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The Oversaturated World is a collection of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls fan-fiction set in the human world after the events of Oversaturation, by FanOfMostEverything.

In Oversaturation itself, Equestrian magic leaks into the human world at a slow but exponentially increasing rate after the events of Rainbow Rocks, with the main cast racing to find a way to keep the buildup from causing the end of the world. The rest of the collection explores the consequences of their precise way of doing so.

    Canon stories set in the Oversaturated World 

    Canon short stories set in the Oversaturated World 

    Semi-canon stories set in the Oversaturated World 

Oversaturation spoilers in Post-Saturation stories are unmarked.


The Oversaturated World provides examples of:

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    Oversaturation 
  • Abstract Apotheosis: Equestria's Tree of Harmony almost forcibly ascends Sunset into becoming the Catalyst of Harmony for the human world. This involves a sequence where Sunset perceives herself as human, pony, and a humanoid sun all at the same time.
  • Alliterative Name:
    • Pinkie Pie
    • Ditzy Doo
  • All There in the Manual: Some background details of the verse aren't covered in any of the fics proper, but on the group forum FAQ. There are even details from an otherwise unrelated series of oneshots and an old blog post by the author thrown in, the latter of which is for chromelanin, linked in Amazing Technicolor Population.
  • Amazing Technicolor Population:
    • Actually a plot point! This is explained by the existence of chromelanin, a form of melanin that forms in the presence of magic to cause unusual colorations. This is one of the many clues that humans are more magical than first thought...
  • Answer Cut: From Tones:
    who'd want a school full of disharmony?
    [Cut to Discord, the spirit of Disharmony, or at least his human version.]
  • Apocalypse How: The interference of Equestrian magic with the human world draws the two universes closer together, which theoretically could result in the simultaneous annihilation of both realities. Most of the first fic is about how the characters handle this. A lesser version is narrowly averted by Sunset repurposing the Perception Filter to prevent global panic and nuclear fallout after the situation is fixed.
  • Baffled by Own Biology: Group Precipitation: "Launch Error": A member of a normally-flight-capable species gets answers to her question of why she can't.
  • Barrier Maiden: Sunset Shimmer becomes the human world's Spirit of Harmony, using almost all of her power just to hold the universe together and a lot of the rest to repair the damage done to it. If she leaves that world any time in the next century, it will only last for a few hours in her absence.
  • Bland-Name Product: All over the place: EweTube, Gillion, and Hocus-Pocus: the Get-Together to name but a few. Many have some manner of horse pun.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: Pinkie, as part of her developing powers, has a conversation with the narration/narrator about it leaving the room so she can change into her pyjamas in private.
  • Deadly Force Field: From Oversaturation, in Clashing: Sunset's reflexive shield spell is a green barrier "that redirected the force, combining offense and defense".
  • Everyone Is a Super: The end of Oversaturation has this happen to the human race. Of course, a few are more super than others...
  • Extra-Strength Masquerade: The human world's magic facilitates its own masquerade, actively resisting any attempts to study it.
  • Exact Words: As said in Tones: Discord (a science teacher in this setting) wanted to build a research facility at CHS. Principal Celestia told him he could add anything, so long as it was not a human testing installation. So he built the "Not A Human Testing Installation." Which is, of course, a human testing installation.
  • Funetik Aksent: As seen in Neutrals, Applejack's speech is written with one:
    Ah'm wearin' shorts under mah skirt.
  • Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Color-titles:
    • The story itself, Oversaturation
    • Its nine chapter titles all relate to color:
  • Luminescent Blush: From Neutrals, when Rarity was showing her cutie mark to Sunset, and raised her skirt up:
    Sunset knelt and stared for a good minute
    Finally, Rarity cleared her throat and shoved her skirt back down, her face almost incandescent. “Did you enjoy yourself?"
  • The Magic Comes Back: Well, it never really went away, it was just hiding, but now humans have magic too.
  • Mass Super-Empowering Event: The Saturation, which gives everyone on the planet some kind of magical ability. Most are based on pony magic.
  • Meaningful Name: Inherited from My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, with the names of the human analogues of ponies, with names that describe the person.
  • Measuring the Marigolds: In Contrast, the idea is countered:
    The sun rose, and Mr. Discord stood on his lawn to greet it. He loved moments like this, when the sky and shadows changed, when the crispness in the air made it feel like it would crinkle if he moved too quickly, where the beauty of the natural world was fully manifest. Understanding the optics, the fluid dynamics, and all the other myriad secrets behind moments like this didn't lessen their beauty, it enhanced them. To watch the rising sun was to gaze into the inner workings of the universe.
  • Mesodiplosis: Group Precipitation: "Highest of the High Rises, by ArtieStroke": repeated "NOT" for emphasis
    Sunset: Rainbow Dash, for the last time, I'm NOT God, you are NOT a Super Hayan, and this is NOT Dragon Pearl X.
  • One-Word Title: Multiple instances:
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After the pony Mane Six defeat Starlight Glimmer, Discord pops in and cuts off his own banter to get them back to Twilight's castle as quickly as possible. Even he is worried.
  • Portmantitle: Oversaturation is one, by virtue of being a compound word. Over + Saturation.
  • Power Incontinence: One sign of the situation worsening in Oversaturation is the Rainbooms transforming and staying that way.
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: From Tones:
    After Vinyl shut the door, she turned to face Sunset. "What. The. Actual. Fuck." With every word, she stalked a step closer, forcing Sunset back until she was pinned against the opposite wall.
  • Science Cannot Comprehend Phlebotinum: The human world's magic was not intended to be particularly flashy or widespread, and as such actively resists any attempt to study or analyze it beyond a handful of permitted rituals.
  • Symbol Motif Clothing: Characters' usually have them of what would be their cutie marks for their Eqeuestrian counterpart.
  • Take a Third Option: At the end of Oversaturation, Sunset seems locked in a binary choice: Remove all pony magic from the human world or turn it into a second Equestria, ponies and all. She asks the human world magic what it wants to do. Magic chose to meld them together.
  • Wham Line: "Well, in so many words, we, uh, we found evidence of human magic."
    Sunset awoke to the sound of her journal buzzing. She flipped it open. The message she found was scrawled across the whole page.
    Get to the portal.
    NOW.
  • When Dimensions Collide: The interference of Equestrian magic with the human world draws the two universes closer together, which theoretically could result in the simultaneous annihilation of both realities. Most of the first fic is about how the characters handle this.
  • World-Healing Wave: The Saturation happened in a single instant, changing magic to prevent the end of the world and reassured everyone that everything was going to be fine.
  • Wrong Context Magic: Equestrian magic is leaking into the human world causing the problem in the first place. And it behaves nothing like the more subtle magic of the human world, which Sunset Shimmer has no clue how to study.

    Post-Saturation 
  • Added Alliterative Appeal: In the description for Blue Sunny Days and Pink Lemonade:
    Lemon Zest: Crystal Prep's looniest lover of ludicrousness and local lady of looking after lackies.
  • Adjective Noun Fred: Crossworlds Guardian, Sailor Orbital!.
  • Aerith and Bob: Aerith and Bob are newsanchors in Group Precipitation's Supernal. And also Aerith and Bob compared to the Meaningful Names of most of the other characters.
  • Affectionate Parody: The characters of Sailor Orbital are openly aware they're modeling themselves off an expy of the Sailor Moon franchise. They're having the time of their lives.
  • A God I Am Not: After Sunset's Abstract Apotheosis into the human world's Tree of Harmony, people start up religions around her and pray to her. She's extremely uncomfortable with this, as she's still a high school student. Played mostly for laughs.
  • Alien Blood: The alien Vaucoi bleed orange.
  • Alliterative Name:
    • Ruby Rose, Pope of the Church of the Divine Bacon Horse
  • Alliterative Title: A few, some are:
  • Alternative Calendar: Group Precipitation: "Adult Fear": On a grave stone, years are noted in A.S, which is a different than expected in the rest of the stories. The Author's Note notes that as non-canon:
    And for the record, no, no one's proposed starting over when it comes to counting years. Imagine the headaches involved in converting every computer system on Earth to a new calendar.
  • Alternative-Self Name-Change: Discussed in multiple chapters of Group Precipitation:
    • "Myriad Paths:
      • With multiple Rarities needing differentiation:
      Magnum sighed. "Rarity..."
      "Yes?" All the Rarities in the room asked, save for the sole stallion.
      Magnum twitched. "You all need to get yourselves codenames or something, this happens FAR too often."
      "Even me?" the stallion asked.
      "Elusive, you are in the clear, for now. ...The rest of you, on the other hand, hoof, or crystalline appendage..."
      "Rarity is such a perfect name!" One of the humans tossed her hair back. "Why would we give it up?"
      "Because if you don't think of something else we're going to have to start referring to each other by number, and I think we all know enough Twilights to see how that would go wrong."
      • With multiple Lyras needing differentiation:
        Agent Heartstrings—it was easier to just think of her that way than constantly trying to say which Lyra one meant
    • "Proper Notation": The human and pony versions of Twilight Sparkle consider using a different name for the other to differentiate themselves with Twilight-E being considered for Equestria Twilight before remembering that Earth begins with E too.
  • Amazing Technicolor Population: Subverted in the Group Precipitation story "Paler Living Through Chemistry". When Applejack was younger, her parents bought her some cheap soap that caused her to lose all her chromelanin. She jokingly refers to herself as a freak, even though she's the only one of the girls with a (to us) normal skin tone.
  • Anaphora: Group Precipitation:
    • "A Shot of Gin on a Cold Night, by Masterweaver": Juniper Montage complaining about Sunset Shimmer and her friends:
      Stupid Wondercolts. Stupid uncle. Stupid horse-girl-deity!
    • "/r/ise, by FoME":
      • Talking about how Vignette learned from her phone's nacent consciousness:
        And she listened.
        And she learned.
      • Talking about how much Vignette is connected to people on the internet:
        But three million people knew she existed. Three million souls hung on her every word. Three million minds believed she was still alive.
  • An Ice Person: Sailor Comet's 'variable output ice sprayer' weapon.
  • Artificial Limbs: Sunny Flare lost her hands and her parents in a car accident, five years prior to the setting of Blue Sunny Days and Pink Lemonade. She now wears fully functional prostheses with built-in battery packs.
  • As You Know: How Chapter 6 of Sailor Orbital starts:
    "So as most of you know, we are here today to form a strike group with the intention of gathering enough data to unlock a portal to a secret moon base and gain access to an ancient stargate network spread out across the planet whilst simultaneously dealing with a potential invasion of hostile extra-terrestrials through said stargate network."
  • A Rare Sentence: As said in Two Pink Girls Yelling at Each Other, by Masterweaver - Group Precipitation:
    "OH YEAH, [LYRA]'S THE GIRL THAT'S SECRETLY A UNICORN RIGHT?!"
    "ABSOLUTELY! AND THAT IS A RARE SENTENCE!"
  • Bag of Holding: The magical pocket dimensions that the Crossworlds Guardian Emergency Worker Uniforms are connected to that can store items weightlessly.
  • Becoming the Costume: In Living Nightmares:
    Darth Rarity, Sweetie Skywalker, Chief Engineer Applebloom 'Scotty' Scot, Invader Spike, and Rainbow Caboose.

    "Don't take magical inspiration from Peppy the Vampire Stabber?"
  • Bland-Name Product: They continue from Oversaturation. Gillion makes more appearances. A continuously updated list is here.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: Lemon Zest in Rutaceae:
    Rainbow Dash: "Huh. You know, Twilight says they have high standards for scores [at Crystal Prep]. Why didn't you get kicked out?"
    Lemon Zest: "Total legit genius. If I actually gave a shit I might have trumped Twilight... maybe."
  • Burning with Anger: Chrysalis bursts into flame when she gets angry. The first time this happened, she accidentally burned off all her clothes before figuring it out.
  • Caligula's Horse: Turns out to be the reason behind all the horse puns. Long ago, a certain king named his favorite horse as his heir. His royal court agreed that even a horse would make a better king than any of the king's real sons, so they upheld the appointment. Over time, clever politics and ridiculously good luck combined to allow the horse-ruled kingdom to conquer much of the world. Naturally, everything was renamed with horse puns under Glitterhoof's rule and that of his descendants, and those stuck around after the kingdom itself fell.
  • Call a Human a "Meatbag": In Under Development, a body is referred to by Gillion as a "sack of meat".
  • Calvin Ball: Criffleball is actually a subversion, as there's a completely comprehensible set of rules in the group forum. However, without those rules, the terminology and gameplay is extremely confusing to onlookers.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: Afflicts Sugarcoat in Sugarcatharsis. At least, it does until she stops trying to force herself to say it nicely.
  • Carry a Big Stick: Sailor Orbital gets a Mystic Mace:
    "It's basically a mace, made with modern day technology, that can also generate magical pulses of energy for pushing back crowds."
  • Cast Full of Gay: Discussed in Sonnenunterganglied:
    Sunset: Sunset took a deep breath, then said, "I have to ask; given all the student bodies of all of the versions of Canterlot High, is there a single heterosexual girl among them?"
    Derpy "Well, there's me."
  • Classified Information: From Unfriendly Compeition - Dark Crystal, when Lyra asks Bon-Bon how her dad learned to do a sleeper hold:
    "Where'd you learn how to do a sleeper hold, anyway?"
    "My dad taught me."
    "Where'd he learn it?"
    "That's classified."
  • Conlang: Wavetongue, the language of Sirens, with its own grammar and specific words for magic, and things.
  • Compound Title: Every once in a while, like:
  • Creatures by Many Other Names: In Group Precipitation: "X-Ray Examination, by Jenna Cipher and FoME", a alien species has multiple possible translations for its name:
    "They are the... how to translate the term? Astrals? Quintessentials?"
    Ditzy quirked an eyebrow. "You copied my knowledge of Wranglish. How can you not know?"
    Kikai paced about the bed. "Because your language is a hair-splitting kleptomaniac with commitment issues.
  • Cute Clumsy Girl: After Oversaturation, Ditzy Doo becomes capable of tripping through seven dimensions and landing in a different universe than the one she started in. One Day I Found a Multiverse in My Pajamas explores her getting a grip on this ability.
  • Doorstopper: The whole series, given that it's 37 stories long, and counting, and Group Precipitation pushes it over the 100,000 word limit, with over 160,000 words as of the end of May 2019.
  • Discard and Draw: From Group Precipitation - Launch Error, where Scootaloo can't fly like usual Pegasus Aspects, but has Fate Magic in apparent exchange:
    Sunset: Maybe unusual talents like your fate magic come at the cost of normal pegasus magic.
    Sunset: I may have done this to you, Scootaloo. I'm sorry.
    [...]
    Scootaloo vaulted over her at ludicrous speed and, once more behind her, said, "I'm still pretty awesome. Just wanted to know why I couldn't get airborne."
  • Either/Or Title: Pinkie Pie's Problematically Private Passion's Parental Personages Presented Perpostorously Prior Publishing Previously Paraphrased Preoccupation, where the title extends into the description, with:
    Or:
    In Which Pinkie Pie Meets Her Crush's Strange Family Before Telling Her Crush She's Crushing On Her.
    Or:
    Let's See How Much We Can Make A Manifestation Of Laughter Squirm.
  • Everything Except Most Things: From the Pest Control description:
    Applejack was just an ordinary farmer.

    Well, true, she was best friends with an arguable deity, and yeah her little sister controlled part of fate subconsciously, and her social circle involved a crazy crew of characters that regularly got involved in wacky shenanigans, and she herself had helped to save the world a few times, and there was the possibility her principal was using the school to scout for super heroes, and technically she had acquired a skin condition that she had yet to see replicated by anybody else...

    ...but the point was, by most standards, she was an ordinary farmer. Not the kind of girl that went on adventures.

    And then she developed a unique form of magic, just in time for the giant bug invasion.

    Welp.
  • Exact Words: Noted in Fey Breeze, what Winter Fey deal in.
  • Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name!: Sailor Orbital: Every chapter has Excited Phrase! Calmer Phrase. Like Chapter 2: Dangerous Energy Feeder! Woe of the Munarin.
  • Expy: Sailor Luna is an expy of Sailor Moon, with the Theme Naming similarities and both being equally describable with:
    Energy draining monsters from another world are invading," ... "One cat seeks out a heroic team to fight them back," ... "A heroic team of teenage girls, searching for the moon princess!"
  • Extra-Strength Masquerade: The mental filter that was used by human magic to keep itself from being hidden has been repurposed by the Sailor Orbital team and the Power Patriots to preserve their secret identities.
  • Family Theme Naming: Alliterative Name family, Ditzy Doo, and her daughter, Dinky Doo.
  • Fireballs: Discussed by Blue Oyster in regards to Raspberry Fluff:
    "You're going to be flinging around fireballs."
  • Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue: Group Precipitation is a collection where there are some minifics less than 200 words, so environmental description is sometimes non-existent:
    • Yet Another Revolution, by Tophe:
      "Show some respect fer yer elders, Jackie, Ah ain't deaf!" barked Granny. "Ah understand that Shimmer girl turned inta a sun goddess and changed the world bah magic."
      "Uh, good. You just seem weirdly... chill about all this."
      Granny smiled. "Ye say tha world's changed forever. Ah've heard that before. They said it when Fence Gates invented tha Internet. They said it when they split tha atom. An' by gum, they'll say it again someday!"
      "Ah don't think this is entirely comparable."
      "They said that before too. Now, since y'all can lift fifty stone onehanded, there's some chores need doin'..."
    • He'll Save Every One of Us, by Masterweaver and FoME:
      (Masterweaver)

      "Huh. Flash Sentry made the news."
      "What, again?"
      "Yeah, apparently he singlehandedly stopped a corrupt company from demolishing an orphanage using nothing but a slinkie, his guitar, and the power of apple pie."
      "...Par for the course. Popcorn's ready."
      "Ooo, good, movie's in two minutes!"

      (FoME)

      "Flash Sentry says he wasn't fully aware of what happened, but you were there with him. What can you tell us?"
      "Well—"
      Applejack put a hand over Pinkie's mouth. "No comment."
      The reporter blinked. "But—"
      "No. Comment."
    • Encoded Toil Inn, by Masterweaver:
      "Hey." Sonata grinned. "I was just thinking about how we all got back together."
      Adagio groaned. "Oh, don't remind me. That experience was horrible."
      "I dunno, I think it was kind of funny," Aria mused.
      "Yeah, well, I was just wondering... what ever happened to that one guy? You know, the one that had the thing?"
      "We left him at that theme park, remember?"
      "Well, yeah, but—"
      "Wait, I wasn't there for this. Who was this guy, and was the thing that thing?"
      "It was indeed, that thing. See, here's what happened....."
  • Flight: Something nearly every Pegasus Aspect can do, except for Scootaloo, as said in Launch Error:
    Sunset: Maybe unusual talents like your fate magic come at the cost of normal pegasus magic.
    Sunset: I may have done this to you, Scootaloo. I'm sorry.
    ...
    Scootaloo vaulted over her at ludicrous speed and, once more behind her, said, "I'm still pretty awesome. Just wanted to know why I couldn't get airborne."
  • Flashy Teleportation: A possible Unicorn aspect spell, and given the nature of teleportion in the source work, it's flashy:
  • For Your People, By Your People: From Group Precipitation: Adventure Capitalism:
    "the Infinite Carousel. Of Rarities, by Rarities, for everyone."
  • Funetik Aksent:
    Show some respect fer yer elders, Jackie, Ah ain't deaf!
    Ah don't think this is entirely comparable.
  • Fun with Acronyms:
    Ditzy: "Crossworlds Guardian Sailor Senshi Task Force!"
    Raspberry frowned. "The CGSSTF?"
    Golden shrugged. "They can't all be backronyms."
    ...
    "...What about 'Crossworlds Access Gate Enforcers'?" Raindrops suggested suddenly.
    "That spells CAGE," Raspberry pointed out. "That's kind of the opposite of what we're doing. Also it sounds evil."
    "No, hmm." Raspberry Fluff tapped her chin. "What about... what if we started with G for Gate?"
    "There was the Gate Operations and Logistics Department," Kikai noted with some amusement. "It was not a paronomasia in the Munarin language, but if my wranglish is correct—"
    ...
    "True, but we're securing the gates..." Raspberry gasped. "I got it! Gate Location and Orientation Squad... uh... Darn, I can't think of the rest of GLOSTICK."
    ...
    "Okay, if we're going to be taking this seriously, how about the Interstellar Engagement Technology Enforcement and Naturalization Team?" Blue offered.
    "INTENT? Intent on what?" Golden Harvest threw up her hands. "I'm still fine with CGSSTF."
    • Cool But Impractical talks about ESTABLISH, implied to be the "Equestrian Space-Time Administration Interdimensional League of SuperHeroes"
    I suspect this proposal was made largely for the acronym."
    Celestia smirked. "It wouldn't be the first time. Remember SMILE and FROWN?"
    "Wait a second, their acronym was S.M.I.L.E.?!"
  • Gem Tissue: Gems are embedded into Unicorn Aspects' heads as part of being a Unicorn Aspect.
  • Giant Spider: Sour Sweet had a hallucination of spiders that got big, mentioned in With Great Sour.
  • Giant Woman: Bonbon is made into one in Deluxe Bonbon:
    Suddenly, the oversized head of Bon Bon, poked over the roof of her girlfriend's home. "Um... before you do that, could you magic me up something to wear? My clothes didn't exactly grow with me..."
  • Good Old Fisticuffs: Sailor Plasma fights with her martial arts knowledge.
  • Harem Seeker: From Group Precipitation: "That Time I Didn't Get Reincarnated as Anything", about Reincarnate in Another World and other Isekai. Which Trixie wants. As Fluttershy explains Isekai and analyzes Trixie's want for it, at the core, it's basically this:
    "It's an anime subgenre where someone gets whisked away from their mundane life and enters a fantastic world, with varying amounts of adventure, romance, and wish fulfillment."
    [...]
    Fluttershy narrowed her eyes. "You just want the harem fantasy, don't you?"
    [...]
    As the cafeteria crowd shifted focus to the Illusions' antics, Pinkie said, "Are we sure Trixie doesn't already have a harem?"
    "Trixie likes guys!" cried Trixie.
  • Hidden Depths: From Sailor Orbital - Chapter 6:
    "I can code an app for that," Raindrops added.
    "...You can code?"
    "Yep!" The yellow-skinned girl beamed. "Took a course. It was cool."
  • Homosexual Reproduction: Discussed in Sugarcatharsis:
    Lemon burst out laughing and clapped Sugarcoat on the shoulder. "It's fantastic! She's like if you and Indigo had some weird magic lesbian baby." She turned to Twilight. "Hey, are magic lesbian babies a thing now?"
    "I... what?"
    "I'll take that as a 'maybe.'"
  • Hurricane of Puns: From Group Precipitation - Disservice Charge, by FoME about Discord calling with non-phone objects:
    make calls on objects including but not limited to a stove top, a banana, a deck of playing cards, a chunk of wood, and your own hand
    [...]
    Author's Note: For those keeping track, that's a burner phone, a bananaphone, a calling card, a xylophone, and, as Fred M Sloniker noted, a handset. :trollestia:
  • I Am Not Left-Handed: Said word for word in Unfriendly Compeition - Dark Crystal, when Rarity fights Royal Pin:
    Rarity's next riposte reduced Royal's blade to quickly fading shards of magic, her eyes hard. "There's something you don't know, sir."
    Royal swallowed. "And what is that?"
    "I am not left-handed." Another length of force formed in Rarity's right hand. "I am ambidextrous." Several dozen more formed around her, arranged like a very pointy chrysanthemum and all pointed at Royal. "And then some."
  • Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The title of Fey Breeze's first four chapters are all seasons, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall. The last is Appendices.
  • Imagine Spot: From the second chapter of Pinkie Pie's Problematically Private Passion's Parental Personages Presented Perpostorously Prior Publishing Previously Paraphrased Preoccupation, indicated by the text being aligned to the right, instead of the left, as usual:
    "Yes, Ruby Rose. I have some sort of bug... a lovebug. It has bitten me and made me fall deeply in love with you! I know this must come as great shock—"
    "Oh, but Pinkie Pie, I wish you'd told me sooner! For you see, I too have found a healthy and burgeoning attraction to you! And at last, I feel my heart lifting again!"
    "Oh dearest Ruby, how is it that we ever felt fear to confess our feelings to another? Now at last I feel free, free to once more sail the winds of whimsy! Come, let me show you wonders worth a thousand giggles!"
    "I come, my lovely Pinkie! And lo, I do find these pies you present a suitable gesture of your romance! Perhaps in turn I shall return the gesture and—"
  • Job Title: Group Precipitation: "Mad Scientist's Best Friend, by EonAon and FoME".
  • Kid from the Future: Dinky Doo is Ditzy's, sent back from the future by Ditzy's future self so Dinky can spend time with a version of her mother.
  • Lampshaded Double Entendre: Sonnenunterganglied:
    "You fly headfirst into your local analogue."
    Ditzy nodded. "Good to know that I don't explode if I touch myself."
    "Phrasing. The two of you manage to break a pipe with your impact."
  • The Leader: Ditzy is set as the "general fighter and coordinator" for the Sailor Orbital team by Blue Oyster in Chapter 6 of Sailor Orbital.
  • Long List: In the third chapter of Crossworlds Guardian, Sailor Orbital!, used by Ditzy to show her Weirdness Magnet status:
    Ever since the Saturation, I've been bounced across universes, met several versions of myself both human and horse, fought off a giant swarm of replicating cybernetic waffles, visited by a spirit of Yuletide past who got the wrong address, shanghaied into finding incredibly saucy pirate booty, interned for a transdimensional organization responsible for space expansion in some universes, stopped no less than thirteen apocalypse cults, contracted the first case of teleportitis despite not having a unicorn aspect, stripped naked for science three times, encountered an invisible fluffy tentacle monster that demanded entirely platonic cuddles, crashed Vinyl's car through the roof of a skyscraper, and had to babysit my own daughter from the future."
    [...]
    "What I'm saying," she continued, "is that I'm a weirdness magnet. At this point, I just roll with it."
  • Magic Skirt: The Blue-Oyster-Altered Crossworlds Guardian Emergency Worker Uniforms have their skirts held down by magnets.
  • Make-Out Kids: In Unfriendly Competition - Epilogue: Hard but Brittle: Sunset Shimmer checked up on Sour Sweet, and her boyfriend, who were both infected by dark magic:
    Her cheeks never seemed to stop even after the rest of her settled down.
    "How are they?" said Twilight.
    "Let's just say that Sour Sweet managed to purge the dark magic through the power of love," said Sunset, her gaze distant. "Love and all but eating her boyfriend's face."
  • Master of the Mixed Message: The final chapter of Pinkie Pie's Problematically Private Passion's Parental Personages Presented Perpostorously Prior Publishing Previously Paraphrased Preoccupation puts Pinkie through the wringer as the girl she's crushing on obliviously praises her friendship and understanding and says she feels as close as family, before tossing off a french saying and giving her a peck on the cheek in farewell. Pinkie's reaction: Summon Sunset Shimmer.
    Pinkie Pie: I need you to teleport me to my room, give me a giant plush of indeterminate species I can sit against, cover me in a thick woolen blanket, summon thirty gallons of ice cream in no less than five different flavors, and call Rarity over so we can talk about things.
    Sunset Shimmer: ...bad day?
    Pinkie Pie: I DON'T KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
  • Meaningful Name: Inherited from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • Revealed in a comment: Bobby Pin is said to have "got his start with (questionable) investigative journalism". With the implication that it involved lockpicks, as fitting his name. Aerith Metic "specializes in news polls and is just the biggest math nerd".
  • Me's a Crowd: Twilight thought about cloning herself to clean up, in the Author's Note of A Glut of Rosy Pastries:
    Twilight: "What if I clone myself to clean up after th— Ow!"
    Sunset: "Thou shalt not clone."
    Twilight: "I don't even worship you."
    Sunset:"It's not a general commandment. I'm telling you to stop duplicating people. It never ends well."
  • Mind over Matter: A standard Unicorn Aspect power is telekinesis, usually used for Mundane Utility:
  • Multiarmed Multitasking: In One Day I Found a Multiverse in My Pajamas, Ditzy Doo gets to see the Oversaturated World from outside of it. A sixteen-armed Sunset Shimmer is literally holding the place together with twelve arms as she uses the rest to magically mend the cracks.
  • Mythology Gag: Every time an event from My Little Pony: Equestria Girls or My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is referenced:
  • Named After Someone Famous: Turns out that Rainbow Dash is named after one of the descendents of the legendary King Glitterhoof.
  • Neural Implanting: In Sailor Orbital, Ditzy gets something beamed into her mind by Kikai No Kawa which is the first part of the magic that lets Kikai get Ditzy's information on the Wranglish language beamed into her mind.
  • No Biochemical Barriers: Justified in Sailor Orbital, via magically 'aligning' oneself with a native. Blue Oyster is understandably miffed she was worried over nothing.
  • Noodle Incident: How the Sirens got back together in Encoded Toil Inn. ... Don't get the joke? Encoded Toil Inn is an anagram for Noodle Incident.
  • One-Shot Fic: A few:
    • Go, Emps!
    • Mosh Pit
  • One-Word Title: A lot. Some are:
  • Our Ghouls Are Different: Discussed in Inevitable between Sunset and Twilight on whether to call the undead rats zombies or ghouls. Twilight says ghouls as "They still retain some some self-control."
  • Our Zombies Are Different: Discussed. Is in combination with Our Ghouls Are Different, due to being a discussion on the difference between zombies and ghouls.
  • Post-Modern Magik: A staple of the setting.
  • Pirate Booty: Discussed in Blue Sunny Days and Pink Lemonade - ...so at one point you meet up for no reason at all...:
    “...You know what bugs me?” Lemon finally managed.

    “Any semblance of order?”
    “Why do pirates bury their treasure?”
    Sunny Flare blinked. “I’m... sorry?”
    “I mean, you go out, raid a merchant ship, get this great haul, and then... instead of spending it off in some way, you just stick it in a beach somewhere. What’s up with that?” Lemon asked. “What’s the point?”
    “Money laundering.”
    Lemon blinked. “Wait, what?”
    “A boat comes in and says ‘Captain Knotbeard stole treasure from us! Look, here’s what’s missing from our manifest!’ Then two days later, a man with a tangled goatee comes in with exactly the stuff that was lost. Instant noose.” Sunny sipped her coffee again. “By hiding the wealth for a bit, say two to three months, our pirate captain lets his crime fade from the public memory while still preserving the wealth. Or so the theory goes, anyway.”
    “Oh. Huh. That makes a lot of sense, actually.”
    “You do realize real pirates mostly stole things like food and sailcloth and other practical materials, right? The whole treasure-burying thing is made up whole cloth.”
    Lemon Zest gave her a flat look. “Yes, I know that. I’m not stupid. I’m asking why a theoretical pirate with treasure would bury his chest of gold, not suggesting that the pirate in question is anything more then theoretical.”
  • Power Floats: By the end of Oversaturation, it seems like anyone with enough magical oomph can treat gravity as more of a suggestion.
    Applejack tilted her hat back. "How come every magic-crazed lunatic can float?"
  • Precision F-Strike:
    • With Great Sour:
      "Oh, no, I'm totally fine with new jewelry, I'm a teenage girl after all. But do you know what else I am? I AM A FUCKING SCHIZOPHRENIC!"
    • Mysteries of the Comos:
      The unicorn-aspected science officer turned her attention back to the readout and blinked before replying in a dumbfounded tone of voice, "Ma'am, it appears to be... a small ceramic pot."
      Surprise blinked, a look of, well, surprise, and confusion appearing on her face before stuttering, "Wha... Whuuuu.... What the fuck?"
    • Zapostate:
      Sour bit her lip and shimmied from side to side. "I know it's kind of the pot calling the kettle black, buuuut... Indigo Zap has gone fucking insane."
  • Pre-Mortem Catchphrase: From Gloriosa's Overgrowth: Discussed by Timber, when talking about a Catch-Phrase shared between his mom and sister.
    "I've got this," echoed Timber. "You know, I wouldn't be surprised if those were my mom's last words."
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Multiple:
    • He'll Save Every One of Us, by Masterweaver and FoME:
      (FoME)

      "Flash Sentry says he wasn't fully aware of what happened, but you were there with him. What can you tell us?"
      "Well—"
      Applejack put a hand over Pinkie's mouth. "No comment."
      The reporter blinked. "But—"
      "No. Comment."
    • Group Precipitation - Blooper Reel, from, when Rainbow isn't getting Sunset's point:
    "Not. My. Point."
  • Rapid-Fire Descriptors: This is how Ditzy described pizzas in Go, Emps! - And Keep on Going!: Calorie-crowded, heart-harming, sodium-stuffed, cancer-causing, fat-filled pizzas. Alliteration is an added bonus.
  • Recursive Fanfiction: All the stories on this page are either Overaturation or fanfics of Oversaturation. Group Precipitation is a collection of short fanfics of Oversaturation (and its spinoffs).
  • Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: In Chapter 4 of Sailor Orbital, the Sailor Luna Sailors are revealed to be named after the Greek Gods, in contrast to Sailor Moon's naming of Sailors after the Roman Gods. Whether this extends to the in universe planets having different names isn't clear.
  • Right Behind Me: Lampshaded and zigzagged in Stick to your Principals:
    Lemon looked to Sugarcoat. "Call that two and a half votes for me?" After Sugarcoat nodded, she turned to the others. "Okay, let me preface this by saying that I'm trying to be a better person, and I like to think I'm having a nonzero success rate there, but some things need to be said, and I've been holding this one back since the Friendship Games: Your principals are sixty percent leg by height. Their centers of mass are below their waists. The reason they constantly wear pantsuits is because any outfit that didn't have 'pant' right in the name couldn't hope to contain them. And at this point in the rant, I can safely assume that one or both of them is standing behind me." She turned to look.
    "Dean Cadence smiled. "Not quite."
  • Role Called: Crossworlds Guardian, Sailor Orbital!, where "Sailor Orbital" is a codename.
  • Rule of Funny: How Pinkie's "party person" magic works. Explicitly acknowledged as such.
  • Sailor Senshi Send-Up: The "Sailor Orbital" installments, starring Sailors Orbital, Plasma, Meteor, Photon, and Comet. They are actively basing themselves off a Bland-Name Product version of Sailor Moon called Sailor Luna.
  • Secret Identity: Those of the Sailor Orbital team and the Power Patriots have them to keep their civilian identities safe from the general public.
  • She Is Not My Girlfriend: From Blue Sunny Days and Pink Lemonade, it's what Lemon Zest and Sunny Flare say about each other, while everyone disagrees.
  • Shock and Awe: Sailor Plasma's Tesla gloves:
    "You curl them up as fists, they generate an electric charge—give your punches an extra something. And if you clap them together, that electricity is released in a bolt of lightning—just in case you need a ranged option."
  • Shout-Out: There's a lot. Here's some:
  • Sick Episode: The premise of Future Congestive. Sweetie Belle catches a cold that leaves her unable to "turn off" her future sight and causes whatever she sneezes on to instantly age by years or decades.
  • Sneeze Cut:
    • Group Precipitation - Taking A Strange Turn:
      Pinkie chose now to give her own input. "Ooooh! I know! Maybe Doctor Turner is some kind wibbly-wobby timey-wimey aspected person, and the blue hourglass he always carries around is like a magic wand, ONLY A TIME MACHINE!"
      ...
      Somewhere, on a spaceship being invaded by giant salt shakers, a time-traveling hourglass would've sneezed if it could.
    • Sailor Orbital - Chapter 4:
      "Weird shit is happening every day, Ditzy! It's like fate's being run by somebody who wants to pack reality full of things that are astounding, dramatic, or just plain weird!"
      None of them noticed the three little girls across the park sneeze, one by one.
  • The Smart Guy: Blue Oyster, who provides the Sailor Orbital team with their equipment, and also cares about proper scientific terminology:
    "I'm calling you Sailor Plasma," Raindrops announced. "Because plasma and electricity are the same thing!"
    Blue winced. "They're... not. They're really not."
  • Spit Take: Rutaceae: Rainbow Dash does one.
    "Rainbow's hot-coffee spit take"
  • Spy's Suspicious Spouse: From Scratching at the Wrapper, by FoME: Lyra being suspicious of Bonbon's out-of-place martial arts skills. They're not married, but they're close. And then there's Bonbon's discussion with her parents, where her dad is basically confirmed as having previously worked as a spy:
    At dinner that night, Bonbon bit her lip and said, "Dad?"
    Bon Mot looked up from his spaghetti. "Yes, Sweetie?"
    "Did... did Mom ever, you know... suspect?"
    Her mother, Aspartame, snorted. "Believe me, Sweetie, if I had ever suspected what he was up to before it was too late, I would... Well, things would've gone differently."
  • Stop Worshipping Me: After Sunset's Abstract Apotheosis into the human world's Tree of Harmony, people start up religions around her and pray to her. She's extremely uncomfortable with this, as she's still a high school student. Played mostly for laughs.
    • Played for Drama in In Her Image, a Group Precipitation short written from the perspective of the other Sunset Shimmer, the one native to the human world.
  • Superhero Team Uniform: The GALAX-E Girls, as said in ''Crossworlds Guardian, Sailor Orbital!'': "Outfitting and Armory! Some Problems are Encountered.", who wear modified Crossworld Guardian suits, paraphrased with these quotes:
    "After some discussion with the Aztlan institute and a few purchases of my own from a few Company of D.R.E.A.M.S. subsidiaries, I've managed to wrangle together a basic outfit kit for each of us."
    Ditzy tilted her head. "Those are Crossworlds Guardian Emergency Worker Uniforms, aren't they?"
    [...]
    I ditched the helmets and rigged together something different." She tapped a tiara resting on one of the mannequin's heads. "This is a micro-radio, complete with earbuds, that will let us remain in contact if we are anywhere within... three, four miles of each other. They are not aerodynamic, so there's not going to be any Lunar Tiara Action."
    [...]
    "Are the colored collars and miniskirts just so we can look like Sailor Luna and her pals?"
    "Actually no." Blue moved her hands up to the sailor collar. "The jewel on the chest is the outfit conversion module—you put your hand to it and say a keyphrase, you switch back to your civilian clothes. The ribbons serve as thaumatic dispersion units, keeping hostile magic from overwhelming the wearer. And the collar itself is woven with the Identity Derecognition Pattern."
  • Talking Animal:
    • Spike, a dog, who can speak in wranglish, due to magic
    • Kikai No Kawa of Sailor Orbital, an alien cat, who speaks in Japanese, and then wranglish after she gets it beamed into her mind.
  • Telepathy: Assume a Spherical Walrus: Luna has it after taking over dream management, as magic interprets 'dreams' as "Any thoughts that weren't focused on the here-and-now.", and she could read those thoughts, although "most of the time it was a mishmash of memories and speculation that wasn't even put into words, much less a coherent flow."
  • Teenage Pregnancy: What was presumably going through Golden Harvest's head when she learned Ditzy had a kid, in Sailor Orbital Chapter 6:
    "Hold on." Golden Harvest put her hands on the table. "Ditzy, when did you have a kid?!"
    "Hopefully five or more years in the future."
  • Theme Naming: The Sailor Orbital team is named after Outer Space or Science-themed things:
    • Sailor Orbital = Ditzy Doo
    • Sailor Plasma = Golden Harvest
    • Sailor Meteor = Raspberry Fluff
    • Sailor Photon = Raindrops
    • Sailor Comet = Blue Oyster.
  • This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!: In the Author's Note of Here There Be Legends:
    Ditzy tapped at her phone for a few moments. "Huh. It says here the original, mythological Bahamut was a giant fish."
    "Indeed. The Bahamatians exploited their genetic malleability to the utmost. Some of their ships were not built, but hatched."
    "That is disturbing on multiple levels."
  • Time Stands Still: From Playing Hero's "A Minty Fresh Adventurer" has its title be a reference to the Pony Platforming Project's Minty Fresh Adventure!, with a time-manipulating Minuette, using a time-stop spell cast by call "Clock up.", to foil a bank robbery:
    The thieves stood frozen, dust hung still in the air. Nobody even looked like they were breathing.
  • Title Drop: Sailor Orbital is title dropped in Chapter 4.
  • Tough Spikes and Studs: From Group Precipitation: "Pointed Fashion Statement, by FoME": Former villainess Sunset Shimmer wears a jacket with spikes, which her girlfriend even calls Spikes of Villainy.
    Sunset: "Fine, the truth is that I like leather jackets because they're a harmless way for me to feel like a bad girl, and this one is ridiculous enough to make it farcical while still giving me that safe little thrill."
  • Transflormation: In What Shy Did On Her Summer Vacation, Fluttershy gets turned into a tree for a month, but after a while she stops thinking like a person, and more like a tree, causing her friends to scramble for a solution.
  • Verbed Title: Multiple:
  • Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Well Met, Fellow Traveler:
    "Hmm." Winter glanced away. "This is not relevant. I explained the actions of the pink one. I did not need to."
    "No. And I do not need to award you for common decency." Ditzy clicked her hands together. "You have much to learn."
  • Weirdness Magnet: Ditzy flat out calls herself this in Sailor Orbital, having long listed a litany of Noodle Incidents to back up her claim:
    Ever since the Saturation, I've been bounced across universes, met several versions of myself both human and horse, fought off a giant swarm of replicating cybernetic waffles, visited by a spirit of Yuletide past who got the wrong address, shanghaied into finding incredibly saucy pirate booty, interned for a transdimensional organization responsible for space expansion in some universes, stopped no less than thirteen apocalypse cults, contracted the first case of teleportitis despite not having a unicorn aspect, stripped naked for science three times, encountered an invisible fluffy tentacle monster that demanded entirely platonic cuddles, crashed Vinyl's car through the roof of a skyscraper, and had to babysit my own daughter from the future."
    [...]
    "What I'm saying," she continued, "is that I'm a weirdness magnet. At this point, I just roll with it."
  • Which Me?: Discussed with Derpy and her analogues in other dimensions in Here, while she's fixing a mess she sort of caused:
    "Well, I couldn't just wreck everything and leave myself to fix it, could I?"
    Sunset smirked. "You inhabit a very interesting realm of grammar. Have I ever told you that?"
    "A few times."
  • "World's Best" Character: Group Precipitation: "Pre-Patch Exploit, by Masterweaver": Due to a comment by Flurry Heart on Cinch's grumpiness:
    Author's Notes:

    When Abacus Cinch learned why she'd found herself wearing a hideous sweater that read "World's Grumpiest Gran" and drinking from a similarly captioned mug, her only response was, "You are all tremendously fortunate that my great-granddaughter is as adorable as she is."


Alternative Title(s): Oversaturation

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