(Hie) Human in Equestra, regarding the wish fulfillment cliche.

I'll be frank, I don't care about wish fulfillment as long as the grammar is fairly good. I know it's a cheesy story with tender romance between human and a MLP FIM pony that with lots of overly tender intimacy. But it warms my heart, despite being fiction.

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It's no secret that Friendship is Magic has a preponderance of wish fulfillment, both in fanfiction and in art.

This is nothing new. All fiction attracts escapism by its very nature. Yet FIM as a fandom seems to have a lot more of it. You could argue the law of averages here—more fans and more internet exposure may make the problem seem more severe than it really is.

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