History FanFic / EquestriaAHistoryRevealed

* LovePotion: According to Loose Change, this was used by [[spoiler:Discord en masse to cause the downfall of the Equinus Republic, culminating in a giant orgy from the ponies in parliament. It is meant to be taken as grossand with as much questionable validity as it sounds.]]

* {{Hypocrisy}}: Loose Change accuses the social theorist Pure Blood of being a racist when his book (on the subject of achieving equality among the races) lists unicorns first, calling him "unicorn scum". She then points out how the only thing she hates more than racists are hypocrites.

* [[invoked]] InUniverseFactoidFailure: Loose Change fulfills this trope in spades. She does do research, but she blatantly ignores what is stated in favor of her own opinions, going as far as to cross out sections of quotes that [[ConfirmationBias don't agree with her view]].

* LovePotion: According to Loose Change, this was used by [[spoiler:Discord en masse to cause the downfall of the Equinus Republic, culminating in a giant orgy from the ponies in parliament. It is meant to be taken as {{Squick}} and with as much questionable validity as it sounds.]]

** Loose Change seems to think she subverts this trope by seeing the clues of conspiracy that she thinks Celestia hides in history. But most of the time she's just [[ConfirmationBias overanalyzing]].

* [[invoked]] WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Subverted. Though many of Loose Change's observations seem to be so farfetched that drugs must have been a factor, other than the few chapters where she does get drunk, her conclusions are usually the product of her own crazed, [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy addled]] mind. [[spoiler: It is revealed much later on that she actually borrows some of Crazy Larry's pills. She seems to think that they're pills to make you smarter though.]]

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[[caption-width-right:250: Pictured: An Empire built upon a throne of lies and deceit.]]

** Celestia is not a benevolent ruler with a HundredPercentAdorationRating; she's secretly at the head of every conspiracy in Equestria's history.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Apparently Celestia had this up the wazoo during the Classical period. There was so much universal praise for her that it caused Loose Change [[spoiler: to replace sections of her essay with her haikus]], just because she had enough of referencing the pro-Celestia sources. Of course, in actuality, if the references are to be taken at face-value, the Celestia propaganda was absurd within itself, with praise such as [[ShoutOut "Celestia is love, Celestia is life."]]

* [[invoked]] CreatorsApathy: Loose Change has a very lax approach to essay writing, getting drunk towards the end of Chapter 3, not wanting to write any more praise for Princess Celestia, instead inserting her self-authored haikus in their place, and literally admitting to lying to her professor and cursing him in-text (while he is supposedly marking it).
* [[invoked]] CriticalResearchFailure: Loose Change fulfills this trope in spades. She does do research, but she blatantly ignores what is stated in favor of her own opinions, going as far as to cross out sections of quotes that [[ConfirmationBias don't agree with her view]].

* AppealToIgnorance: Loose Change directly uses this fallacy at least once.

* [[invoked]] ShockingSwerve: The ending to the Hearts and Hooves Day legend certainly counts as this. And by the title of the book it was pulled from, it seemed like there are many more legends just like that one.

* OverlyExtendedAnalogy: Loose Change uses this all the time to explain her theories, tying together two unrelated things and using it as proof of their relation to each other.

* {{Derailing}}: Conversations are often derailed by her train of thought. At one point, she even debates on the science behind breaking a camel's back before managing to return to her point.

* CloneArmy: Cloning seems to be [[YourAnswerToEverything Celestia's answer to everything,]] according to Loose Change. Apparently she used the Mirror Pool to clone an army to fight Nightmare Moon and just kept cloning them up until the present; CloneDegeneration means that the current ones (the Royal Guard) are kinda useless. The difference between Luna's appearance in ''Friendship is Magic'' and ''Luna Eclipsed'' is because Celestia pulled YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on the real Luna and sent her back to the moon, replacing her with a clone. The social awkwardness is again because of Clone Degeneration. Pony Joe's name change to Donut Joe is because he was complicit in [[ItMakesSenseInContext Celestia handing over the true dark magic Elements to the Mane Six via donuts]], so Celestia [[HeKnowsTooMuch killed him]] and replaced him with an (again imperfect) clone. Cadance is another clone of Celestia, who used a TimeyWimeyBall to get her to 'ascend' from a Pegasus to prevent a pegasi revolt (And yes, she's pink because of CloneDegeneration). Chrysalis was the perfect clone, created on accident when Celestia was [[LethalChef baking a cake]] (of course, her default form was twisted and buggy, but details).

* FreedomFromChoice: Loose Change states that Celestia had indoctrinated such a thinking into Equestrian society as a whole. Of course, she then sees it as her duty to re-educate the reader of the "truth"
* FreudianExcuse: PlayedForLaughs. Loose Change suffered ParentalNeglect from her drunk mother and DisappearedDad (he got struck by lightning while climbing a lightning rod trying to get better theta-ray connection with aliens). Her greatest dream as a filly was to join Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, but they rejected Loose Change because she wasn't gifted, nor was she a unicorn. Loose Change took it badly and blamed Celestia, which is why Loose Change hates her and [[IrrationalHatred demonizes her]] in the essay. Loose Change's FantasticRacism is motivated by [[DrivenByEnvy envy.]] As an earth pony, she will never have magic, and is very envious of those who do. She copes by trying to convince herself that Earth Ponies are superior to unicorns, and thus she has no reason to be jealous. It isn't really working; it's clear from the way Loose Change writes her essay that she's incredibly jealous because she's so bad at hiding it.

** Deep down, Loose Change really wants to be Princess Celestia. The fact that she isn't and never will be anything like Celestia is what drives Loose Change to demonize Celestia in her essay.

* {{Expospeak}}: Loose Change clearly had access to a Thesaurus when trying to make herself sound smart. The sentence just ends up being mostly unintelligible.

* ExtendedAnalogy: Loose Change uses this all the time to explain her theories, tying together two unrelated things and using it as proof of their relation to each other.

* CircularReasoning: Invoked by Loose Change, in which she states that if Celestia was willing to lie about the Hearth's Warming Eve Paegent first, then she would be willing to lie about the Hearts and Hooves Day legend too, as she would have experience in lying. \\
But if she lied about the Hearts and Hooves Day legend first, then she would clearly also lie about the Hearth's Warming Eve Paegent, as it held much greater significance. The whole exchange is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded even further]] when she states that ignoring that, she reached a new shape of thought, one [[StealthPun without a point]], so she says to make a loop back to the original point of the paragraph.
* CloneArmy: Cloning seems to be [[YourAnswerToEverything Celestia's answer to everything]], according to Loose Change. Apparently she used the Mirror Pool to clone an army to fight Nightmare Moon and just kept cloning them up until the present; CloneDegeneration means that the current ones (the Royal Guard) are kinda useless. The difference between Luna's appearance in ''Friendship is Magic'' and ''Luna Eclipsed'' is because Celestia pulled YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on the real Luna and sent her back to the moon, replacing her with a clone. The social awkwardness is again because of Clone Degeneration. Pony Joe's name change to Donut Joe is because he was complicit in [[ItMakesSenseInContext Celestia handing over the true dark magic Elements to the Mane Six via donuts]], so Celestia [[HeKnowsTooMuch killed him]] and replaced him with an (again imperfect) clone. Cadance is another clone of Celestia, who used a TimeyWimeyBall to get her to 'ascend' from a Pegasus to prevent a pegasi revolt (And yes, she's pink because of CloneDegeneration). Chrysalis was the perfect clone, created on accident when Celestia was [[LethalChef baking a cake]] (of course, her default form was twisted and buggy, but details).

%%* BrickJoke: Certain jokes make a comeback eventually as the essay goes on.