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Anonymous
#1103027
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.
MagicMarker
#1104832
4 months ago
Hey Purple Tinker. Where's that money? :3
Monkey_Zombie
#1105063
4 months ago
@ #1103027

If what your saying is true then why do you have her defend her position.

In my experience Transgender individuals tend to be very spiteful and Callous people. So unless I see some facts that show me otherwise, (instead of your opinion) I'm going to believe the majority here.
PurpleTinker
#1113393
4 months ago
Hi Winter Heart. What money? Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, the money I need to use to pay the TAX BILL for the con income. Right. THAT money.

Also, kicked out of every fandom? Let's test that theory.

Furry fandom: Nope, still active on several MUCKs.
Trek fandom: Nope, attended the 45th anniversary Star Trek con just this past summer, chatted with George Takei about gay marriage rights.

And that's pretty much it.

Taking advantage of bronies? You do know that I LOST money on the convention, right? :3
Anonymous
#1139745
4 months ago
@Anonymous

Hi Purple Tinker! You know, when you write a self praising essay, make it a bit less obvious that it's you writing it...
PurpleTinker
#1156672
3 months ago
I don't post anonymously, Anon. The "self" praising essay was written by someone else.
Anonymous
#1170429
3 months ago
@PurpleTinker

So that's why on most of these images, an "anon" posts the same copypasta praising you, and then you comment on it to try and reinforce it within a short span of time?

Here's examples, sometimes you're even the very next comment...

http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/144225
http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/144241
http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/144237
http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/144236
http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/144235
http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/144230
http://www.ponibooru.org/post/view/144219
PurpleTinker
#1180962
3 months ago
It's not me. Ask a site admin to validate this. That's about all I can say.
PurpleTinker
#1198788
3 months ago
Highly detailed rumour control post, with craptons of evidence: http://purpletinker.deviantart.com/journal/Rumour-control-292821513
Anonymous
#1204297
3 months ago
Can't everyone just fucking get along?..