"Stranger than Fanfiction" Addendum · 10:17pm Jul 30th, 2016
Quibble Pants here. I've hijacked this fanfic writer's blog to point out something the writers of today's episode messed up.
In this episode, I refused to acknowledge any Daring Do book written after "Ring of Destiny", which is said to be the last book of "the first trilogy". But if you'll pay careful attention to every episode that's previously mentioned Daring Do, you'll know that there are several Daring Do books that came before "Ring of Destiny", and THAT book was written AFTER! Daring Do met Rainbow Dash.
I find it ironic that in an episode that's all about me, a fan who nitpicks every little thing, the writers made such an EGREGIOUS mis--
HEY! WHAT THE FUCK?! How did you g-- What are you-- GET OFF MY COMPUTER! GET OFF MY BLOG!
Uhhh....this is Quibble Pants saying I'M RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG!
The Adventure Critic. He explores it so you don't have to.
Maybe "Ring of Destiny" was his sharkjump. And we don't know how much she wrote after meeting Rainbow
4122879 We do know she'd written at least four books BEFORE then, though, because of the dialogue from that episode where Twilight and Rainbow were geeking at each other. Ring of Destiny was AT LEAST the fifth book, and it's been implied there were a lot more. So...yeah.
He's taking over, lads!!!
He's gonna take you back to the past~
To read the shitty books that suck ass~
He'd rather have~
a buffalo~
Take a diarrhea dump in his ear~
He's rather eat~
The rotten asshole~
Of a roadkill skunk~
And down it with beer~
He's the angriest reader you've ever heard~
He's the professional literary nerd~
He's the Action-Romantic-Thriller nerd~
He's the Angry LIterature Nerd!~
Censored in case of easily-offended sensibilities.
The rapid pace at which A. K. Yearling "writes" those new adventures has a pretty easy explanation.
The early books in the series were written prior to Princess Luna's return from her banishment as Nightmare Moon, when Equestria and its neighbors were fairly quiet, as far as exciting and/or weird events go. So A. K. write slowly, and spends more time carefully probing each expedition site in a methodical fashion.
The reintroduction of the Elements as an active force in the world acted as a catalyst, either waking all manner of other ancient things (power calls to power, after all), or igniting interest in the forgotten and mythical powers of past that perhaps have as much basis in reality as Nightmare Moon or the Elements themselves.
So Daring Do is forced to step up the pace against opponents who are themselves a lot more (pro)active in scouring the world for trinkets best left buried, and since those expeditions take money to fund, A. K. Yearling similarly ups the pace at which she writes new volumes in her series. Heck, maybe she even hires a ghost writer to bang out a few dictated manuscripts when she just doesn't have the time herself. Daring has a lot less time to fuss about with riddles and puzzles, because her opponents aren't giving her even a moment to waste as they race for the goods, so the latter books feature more action sequences as a result.
How's that hang together as an explanation?
Edited because brain refused to brain properly and left out a couple chunks.
4122925 I...don't think you actually understood the point of this blog post.
It's a pity you wasted all the time typing that otherwise brilliant response to what's shown to be QP's gripe with Daring Do in the episode when this particular blog post was about a continuity error the episode writers made.
Hey Quibble, if you hack Moth's account again, can you say a line from Ratatouille when you're in a Daring Do convention?
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I did mention that my brain wasn't up to doing brain stuff today, yes? Consider this further evidence in support of my claim. I only noticed that "Quibble" was raising a few issues, totally missed the rest...
Gonna crawl back under my rock and lurk moar
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Except it wasn't said to be the last book of the first trilogy. He never directly said that and neither did Dash, and I double-checked the transcript to be sure of that.
Perhaps he didn't care much for the books between the first trilogy and Ring of Destiny, at most thinking they're OK. But after that? Just too dumbed down for him, enough for him to just not consider anything past the first trilogy (including Ring of Destiny) to be worth reading.
But for sake of argument, I'll assume that Ring of Destiny is, according to "Quibble", the last book of the first trilogy. Wouldn't Dash, the fangirl that knows without doubt that's not true in the slightest, point that out to him considering she's knows Caballeron was first introduced in book four? Why would she not bring that up?
That's like if I said Order of the Phoenix came first before Prisoner of Azkaban.
The invasion has begun! Run for the hills!
Silly billy, they're coming from the hills.
Run away from the hills! Run away from the hills! If you see the hills, run the other way!
Wait... who told me....?
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AAAAHHHHHG!
4123011 or Daring could be on a bit of the same stuff that one of my favorite athours pulls, Piers Anthony. his Xanth series has more than a few tilogies, but he somehow got the idea that a 'trilogy' was three squared in number, that is, 27 books. going by that logic, and the stack of books that Dash had beside her at the end of 'Read it and Weep', presumably all of which were Daring Do novels, it very well could have been the last book in the first 'trilogy'...