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deviantart, fandom: my little pony, lovers on the astral plane

Just In Time For FW's Anniversary!
My friends:

I have just found a wank that arguably combines elements of three of the classic wanks recently featured in the Deathmatch: His Wife, A Horse, the Snapewives, and My Ponies Hate You Now.

Simply put: Deviant Art member Kevinsano specializes in My Little Pony art. However, another Bronie recently wrote him a letter asking him to curtail his more erotic MLP art, particularly art depicting Twilight Sparkle - because, argued this correspodent, he and Twilight Sparkle were engaged.

I'm totally head over heels in love with Twilight Sparkle. I have been for 11 months now and at this point I'm in a committed relationship with my Twiley.

Actual email reproduced here. MTV coverage here, and the AV club weighs in here.

Enjoy.

Updated: For your convenience, a dramatic reading of the letter, if you prefer podcasts...

Update the Second: The blushing bridegroom's account of his love story on the MLP fandom fora. (I couldn't get the link to the profile to work, so than you for this!) (Update of the update: link now goes to a Googlecache as the forum link proper stopped working.)

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duraniedrama
2013-03-23 08:53 pm UTC (link)

Is there a word for this particular phenomena? This falling in love with/having a relationship with a fictional character/imaginary friend type . . . thing? Because this keeps coming up, from the guy who wanted somebody's Sonic The Hedgehog Mary Sue brought through the astral plane so he could be with her, to the gal who had an 'elf guide' who she interacted with through a doll, to the Snapewives to Mrs. Sephiroth to . . . I think the list may indeed go on.

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	ekaterinv 2013-03-23 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	We need to think of a name. I can't, because I am on five (5!) painkiller-type drugs. But there must be a name! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bigbigtruck 2013-03-26 04:09 pm UTC (link)
	Skimmed too fast and read that as meaning "the name is 'being on 5 painkiller type drugs'" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ekaterinv 2013-03-27 11:38 pm UTC (link)
	Nah, these drugs are murder on one's sex drive. Let's slip this guy some. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	visp 2013-04-09 12:13 am UTC (link)
	Aw, too bad about whatever it is that's got you using all the painkillers. Hope you get better soon. (Reply to this)(Parent)

paladin
2013-03-23 11:37 pm UTC (link)

According to wikipedia, the term for falling in love with cartoon characters is Schediaphilia, although it's name-dropped in a casual unsourced way, and also lists Plushophilia as the love of plushies. A generalized category of love for fictional characters doesn't seem to exist, despite its long and glorious history. I would suggest mythophilia (from mythos=fictional), but urbandictionary already has that as the subset of zoophiles that love mythical animals.

Or you could lump it in with soulbonding and call it a day.

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	eilisliana 2013-03-23 11:47 pm UTC (link)
	A quick Google search suggests that obesession-based attraction to a fictional character is a sign of antisocial personality disorder because the person is forsaking a real human being for a fictional being. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	franzen 2013-03-24 05:19 am UTC (link)
	That would be odd and ... wrong, as antisocial PD is meant to be used to diagnose repeat criminal offenders who lack remorse. Antisocial has a different meaning in psychological literature. Link? Avoidant PD would be closer but the fandom participation and prior relationships conflict with the core of the diagnosis. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	keri 2013-03-25 12:32 am UTC (link)
	Do you mean clinical medical word? Because otherwise, it's just a version of otherkin to me - I mentally consider soulbonding/astral plane stuff to be a subset of otherkin, or maybe closely related? like instead of it being Joe who thinks he's Other, he's normal, it's his True Love who is Other. Or sometimes both. Seems to be closely linked, anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	the_sun_is_up 2013-03-25 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	Can we just call it "pathetic"? (Reply to this)(Parent)

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