Asta Kask
2012-02-08, 01:31 PM
Natalie Reed, blogger extraordinaire (http://freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/2012/02/07/new-avatar-and-the-official-snr-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-mare-a-thon/) has decided to hold her own My Little Pony Mare-a-thon over at her site on Sunday. Come on, come all!
So here’s the plan: we pick five episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic that you think are especially awesome and would be great for bringing new fans into the show, and also episodes that could promote some interesting discussion amongst brainy feminist, skeptic, atheist and queer-theory type folks. An example might be “Feeling Pinkie Keen”, which contains a troubling anti-skepticism message… it’s not an especially great episode, in fact it’s one of my least favourites, but it would definitely lead to some interesting discussion.
Then, on Sunday afternoon, we all queue up the episodes and watch them in order, with little breaks for discussion via twitter, and also via a comment thread I’ll post here on SNR! And then a big ongoing discussion after the mare-a-thon is over!
So here’s the plan: we pick five episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic that you think are especially awesome and would be great for bringing new fans into the show, and also episodes that could promote some interesting discussion amongst brainy feminist, skeptic, atheist and queer-theory type folks. An example might be “Feeling Pinkie Keen”, which contains a troubling anti-skepticism message… it’s not an especially great episode, in fact it’s one of my least favourites, but it would definitely lead to some interesting discussion.
Then, on Sunday afternoon, we all queue up the episodes and watch them in order, with little breaks for discussion via twitter, and also via a comment thread I’ll post here on SNR! And then a big ongoing discussion after the mare-a-thon is over!