Citations:ponysona

English citations of ponysona and Ponysona

Noun: "(My Little Pony fandom slang) a pony alter ego or self-insert character created by a fan"

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• 2013, "Naked As A Jaybird", "Brony Porn 4 Lyfe", The Muffington Post (satirical newspaper of the University of Alberta), 17 April 2013, page 13:

  My ponysona is Heartbeat Bubbles, and she is red and green and follows Fluttershy around and is kind to all animals.

• 2014, Charles Chiam Chuang Chao, quoted in "Contributor Spotlight", Empire Times (Flinders University), Volume 41, Issue 10 (2014), page 4:

  I started designing him when many other fans of My Little Pony started creating a pony avatar, or Ponysona, of themselves.

• 2016, Pavol Kosnáč, "The development of spirituality in the Brony community", in Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality: From Popular Culture to Religion (eds. Carole M. Cusack, Pavol Kosnáč), unnumbered page:

  Forty-six per cent of Bronies have an OC, 39 per cent have a Ponysona, which is typically the first OC they create.

• 2019, Phoenix Fan Fusion 2019, page 41:

  An interactive session into learning how to create your own ponysona with LilyScribbles; […]

• 2021, Sirpa Leppänen & Sanna Tapionkaski, "Doing Gender and Sexuality Intersectionally in Multimodal Social Media Practices", in The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality (eds. Jo Angouri & Judith Baxter):

  The poster’s pony avatar is a combination of (stereotypically) child and adult things: an animated pony character wearing an army helmet with the acronym N.E.E.T. (not in education, employment, or training). On the basis of an interview with the poster, we know that the avatar is his ‘ponysona’, designed by himself that changes in relation to his life events.