Old_Gray_Mare

Is it? The closest I found was one with a less foofy mane (and no yellow) and a single balloon. But if it's not, it's something really close.

Bootlegged? Pirated? How about thrifted, does thrifted count? I'm guessing she's legit (has a logo on the underside of a hoof). (Ergh, the tablet camera doesn't do well with that lighting. Sorry.)

Is that Celestria in... fishnets? (That's it, my new official exclamation on Taking Flight is "SWEET CELESTIA IN FISHNETS!")

It's a pretty decent way, but I imagine the success rate is much lower when you're talking about sites *specific* to romance. As in "real" life, romance works better when you aren't looking so hard for it. Better to find someone with interests in common on a site with less pressure and posturing. (Married twenty-two years and change to a guy I met on a dial-up bulletin board (look it up, kids!), long before "online dating" was a thing. OTOH, my sister has been married for some years to a guy she met on an online dating site. So even that does work out pretty well sometimes.)

Not necessarily, Corp. I mean, ask any Calvinist or neoCalvinist whether predestination* means you don't need to evangelize. (*NB predestination, in Calvinism, doesn't necessarily mean *all* events are predetermined. But still.)

There's a bit of a thing floating around in the roleplaying-game Twitterverse/blogiverse, and I think it's spread to (or as far as I know adopted from) other fandoms: "badwrongfun." The idea that because some game or play style isn't fun for you, someone else who plays that (or builds a fandom around, or whatever) is clearly having Bad Wrong Fun and must be stopped for their own good. Usually it's a silly thing to be arguing - if I wanna play hack-and-slash D&D and you wanna play deep-angsty-roleplaying D&D (or vice versa) neither of us is BWFing unless we're in the same game group. And sometimes when you point this out to folks, they''ll realize how silly it is to mandate what others find fun in. Other times not so much, and those are the folks you can safely classify as not worth listening to. (On t'other hoof, you don't want to flat-out dismiss all criticism as unfounded. Don't listen to anonymous haters, but if friends and family think you're getting too deep into a fandom, at least do a reality-check on yourself. Moderation is healthy. Take it from someone who's been around various fans and fandoms since before G1.)