes! Comments, quibbles, questions etc very welcome.

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If you're in, or can get to, the UK in October and would like to attend the world's second longest running MLP convention* then you still can! This year's iteration, which will be in Bristol, has expanded capacity and released Wave 2 tickets. More on how to get them after the break.

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As it says, this year's UK PonyCon is now entirely out of tickets. With an attendance estimated at around 800, this will be the largest convention in UKPC's 14-iteration history, yet they have still managed to sell out for the third year running. I am looking forward immensely to going to Bristol for this. Maybe I'll see some of you there in October!

The convention has now announced that it will be in Nottingham Convention Centre on 13/14 October. That's about 80 miles from me and a straightforward, if rather slow, train journey. I've been to the last four UK PonyCons and I thought last year's was the best of the lot, so if I can scrape the £££ together I'll be going. That's as far as my planning can go at this stage, however.

I'm too tired to say anything much right now, but my highlight may well have been EileMonty's singing. Here's her set list:

1. My Funny Valentine
2. Pinkie's Brew
3. The Moon Rises
4. Diamonds are Forever
5. Snowdrop's Lullaby
6. Everytime We Touch
7. Dark Horse
8. Jump Up, Super Star!
9. The Magic Inside
10. I am Octavia
11. Die in a Fire
12. Picture Perfect Pony
13. I'm Nerdy!

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I'll be posting these first on my Louder Yay blog, so that's the place to look if you want to read them as soon as I publish them. But I thought I'd copy the blogs over here for the benefit of anyone who's interested but prefers to stick to Fimfiction. Expect a lag of between a few hours and a couple of days before they appear here. If you've already read this on Louder Yay, it's exactly the same here; no need to read twice!

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I was at UK PonyCon over the weekend. A real live MLP convention. And you know what? It was fabulous. (You can read that in a Rarity or Steven Magnet voice if you want!) Quite honestly the happiest weekend I can remember for a very, very long time. So to UKPC falls the honour of being the first in-person con of the G5 era, having previously been the final convention of the FiM era.* The convention's multi-generational setup made absorbing the new gen very easy, and it's

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I'll post these first on my Louder Yay blog so that's the place to look if you want to read them as soon as I publish them. But I thought I'd copy the blogs over here for the benefit of anyone who's interested but prefers to stick to Fimfiction. Expect a lag of between a few hours and a couple of days before they appear here. If you've already read this on Louder Yay, it's exactly the same here; no need to read twice!

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A quick note on the first three tragedies. Firstly, it was the working classes who voted for us to leave because they were economically disregarded, and it is they who will suffer the most in the short term. They have merely swapped one distant and unreachable elite for another.

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UK Ponycon 2015 was awesome! I only got to go on the Saturday, but I had an absolute blast, met some very cool people, and even got a little bit of merch (despite telling myself I was on a budget!) As always, I thought I'd do a con write-up, so here ya go!

Ponycon covers all generations of MLP, from G4 (our gen) all the way back to G1. I was kinda worried that there wouldn't be a whole lot of Friendship is Magic stuff/people, but I was pleasantly surprised!

Merchandise

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You know how Kelly Sheridan had to pull out? Well, UK PonyCon has found a replacement. Who? Only Andrea Libman, that's who. Sorry, can't say any more, brain has turned to wibble.

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