This Gift Just Ain’t Done Giving

I’m talking about My Little Pony, which I’ve become a much bigger fan of since the last tumblr post I wrote about it. Was season 2 that much better than season 1? Probably more like, spending more and more time with the ponies just made them grow on me more and more. But there’s also all these gifts it keeps giving me!

I love it when something that I enjoy is popular. It means there’s more stuff out there for me to enjoy, more people to talk to and relate to, etc. But this is something totally beyond the likes of Homestuck, which has an unimaginably vast internet fanbase, but only 2 people that I know have read it, and I can’t even bring myself to try and get others into it. 

On the flipside, for the first time ever, My Little Pony is the one show that *everyone I fucking know* likes. And I do mean *everyone,* with one exception, and he’ll surely like it if he ever gets around to watching it. This is amazing. I’ve always had a lot of difficulty getting offline friends to check out… just about anything. In this case, I didn’t have to—a few of my friends had already seen the show before I had. Then I got lucky and had other friends at my house while my brother and I were marathoning the show, and we managed to get everyone to enjoy at least some of it. I don’t need them to watch the whole show or anything: it’s enough that everyone is “in on it” so to speak. The brony culture has permeated my group of offline friends. If I can even rope my online friends into it, holy shit, holy shit.

So besides that, I’ve got a ton of easily rewatchable episodes, and the show is even still running. I have huge amounts of fan material, and some of it is just excellent (my favorite is still Canterlot!). Here’s something I never saw coming: the voice actress of Applejack and Rainbow Dash is the lead singer of a jazzy indie band called Hey Ocean! which is really surprisingly good. How the hell did I manage to get a band recommendation out of this?! I love it. 

Here’s to an awesome brony culture~