Last week I went to see a workshop for a new musical, and I have one of the songs in it in my head right now x) But I can't listen to it because it hasn't been released in any way, aaaarghhh!! so instead I'm listening to something by the same guy...

It's My Life - Jordan Luke Gage

technically this is from &Juliet, which I've never seen (not too interested in it either), but hey I like the original song and I like JLG, so :B

My understanding is that red dye is very sensitive to sunlight, whether it is from new suppliers or old suppliers, and any light pink has the potential to fade. I would try to keep her out of the light as you would with a normal pony. It might be more resilient, or brighter because it's new, but I don't believe there is any pink hair that is 100% fade-resistant.

Is your pony Bluebelle? (Oh, probably not! She looks nothing like Tuneful!) 

@Carrehz, thank you I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way about Ponycon. It was our space, now it isn't, end.

I have a lot of old disks I need to go through when I can boot up my old win 7 PC (it;s the only one which can run the floppy reader, LOL) and see what's on there. The fact ruins of my old tripod and angelfire site are still around means you can get a glimpse into the Ring of Rainbows, and there are still quite a few people around with long memories, even if they're not all still on the Arena.

I'm obviously an info-geek, so I miss the people being here who used to have all the info and detail on variations, especially Europe. I'm finally renovating my site, and digging through old threads here has been very helpful - but they all go back to pre-pandemic pretty much. So maybe by preserving bits of those conversations, I'm trying to keep that side of the history alive. Wiki is the best of the existing sites but it's missing a lot from the European side, even if it does have some good information. MLPMerch and the zombie that is Strawberry Reef have sucked the knowledge out of the rest of the internet, to put it bluntly.

On the other fandom front, I feel like creation is very much something that happens in a community centred around people in their late teens and early 20s. Aside customs, which are an ongoing artform in G1 as well as G4, it tends to be that the newsletters, stories, chatrooms, all the old stuff that existed was built by our generation at the same sort of age as the bulk of the bronies - just with less tech. It's a sad fact that life takes over and the internet recycles space and communities vanish.

BUT we still have at least bits of our history encapsulated in this site and in the Trading Post, albeit they're not the original iterations of either. I know that some eighties communities vanished completely for a while, and they may have rebuilt on SM, but there's still that hole.

Looking through my diary for 1998, which is the first year I was online trading properly, I have so many entries recording trades with people who are no longer here, some of whom made really important contributions to online pony information, but have probably been forgotten even by Nirvana experts. :/ I first saw Argentinian and Peruvian ponies in person in April 1998 - but the internet didn't start talking about them until about ten years later. There were a lot of things done back then that collectors now take for granted. Which is good in one way, but also forgets the contributions of the people gone before them (including some who are no longer with us at all).

I was having a conversation with that G4 fan friend of mine, she was complaining how G5 had mangled G4 canon, and I showed her some of the G1 stuff, and she realised for the first time what G4 had done to change things in G1, and how that had had a knock on impact. She's not a crazy brony kind, just someone who grew up with the end of G3 and into G4. But she was amazed how much the brony community ripped holes in older gen ponies and was actually quite upset that it had happened. It makes me think there's a whole bunch of G4 fans out there who simply don't know how badly some of their community disrespected older MLP.

It is insecurity, and a desire to be THE IMPORTANT ONES WHO DEFINED MY LITTLE PONY.

But that takes me back to Ponycon, and the fact they're being enabled in that mission by the people running the convention started to bring fans of G1 and G2 together.  And that's sad.