Hey everyone. By now, I’m sure you’ve all heard the news about the update to our CoC and I just want to explain a few things, from the view of someone who adores Aryanne and Mare Fair both. I am always terrified of upsetting you guys because /mlp/ is my home the last thing I ever want is to have you guys mad at me. But here we go.

As you all know, we cannot continue to stay at the Rosen for a list of reasons that we cannot share at this time, but will share once we acquire a new venue. Per those concerns and some advice we received by our hotel contacts, a clarification of our CoC to make it clear we are in no way shape or form a neo-nazi con was needed, so as to not harm the people we work closely with and to allow Mare Fair to continue. Now, we know we aren’t a nazi con, and you all do as well. Everyone sane knows we are not. But people who literally have never heard of Mare Fair except the bad things have nothing else to go off on except accusations by the terminally online. As a result, we have been workshopping changes to our CoC to reflect the nature of our con. It was intended to be shown with a statement explaining the situation, but the CoC was leaked on Github before we could do it.

I want to start off by saying that his really is the same policy as the previous years, just in plainer english. It will be enforced as such. Mare Fair has always sort of banned Aryanne, but has stopped short of banning any blonde haired, blue eyed white mares, because without her CM, its not Aryanne. This is why if you displayed her CM in any way, you were asked to take her back to your room. This is why pink heart mares from the /mppp/ were not cracked down on, but the guy who had the full regalia lifesize Aryanne was told to please take it back to his room. Once you go a step further to define this blonde mare, that is when it becomes a problem, due to the (to say the least and putting it extremely lightly) divisive political nature of the symbols. It was a very simple thing to follow, but some people kept stepping over the line by either displaying her CM publicly or selling explicit merch of her with her CM, and each of those incidents did their part in hurting Mare Fair’s reputation.

The changes to our CoC allow us to make it clear that the divisive politics behind Aryanne and ALL other politics in general have no place at Mare Fair. Because that’s not what I go to pony cons for, and I hope you all don’t as well.

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