We all knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Yes, I too am madly in love with My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and this really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. After all I always had a big soft spot for the original 80's show, between the general sense of friendship and kindness and gentleness, and thinking that the idea of a show centered around talking quadropedal animals seemed pretty neat. Symptoms of early-stage furry onset no doubt.

While I love the classic, Friendship is Magic has captured my heart even more I think. It's the right mix to me of that same vision of a gentler, more loving world that the original gave us and a lot of disturbingly good writing. For all that the characters have their own personality aspects they embody, they manage to feel real and their interactions with one another feel genuine. Characters who in most other shows would be taken to an extreme where nearly all of them were obnoxious, in this show all remain lovable in their own unique ways that continue to make it nearly impossible for me to choose a most or least favorite.

Unpaid advertising aside, here's a Dorey pony for ya. Pegasus because I'm a dragon and kind of used to having wings. And the cutie mark is a pawprint with a star in the middle, because both paws and stars are things that carry deep personal meaning for me.

Reference art consisted of a couple screenshots of Doctor Whooves for the face and Rainbow Dash for the wings and pose, but the drawing is all me. You can tell by the sketchy and unclean look of the lines that I failed to completely fix and because I lack any sort of proper vector graphics software.

Also I should point out I'm not a -complete- bandwagon jumper, and call attention to the fact that I've done MLP fanart before (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/550539/). Which I guess means I loved ponies before they were cool, or something. ;)

[EDIT:] by way of an official, more ponyish name for my pony self, I think I'm going with 'Dorey Starhoof.'