Did you ever wonder how full-color animated films are made in Equestria?

Twilight and Dinky Doo find out...even more than they expected to.

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About the Art: I wanted to depict part of an animation museum's special exhibition, and I was lucky enough to find the wonderful image inside this picture frame! (On display in Equestria by special permission of the artist, funkyfurs. However, any sloppiness in hasty cross-dimensional art compositing is all my fault.)

This story is guaranteed to contain at least one (1) crossover by the very end, as specified for the contest/event "Who Crossed Over My Little Pony? (1/19/22 -- 4/1/22)"

Dinky didn't like to think about Father's Day. How could it be true that she'd never had a father?

Rated S for SCIENCE!

At the end of the story I provide some links to articles about related science.

This story is a good excuse to donate to COVID-19 relief in India!

You can also learn about some other worthy charities through this year's Pride and Positivity 2021 event, celebrating Pride Month. Gender AND sex come up partway through this story in an unusual way. Also, there's some LGBTQ shipping.

I thank Sockpuppet for a helpful prereading.

(Sockpuppet, part of this story wanted to be T rated, so to add it to your 2021 Father's Day event, I guess I should wait until you officially relax the E-rated restriction to permit T-rated stories. )

Why does this story have the "Death" tag? Every true story in biology, if you follow it for long enough, includes a part that goes, 'and then some organisms died,' and that's always an important part of the story.