Community Guests
Bay Area Brony Spectacular
The Best Guests From Around the Fandom!
Each year we bring in artists, animators, crafters, game makers, and YouTubers from the best parts of the fandom and give them the spotlight at BABSCon. Experience fanmade collaborations and creations, curated workshops and demonstrations, and slumber party activities all weekend long.
ACLP Films
ACLP Films is a SFM animator who brings pony-related content to life on YouTube. Combining skills in 3D animation, photography, graphic design, and motion graphics, ACLP Films creates captivating stories and visuals that engage fans across the MLP fandom. He's become a trailblazer for originality within the SFM Ponies niche, producing standout content like SFM music videos, comedic skits, and memes. Among his standout creations is the riveting "Squid Game (MLP Edition)" animation.
He's also a newcomer to the gaming scene, ACLP Films has does live-streaming games like VRChat and Gmod, and with his growing gaming series project called Arcadeverse Gaming, a series that explores fun and creativity in the gaming world. In his free time, he continues to hone his craft and share his unique visions, contributing to the fandom's creative spirit. Links: youtube twitter
Baron Engel
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: patreon deviantart bsky picarto
Bitter Karella
Bitter Karella is a genderfluid transvestite goblin, best known as the creator of the three time Hugo-nominated microfiction comedy account Midnight Pals which asks what if all your favorite horror writers were to gather around the campfire and tell scary stories like in the classic Nickelodeon series “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” Midnight Pals has had three successfully crowdfunded collections and is currently being adapted as an audio podcast. Karella writes gonzo psycho-sexual body horror with a grotesquely humorous edge. His short story “Low Tide Jenny,” originally published in Seize the Press magazine, was a winner of the Brave New Weird award for best new weird fiction of 2022 by Tenebrous Press. Her weird western novella, "The Ballad of Horse Girl," is available as part of Split Scream 5 from Tenebrous Press, and his debut horror novel, "Moonflow," will be published by Orbit's Run For It imprint in September 2025. Links: Website
Chocolate Pony
Choco has been with BABSCon since the early days having helped design the con's logo and some of the original mascots. Choco runs TransformARTive and ConHistory which is dedicated to researching, preserving, and promoting fandom history and transformative works. They are also known as Bash the Pinata in other circles. Links: youtube x
Confetti Joy
Confetti Joy is a Brony and Super Duper Party Pony! She has been cosplaying since 2019 and Pinkie Pie is her favorite pony and favorite cosplay! You may have seen her recently as Pinkie Pie Deadpool. Outside of being a brony, she’s a trained actress and performer, who entertains dressed as Disney princesses and other iconic characters at kids birthday parties and other similar events. She also works at a small business candy store. It’s obvious the positive impact Pinkie Pie has made on her life. Spend some time with Confetti and there is sure to be laughter, because Joy is her middle name! Links: instagram
Corpulent Brony
Corpulent Brony is a video editor, podcaster, fandom journalist, website operator, and convention runner. His current projects include Pony.Tube, pone.social, Twibooru, /mlp/ con, and Mare Fair. Links: pone
CosmicKeyframe Productions
CosmicKeyframe is a ponycon staple! Whether in the vendor hall, on a panel stage, or auctioning off doo-dads for charity, you'll see her around! She has done multiple voice roles for fandom projects and audioplays, and has been around the pony fandom since Twilight got her wings! Be sure to say hi, with DIRECT eye contact Links: youtube
Crackle’s Cousin Cosplay
Crackle's Cousin Cosplay is a Master Level Champion Cosplay Team that you have seen as mascots, cosplay judges, interactive panel hosts, and CGs for the MLP con circuit. They are a true family at is core, seeking to inspire through creativity. Links: facebook instagram bsky x
Dawn Somewhere
Dawn Somewhere is responsible for "Rainbow Dash Presents", a series of facetious fanfiction stories featuring a heavily adulterated version of Rainbow Dash reading, and deeply misinterpreting, some of the fandom's most infamous fanfictions. He also created the Mentally Advanced Series, which ran forward and backwards as an abridged series, then as animated shorts. He is joined this year by The World Famous Artisan Bubblegum to bring you animation, humor, and wargames. Links: dawnsomewhere
DustyKatt
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. Links: twitter
Hibiscus Stitch
It’s Hibiscus Stitch’s 20th sewing anniversary! She has been sewing since 2005, vending at con’s since 2015, and has been with the fandom since the start. She makes professionally designed and lovingly hand crafted plushies as well as con vlogs and plush making shorts. She hopes to encourage more people to give their art dreams a try, fully believing that anyone can sew! Links: instagram youtube tiktok bsky
JHaller
JHaller has been creating MLP video content since 2011. Among his more known projects are the Ponies the Anthology series, the top ten pony videos, and Brownies React. These days he's still making Anthology content, and participating in convention panels such as bad fan fiction readings with this friends. Links: youtube
Kariana Keyes
Illustrator, Sewist, and most notably known as a cosplayer, Kariana Keyes is prepped to have creativity unleased and share how we together can tell and share stories of our favorite pony characters, and beyond!
Constantly crafting new and inspired outfits for the colorful horse characters and the colorful NOT HORSES (Equestria Girls), thanks to the help of coffee consumption and Jo-Ann Fabrics coupons, she's PINKIE PIE PUMPED to share with others how she cleverly composed her own art of getting creative with cosplay from years of her art student and convention going experience! Links: deviantart
Minty Root
The mintiest of roots, it's Canadian fan animator and industry professional Minty Root!
You may remember him for his work on projects such as Bright Eyes in the Thunderclouds, My Little Pony: Missing Out, The Beginning of Harmony and many more. Links: mintyroot
Petirep
I am Petirep, the artist formally known for animating Rainbow Dash Presents with Dawn Somewhere and making album art for Monstercat. Now I work as a professional animator, illustrator, and video editor for a cooperative agency in Spokane, thanks to my art career that stated right here in the Brony fandom. I've been involved with the Brony fandom since its early days of Season 1, and have seen it evolve into the fandom it is today! Links: x instagram
Pony For Hire
Back in 2015, Pony for Hire (PfH) was a pony ask blog on tumblr with no friends. Eventually some MLP DJs dragged him to his first convention late that year and after realizing how hype these events were PfH could not stop going to them. Now over 25 conventions (and 50+ panels) later. While everything changed the name never did- so PfH is back to BABSCon and ready to entertain, preform and party with everyone! Links: Website
Scootertrix
Hello. I'm the creator of the G1 Abridged Series and Scootertrix the Abridged. I also like playing board games. Links: youtube x bsky
Silver Quill
Back at Babscon's start, Silver Quill was just starting out in the Brony fandom. Now he's a recognized face in the convention scene. Creating video reviews that are equal parts slapstick and insight, he offers a fresh look at old episodes. Comic creator, livestreamer, Equestria Daily contributor, and universal punching bag, Silver is a Brony for all seasons. He's proud to be a regular at Babscon and helps spread the celebration of "Continuity!" Links: youtube deviantart twitch bsky x
Taylor Bowe-Mcardle
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 podcast on Twitch called “The Taylor & Co Hangout Podcast” every other Tuesday night that centers around fun topics he and his fellow co-hosts discuss about the fandom. He also does a variety of panels at cons such as ‘Pony Life is Magic’, ‘Glimmer Gang Unleashed’ and ‘My Little Match Game’ to name a few. As you can tell from his outfit, he is a huge fan of a certain character that, well…shows off the “Glimmer Gang” pride. Links: twitter
The Black Hole Crew
Sharpen your Bat'leths and break out the blood wine as the crews of the IKV Bloodlust and IKV Midnight Dagger return to finally finish off the BABSCon ponies for good!
Stop by the one and only Black Hole Bar this April -- 4/20 is a good day to die! Links: facebook
The Illustrious Q
In March of 2011, a fairly quiet Brony known as The Illustrious Q watched his first brand new episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, “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 much 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 that 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 become the Brony Fandom's IDW MLP Comic Expert! Links: bsky
The Looney Turtle
Erik and looney have been making analysis and speculation videos on the internet for well over a decade talking about cartoons and videos games from all walks of life. From gravity falls, to five nights at Freddy's, they've talked about it all. They have also found themselves in the company of the rift cafe; a collaborative YouTube channel of analysts, voice actors, artists and more. With hijinx galore in their "meanwhile" series and an ongoing narrative about this titular cafe among the stars! Links: ThelooneyTurtle imdb youtube
ZizzyDizzyMC
ZizzyDizzyMC (Princess Cadence) is a cybersecurity engineer known for starting The Pony Archive. She specializes in hard drives, but when the time for a convention comes she dons her suit and it's time to Ca-DANCE! It's about the smiles, the entertainment, the hype. Living in the moment and making the best of it! Links: x