* HilariousInHindsight: Pinkie Pie [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E1TheCrystalEmpirePart1 dressed in Sam Fischer-esque night-vision goggles]].
* SeriesHiatus: Chapter 15 was posted in early February 2012 and explicitly mentioned a continuation, but none followed. A little over a year later he joked that he was "the taker of the two-year hiatus" and has posted a few Trixie drawings on his Deviantart, but no new chapter. ''Ballad'' isn't quite to DeadFic status yet, but it's getting there.
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