The "FarDreamer" section of my site is basically the "about me" section so it's a little out of the way if you're using it mainly for restoration info. For nostalgia's sake, this is the first website I built back in 2001 or 2002. I was using her for a persona at that time, I just had a pathetic image of her. I'm kind of embarrassed to share this, it's pretty bad:
http://web.archive.org/web/20021116020716/http://www.geocities.com/DreamerElan/index.htmlIf it makes the folks who would like more of a connection to her symbol feel better, I came up with the name in large part because of references to dreams and rainbows in songs, stories, and movies. Off the top of my head:
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: "Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true."
The Rainbow Connection: "Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers the dreamers and me."
And no, I really couldn't be angry if someone used the same pony for a persona. It would bother me if someone saw what I had done, thought it was a neat idea, and ripped it off as if they came up with it themselves.
Post Merge: June 18, 2013, 05:58:07 AMSorry, one last thought and then I have to go to work. Because pony stuff is totally a legit reason to be late for work.
For obvious reasons I would be ok with it if people started calling her FarDreamer. However, the more I think about it, I think it would be kind of sad if she weren't "The Mystery Pony" anymore.
She's been "The Mystery Pony" since long before I came along. There have been other people to name her and make customs of her and I'm sure write fan-fiction with her in it. She's always been there for people to imagine her personality and build their own stories around her. She's sort of the ultimate custom. I kind of think she should stay that way.
I think Tirac should write her fan-fiction and give the pony a name and a personality and anyone else who wants to should as well. It should be "look what neat things so and so did with the mystery pony!".
I think we should leave it open for collectors to keep speculating. I know I've built her a personality in my head over the years. If she had an official "fandom" name and identity, I think we would lose something.
My thing is I gave her a name and use her as a persona. What's YOUR thing?