I am a deep into the Fighting Games and into the FGC (fighting game community), I was no close to anything close to MLP, I showed some weakness against super cute things like Sonic's Chaos or puppies or... well ladies but nothing out of the ordinary.
Surfing the sources of videos and news of the FGC I stumble across the Fighting Is Magic project, as many of the subjects in the community my first reaction was WTF WHY YOU PASTEL HORSES IN MY GAMES?!!!! you know the stuff but I like to be critic and objective so I gave set some serious eyes on the project. To my surprise the game looked very good, the characters had unique set of moves, the mechanics of the game were very well applied and the character looked charming. I was like “woa woa woa who the hell is doing this and why” the answer was found soon after “Fans” people who liked this cartoon show for little girls was making this... no profit intended... just passion??? Too good to be true right...
For some time I was reluctant to the idea, the brony legends of the INTERNET were also too over of the top to believe but The game was good, legit good, and for all the time a group of people just mash into creating something this good...WHY? I finally decided to watch the show starting with EP 1 and 2... I must be true I didn't like em too corny and close to what I expected, yet the world was “interesting” the goddess moving the moon and sky, the possibilities of legends beyond that one of the “Mare in the moon” so I kept watching, EP 3 was a lot better and then the otheres wen between good and ok, the songs were catching and the character grew up in me, soon I was looking for more and discovered how explosively creative the fandom is.
I tried something I always wanted, show the ideas in my mind to others, I got commissions in DA and started writing my own ideas, soon later the RP stuff grew in me giving in exchange lots of fun and awesome people I now consider as friends, distance doesn't matter.
Thats my story sadly it didn't worked as I wanted, while the people and ponies are awesome the same project that got me into this got shot down, if I was not in the fandom I wouldn't care, I would have play the new product and test it out, but now that my heart has a cuttie mark engraved deep, I really would like to buck all your tails with Applejack on on line battles... *sigh*