CurtisWildcat

What do you get when you combine a 100% lack of experience with rhythm games, a near-total inability to keep up with the songs, a tendency to hit the wrong keys no matter how they're set, and a love of EG-centric music? Two examples of casual failure! >^_^< In all seriousness I'm only on here once in a great while, so I'm glad I caught this event when I did.

I copied and pasted this from my experiences listed in this post on Fimfiction, because it'll just take way too long for me to type this out otherwise. Technically speaking I don't call myself a "brony", per se, but this is still a good place for me to talk about how I became interested in MLP in the first place, so there you go. >^_^< -------- Throughout my life, I avoided My Little Pony like the plague. Part of this was because I was always under the impression that it was aimed solely at girls, while the rest of it was because--if my online handle wasn't enough of an indicator--I preferred felines over equines (as an example, I became interested in Sailor Moon as a kid solely because of Luna and Artemis). I never really felt comfortable getting involved with MLP; I didn't even know that successive generations were a thing. That started to change in late 2014, early 2015 or thereabouts. I'd been obsessed with Touhou Project-related stuff back then (and to a lesser degree still am), so when I heard about then-Screw Attack's One Minute Melee between Sakuya Izayoi and Dio Brando, I went to watch it as soon as I could. When I followed this up with watching reaction videos, I started noticing not just that several who'd seen that particular fight were interested in MLP, but also that "Starscream Vs. Rainbow Dash" was a thing. So I watched the fight, watched reactions to it on YouTube (most notably those of Shanmul1995 and DYWTBA_Brony), and gradually became interested in what I was seeing. At this point, I decided to test the waters a little bit and checked into a certain set of fan animations (and reactions, of course) I'd heard about through TV Tropes but didn't look at too closely. It wasn't guaranteed to be factually accurate, but it would still give me an inkling of what I was getting into. Turnabout ever-loving Storm. I was on to something here. I continued reading stuff on TV Tropes about the show and recaps of the episodes, seeking out stuff that would interest me. I kept myself limited to stuff that I found either cool or funny (the latter mostly revolving around Pinkie Pie, as expected). The major downside to this, of course, is that due to my fairly narrow search criteria, the bulk of the episodes I haven't touched; the 100th episode is the only one that I've sat down and watched from beginning to end, if only because I like it when secondary/background characters get more fleshed out in personality. Admittedly, this is why I don't call myself a brony. To me, being a brony would require a certain dedication or obsession with the show that I lack, being willing to maintain an interest in MLP that at least surpasses just casual observation, and I don't have that. When it comes to entertainment, I prioritize cats, professional sports (the Detroit, MI-area, to be more specific), and Touhou over almost everything else. ----- There's a lot more that I didn't mention, but you're welcome to check the link up there if you want to read the whole thing. As an addendum, I'm not quite as addicted to Touhou as I used to be, and I've gotten a bit more into MLP since then (I'd have to, if I wanted to write halfway decent fanfiction).

I'll admit to being partial to Applejack. To quote from a similar post I made at Everypony years ago, "Honesty's kind of a big thing for me, especially following my (slightly) more rebellious teenage years." And that accent of hers hits home: when my grandma was alive, she talked pretty much the same way that AJ does.

Got a bunch of pony OC's, but I'll limit myself to three of them here. None of these were drawn by me---my art abilities are mediocre at best, so I prefer not to. The first is Gray Ghost. Pegasus and proud mother of four children (plus one cat). Due to... circumstances that took place when she was very young, her thinking gravitates more towards "cat" than "pony" if she's not in a stressful situation, and she often behaves like one. Her Cutie Mark is a pair of cat's eyes. Her picture was drawn by EvanRank at DeviantArt. The second is Drama Heart, alias Burning Salamandra. A professional puppeteer and illusionist, she runs a small horror theater in Manehattan called The Pyre of Fears. Often off her rocker. Gray Ghost is one of her few real friends. Her Cutie Mark, unseen in the picture, is a flaming tragedy mask. This picture was also drawn by EvanRank. The third picture is Ebony Evening, or just "Eebon". She's one of Gray's children. She aspires to be an exterminator, and tends to spend her allowance money on things like mousetraps, roach motels, and cans of bug spray. Her Mark is a crossed flyswatter and spray can. Her coat's supposed to be pitch black, but I gave the artist carte blanche to lighten it. Her picture was drawn by CyanLightning, also at DeviantArt. (An addendum: For some reason, the pictures I have of Ebony just don't like to show up on websites outside of Imageshack. If it shows a filename instead, you may have to click that instead to bring it up.)