As the holidays are coming up, I've been considering telling my folks about my love of ponies and I need your recommendations on how to go about this! I certainly shouldn't sit them down and treat it as a serious matter, which it really isn't, but if I were to approach it on the opposite side of the spectrum and be careless, then they'd probably think I'm being sarcastic! For a bit of context, I'm a pretty young guy. I highly doubt they'll see the interest as odd or peculiar. Regardless... I need YOUR help, gentlemen!
>>43710604Don't.
>>43710604Anon, it's been 15 years. Just tell your folks you have someone special in your life and when they ask, pull up a low res screencap of your waifu.
>>43710616But like... what am I gonna do when I buy a plush of my waifu? Just avoid all confrontation about it?
>>43710604I don't understand people who talk about this subject as if they're coming out as gay or something. Don't be fucking weird about it and no one else will be either. It's not a big deal unless you make it one. Bring it up when it fits in a conversation if you want, otherwise it really doesn't matter.
I just told my dad outright. He told me, verbatim "I should've taken you hunting more often, son." but he doesn't really actually care all that much. I'd just bring it up casually.
>>43710623Yeah. That works. This one's at the top of my list.
>>43710604This is probably fake, but on the off chance it isnt, dont.No matter what you think or feel on this, understand you are intellectually and emotionally compromised on this matter. Consider-what if anything do I or they stand to gain from knowing the intimacy of my hobby/strange obsession-Is that of equal or greater value to my relationship with themIf the above considerations return to you as anything other than no, you are in error. If your love of mares is so great you cannot help but tell someone you know, tell a stranger first, and see the reaction. Judge and understand from that reaction. Then consider that unless you hate your parents, you must stand to lose more than you possibly gain by transmuting your relationship with your parents into whatever reaction this stranger had. Singular exception, if you and your folks are already on the rocks, things cant get any worse, do it anyway fuck it.
>>43710620If someone asks you, you say 'yeah I think the show's fun' and then leave it at that. If your plush has socks and fuck me eyes then things may be more complicated but I'll leave that up to you.
>>43710604>they'd probably think I'm being sarcasticWhat the fuck, how is that supposed to work? Sounds like a super severe case of resting bitch personality.
>>43710638I'm not good at predicting the thoughts and emotions of another party.
>>43710633Now how do I brush off my pony waifu LS with lingerie and an oft used pocket?
>>43710649That's gonna be a much harder conversation and I'm not ready to help you with that one.
>>43710633Now on the matter of how vulgar the plush is... it could go either way. In the best world-- it's what you described.
>>43710623I'm not sure, but I feel like I remember bronies back in the day, "coming out of the closet/stable" or some dumb shit like that. Because it was embarrassing to admit you enjoy a child's show.Anyway, I don't think people really care, unless you make it your personality or you admit you masturbate to cartoon ponies. But bringing it up in conversation unprompted is going to be weird anyway.
>>43710662See... I'm not entirely sure if I should tell them the more intimate parts of this obsession. I could be honest, sure, but... like... that's embarrassing.
>>43710665Yeah... I wouldn't recommend that.
>>43710632If the mere knowledge of an unusual hobby is enough to compromise a relationship, the relationship never had any real value in the first place. Personally, I wouldn't want to associate with anyone who's so delicate, so using it as a shit test is a win/win.
>>43710665You definitely shouldn't. Imagine your parents telling you about what they fap to.
>>43710673Fair.
>>43710673>>43710678Yeah, I mean your father probably likes to choke himself while masturbating, and your mom probably fantasizing taking it up the ass from black men. I wouldn't want to hear about that shit either.
>>43710656Okay, an actual sex plush is another story and your folks don't need to know about that, nor any of your other sexual preferences. It will never be relevant unless you live in Alabama.
>>43710673They're going to lie and say they fap to eachother. Still weird, but that's the sort of lying parents do to kids, regardless of age, because they don't want to deal with the fallout of their kids finding out Mommy and Daddy are only still together out of convenience
>>43710685Your parents stayed together for your convenience? Yeesh that must've sucked.
>>43710682I wasn't considering telling them I fuck horses and would buy a plush if it meant I got to do it to my waifu. Like I said-- in a perfect world... yes.
>>43710620I already have a hundred sonic plushies so having a few ponies is no big deal
>>43710630tell him he still could.
>>43710604Did you go find a reddit post from like 14 years ago just to make this thread?
>>43710698I mean... fair. Yeah. Also I don't have a credit card.
>setup a family party/get-together>make a big speech about snowpity and how you're going to equestria in the afterlife>also pass around pictures you commissioned of your family members having sex with poniesIf you're gonna do it, do it to the max.
>>43710604You're right not to worry about "coming out of the stable" or some such bullshit. That was a thing for the 2012 and 2013 bronies back when no normie knew how much worse other subcultures could get, and even for them it was probably the wrong approach. Honestly, you should probably not even bring it up proactively. Just wait until it comes up naturally, and then treat it as simply another cool cartoon/fandom you happen to like. Until then, focus on not actively hiding your love of ponies, and don't be afraid of your family stumbling across it. If you're confident and cool about it, normies will go along with anything. >>43710623Like >>43710662 says, people used to be weird about it because the internet hadn't yet consumed all levels of society, and "adult man likes little girl cartoon" was the strangest and most offensive thing the average person had heard in six months. It was like code for being gay or a pedophile or both, back when being gay was still universally mocked.
>>43710662>bringing it up in conversation unprompted is going to be weird anyway.This is probably the biggest deciding factor to do with how it's perceived. I was able to bring it up naturally with my family thanks to it already being relevant and tied to some other hobbies, and them asking most of the questions. "Don't 'make it your personality'" is probably solid advice honestly. Mentioning the fandom you're in passively is 99% of the time gonna be fine. defining yourself with it is making it a bigger deal. There's a difference in the same way as between "playing games" and "being a gamer".
Anon, it's been 15 years. Just tell your folks you have someone special in your life and when they ask, pull up a low res screencap of your kid.
>>43710604Why do some of you act like liking ponies is like coming out of the closet for being gay.>>43710649ohh... 100% hide it and say a friend sent it to you as a joke and you forgot about it if they see it. Not like under your bed either somewhere they would never EVER find it. Why would this be different than any other sex toy? Do you tell your parents when you buy a dildo?
>>43710604Don't do this.
>>43710719Maybe put some shorts on it too so they don't see the pocket. Like they wouldn't be weird and strip it right? haha..
>>43710620Don't do this either.
>>43710623Don't hear what this retard is saying.
>>43710722In fact, leave the fandom. Find a nice girl. Settle down, have a few kids, and die like a responsible adult.
>>43710727That's not me, don't hear this guy
>>43710729This is me, listen closely
>>43710744They're fillies you pedo.I'd plap them too though.
>>43710755I rescind that comment. I never made that comment. Anyone who tells you that comment existed is gaslighting you.
>>43710604I've been wondering what I'd do if my interest in this fandom ever came out as well. I feel like the best strat is to just play it casually, like other anons have suggested. The key thing to keep in mind is to just be optical. If you are well kempt and have your life decently put together, then you become a compelling representative for your interests/beliefs. If you're unattractive, dirty, or look like you just walked out of one of those brony cringe compilations on youtube, then you're just bringing negative associations to what you're interested in and people are going to scrutinize you more heavily.If you're spewing to normies, then what does it even matter? It might as well be any other autistic interest/hobby that they would never interact with nor understand anyway.
>>43710724>ponies presenting for the human viewer like thisponies were made for humans
>>43710708Yeah, adults liking children show's isn't that crazy anymore. I don't know what it was like 15 years ago, but I know plenty of people that enjoy watching children shows. The difference is that they aren't involved in a 4chan board dedicated to it, like us freaks. But we don't need to tell our family about it at Thanksgiving either.
>>43710761Based!
When bronies were a pretty novel concept, I was at a dinner with family and ... I forget how it came up, but I'm just like that show is cute, or i like some of the cute shows now, they're not as mindless as 'girl stuff' used to be,and my sister, rude and thoughtless alpha bitch that she is, was like 'are you a brony' point blank. what if I was embarrassed about it? In any case, I wasn't, i'm like "my character is a yak, thank you very much" and she seemed mollified. like okay, at least you're not being a sparkly small horse
>>43710706I did this and now my whole family loves ponies!
>>43710706don't forget to print out an anon in equestria story and have everyone taking turns reading paragraphs
>>43710827"my character is a creature"Why didn't you just dive under the table and start sucking cocks right then and there?
>>43710849Because his father left before he was born. You'd have known that if you picked up on the subtext.
>>43710849that is behavior unbecoming of a yak.this was also before Yakyakistan was introduced into the show. I had a whole fuckin setting I made up for em, they were supposed to represent kinda cool-tempered introverts who stay up in their snowy mountain cabins most of the time, and the happy colorful ponies come in to warm up their lives a little (but the ponies are also cold, so we get to see them in cute little coats and shit)
>>43710879That is a way better portrayal and probably would have been very enjoyable if it had been in the actual show. I like your headcanon.
>>43710886thanks you, I was always kind of proud of it and wish it had taken off in the fandom, but.. I was happy we got yaks at all, I guess. It was worth it for Yona.
>>43710761It's ok anon, I also plap fillies.
>>43710620
>>43710879>Random autist came up with a better version of the yaks than actual professional writersI still cannot wrap my head around why they decided to make them the most unlikeable shitheads imaginable in the actual show.
>>43710892fillies need to be plapped. They have needs.
>>43710620do you have a plushie shelf? if not, that looks a bit...>>43710908they're not THAT bad, but the idea was "tolerate fucked up stupid cultures" which is not a shock from the people who gave us Rarity.They're basically a knockoff of the Odiferans from the Aladdin series. When you're told "write a socially conscious episode for our tv show that once felt like it could be Sailor Moon", obviously your creativity goes in the toilet and you just crib from older shows. you'd do the same in their place.
>>43710761Don't worry, mlp desu already archived it.
>>43710908>>43710933also, actually, if I recall, there was a deeper aspect to their message, which was "if, like, Chinese people come to your country (France), don't worry about trying to make Chinese food for them and do everything Chinesey. They came to France to try French shit"which is actually a very anti-PC message, and I liked that part.
>>43710726>Sharty memeBegone tourist
