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Anypony into roleplaying get in here and get into “The Ministry of Sound.”

See you there ;]

Just the idea that this is even a thing, there’s this temptation to

you know

go on as Terezi there

W41T TH1S 1SNT TROLLM3GL3

MY T3XT T4ST3S WRONG >:[

WHO 4R3 YOU P3OPL3

2012-1-4

I really DON’T KNOW, but if I had to throw out a bullshit guess I’d have to say it was Esrever’s fault.

He’s a mod on the MSPA forums who frequented the main comic chat threads and such.  One day, he abruptly changed his avatar to Applejack, and started favorite pony arguments all over the main threads (in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way).  That was the first I’d ever heard of MLP:FIM.  People were changing their avatars to other ponies and such in this “which is the best pony” war, and others were just mystified as to what the whole deal was.

Then, a week or two later, Esrever changed his avatar back to normal, and pretended it had never happened at all when asked.  It was all quite intentionally hilarious.

That series of events, in particular, is what got me off my ass to see what all this pony business was.  I’ve watched it all since, and it’s pretty cool.

I guess you could also say that Homestuck itself has a rather cute style + relentless lightheartedness about it, and that the forums have perpetuated the golden rule of “FRIENDSHIP IS PARAMOUNT” throughout much of the fanbase, even before MLP was a thing.  The image manips and gifs and fanart, too…  Our fandoms were extremely similar to begin with, even if the objects of their worship were two radically different things.

I guess it’s a culture intersect, really.

EDIT:  Changed this to a photo/screencap so it’s rebloggable.  HAHA AS IF ANYONE WOULD

2011-9-26