Tag: fan activity

• The Fetishistic Turn in My Little Pony

  

  This blog post originally appeared at Clearance Bin Review almost a year ago, in consideration for the then upcoming release of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic movie Equestria Girls.  Given my research on that topic, I decided to bring it here as well, under the umbrella that is the fractured fandom project. Almost […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 17, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Sexuality

  agency, anthropomorphism, bronies, clopfic, Equestria Girls, fan activity, fan art, fetish, fetishes, hentai, My Little Pony, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, sexualization, Slash, uncanny valley

• Equestria Girls: Targeting Furries?

  This will definitely be receiving more academic treatment from me, as I do some side projects on the issues of gender and reception surrounding My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.  This new movie turns the ponies into quasi-humans (they retain their pony colors but in human form).  Hasbro says they are trying to target teenage […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 12, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom

  bronies, Equestria Girls, fan activity, fetish, furries, Hasbro, Marketing, My Little Pony, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Rule 34, sexualization