I Met a Pony Fan! But I Think I Scared Him

[josiekat]

The closest I come to is I was talking with my cousin's wife over facebook. We were talking about her daughter's upcoming 3rd birthday. She was commenting on my FiM pics in my pony album, and saying which playsets she was getting for Violet. We were talking about ponies, and she said her and her husband were definitely bronies. It made me chuckle. It's nice to know the pony love runs in the family.

[SwordPony]

I meet a pony person at TRU one time and they seemed like they was disgusted to find that there was another pony person in there area. I don't live close to TRU but I was so excited to find another pony person that was kinda near me. Then it made me really sad cause the looks she was giving me. I felt so down. Like I had done something wrong. 

I see by your info that you and I both live in the same state. I also encountered someone locally who acted like meeting another pony fan was offensive to her. If we live near each other, maybe we ran into the same angry person!

Some newer pony fans seem to view pony fandom as some kind of competition, like there's not enough room for all of us.  This girl acted like she was superior to me/everyone in her knowledge of pony fan-ness *LOL*, but she had no clue what I was talking about when I brought up my favourite G1s. (She was born in the 90s.) Haha, I wanted to put my nose in the air like she was doing and inform her, "Child, I was collecting ponies before you were born!" (I put it more politely, though. I'm not interested in pony fandom competition.)

My TRU was outta state. I'd love to run into nice pony fans. It made me wonder for a little while if I should even collect anymore. I'm downsizing alot but I still love my ponies. And I didn't wanna let meeting one nasty collector throw me off my love of ponies.

[Bellevi]

I met a five year old and her dad at Goodwill today that were FIM fans.  The five year old had a pinkie pie backpack and she told me she had 5 ponies.  I told the dad I had 300-400 and I think I scared him because he was like--I hope she doesn't get that many. LOL.

Aw, how cute! Maybe she's a collector in the making.

On the subject of physical contact from strangers at cons, I think that a lot of the perpetrators think it's okay because, for a very short period of time, they think that everyone there is their specific nerd culture brethren. Not that it excuses picking up and running off with a woman because really, do they really not know what the first thing in most people's minds would be? I would be terrified!


@Swordpony: Maybe she thought that it meant less ponies for her. Nothin' wrong with a little healthy competition!

[RedheadedBeauty]

Wait I'm confused does 'brony' mean male collector or fan on the FIM line?

[Opalescence]

Wait I'm confused does 'brony' mean male collector or fan on the FIM line?

mostly just the latter. Unless the toys are fanmade, those are acceptable.

[RedheadedBeauty]

Thank you I couldn't figure it out since most keep posting brony when saying something about a male collector.