A Chronology of Posh Canon · 9:47pm Aug 2nd, 2019
DID SOMEONE SAY TIMELINES???
...Anyone? No? Okay, that's fine. I guess.
I'm fine, really. :'^)
This is something I've been wanting to do for a while: put together a definitive list of the continuities that've sprung up over the years I've been on here, including their own chronology, and how they fit into the series timeline. While a few of my stories are standalones, not meant to share space with anything besides the series from whence they sprang, but many are in continuity with one another. There are a few different branches in what could generously be called my literary canon; check below the break for a list of them.
This is a WIP, and I intend to add to/edit/revise it as needed.
"The Bonnieverse" -- Main Continuity
Most of my stories occupy this branch of continuity, which diverges from the series canon at about the end of season six or so; events post-season six constitute a sort of alternate season seven. Characters reoccur throughout, and plot threads from one story can (and frequently do) carry over into future stories.
Stories in this continuity include:
"Be Good To Your Daughters, For They Become Mothers": Pre-Series
"The Eye That Floats, Silent and Unblinking, in Sunset Shimmer's Kitchen": Post-Friendship Games, circa early season six
"Daring Do's Adventures in Whackademia": Circa early season six; overlaps with "Eyeball"
"Teach Me Goodness": Post-Season Six
"The Long Arm of Murphy's Law": Post-season six; overlaps with the epilogue chapter of "Teach Me Goodness"
"The Next Best Thing": Circa early "season seven"
"One Good Turn..." Set during the holidays, in the months following "The Next Best Thing"
"The PGSverse"
A branch of "The Bonniverse." Shares continuity, canon, and lore with stories from that canon, diverging in early season two.
Currently consists of only "Pony Gear Solid."
"The Rhymeverse"
A much more divergent continuity that plays a little faster and looser with canon, specifically regarding things like Sunset Shimmer's age and, relative to the other characters. Less canon-compliant than The Bonnieverse, I've foregone adding canon-placement labels for this reason.
This universe see-saws between honest attempts at pathos and slapstick self-parody, and is generally where I go when I want to make fun of myself. Some characters from the other "prime" timeline appear in this one, as well, but there's no continuity connection. Just me being self-referential.
"Equestria Gear Solid: The Definitive Experience"
"...But It Often Rhymes"
"Equestria Gear Solid 2: Suns of Shimmery: Takes place concurrently with "...But It Often Rhymes." WIP.
"Neither Rhyme, Nor Reason"
"The Apple Bloom Must Suffer Universe"
Stories defined by the uniting thematic need to make Apple Bloom suffer in all facets of her life. This, too, is too divergent from the canon timeline for placement tags to make any sense.
"For I Am A Jelly God"
"My Little Immortal: Friendship is Gothic"
This is giving me flashbacks to when the official Legend of Zelda timeline was first released and everyone lost their collective shit when it revealed there was not two but three timelines that sprung out of Ocarina of Time.
I never would have expected that Equestria Gear Solid, a story in which all of its characters are little more than walking parodies of themselves, could possibly share a universe with Often Rhymes, where the characters are so incredibly deep and nuanced that they're able to sink a crackship. Even a well-conceived crackship.
And I may be totally misremembering, but weren't the events of Daring Do's Adventures in Whackedemia directly referenced in Pony Gear Solid? But if Whackedemia takes place post-season 6 and PGS is pre-alicorn Twilight oh no I've gone cross-eyed.
And don't even get me started on whether this whole thing is a Stephen King-esque multiverse and it's all going to come together in your equivalent to the Dark Tower, which will either be the climax to PGS or something else entirely.
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Pictured: Flynt Coal losing his goddamn mind (2019)
Okay, this is bullshit for a number of reasons:
1. It's called SUNS of Shimmery, you destroyer of all things good. I won't let you fuck up this title like you did the original EGS.
2. The EGS series is absolutely canon to the PGSverse, and nobody can tell me otherwise (and it's missing the Eyeball connection; for shame).
3. Where exactly is Sunlight for Life? I don't see it on there. Fix this immediately.
4. Not colour-coded.
For fuck's sake, Posh. It's one thing to edit your stories, but I shouldn't need to fix your blog posts for you as well.
I haven't seen that comic in years.
Also, I had no idea these stories were so interconnected. :O
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That's admittedly a retcon, but one that I don't mind making. Or admitting to. EGS2'll be out eventually; it's another joint venture between Danny and I, and represents THE LEGENDARY MISSING LINK IN THE PONY GEAR SAGA.
So, the lore that's referenced in that story, the buffalo myth about ponies fighting the sun, originated in PGS as a blog that I wrote and posted in the lead-up to chapters 13 and 14. That's where the anecdote about Daring Do getting groped by a drunk professor and winging him with a serving tray after spending an evening talking about buffalo myths came from.
Whackademia and PGS have a common lore; my conceit when writing both is that they're divergent timelines originating from the same universe, with the point of divergence (a very specific, defined moment where PGS forked into its own continuity, and the other stories continued along the same trajectory of the show) being a moment between seasons one and two of FiM.
In other words, the same setting, but parallel branches of that setting. Backstory elements established in PGS are also part of something like Whackademia, and vice-versa. Anything that took place prior to that point of divergence is also common to both. Hickory Switch lived and died in both PGS and Whackademia. Apple Bloom ran away from home after an argument with Applejack in both universes, but her adventures on that day were very, very different (still a story I might tell someday). And, in both universes, a former Equestrian government official with a mysteriously appropriate Shakespearean alias tried to launch an armed revolt against the crown. But in Whackademia's timeline, he would have died alone and forgotten in exile, rather than returning a decade later with an army at his back.
On a related note, major changes between the two only become apparent after PGS begins, which means seasons one and two of the show are more or less consistent in both PGSverse and Bonnieverse. For example, in both universes, Killjoy made out with
) at Cadance and Shiny's wedding after being turned down by Flash Sentry.
Twilightsome random unicorn (On the other hand, some differences are so slight that they didn't really impact the way that the show's events unfolded. I'd give examples, but I should probably minimize those for anyone who's planning to read PGS in the future.
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I'm talking about this bitch.
Anyway, to answer your actual question, DD whacking Dr. Bailiwick with the serving tray and stealing all his free bread happened either before the point of divergence, or near enough after it that it's still common to both realities.
Also, as Danny once pointed out to me, this has the side-effect of making most of the stories I've published crossovers with Metal Gear. I don't know how I feel about that. Good, I guess?
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What connection? I don't know what you're talking about. The story isn't written yet. There's nothing to point out.
I thought our agreement was that Sunlight For Life took place in a pocket dimension of the Borderworld that Discord literally keeps in his pocket.
Allow me to canonize the All-Nana, and we'll talk.
5098565 I have a deep-seated fondness for Season One Luna and will always stan her.
EDIT: Also, only stories that are direct sequels to one another have any specific relationship beyond just being, you know, in continuity with each other. Mothers and TMG don't have any relationship besides one happening decades before the other.
Your image is broken. :C
5266125 much like my heart
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I'll give you a kidney as a replacement
it's not mine so it's okay bby