My Very Best Friends

Hello, my name is irrelevant, and I have a story to tell you. I changed all the names in the story because of this, so I won’t get bugged about what happened to me 5 years ago. I don’t want to have millions of people emailing me (especially when My Little Pony: Friendship is magic is the most popular anime.) about this situation. I can’t forget about this. Trying to walk off this situation like it was fake, impossible.

Here is a bit about myself, today in this world. I am a Freshman at University of Southern California. I have many friends and I am a proud brony. I have a girlfriend that is 2 years older than I am. I met her at a brony convention and it was love at first sight. My life seems to be normal now, and I am out of depression. 5 years ago, in eighth grade, I was battling depression.

5 years ago was a time I don’t want to remember. It was a time in my life where I saw nothing but shades of gray in the real world. The only time I would see true color is when I would be watching My Little Pony. The show helps me escapes the problems of this world. A world where My Little Pony is frowned upon by non bronies, and a world of sin. I have hoped my life would change. I hoped that I can get over difficulties and move on. But how can you do this when your problems are everyday. These problems can be somewhat cured with my favorite show, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

It was quite simple how I became a brony, I saw a pony video to one of my favorite songs, fell in love, and then watched it from there. The show was very addicting and the show was on Season 1 when I first fell in love with it. The show offers great animation, voice acting, and characters. The music is great, which is why I am a brony along with the other reasons I stated.

I thought I was going to be one of the bronies that only watches the show. I found myself to be doing much more. Technically, I did everything. Drawing, writing, mix it, you name it. With me having tons of time, I did a lot of stuff within the community (I still do to this day).

The first thing I did was start to make covers to songs and create music. I had an alright singing voice that improved over time after I released more and more covers. I would cover the songs from the show, post them on YouTube. Then, I created music. I started to create songs with me singing in them. My singing spiked and I became a popular singer.

Writing was something that I loved to do. It was my favorite subject my favorite subject in school. So the fanfics that I wrote turned out to be excellent and got great ratings on them. I was shocked at first that people liked to read them and actually want more content. But soon, that was the norm for me.

I did drawings, created plushies, made dj mixes, create OCs, put captions on pictures, made iPhone cases, animate, and more. I had a bit of a name on the Internet. Everyday, my name increased in popularity. Soon, I started to make a bit of money cause of how popular my name had become. The money was used to pay for my trips to the conventions.

My parents don't think that my traveling to these conventions was acceptable. But with lots of convincing, I convinced them to let me do what I want. I make money at these conventions and a couple of my "used to be friends" found out. It spread and tons of people now k ow about my liking of the show. Which was bad.

Everybody finding out has caused people to bully me, frequently. I got tormented a lot. It was so much pain, I ended up thinking of suicide and leaving the fandom. My life was in depression, until I discovered something magical one afternoon.