squeedge:

anjila:

Voting has begun at the WeLoveFine MLP shirt design contest! Above are my submissions, and below are the links for each voting page:

DROP THA BASS | Graffiti P0N-3 | Made In The 80’s | 20 PAACENTO | APPLE GET

If you like a design enough, I would certainly love it if you took the time to vote for it! I appreciate any and all support <3 thank you!

I violently need that Applejack shirt. But wow, these are all fantastic. Y’ALL SHOULD GO VOTE. 

These are all really nice… I think Graffiti DJ-Pon-3 is my fav!

fromonesurvivortoanother:

privileged people win again, proving that death and rape threats are totally a-ok to get what you want. and of course having a petition totally undercuts any real arguments that lots of disabled people have put forward, because we’re just “too sensitive” and we’re just “a few trolls” and this is all one big popularity contest— because running a popularity contest is of course going to turn out well for a minority group, right?

Hasbro started removing Derpy-related things, but now they are back after a loud majority group who doesn’t give a shit proved that ableism is economically viable. Yup! Making fun of disabled people— it pays in gold bars.

at this point i’m pretty sick of MLP and anything associated with it. it’s disappointing seeing all of these fans of a show about love and acceptance basically turn around completely ignore the feelings of a ton of people.

i don’t know if i’m done with MLP forever, but right now I don’t want to hear about it. at all.

A perfect summary of how I feel about this whole situation.

fromonesurvivortoanother:

shadowofthesun:

From One Survivor to Another: There is this child part of me that is really hurting right now.

fromonesurvivortoanother:

MLP was a part of my healing. It was about going back to this child that never got to express themselves and letting her escape. It was about surviving how I wanted to. I wouldn’t have stuck with this mess for so long if it didn’t mean something to me.

Survivors don’t have a lot to begin with….

[Trigger Warning: Ableism, bullying, apologists, unsafe spaces]

Reblogging as a reminder to myself and others. MLP has been a big part of my healing as well. I was more than skeptical about MLP:FIM to begin with, with good reason. I ended up caving when a fellow survivor told me how healing and wonderful the show was for her. I was watching the first season a week later. Although some episodes rubbed me the wrong way, overall I could see how important it was for survivors and how it gave them safety.

I was waiting for season two to finish before watching it so I could have a special MLP day or something when I heard about the Ditzy Doo drama (see how much this pisses me off? I refuse to even call her the other name).

I know people haven’t listened and I doubt they will change their mind but I’m just going to say this in one last hope that somebody will get it. Being a safe space for survivors is NOT about you or what you think is survivors or people affected by the issue being too sensitive. Taking one survivor’s opinion over another’s just because it reinforces what you want to believe is wrong and selfish. If you’re another survivor insulting someone who takes offense to this, shame on you, you should fucking know better. As for the MLP:FIM community as a whole, congratulations on quickly giving yourself the reputation of some of the most dreaded fandoms on the internet. I hope you’re happy for being hypocrites and not getting the original intent of the show you worship blindly.

And if you still think this isn’t a fucking big deal? Fuck you. I finally watched that clip that caused this whole thing (which I’d been avoiding out of dread) and I immediately had flashbacks of people insulting and bullying my BABY BROTHER for his learning disabilities or them berating him on being useless when he was only trying to help. Because of that, he refused to talk to anyone or do anything for years. I watched that damn clip with tears streaming down my face, hating rainbow dash and the other ponies. That clip pretty much ruined MLP:FIM for me. And anyone who wants to tell me I’m wrong, overreacting, or too sensitive? FUCK YOU.

I had to get that out before I exploded…

thank you for this.

Worth a read.

You mean the one I allegedly created and promoted in a secret agenda to destroy MLP fandom from the inside, justifying the massive hate crusade and smear campaign against me?

I have never seen such a petition, nor do I have any reason to believe such a petition ever existed.

I just want to clarify that, since a lot of lies and accusations are floating around regarding my alleged involvement:  It’s all BS.  I haven’t mentioned that character in months, much less do I have the power to singlehandedly manipulate a massive international corporation like Hasbro.  (Oh, if only.)

This is the last post I’ll be making on the subject.

At first I was going to make Fleur Delacour be the Harry Potter addition for this snotty girls photoset, but then I was like… no. It’s Draco.

rosalarian:

gailsimone:

all-that-matters-is-the-plan:

gailsimone:

gailsimone:

It’s interesting how toys that are identified as made for girls (no matter how fondly most girls remember them) are the subject of scorn forever as we become adults, while toys for boys are fetishized forever and made into 100 million dollar films.

What a weird little way to…

I LIKED the Easy Bake Oven!

Really, it was a lot of fun. Sure, there’s a gender stereotype, but all I remember is when I used it, the boys WERE TOTALLY JEALOUS BUT COULDN’T ADMIT IT.

Which is also messed up. :)

I was jealous. I’ll admit it. Brownies I could make on my own time in my own tiny oven sounds like a party. PLUS IT WAS SO SIMPLE.

They were, and LIGHT BULB TREATS ARE DELICIOUS!

I am reblogging because someone mentioned Barbie movies, etc.

I’m sorry, Barbie proves my argument. Barbie is one of the most successful pop products of ALL TIME. And aside from her appearances in Toy Story, she has appeared in mostly direct-to-video inexpensive little films, a few comics, and almost nothing else, AND all those things were aimed directly at kids.

Because girl things are for girls.

While boys’ action dolls are 100 million dollar films, terrible films, that are full of cursing and other things almost intended to EXCLUDE kids.

Just looking at another angle, maybe women are encouraged to leave their childhood toys in childhood and guys are allowed to keep their nostalgia? I mean, if the “boy toy” films are excluding the current generation of kids and purposely aiming at the boys of ten years ago, which it seems very clear they are. Though I’m sure part of that comes from “boy toys were cool and worth being nostalgic over, while girl toys were dumb and forgettable.”

 It’s interesting to read this argument in light of the recent “My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic” bonanza where it seems a vast majority of the fans (at least online) are 20-something males.  I don’t think anyone saw that coming, and it’s already started to affect how Hasbro advertises. (Making parody ads based on Mac app commercials and adult films like “Bridesmaids,” for example.)  

I’ve read some discussion about why there seem to be more males in the fandom, and it might be because a lot of girls my age remember the old MLP, and are embarrassed by it.  But I’m not totally convinced by that, because a lot of guys have to get over what is probably greater social stigma to openly admit they like a show originally targeted at little girls.

I wonder if the brony movement will spark some changes in how “girl toys” are viewed and rebranded to older generations, not to mention a reconsideration of the line Westerners draw between “female” and “male” appropriate toys/series.

LEAVE SCOOTALOO ALONE

<—— those are my two Marceline minecraft skins, there’s regular marcy (pictured above) and “Mareceline” for wandering Ponyville in the Brohoof server.

Edit: While I’m at it, I’ll repost the PB ones too:

I had a little too much fun with this…  Now imagining some amazing class for kids where ponies are used to teach them about different sexualities and gender fluidity/identity.

Not a pony, but I really couldn’t decide what pony race I would be (or my cutie mark.)