I was wary about reading any fanfics at first too. Turns out, there's a ton of awesome ones.
Yeah that fic rocks. I am eternally in shock over how good it is, and I love that the author basically wrote it on a dare that he couldn't write a good story with those elements in it.
At a local company, to do something that I love doing. I don't want to say more just yet, because I'm still waiting for everything to be finalized and I don't want to mess it up, but I start next week.
Like with video games, ponies makes you a better human being. (Not "better than others" better, a "better than you were before" better.)