//------------------------------//
// Author's Commentary - Poop, Horse Breeding, and Writing 
// Story: Polychromatic Defecation 
// by Puppo530 
//------------------------------//


Author's Commentary
All the Stuff You Didn't Want to Know About Poop and Horse Breeding
And Some Stuff About Actually Writing This Fanfiction


I decided to write some author's commentary on facts and other stuff about writing this fanfiction because I wanted to, and you can't stop me from doing it. So here I go:

This all started when I took a shower over Winter Break. I was thinking about the common idea that unicorns and pegasi poop rainbows. I found this to be funny in a strange way, and usually didn't entertain the idea. But in this shower, I asked the fateful question, "What if ponies actually pooped rainbows?" These 'what if' questions often lead to the beginning of many of my stories; even my full-length novel, Shard, started off as a 'what if' question. I then proceeded to narrow the question down to a simpler, "What if Rainbow Dash" because of all the rainbooms and rainbow mane and stuff, " pooped rainbows?"

The story you have before you is my answer to that question. This is exactly what I think would happen in pony society if a somepony was discovered to have mystical rainbow poop. I earnestly believe that this is what would happen. So if you believe otherwise, so be it.

I immediately sat down and began writing this epic tale. Yes, from the very beginning I knew how it was going to end. I basically knew the entire outline of the story from that very first showering. Of course, it took many more showers to iron out the details, but you get the picture. I knew that there was going to be some machine that Rainbow Dash would be locked in. I knew that there was going to be a foal that would be tossed into the mix. I knew that there was going to be this chase scene. And I knew that Rainbow Dash and her foal were going to die.

I researched what caused changes in stool coloration. I discovered that it was caused by bilirubin, chemically changed hemoglobin that is secreted by the liver into bile. For more information on this, there are actually a plethora of sites to visit. Such as this one, this one, and even this one.

Here, I must take a break and issue a statement. To the ponies in this story, I had to apply human types of medical information and mix it with horse types. These ponies can talk like humans, so I'm going to assume that they function very similarly to humans. I'm not going to get a degree in Horseology for a fanfiction (yes that is a real degree, no I'm not making that up). Horses can have seizures, but I mixed these symptoms with ones found in humans to be more accurate. This is just one example. There are sites on horse feces, more commonly called manure, but, to be honest, the very fact that there are sites about horse manure creeps me out. The very fact that there are forums about horses freaks me out. The internet is a strange place, and it's bigger than you could ever imagine. I've kind of gotten off track here, so let me start talking about horse breeding. How fun.

Horses are pregnant for eleven months. I kinda alluded to this fact, but I didn't make it obvious, so I'm making it obvious that I actually did research on this fact that horses have a gestation of roughly eleven months. Now that this fanfiction is over and done with, I can use that fact on more useful things, like telling it to people when I have nothing else to say. I find that people usually respond with "Elephants are pregnant for twenty-two months". Anywhey, horses also rarely get pregnant in the winter. It is more common for it to happen in the early spring (as it happened in this story) so that, eleven months later in even earlier spring, the newborn foal will be able to grow up through the pleasant summer and have a better chance at surviving through the winter.

After knowing how to make a baby (privileged information that I am forbidden by good ethics to share with you all on this very public space) and for how long a horse is pregnant, I then, as I got closer and closer to writing about the actual pregnancy, began to look up sites like this and this and even this. Check them out if you want to, but that would be kinda creepy. I tried to include as much of this information in the story as was needed, so all in all not that much. Still, it's useful to do research to show that you actually (slightly) care about the story. Can I switch back to talking about how I actually wrote it? No? Oh well, I'm the boss here, so I can do what I want. I'll talk about each of the chapter titles now.

The titles for the five chapters of this story can be a bit strange if you don't have immense access to my mind and it's inner machinations, so I'll have to spell each one out for you.

Chapter 1: You Reek-A!
This one should be pretty obvious. It's a chapter about smelly stuff and scientific discovery so yeah. If you don't get the 		   pun, just read it out loud. Got it? Good. This is actually not my own design, but taken from a sbemail from the once-popular site homestarrunner.com. It was Sbemail #171 Underlings.

Chapter 2: Oh, POOP, You Never Let Us Down!
This is also pretty obvious. It's talking about poop and it's a quote from a TV show I watch so I used it. You can watch the specific quote from the TV show you've never heard of before here (albeit in sped-up mode, it was the only version I could find that wasn't defiled by YouTube poop).

Chapter 3: Our Number 1 Test Is Your Number 2
This is a line from the Scrubs episode My Musical. The specific line can be found here. It's talking about pooping in a hospital and stuff, so it was a perfect quote.

Chapter 4: The Poop Loop
This one is a little more abstract. It's talking about how there's possibly (probably) going to be a 'loop' of polychromatic defecators that will be under some sort of slavery or something like that. It's another quote from Spongebob, the original can be found here.

Chapter 5: Whatsit All About?
This title is chosen pretty much because it's a quote about poop from something I enjoy. It's another Sbemail (this time #144). You can find the clip here, but it might need some explanation. In short review: the Poopsmith (the guy shoveling the pile of brown stuff) shovels poop for a living. It's commonly referred to as Whatsit in the webtoon, so that led to the title for that chapter.

So yeah, that's the author's commentary about this stupid fanfiction. I'm glad it's over. This took way longer than it should have.