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Without him, she'd be lost to the dead. Without her, he'd be lost to insanity. Together, a human and pony will come together to survive this monster filled hell known as Raccoon City.
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Dustchu · 111k words · 254 14 · 6.1k views

Four Years Later, Here I Stand · 9:09am Feb 8th, 2018

Well... today is the day, what day? The day.

Today is the day I first swallowed my nerves and hopped on board the pony fanfiction train for the first time, and joined the website known simply as, Fimfiction.net. It was the day I became a ponylover like many, a brony, an adult with nothing better to do with his life then spend every waking moment fantasizing about hanging out with a fucking sky colored rainbow haired horse named Rainbow Dash, among others, and eventually writing out said fantasies into the crap you see in my library.

So... what do I say? What do I do? I'm not sure.

Where to start... where to begin...

Joining this fandom had been really strange at first. The people, the stories, the pictures, I was an overwhelmed fanfic author from fanfic.net who thought he could write decent horsewords, maybe grow an audience who'd be intrigued enough to read and get into what I made. I was also really intimidated, cause I ran up on the well known authors, like ROBCakeran53, Flutterpriest, FamousLastWords, and Duelist, to name some off the top of my head. These were people I looked up to, I felt inspired by their works, what they've created and done.

These authors among many others were really scary, to me. They were so well known by people, their stories were ones that everyone seemed to know, and they had armies of followers at their back. They were the alpha dogs, the elites, and I felt like I was a pleb who was encroaching on their territory, like I was immensely beneath them. I had a few stories out by then, a few dozen followers, but I still felt a bit... scared of everyone, I guess.

I was wrong, of course, and people here are fucking awesome.

I honestly didn't expect at all to be where I am today. I'm five-hundred and eight followers strong, with forty-one stories to my name with a grand total of 474,604 words written to them and counting. I've met and befriended authors big and small and hang out with some, and I've learned a lot over the past four years about friendship, love, tolerance, being there for people, and most importantly, never giving up on your dreams, telling the stories you have deep down in your soul, and believing in those around you that you know, deep down, you can trust.

I've posted some stories that I love and am happy people liked, and I finally posted Without You, kickstarting a universe that had ultimately been causing me a lot of stress and shit, but now that it's out? I feel better about everything... mostly, still feel like crap though!

But... back above to the people I both looked up to, were inspired by, and fearful of, I'm by no means one of them. I don't consider myself horsefamous in any sense. Dustchu is just my internet handle, the words I write are stories dredged up from the pit of my soul, either for fun or to be serious, and generally I'm... I guess I just don't particularly see myself as being horsefamous anytime soon, I'm sure it's nothing all that special. I've joked about wanting to be horsefamous in the fandom, have my works be loved enough by people that they'd wanna write for them, or have people gush and say 'ermaigerd iz Dustchu!'

But in the end, I'm somewhat content where I am now, but reaching 500 followers was an awesome milestone to hit, so I'm most certainly gonna aim for 1K, if only to see what happens by that point.

I'm happy that I've met so many amazing people in this fandom who have helped me through hard times, happy for all of the amazing memories I've been given and made, I'm happy for all the friendships I've forged with people all over. There're people who despise this fandom (I should know, I was one of them once upon a time) but I'm happy that I was wrong, this fandom is a strong community full of people who are complete strangers, but are willing to help out one another during hard times and come together to do some really incredible things.

And I'm really happy to be a part of it all. I wasn't around during the early years, but I've been around long enough to safely say that this place...

Eh, it's okay Hehehe.

I just want to say thanks to you all.. the authors who've given me advice, the readers who spend their time consuming my stuff, the random passerby who dropped a upvote or downvote, thank you all for everything and for making me feel welcome in this community, for helping shape me into who I am today, and for just... all the good stuff, ya know?

Thanks bunchies I love your faces.

Now get the fuck out of my house, you damn weirdos.

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StardustSurvivor

StardustSurvivor #1 · Feb 8th, 2018 · 2 · ·

Nerd.

Love ya, fellow Dusty.

LyraAlluse

LyraAlluse #2 · Feb 8th, 2018 · 2 · ·

I joined one site before this one, and the people there were not very nice. But then I joined Fim Fiction and made a lot of friends. So things worked out. :)

Boop-Happy Lass