This morning, Shining Armor thought that his daughter's goth phase was his biggest worry. Now, he has to deal with a retired stage magician, a smoke monster that refuses to stay dead, the dumbest possible parallel universe, AND his daughter's goth phase.
Nothing about this makes any sense... and why does King Sombra seem oddly afraid of Trixie...?
Quite possibly the crackiest of all crack fics I have ever written for any fandom to date. I wrote this in about a week and had an absolute BLAST writing it. 
Contains...
- Trixie's verbal tic maxed out to the point where it becomes a plot point of sorts
- brooding goth Flurry Heart, complete with goth name
- card tricks
- the Crystal Empire having quite possibly worse security protocols than it does in canon
- nopony taking anything quite as seriously as they probably should
- Shining Armor making a few rather questionable choices involving his daughter's safety
- card tricks
- a magic mirror portal that ought to be yeeted into the sun or moved to the SCP Foundation HQ
- trace amounts of Applejack
- an homage to the best Mumbo and Grian comedy skit from the Last Life series on YouTube
- card tricks
Inspired by TWO contests!
Entering this into the Portal Transformations Contest I.
Also, after some consideration and checking with Muggonny, entering this into the Shining Armor is a Terrible Dad 2024 Competition. It blasted WAY past the max word count, but I'll just have to live with the wordcount penalty. 
We shall see, my friend. We shall see...
INTO THE TRIXIEVERSE
I am impressed. Amazed. Bedazzled, even, for you have managed to do the impossible (write a competent shining armor in a comedy fic)
Judge here. Not sure if you messaged Muggonny on this, but from the front page, you'll be docked a point for every 1k words you have over the limit if submitted. If there's wiggle room and you have solid reasoning though, definitely let him know so the judges can deliberate on it.
Also, if you do submit this for the contest, I will wait to read this! Don't forget to join the group and add it to the submissions folder.
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So I'll see you after the contest deadline.
Yeah, I PM'd Muggonny and decided on submitting it, penalty, shmenalty.
In the kinda-sorta unlikely case that I get a second idea and manage to write it within the next two weeks... we'll think of something. I'm guessing the 5k limit is per story, but if in doubt, Muggonny can still kick one entry out if things get overboard.
At first, I was a bit unsure how all those characters could interact. Now, I know. This is a good story with a fantastic ride :)
Hello fellow contest competitor.
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You were featuuuuuuured! (On the front page, 3/9/24)
The Based and Powerful Trixie is right. Call them what they want to be called, even if it's a bit edgy, in this particular case. If they're wrong, they'll go back on their own. It's a matter of respect, if you can't do the bare minimum, especially if a different or former name actually makes them uncomfortable, why would they offer you anything? j
Just indulge them, and you'll both be happier for it.
Also this entire thing is a fucking trip and I love it.
And that's when I lost it.
I'm so very glad that I checked the Featured page and found this story. Good luck in the contest(s).
Fun read :thumbup:, heres to many more
Ooooh, card tricks.
I started dying of laughter when I read
I just want to point out this story is one of the TWO (TIED) First Place winners
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of "Portal Transformations Contest I," thank you!