Ponies are my one true love.

I have fallen in love with the new My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic TV series.

I know what you're thinking. You're judging me. I will allow you to judge me if you will just hear me out on this; you have to listen to why this show has become the thing that fills my daytime.

Backstory: As a little girl, quite a few of my toys weren't particularly female oriented. I loved to play with my dinosaurs. I had a Tonka truck that I enjoyed to play with. When I played with my stuffed animals, I related more to the boy characters than the girls. Pokemon and Digimon were (and still are) the greatest TV shows ever. My early love for video games still is the main reason I game so much today.

There were a few glaring exceptions to my "boy toys" preference though. One of which, that I have to assume was influenced by my older sister, was My Little Pony. I remember playing with her ponies. I don't think I treated them with the same kind of love she had, but I remember taking them into the bathtub with me on multiple occasions. I also remember watching the My Little Pony movie. Even as I rewatched it this week, certain parts were still in my memory. I remembered the witches- particularly the one that was always eating. I remembered Lickity Split not wanting to dance like the other ponies at the beginning. I remembered... the SMOOZE. Obviously, My Little Pony had been important enough to me to make a lasting impression.

Despite that, I was still skeptical of watching the new Friendship is Magic series when it exploded on the Internet, with the invention of "bronies"... a term that makes me wish I was a bro. It wasn't until I came across this blog post by my favourite former WoW blogger about the show that I decided to give it a try.

And boy, was I hooked.

If you bothered to click the article I linked, you'll see just why this show is appealing to adults/older than 5 year olds. If not, I'll sum it up. The ponies have personalities. It's possible to relate to them. I can see parts of myself in the ponies. There's also some fun pop culture references in there for the older than 5 years old crowd (the one off the top of my head is just how much the Diamond Dogs remind me of Gollum).

So, I will add my vote in the completely and utterly recommending this series to anyone. It's the greatest thing I've seen in awhile, and it's doing wonders on holding me off finally starting Doctor Who... which I will do when I have time. I promise. :P

Hiatus is done!

I apologize, I took a break from anything on the internet that required me to do ANY thinking for a few weeks, and I like to think I was extremely productive! I finished all of my homework for the end of the year (something I typically don't do) and am done, for better or for worse, my scary exam.

Now then. How have we all been? I've personally been pretty good. Busy, but good. I've also become painfully addicted to Tumblr, and spend way too much of my time on it reblogging things about The Hunger Games.

As for my terrifying exam- it was my English Diploma Part A. I had to write 2 pieces. One had to be a critical/analytical response (CAR) and the other had to be a personal response. The CAR had to be about a piece of literature we studied, personal response was a personal response to the poem/short story/picture they gave us.

We had a pretty easy topic I think - the role adversity plays on someone. Their ideals or something, I forget the exact quote. Either way, it was simple. I wrote my first essay about Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, talked about Willy and stuff. My second piece was a short story based off the poem they gave us.

Considering the CAR is worth 15% of my overall mark and the story is worth 10%, I think I did okay. The exam I write tomorrow will be worth 25%, but it's just a reading comprehension. I'm most definitely not scared!