Following the creation of a new portal, Princess Twilight Sparkle visits a dimension of familiar-looking ponies living life in their own way. It’s challenging to make sense of an unfamiliar world that isn’t really all that sweet, magic, posh, fun, or cute.
An entry into FanOfMostEverything’s A Most Delightful Po— what? It already ended? How long ago? Really?
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Late for the contest, but still a magnificent execution on the metacommentary. Great work on this one, especially in capturing the arguments of both sides... though I do still side with the original. I admit, part of me wants to see FiM!Pinkie and PL!Applejack hash out a compromise, but this is probably for the best. The multiverse has wonders and horrors in equal measure, but some planes are just annoying. Thank you for this.
So, that's what Pony Life is like? Ugh. I agree with Gen4 Twilight.
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Mmm.
Not Enough Time For Time. Mmm.
Also Starlight needs money. Mmm. Hard to hide this from Twilight once it starts appearing, though? Unless Twilight gets a mindwipe... Hmm...
That was very interesting. A nice bit of self-awareness.
Pinkie, I'm guessing.
i'm torn between wanting that world destroyed utterly and letting discord run amuck in it
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I assume that I built a bunch of straw men, but I hope they were at least decently constructed straw men.
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Starlight wants money.
Starlight's going on the theory that Twilight has too many big problems to deal with to notice what kind of pop culture her subjects are consuming.
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Only a BIT?!?
(I kid, I kid.)
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You'd think Twilight would have learned that the answer to that type of question is nearly always "Pinkie."
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Which Discord? Because the native one wouldn't even have the (non)sense to perform the sight gag of running in muck.
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16th time's the charm!
(Seriously, this is only the 16th Fimfiction story to use the Pony Life tag. If that isn't an indicator of what kind of impression this show left...)
Wouldn't it be easier to just break the mirror?
Also, yeah, I'm not interested in ever seeing Pony Life again.
"Trixie."
"Oh, well that explains it."
I neither love nor hate Pony Life (in my opinion, it had some funny moments, and it's not nearly as derailing as, say, Teen Titans Go), but you're right, it would probably drive original Twilight insane.
Personally, I still adhere to my head canon that the Pony Life world was created by Discord to keep his hand in now that he can no longer fill G4 Equestria with random nonsense.
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Twilight wasn't in her right mind at that moment. And who could blame her?
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When I wrote that, Trixie was my first thought, too.
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Now you've got me wondering how different the debate would be if it were about Teen Titans Go! instead of Pony Life. I actually don't mind Teen Titans Go! -- at least they committed to being nothing like the previous show. It also helped that there was a longer period of time between the two series and, I assume, Cartoon Network giving TTG more freedom to be irreverent.
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If he actually did place a hand in it, that would be a pretty Discord-y thing to do.
Ah yeah, this the zesty pony life crossover I was waiting for since it debued and so far it pretty great XD
That was great, we need more pony life fics
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Mine is this is the dimension where Discord was decent enough that they just let him do his thing untill the world became universe's greatest
Although you theory might hold a fair bit more water the more I think about it...
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I don't know whether he originated it, but I like FanOfMostEverything's explanation that the Pony Life universe was created during the few seconds that Pinkie Pie was channeling Discord's chaos magic near the ending of "The Ending of the End."
As if we didn't already know you were taking the piss. :D
I feel as though this chapter is trying to make a point, or that it has something to say, but darned if I can figure out what. 🤔
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It's basically a thinly veiled argument between the visiting Twilight, who's making the case as to why Pony Life is bad, and the native Twilight, who's defending the series. But instead of arguing directly about the world they're in, they're debating the merits of a theoretical Pony Life–like reboot of the '80s version of MacGyver.
Why MacGyver? Because at least one of the Twilights knows that the "characters" in the Daring Do books are real, which would have gotten in the way of the debate over whether fans have a right to expect character continuity when a beloved series is rebooted or whether the holders of the intellectual property should be able to do whatever they want with the characters they own. And I think Twilight would enjoy MacGyver.
Are the specific references frustratingly opaque to anybody who isn't thoroughly familiar with MacGyver (or who didn't spend a long time researching the lore of the show for his goofy pony fanfic), thereby diminishing the effectiveness of the argument that is the entire purpose of the chapter? Yes. But if there exists anybody in the world who is intimately familiar with both a 1985 live-action action series from a national broadcast network and a 2020 animated children's cartoon from a second-tier cable network, then boy, did I just make their day.
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Sorry, I thought the emoji would denote the sarcasm. :B
Oh dear. I can only imagine she means either jail cells, or something more like battery cells.
Yep, it’s Pony Life alright.
Wut.
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D'oh! It occurred to me after the fact that I might have misinterpreted the intention... that'll teach me to focus my attention on outdated pop culture references rather than learn how people communicate in the 21st century.
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Officially, it's the former, although given that this is Starlight, it's entirely possible the latter will be used on ponies while they're in the former.
And it wouldn't be Pony Life without an animation error, right?
… I enjoyed the TackStriver reboot. I never expected it to be what the original was, and I enjoyed the opportunity to turn my brain off and laugh at stupid jokes.
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I think it's a reference to the frequent horn and wing animation errors in first season of Pony Life...
Well, that got extremely meta.
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Or if she decides to build the Friendship Matrix, the ponies in the cells will be used as battery cells.
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It's easiest to tap the energy from unicorns, but earth ponies provide the greatest amount of raw power per pony. You know that Starlight has already figured all of it out.
If you had Twilight operate under Pony Life laws of physics, she would have exploded, then exploded again and then materialized as a crab holding the Twicane before returning to her normal state a few seconds later.
Watch me perambulate, yo!
Oh my gosh, that was brilliant. G4 Twi's reaction to G4.5 was my reaction to JJ Abrams' idiotic reboot of Star Trek. If you've never seen the original, it's not bad, but if you love the original, then it's really bad. I can see a fan of "JJ Trek" making 4.5 Twi's argument for why it doesn't suck.
A proper "Star Trek XI" would've been freaking awesome if it had JJ's unlimited budget. In the same way, if Pony Life had continuity editors, and Lauren Faust, it might've lasted more than 1.5 seasons.
I see what ya did there....