/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

Post what books your reading /mlpol/.
Also don't think we've made a must book list so guess if your into that post which books you think are must reads for /mlpol/.

Personally I think everyone should read Evola's works currently working my way through them now. Really looking forward to reading his thoughts and criticisms on national socialism and fascism.

Gentlemen, behold!

I have returned, and assuming that interest in these threads continues, I will henceforth be resuming my review series, though I am altering my approach slightly. I will explain below.

>What the hell is this?!?
These threads first began as a mostly humorous response to a certain obnoxious British poster who shall remain nameless. Way back in the bygone days of 2018, this individual attempted to shill a fanfiction he'd written by starting not one but two threads about it. The response to his opus was almost universally negative, and unfortunately he was not the sort of person who handled criticism well. The resultant shitflinging war would become known in the annals of /mlpol/ history as Glimmergate II.

This unnamed individual's intense autism eventually became so repellent that I took it upon myself to go through his work line by line and tell him, quite explicitly, everything that was wrong with it. This turned out to be a much larger project than I'd envisioned, and it ultimately took several months to complete. Due to the author's fixation with Starlight Glimmer, which formed the center of the controversy, I adopted Glim Glam as a moniker.

I started the project under the assumption that it was just a bit of funposting that would run its course and then end. As far as literary criticism went, I was mostly just blowing smoke out of my ass and having a giggle; I assumed that sooner or later the drama would die down and my tripfagging would get annoying. As such, the original plan was to finish what I had to say about Silver Star Apple and the Search for More Money, Love, The Meaning of Life, and Magical Cards, and then let "Glim Glam" drift quietly off into the sunset as long as I'm spilling my guts here I might as well come clean: I was also the guy who was tripfagging as King Battlebrit.

However, for whatever reason, people formed an impression that I actually had some idea of what the fuck I was talking about when it came to books, and so I received several requests from various Anons to review more fimfiction stories. After doing a couple of these, I realized I enjoyed reviewing stories, and also that as a writer I was learning a surprising amount from these authors mistakes, and thus Glim Glam's Infinite Ham-Slam was born.

My previous reviews are listed below, in reverse chronological order:

Neo-Equestrian Obstetrics
by Kassaz
>>>/mlpol/348497 →

I.D.: That Indestructible Something
by Chatoyance
>>>/mlpol/342944 →

Our Girl Scootaloo
By Cozy Mark IV
>>>/mlpol/331344 →

Rainmetall (included in the Our Girl Scootaloo thread, post # indicates start point)
By /mlpol/'s very own Mexican Anon
>>>/mlpol/338993 →

The Best Night Ever
By Capn_Chryssalid
>>>/mlpol/327793 →

Fallout: Equestria
By kkat
>>>/mlpol/284789 →

The Sun & The Rose
By soulpillar
>>>/mlpol/269307 →

Friendship is Optimal (included in the Past Sins thread, post # indicates start point)
By Iceman
>>>/mlpol/266598 →

Past Sins
By Pen Stroke
>>>/mlpol/248482 →

Would it Matter if I Was?
By GaPJaxie
>>>/mlpol/202151 →

The Original Silver Star Threads:
(these threads are pretty chaotic and I don't begin "reviewing" until midway through, but they're an entertaining read if you have the patience to comb through them)
>>>/mlpol/165646 →
>>>/mlpol/166716 →

>No, seriously, what the hell is this?!?
To my eternal surprise, these threads have not only continued to generate interest here, but I've also had a couple of odd people from outside the site wander in and ask me to review things. A couple of anons have said that my comments on a few stories might be of value to the MLP fan community at large, and have suggested that I reformat them to make them a little more...palatable.

Again, when I first began this project, I assumed these were mostly just shitposts being written on a site that few people bothered to visit, and as such I had no compunctions about peppering them with vulgarity and slurs because really, if you can't use the internet to anonymously hurl epithets at a complete stranger, then what is it even for?. With a couple of exceptions, most of the stories I've reviewed are well-known, well-loved stories written by horse-famous authors. As such, I feel like I've mostly been punching up, and I make absolutely no apology for any comments I've made about how god-awful most of this dreck actually is when you examine it closely.

However, in a slightly broader scope, asking someone from the more genteel quarters of the fandom to comb through page after page of me calling Pen Stroke a faggot may be a rather tall order, particularly if they are unfamiliar with the way imageboards work. So, I have decided to make the following changes to my approach:

1. These threads will still be done in the same read-and-react format to which you are all accustomed, and in general not much is going to change. However, I am going to make a conscious effort to make my commentary a smad less obscene no promises, but I do intend to try, and I am also going to try to get through individual stories more quickly (especially the long ones).

2. I will also be hosting an off-site blog (currently in development, link will be posted when it's ready) containing truncated reviews of select stories, reformatted to be more accessible to the broader MLP fandom and fanfiction community. Reviews posted to this blog will be formatted like normal articles, and will be a summation of my thoughts on the fics being discussed, rather than a long, meandering read-through, and will contain 20% fewer gay jokes and ethnic slurs. Updates will be posted as the project progresses.

Now then, with all of that out of the way...

Current Story:

Exchange
by getmeouttahere

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/169217/exchange

requested by that anon who keeps bugging me about it

We've already seen how AI is disrupting society, but biotechnology may have an even bigger impact. Imagine a world where everything from plastics to fertilizers are grown from biomass. Where cell and immunotherapies are personalized. And where gene editing tools are widely available. This is what is over the horizon. The U.S. has already put together a National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (https://www.biotech.senate.gov) to establish itself as the leader in biotech. How will biotechnology change society and how will it change geopolitics?

Anyone got good Holocaust denial propaganda? I got into a fight with my boomer parents.

>Spoonfeed me. What's this thread about?
This thread typically consists of Anon gone filly, as he's thrust into a new life as a cute little pony.
>What's to be expected?
Fillies, cuteness, Anon-tier shenanigans, bitchy Twilight, desires to be the little filly, etc..

>Any archive of photos or stories?
Dropbox (Photos):
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/h46ituoalc71wp9/AACmTe3H8s10ArK3-5Q_3juqa?dl=0
Stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BP6aPchH3lGIRdzd78IWykMCXuKLrNABi6bxZGVTy9c/edit

>I'm a contributor.
Great! For writers, just notify All Nighter Fgt Lone15, so you can have your green added to the Doc. For artists, animators, or any other content makers, you can store your fillies in the Dropbox for future viewing pleasure.
Some especially based faggot also recently compiled nearly every filly image ever created, which you can check out here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AowOdwFzlbRk0FVZsRGRYe2hyKhzo2h3?usp=sharing
Assess how well you fit into the filly hivemind: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/personality-quiz/?group=-LdS-38NvfIG9PHPrYB8
>I don't like this thread because of reasons.
You'll never know how it is unless you try a dose of filly.
Old-mare Thread: >>325047 →

What would you do?

U.S. Army recruiters have dropped the vaccine requirement for military recruits
https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1725330751351054835
This comes along with a new wave of military propaganda commercials featuring white men, and recruiters once again failing to meet minimum quotas, all with the shadow of the wars in Israel/Palestine, Russia/Ukraine, and potentially China/Taiwan.
Despite their best efforts at propaganda, white American men keep telling them to fuck off because nobody wants to die for Israel.

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1777800149818822809
>He mentions that Jews spit on them
>He mentions that Jews don't allow them to go to Bethlehem without a permit
>He mentions that Jews treat them like shit and write graffiti on churches
Thoughts?
It's kind of a big deal for a big voice in American right wing media to tell it to Christian conservatives that Israel is in fact not their best friend.

ITT, we plan a pony con

Why?
Because conventions are fun, we don't have enough, and the ones we have not always in the best location or have pozzed requirements like a mask or vaccine

But We Have Marefair
So I did the math, and figured out that Marefair is only about 0.82% of the year. That's not nearly enough. I need my fix

So what then?
We make our own con. Or try to.

Why Marefair Worked
In its first year, Marefair had 500 attendees, zero instances of the police or fire department being called, and raised $50,000 for its charity, which was the second highest ever for a Pony con at the time, surpassed only by the $92,000 of the last BronyCon Admittedly it was blown away by Ciderfest one month later

Marefair did several things incredibly well, I think. First off, I believe that the location of Orlando, Florida, was absolute genius. Orlando, Florida, is one of the cheapest locations in the entire United States to fly to, both for domestic air travel and international travel. Also, there are no pony conventions in the area. The nearest Pony conventions are SeaquestriaFest (which is not close to major airports, highways, or the rail network), and Harmony Con, each about a thousand miles away. Marefair takes advantage of an otherwise under-served East coast and Southern brony fandom

Second, Marefair had no requirements for vaccinations, masks, or anything of that nature. This was not the case for around half of the American pony conventions. It also didn't make a leftist political organization the recipient of its "charity," but picked an actual charity. It's also the only con where I heard racial slurs in multiple panels, implying a greater than average freedom of speech.

Marefair was planned on a small budget, and is notable for being the only American Pony Con to not have any show guests, instead relying on community guests.

It also helped that the management wasn't retarded and didn't fight with each other, which is much more than can be said of several conventions.

First matter:
A survey of American PonyCons
There are 9 My Little Pony Conventions in North America. Soon to be 8, as BABsCon is ending next year. These are:

Vanhoover Pony Expo
Vancouver, British Columbia (technically it's Richmond). Middle of January. ~200 attendees, not especially woke. Mask in vending hall but otherwise no COVID restrictions

HarmonyCon
Dallas, Texas. Beginning of February. Con organizers are woke, but its attendees are not. Growing, up to 1080 attendees in 2024. Requires mask in vending hall, required vaccine or negative test in 2023

BABsCon
San Fransisco, California. Always on Easter, placing it in March or April. Bigger, but I don't have numbers. 2025 will be its last year. Definitely woke, historically requiring full Vax (not in 2024) and outright banning things like MAGA hats.

SeaquestriaFest
Ocean City, Maryland. May. Small. May be woke, being one of the only cons to require a vaccine/negative test in 2024 (after not requiring it in 2023).

WhinnyCity Pony Con
Chicago, Illinois (actually Schaumberg). June. Medium sized, ~500. Went all in on LGBT in 2023 but was the first con to officially end COVID requirements that year, save for requiring a mask in the vendor hall.

TrotCon
Dayton, Ohio. July. Supposedly larger. Strict on COVID requirements, requiring masks in 2024. The only American con to not have the venue in a hotel. Known for having financial problems.

Everfree Northwest
Seattle, Washington (actually Belleveu). August. The largest extant pony con at around ~1300. Not especially woke.

Marefair
Orlando, Florida. End of September. 500 attendees in 2023. Based.

Ponyville Ciderfest
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. End of October or November. Grown back to 1000 attendees in 2023. Not especially woke. Same organizers as Whinny City.

All of the above cons are three-day Friday-Sunday events, though I believe Seaquestriafest has been 2 days in the past.

So where is ripe for a new pony con?
I will make a map later, but pony conventions in the US are concentrated in a areas, with the West Coast having three (BABsCon, EFNW, and Vanhoover) and the Midwest having three (Ciderfest, WhinnyCity, and Trotcon) while the American South has only 2 now (HarmonyCon and Marefair) and the American Northeast and Canada east of the Rockies have exactly zero. There is only a single ponycon (unless you count Marefair) on the East Coast (Seaquestriafest).

So, this leads to suggested locations:
1. Nashville, Tennessee. This location is the current most favored one, as it is in the Upper South, a region with no Pony conventions, and is in almost the geographic center of the portion of the United States that actually has water/is most heavily populated. It's reasonable, if not necessarily convenient, driving distance from the East Coast, Midwest, and American South. It also one of the cheapest cities to fly to in the US.
2.Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis has many of the same advantages of Nashville, Tennessee, though it's a less pleasant city with a higher crime rate
3. San Antonio, Texas. Not ideal as it's too close to HarmonyCon, but the city is cheap to fly to, and close to many bronies. Also it's a nice, walkable city with many restaurants
4. Las Vegas, Nevada. The cheapest city in the US to fly to, even beating Orlando. I would have counted this out as there are enough cons on the West Coast, but with BABsCon closing, I think this location is more viable.

When?
Community Guests, as well as a large portion of Convention attendees, attend multiple conventions. It's therefore desirable to place any new convention in a time slot where it will not compete. In 2023, the only months with no American conventions were April, and December. April has better weather, and after BABsCon ends next year, both April and March will be clear. Thus I suggest April is the best month.

What the hell is with all the striped/blacked edits of aryanne on derpibooru.org? Is the pony fandom is so autisticly divided between trannies and chuds? Is the website run by juden?