My Little Po-Mo
ebook ∣ Unauthorized Critical Essays on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Season Two
By Jen A. Blue

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Grown men and women watch a cartoon made to sell toy horses to four-year-old girls. Now increasingly notorious, "bronies" have been called everything from sexual deviants to a bellwether of post-ironic culture, from misogynists to a vision of a future free from gender norms.This second volume of essays in the My Little Po-Mo series combines critical analysis of the second season of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic with ethnographic examination of its fandom, with a focus on what might be called the "dark side" of the latter. Sex, death, and chaos, handled as only a children's cartoon can!This volume includes:-Critical essays on every episode of the second season-Three essays presenting in-depth character studies of Rarity, Applejack, and Zecora-A study of bronies as an aspirational fandom-Essays exploring controversial aspects of bronies, including pornographic "clop," violent "grimdark" fan fiction, the "Derpygate" controversy, and fan aggression-And more!