As promised few days ago, there are more photos from brony events I’ve visited last year – because what are photos for, if you never show them to anypony? Here they are!
The rest of this post are personal notes – more of a blog of thoughts that I would like to share because most of the last year events were the breaking points of the last decade, full of ponies and Magic of Friendship. Aside European events, I’ve visited BABScon 2025 – the final year, surrounded by dramas, but for me… much more eventful, than expected.
Primary, it was the place where a lot of ancient (10+ years) story lines through brony fandom where I was involved wrapped up nicely, with smile and unexpected kiss on top of that 😉
Meeting and talking to friends, fellow organizers and bronies in general, sometimes in very unexpected way, made it all the last-year highlight:
- Phauxe and Krystal, it was great to see you after so many years! When we randomly met at the con bar 7 years ago at WCPC in Chicago, I did not expect we had a chance to meet again. Especially, because that was one of the con visits I’ve kept for myself.
- Fellow organizers of PonyFest Online Lycan and Kate who I never met IRL before, mainly because we live on the opposite sides of this planet. Great to meet you in person even just for a short time!
- A chance to hang out with Maz and Bexi from UKPC – thanks for your time and a chance to talk outside the rush of events we organize. I am grateful for the chance to get to know you better. Hope we’ll had a chance to do this again 🙂
- All the fun and support from Renard, the “partner in crime” for this whole trip – you made it more than 120% cooler, my friend!
- A chance to talk with guests and other fandom contributors was simply amazing – I won’t go to details, but there were many great and heartwarming moments that restored my faith in the Magic of Friendship. My many thanks to every single of you I had a chance to talk to!
- Black hole room party, because that’s where my universes interleave – drinking blood wine and partying with Klingons while cosplaying Fluttershy is just the ultimate fun experience unlike any other! Qapla’ and yay 😉
There were more, but it would make this post too long – but even in this short form, it gives the photos another level of meaning: there are many stories behind all of this, some of them hidden in the plain sight. Writing this post kind of made me realize how deep and for how long some events within the brony fandom goes – usually, one or two happens but here… that was the grand orchestra and I’m proud to play and still playing my part in all of this. I wish I could share all that experience with you because it’s simply amazing.
Well… that was a long post. Thanks for reading and see you at the future brony events!