Brony Media Overview [Tons of Embeds]

Image by Paradise Wonder

My quest through Equestria Daily‘s media section is finally over after more than two months. I only made it back through June 2011, but due to a series of events, I lost my place, and EQD’s page system makes it difficult to go through their archives. Besides, the further back I go, the less high-quality media there is, and these days so much is produced that I hardly find time for my archive plumbing. Therefor, I’m calling it here.

I’ve listened to several hundred songs, watched at least a hundred PMVs, a few dozen animations, YTPs and flash movies, not even getting into the dozens of games I’ve played and thousands of images I’ve looked at. I’ve gotten deep into brony media culture, and I’m only going deeper. Here are my findings at current depth.

Amazing as Equestria Daily is, the site is unreliable. After all, it’s a blog, not a database, and only wants to be as much. My tastes don’t always agree with those of the EQD review staff. They post up plenty of shit PMVs and tons of generic electronic music that has little in the way of pony—not to say that their tastes are generally bad, just that I intook more than enough crap that I didn’t care for, while finding other stuff that I did looking on my own.

(Totally not butthurt because nothing I’ve submitted to EQD has ever made it :p)

Nevertheless I can’t discount how valuable it is to have a site that delivers large amounts of worthwhile content to an incredibly wide audience. I only hope that a good portion of that audience goes to find things on their own as well. This might be an insane demand actually, because I know firsthand that keeping up with EQD alone is incredibly time-consuming (even if, like me, you don’t read any of the fanfics they post). You probably have to be a jobless, schoolless pony fanatic like myself to intake as much pony as I do while accomplishing anything else.

There are no words to describe the whole of pony media, except that all of it contains pony (and even then, that assessment is questionable at times). Pony media spans every medium and genre, and probably creates a few of its own. There’s pony stuff that I like in every form, and getting into all of it will be a nightmare.

This post will contain a list of each song, video, etc. that I’ve downloaded or favorited on sites like youtube, deviantart, fimfiction, etc., largely without comment. I’d like to say things about them all, but it will be just gushing unless I could dedicate a full post to each item.

Here is a bit more than the tip of the iceberg of all the pony stuff I like. I’m sure I’ll eventually make a full-on canon of all things pony which I enjoy in the future.

In order to keep this list from getting too crowded, I’m limiting it to one item per artist. You’ll see something like “JHaller’s x, x, and x,” while featuring the work which I like most. Everything is largely out of order, but I tried to position the best stuff at the top of each category.

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Digibrony’s Brony Media Top Picks

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Music

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Everything by SoGreatAndPowerful (featured: A Sorceress Girl)

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TarbyRocks’ Born Cross Eyed

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JackleApp’s I Love Everything (featured), Coolness That Defies Gravity, and My Destiny is a Rock

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PinkiePieSwear’s Sunshine and Celery Stalks (featured), Trixie’s Good Side, and Giggle at the Ghostly (Simply Joy)

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H8_Seed’s Neverending Strife

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Mic the Microphone’s Sonic Rhyme-Boom

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Prince Whateverer’s HeLuna

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CombatF0rk’s What About Us

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SandJosieph’s Gloomy Town (ft. SiminaCindy) (featured) and Daddy Discord (ft. Lenovran and SiminaCindy)

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And The Rainfall’s At the Gala (Rainfall Mix)

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Glaze’s Rainbow Factory (featured) and Love Me Cheerilee

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MandoPony’s Student of Celestia

 

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Blaze’s Love Me Cheerilee Remix (first pony song I ever liked :3)

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Bronified’s Pinkie’s Brew (ft. The Living Tombstone) and all of his other songs

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Vafrous Coyote’s For Luna

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Jcarlson04’s Sweetie Bot’s Big Race (featured), The Orphanage Song, and Princess of the Night (extended)

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IBringDaLulz’s Ponies and Stuck Here On The Moon

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Hergest Ridge’s What Would Twilight Sparkle Do? and The Apple Farmer Song

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Swagberg’s Pony Swag (ft. Maros)

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Mogul Dash’s Rejected (ft. Cyril and Replacer)

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Replacer’s Cerulean Blue

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Joecoolman26’s Cutie Mark Crusaders Theme (Power Metal)

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ElectroKaplosion’s The Downfall of Harmony

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Warbalist’s Luna Writes In Her Die-Ary

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SimGretina’s Art of the Dress (Trance Dance Remix) (best. video. ever.)

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NeedsMoreDjent’s Of Great And Powerful Things

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ClaireAnneCar’s Evil Enchantress Rock

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Vivix’s I Remember You

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YTPMVs

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Tommy631’s Sinewaves Are Magic

 

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Parnas1us’ Appletastic Spring

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Animations

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WorkingOrder’s Friendship Is Awesome

(click to watch)

MysteryBen27’s Rhythm Is Magic Series (Featured: Remix Apple Apple Apple)

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Skaijo’s Friendship Is Magic Bitch (featured) and sequel

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alfa995’s Derpy Cardcaptor

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Dx11’s Trixie: Alone

(click to watch)

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FiMFlamFilosophy’s Rainbow Dash Presents: Rainbow Fun Factory

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PMVs

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JHaller’s Dr. Adorkable – Twilight’s Freeze Ray (featured) and all of his other PMVs

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LimeLassen’s Lazy Ponyday

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kiwipoo2’s Pony Mead

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FluttershyElsa’s Pony Polka Face

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Bareodin’s Beer!

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ThrashChrist’s Enter Sandman

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Comedy/Repurposed Footage

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SherclopPones’ Friendship is Witchcraft series

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Kilobitebrain’s Pinkie’s Drunk Kitchen

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Viraus2’s Twilight Chappelle Gets Racially Profiled

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Mic the Microphone’s Dethklok: The Battle For Best Pony

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mide25’s That Crazy Nastyass Pinkie Pie

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JHaller2’s The Ponydocks

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Babbercosplay’s Tengen Toppa Pony Lagann

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ZerilaFFXI’s Canterlot!

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Tumblrs (click images to go)

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 DocWario’s Ask Pia Ikea

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Egomanic’s Moonstuck

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SpeccySY’s Ask Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie

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UC77’s Ask Hot-Blooded Pinkie Pie

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Lolover’s Sketchy Twilight Sparkle

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=the-sweet-queen’s Ask Filly Twilight

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Illustrators (click images to go)

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Mysticalpha

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Dreatos

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Soapie-Solar

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Sweatshrit

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Veggie55

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Bamboodog

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JohnJoseco

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TomDanTheRock

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Fanfiction

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TheSlorg’s The Day My Beard Turned Into Pinkie Pie

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angelofrombelow’s The Great and Powerful Trixie Falls In Love With A Pinecone

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Mad Brochacho’s On the Docks

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What The Actual Fuck? (you’ve been warned)

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The Grand Gallopping Collab

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Ponykart Update Video 2

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FifthPlaceLosers’ One Direction

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HotDiggetyDemon’s Pony.MOV series (featured: Magic.MOV)

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One Terrible Writer’s Jack/Off (NSFW)

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Sleepless Brony’s Getting To Know Him (NSFW)

And that ends this collection of pony stuff! Sorry to end it in such a dark place lol. I may just update this post later and turn it into a full-on pony canon, or I may do it somewhere else, who knows.