So this is actually something I posted in an MLP thread on the
World of Warcraft forums back in May, but I thought I'd share it again here.
So I attend a local writers' peer review group in my town every other week or so. It's a fairly large group if you count all the members, but generally only a few people show up routinely, and others just come down sporadically. Well, a few weeks ago one of the sporadic attendees came in and when it came around to his turn to share his material, he started reading a story about a pair of unicorns climbing a mountain in the snow. At first I'm sitting there like "whatever, generic fantasy so far, " but then they start talking and doing magic.
My curiosity is piqued. I happen to be sitting next to the woman organizing the night's group, and she had an attendance sheet on the table in front of her with each person's names, page count, and the genre they had brought in. I scanned the names, found the one I thought I was looking for (I'm terrible with names IRL), and checked the genre: fan fiction.
'Is this for real?' I thought to myself, and for a little while I thought I must be imagining it, or that I'd looked at the wrong name. Then the older unicorn's name came up: Starswirl the Bearded.
Oh. My. Freaking. God.
I sat there with my hands hiding my mouth, convulsing with repressed laughter as he finished reading the piece, hardly able to contain my amusement that this was really happening. That a college guy had actually brought a My Little Pony fanfic to a peer review group mostly populated by middle aged or older adults, several of whom turned out not even to know what MLP was and had to have it explained to them after he finished reading. I couldn't say much - I was not-laughing too hard, and busy badly drawing Fluttershy going 'yay!' on the last page of the copy I'd been reading - but I managed to offer a few thoughts, and when we passed the copies of the story back to him I leaned across the table, arm extended, and simply said;
"Hey. Brohoof."
To which he responded, "No way!" as his face lit up with his own amusement (and probably a healthy dose of relief), and pounded it.
Best. Group. Ever.
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