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Twilight Sparkle... is a conspiracy nut...
"Know your mare, know your mare, know your mare..."
The introduction of almost every chapter

Know Your Mare is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction by Overlord Flinx. It consists of a series of "interviews" in the style of Know Your Stars from All That, of the main and supporting characters, the villains, and later the background characters of the show. These are conducted by a mysterious, disembodied voice, and later more voices join in the fun. Though at first it was only a parody, the brilliant chemistry of the cast eventually led to it becoming a proper fic on its own, and leading to the starting point of the rest of the Flinxverse.

After many months of laughter, the fic was completed on October 31, 2014... only to come back in time for Season Five of Friendship is Magic. It can be read here, with a comic adaption here, and an animated adaption by Bogyle Bronies here.


Know Your Mare provides examples of:

  • Bilingual Bonus: The interviewers insult Braeburn in Spanish in his chapter... not that he can understand it.
  • Blatant Lies: Most of the interview content.
  • Dude, Not Funny!: Voice #1 cuts off Voice #2 when she goes too far in insulting Diamond Tiara.
  • The Gadfly: Voice #1. The entirety of his interview content is meant to anger his guests.
  • Insult Backfire:
    • Pinkie Pie agrees with every insult the voice can think up in her first appearance, so he's the one storming out in a huff.
    • The voice simply cannot find a way to insult Princess Cadance. She tells him that she can come back when he thinks of something.
  • Not in Front of the Kid: Voice #1 refuses to make sex jokes in front of Voice #3.
  • Running Gag: Doctor Whooves has never gotten that interview.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The voice, the first time he had to interview Pinkie Pie.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Voice #'s 1, 2, and 4 get less villainous over the course of the story. Voice #3 is already a sweetheart. Seeing as he's Pipsqueak and all.
  • Vocal Evolution: Starting with Episode 9 (in story order, not the ninth to be released), the narrator's voice becomes less echo-y. Possibly to better emphasize that the voice is really Discord.

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