Hi everyone! My name is Lolk, though I haven't gone by that name since maybe 2016, when I kinda fell off mlp as a fandom. It had consumed basically every free moment of my leisure time and creativity since finding out about it, and once the fandom seemed to die down a bit around that time, I experienced a truly epic level of burnout on it. It wouldn't be until this year that I got back into it.
A friend of mine, as a joke, convinced me and another friend of ours (someone who had zero familiarity with mlp) to play the equestria at war mod for hearts of iron 4, since it was a free weekend. We had spent a long time making a lot of jokes at the expense of hoi4 players, and then we played 36 hours of it across two weeks. The map game is unfairly addicting, honestly.
That had the side effect of reawakening the mlp obsession like a sleep agent, however. And now I am dipping a toe (or hoof, I suppose) back into things, and to my surprise y'all are all still here! This makes me very happy. I'm currently working on writing a fanfic, my first real attempt at fanfic since I recently graduated from only being able to write in RP to actual novel-prose. Aside from that, I'm also poking around my old haunts and seeing who is still around.
Nice to meet everyone!