A Brony Tale

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A BRONY TALE:

When I walk up,

there's this big, fat,

bald muscular guy.

I walk in, and he goes,

"What do you want?"

I said, "I want to make

an appointment to get a tattoo."

He says, "What do you want

a tattoo of?"

And I said, "This,"

and he goes, "What is that?

A puppy? A kitten?"

And, like, one guy in the back

goes, "It's a pony,"

and I said, "I want that guy

to do my tattoo."

Yee-haw!

All right then, there,

here we go, now.

Yee-haw!

Welcome to Apple Acres.

Come on down

and meet the family!

You got Apple Cobbler,

Apple Bumpkin, Apple Turnover,

Apple Pie, little Jazz,

Cousin Braeburn,

Big Mac, Apple Bloom,

and this here is Granny Smith!

Yee-hoo!

Don't worry, Twilight,

I happen to be

the fastest Pegasus in the sky!

The fastest Pegasus in the sky!

The fastest Pegasus

in the sky!

It's because I'm awesome.

Ba-ha-ha-ha!

I've been doing voice work

For about six years now,

I guess.

I graduated from the Canadian

College of Performing Arts,

and basically got picked up

by an agent

at this showcase that we did,

and told me

that he thought I would be good

at voice-over work,

so I went in

and did a reading with him.

He was confident that my voice

capabilities were there,

So he started just sending me

out to these auditions,

and it was pretty nerve-wracking

at first.

I went into a room

where all these people

knew each other,

And I was this outsider.

I didn't really know

how to, you know,

manoeuvre around the microphone.

I mean,

I'd had singing experience,

So that was good,

but yeah, I just kind of

got thrown into it,

and the first voice-over role

was...

a character

called Slim Pig.

And he's just this paper-thin

pig that would, like,

go around the barn

and get into adventures.

He was, like, a cut-out pig,

but all the other animals

were regular... 3D.

I don't know, it was strange.

I kind of got hired to do

this little boy voice.

So Slim Pig

kind of just sounded like this,

"Hey, Little Chicken,

do you want to go

on an adventure today?"

And he was just, like,

this little dude.

Because I was

a role already on the show,

I got to play Little Chick.

This kind of

sounded like this...

"Adventure! Oh! Adventure!"

I got to play the cow.

She kind of had this,

like, weird voice.

"Oh!"

"Slim Pig!

Puh-please help me!

My head is stuck in a fence!

Please help me moo-ve it!"

Coconut Fred

Fruit Salad Island!

One of my favourite roles,

actually, that I ever got

was this Warner Brothers cartoon

called Coconut Fred's

Fruit Salad Island,

and it was

the sexually confused tomato.

He didn't know if he was

a fruit or a vegetable,

so he was very sensitive,

and he performed poetry a lot.

"What am I?

A fruit or a veggie?

Either one

could give me a wedgie."

I went into the audition

for the new Care Bears series,

and they were looking

for this new Care Bear

Called Oopsy Bear,

who was this little boy.

I guess they got

a bunch of men to read for him,

and that wasn't working out,

so they got me in there,

and I just kind of based him

on Chris Farley,

like, you know, that kind of,

like, clumsy guy he plays

all the time?

He'll, like, fall...

"Aw, I'm re-really sorry.

I didn't mean to mess up

the thunderbolt coaster.

Sorry."

I got to play...

Boris Bootie.

He was on this show

called Ricky Sprocket.

It was about a show biz kid,

and Boris Bootie

was just an ordinary guy

who really liked

breakfast cereal.

And then, so I think

I got kind of pigeonholed

To play little boys all the time

'cause that was, like,

my goto voice,

Was the little boy voice.

So when I went into audition

for My Little Pony,

I thought it was obvious

that I would read for Spike,

the baby dragon.

And I was just like,

"Oh, I'll just go to, you know,

Do my go-to little boy voice."

Twilight!

Y-You know

I love eating diamonds.

You know,

he's just like this little guy.

I didn't...

I didn't end up getting cast

as Spike,

But I got a call-back

for... not Spike,

but for Applejack

and Rainbow Dash.

I just ended up

getting both roles,

which is pretty crazy.

My job is fun.

It's cool.

It's, like, um...

you know,

you just get to hang out

And do voices for a living.

Not too shabby.

Okay, whatever you want.

Hey! What's going on?

I'm Ashleigh.

I am, uh, at the site of a show

we just played with Hey Ocean!

And I just had

my first Brony encounter.

Do you have any voices for us?

Well, uh, well,

I suppose that Applejack's

very happy

that you came out to Hey Ocean!

And Rainbow Dash

Couldn't be more excited!

I need to go watch

Dan Mangan now!

All right.

Peace!

Bye!

Thank you!

See ya guys!

Love you!

A Brony

is a fan of the television show

My Little Pony:

Friendship is Magic,

and...

they're usually males

from the age bracket

of 18 to 30, let's say.

The pervert alarm for sure

went off in my head

when I first heard about it.

I want to very specifically

not give a shout out

to my Bronies tonight.

Now a show, you're right in

the middle of the normal scale.

Since the reboot of the classic

'80s cartoon debuted last fall,

it's attracted a massive amount

of male viewers.

Combine the words

"brother" and "pony."

The audience

isn't who you might expect.

Fanboys have taken

to creating pony art,

posting fan videos on YouTube,

and creating

blogs dedicated to the show.

Weird fit demographically,

but they work together.

My point is this!

Bronies have changed

the definition of masculinity.

I think

it's the end of...

Civilization?

What's happened

is that with the spread

of fast access Internet,

almost the entirety of the media

with the fandom

Is entirely online.

It's, in a lot of senses,

a brand new type of fandom.

It's this crazy phenomenon

on the web, in the media...

It's kind of inexplicable,

really.

What happens when a movement

puts a lot of new ideas

into circulation?

It, uh,

doesn't really make sense.

People are inspired

by the environment

That surrounds them.

The Internet

is a complicated idea,

a set of protocols

that has changed everything.

Try to realize

our imaginations and the need

to retreat to a world

of pure fantasy.

We exist in a world

of illusion.

The true nature of reality

beckons

from just beyond the horizon.

I got an invitation

to... BronyCon.

Brony...

B-R-O-NYC-Con, in New York,

which is a convention

for Bronies.

It's pretty crazy.

Apparently there's

a lot of these happening,

although this would be

the first one

That I've been invited to.

"Hello!

My name is Purple Tinker,

and I run BronyCon,

the world's largest dedicated

My Little Pony:

Friendship is Magic fan event.

We are currently

in the planning stages

of our next event,

BronyCon, end of January.

It will be held

in New York City,

but something is missing...

Ms. Ashleigh Ball."

That's me!

"Would Ms. Ball do us the honour

of letting us treat her

like the star she is

for one special weekend?"

Wow.

I guess... we'll see.

I'm a trained

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