I think I started getting curious about it back in late 2010, around the time I think Bridle Gossip first aired, because I remember seeing fanart and screen caps of the episode popping up here on DeviantArt. Weird as it sounds though, I didn't actually connect those pictures to My Little Pony at the time because the style was so different than what I remembered of previous generations. My thought at the time was roughly "I don't know what that is, but it's apparently popular."



Then it went up on Netflix a little over a year later and I immediately connected the two along with the thought of "wait, this is what that was?" and figured I had nothing to lose by actually checking it out. Spent the early part of the first episode on the fence about the show, but was hooked after Rainbow's intro. Every preconception I'd had died the moment one of my favorite character personality types entered play. By roughly episode 7 or so I'd passed the point of no return, and when I finished season 1 I looked up the second one elsewhere. Caught up just before MMMystery on the Friendship Express officially aired so I was just in time for the season 2 finale.



Why I say I'll remember this show more fondly than most though is because I've never really had the same level of investment in other shows like I have this one. It's actually the first and only time I've been a somewhat active part of any sort of fandom. Between that, the small bit of artwork I've made, the stories I want to write, and just how generally amazing both the show and fandom are there just hasn't been anything else that has compared.