My personal message to all of you bronies.

Hey everypony, it's Harley here with my first ever blog entry! I'm not much of a blog person because I tend to be just as random in blogs as I am on live chat, so hopefully I can keep myself on track so my OCD doesn't go crazy on me. First off, I want to run off a quick thank you for all the members that have joined over the past year! Three thousand members is A LOT in a little over twelve months. When I joined back in July, there were only about five hundred or so of you. It hasn't even BEEN a year since I've been here on the forums (I was on the radio a few weeks prior to joining the forums) and we've already received three thousands members. That's impressive! Of course, we couldn't have made it this far without your support and patience with us! So, thank you all very, very much for your dedication. It means a lot to me - and I'm sure it means a lot to he other veteran members and staff, as well as, the newer members! That being said, I want to share what ponies have done for me.

Now, I don't have as exciting as a story as Yami. I haven't changed much, personality wise, since becoming a brony (I refuse to be called a pegasister. ;D). Before I go too far in this story, however, I need to give you some background of how I became aware of ponies.

I wasn't a big memebase addict like I am now, so I would have never noticed anything pony related. No on I knew talked about ponies and I was all around oblivious to MLP:FiM existing. I refused to watch Gen 1 - 3 because the ponies creeped me out in their design... so naturally I had no reason to really watch a show that... creeped me out. Well, I was playing as a nun/party guest/another side support role in a community production of Sound of Music. There I met this guy named David - anyone who frequents the radio knows his music under "MangaTurtle". He's the one who did The Ballad of Pinkie Pie and At The *Censored* Gala. And no, I had no help in either of them, my only skill in music is singing. Anyway, I met him and we became friends and it wasn't very long after that I started to develop feelings for him.

That's right. Harley started to fall for Davey. I kept it to myself for a couple months, but during these couple months I friended him facebook. I would see posts about "ponies", but I knew he was talking about cartoons because he said "must. not... watch... ponies". At first, I just ignored it, not thinking much of it. Later, we friended each other on Yahoo! instant messanger. From there we would get to know each other a little bit more and I finally asked about ponies, because at that point he had started watching some episodes. He was getting hooked, but he had yet to become a brony. It wasn't long after that, that I got my answer as to what he was watching... and I youtubed it. When I saw the animation I was floored. Why? They didn't creep me out! I watched all the episodes within three to four days and was instantly addicted to ponies. I looked for ponies on DeviantArt, I had my boyfriend draw a couple - an OC and my pony-sona. I would check EQD all the time, but still had never found Everypony.

One day I get online and Davey is telling about this website he found - a forum, a community, a pony community. Turns out he found them from EQD! So we both joined the community and I began my journey to become a part of a big family. I joined the radio in the latter part of June, but joined the forum in July. I'm not much of a forum girl, as many of you probably know, but I did do my best to welcome new people every single day. Eventually I got dubbed the official EPR welcoming committee. I eventually became a radio DJ in December, but I got sick with a bad cold, got a new job and moved my horse to a new stable. Basically... I got stressed beyond belief and I had no choice but to quit my job here on Everypony, and I had to leave the forums and radio completely. I can't tell you how much it broke my heart to do it, but my life needed to get stabilized. It took a few months of work, and a few months of getting used to a new sleep schedule (I know, sleep, what's that?) but I finally found time to come back. I reapplied for a job - mainly as a radio chat moderator, as I don't feel like I have time to do any DJing. I never expected to be honored enough to get half of my job back (the half I WANTED back, mind you). I nearly cried myself to sleep with joy that I, with TomTortoise and BlazingDawn, got hired on as moderators. Just this week I got promoted to a EPN chat mod, as well. Crazy right? That's been my life here on EPR... so now that you know my history, let me tell you how Everypony made me a more confident and better person.

When I first came to this site, I was as I am now. I'm quirky, I'm hyper active, I'm friendly and I'm random as heck. But there was a difference in me that no one knew about and that was my lack of confidence - that's right, Everypony's Harley lack majorly in the self confidence department. I was acting like myself and I made great friends (the "original" Rainbow Dash and the "original" Pinkie Pie and the "original" Big Macintosh, just to name a few). I eventually got to know Grey, Derpy and Foxy. Then my friendship circle just grew and grew, adding on Stainless, Swift, Ripp, Zephyr Haste, Zephyr, Berry Punch, Artanis (now Alzarath), Ryu, ShyGuy, Viper, Scootaloo-- the list just goes on, and on and on. But I still felt like I was just a nuisance, that I didn't make anyone happy... that I just annoyed them. That's right! I thought /I/ was annoying YOU guys. Over the course of time (and with a lot of help from a couple shout outs from Foxy and Zephyr) I've come to realize that... that's not the case. I'm truly accepted and loved here, I have friends that are family and that means the world to me. I may have matured a bit in the past year, but my personality had always remained the same... but my feelings about who I was and am as a person suffered greatly.


If it wasn't for this particular community and this particular group of people and friends... I would still suffer greatly with confidence problems. I would still think lowly of myself and I would continue to believe I was no good to a community as awesome as this. So to everypony, even if I've just talked to you ONCE or even if I haven't talked to you at all, thank you. Thank you SO, SO much for being there for me. Thank you for accepting me and thank you for making me a part of your family, just as you are a part of mine. I love you all and I can't imagine life without you guys... if I ever lost contact with even a quarter of you guys, I would no doubt cry. I want to remain friends forever... for my life time, for yours. I can't explain how thankful I am for this website, for these members... you really are an amazing community.

We may have our problems, but in the end, we do our best to be there for each other. So thank you for being there for me, and I do hope that I can be there for you when you need it the most.