yeah I'm early but this board is slow
Who's going, what are we doing, who's bringing the jungle juice?
Marefair 2024 thread
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The utility behind restricting non-relevant fursuits (aside from previous mentions) depends on the demographic:
Ponies seem generally/overly supportive of fursuits of canon characters, as they genuinely (in both senses) contribute to the aesthetics of the con. Fursuiters are still a significant minority of the MLP crowd, and if one wants to get really autistic, there's no shortage of canon characters to make fursuits of. There are literally professional and/or patreon-supported fursuit-makers and youtubers, both of which will make superb quality suits of MLP characters if there is a daytime restriction on non-canon. They literally net profit from every con they go to, and if the structure involves a very legitimate compromise - which I propose the above to be - they'll not only abide but will advise their followers/subscribers to do likewise.
Honestly, I think the non canon/fandom/pony rule should not expire with the sun, but agin, its about compromise
All of this is in the interest of everyone having the best time possible.
Now, the outline put forth (no non-canon, fandom, or pony) would permit my fursuit/fursona but I STILL won't wear it publicly EVEN after hours BECAUSE the point of the con is to respect/promote pony culture. I don't expect all/most fursuiters to agree, so again the pony-centric compromise
As a qualifier to having the best time possible, it is possible that people who are not of the target demographic (whether more furry, normie, press, etc) are in attendence. Ostensibly they should go unmolested*, assuming they are informed and can appreciate that while otherwise not unwelcome that this is a Pony-centric culture/convention. No one is intended to have a bad time, but certain things at certain times disrupt the flow.
Furries have a similar concept in not allowing adult/fetish (assuming the whole suit isnt a fetish, lol) geat until after dark, so the concept of limiting non-canonish wouldnt be especially foreign.
I'd also support expressly non-furry sections of after-hour, just saying
>Any kind of bitching about Mare Fair
What do you want? Just in the panels I was present for, there were: 3 panels including racial slurs (two with multiple instances of "nigger" and one with "chink"), one panel with an ISIS flag and fake AK 47s, one where a bomb threat was read aloud, one with a joke about a con mascot dating a 9/11 hijacker and losing her box cutter because of it, a panel wherein someone married an Aryanne plush, multiple Aryanne plushies just being paraded around, multiple panels wherein explicit material (horse pussy) was shown, several panels with explicit statements about foalcon, and one where someone shouted "kill Haber" and got no push back. What else do you want? How many fewer restrictions do you need?
The only restrictions they have at all are in the public areas to try to keep the hotel from banning them. Because they know that if they are banned from the Mariott, the Marriot will speak to every other venue, and get them banned from every other venue, and then they are fucked
>But there were furries!
There were two, maybe three fur suits. That's it. That's fuck all nothing. Are you so obsessed with furries that it's impossible for you to not notice these, or ignore these? Go hang out with friends or do something, anything, more productive than obsessively thinking about furries all day and night.
I know someone who was banned from every single My Little Pony Convention in the United Kingdom because he implied that he had images of foalcon saved to his laptop. That's the attitude outside of Marefair - to ban as many things as possible and to restrict as many things as possible. Mare Fair thrives precisely because it takes the opposite approach. It is as free as possible and allows as much as possible, because that is the best way to spark creatively, not banning everything.
>mlpol panel
Did none of you attend last year? Last year I was invited by Corpulent Brony (one of the chief organizers, mind you) to be on a panel about Alternative Sites. And on that panel, I talked about mlpol.net and the history of mlpol. I told the story of the board mergers on April 1st, and how I came to mlpol. The room applauded. We had an Alternative Sites panel this year as well which I participated in, though it was smaller, I was late, and Zizzy was leading it, so the panel focused pretty much entirely on technical aspects of operating a website which I had nothing to contribute to
>>377565These are the testaments that I live for