Being a bestselling author, A.K. Yearling gets more than enough fan mail. She gets letters every day from adoring readers and publishers. She'd be sick of it, if every once in a while, she didn't get a letter that she actually likes.

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” -Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

Twilight Sparkle has come up with an inspired idea for Rainbow Dash’s birthday present, the best one she can imagine. She’s made a living, breathing copy of her favorite fictional character for her. The new pony has one goal in mind, and one purpose that crowds out all others: Be the best Daring Do she can be.

A collaborative work with the incomparable Eakin.

After a failed attempt to score big by stealing the Soluna Stone, Team Grifficorn is now in financial crisis. With no where left to go, they seek out the Manehattan 6 for help and hope to swindle them out of money, but get roped into a catastrophe they've caused when a spell of Twilight's goes horribly wrong. Set in the Manehattanverse. Takes place 6 months after The Wrong Place, at the Right Time.
Read Daring Do and the Soluna Stone for a better understanding later in the story.
Cover art done by Punzil504.

Rainbow Dash has loved Daring Do since she read the first page. In fact, she's so obsessed, she sometimes wishes she was Daring, and even pulls her beliefs from the books. Eventually, she gets tired of just being like Daring, and decides that it's time she became her. Along with her friend Scootaloo and her coltfriend Soarin, she finds herself becoming more and more like the adventurer, even to the point where she has to take her place as the true Daring Do.

Daring Do seeks a favor from her sister in Ponyville. Due to buried grudges, things quickly get out of hoof. She soon finds herself on her most perilous mission yet... with her biggest fan in the world. In the midst of truth and lies, loyalty and treachery, love and hate, one thing is clear ― some family situations are stranger than fiction.

The story extends in Through the Looking-glass and What Pinkie Found There and The Daughter Doo: Honorary Cutie Mark Crusader.

Many thanks to Honey Mead and statoose for their watchful and helpful pre-reading.

Ckat_Myla and statoose (CatNStat) have started an excellent reading of TSD.