So I've been poking around in this thread and it got me thinking about when I first joined the site and, by extension, when I first came into the whole "pony" business.

I remember the first pony-centered site I ever visited, months before I would ever watch the show: FiMFiction. I found out about that glorious site whilst reading through Fallout Equestria and decided to give it a shot. Not knowing what to expect, I tapped up on the search bar and checked out the tags. For some reason, I was smitten with the "Romance" tag, so I found a couple short stories and dug in.

These were some weird characters. Apparently there was some white unicorn who spoke in an English accent and a rainbow pony who everyone seemed to think was a lesbian. Don't get me started on the hick family or the sugar-addict. All in all, it was a weird time. But it was also a glorious time. I was discovering all of these characters not through the show but through the eyes and minds of people who loved it. These characters had surprising depth and feeling and, for the most part, similar characteristics carried between stories. These were interesting and fresh to me, and that summer was spent scrolling through FiMFiction on my little smartphone's screen.

Then I watched the show and all of my newly established headcanon's went to shit. The end.

-Kolth