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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Because why not. One bona fide brony story.

Picture a young man doing badly at university, having only semi-voluntarily left most of his previous life behind because of nebulous reasons and lack of experience, sitting in front of an old, barely intact laptop in a city he doesn’t really know despite having lived there for over a year now.

This young man now browses around and stumbles over yet another pony video, the third time now, what the hell are these people thinking and what even is the deal. Being fed up with these ponies completely devoid of context, but still appearing at very random places, he looks up the show and wonders why it’s even online.

Claims of a male fanbase seemed implausible, had it not been for one tiny little detail: the main character being apparently a Only Sane Man kind of grouch in a Sugar Bowl of a setting. It sounded at least humorous, and the young man probably needed some cheering up.

So he gave the show a chance, the classic three episodes to wow. But after three episodes, he wasn’t wowed. But somehow, he had to be really sure he didn’t like it, so another episode followed. And another one. And another one. Suddenly he found himself laughing his ass off at Big Macintosh and Cheerilee being close to marrying - and then nothing. Turns out he caught up.

The worst fear crept in: He might actually like the show! He pondered;

“What do I do now that I like the show? How do I tell anyone?”

A video helpfully pointed out how to reach out to a community of similar minded people, and it just so turned out that the local community was holding a meetup only a few days from thence. So he decided to join in.

At the meetup, a circle of men laughing caught his eye. Those were the others? They must have been. they stood out, amongst the hurried strides of busy travellers in the big train hall. He walked towards them, unsure of how to greet them or introduce himself. The circle immediately opened; an event he did not anticipate, much less had been used to. A short round of introductions, his rather uninspired and unrelated secret identity making way for a very catchy nickname quickly, and the congregation moved to the nearest source of plastic figurines in the shape of colourful mythical creatures. Twenty-two men raided a little train station shop, merely to buy a box of ponies. There, the young man was unsure of how to behave - he didn’t seem to be that much into the show, and much more importantly, the figures didn’t quite convince him. But he wanted to support the show at least in some way, so one figure he got. A glittery blue unicorn with an hourglass for a cutie mark; the least visually offensive in this wave in his eyes. How would this figure shape his future perception of who truly made for best pony, he did not know at the time.

The meetup having been excruciating amounts of fun, he stayed with the community. And the next meetup, one particular man mentioned Banned from Equestria. He would turn out to become the possibly closest friend of our protagonist within record time, and despite the initial reservations - “It’s ponies, doesn’t that make it somehow wrong?” - He did take a look, for the lulz. And then he found some very subtly alluring pictures amidst the apparently dirty material. And somehow, the prospect of a cute little mare’s face on just crotch height snugging up to his loins and using the additional centimetres her muzzle provided for mouthhugs fired him up like only few fantasies before. And suddenly, the young man found himself searching for enticing pictures of ponies.

Years later, many things changed, but even despite some less enjoyable events, the young man knows he wouldn’t miss My Little Pony - and clop, for that matter - for the world.

He even wrote a Daring Do clopfic, how nice is that?

tl;dr: I gave the show a chance, have a thing for oral and now I like the plots.