I've officially finished MLP

So here I am. After a long time of silence on here, I think it's high time I give an explanation.
So I've been very silent on here, especially regarding my fics. But I have good reason. I think the simple answer is that I just became unmotivated. A lot. It was a giant mix of school work, depression, and plans with friends. One friend in particular, I've been watching MLP with. If you don't know, I've only been in the fandom for about a year and a half. I think I was only in Season 4 or 5 by the time S9 started, maybe even Season 3 for all I remember. But it was today, April 30th, 2020 that I finished MLP Gen 4. And goddamn what a ride...

I absolutely loved the finale and epilogue. They were everything I ever wanted and more. So many ships pretty much confirmed, including FlutterCord my all time fav, the endings for everyone were great, seeing thw 6 and Spike and everyone aged was emotional, and the final song... I don't know if I can ever listen to that final song without tearing up. That final shot and the slow of Magic of Friendship Grows broke me in the end. Making me cry is not an easy feat, especially for an animated show. Literally the only shows that have made me cry in the end are Adventure Time, Regular Show and Gravity Falls. Even as emotional as those last two are, I actually don't 100% know if they truly made me cry. They probably made me tear up but not cry. Adventure Time I 100% know made me cry. MLP though?

MLP's ending made me C R Y

I shed more tears than in all of those shows' endings combined. Not because it was sad, because it was bittersweetly happy.
You guys might not know, but I entered MLP in a very dark time. Adventure Time, which was my #1 show ever, had just ended, I was going into my junior year of high school, and I was only just then realizing how shitty my living life was and how miserable me and my family were living where we are now. I was raised on good cartoons and good music, something that is, trust me, extremely lacking in most, not all, of today's everyday cartoons. And being a dramatic arts nerd, I grew a deep bond with good written characters and cartoons. And Adventure Time was one of the last of it's kind. When it ended, I thought good cartoons were dead and a thing of the past. All the cartoons left in today were either subpar at best or absolutely bastardizing or abysmal at their worst, or they were just that way in general. And I thought there was absolutely no way I could get back to cartoons again. I was growing up, I was about 16 when AD ended and I thought it might be time to grow up and grow out of cartoons.

But then, about a few months later... I got curious. I had turned away from MLP for the longest time, not because I thought it was too girly, but just because I was... Sketchy. How could a show about ponies with a fan base I had heard nothing but bad and cringe about be good? But just my mouth, I watched the opening two parter... And I was in love.

That spark, that tiny spark I thought had ebbed to embers relit and grew once again. It was like I was a kid again. I was on the edge of adulthood but I said "eff it" and through myself deeper. And my eyes opened to a show that presented itself as a kids show on the outside, but on the inside, it was a family show that had truly amazingly written characters, fantastic songs, great visuals, good morals and values and so so much more.

I had finally found an animated show that was actually good again. I had chastised myself for even trying to skip out on this amazing show. And what better? I made amazing friends along the way. The friend I watched it alongside with since about Season 2, hadn't watched since Season 4s ending. When I first contacted him, I knew that it was the start of a beautiful friendship, one that has gone through hard times but feels all the more stronger after them. And we absolutely cried at the end of it all. He's 100% one of my best friends and I never would have met him if it washed for this beautiful show. I wouldn't have met a lot of thw friends I've met if it wasn't for this show.

I wouldn't have been able to grow. To overcome tough and damning lies. To push past my fears. To start writing. To be more confident. To know what it's like to truly go head over heels over a character I truly, truly love (Fluttershy is the absolute best girl in anything ever). And so so much more.

This show has changed my life. Forever. And it deserved every drop of a tear it got from me. I love this show, it is 100% my favorite animated show, period. I love it's characters, the characters who have changed me so much. And I just... Don't know where I would be if I hadn't entered it when I did. I think I'd be lost, emotionally unstable. But I think MLP saved me from that fate. And seeing these characters that I love, seeing all of you their stories end, in a show that was perfect in length and identity, that fleshed them out one by one, in a finale and epilogue I could ask absolutely nothing more from, it truly made me sob in joy. Because I had grown with these characters. I saw myself in all of them. Theh are my role models.

Especially Fluttershy. I love her so much. Her growth is so simular to mine and... She's legit tge best girl and character I've seen in anything ever.

I have MLP to thank for so much. So I'm going to do just that. I know it's a bit late but...
Thank you, MLP. Thank you Twilight, AJ, Rainbow, Rarity, Pinkie, Fluttershy and Spike. Thank you Lauren Faust. Thank you Daniel Ingram. Thank you Tara Strong, Ashleigh Ball, Tabitha St. Germain, Andrea Libman, Cathy Weseluck, John DeLance, Nicole Oliver, and every other amazing voice actor and actress for this amazing show. Thank you every other character in MLP and everyone else who worked on it. Thank you all for changing my life. I love you all.

Thank you MLP. That you so much. I'm forever a brony. Thank you 💜💙🧡💛💜💗💚

As of this, I think the finale has given me a new confidence to get back to writing fics. So look out! I think I'm coming back soon enough. I'm doing this for the girls sake. I owe them that much for making such an impact on my life.