History Blog / SliceOfLife

** During the Nightmare Night arc, Pumpkin tries to tell a ghost story referencing the mock-{{creepypasta}} "The Day of All The Blood".

* SpaceWhaleAesop: From the twins encounter wish Discord:

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Spike dresses for Nightmare Night as a '''red''' dragon.

* MythologyGag: Many background ponies are recycled from G1 pony designs, observed [[http://egophiliac.deviantart.com/art/slice-of-life-background-pony-designs-313438672 here]].

* UnsoundEffect: When Twilight teleports into the library to begin her magic lessons, the sound effect is "Magic! Sparkles!"

* MetaphoricallyTrue: Pumpkin Cake is found of using these.

* Fangirl: Scootaloo still thinks Rainbow Dash is "the most awesome pony '''ever'''!" But she's a little wiser to her hero's hooves of clay.

* [[ShoutOut Shout Outs:]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: Pumpkin can't just be ''happy'' for Pound to start flight camp, and takes up the next few strips searching for someone to teach her magic before Nightmare Night. And ''on'' Nightmare Night, she deliberately sneaks away from Pinkie (who her parents had told her to stay with at all times) into a haunted house that she was too young for, forcing Pound to go after her to try and keep her from getting in trouble, though it's heavily implied that her desire to learn magic early is a product of GreenEyedMonster due to Pound going to flight camp.

* SecretlyWealthy: the {{backstory}} of [[spoiler:how Pinkie met the Cakes]] reveals that [[spoiler:Pinkie's family owns the biggest molassess company in Equestria, and she gets a REALLY big allowance as a result.]]

The [[http://sliceofponylife.tumblr.com/ blog is here.]] The comics can be [[http://sliceofponylife.tumblr.com/tagged/comic/chrono read in chronological order here.]]

''Slice of Life'' is a ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony Friendship is Magic]]'' ''[[Blog/AskAPony Ask A Pony]]'' blog and webcomic.

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin As the title suggests,]] this is a slice of life comic focusing on the lives of the Cake family -- Mr. and Mrs. Cake, their twins Pound and Pumpkin, and [[CloudCuckooLander Pinkie Pie]]. The comic is set several years in the future of the series, when the Cake twins have grown up to about the same age as the Cutie Mark Crusaders are in the current series. Trials and tribulations include collecting candy on [[HalloweenEpisode Nightmare Night]], the fears of flight camp, sibling rivalry, and dealing with the wackiness of the denizens of Ponyville (and Pinkie Pie).

* AffectionateNickname: Cup Cake and Carrot Cake have an endless variety of these for one another; the unspoken rule is that they won't repeat the same nickname in the same comic.

* {{Ahem}}:
** Twilight Sparkle does one of these when she's trying to get the Cakes' attention.
** Lampshaded in one comic where Mr. Cake reuses "sugarpie" and Mrs. Cake points it out.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Four Cakes and a Pie.]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:225:[[{{Tagline}} Four Cakes and a Pie.]]]]

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The comic is set several years in the future of the series to when the Cake twins have grown up to about the same age as the Cutie Mark Crusaders are in the current series.

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin As the title suggests]] this is a slice of life comic focusing on the lives of the Cake family and Pinkie Pie.

* AffectionateNickname: Cup Cake and Carrot Cake have an endless variety of these for one another.
* {{Ahem}}: Twilight Sparkle does one of these when she's trying to get the Cakes attention.
** Lampshaded in one comic where Carrot reuses "sugarpie" and Cup points it out.
* BigEater: Pinkie Pie naturally.
* {{Fainting}}: Carrot Cake has a tendency to do this, its something of a RunningGag.
* HappilyMarried: Mr. Cake and Mrs. Cake

* {{Nerd}}: the syllabus for Twilight's magic class is at least twenty pages long.
* NiceHat: Pinkie's "serious hat"
* NightmareFuel: In universe, Fluttershy's description of her time at flight camp does this to Pound Cake.

* SecretlyWealthy: the {{backstory}} of how [[spoiler: Pinkie]] met the Cakes reveals that [[spoiler: Pinkie]] gets a really big allowance.

** TheBeverlyHillbillies: in the [[spoiler: Pie]] family backstory
** SayAnything: when Pumpkin is trying to find a magic teacher other than Twilight.

* UnsoundEffect: When Twilight teleports into the library to begin her magic lessons the sound effect is "Magic! Sparkles!"