Talk:Derpy/@comment-10802602-20130822024213/@comment-5870562-20130823024550

She has many characteristics physically that I like, but what I find particularly special about Derpy is that she is more than just a pony, because she represents for me a friendship and/or spirit of cooperation not just on the show, but in reality between the fans and the show team that is extremely rare today. With SOPA and CISPA censoring everything and the shutdown of MegaUpload happening very close to Derpy's S2E14 speaking role, Derpy being canonized for me was a symbol that fans can be constructively involved in a way that makes the production team profits and still connects very intimately with the fans. Derpy was a symbol of the magic of friendship in our world, the internet based world we all use constantly, that fans could communicate through art and fictions and message boards with the show team and the show team would not attack the fans for copyright reasons or scold fans for sharing their ideas, but instead cooperate with them and create something even more wonderful. Did the fans choose traits or maybe a name that some people didn't like? Perhaps. But the communication was what was so inspiring to me. When Derpy was censored, it really hurt because it meant to me that all those hopes in today's world were revoked again; a world of big brother and total control by the production side was still in absolute command. As long as Derpy's light shines, there is still a light of hope for more than just a producer and consumer relationship in the world of MLP. Yes of course I like her cross-eyes and her bubbles, even her mane style, but this hope of something more than just another character produced by Hasbro for us to consume is what makes Derpy such an important pony to me.