It was two years ago that FiM first aired. I wasn't there in the beginning, but I heard it's story not long after I joined the herd. It's hard to believe that one angry news article and the faith and dedication of one woman's fans created all this.

If you were to tell my child self that My Little Pony would be favorite show someday I'd be perplexed, mainly because I didn't even know there was a cartoon, to me they were just those kinda cool colorful little toys you get in Happy Meals. Yes I had them, and yes I liked them. My Parents were never the kind of people that pushed boy and girl toy category's, heck my older sister grew up on TMNT action figures. You should have been there to hear my Dad's "GI Joe is Barbie for boys" speech, it involved the phrases "hair down to her butt" and "packing an M60 machine gun". You never realize how many good memories you have until you really look back do ya?

Flash forward to November of 2011, and you have me from not long ago. Fresh out of high-school and taking advantage of my new found "muck about on the internet" time. Now, one one of my hobbies is video game collecting, which incidently helped me find bronydom. I was browsing the RFgeneration forums as usual, checking out the "what are you watching right now thread"(I'm sure you've seen those even on here). Someone mentioned they were watching it and I jokingly said maybe I should give it a shot to see it it's really that good. They actually sincerely recommended it. Well, I kinda put it in the back of my mind and moved with my day.

A little later I joined Digitalpress and found it mentioned there too, I was really getting intrigued by this point so I hit up Tvtropes and did my research. The more I read the more interested I became. I browsed some fanart, and generally tested the currents before diving in the the show. I eventually got a new laptop with a bigger HDD and thought "now is as good a time as any". I downloaded season one of FiM as well as "Army of Darkness"(childhood favorite).

The next night I was getting ready to put pizza on and thought "I'll watch one before I eat". In 22min I was going "not bad". In another 22min I was in the living room "I just watched My Little Pony and it was actually good". I will say I don't know weather to be happy or terrified no one around me finds my newfound love of ponies odd.

Well I dived in because I though the show was cool, I started reading fanfic and doing fanart, I just generally had fun with it.

Fast-forward to even later and was come to where I realized how much more than just another show and fandom this was. I stumbled upon a sad fic called "A Filly's Final Dream", popped on "Temporary Home" and started reading. I first I only felt a pang of sadness, but it got stronger and stronger until my tears burst out. At first I cried with the story, but them my thoughts drifted to my sister that passed a few years ago. I had never cried for her, but right then as how much I really missed her set in, I cut loose. It felt like a release to let all of it out after all these years. I felt something else too, I felt hope and faith as that part of me was finally let out. It felt like something was telling me it would be okay, that she found her way home. I bet I sound crazy right now saying this about ponies.

All I can say after all this is thanks to all of you that made this show and community possible. These characters and places my not be real, but a part of them exists in every soul that ever brought them to life.