Welcome to the herd, etc etc.
MLP has, IMHO, the better reason for spawning a lot of fanfic: Good characters that are easy to "grok" and an open-ended episodic structure.
Unlike, say Zero no Tsukaima, which is the "wasted potential" reason: Good characters and a great setting for political intrigue... wasted on a status quo is god harem comedy with a tsundere main girl.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
MLP has, IMHO, the better reason for spawning a lot of fanfic: Good characters that are easy to "grok" and an open-ended episodic structure.
Unlike, say Zero no Tsukaima, which is the "wasted potential" reason: Good characters and a great setting for political intrigue... wasted on a status quo is god harem comedy with a tsundere main girl.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll