💙🦘📼Went and found an article of ours that was published in my college paper back in 2011, and it only mentions 3 people (me, a friend, and a partner of his at the time) and it's really funny because 1. It's about MLP and 2. 2 of the three people mentioned in it are trans now, so lol
Finding our old writing, no matter when from, is always engaging. Especially when so much has happened since then
💙🦘📼Other notes: it was written just after I had gotten in my first relationship, with a cishet woman who very much needed me to be a cishet man, so there's all this weird fronting about 'being a manly dude'. Lol. Lmao, even.
It references 4chan, because back then you couldn't talk about bronies without also talking about that shithole.
There's a Lyric from a TOOL song hidden in there, because of course there was.
It talks about relating to Fight Club But ultimately feeling like it was too angry for how truly jaded my generation was. There's this pervading dread throughout the article, and I forgot how bleak things seemed back then in the fallout of the great recession. 2011 was also a really bad year for natural disasters, including the tsunami that caused the Fukushima disaster, which I obsessively tracked every news story on.
There's some real solid analysis on the climate that led to Bronies being a thing, and while at the time we treated it as a mostly positive thing, a lot of those trends became huge fucking problems down the line. The supercommodification of nostalgia especially.
Man you could tell I thought I was so fucking cool when I wrote this like I thought I sounded so fucking red I thought I was the coolest dude in town jesus fucking christ I am glad I got the fuck over myself because it was a problem for the better part of a decade after this was written.
My blog from the 2015 was barely fucking readable, good lord. Dark blue text on black background, the hell was I thinking?
