Community Guests

Hello every-pony! We’re Step 2 Harmony, a Texas based cosplay and dance group! Founded in 2017, we have accumulated nearly 30 million views on our YouTube channel where we post our dance covers, and original choreography. We dance to songs mostly from the MLP and Equestria Girls franchise, but have recently started branching off into JPop as well! We’re so excited to be at our first ever Everfree Northwest, and can’t wait to meet everyone!

Saberspark is a Youtuber who does animation analysis and reviews on his channel. With an audience of nearly a million subscribers, Saber tries to provide fun and informative content for his viewers.

YouTube - https://youtube.com/user/Saberspark

ACRacebest is a mechanical engineer best known for his Youtube series “Bronies React”. He specializes in destroying cars, trying to be funny, and wishing he had a pizza. With an accumulated 37 million views online, he continues to produce comedy sketches, vlogs, and more, while entertaining live audiences on multiple stages and venues. There’s also a rumor that he’s fond of Zootopia.

Keep an eye out during the convention as Race is known to vlog his adventures.

Youtube: https://youtube.com/user/ACRacebest

Sara (aka Toodles) is an artist, podcast host, and professional wife to ACRacebest. Sara started her MLP journey by getting her husband into the show, and has been on a wild ride ever since.

She is best known for her appearances in the YouTube series “Bronies React,” being one of many hosts on “The Semi-Perfect Podcast,” and as behind-the-scenes coordinator of a majority of the “Hooves Line” panels throughout multiple conventions.

At EFNW 2020 you’ll most likely find her getting yoked by carrying various pieces of camera equipment from panel to panel.

Deviantart: https://deviantart.com/toodles3702

Hobbyist cosplayer, board game enthusiast, and physicist, Cosmic Melody began her cosplaying journey at her first BronyCon in summer 2012. Since then, she has worked hard to learn new skills and create a wide variety of custom costumes. Cosmic Melody is most often recognized for her Adagio Dazzle, Countess Coloratura, Midnight Sparkle, and Princess Luna cosplays.

Cosmic Melody also goes by Laura and is a regular member of the Semi-Perfect Podcast. At EFNW 2020, you can probably find her in the vendor hall spending an irresponsible amount of money on pony plushies

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LauraWishCosplay
Instagram - https://instagram.com/cosmic_melody_cosplay/

Earth-Pony has been in the fandom since 2011. His discovery of the show coinciding with new-found access to a laser cutter through a college makerspace. Pony-themed projects proved to be a perfect source of inspiration, and over time he fine-tuned an approach for creating highly detailed wood laser etches. Motivated by a desire to contribute to the brony community, Earth-Pony began connecting with other fans and eventually had the opportunity to create many unique pieces in collaboration with some of the most talented artists in the fandom. He remains committed to perfecting his craft and to pushing the boundaries of laser cut art.
Etsy: https://earth-pony.com/
DeviantArt: https://earth-pony.deviantart.com/

Called a “Renaissance Man” by Tabitha St. Germain, Chocolate Pony (aka SouthParkTaoist) is known for their art and academic style history and analysis panels in the fandom scene. Having done design work for entertainment companies, military units, universities, and companies, they now are known at conventions for their booth of tarot cards, flags, badges, and enamel pins. Currently they host the Zootopia Minute podcast and the TransformARTive YouTube channel which looks into the history and analysis of narrative art, and their Convention History book project which tracks the evolution of pop culture events. Outside the fandom they studied genetic biology at Johns Hopkins University and published history books with Arcadia Publishing and History Press ranging from the history of military school education to the visual novel industry.

Fiaura is a scientist and writer, she build panels based upon questions asked by those within fandoms and tries to figure it out with SCIENCE! Doing this she has built hundreds of panels and dozens of videos ranging from Battletech to Anime to Ponies. Wanna know how old the ponies are? She's got that. Want to have some science on Pinkie Pie? She's got that. In addition to all of this, she is a writer and publisher for Fallout: Equestria books as well as other content around her books on Fallout: Equestria - Dead Tree. She is currently working on the 4th book! If you wanna ask about the FoE universe, she might just have the answer or where you should look.

A brony since the start of the fandom and avid boozenthusiast for nearly as long, Sky is currently a vendor at various conventions, though mostly pony, and can easily be found at the bar or around trains.

Igor, as a fan of the show since late 2011, has two long term goals in the fandom. The first is to create fashionable formal-wear accessories with which to allow ponies to be brought into nearly any working environment, and through this to ever so slowly elevate the fashion of the fandom at large. This may be a slow process, but it's certainly a worthwhile one. Now with the addition of two lasers, the inexhaustible pursuit of lasering ponies on all sorts of things is in full swing as well.
The second is, accepting the inevitable AI singularity and our eventual cybernetic overlords, to help make sure that there is pony present there as well. To this end, he has built a virtual reality simulation of Ponyville, with close to a hundred AI ponies, and a slowly expanding series of quests. A demo of this fledgling virtual world will be running at his vendor hall table via an Oculus Rift and the magic that is modern technology. Donning the headset it is possible for anyone to temporarily abandon their current existence and take on the form of a diminutive equine avatar.

Baron Engel has been a free-lance illustrator since the late 1980s. He’s done illustration work for books, magazines and comics; along with concept design for video games and preproduction art for film and television. He's been involved in various fandoms since 1989. However in 2011 he discovered Friendship is Magic, and fell in love with it and the fandom that supports it. Today Baron along with his wife run a freelance art company called Smudgemarks and Engelwerks. His current interests include lucid dreaming, storytelling, history, aviation, 5th Edition D&D, military history, motor vehicles, cooking, reading, good coffee, fine spirits, and world-building.
Links:
Company store: https://www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BaronEngel?ty=h
Deviant Art: http://baron-engel.deviantart.com/
Picarto: https://picarto.tv/baronengel

Dustykatt – The Man, the Myth………

Legend? Probably not, you see he is just a goofball doing his thing and taking people along for the crazy ride that is his life.

Over the years of this wild Brony fandom, he's been an original member of Bronies React, played the Australian in the TF2 Analysis Anarchy series, voice acted as Thatch in the Thatch and Dial YouTube series alongside Mandopony as well as parts in the East Corp productions of Fallout Equestria. Luximus also recruited him for to play a hot dog vender in her animation series Allister and Melody.

His Voice acting roles lead to Book narration and also on camera opportunities. Being cast in a Metallica music video and playing a heavy in a student film out of San Francisco.

He is most proud of his Livestream show “Stay Brony My Friends” which over the years interviewed many people in the fandom as well as many who worked on My Little pony: Friendship is Magic directly, raising over 50,000 dollars for charity during it's run.

His passion for music lead him to begin guitar building, starting with a replica of Sunset Shimmer's guitar from Rainbow Rocks. He has built many to date, more in the Cigar Box variety. Basing the themes of each guitar he builds in the MLP world.

He now travels to conventions to entertain on stage during such panels as Bronies React, Hooves line is it anyway and Script readings. Leading VIP panels as well as Charity Auction duties that he shares whenever he can with his good pal Foalpapers.

It's rather worrying to Foaly to realize that in what seems like the blink of an eye, they've now somehow been a fan of candy-colored magical ponies for well over a decade, and that their first time attending EFNW was way back in 2012. How time flies! In the intervening years, they've presented on the links between FiM and Greek mythology at academic conferences and fan cons around the world; moderated Q&A and other panels with the franchise Powers That Be; co-hosted and helped organize numerous charity auctions; and generally run around a lot in a perpetual unspecified befuddled rush. Online, they've participated in a variety of livestreams, podcasts, and shows; actively helped shape the fan community on Twitter; and tracked the fandom’s charity and convention endeavors across a range of overly-complicated spreadsheets. Foaly continues to enjoy tea and Jaffa cakes, and still finds it odd to describe themself in the third person. You can find them on Twitter as @foalpapers. Art by Britt of Moonbeam Designs.

Taylor has been a part of the brony fandom since 2016 after a close friend told him about the show when he needed it the most. He is seen by the community as a positive influencer, friend to all, and is well recognized for supporting community artists and vendors. He hosts a hangout event in the BlepCon discord server called “Webcam Hangout” every Tuesday night to give folks that “being back at a con feeling” virtually. As you can tell from his outfit, he is a huge fan of a certain character that, well…shows off the “Glimmer Gang” pride. Whenever he isn’t fantasizing about Starlight Glimmer, he is also heavily invested in auto racing. You can always find him on Twitter talking about any and all things…..yeah you get the idea.

PaleoSteno is a YouTuber known for making vlogs on all sorts of subjects from cartoons, movies, video games and of course, ponies. He's often worked together with Saberspark on projects such as The Brony Chronicles and co-hosts with him on podcasts. He has also been a recurring guest on ACRacebest's Bronies Reacts series.

In March of 2011, a fairly quiet Brony known as The Illustrious Q watched his first brand new episode of MLP: Over a Barrel. This was of course after binging the entire first season up to that point. While he was, at the time, content to let other more more interested/energetic people make their mark in the fandom something was about to happen which would change everything. It wasn't the Fire Nation attacking, but IDW Publishing announcing a new My Little Pony Comic Series at SDCC 2012 had arguably as much of an impact on him. Minus the being frozen in ice for a century bit. Never one for half measures, The Illustrious Q swore an oath to collect every single MLP comic produced by IDW on that fateful day. Little did he realize that his quest for perfection would eventually lead him to Equestria Daily as their resident IDW MLP Comic Expert, MLP convention reporter, and chief interviewer!

Surveying the scene in 2012, Silver Quill didn't become a full-on fan of the show until he saw the level of creativity it inspired. Beginning with comics before launching a YouTube channel, he has gained a following and become a contributing figure on Equestria Daily, Bronies React, the MBS Show, and his own 'After the Fact' series. Combining classical themes, modern-day culture, and slapstick, Silver Quill is one of the premier reviewers and a familiar face in the convention scene.

Joining the fandom in 2011, Allyster is a big fan of pony content and community creators. Joining EqD a few years later as the artist he helped design many of the things you see around the site and artwork for Spotlight Splash and Rocket Tier. Allyster also contributes articles, news, and interviews, as well as convention coverage for the site.

Allyster's fave pone is Fluttershy and has been since the beginning. He is also a big fan of Fallout Equestria and often draws artwork for many of the characters from that universe.

Love is all you need.