That got a laugh. "True, true. At first I locked myself in the library for a week and couldn't look a stallion in the eyes for even longer. But after I adjusted to the idea, I felt bad for those ponies. Then I learned that a community had formed around the subgenre. Ponies were making friends with the books, bonding over them, carrying those bonds to more polite topics and building relationships. Some go on to this day." She shook the book in her magic. "There are foals today whose parents only met because of books like this."