>>1583
>I have had many of these too, by force even, and one of them, started my interest for FiM. I didn´t have much fun with it, i fact, I was acting like a rebel for going to it,but after it, oh boy, things escalated quickly.

Really? That's sounds like an interesting story. For me family reunions and visiting family around the holidays used to be awesome when I was a child, but the rise of social media and more broad judgmental attitudes to each other along with a few people who don't seem to have basic logic have put a bit of a damper on it for me. It's not like there is shouting matches or anything really unpleasant but there is background politics that sometimes spills into minor drama and an air of a "life contest".

Anycase, funny that of something as unpleasant as that you found something you loved. It's almost like how I discovered mlp when I used to browse Fanfiction.net for bad fanfics to enjoy there craziness. One day I noticed that the MLP fics seemed to have a large surge, especially in comparison to other girly toy lines and like that wasn't close to near the top 10 or having dozens of crossovers. I started to browse them and gradually got more drawn in over the course of 2011.