Greetings everypony! I'm 25, and a female (Even though my favoritist pony OC is male. I blame that on not enough boy ponies to go around when I was little.) I'm a pony collector that also enjoys comics, anime, video games an' you know, the usual junk. I actually left the MLP fandom long ago. I still collected occasionally, my love for toys kept me doing that, but the forums and superfans were just too much. A friend of mine showed me FIM quite some time ago. I wasn't so sure about it at first. Because, for all the nostalgia, the original MLP cartoons were admittedly terrible and the newer straight-to-dvd movies Hasbro has put out previous to FIM have been even worse. Buuuuuuut . . . after the first episode I couldn't stop watching it for some reason. I found out a short time later when I researched it, that Lauren Faust was the creator and THAT made sense. I've been a fan of Powerpuff Girls and Foster's since ever. Well, anyway. I've been lurking around chans and a bunch of brony sites for a long time. I figured I figured I should join a forum so I be around likeminded people and didn't have to argue with "purists" on deviant art that poo-poo about how the new style isn't the 80's style when they clearly have never watched an episode.