We are driven · 11:43pm Sep 14th, 2012
(I tacked this up earlier at dustysage.org, and after looking at the finished product, decided it was silly enough to share.)
There’s a reference to “pony cars” in The Sparkle Chronicles, in the context of not wanting to explain the concept to a visiting pony. No big deal. Then there’s this seemingly unrelated bit from Somepony New:
“Seriously, Dashie,” Pinkie insisted. “He doesn’t sit like a pony, he doesn’t walk like a pony, and nopony has ever heard of him. Suppose he’s not a pony at all?”
Compare and contrast with the review of the 2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0T R-Spec by Michael Karesh on the blog The Truth About Cars:
Yet it remains unclear what the Genesis Coupe wants to be when it grows up. Many reviews compare the car to a Mustang or a Camaro. But the Gen Coupe doesn’t look like a pony, sit like a pony, walk like a pony, or talk like a pony. It’s not a pony.
There’s no reason to think Mr Karesh actually read any part of Somepony New, but I have to admit to finding this hilarious.
This . . . is incredibly uncanny.
Maybe your story is actually more famous than you realize. Congratulations, friend, you've successfully infiltrated the auto industry.
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Perhaps that's my hitherto-undiscovered mission: to bring pony stories to a world that by and large has no idea that they exist.
Actually, that sounds entirely too pretentious. But it is a fact that I have passed links to these tales to rather a lot of folks with no particular interest in ponies, and some of them admit to having clicked on those links. And anyway, the office, or at least my wing of it, is gradually becoming ponified, though I don't think I had much to do with that. (When the building super has a drawing of Rarity on his door, ponification is clearly under way.)
Besides which, I am perversely gleeful at having claimed, for the last month, the #2 spot on Google for the phrase "I love you, Twilight Sparkle." (Last I looked, I was beaten out by a clopfic. Make of that what you will.)
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And anyway, now that I think of it, there's already one writer here I know of who's connected to that particular corner of the auto industry: she's actually contributed articles to that same blog. I hesitate to assume anything beyond that, however.