History FanFic / EquestriaAHistoryRevealed

* ShoutOut: "Loose Change" is the title of a prominent 9/11 "truther" film which says that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were a plot by the US government to attack its own citizens. The character named as such in this story is also a conspiracy theorist.

* AliensAreBastards: Apparently, aliens were behind the [[spoiler:creation of Discord.]] Apparently, he was [[spoiler: born through an alien intergalactic space orgy,]] which they only did for kicks. According to Loose Change, aliens are very kinky.

* NoTrueScotsman: The narrator thinks she is the only legitimate historical essay writer, and dismisses all of the works of real pony historians as false. She even calls herself the one true historian in Equestria at one point.

* SeriousBusiness: Loose Change takes history very seriously. If you could say one good thing about her, it seems like she has a passion for history. [[spoiler: It's just a shame she doesn't share such a passion in logic or professional academia.]]

* [[invoked]] AssPull:

** Most of Loose Change's theories seem to fit into this, only occasionally having evidence often as a result of overanalyzing or her jumping to conclusions to justify her claims. Directly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when she states herself an explanation she provided seemed rather [[AssPull asspullish]]. She doesn't fix it though.

* BenevolentConspiracy: Loose Change's insane conspiracy ramblings aside, it is hinted that she discovers some inkling of truth behind the truth of the regime and alicornification in Chapters 11 and 12. However, the subtext behind the conspiracy clearly implies its purpose was for the greater good of Equestria, [[spoiler: as it prevented the complete collapse of the nation after the defeat of Discord, and restored stability to the nation by creating a central leadership figure for the ponies to believe in.]]

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

* CloneDegeneration: The Celestia of Loose Change's imagination just can't seem to make a perfect clone. Her CloneArmy that she used against Nightmare Moon was good in the beginning, but a millennium of repeated cloning has rendered their modern version (the Royal Guard) useless. Clone Luna was extremely socially awkward and had a different mane than the original. Clone Pony Joe went by the name Donut Joe. Cadance was pink. Loose Change holds up Chrysalis as the perfect (if accidental) clone, but she still looks like, well, a changeling.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Happens many times with Loose Change, who ignores obvious information right in front of her to go off on a tangent on some minuscule, trivial thing. On the few times she does manage to potentially discover some kind of conspiracy in Equestrian history, she instead overanalyzes something meaningless, such as when she was convinced that word choice in a certain quotation was suspicious, and spent three paragraphs analyzing of the use of the word "hellfire". [[spoiler: She concludes it meant an evil fire.]]

* [[invoked]] ConfirmationBias: One of the many biases that Loose Change is guilty of, and one of the more prevalent ones throughout the work. She directly goes out of her way to ignore information that contradicts her claims, and even directly states a few times that the rest of the "idiot historians" can be right occasionally, given that they match her beliefs. Her terrible reasoning skills in her essay, however, are PlayedForLaughs in-universe. If something supports her theory that Celestia is an evil tyrant, no matter how much Loose Change has to twist it to be so, then she'll happily put it in her essay. Consequently, anything that Loose Change finds that works against her theory is outright ignored, handwaved away, or dismissed as lies. [[spoiler:All of this is because Loose Change is DrivenByEnvy that she's not an alicorn, and really wants to be one.]]

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

* {{Demonization}}: Loose Change tends to demonize Celestia much more than she deserves, even in comparison to actual evil, and she calls her logical and rational decisions the work of pure stupidity and wickedness. She seems to go out of her way to demonize Celestia every time she gets, even when in subtext, it is made clear that Celestia is one of the few good guys in the fic.

* DitzyGenius: The genius part is obviously subverted though. Despite Loose Change's apparently entrance into the supposed prestigious University of Canterlot, she is shown to be almost excessively stupid with gaping holes in logic. Somehow, despite this, she still is able to write 16+ thousand word chapters with proper spelling and grammar. However, she most likely just barely got by in her classes overall, given her unprofessional demeanor.

* DrivenByEnvy: Loose Change, being an Earth Pony, can never have magic powers... so she devotes most of her essay towards bashing those who do. Upon writing about Twilight Sparkle's ascension, Loose Change gets a HeroicBSOD.

* HeroicBSOD: In chapter 35, Loose Change starts to type in capitals, screaming that "[she] doesn't have to take this!" One page break later, she's noticeably calmer, having had "a good hard cry". She continues to write the essay because it's cathartic.

** Loose Change also hates Twilight Sparkle for becoming an alicorn princess, though Loose Change desperately tries to deny it while [[NoExceptYes making it very clear through her writing that she's incredibly envious,]]
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Loose Change's bashing of Celestia and Twilight is rooted in her envy of them.
* IgnoredEpiphany: Loose Change admits in Chapter 35 that her essay makes Twilight out to be worse than she really is, and that jealousy is colouring her narration. One "good long look at [herself] in the mirror" later, she...continues to write, her words just as vitriolic and racist as ever.

* {{Infodump}}: As a historical academic essay, this is prone to occur. Of course, given Loose Change's strange ways of thinking, the accuracy of this infodump is very sketchy.

* InsufferableGenius: Subverted in that the main character certainly sees herself as one, but she's mostly just insufferable. She at one point "humble brags" that she rated 79 on an IQ test and the doctor called her "special". She views this as a point of pride, clearly not being aware of how the IQ test's scale works.[[note]]For those that don't know, an IQ of 80 is the minimum for being considered "normal" in intellect.[[/note]]

** The Equinus Republic fell due to the ponies of government having [[spoiler:a great big orgy.]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It makes sense in context.]]

* 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 [[RonTheDeathEater 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.

* FreudianExcuse: A PlayedForLaughs one. Loose Change suffered ParentalNeglect from her drunk mother and DisappearedDad (he got struck by lightning while climbing a lighning 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 her because to get in, one has to be a) gifted and b) a unicorn. Loose Change took it badly and blamed Celestia, which is why she hates her and [[RonTheDeathEater demonizes her]] in her essay. Her FantasticRacism is motivated by [[DrivenByEnvy envy.]] As an earth p
ony, she will never have magic herself, 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).

* FreudianExcuse: A PlayedForLaughs one. Loose Change suffered ParentalNeglect from her drunk mother and DisappearedDad (he got struck by lightning while climbing a lighning 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 her because to get in, one has to be a) gifted and b) a unicorn. Loose Change took it badly and blamed Celestia, which is why she hates her and [[RonTheDeathEater demonizes her]] in her essay. Her FantasticRacism is motivated by [[DrivenByEnvy envy]]; As an Earth Pony, she will never have magic herself and is very jealous 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).

* HeroicBSOD: In chapter 35, Loose Change starts to type in capitals, screaming that "[she] doesn't have to take this!" One page break later, she's noticeably calmer, having had "a good hard cry." She continues to write the essay because it's cathartic.

** Loose Change also hates Twilight Sparkle for becoming an alicorn princess, though Loose Change desperately tries to deny it while [[NoExceptYes making it very clear through her writing that she's incredibly jealous]].

--> While [Starswirl] was researching his time spell, in the past I might remind you, he could have traveled back into the past (but he was in the past as I reminded you), therefore [[spoiler: allowing two of him to exist at the same time.]] In order to avoid confusion, he [[spoiler: adopted the time clone as his son and named him, “Starswirl the Bearded”]]. Of course, the [[spoiler: time clone would age much slower because of [[AWizardDidIt de magicks]]]], so this Starswirl the Bearded, (who we shall name Starswirl the Bearded, to avoid further confusion) was able to rise to obscurity in the Pre-Classical Era and live up to the early Classical era a century later. It makes perfect sense.
* InsufferableGenius: Subverted in that the main character certainly sees herself as one, but she's mostly just insufferable. She at one point "humble brags" that she rated 79 on an IQ test and the doctor called her "special". She views this as a point of pride, clearly not being aware of how the IQ test's scale works.[[note]]For those that don't know, an IQ of 100 is "average intelligence." So...[[/note]]

** Most of the conclusions reached by Loose Change, without context, are extremely absurd. Of course, with her jumps in logic and insane overanalysis, even with context, it doesn't help matters too much.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Loose Change considers herself a prophet of academic knowledge, spreading the truth to the hapless readers as she sees fit. In actuality, most of her knowledge comes from her [[CrazyHomelessPeople crazed hobo friend]] and her conspiracy rattled mind.

* 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. Cadence 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).
* CloneDegeneration: The Celestia of Loose Change's imagination just can't seem to make a perfect clone. Her CloneArmy that she used against Nightmare Moon was good in the beginning, but a millennium of repeated cloning has rendered their modern version (the Royal Guard) useless. Clone Luna was extremely socially awkward and had a different mane than the original. Clone Pony Joe went by the name Donut Joe. Cadence was pink. Loose Change holds up Chrysalis as the perfect (if accidental) clone, but she still looks like, well, a changeling.

* [[invoked]] ConfirmationBias: One of the many biases that Loose Change is guilty of, and one of the more prevalent ones throughout the work. She directly goes out of her way to ignore information that contradicts her claims, and even directly states a few times that the rest of the "idiot historians" can be right occasionally, given that they match her beliefs. Her terrible reasoning skills in her essay, however, are PlayedForLaughs in-universe.
* ConfirmationBias: [[invoked]]Loose Change does this with every fact she comes across, which forms the story's framework. If something supports her theory that Celestia is an evil tyrant, no matter how much Loose Change has to twist it to be so, then she'll happily put it in her essay. Consequently, anything that Loose Change finds that works against her theory is outright ignored, handwaved away, or dismissed as lies. [[spoiler:All of this is because Loose Change is DrivenByEnvy that she's not an alicorn, and really wants to be one.]]

* ConspiracyTheorist: Loose Change and Crazy Larry definitely qualify.

* [[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, [[spoiler: 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).

* DracoInLeatherPants: Loose Change does her best to prop up villains who historically opposed Celestia. Her logic is stretched to the breaking point in doing so since those villains were [[MadGod Discord]] and [[TheNightThatNeverEnds Nightmare]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Moon]], but it's not like logic has ever bothered Loose Change before.

* IJustWantToBeYou: 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.

* InUniverse: This entire story is written in-character by the character herself in her own state of mind, in-universe. It is as meta as it sounds.

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

* InsufferableGenius: Subverted in that the main character certainly sees herself as one, but she's mostly just insufferable. She at one point "humble brags" that she rated 79 on an IQ test and the doctor called her "special". She views this as a point of pride, clearly not being aware of how the scale works.

** [[spoiler: The Equinus Republic fell due to the ponies of government having a great big orgy.]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It makes sense in context.]]

* LampshadeHanging: The real-life author tends to lampshade some of Loose Change's more erratic behavior, and even makes a few digs at themself.
* LemonyNarrator: If one thing can be said about this fanfic, it's that it takes a unique approach to its writing style. Extremely unconventional, both in storytelling-structure, and in professionalism as expected from an academic essay, it manages to be both of those things while being different in itself. In this case, not only is the narrator a character in the story in her own right, it can be argued that she is the only character. Other than the glimpses of history that can be gleamed from quotes and references from other ponies, Equestria's history is mostly seen through her eyes, and it is through the journey in the eyes of this clearly not all there pony, that the story turns a supposedly dry essay into a thrillride of laughter.

* MasterRace: The narrator props up her own earth pony race as the superior race while demeaning and insulting the pegasi and unicorns. [[spoiler: Partially subverted in that as is seen by the text, in history and in biology, it seems as though earth ponies are actually slightly inferior. But it's not like data has ever stopped Loose Change's logic before.]]

* MixedMetaphor: Loose Change directly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the fact that she mixes up her metaphors. Not that she cares too much mind you.

* RevengeFic: Even through all of Loose Change's blatant hate and bias against Celestia and her regime, what is presented clearly demonstrates that Celestia was more than competent in ruling the nation than Loose Change would have you believe. It gets to the point where it seems that some chapters and facts were simply written to [[PlayedForLaughs get some comeuppance against Celestia]], even though it never works.

* RunningGag: The story tends to have a few gags that don't pay off until a much later chapter. As such, sometimes a good memory is required.
* SecretPolice: According to Loose Change, Celestia has all sorts of different secret polices.

* ShoutOut: "Loose Change" is the title of a prominent 9/11 Truther film

--> So it might be best to take this source with a pinch of salt. And maybe a little parmesan. Oh yeah. That’s the stuff.

* SpeculativeFiction: Loose Change often speculates on things that might have occurred in history. However, she does have the common sense to point out she has no evidence of such a thing occurring, and it's mostly just her speculation. [[spoiler: Nonetheless, she reasons that because it makes sense in her mind, then it must be true anyways, so she'll just present it as truth.]]

** Used to explain how the earth ponies didn't fall [[spoiler: for Celestia's lies]] like the pegasi, because they were mostly amazed by the fact they had working outhouses. Subverted in the sense that the narrator plays it up as a sign of their superiority.

* DrivenByEnvy: Loose Change, being an Earth Pony, can never have magic powers...so she ''devotes most of her essay towards bashing those who do.'' Upon writing about Twilight Sparkle's ascension, she gets a HeroicBSOD.

* AssociationFallacy: This fallacy is directly responsible for Loose Change's reasoning of [[spoiler:the Elements of Harmony being powered by dark magic.]] As [[ItMakesSenseInContext the Elements represent pizza]], [[spoiler:and pizza is cooked by baking. Baking cannot be explained. Do you know what else can't be explained? [[InsaneTrollLogic Dark magic.]]]]

** The supposed "good" (at least according to Loose Change) Equinus Republic is a clear example of this, as some of their actions have very clearly questionable morals.

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 360° 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'' (canonically it's because she was left weakened after Nightmare Moon was torn away by the Elements and regained that power by the second season- which seems to be the accepted InUniverse explanation) 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 CloneDegeneration). 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. Cadence 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).

* FunWithAcronyms: The real-life author tends to do this sometimes. Not all of them seem to have meanings, such as the "'''C'''elestia '''W'''ater'''m'''elon '''F'''riendship '''S'''urprise", but others, such as the '''U'''nited '''R'''oyal '''I'''ndomitable '''N'''ational '''E'''questrian forces have obviously been carefully crafted together. Strangely enough, it seems as though nobody in-universe realizes the unfortunate acronym of the latter, with the narrator only noting that it seemed excessively extravagant and longwinded. Played even more straighter when Princess Luna directly calls them by that name.

** She repeats the same thing regarding inconsistencies in history, handwaving it off as the work of timetravel.

* HitlerAteSugar: Invoked in a way. Loose Change reasons that she doesn't understand the scientific process behind baking a cake, and therefore, sees it as something that cannot be explained. She also reasons that [[spoiler: dark magic]] cannot be explained. Therefore, baking must be a representation of [[spoiler: dark magic]]. [[InsaneTrollLogic It gets worse from there on out.]]

* LogicalFallacies: Loose Change is the walking embodiment of this.

* MasterRace: The narrator props up her own race as the superior race while demeaning and insulting the pegasi and unicorns. [[spoiler: Partially subverted in that as is seen by the text, in history and in biology, it seems as though earth ponies are actually slightly inferior.]] But it's not like data has ever stopped Loose Change's logic before.

** Subverted later on when the author reveals [[spoiler:she's been making up most of her essay as she goes along]]. It's okay though, [[FalseReassurance she crosses it out.]]

** Most of Loose Change's theories seem to fit into this, only occasionally having evidence [[spoiler:often as a result of overanalyzing or her jumping to conclusions]] to justify her claims. Directly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when she states herself an explanation she provided seemed rather [[AssPull asspullish]]. She doesn't fix it though.

* BlackMagic: Baking, as it is inexplicable (to Loose Change), must be dark magic, which is equally inexplicable. Therefore, pizza is the result of evil magic. And as the Elements of Harmony are equivalent to the elements of a good pizza, the elements must also be powered by baking, and therefore dark magic.
* BlatantLies: Used numerous times in her essay, from purposefully misciting sources, to Loose Change's ridiculously implausible theories[[spoiler: which at one point, she does admit that she was making stuff up as she goes along. She unfortunately doesn't see the problem in this.]]

* CrazyHomelessPeople: Her [[spoiler: only]] friend, Crazy Larry. It's even in his name. It becomes a problem when Loose Change seems to ignore most legitimate historical sources in favor of the words of her friend [[spoiler: and crush]].

** In an in-universe example, it does seem that the binds of racism do run deep in Equestria, and does cause social and political unrest a few times.

* CloneDegeneration: The Celestia of Loose Change's imagination just can't seem to make a perfect clone. Her CloneArmy that she used against Nightmare Moon was good in the beginning, but a millennium of repeated cloning has rendered their modern version (the Royal Guard) useless. Clone Luna was extremely socially awkward and had a different mane than the original. Cadence was pink. Loose Change holds up Chrysalis as the perfect (if accidental) clone, but she still looks like, well, a changeling.

** The narrator, of course, is herself a great example of this trope, and goes as far to put down the other pony races while raising Earth ponies up on a pedestal whenever possible. She also seems to have an irrational hatred of griffins, goats and a whole bunch of other races. This trait of hers is [[PlayedForLaughs played up for laughs]], though.

** [[spoiler: The Equinus Republic fell due to the ponies of government having a great big orgy.]] [[TropeNamer It makes sense in context.]]

''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/126866/equestria-a-history-revealed Equestria: A History Revealed]]'' is a WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfiction written by Hoofry Poneigher.

Not to be confused with FanFic/ABriefHistoryOfEquestria.

* [[invoked]] AssPull: The ending to the fic's version of the Hearts and Hooves Day legend certainly qualifies as this, when near the end [[spoiler:a giant ponyeating dragon suddenly descends upon high and burns every pony alive in the kingdom.]] But it's [[PlayedForLaughs played for laughs]] though.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: The supposed "good" (at least according to Loose Change) Equinus Republic is a clear example of this, as some of their actions have very clearly questionable morals.

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 360° back to the original point of the paragraph.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Happens many times with Loose Change, who ignores obvious information right in front of her, to go off on a tangent on some minuscule, trivial thing.
** On the few times she does manage to potentially discover some kind of conspiracy in Equestrian history, she instead overanalyzes something meaningless, such as when she was convinced that word choice in a certain quotation was suspicious, and spent three paragraphs analyzing of the use of the word, "hellfire". [[spoiler: She concludes it meant an evil fire.]]
* [[invoked]] ConfirmationBias: One of the many biases that Loose Change is guilty of. One of the more prevalent ones throughout the work.
** She directly goes out of her way to ignore information that contradicts her claims, and even directly states a few times, that the rest of the "idiot historians" can be right occasionally, given that they match her beliefs. Her terrible reasoning skills in her essay, however, are thankfully PlayedForLaughs in-universe.
* ConspiracyKitchenSink: It's what Loose Change most certainly believes in. Whether or not it has any truth to it is up to debate and the reader's abject trust in the narrator.
** Hints at conspiracies are present in between the lines, but they certainly are not to the extent Loose Change would like them to be.

* CrazyHomelessPeople: Her [[spoiler: only]] friend, Crazy Larry. It's even in his name.
** It becomes a problem when Loose Change seems to ignore most legitimate historical sources in favor of the words of her friend [[spoiler: and crush]].

* CruelTwistEnding: The end of the Hearts and Hooves Day legend certainly qualifies as this.
** The fact that this was supposedly the canon legend that the CMC read on the show only makes the point that much more diabolical.
** The name of the book itself should have tipped somepony off, as it was supposedly titled "How the Sea-Pony Wished Upon a Star and Unknowingly Started Racial Prosecution Under An Emergent Fascist Regime: A Collection of Filly’s Tales and Legends That Start Off Whimsical But End in Destruction and Death".
* {{Demonization}}: Loose Change tends to demonize Celestia much more than she deserves, even in comparison to actual evil, and she calls her logical and rational decisions the work of pure stupidity and wickedness.
** She seems to go out of her way to demonize Celestia every time she gets, even when in subtext, it is made clear that Celestia is one of the few good guys in the fic.

* [[invoked]] EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Everything is a symbol. Even certain word choices from ancient sources.
** The fact that she can find and actively searches for meaning behind everything ties in with her Conspiracy Theorist nature. It also makes for a very entertaining essay.

* FantasticRacism: In an in-universe example, it does seem that the binds of racism do run deep in Equestria, and does cause social and political unrest a few times.
** The narrator of course, is herself a great example of this trope, and goes as far to put down the other races while raising Earth ponies up on a pedestal whenever possible. She also seems to have an irrational hatred of griffins, goats, and a whole bunch of other races. This trait of hers is [[PlayedForLaughs played up for laughs]] though.
* FeigningIntelligence: Loose Change tends to be more about having the appearance of knowledge rather than actually having any knowledge of her own. And even that doesn't work most of the time.
** It doesn't help that the fic is supposed to be her academic essay that's she's submitting to her University, and any hopes of her maintaining academic professionalism and integrity are gone by Chapter 2. She still maintains that she's "smarter than the rest of those traditionalist historians", despite clear evidence that she's not.

* FunWithAcronyms: The real-life author tends to do this sometimes. Not all of them seem to have meanings, such as the "'''C'''elestia '''W'''ater'''m'''elon '''F'''riendship '''S'''urprise", but others, such as the '''U'''nited '''R'''oyal '''I'''ndomitable '''N'''ational '''E'''questrian forces have obviously been carefully crafted together.
** Strangely enough, it seems as though nobody in-universe realizes the unfortunate acronym of the latter, with the narrator only noting that it seemed excessively extravagant and longwinded. Played even more straighter when Princess Luna directly calls them by that name.

* HandWave: Literally invoked when Loose Change says that most flaws in logic can be handwaved by the work of wizards/magic.
** Given that they do live in a world of talking horses and magic unicorns, technically, it does make sense.

* InsufferableGenius: Subverted in that the main character certainly sees herself as one, but she's mostly just insufferable.
** She at one point "humble brags" that she rated 79 on an IQ test and the doctor called her "special". She views this as a point of pride, clearly not being aware of how the scale works.
* ItMakesSenseInContext: Most of the conclusions reached by Loose Change, without context, are extremely absurd. Of course, with her jumps in logic and insane overanalysis, even with context, it doesn't help matters too much.

* LemonyNarrator: If one thing can be said about this fanfic, it's that it takes a unique approach to its writing style. Extremely unconventional, both in storytelling-structure, and in professionalism as expected from an academic essay, it manages to be both of those things while being different in itself.
** In this case, not only is the narrator a character in the story in her own right, it can be argued that she is the only character. Other than the glimpses of history that can be gleamed from quotes and references from other ponies, Equestria's history is mostly seen through her eyes, and it is through the journey in the eyes of this clearly not all there pony, that the story turns a supposedly dry essay into a thrillride of laughter.

* LiteralMinded: The narrator certainly fits this well. She tends to analyze minute details behind word choice in an attempt to find some hidden meaning,
** However, this is not always the case, as sometimes she ignores the literal meaning for a more symbolic one. She really tends to go either way depending on what supports her way of thinking the best at the moment.

* MasterRace: The narrator props up her own race as the superior race while demeaning and insulting the pegasi and unicorns.
** [[spoiler: Partially subverted in that as is seen by the text, in history and in biology, it seems as though Earth Ponies are actually slightly inferior.]] But it's not like data has ever stopped Loose Change's logic before.

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Played straight in the essay's abstract and several times throughout the essay. Though given the essay is about conspiracy theories, it is somewhat justified.

* PlayedForLaughs: The entire concept of the fic is played for laughs, as a parody of the professionalism expected from a historical essay.

* ProductPlacement: In a Stealth Pun as stealthy as getting hit by a truck, Loose Change invokes this trope with the word "Hot Topic", which is of course followed by a tiny "Buy MLP Shirts Today!"
** Directly referenced in the bibliography as [[spoiler:a message paid by the Hot Topic corporation.]]
* PunnyName: Loose Change, Hoofry Poneigher, most of the authors listed in the bibliography all have unashamedly punny names.

** Loose Change fears the dreaded Fallacy Police. Apparently they're watching her, waiting for her to slip up. Good thing for her, Loose Change reasons that [[BlatantLies she's had no faults in logic in her essay so far]] so she should be fine. But given the absurdity of the statement, it stands to reason that their existence is highly questionable.

** It seems like this trope seems to fit the Equinus Republic in general, as they spent weeks debating the simple creation of a road before throwing out the [[DemocracyIsFlawed case all together]], while approving the abolishment of penalties for homicidal evisceration in less than an hour.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Loose Change sees herself as a better historian than any other pony, despite still being a student at the University of Canterlot.
** Apparently she has sold some of her previous essays as books, but [[spoiler: they're obviously not doing too well, given Loose Change has to blatantly advertise them in-essay.]]

* ThereAreNoCoincidences: Loose Change believes this to the point of using InsaneTrollLogic to justify her theories.
** In Chapter 10, Loose Change reveals that she was motivated to write this essay because [[spoiler:she found a Celestia-shaped Dorito chip and was convinced it was a sign, invoking this trope.]]
* TooDumbToFool: Used to explain how the Earth Ponies didn't fall [[spoiler: for Celestia's lies]] like the pegasi, because they were mostly amazed by the fact they had working outhouses. Subverted in the sense that the narrator plays it up as a sign of their superiority.

* UnreliableNarrator: Loose Change is without a doubt, one of the most unreliable narrators to ever be featured in a fanfiction. Her tendency to present her conspiracies as fact is both disorienting and highly amusing as well. But it is this nature of hers that the entire concept of the fic centers around.
** It is possible to get a glimpse of actual Equestrian history through her eyes, wading through the enormous fallacies and insane conspiracy theories she presents. But the fic mostly consists solely of Equestrian history as seen through her eyes, whether the reader wants to accept it as accurate or not.

* [[invoked]] WhatDoYouMeanItsNotDidactic?: It seems Loose Change needs to learn this, as she picks apart benign things and events for evidence. So far, she has analyzed: the wordchoice of select sources, what rocks can represent, cited a cereal box, and made [[spoiler: a far-fetched leap in logic to relate Celestia to Italian food, when a cooking book mentions "the elements of a good pizza"]]
* [[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: Actually, it is revealed much later on that she borrows some of Crazy Larry's pills. She seems to think that they're pills to make you smarter though.]]

* 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."]]

* ConfirmationBias: Describes Loose Change's attitude to opposing historical arguments to a T. No matter what kind of logic hoops she has to jump through, no matter how many absolutely ridiculous theories she has to come up with, she'll find a way to make sure her "truth" always comes out on top.

* [[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, [[spoiler: 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).

''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/126866/equestria-a-history-revealed Equestria: A History Revealed]]''
is a WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfiction written by Hoofry Poneigher.

** [[spoiler: Partially subverted in that as is seen by the text, in history and in biology, it seems as though Earth Ponies are actually slightly inferior.]] But it's not like data has ever [[BiasSteamroller stopped Loose Change's logic before]].

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

* BiasSteamroller: Describes Loose Change's attitude to opposing historical arguments to a T. No matter what kind of logic hoops she has to jump through, no matter how many absolutely ridiculous theories she has to come up with, she'll find a way to make sure her "truth" always comes out on top.

* [[CrazyHomelessPeople Crazy Homeless Horse]]: Her [[spoiler: only]] friend, Crazy Larry. It's even in his name.

* [[invoked]]EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Everything is a symbol. Even certain word choices from ancient sources.

* [[invoked]]FanonDiscontinuity: Interestingly subverted. Despite the subject matter promising a change in what is known in Equestrian history and the absolute madness surrounding the narrator's theories, because the show never revealed much regarding its history, if one was to accept Loose Change's conclusions at face value, it would still fit within the confines of the show, albeit giving it a very weird backstory.

* [[TheManBehindTheMan The Horse Behind the Horse]]: Apparently Celestia has been behind most significant events in Equestrian history, even the ones she wasn't in control of. Of course, given this claim is made by Loose Change, it may not stand true in-universe.
* [[invoked]] TheyJustDidntCare: 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, [[spoiler: 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).

* BlackComedy: Some of the jokes can tend to be pretty dark, especially as it seems that Loose Change doesn't have much of a conscious when regarding some of the darker sides of Equestrian history.