Happy New Year, all! It's been a long time...

Hey, all. It's been a while, hasn't it? How are you doing?

I hope you're enjoying the final days of 2019, and indeed, the final days of this decade. I guess you could call these last ten years the "Decade of Pony", huh? Since the show premiered all the way back in 2010...

Sigh...

I'm not going to lie. I miss the show.

I know it was never real - I'm not a foal - but getting to see new episodes every week was like... It's hard to describe, but it was like I was coming home to a world that I had always felt more at home in than I do in this one. Over the years, it began to feel more like I was merely a guest here, and that my real home, my real friends, they were all over there. Does that make sense? It doesn't to me, not really, but that's the best way I can describe the feeling.

It took a while for the end to really sink in. For a couple of weeks, it didn't really affect me at all. I went about my business, doing what I do, working where I work. And yet over time, there was this growing feeling in my heart that I couldn't really place. And gradually, I realized that it was this expansive chasm in my soul that, for almost ten years, I had filled by pouring everything I loved about MLP inside of it. And now that it's gone, it's like part of me as gone as well.

I don't like it. I'm a grown-ass man for crying out loud. I shouldn't be letting the end of a children's show effect me as much as I do. And yet I can't help it. It was real to me.

It was real to me.

I want to come back here and keep penning new stories for you guys and gals. I really do. Because as dumb as it sounds, it was real to me, and I would give anything to make it real again.

Thanks for letting me vent guys. Happy new year. Happy new decade. And I will always, always love each and every one of you.