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| MaroonBunyip #1101936 4 months ago |
I predict a lot of these uploaded in the near future |
| Anonymous #1102005 4 months ago |
Good call. I wonder if the poster is a staff member or an attendee? |
| HeartmendSoar #1102066 4 months ago |
Wow, really? I never doubted that Lauren and John will be there. I think Purple Tinker was trying to arrange more voice actors (I do recall seeing on Twitter that PT was asking Tara for info). I wouldn't doubt PT was trying to other folks, too.
This is just incredibly childish. |
| HeartmendSoar #1102072 4 months ago |
That said...
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| Anonymous #1102948 4 months ago |
inb4 this turns nasty in June and a riot ensues |
| Anonymous #1103028 4 months ago |
99% of what's being said against Purple Tinker in these threads is:
She's transgender [which is hateful and irrelevant] She's a thief [which is ridiculously untrue] 99% of that thread is tranny, tranny, tranny, thief. For those who don't know: Purple Tinker ran BroNYCon. It quickly became the top convention for this fandom and in some ways became a victim of its own success, as people reported being turned away at the January con if they hadn't RSVPed in advance. Purple Tinker put a ton of her own money into the con and worked extremely hard for many months. Apart from Sethisto, no one worked harder than Tinker for this fandom. She worked hard to a fault, trying to be everything to everyone. Anyone who ever attended a BroNYCon or a Brony NYC meetup benefitted from her hard work and friendship and there are thousands of comments at the meetups groups to this effect. Eventually, things became too stressful for her and she collapsed in a catatonic state during the January Con. The BroNYCon staff had already felt that her leadership was seriously slipping and that she'd been short with them, and they decided to banish her to the moon, an action which gave them no joy as most of them still considered her a friend. Tinker was angry and heartbroken, and there was a lot of stress and anger all round. Running a con this size is very difficult. The BroNYCon staff are wonderful people who worked extremely hard and worked without sleep. I have no doubt that BroNYCon is in the best possible hands now. But Tinker was among the best of them, and this fandom owes her a debt, not just for BroNYCon but for her many other works. She opened up her home, her bank account, and her life to us and deserves a lot of thanks. I attended a few BroNYCons and a few monthly meetups. I was never part of staff, but I got to meet everyone on the staff and consider them all friends. The drama is a shame. Tinker is not an undramatic person, but neither is Rarity and we all still like her. The people spreading lies about Tinker and writing "tranny tranny tranny thief" all over 4chan are the worst kinds of fans, the sort of hateful people I thought this fandom was above. A similar hatred came out with Yamino, who is also a transgender pony fan. I knew Yamino from the Homestuck fandom as being a good artist who made a weird comic. I certainly disagree with her that Derpy is offensive, but she's entitled to her opinion. Certain people thought otherwise, and suddenly it was all Yamino's fault that Derpy was being reedited. A huge amount of hatred came out, elevating Yamino as if she were running an entire movement. This is bullying of a transgender person, just old-fashioned bullying and bigotry. I'm a pretty normal, levelheaded straight male. I don't sit still for racism or sexism and I'm not gonna sit still for this. Love and tolerate? Unless you're transgender, then we bully you to death … That's not acceptable. |
| Anonymous #1103873 4 months ago |
^
Correlation is not causation. The hate those two got wasn't because they were trans, but because people, for whatever reason, disagreed with their actions. I'm not deeply invested in the politics of this fandom so I have no opinion, but let's not jump to nasty conclusions like transphobia so quickly. |
| PurpleTinker #1113400 4 months ago |
Bzzzzzt, wrong. This pic is exactly backwards. FIRST, Lauren and John said they'd attend. THEN, Hasbro said "hang on guise let us figure out a policy for con appearances" (see also: http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/02/important-message-to-community-from.html ). They took a bunch of time to set up their policy, then they approved everyone. Problem? |
| PurpleTinker #1198789 3 months ago |
Highly detailed rumour control post, with craptons of evidence: http://purpletinker.deviantart.com/journal/Rumour-control-292821513 |