Editing My Little Pony (section)

== Side Note: So, What's the appeal? ==

More seriously, if you want to know how to make something with roughly the same appeal as MLP, there are a few possible suggestions:

*Roughly the same idea as [[Bunnies and Burrows]], in that on one side you have harmless creatures who mean very little harm to most people, and on the other you have a deathworld intent on destroying their community. That the Ponies are more powerful than the Bunnies doesn't change much of the appeal, because most of their powers are usually only combat-useful with some creativity.
*'''Mild''' utopianism. In the same way as [[Star Trek|ST:TNG]]'s Federation, while they are (usually) better as a society than their enemies, they have flaws, weaknesses, and constraints that they are aware of and try to make the best of.
*Xenofiction. They're not human in many ways, and that effects many things in the way they see the world.
*For the many seasons of Friendship is Magic, low-key slice of life fantasy. It initially was a series where the apple harvest is, in its own way, as (or, depending on who you ask, '''more''') important than that dragon over in the mountain, since the dragon is more or less keeping to himself, and can be negotiated with, while those apples aren't going to harvest themselves. Not much fantasy focuses on this low a power level.
*Nonviolent resolution as the default preferred option. If you've played with enough murderhobos, you'll see the appeal. If you haven't, you might not, but trust us, it's quite real.
*<strike>Gay furry shit</strike>
*And, for /tg/, there's always that one dude who wants to stat out everything, because he ''desperately needs to know'' how many unicorns you'd need to take out a Dragon, and, depending on the dude, what tactics would work best for each side, and/or whether a rocket launcher would change that number. And MLP:FiM, at least initially, provided enough Loremeat that statting up generic ponies and monsters wasn't that hard if you made a few assumptions.