Greetings, Readers! My name is Brandon, but all my friends call me Brando. Basically, I'm a brony, have been since November of 2013, I was just 15 years old then. I was shocked, no, really, I was SHOCKED when I discovered how good MLP was. I spent my whole life up until then thinking My Little Pony was just some overly-feminine girly shit, and don't get me wrong, I'm actually a very feminine guy and I'm comfortable in my femininity, but when something is just mind-numbingly shallow I don't care for it. For instance, I'm a massive Jem fan, (original Jem cartoon, not movie reboot), but I never liked Bratz or Barbie, and those latter two are the type of show I expected MLP to be. However, I was wrong, and I'm so happy I was.
The first piece of Gen-4 MLP I ever watched was the first Equestria Girls, I fell in love with it immediately. Which is ironic because most Bronies I've met don't actually like EG, but I do, I like it BETTER than Friendship is Magic. Yeah, I'm in the minority opinion of a fandom that most people outside the fandom seem to hate, that basically sums up my whole life. (I'm also a Sonic Fan! I could make a top ten list out of all the minority opinions I have there.) Anyway, before I watched MLP for the first time I was vaguely aware of Bronies, in that I knew there were plenty of grown-ass men who liked My Little Pony yet also loved violent M-rated video games, I just thought they were weird as all hell. Yet here I am, over four years later, and what do you know: I've BECOME one of them, lol!
Anyway, what's all this I have here, you ask? Well, I was so strongly affected by my new love for MLP (which happened on the legitimate, still undefeated, WEIRDEST DAY OF MY LIFE) that I felt compelled to write about it, or rather, to write about my weird day. And THEN, when I continued watching ponies, I felt compelled to write about it more. Soon it became a habit, and I started writing a straight-up BLOG about my thoughts on MLP. I also started to review movies and computer/app games for fun, writing in a style similar to my hero and idol, Erik Van Rooy, who ran a BLOG (he hates the word 'blog') called A Very Strange Place, where he'd review horror movies. (I loved that man with a passion.) Soon my MLP reviews started interweaving with my movie reviews, and now you need to read both to fully appreciate them.
So, what can you expect to see? well the first few blog entries really suck it, because they're just me giving my (boring-ass) thoughts on episodes of the show I recently watched, but once I start reviewing movies then things start to get good. The movie and game reviews are always a blast, every time. And the pony blog entries get much better down the road. As for what you can expect to see in the future, I now write a movie review at the start of August, every year. I also annually host Pony Week, which is seven days (or whatever number of days I can get) of nonstop-pony-action, it used to be from November 10 to November 16, but I changed it to just being the week that November 10 is in, from Sunday to Saturday. As for game reviews, those are wild.
But now you must be wondering, "what does ANY of this have to do with fanfiction!?" Well, basically, ever since my early days of watching the show I'd write fanfiction in my head about it. I created an author-insert OC character named Brando Pony, and throughout these blog posts I'll often tell you what he's been up to, especially later on when it basically takes over the entire blog. Brando Pony is essentially just a ruder, cruder parody of myself, where all my likable traits are diminished and my unlikable traits are cranked up to eleven. He enjoys cheap sex, swearing a lot, and just being a general douchebag, he is also clearly insane and creepy as fuck. My tagline title for him is "The most unlikable protagonist ever." And that's basically the entire joke behind him: that he's me, but instead of making him perfect I make him, well, the most unlikable protagonist ever. There's also Reviewer Me, the character I put on for when I write the movie reviews, he's inbetween Real Me and Pony Me, he's more of an asshole than I am in real life, (mostly to mimic Erik's reviewing style), but he's also not as bad as Brando Pony.
Well, that basically fills you in on the situation, now you won't just start reading and become very, VERY confused. I will leave my old blog posts mostly untouched, so as to preserve their authenticity. I must say that as bad as they are, they do carry nostalgia. I mean, these are things that I wrote YEARS ago, and only now are they making it onto the net. So enjoy, dear readers, as you are about to take a trip to the past. All the way back to the day my interest in MLP started, on the Sunday morning of November 10, 2013, when I caught the first Equestria Girls on TV.
(Also, Pand is my best friend. There, now you know who she is. She gets her own pony OC eventually.)
Sunday, November 10, 2013.
Weirdest day ever.
For anybody.
No, seriously, that day was WEIRD man! there was seriously not a single time when it wasn't weird, but just over half of it was good-weird, so it's okay, but it was weird.
Here's a short list of some of the weird things that happened to me that day...
I wake up feeling right as rain, but the second I stand up I'm struck by a head-cold, but this happens all the time so I didn't think much of it, though do note that this time around it seemed slightly different.
I took a shower, but it was weird, it felt extremely different then how showers usually feel, and though I've had showers kinda like it before, with a very similar feeling, this one was still different, it felt... intensified somehow. (Update: dense.)
For some stupid reason, I decided not to wear my hat that day, so I spent the day hat-less, it was VERY weird I can assure you.
I heard a song during a movie, which I'll talk about in a moment, and despite it not being my type of song AT ALL, I just fell in love with it on the spot, which in it's own sense is super-weird, because even with songs that are my style, and every single one of my favorites, I did NOT just fall in love with them on the spot, it took time, some of them I had to hear a few times, some of them I just had to wait until they were almost done, but I NEVER just fall in love with a song on the spot, like on the first line, but I did this time... and I have no idea why.
And so finally, I'm gonna finish this list with the weirdest thing that happened to me of all: somehow, I ended up, watching My Little Pony Equestria Girls on the T.V. and playing Monster Hunter Tri during commercials... and I loved it... WHAT THE FUCK, MAN!? not only was I loving it, but I was getting fucking emotional over it! I can't believe this! I've just become one of those guys who like playing mature games and freaking out over My Little Pony! what the hell!? and just like two days before that me and Pand were talking about how stupid it was that they were making My Little Pony "Humans", and BAM! next thing I know I'm watching the movie and loving almost all of it, just cut off the start and ending and you have yourself a fantastic, unbelievably great movie, five stars bitches, uh-huh, but I know in my heart that I'm actually not one of those guys who love nothing more then My Little Pony and Call of Duty, partly because I hate Call of Duty, but I like other mature games so I'll ignore that, it's mostly because I promise you, it's ONLY that ONE movie that I'm a fan of, I don't care for anything else concerning My Little Pony, and that's all... my favorite is Rarity by the way, just in case you were wondering, but Applejack's a close second.
And so there you have it, that's just some of the weird things that happened that day, and I doubt anything is ever going to top it.
-Tuesday, November 12, 2013.
Note that at this point I oh-so-foolishly assumed that I would just be a movie fan.
BRANDO HAD NEVER BEEN SO WRONG.
But it's also true that nothing ever did top that day.
...
BRANDO HAD NEVER BEEN SO RIGHT.
