History Trivia / BreathersForApplejack

* DiagnosisOfGod: Twilight Sparkle displays several traits of obsessive compulsive disorder, even beyond her fixation on keeping things organized in the original show. She tends to jump to pessimistic conclusions, obsessively thinks about things that stress her out, and has the compulsive tic of chewing on her hoof-tips when she's nervous or thinking. It's never directly stated in the story, but in a reply to reader comments, the author confirmed he wrote Twilight as someone with OCD. In fact, [[WriteWhatYouKnow he has OCD himself, and based his version of Twilight on his own experience]].

* DiagnosisOfGod: Twilight Sparkle displays several traits of obsessive compulsive disorder, even beyond her fixation on keeping things organized in the original show. She tends to jump to pessimistic conclusions, obsessively thinks about things that stress her out, and has the compulsive tic of chewing on her hoof-tips when she's nervous or thinking. It's never directly stated in the story, but in a reply to reader comments, the author confirmed he wrote Twilight as someone with OCD. In fact, [[WriteWhatYouKnow he has OCD himself, and based his version of Twilight on his own experience]].
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The author expected that the inflation scene from "Spike at Your Service" would inspire a flood of Applejack-centered inflation fetish stories, so he wrote ''Breathers for Applejack'' partly as a rebuttal to that sort of story. But that flood never materialized. What was supposed to be a parody of fics about that specific scene, instead wound up being the most notable fic about that scene.
* ShoutOut: The title is a rather bizarre shout-out to the completely unrelated sci-fi novel ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon''. According to WordOfGod, the author was trying to think of a name after finishing the first chapter. He thought back to his previous MLP Fanfic, ''[[Fanfic/SombrasGame Sombra's Game]]'', and his train of thought was as follows: "Sombra's Game" -> "Ender's Game" -> "Flowers for Algernon" -> "Flowers for Applejack". This unintentionally created a naming scheme for his MLP fanfics. The third (complete) story, ''Fanfic/TheSunAndMoonAreHarshMistresses'', continues the trend as a more on-the-nose shout out to ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress''.

* ShoutOut: The title is a rather bizarre shout-out to the completely unrelated sci-fi novel ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon''. According to WordOfGod, the author was trying to think of a name after finishing the first chapter. He thought back to his previous MLP Fanfic, ''[[Fanfic/SombrasGame Sombra's Game]]'', and his train of thought was as follows: "Sombra's Game" -> "Ender's Game" -> "Flowers for Algernon" -> "Flowers for Applejack". This unintentionally created a naming scheme for his MLP fanfics. The third (complete) story, ''Fanfic/TheSunAndMoonAreHarshMistresses'', continues the trend as a more on-the-nose shout out to ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress''.
* WordOfGod: The author has stated that the AmbiguousDisorder that Twilight seems to suffer from is [[SuperOCD obsessive compulsive disorder]], [[WriteWhatYouKnow which he suffers from]], as well. Besides her typical obsession with order, she displays a tendency to jump to pessimistic conclusions and obsessively think about things that stress her out. She doesn't display ritualistic behavior, but she does chew on her hoof-tip when she's nervous or thinking, which can be seen as analogous to nail-biting (onychophagy), a fairly common stress-relieving compulsive tic.

* ShoutOut: The title is a rather bizarre shout-out to the completely unrelated sci-fi novel ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon''. According to WordOfGod, the author was trying to think of a name after finishing the first chapter. He thought back to his previous MLP Fanfic, ''[[Fanfic/SombrasGame Sombra's Game]]'', and his train of thought was as follows: "Sombra's Game" -> "Ender's Game" -> "Flowers for Algernon" -> "Flowers for Applejack". This unintentionally created a naming scheme for his MLP fanfics. The third (complete) story, ''Fanfic/TheSunAndMoonAreHarshMistresses'', continues the trend as a more on-the-nose shout out to ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress''.

* ShoutOut: The title is a rather bizarre shout-out to the completely unrelated sci-fi novel ''Literature/FlowersForAlgernon''. According to WordOfGod, the author was trying to think of a name after finishing the first chapter. He thought back to his previous MLP Fanfic, [[Fanfic/SombrasGame Sombra's Game]], and his train of thought was as follows: "Sombra's Game" -> "Ender's Game" -> "Flowers for Algernon" -> "Flowers for Applejack". This unintentionally created a naming scheme for his MLP fanfics. The third (complete) story, ''Fanfic/TheSunAndMoonAreHarshMistresses'', continues the trend as a more on-the-nose shout out to ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress''.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Was originally intended as the penultimate inflation fetish fic to put to rest the flood of fetish fics the author anticipated would come following the canonical inflation scene in Spike At Your Service. This backfired, however, when virtually no fetish fics specifically regarding the scene in question were ever made. So, this went from addressing the tide of fics about the scene in question to ''being'' the tide of fic(s) about the scene in question.
* ShoutOut: The title is a rather bizarre shout-out to the completely unrelated sci-fi novel FlowersForAlgernon. According to WordOfGod, the author was trying to think of a name after finishing the first chapter. He thought back to his previous MLP Fanfic, [[Fanfic/SombrasGame Sombra's Game]], and his train of thought was as follows:
** Sombra's Game
** Ender's Game
** Flowers for Algernon
** Flowers for Applejack\\\
Thus unintentionally creating a naming scheme for his MLP fanfics. The third (complete) story, The Sun and Moon Are Harsh Mistresses, continues the trend as a more on-the-nose shout out to TheMoonIsAHarshMistress.

* ShoutOut: The title is a rather bizarre shout-out to the completely unrelated sci-fi novella FlowersForAlgernon. According to WordOfGod, the author was trying to think of a name after finishing the first chapter. He thought back to his previous MLP Fanfic, [[Fanfic/SombrasGame Sombra's Game]], and his train of thought was as follows:

* ShoutOut: The title is a rather bizarre shout-out to the completely unrelated sci-fi novella FlowersForAlgernon. According to WordOfGod, the author was trying to think of a name after finishing the first chapter. He thought back to his previous MLP Fanfic, [[SombrasGame Sombra's Game]], and his train of thought was as follows:

* ShoutOut: The title is a rather bizarre shout-out to the completely unrelated sci-fi novella FlowersForAlgernon. According to WordOfGod, the author was trying to think of a name after finishing the first chapter. He thought back to his previous MLP Fanfic, Sombra's Game, and his train of thought was as follows:

** Flowers for Applejack
Thus, he unintentionally created a naming scheme for his MLP fanfics. The third (complete) story, The Sun and Moon Are Harsh Mistresses, continues the trend as a more on-the-nose shout out to TheMoonIsAHarshMistress.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Than Pablote's earlier work, Sombra's Game.