Ponyville is Equestrian Australia · 2:04am Nov 28th, 2017
I have just read approximately all of the "Humans are Space Orcs"/"Earth is Space Australia" stuff. All of it. There was a lot of it.
Naturally, my brain was like, "how can I connect this to MLP?"
What I came up with:
Ponyville regularly gets attacked by monsters and villains. It's situated on the edge of a forest so dangerous nopony except the most powerful or foolhardy individuals goes in.
The town is, at this point, home to approximately 8 national and international heroes (counting Spike and Starlight. If we were to count Trixie, it would be 9, but she travels a lot). One of those heroes is an alicorn princess, practically a physical god. One of the others is best friends with the spirit of chaos himself, who also goes on world-saving adventures with a third and plays pony Dungeons and Dragons with a fourth. And one of them just refuses to obey the laws of physics.
Since those heroes appeared, Equestria has made alliances with at least four previously hostile nations. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I know about the hippocampi/hippogriffs and I assume we can bump the tally to five.
The town is also home to the first ever trio of cutie mark therapists. They're fairly precocious (not in that way) fillies, getting into more trouble than most adults could handle.
It may or may not also be home to a Time Lord.
Because of where the town is located, even the regular citizens are- by now- fairly calm in the face of great danger. Some even bored by it.
My point is: Ponyville is Equestria's Australia.
These ponies can fight dragons. They can defeat monsters from Tartarus without using superweapons. They made friends with griffons. They consider nothing to be impossible because they live with a pony who can grow seventeen arms and inflate her skull like a balloon. What might take others months or years to accomplish they do in the space of days or weeks.
If Equestria had better communication systems, Ponyville would be a meme. There would be talk about the weird things visitors have seen. Debates over whether something somepony talks about is real or made up.
"Bro, I watched this mare break the sound barrier just to get some ice cream. Said she had to do it in ten seconds or less."
"Pfft. No way ice cream would hold up at those speeds!"
"I'm tellin' you, it's true!"
"Hey guys, I just got back from Ponyville, you'll never believe what I saw!"
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"What?"
Let me know what you guys think. Feel free to repost this, add to it, whatever.
