This is the story about the happenings behind Celestianism , my character @Princess Celestia, and a little about the future of it.

What really happened to celestianism.com?

The page no longer exists, here is a small update on me and on what happened and what did not happen.

A little backstorry

I have been in the pony fandom for a very long time, actually longer than G4. The word Brony hadn't even come up back then. Then it was G3 and it was mostly small meetings where you showed your custom ponies, sold merchandise and generally had fun around the MLP theme.

Time passed and I got away from it all a bit. Remember at one point I saw the all new generation of MLP G4 in a toy store. I couldn't quite get the design, they were very different from their predecessors, with round heads and small mouse ears. Didn't think much more about it and time passed, without any interest from me.

At one point a colleague at my work showed cute pony pictures on the computer, we laughed and started sending pictures to each other. Mostly to tease other colleagues who thought we were incredibly childish. The ponies would appear on presentations or other material on work, It was really crazy I would say. For others not involved in it, it must have been a bit disturbing. Others asked if we where Bronies. Bronies? I had no idea of what that was at that time in my country. We had fun, do we need a name for it? Obviously, we must have been bronys and pegas, without even knowing it.

The thing is that it grew, there were more of us at work who thought this was great fun, a way to make work easier, we had so much fun. It became pony T-shirts, pony music at full volume, to the delight of other misunderstanding co-workers.

For me, the interest grew very strong, a lot more than for my workmates because I have real ponies to care for too. In other words, the horses and ponies has a big place in my life. Then why not go all in and also love the cartoon ponies with their cute stories?

Started going to local meetups with like minded people and it was a crazy fun time. We even had voice actors from our country who got involved in these little get-togethers. We were maybe only 10-15 ponies that showed up. It even went so far that one guy changed his last name to Fluttershy, I know he's still keeped that name today *lol*. How crazy is that? Unfortunately, this subsided quite early. Interest quickly waned for many in my country. There were slightly longer trips to meet others at conventions. But with less time and so on, it didn't happen that often.

confession time

-I've been here in the forums before of course (don't want to reveal myself) *smirk*

But happy to be back again anyway.

I've had many OCs over the years, in fact I don't even remember the earliest ones. That there have been many different OCs is mostly due to the different "friends" who have come and gone during this period. I've been very into the pony music genre, with collaborations and all that that entails, for better or for worse. But many times collaborations have started that took a lot of time, but never materialized. Much fun has been had, however, and much of the pony music is still out there.

Some music friends together started SombrasEmpire, a site we posted Pony music on. It had a weird ending, but that's a whole other story.

Back to Celestianism

There were already early parody pages created for Celestianism, where a religion mostly originating from Christianity was invented. None of the people who started this are probably still in the pony fandom as far as I know.

That's when I, together with Fireking, agreed to continue this journey. He had rewritten the "bible" for a pony convention, where he was father Fireking, blessing and marrying ponies in a silly, fun way during the convention. He even had the Bible in book form to buy. How crazy is that?

I joined the MLPforums as CelestiAlicorn and connected with a whole bunch of nice people who run this place. I was kindly offered to have my name Princess Celestia by the amazingly kind founder @Twilight Sparkle ✨ , for which I am extremely grateful. I will bear the responsibility and behave like the name I have been given to bear. It is not something you do without reverence. Celestia has both funny and serious sides, and I will take it upon myself to make conversation, as befits a royal Princess.

Together with some online friends and one of my close colleagues from my job. We launched the site Celestianism, exactly what we were going to fill it with and the purpose, was perhaps a little secondary, at that time. He was in charge of the server and I and a few others then built on the whole thing with stories and other things. @Ice Princess Silky joined as admin and we thought it would pick up interest.

Unfortunately, we had to remove the small mini-forum we had early because data storage laws and other stupid things, which my colleague did not want to take legal responsibility for.
When this happened, I lost contact with the others who had joined from the web. My time was also not enough to motivate others and make it a fun page that others wanted to follow. I know @Ice Princess Silky had other big commitments and a lot of other things was going on in her life, so really didn't want to nag or be inconvenient.

Final end of Celestianism.com

One day when I came to my job, my boss came in to see me. He looks serious and quietly sits down.
- I have to inform you that one of your former colleagues you worked with before has unfortunately passed away.
I went completely numb, I could guess even before he said it.
I had changed department and we worked in different places now, but at the same company. We didn't meet daily anymore.

My friend HoofWing had died at home that weekend of probably something with the heart. I know he struggled with his health before. But that it would end like this?
I couldn't believe it, my only remaining pony friend IRL where I live.

I decided I was done with all things cartoon ponies. Carrying on alone without being able to look at each other and smile, not seeing him in his silly t-shirts, it hurt too much.

So the payment for the site was not renewed, and it disappeared six months later.

Why back again?

Well I got an email from a friendly pony here @Ice Princess Silky
I can say I was skeptical to jump on MLP again, simply because I have a hard time to keep up and find time for it. But friendship always wins!
So glad you all wanted me back here again in the MLPForums!

What will happen now with Celestianism?

The idea is that it should not be based on any other religion, it is its own. Making a mock religion themed to resemble other religions is just stupid. It's just about, Friendship = Celestianism

Stories about friendship, about the joy of having each other as support. That we are all equally valuable, no matter where we come from or live.
That's what our princesses wanted all along, isn't it?

Friendship = Celestianism