11/17/2012

Ponies have taken over my life.

My wife is a Closet Broney from getting insulted on her first and only meet up. It was so bad, she wanted me to stop going for a long time. The local forum we are a part of Messaged her a crap ton to make her feel better. It worked, but she still does not want to go. I stopped going even tho I was the Meet up and Events Mod at the time. She wanted nothing to do with the fans, going so far as to get mad when I tryed to show her cool art of any kind, or a funny comic. All she wanted was to watch the show with me. She could not understand why i was still a part of the forum. 

A year later Im a Global Mod and a major part of the forum, and my wife was unhappy and even got really mad at me for checking on it a lot. She understands im a GM and I need to do my part. It still annoyed her for a long time. 

Now the staff is having a party and an Admin’s house My wife is going…

The only reason she is Ok with it is the Admin hosting said Its a party not a meet up and that he will kick people out that make fun of her. 

The best part, my family is Ok with my Ponies. They even are making  Keychins using Blind Bags. My room mate made Luna Stickers for my car. 

Im so obsessed with My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic. Its a part of my every day life. It helped get over my fear of people, and I know so many nice people. I smile more. Im 27, and my 3 year old sister (dont ask!!) and I will watch the show. Even tho she will not eat or doing anything when its on… But still! 

Now its been two years and Im still going strong with my love of Ponies. Im Love Pinkie and I act like Twilight. I have been wanting to tell my story for a long time and I think this a good place. 

Thanks for doing this. I love it. Keep up the good work! You Are Awesome. Never let any one tell you other wise. 

Since I started watching this show I have lost 55lbs and got a job. It might not be the show directly but I can’t help but think that it has something to do with me turning my life around…

Thank you Ponies!

The show used to depress me a bit, because I had no friends and I saw myself as Twilight: all day reading and trying to learn new things to be a better and smarter person, but she had so many friends!.. So I just start thinking “I can do it!” I didn’t had to change myself at all, just came to talk to people on school, smile and be polite, now I can say I have a true friend and some classmates and I’m very grateful to Twilight for show me that I don’t have to be afraid to make friends

(This is not exactly a confession, is more a shout-out. It’s is also kinda long, so i may have to send it in two parts, sorry about that) A couple of weeks ago i was on my way to home from college, when a stranger tried to steal my backpack. I had my laptop with weeks of works and essays, so i struggled with him. Suddenly, this guy took a knife from one of his pockets and stabbed me in the ribs, twice. I ended up on the floor, bleeding, while he was checking my backpack right in front of me…

Suddenly, a guy came running towards us and kicked the burglar in the head. Then, he turned to me and said “Bro, y’all right?” After that, i fainted. The next thing i know, is that i woke up in an hospital, my wounds were stitched, and the doctor told me that someone called 911, and they found me in the floor, covered in blood, but with my wounds bandaged with a t-shirt. He showed the shirt to me. It was a RD shirt. You, fellow brony, saved my life. Thank you.

My little pony has made my life so much better. Through the community and the show, I have found myself much happier than I use to be. And I thank Lauren Faust and all the Bronies/Pegusister for that. 

I discovered MLP right after my girlfriend, the only one person I truly loved and still love, left me. Thanks to the ponies I was able to smile again, to keep all the good memories with my beloved in my mind and to forget the bad ones. Thank you, MLP.

I would like to share the story of how I found the fandom:

Less than a week after the season 2 finale aired, I was browsing youtube and I kept noticing all these MLP videos. (At the time, I was of the opinion that bronies were just odd, but I wasn’t a hater at all.) Eventually, I saw this one video called Shed.Mov. I then said, “Huh, this looks like a parody, I’ll give it a look.” I found it disturbingly hilarious, but I didn’t quite get it completely. A couple days afterwards, I said to myself, “Ok, to hell with it, I’ll look at the show.” I was expecting to turn it off after 45 seconds. Those 45 seconds turned into ten minutes, those then became the two-part intro, which became the first season, and then the second season. Now I make fan-art, I follow many tumblrs, and I tuned in live to watch the season 3 premier. So, in short, Shed.mov made me a brony and I still follow the .mov series. Thank you Max Gilardi for .mov, thank you Hasbro for an epic show and thank you PonyConfessions for a place to share this stuff.