Today is the day · 3:25am Aug 15th, 2022
Welp, today's the day I start a new chapter of my life... or whatever poetic shit I'm supposed to say during shit like this. I don't honestly expect to completely stop making fanfics, but I also don't entirely want to sour my first impressions with my roommate by shoving my bronyism in his face, y'know? Anyway, this gives me a chance to get some stuff off my chest. Read if you want, skip if you don't. I don't expect you to read more than this intro bit thingy, but you already know the drill.
Still here? Alright, you asked for this. Rant incoming.
I honestly never expected to make fanfics, and especially not MLP fanfics. Hell, half a year ago, I wasn't even a brony. I completely forgot that this show even existed, despite watching it as a kid. Even now, writing these stories gives me a bit of a self conscious feeling that's only diminished by seeing tons of other people of varying ages and backgrounds doing the same thing I'm doing. As much as I worry about what others might think of me for being so invested in a kid's cartoon, it's at least slightly comforting to see that a good amount of people share one of my interests. I guess all I can hope for is that my college friends will be accepting of my interests, but then again, any person who refuses to be friends with someone who just... likes a show... is surely not going to be a friend of mine anyway.
But at the same time, it's not just self consciousness that might halt my writing. At the end of the day, writing all these fanfics was pretty much just practice. It was a way to get ideas out of my head and, at the same time, practice and improve my writing and storytelling abilities (Whether I actually improved or not in those aspects remains to be seen). But the caveat of that was I had all day, every day to write these. I had all the time in the world, which is something I certainly won't have in college. School work, as well as personal projects that DONT involve MLP, are most likely going to halt anything and everything I do here, because these were really just a pass time for me. It did feel nice to write 50,000 words worth of cheap, ice related horror nonsense, but it was never really something I'd describe as my "passion", y'know?
Anyway, in the astronomically low chance that I never post ever again, (which, in retrospect, wouldn't really mean all that much anyway) have a little sketch of Reek, as well as a cover I made for a story I plan(ned) to write. Have a nice day everyone!
