I like a lot of animals but I've never been real big into horses. When I was like 5, I had a brief moment of thinking, "yeah horses are cool! ... But unicorns are better!" and have been into the more mythical horses ever since. 

Not having MLP as a child, I definitely was more in a "liked horses then MLP" situation.

I didn’t picture the race bib, because I don’t really care about that

Same, I think I threw mine away. I was kind of expecting more of a plastic or metal plate or card stock rather than the flimsy piece of paper we got.

Idk what the technical term for it is…but the color fill in the metal? It’s not like, filled in enough on the pony medal.

I think the color fill is the enamel and the style of it is "soft enamel." Hard enamel ends up fully filled and smooth over the surface.

Lastly, the medal doesn’t close right. Maybe it’s just a defect with mine but the gap when it’s closed drives me insane.

Mine kind of just randomly pops open so glad to know other people have issues, too.

The shirt is definitely the best prize of the bunch. I wear it all the time.

I'm trying to legitimately work through and I'm closing in on the 200 mile mark! lol

This is going to look like an odd string of dates for a sec but hear me out:

April 4th, June 6th, August 8th, October 10th, December 12th (basically where the month and date are the same # for most of the even months)
May 9th and September 5th (think 9-5)
July 11th and November 7th (think 7-Eleven)
Pi Day (March 14), July 4, Halloween (October 31), and the day after Christmas (December 26)

will all be the same day of the week in a given year (if one is a Monday, all of them are a Monday).

I started with G4. My collecting has been a lot of, oh I'll only collect this particular series of the toys or merch, and then kind of expanding to other areas when there is a dry spell for what I was initially after.

I think I would like to eventually have one of nearly everything, like a complete G1 US collection or almost every G4 brushable, but there are just some things that don't appeal to me as much so I draw a line or at least make them the least priority. If there is something I want that's part of a set, I try to get the complete set, even if some things in the set are meh to me. If it's a set I don't care for, I try not to collect any of it, even if there is a particular piece in it I like.

Stalking online listings religiously and seeing what great stuff other people find also inspires what I aim to get

I love your art style! It looks so fun. Very nice work!

Welcome! Rarity is my favorite, too. 

I don't have any pony related thing decorating my office now, other than some of my own fan art among some pictures of family and friends. I used to have fan made lenticular G4 pony cards on battery powered swinging machines on my shelf until the batteries died and I didn't feel like replacing them. Occasionally when I'm at the front desk I even draw ponies and slap them on the walls in there; only admin sees it and she finds it entertaining.

One day when I was working retail I got ahold of a small Applejack plush that we were selling and stuck it on the top of my cash register monitor for a little while, though!

I don't think I would want my ponies on my desk now since I like having space to move things around, and nowadays I need all the space I can get.

I do agree, though, if anyone does bring ponies to work, they should be replaceable ones. You never know what can happen.