I've only just realized, five months after creating her, that my OC is pink and blue, and I'm transgender.

While it's not exactly my headcanon for the character, this is just so completely touching to me.
I admit I have a bias about this stuff, though.

Edit: The first version of this blog post was pretty lame and, on second though, in bad taste. Let's do this again.

So, wow. The last time I posted or interacted with anyone here was...how long ago?

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I'll be replacing my PC in about 30 days. Apologies to everyone I was supposed to have been helping this whole time. I'm working to get back here as fast as I possibly can.

This is just a quick heads-up to anyone wondering where I've gone off to (specifically, anyone for whom I'm supposed to be prereading/proofreading). Due to a very inconvenient job I've accepted for the summer months, I've been cut off from the web except via my cell phone at very late hours of the night. I'll be back a week from Monday; apologies for any problems this may cause.

Pinkie Pie is not my favorite character, but I do think she's the most interesting. What follows is a slightly revised version of a short essay I wrote for fun several months ago when I first entered this fandom, and recently rediscovered while cleaning up my hard drive. I understand that this topic has been done to death, but that doesn't make it any less fun to write about, especially when I was a newer brony and hadn't yet learned how overdone this is.

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Everyone who knows me well knows I tend to rant, so here comes one about the first two hours of Okami: a video game I'm borrowing from a friend after being nagged for years by several people to play. Just skip this if you don't care. I won't begrudge you or anything; I know this is going to be huge, so I'll be sure to have a TL;DR at the bottom.

Okay, so I need someone to convince me to keep playing Okami.

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