User blog comment:Cookiefonster/Kinda random but..../@comment-5982810-20140502050925

I guess you could call me a casual brony. I came across the show accidently before I even knew about the brony movement. I saw a video link to an episode and curiousity got the better of me. It was the episode in which Spike turns into a giant dragon. I liked the character of Spike and Twilight, so later on I checked for the 1st episode of the series. Found out about the main 6, saw that it wasn't hyper-girly and decided to watch more. Gradually I warmed up to each of the characters in turn ... first Twilight, then Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack ... then after a longer while Pinkie Pie... then finally Fluttershy, and lastly Rarity. I haven't watched it much lately, but I like the characters. I've watched all of season 1, but only watched a few episodes from all the other seasons (I know Twilights an alicorn now for example). Then pretty early on I got into the electronic brony music ( I like electronic music in general, I usually listen to it while I'm working on googology. The repetitive atmospheric music really fits well with the idea of endlessly expanding recursive functions), and that's how I found out about the brony community. Started to read up on that and found it kind of subversively fascinating. But I'm not "part" of it. Your probably the first other brony I've ever (knowingly) met on or offline.

As to whether there are is a lot of overlap between the set of googologist's and bronies ... probably not. However I think both groups are kind of obssessive about their respective "fields" of interest so they definitely have that in common.

Concidently, the day that MLP:FiM came out, 10/10/10, was also the day I had especially picked out for the release of Section III and launch of a major revival intiative for my site that continues to this day (It was dormant for over a year prior to this and on the verge of death you could say). This was just a coincidence. I didn't even know about the show until Season 2 was well underway, but I found the parallel amusing none the less.

There is also a hidden MLP reference in xec_numbers2, but it looks like no one noticed :)

by-the-by there is a FiM wiki here. Are you part of it? What "level" of brony are you, if I can call it that. And how did you become one, while were at it.