My Little Pony's end in October 2019 caused the Decline of Civilization.
Lyra and Bon Bon wallow amid the dying days of the PonyPox pandemic. Enjoy(?) suffering with them as they confront conflicts compounded by years of isolation and emerge from simple nursery rhymes of good times into the cold realities of a future without "Friendship is Magic."
Featured on Equestria Daily's 2023 Lyra/Bon Day in the Drama category! Thank you!
Content Note: Bon Bon lights a cigarette! ; addictions touched on lightly; the era of PonyPox.
Review and Honorable Mention in a Contest:
[W]ithin the story's Equestria, My Little Pony is a children's TV show run by profit-minded executives, and Lyra and Bon Bon are at the same time former actors on that show, fans of it, resentful of how it ended, and watching the sequel on their TV as they wither away to death in PonyPox quarantine. and through it all, their conversation meanders through dense references and cultural worldbuilding as the grim details of their situation seeps in around them. out of anything i have ever read on this website, reading this fic comes the closest to the feeling of watching an experimental play, which left me feeling very Art. —Bicyclette
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