Blog / Moonstuck

Still trying to name every pony?^note Clockwise, from the top: Dark Woona, Batpony Bon Bon, Batpony Lyra, Sparkleheart, Honeybun, Cupcake Crumbles, Echo, Stardust, Ziggy, Hazmat Suit Woona, Science Woona, Jeffery, The Moon Rocks (Rocky, Roxanne, and Bob), Meadowlark, Pebbl, Pierre the Pebble, Woona, Sunshine, Imogen, Sharp Shooter, Octotavia, Queen Serenitatis (Serenity), Jake Bullet, Bubbles, Danger McSteele, Tim, Average Woona, Sir Awesome (lunoctopus), Seapony Bon Bon, Seapony Lyra, Brass Knuckles, Fins MacCool, Tony Shark, Crackers, Exuvia, Tumbler, and Pharate.

"This is a humor blog about a pony on the moon. Don't take it too seriously."

Moonstuck is a very silly Ask a Pony Tumblr run by Egophiliac. In the style of Problem Sleuth and the earlier arcs of Homestuck, it chronicles young Woona and her random adventures in and out of the moon. It finished November 4, 2012. On the 10th anniversary of its release, a short follow-up story was released.

An (unofficial) audio version can be found here and here.

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This tumblr contains examples of:

• Advanced Tech 2000: Woonavision 3000.
• Affectionate Parody:
  • The comic itself is one of Homestuck and Problem Sleuth.
  • Moonstuck itself has an affectionate parody in the form of Dark Moonstuck. It was made to follow the life of the original Woona who was jettisoned into space at the start of Moonstuck on page 3. The adventures are semi-canon.
• All Just a Dream: Average Woona Adventures turns out to be one of these, with Woona waking up at the end of the comic.
• All There in the Manual: All the characters actually do have names, as shown here, they're just not shown in comic for stylistic reasons.
• Alt Text: Some of the tags function as this.
• Always Someone Better: Blueblood manages to trump Woona in just about everything early on, despite never being shown on screen.
• April Fools' Day: Introducing Average Woona Adventures!
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Science Woona (a magical unicorn pony with wings) gets pretty upset when science is openly defied.
• Art Evolution: Just compare this post from early on in the story, to this one from the final arc.
• Aside Glance: Several of the posts involve Woona staring at the audience.
• Ass-Kicking Pose: Woona's group takes one in preparation to fight Dark Woona near the end of the Changeling arc.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: Justified, as Science Woona puts it:
  "Through a process known as adorasynthesis, [Woona's] body exudes a constant aura of Cuteness Overload (CO), which combines with naturally-occuring elements of D’aww (D) and Hnngh (H) to be absorbed back into [Woona's] body as oxygen."
  "Here is a sciency formula^note 2nCO2+2nDH2 to make it look plausible!"
• Beam-O-War: Woona has one with Dark Woona.
• Big Bad: Dark Woona, evil counterpart of Woona, spends the story from her return until her eventual defeat trying to disrupt Woona's journey, steal the moon relics, cover Woona in evil jam, and generally give her a hard time. It turns out that she's merely a puppet of Discord.
• Big Damn Heroes: Woona's friends arriving to help the outmatched Woona against Dark Woona.
• Big "NO!": Discord gives one as he's being Taken for Granite.
• Black Dot Pupils: Moonstuck introduced the now-famous elliptical "Woonoggles".
• The Bus Came Back:
  • The Bat Ponies, after initially parting from them at the end of the Labyrinth arc, rejoin Woona shortly thereafter, due the popular demand.
  • All of the friends Woona made throughout the story (and one she never even met) return during the Final Battle.
• But Now I Must Go: After her mission is fulfilled following the events of the story, Woona must return to Equestria to retake her role as Princess.
• The Cameo: Any post labelled "hi tim" contains... TIM.
• Catapult Nightmare: The aforementioned Average Woona Adventures.
• Cerebus Syndrome: Things begin to take a much darker turn towards the final arc.
• Character Name Limits: Referenced at the comic's end.
  HIGH SCORE!
  ENTER NAME:
  WNA_
• Chekhov's Skill:
  • The "+3 Diplomacy Points" Woona gained here let her attempt to use diplomacy to solve her problems with the moonitaur. "(remember that?)" It doesn't work.
  • Woona tries it again on the pudding monsters. Once again, it doesn't work.
  • Very early on in the series, Woona learned "underwater basket weaving" as a quick joke. This later becomes a significant plot point that starts the Seapony Arc.
• The Chosen One: Woona is predicted to unite three artifacts to save the moon from a great evil.
• The Comically Serious: Dark Woona. Occasionally plays straight man to Team Woona, but is mostly so serious that the one time we see her doing something funny, it's hilarious in it's out of characterness.
• Confusion Fu: Woona tries this during the Final Battle against Dark Woona, but it's subverted when most of her efforts are still thwarted.
• Conveniently Interrupted Document: At one point, Woona discovers part of a note that tells her where to find a certain key, along with "soon" and a few partial words. Later on, she finds the note's missing fragment along with the aforementioned key. While the complete message is now clear to the reader, Woona had "already used up all of [her] deductive power for today" by that point and literally cannot put the pieces together.
• Cool Plane: Woona uses a giant paper airplane.
• Cool Shades: When Woona goes rad with power. And then again when she signals her friends to spite the narrator, and again when she escapes from the sun with The Power of Rock.
• Cranial Eruption: You never realized before, but your skull makes a funny ‘bonk’ sound whenever you’re inflicted with serious head trauma.
• Crossover: While being the only major pony blog that hasn't had another ask blog inside of it, Woona has appeared in a couple of the other's blogs.
  • Science Woona provides Hot-Blooded Pinkie with a DeLorean to set things right. Back in the main story, a scene with Science Woona shows she hasn't wiped her blackboard yet.
• Curbstomp Battle: Pretty much any time that Woona tries to actually fight Dark Woona, she receives one.
• Darker and Edgier: The final arc is somewhat darker in tone than the rest of the story.
• Despair Event Horizon: Woona comes close to this on her way to Dark Woona's fortress.
• Deliberately Monochrome: All the art (except for a few supplementary pieces) is done in gray-scale. When its not, you know something is about to happen.
• Didn't Think This Through: Woona's attempt to use the escape pod at the end of the comic ends in this. Did you even READ the instructions?!?!
• Divide and Conquer: Dark Woona does this to Woona's party during the final arc, finally leaving only Woona herself.
• Dragon-in-Chief: Dark Woona was merely a puppet sent out by Discord, but since he doesn't appear until the end, she serves as the Big Bad for most of it.
• Do a Barrel Roll: In an obvious Shout-Out to the Trope Namer, Woona does one while descending into the center of the moon.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Whiles its not exact (she was a pirate and there was a chicken for some reason), Woona did dream of the legendary ponies of the sea.
• Dwindling Party: Non-fatal example. Woona's group gradually dwindles (either from members leaving voluntarily or being forcefully separated) while leading up to the climax before returning for the Final Battle.
• Easily Forgiven: Everyone seems to forget about Woona trashing half the Seapony palace and attacking the prime minister after she defeats Dark Woona's giant octopus.
• Egg MacGuffin: Dark Woona replaces one of the moon relics with a roc egg, which hatches shortly afterwards. The baby roc accompanies Team Woona for a while until the baby can be left in much more appropriate, and capable, hands.
• Emoticon: It is fairly common in both the user instructions and some of the author notes.
• Emotion Eater:
  • The Changelings, though their version is rather benign; they feed on their queen's love for them, and she in turn is sustained by their love for her.
  • The smooze feeds upon positive emotions, sucking the hope and spirit of anyone who gets stuck in it.
• The End: Done several times, but not for real. Until the epilogue.
• Eldritch Location: The smooze moat, filled with pulsating, living ooze. Give up and sink into the smooze.
• Every Device Is a Swiss-Army Knife: Woona's treasure map, which is able to be molded into almost anything, regardless of size. Though some of the things don't work out, since it's made of paper.
• Evil Counterpart: Woona has one in Dark Woona, who hails from the Evil Counterpart of Woonastuck itself: Dark Woonastuck.
• Evil Versus Evil: Dark Woona vs the Changeling Regent Exuvia. Neither wins, as Woona gains a supercharge and sends Dark Woona running while De Powering the Regent.
• Expert in Underwater Basket Weaving: Woona literally learns Underwater Basket Weaving from a book, which is treated as a quick joke. Zig-zagged when the seaponies are greatly impressed by the skill, which kicks off a new story arc.
• Face–Heel Turn: Subverted. Discord tries to trick Woona into thinking her friends have done this.
• Face Palm: Dark Woona, here.
• Fan Fic: Right here.
• Flat "What": At one point the narrator can, understandably, manage no other response to one of Woona's illogical solutions.
• Flipping the Table: The moonitaur flips a table on Woona she tries to calm the moonitaur down after a misunderstanding involving her baby. Seen here.
• Foreshadowing: Pretty much any post with Dark Woona in silhouette.
  • "dun dun dun"
  • The Changeling regent's silhouette here resembles a certain draconeques.
• Freudian Couch: While the bat-ponies explain their origin.
• The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Discord's powers show no consideration for the fourth wall boundaries, frequently breaking panel borders on pages where he appears.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: The Changeling Queen Exuvia (actually the Regent who usurped the real queen) After her defeat, the Changelings reveal she was pretty much the worst queen ever and pretty much they'd never have put up with her had she not been brainwashing them the whole time.
• Gondor Calls for Aid: The Bat Ponies, Sea Ponies, Moonitaur, Minitaur, baby Roc, and Imogen all arriving to help Woona in the Final Battle with Dark Woona.
• Gravity Screw: There is literally a gravity switch for the moon. Woona ends up breaking it.
• Hand Waved: "When you're this cute, anything is possible!"
• Hero of Another Story: Discord implies that Celestia is doing or did something similar to what Luna had done on Earth.
• High-Class Glass: "Dapper" indeed.
  • Even more so with a mustache.
  • The monocle returns later.
• Humiliation Conga: To the point of Serial Escalation. Upon a lunoctopus being attracted to Woona's wig, her attempts to shoo it away only attract the contempt of the queen. After shooing it with more force fails, she simply grabs the wig and throws it (and him!) down into the orchestra pit, whereupon the queen informs her he was the prime minister. Woona's attempt to flee only ends up humiliating her further to the point of insanity. And it gets worse from there. "It wasn't like the pie was bad or anything!"
• Innocuously Important Episode: Thought that post #3, where Woona launches herself into space, and the player is forced to restart, was a one-off gag?
• Ironic Name: Despite their lifestyle, the bat ponies all have names that sound bright and cheerful. The Lunar Maria, on the other hand, often have cool names in spite of their graceful appearances.
• Lampshade Hanging: A good amount of it throughout. Anything that can be lampshaded, is.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Woona and the Bat Ponies decided to do this about Woona's attempt to equip them.
• Magnetic Hero: Woona ends up befriending the Lunar Mares, the Bat Ponies, the Moonitaurs and even the Rocs.
• Meaningful Echo: The 'And Suddenly...' questions were frequently used as a joke. Until this when it proceeds Discord being blown across the room.
• Mission Control Is Off Its Meds: Big time during Woona's infiltration of Dark Woona's fortress.
• Moonwalk Dance: Woona decides to moonwalk during a long walk across the surface of the moon.
• Morphic Resonance: Imogen retains her eyes and mouth when she transforms into inanimate objects.
• Never Say "Die": Played straight through most of it, but averted by Dark Woona in a rather frightening moment while telling her version of how Woona's story ends.
  Dark Woona: Her friends never came to save her. AND SHE DIED.
• Nietzsche Wannabe: Discord insists that love and friendship do not exist, and harmony is just "a sad unnatural lie made by sad little ponies", and that everything is just chaos.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Discord is drawn in a notably different, almost sketch-like style.
• Not Quite Flight: The bat pony duo are still too young to fly properly and can only hover briefly off the ground. They finally break out of this in a post-comic Christmas spinoff. Woona is a bit better off, but her powers of flight are also relatively limited.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • The Bat Ponies and Woona in turn when the Moonitaur first shows up.
  • When the group realizes the adult Rocs are attracted to the baby's energy explosions, meaning the Changeling Hive is about to be attacked by an adult Roc.
  • The Changeling Regent Exuvia when she realizes her brainwashing on the hive is broken.
• Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: Attourney Woona would like me to point out that friendship does not in fact let you break rocks with your face.
• Painting the Medium: Happens frequently in the final arc. First the supportive narration and commands start fading away as Woona's positive attitude is drained by the smooze she's wading through. Then once this is fixed, the narration gets creepy echoes and a malevolent attitude in the background. The font used on the blog to transcribe the narration from the image changes, and several taunts are scrawled around the narration text and even on the margins of the screen. Starts to border on Breaking the Fourth Wall when Discord lashes out so violently that he breaks the question bar at the top of the panel.
• Pie in the Face: Woona does her best to defy this trope when with the lunar ponies' queen, even in the face of insurmountable odds. "Okay, seriously, why do they even have that if not to tempt you?" It ends up happening anyway. At the end of a Humiliation Conga no less.
• Power Incontinence: Briefly happens to Woona when she connects with one of the Elements.
• Prequel: Discord implies that this may be one to the main series and that Luna was sent to the moon to retrieve three of the Elements of Harmony needed to defeat him.
• Press X to Not Die: Invoked by name as Woona tries to dodge Dark Woona's falling rocks here.
• Properly Paranoid: As seen here:
  "You suddenly become aware of a strange sensation, almost like you’re being... watched. As though all of your movements thus far have been silently recorded and judged, all for the entertainment of thousands of anonymous strangers."
  "It’s probably just your imagination."
• Puppy-Dog Eyes:
  • They can open padlocks. "Wait, how did that work?!"
  • They don't have any effect on walls... until she tries harder, at which point it breaks a hole in the wall.
  • They also don't work the the Queen. Or the Undersea Dungeon's cell lock.
• Random Encounters: Woona encounters one while crossing the surface of the moon. Encounter a herd of wild moon rocks!
• Ransacked Room: Inverted, Woona discovered that someone broken into her room...and cleaned it.
• Reaction Shot: A dramatic one occurs during the final confrontation between Woona and Dark Woona As her friends watch her possible defeat.Some shocking stuff just happened.
• Reasonable Authority Figure:
  • The queen of the lunar ponies is very understanding when Woona (who's only a filly, after all) throws a Royal Temper Tantrum on seeing Blueblood has once again beaten her to the punch.
  • The Bat Pony Queen. She thanks Woona for rescuing her children and comforts her when she breaks down crying thinking of Celestia.
• Recursive Fiction: Science Woona is briefly shown reading Dark Moonstuck.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter:
  • Woona in particular has an oversized head, short stubbly limbs, and huge eyes. Imogen follows this body type as well.
  • The baby moonitaur and baby roc are both tiny cuddly critters full of love and big eyes.
• Rule of Cute: Quite literally, as Woona's sheer cuteness regularly allows her to achieve the impossible, such as breathe in space, break down walls with her Puppy-Dog Eyes and teleport up a sheer cliff.
• Rule of Funny: Many of the commands are utterly absurd things to undertake in the particular situation. Sometimes it works; usually it doesn't. One such example can be seen here.
• Russian Reversal: While looking out over the surface from the moon observatory. "in soviet moon, landscape see binoculars through you"
• Save Both Worlds: It's eventually revealed that Woona's quest was to collect three of the six Elements of Harmony to stop Discord, who has been threatening the denizens of the moon through Dark Woona. Not only is the moon at stake, so is the earth.
• Scary Shadow Fakeout: What appears to be a "moon bear" turns out to be merely a rock of some sort.
• Shout-Out: The blog is covered in them, in both commands and panels. It gets to Reference Overdosed levels. See Moonstuck.
• Sliding Scale of Silliness vs. Seriousness: Very tilted towards the silly side. Though the later parts get much more serious, while still keeping some comedy.
• Smug Super:
  • Dark Woona, once she actually talks. Surprisingly, it actually makes her more menacing because she does it while dishing out a Curbstomp Battle to Woona.
  • Discord. As in the main timeline, his pride ultimately plays a part in his defeat, as he didn't see Woona and Celestia as true threat until they began turning him to stone.
• Stat-O-Vision: Woonavision 3000 functions something like this.
• Sunglasses on The Moon: Woona while making a rock band with a rock and a tablet (who are also wearing sunglasses).
• Super Not-Drowning Skills: Justified, as Science Woona explains again:
  "Fortunately, your adorasynthesis is fully capable of converting lunar water to oxygen. When you’re this adorable, anything is possible!"
• Super Window Jump: Straight out the window of the Moon Observatory. "You are not a clever pony."
• Taken for Granite: Woona and Celestia's power seals Discord in stone, though not before he gives an As Long as There Is Evil speech.
• The Reveal: The story actually takes place during Discord reign, Dark Woona was simply his puppet, and Woona was sent to the moon to retrieve half the Elements of Harmony (the Relics) so he could be beaten.
• This Cannot Be!: Discord's reaction to being defeated.
  Discord: HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS?! YOU CAN'T BE THIS STRONG!
• Those Two Guys: The bat ponies, despite never actually getting dialogue due to the format. However, they'll often provide humorous asides.
• Title Drop: Not of the Tumblr, but of the show itself: When using the Relics, commands say it'll work because friendship is magic.
• Trap Door: This is what the "X" on the lunar treasure map turns out to be.
• Treacherous Spirit Chase: Exuvia tricks Woona into one of these, momentarily transforming into Celestia, who should still be in Equestria to bait Woona and the fugitive Imogen out of hiding. Her companions try to warn her of the trick to no avail.
• Treasure Map: Woona wears one as a hat.
  • "You never realized maps were so literal."
  • It's also used as a hang-glider, a bathing cap, a sword, a cloak, a "sophisticated lady's fan", a spyglass, a "comically-oversized oyster shucker", a conch, a paraglider, a couch^note A Freudian Couch, to be exact, a deerstalker, a bear trap, a giant paper airplane, a "cavendish" (banana), a nursing cap, a "crumpled, jam-covered sticky mess", a nightcap^note in Average Woona Adventures, an ambassador hat., and a "Super Duper Fancy Crown of Specialness"
• The Unseen: Attorney Woona, who has only been mentioned in the image tags.
• True Final Boss: Discord, who only reveals himself after the defeat of Dark Woona.
• Versus Character Splash: Displayed prior to the Final Battle.
• Visual Pun: Used frequently in response to particularly worded commands.
• Voluntary Shapeshifter: The Changelings, who, if Imogen is any indication, can shapeshift into anything as long as it's approximately the same size.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Played for Laughs with the minitaur, after it eats the Cartographer's Jam-Covered Sticky Mess and... well, at least the jam is gone now.
• Weird Moon: It has water inside of it. And a delicious jam filling.
• We Will Meet Again: Discord gives a speech to this effect as he's being turned to stone, stating someday, he'll escape from his prison.
• You Are Grounded!: Woona briefly fears this.

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