A Brony Tale Page #7

from the show.

I just have

a lot of fun with it.

It's pretty rewarding.

As of right now,

I have recently hit

a million views on YouTube.

Um, I have a thousand followers

on twitter.

I'm reaching 2,000

on SoundCloud.

I just said, "You know what,

I'm going to sell this

and see how much money it gets."

And it got a little, it got

a nice little piece of change.

You know, I just needed

some money for college, and...

I'll be taking

calculus next year.

The pony music

really helped me to afford that.

You know,

I grew up in Atlanta...

Atlanta, Georgia,

the dirty dirty.

And, you know, growing up here

wasn't the best of paradises,

but, you know, I survived.

Growing up with that mentality,

I just sort of took that

into my music, you know?

As long as I'm alive,

as long as this laptop is on,

you know, nothing's

gonna stop me, you know?

So I'm gonna put

my hooves up high

Don't worry

about tomorrow

'Cause I'm here tonight

I'll grab the world

Before it passes by

Don't worry about tomorrow

'Cause I'm here tonight

Go! Go! Go! Go!

Go! Go! Go! Go!

This is going to be

an interesting journey,

so here we go.

It's your fear of flying

It's your fear

of flying

What makes America exceptional

are the bonds that hold together

the most diverse nation

on earth...

the belief that our destiny

is shared,

the idea that if you're willing

to work hard,

it doesn't matter who you are,

or where you come from,

or what you look like,

or where you love.

It doesn't matter

whether you're black or white,

Or Hispanic or Asian,

or native American,

or young, or old,

or rich, or poor,

able, disabled,

gay, or straight.

You can make it here in America

if you're willing to try.

You ain't a man

unless you're watching

My Little Pony, son. Okay?

You know what I do,

when I get done the gym?

I go home,

I have my protein shake,

I put on my Comcast DVR,

and I sit down

with a big bowl of cereal

and I watch My Little Pony:

Friendship is Magic.

You know why?

Because it fills

my testosterone up

so I can go back

to the gym again

and just start pumpin' it out

and get bigger, and bigger,

and bigger, son.

Yeah, so you gotta get...

I like being strong.

Like, one thing I really like,

is just...

I don't...

when I was a kid being

picked on and bullied,

Like, being, like,

helpless to the fact

that someone

is pushing you around?

I hate that feeling.

So that fact that I'm stronger

and I'm taking classes

to defend myself,

Not only can I defend myself,

but I can defend my friends,

and I can defend my family

if anyone's a jerk,

so that's what I really

got out of it,

Like, each time, I'm stronger

than I was yesterday.

If you know me, I'm a very huge

Dragon Ball Z fan,

and that show just inspired me

so much as a kid.

So... just being like them

is what I idolized,

but I was fat and lazy as a kid.

You know, a bunch of people,

they always see shows,

And then are like,

"Man, that would be so cool

to be like him,"

Go back to eating

their diet soda and cookies

and stuff like that,

and that's how I used to be.

Then I found some friends

in high school

who had a mutual interest

in weight lifting,

and they took me in

and showed me the wraps,

and I was just like,

"Hey, I'm gonna weight lift."

But I'm still

a nerdy person inside.

Bronies aren't, like, the most

physically active people,

as I've seen at BronyCon,

but that's not a bad thing.

If that's their choice,

then okay,

but I just wanna show them,

like,

"Hey, if you guys

wanna feel healthier

and more confident,

then I can help you out

with that,"

So I would just upload

a fitness video

every now and then.

I just want to show you

you can still like the show

and just be in shape,

because I feel like

when you're in shape,

you're just

a lot more confident,

and you feel

better about yourself.

You look better.

Everything just falls

around you, it's...

falls into place.

Everything just...

It's just awesome.

One day, Patrick and I were,

I was getting ready

to leave the office,

and Patrick said,

"By the way, Marsha,

have you ever heard of a Brony?"

And I said, "A what?"

"A Brony."

And he said,

"Will told me that

'I'm a Brony.'"

He said to me,

"Dad, I'm drawing again".

And I went, "All right, Will,

you know, that's great,"

Because he's very artistic.

And I said,

"So, what are you drawing?"

And he got real quiet,

and I said,

"Will, what are you drawing?"

And he says,

"Well, have you heard

of My Little Pony?"

I'm Will.

I'm a senior in high school.

Um...

I guess I'm pretty normal,

I suppose.

Thankfully, knowing my dad,

I was sort of already expecting,

you know,

he wasn't going to, like,

freak out

and kick me out of the house

or anything,

but when I first told him,

he was a little hesitant.

He was like, "What?"

The way I told him

is that I was drawing again.

You know, he got all excited,

and he was like, "Well,

what have you been drawing?"

And I was like, "Well, this

is going to sound really weird,

but I've been drawing,

like, ponies."

And he's like, "You mean,

like horses and stuff?"

And I'm like,

"No, no, no.

Like, the cartoon.

Like, My Little Pony."

You know, my dad knows

only about, like, you know,

the old stuff,

so he kind of was like,

"Whaaaat?"

So I started telling him

about it, you know.

I was like, "Oh, it's

the new show and everything,"

And so my dad was like,

"Oh, that's pretty cool."

And then the thing

that really stood out to him

was when I said, "You know,

there's a lot of people

who watch that."

I saw my dad,

he was like, "Ohh..."

so that was my dad going off

in little psychologist mode,

you know?

So my dad

definitely was okay with it.

So we got picked up

at the airport,

and it really wasn't

what I expected.

There was a line of Bronies

all in matching T-shirts,

and one of them had

a Rainbow Dash sign.

That's how I knew

it was for sure

the Brony Convention people.

They were really,

really enthusiastic

about being Bronies,

and about just the whole

pony fandom situation

in general,

so yeah, it's gonna be...

it's gonna be a trip.

It's gonna be really crazy

tomorrow, I think.

So I set out to try my luck

in the big city, Manehattan,

the most cosmopolitan...

That's here!

We're here right now,

in Manehattan.

Oh, my god, that's probably

why they're doing this here.

So it's the night

before the conference,

the big BronyCon tomorrow.

Just got to the hotel,

scattered things around,

and... ooh!

I'm doing a bit

of Brony research.

There's some things

that I don't know

about the world of Bronies.

I guess I'm just a bit,

I'm maybe a little worried

that they're going to ask me

some, like, crazy questions

about the equestrian world

that the ponies live in

that I'm not going to know

the answers to...

Which I don't really need to,

but I feel like

I really... I should.

I think I'm definitely going

to get asked to do

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