Because You Knew It Had To Happen...

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has invaded the blog... as if the bouncing Pinkie Pie at the beginning of the year wasn't a dead giveaway...

I started watching My Little Pony sometime in... November... I think... of 2011. I was watching it with my littlest sister, just, in order to have someone to talk to about it. We fell in love with it. The animation is wonderful, the characters actually have depth after the first couple of episodes, and, yeah, they're fucking cute. Of course, being a girl, Friendship Is Magic was hardly my first Pony experience. My little sisters and I used to watch it when the Disney Channel was airing it... back when the ponies looked closer to actual horses... only smaller, cuter, and fatter. I used to love watching My Little Pony Tales. My favorites at the time were Melody and Baby Buttons. However, going back and watching them now... the voices are kinda... wrong. Everyone sounds like they're trying too hard to be cute or they have a stuffed-up nose...

Explanation

     For the uninitiated, the My Little Pony cartoons started out as a vehicle for selling the My Little Pony toys. There have been several generations of My Little Ponies over the years. You can see a good example HERE (links to a DeviantArt meme pic). The current crop of My Little Pony shtuff started as a cartoon pitched by Lauren Faust. The concept is simple: each episode is dedicated to teaching a lesson to the young viewers... and sell the toys. The lessons aren't heavy-handed and are often only mentioned when the characters write to Princess Celestia at the end of the episode. If you're going to watch My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, I suggest watching at least four episodes, the characters flesh out more as you go in.

Characters

The main characters, seen above, are (From left to right, top to bottom): Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia, Rarity, Spike, Fluttershy, and Apple Jack. Each has their own distinct personality and talent. As each pony has their own special talent, each has their own cutie mark -- the little design on their flanks. Ponies start out without Cutie Marks and earn them when they figure out what their special talent is. Oh! And let's not forget the ever-important types of ponies...

Pony Types:

Pegasus  In charge of the weather

Unicorn  Can work magic

Earth  Have a special connection to the earth

Princess  Design only used for Princesses Celestia and Luna. Cross between Unicorn and Pegasus

My Pony Preferences

My favorite ponies are Rarity  and Princess Luna  My favorite pony type is Unicorn (I collect them... unicorns). My favorite episode so far is Stare Master. I am most like Twilight Sparkle And last, but certainly not least, this next picture is my "Pony-sona."

Love ya, Jessie.