*HOOF PUMP*

YES YES1.

Looks interesting... Do I need to read the sisters' doo before reading this?

>>14711691471169  This should be plenty of fun without "The Sisters Doo", but it will make, like, 300% more sense if you're caught up with this.

>>14711781471178

Gotcha.

I'll get to reading your most famous work... After I finish my 195,029 unread words on my favorites list ... Not including the words still left for The End of Ponies.

I guess I'll just have to put off SS&E's most self-beloved work even further down my list.

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!

I was reading The Sisters Doo, and thought the chapter was over... Then I saw the link to this!!!! YAY!!!

Is this one shot?

ALL MY YES!! I thought the chapter was over on Sisters Doo but when i clicked the link and  i saw this i was like: and then: and then: YAY!  Can't wait for more!!!  

Excelent! I was wanting to see what happened with this!

This is so neat. Love the Hunting of the Snark and Carroll himself. According to my l33t research skills (checking Wikipedia), the baker could be interpreted as being Lewis/Bluish like how you have it in the story.

“One of them looks a lot like Equestria, but everything’s burnt and dark and the ponies are so sad!"

Hmm, Fallout: Equestria, maybe?

“And another one’s really creepy: there are all these ponies hooked to chains, and for some reason it always makes me think of cheese strings...”

...Background Pony?

This story.

Image: http://mylittlefacewhen.com/media/f/img/mlfw3637-1330097145371495.gif

I hope there's more chapters in store!

I am so happy to see this.  This made me look into the sisters doo and then I decided that this was the reason I was really getting into the story (the entire story is good but this side story was making me curiouser and curiouser)...

She saw murders going down.

Wabe? Are there dragons with the faces of mole-rats?

So, Clover the Clever was a stallion? Or was that a typo?

Fave'd, thumbs'ed. 'Nuff said.

I wonder if this is somehow connected to the Artifact of Doom what doomed Danger Doo up real nice?

Ok, now I get the sundial reference in Sisters Doo.

Sort of.

>>14730011473001

The wabe is explained in "Through the Looking  Glass".

This is gonna be interesting.

WOO! 100th like!

Ohhhhh my gosh Ponky I love you so much for writing this! Lewis Carroll is my #1 all-time FAVORITE author! Snark, Alice, the fairies... even the logic puzzles, I've read them all and then YOU write THIS! You're the best!

>>14733361473336

Seconded. Clover was depicted as female in the series. Maybe a crossdresser?

>>14743361474336  YAY!    I've read all of those, too!  Lewis Carroll is my all-time favorite author, and you're gonna see a TON of references to a LOT of his works throughout these Eight Fits!

>>14733361473336>>14744361474436

In my world, the "Hearth's Warming Eve" episode was focusing on the Mane Six's play.  In the factual annals of Equestrian History, Commander Hurricane, Smart Cookie, and Clover the Clever were all stallions.  Princess Platinum, Chancellor Puddinghead, and Private Pansy remain mares.

>>14745501474550

Ohhhh wow. I may just die. It's SO rare to find people that have read anything beyond Alice, you know? But I LOVE Sylvie and Bruno and Phantasmagoria... There should be an Author's Group for Carroll-inspired pony writers!

"I love the stilness of the wood:

I love the music of the rill:

I love to couch in pensive mood

Upon some silent hill."

-from Carroll's Solitude

>>14745831474583  Sylvie and Bruno was tough for me, but Phantasmagoria is one of the best things ever!!

"I'd give all wealth that years have piled,

The slow result of Life's decay,

To be once more a little child

For one bright summer-day."

-closing stanza of Solitude

"But here, in Dreamland's centre,

No spoiler's hand may enter,

These visions fair, this radiance rare,

Shall never pass away."

-Dreamland

>>14746261474626

The third time I read through my Collected Works was when Sylvie and Bruno REALLY hit me. It's tough at first, but the story and illustrations really remind me of all the old Wizard of Oz books, which I love.

"Say, whose is the skill that paints valley and hill,

Like a picture so fair to the sight?

That flecks the green meadow with sunshine and shadow,

Till the little lambs leap with delight?

'Tis a secret untold to hearts cruel and cold,

Though 'tis sung, by the angels above,

In notes that ring clear for the ears that can hear-

And the name of that secret is Love!

For I think it is Love,

For I feel it is Love,

For I'm sure it is nothing but Love!"

-End verse of A Song of Love

And Phantasmagoria is just phenomenal! His poetry is just so.... natural.

>>14746481474648 Huzzah!    What a perfect description, "natural".  His meter and rhyme are consistently impeccable.  What an incredibly talented man, an artist and scholar of so many fields!  I've always preferred his own vision of Alice (although Tenniel's illustrations are classic).

Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/Lewis_Carroll%27s_Alice_drawing.jpg/524px-Lewis_Carroll%27s_Alice_drawing.jpg

Funny enough, I've tried to read "Sylvie and Bruno" twice before.  Perhaps I, like you, will enjoy it on my third go-round.  What he tells me three times is true, after all.  

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I read Alice In Wonerland and Through The Looking Glass a long time ago. Might be time to revist them.

Also, Alice was my great, great, Aunt(or something, maybe a cousin...) so despite the fact that I haven't read the books in over a decade, I always sit up and take notice of anything having to do With Alice in Wonderland.

I was looking forward to this so much more than Daring, Ditzy, and Rainbow.  Twilight and Pinkie will get to have much more fun adventures.  Plus they're much crazier than those friends of theirs.

>>14747311474731

Yeah, mine came illustrated with Tenniel's, as well as quite a few other notables' illustrations. It's amazing how he managed to capture his thoughts perfectly not just a few times, but in all of his verses.

And my favorite fun fact is that Alice was really a brunette (although, being a brown-haired gal myself, I may just be prejudiced against the blonde Disney version).

Poor Twilight, it looks like nopony can talk about it and give an actual explanation.

It burbled as it came, the Jabberwock did.

“Sometimes I see super weirdo worlds through the Portal, and I don’t think they could exist anywhere in our dimension.  One of them looks a lot like Equestria, but everything’s burnt and dark and the ponies are so sad!  Another one doesn’t have any ponies at all, just these tall pink things that wear clothes all the time.  And another one’s really creepy: there are all these ponies hooked to chains, and for some reason it always makes me think of cheese strings...”

Can't wait for more of this, let me go get my time machine... Oh, right. Dang.

I would read this, but I am already juggling Background Pony, End of Ponies, and Fallout: Equestria project horizons.

I am basically in lust with you right now. Not only did you reference one of my Favourite Authors, pointed me towards some of my favourite poems of his (I love the Hunting of the snark, but I can never remember to look it up every now and then) and make me aware of yet more That I'd never even HEARD of, But you Actually managed to Ponify a Name in such a way, it didn't leave me wanting to spew Vitriolic Acid from my every oriface. Kudos!

>>14762851476285 I didn't realize that the third one was the unsung realm. 0.o. Luckily I have read Fallout equestria and Background pony.

>>14823661482366

It's not confirmed, but I think it's heavily implied.

>>14725641472564>>14762851476285

"Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

hmm i'll follow this little journey see where it goes

Ok, so I started reading this expecting just another 'X in Wonderland' style story which seemingly only draws on one or two films (The wrong view to take, retrospectively thinking, after you've already shown a fairly developed grasp of Dodgson's works) and then I got to my favourite poem written in narrative (That the right choice of words?) and...

Well, the English language has many faults and limitations, one of which I have now reached.

So I'll borrow a page of my ancient ancestors and use a picture to display my thoughts in a succinct manner.

I do wonder if Sylvie and Bruno will get a cameo.

As Flutterponies perhaps?

What's great about the mirror dimension is that if you want to see Twilight finally spill the beans, there's a mirror for that.

Want to check if Cadance is really who she says she is?  There's a mirror for that.

Need to find a bathroom sink, quick?  There's a mirror for that too.

Yep, there's a mirror for just about... anything.

Only on the piePhone.

>>15026391502639  That was pure genius.

>>14745501474550

Huh. I always thought that Clover the Clever, Princess Platinum, Smart Cookie and Private Pansy were the mares. Shows how much I know. Even if they put the details in, I'll ignore them and think of them my own way.

I have no idea what's going on. But that's certainly not a first for me.

I am confused and loving it.

>>15104611510461

I see what you did there.

Typo:

"Yes, yes, their related to Snarks."

Wait, didn't the baker softly and suddenly vanish away at the end of that poem?

Also I should probably have asked this first: is there a way to hide spoilers in one's comments? Not that it's a spoiler since people have had over a hundred thirty years to read said poem.

This makes perfect sense silly. Their in the void. Just a lower level. The time vortex. But a Higher level than the TARDIS goes

UPDATE!

Having made a reference to the same Lewis Carol classic that inspired (at least the title for) this fic, I feel a duty to check it out. *adds to 'read later' list*

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

Thanks for giving me the slightest excuse to use this quote, because It's a good one.

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I'm thinking that maybe I shouldn't read those poems after all. LateArivalSpoilers and all that.

Oh, my. Isn't that the same sundial that killed Danger Doo?

ceiling wax

Well, I'm kinda lost... but I think it's cute how Feather wants to unshy Bluish Carol

Huzzah!

Huh. I think this is the first story I've read that somewhat gives a description on how Pinkie Pie is Pinkie Pie. Well, other than Space Captain Pinkie Pie, and mirror magic, but that's kinda given. Pinkie Pie is Pinkie Pie because we can't understand her half the time xD

>>15107521510752

Yay!!!

One of them looks a lot like Equestria, but everything’s burnt and dark and the ponies are so sad!

Fallout: Equestria reference?

the Boojum does in fact remove one’s existence

Wonderfully bizarre. Please write more

>>15274351527435  Thanks to this video, this is gonna be the best day of my entire life.

>>14745501474550

I've never read Louis Carol. But then, have read very little. You sir, have made me quite curious. I think I'll give some of his work a read.

Muffins?  That can't be a coincidence.  

Hmmm.....I know at some point that these two are going to catch up to Ditzy, Daring and Rainbow. I just hope Twilight doesn't go babblety-boing when they do.

I re-read The Hunting of the Snark after the last chapter. This story evokes so many wonderful memories; I couldn't help it!

Eagerly awaiting future fits. H&K

BY accident, Pinkie.

Have you ever considered the possibility of your work being cited in a research paper? Well I'm considering it. A research paper on nonsense poetry is just asking for Pinkie Pie.

I need to read some of Lewis Carrol's works one of these days

Verra Nice.

I don't know if it's been said yet but this explains so much about Pinkie it's not even funny.

>>16060351606035  That's the goal!!

Image: http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/315/f/5/_ponkypinkie__by_pianoponky-d5knzri.jpg

>>16065901606590

That is adorably creepy.

>>16069181606918  That's the goal!!

Image: http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/315/1/a/_ponkycackle__by_pianoponky-d5ko09f.jpg

>>16072181607218

Actually, ya know whose art style your drawing is really like? Johan Vasquez(sp?)

>>16079951607995

Image: http://th01.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/317/9/2/ponky_and_zim_by_pianoponky-d5kyhvl.jpg?1

I am loving this.

The Pinkie Theory

We seen a lot during the episodes. But something started to come into my head after reading This Story. I started to think and I realised that Pinkie Sense can finally be explained. I now know why Pinkie Pie can do some weird stuff. I call it the Pinkie Theory, maybe shes not and ordinally Earth Pony. I think that she has some type of magic inside her that lets her sense the future and do some abnormal stuff. I will point it out.

Image: http://images.wikia.com/mlp/images/f/fc/S1E20_Pinkie_in_the_mirror.png

In this image you can see that Twilight is looking at the mirror and Pinkie Pie is inside. Thats kind of weird. Is Pinkie looking at the mirror and Twilight is just looking at the mirror. maybe its just a reflection or shes inside.

Image: http://iambrony.jsmart.web.id/mlp/gif/kdv4p4.gif?1320234281

This is probably the most talked about and Its Pinkie Sense. In the episode Feeling Pinkie Keen, Twilight is just having some bad luck. I don't understand it either. somehow she can sense the future. In this saturday's episode will have Pinkie Pie and mirrors and copies of her so watch it this saturday and I will miss it I think because I'm going to Illinois for a week so I will post two weeks. Go watch the full episode of Feeling Pinkie Keen its funny.

Spread The Word                

>>16083061608306

I don't feel quite qualified to comment on this story as I've never read and of Lewis Carroll (shame on me), but in spite of that, it's been enjoyable so far.

This keeps getting better and weirder. I can't help but love it

One tiny error:

> Star Swirl went the Wabe

"went [to] the Wabe"

And Twilight's overly rigid thinking makes her life worse....again. This'll come into play today when she flakes out on way a spoiled idiot who can't seem to figure out that it's her cutting and running that wrecked her career comes looking for payback.

Zero editing went into this, so feel free to correct me as much as you feel necessary!

Also, that might be my favorite ending to a chapter of mine ever.

Yay! I knew that if I never slept there would eventually be benefits. That first paragraph had some nice rhyming going on, and I still have no idea what is happening. Not that that doesn't make me want to read the next chapter now.

I've watched it a hundred times. It's a great story.

Agreed.

“…to bearer, to bearer… discounts, yes!  And the purple and pink…”

You alternate between calling Candle Ends "the Baker" and the "the Banker" in this chapter.  It's a bit confusing.

>>17177601717760 zero editing huh? ok then I only found one actually but i wasn't looking.

“…and that, my friend, is how you could to three,”  

i think you meant count not could.

>>17179051717905  False.  The Banker is another character.  He's green.

>>17179241717924  Thank you!

>>17179051717905

Rather obvious he was speaking of another pony since he went out of the way to describe them as if introducing a new a character to the forefront of attention. The green Banker became black and was left behind as he was insane. Yet Candle Ends was still with the group. Big difference.

>>17179451717945

My mistake.  I actually had that idea originally but somehow around this transition became convinced that maybe they were the same.

"“Not to these creatures,” the Bellsteed said in a low voice that chilled those who listened.  “We’ve lost half the day, and we must find the Snark before night, lest we risk the same fate as our good banker here.”

With a final glance at the babbling pony, the entirety of the crew rushed on, huddled close together and peering through the underbrush as keenly as they collectively could.

The baker was close to vomiting, tripping at every other step as his eyes swirled in their sockets.  Feather noticed his state and wrapped one wing around him, pulling him close to steady his shivers.  “We’ll be okay, Candle Ends,” she whispered, “as long as we all stick together.”"

I think it's because the banker is babbling and ill and then next thing we know Candle Ends (referred to as the baker) is close to vomiting with twirly eyes.

>>17179051717905

nuh uh. the banker's a different pony

>>17179941717994  That's fine.  :}  I've been confused by Lewis Carroll before, so it's only fitting that works inspired by him confuse, too.