Party in Pinkie Pie! According to Pinkie, there's ''always'' been a great party inside her, and that's why she's always ready to spread the joy all the time!

...Only lately, she hasn't felt quite like herself. She's been keeping a very important secret from all her friends -- especially Rainbow Dash! -- and though she's found ways to cope, they're starting to not work as well as they used to. And as she struggles with her unrequited crush, she can't help but worry if the party inside her is coming to an end...

[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/6868/the-party-hasnt-ended The Party Never Ended]] is, at its core, a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' {{Shipping}} FanFic centered around Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash. But around that blossoms an even greater crisis -- a storm is coming to Ponyville, and an old enemy with it!

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!!This ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' {{Fanfic}} contains examples of:

* ActionMom: Derpy Hooves[=/=]Ditzy Doo becomes a pure {{Determinator}} during the storm, all for the sake of her daughter Dinky.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Pinkie isn't the only one with a crush on somepony; Lyra also has feelings for her best friend Bon-Bon, but is afraid of ruining their friendship. And other instances pop up as the story progresses, like Caramel ''and'' Twilight towards Big Mac and Cloudkicker for Fluttershy.
* AnsweringEcho: Appears in Part 11, after Pinkie learns [[spoiler:how Loneliness was created]].
* ArcWords: Yo dawg, we heard you like arc words, so we gave your arc words their own arc words so that they can... arc while... they... word? Whatever. The arc words are [[spoiler:"I love you, Pinkie! Please wake up!"]], but those words are not revealed to the reader until near the end. Every time Pinkie hears them, the reader is greeted with "It said seven simple words to her..."
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: [[spoiler: Nightmare]] exists so long as despair exists. "You'll find me where there's no laughter to be heard, and wherever despair has taken hold of a heart."
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Conflicts rage both inside...
* BattleInTheRain: ...and out.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Nightmare]] attempts this several times, on both Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. By the end, this backfires epically when it comes to Pinkie.
* CassandraTruth: Pinkie attempting to warn Dash that she's in the middle of a nightmare.
* CurbStompBattle: Pinkie's final battle with [[spoiler: Nightmare]]; she never falls for his attempts to [[BreakTheCutie break her]].
* CrapsaccharineWorld: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by [[spoiler:Nightmare]]; Pinkie's dream is a dream come true, where Rainbow Dash has agreed to go steady with her, and she's holding [[TitleDrop the titular]] party that's never going to end. The dream is shaped by her denial, which will end once [[spoiler:she and Rainbow Dash dies]].
* DarkReprise: After Dash rejects her confession, Pinkie sings part of her 'cleaning up/cheering up Dash' song again.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Nightmare's]] tactic of choice: pushing its victims to this point so that they can't resist it's DemonicPossession.
* {{Determinator}}:
%%** Derpy Hooves.%%ZCE
** Pinkie Pie, when it comes to fighting [[spoiler: Nightmare]]. She will not give in to despair.
** All the pegasi working to the point of exhaustion to try to hold back the storm. Fluttershy deserves special mention because she is not a good flyer and not skilled in weather manipulation, but will protect her friends to the point of incapacitation.
%%* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Pinkie Pie after TakingTheBullet]].
* DreamPeople: Amusingly enough, the dream versions of Pinkie and Twilight's friends attending her Lotus Eater Party stand up to their own creator.
%%* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EmpathicEnvironment: As the mood darkens, clouds start rolling in and thunder rumbles dangerously...
%%* FightingFromTheInside
* FreudianSlip: While singing to cheer Rainbow Dash up, Pinkie's off-the-cuff lyrics end with "''For don't you see that you've got me[=/=]A little pony who loves you?''"
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Appropriately enough, [[spoiler:Nightmare]] itself turns out to be the spirit of an abandoned foal that was completely [[spoiler: consumed by its own loneliness]].
* GrammarCorrectionGag: While transcribing a letter for Twilight, Spike stumbles over the spelling for typhoon and writes down ''everything'' Twilight says.
* GroundhogDayLoop: Rainbow Dash has [[spoiler: committed suicide]] twenty-four times in a row in her dream, before finally being rescued by Pinkie.
* LotusEaterMachine: Pinkie gets trapped in one, and Twilight almost falls victim while trying to get her out.
* LoveConfession: Pinkie staged parties where she could pretend to confess her feelings as a way to blow off steam. Her ''actual'' confession doesn't go the way she hoped at first...
** This is also eventually revealed to be ''why'' Rainbow Dash rejected her: [[spoiler: it reminded her of another confession that she violently rejected]].
* MamaBear: This is what keeps Derpy going during the long fight against the storm.
* MyGreatestFailure: Dash's deepest regret is how she [[spoiler:rejected her best friend Star Catcher's very public confession despite actually returning her feelings.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Nightmare]] claims to have been summoned by Rainbow Dash's guilt over betraying her friend. (Actually, it was [[spoiler:Pinkie Pie]] who accidentally caused it.)
* NoOntologicalInertia: Averted and lampshaded, the storm doesn't dissipate just because the [[spoiler:Nightmare]] is defeated.
%%* ThePowerOfLove
* PronounTrouble: [[spoiler:Nightmare]] takes on various forms of both genders, and is described as both 'she' and 'he'. Even when its origin is revealed, it's ''gender'' remains a mystery.
%%* RescuedFromTheUnderworld
* ShoutOut: Star Catcher is the name of a G3 pegasus pony.
** Rainbow Dash mentions the "Swayback Mountains" at one point. This is a nod to a previous Applejack/Rarity fan fic Butterscotch Sundae wrote.
** Chapter 11 opens up with what can only be described as a TakeThat parody of ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'', and later, ''Fanfic/RocketToInsanity''. [[spoiler:Made awesome by the fact that it's Nightmare's MindRape...which Pinkie subverts by ''lucid dreaming''.]]
* SongFic: The title comes from a song called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcoKxYv8NCQ "You Don't Have A Clue"]] by Röyksopp, and the song is quoted at the beginning and end of the story.
* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell My Fanfic With a Hasn't]]: On Butterscotch's deviantArt profile the story is titled "The Party Hasn't Ended", but the Equestria Daily entry spells it as "The Party Never Ended"
* TakeThat: The whole concepts of ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'' and ''Fanfic/RocketToInsanity'' are roundly mocked.
* TakingTheBullet: Or rather, taking the full force of [[spoiler: Nightmare's]] possession attempt.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Or rather, ''laughing'' the [[spoiler: Nightmare]] away. Played with in that it doesn't entirely vanquish it, and veers back and forth with its effectiveness.
* TitleDrop:
-->'''Spike:''' So I guess friendship really ''is'' magic!
-->'''Applejack:''' [[LampshadeHanging And jus' what is]] ''[[LampshadeHanging that]]'' [[LampshadeHanging supposta mean?]]
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Pinkie's primary way of coping with her crush before the plot gets rolling? Throwing a secret party for one every month where she pours out her heart to an imaginary Rainbow Dash.
* XanatosGambit: Or, close enough, set up by ''Pinkie'' of all ponies. When she and Dash are in Dash's heart, [[spoiler:she takes Nightmare's possession attempt meant for Dash. Turns out that she knows that Nightmare will win in Dash's heart but has no chance against her in her own heart.]] Even if that plan does fail, at least Dash will be safe.
* YouMonster: Rainbow Dash says this to [[spoiler:Nightmare]] after he revealed to her the carnage he's supposedly unleashing on Ponyville.

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