I'll think of a good thing to put in this short bio some other day.
"...as for the Why: beyond the obvious financial motivation, it's exceedingly simple... because I can."
Put the cart before the horse, mix things up, and look at them in a different way.
Derpy, Pinkie Pie, Sweetie Belle, Chrysalis. Myself, summed up in four MLP characters. I'm a deeply flawed individual, but if you can get past that, I'm sure we can be the best of friends.
I believe in my whole race. Yellow, white, black, red, brown in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability and goodness of the overwhelming majority of my brothers and sisters everywhere