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-->Minos looked solemn; he wasn’t even shitting, which is kind of his gimmick, so you could tell he meant business.
-->Minos looked solemn; he wasn’t even shitting, which is kind of his gimmick, so you could tell he meant business.
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* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Done quite often.
--> Pawnee took a deep breath and all but shouted: “Who the ''fuck'' is my real father?”
--> Pawnee took a deep breath and all but shouted: “Who the ''fuck'' is my real father?”
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* AuthorAvatar: Two of them. Jeanne Betancourt (author of the original Pony Pals) and Dirk Strider (the Homestuck character who modified
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* CatsAreMean: Minos is arguably the main antagonist of the story. He loves tormenting the Pony Pals and Acorn. [[spoiler: At one point he kills Minos and tells Acorn that he'll bring her back if he lets him take him to hell.]]
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* CatsAreMean: Minos is arguably the main antagonist of the story. He loves tormenting the Pony Pals and Acorn. [[spoiler: At one point he kills Minos Anna and tells Acorn that he'll bring her back if he lets him take him to hell.]]
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* CatsAreSnarkers:
-->“I bow down to you, o creator,” Minos said sarcastically.
-->“Jesus Christ,” Dirk said, rubbing his temples with a thumb and forefinger. “Why did I have to make you such a smartass?”
* CatsAreSuperior: Minos, who was in the original story just a stray cat, is a high-level demon.
-->“I bow down to you, o creator,” Minos said sarcastically.
-->“Jesus Christ,” Dirk said, rubbing his temples with a thumb and forefinger. “Why did I have to make you such a smartass?”
* CatsAreSuperior: Minos, who was in the original story just a stray cat, is a high-level demon.
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* CatsAreMean: Minos is arguably the main antagonist of the story. He loves tormenting the Pony Pals and Acorn. [[spoiler: At one point he kills Minos and tells Acorn that he'll bring her back if he lets him take him to hell.]]
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* TalkingAnimal: Both Acorn and the cat are able to speak English. In early sections of the book this is averted (Acorn was stated not to be able to speak Anna's language), but they eventually communicate just fine with both Dirk and Betancourt. It's also mentioned that Aramaic is the only language Lightning speaks.
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* TalkingAnimal: Both Acorn and the cat are able to speak English. In early sections of the book this is averted (Acorn was stated not to be able to speak Anna's language), but they eventually communicate just fine with both Dirk and Betancourt. It's also mentioned that Aramaic is the only language Lightning speaks. It's unknown if Lil' Sebastian can talk.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Acorn turns into a lion, but Anna only tells him to turn back into a pony. We can only assume she's accustomed to Acorn doing such weird things.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Acorn turns into a lion, but Anna only tells him to turn back into a pony. We can only assume she's accustomed to Acorn doing such weird things.things.
* VagueAge: Although the Pony Pals are fifth grade students in the original book series, in the modified book they do things that suggest an older age: drinking alcohol, sexual advances, and using lots of profanity.
* VagueAge: Although the Pony Pals are fifth grade students in the original book series, in the modified book they do things that suggest an older age: drinking alcohol, sexual advances, and using lots of profanity.
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* TalkingAnimal: Both Acorn and the cat are able to speak English. In early sections of the book this is averted (Acorn was stated not to be able to speak Anna's language), but they eventually communicate just fine with both Dirk and Betancourt. It's also mentioned that Aramaic is the only language Lightning speaks.
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* TalkingAnimal: Both Acorn and the cat are able to speak English. In early sections of the book this is averted (Acorn was stated not to be able to speak Anna's language), but they eventually communicate just fine with both Dirk and Betancourt. It's also mentioned that Aramaic is the only language Lightning speaks.speaks.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Acorn turns into a lion, but Anna only tells him to turn back into a pony. We can only assume she's accustomed to Acorn doing such weird things.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: At one point, Acorn turns into a lion, but Anna only tells him to turn back into a pony. We can only assume she's accustomed to Acorn doing such weird things.
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* RageAgainstTheAuthor: The Pony Pals, especially Anna, despise the story they're trapped in, and berate Dirk for making it.
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* RageAgainstTheAuthor: The Pony Pals, especially Anna, despise Anna despises the story they're she realized through dyslexia powers that she's trapped in, and berate berates Dirk for making it.
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* PhraseCatcher: "She had a serious problem." for Pawnee.
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* RageAgainstTheAuthor: The Pony Pals, especially Anna, despise the story they're trapped in, and berate Dirk for making it.
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** [[spoiler: Anna also dies once but comes back to life a few years later.]]
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** [[spoiler: Anna also dies once but comes back to life a few years pages later.]]
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* SelfDeprecation: The other characters in the story think of Dirk's self-insert as a pretentious rambly douche.
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* SophisticatedAsHell: The whole story is written like this--just like how Dirk talks.
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** [[spoiler: The side story about Brandy and Dr. Crandal also ends like this. They both shoot the other with their respective guns, but only one of them is loaded; it's not stated which one is.]]
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** Each time the cat Minos is killed, he comes back to life.
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** Each time the cat Minos is killed, he comes back to life. It is not known how many lives he has, other than that he has at least five.
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: The story ends with Pawnee making her choice as to whether to restore the book to what it originally was, though it's left ambiguous which choice she makes.]]
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Acorn is thousands of years old.
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[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2427119?view_full_work=true ''Pony Pals Dirk Strider Edition'']] is an edited version of the ''Pony Pals'' book ''Detective Pony'', by someone under the screen name ''sonnetstuck''. In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Dirk made Jane an edited version of Detective Pony for her 13th birthday, and we get to read the first two pages of it; Sonnetstuck did a modification of the whole book that goes along with Homestuck's description of the story. It follows Anna Harley, Pam Crandal, and the City of Pawnee, Indiana as they find a demonic cat named who they and Anna's godly pony Acorn want to erase from the world. After a long series of events, they meet Jeanne Betancourt and [[AuthorAvatar Dirk Strider]], and they realize they're fictional characters in a messed-up version of an innocent story that they hope to restore.
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[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2427119?view_full_work=true ''Pony Pals Dirk Strider Edition'']] is an edited version of the ''Pony Pals'' book ''Detective Pony'', by someone under the screen name ''sonnetstuck''. In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Dirk made Jane an edited version of Detective Pony for her 13th birthday, and we get to read the first two pages of it; Sonnetstuck did a modification of the whole book that goes along with Homestuck's description of the story. It follows Anna Harley, Pam Crandal, and the City of Pawnee, Indiana as they find a demonic cat named Minos who they and Anna's godly pony Acorn want to erase from the world. After a long series of events, they meet Jeanne Betancourt and [[AuthorAvatar Dirk Strider]], and they realize they're fictional characters in a messed-up version of an innocent story that they hope to restore.
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** Anna also dies once but comes back to life a few years later.
** Acorn goes to hell to be judged for his sins when he realizes his time has come. He eventually escapes.
** Acorn goes to hell to be judged for his sins when he realizes his time has come. He eventually escapes.
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** [[spoiler: Anna also dies once but comes back to life a few years later.
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** [[spoiler: Acorn goes to hell to be judged for his sins when he realizes his time has come. He eventually escapes.]]
** [[spoiler: Acorn goes to hell to be judged for his sins when he realizes his time has come. He eventually escapes.]]
** For Minos it's subverted. Acorn thinks he's about to say "I go by many names", but he was actually about to say "I go by Minos".
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Minos eventually gets bored of being a mysterious judge of the dead or anything and decides that at heart, he's just a cat.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: Minos eventually gets bored of being a mysterious judge of the dead or anything and decides that at heart, he's just a cat.]]
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* DeathIsCheap: Each time the cat Minos is killed, he comes back to life. Anna also dies once but comes back to life a few years later.
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* DeathIsCheap: DeathIsCheap:
** Each time the cat Minos is killed, he comes back tolife. life.
** Anna also dies once but comes back to life a few yearslater.later.
** Acorn goes to hell to be judged for his sins when he realizes his time has come. He eventually escapes.
** Each time the cat Minos is killed, he comes back to
** Anna also dies once but comes back to life a few years
** Acorn goes to hell to be judged for his sins when he realizes his time has come. He eventually escapes.
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* MeaningfulName: Acorn says he chose his current name because it represents a powerful being who has chosen dormancy (an acorn) but has potential to spring back in even grander form (an oak tree).
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* ShoutOut: The story is filled with intentionally obscure references to obscure works. A list of all references can be found [[http://detective-pony.tumblr.com/credits here]].
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Minos eventually gets bored of being a mysterious judge of the dead or anything and decides that at heart, he's just a cat.
* ShoutOut: The story is filled with intentionally obscure references to obscure works. A list of all references can be found [[http://detective-pony.tumblr.com/creditshere]].here]].
* TalkingAnimal: Both Acorn and the cat are able to speak English. In early sections of the book this is averted (Acorn was stated not to be able to speak Anna's language), but they eventually communicate just fine with both Dirk and Betancourt. It's also mentioned that Aramaic is the only language Lightning speaks.
* ShoutOut: The story is filled with intentionally obscure references to obscure works. A list of all references can be found [[http://detective-pony.tumblr.com/credits
* TalkingAnimal: Both Acorn and the cat are able to speak English. In early sections of the book this is averted (Acorn was stated not to be able to speak Anna's language), but they eventually communicate just fine with both Dirk and Betancourt. It's also mentioned that Aramaic is the only language Lightning speaks.
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* AuthorAvatar: Two of them. Jeanne Betancourt (author of the original Pony Pals) and Dirk Strider (the Homestuck character who modified it)
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* AuthorAvatar: Two of them. Jeanne Betancourt (author of the original Pony Pals) and Dirk Strider (the Homestuck character who modified it)it).
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Very much so. In the second half of the story, the Pony Pals meet the people who made the book and realize they're characters in a modified story.
* DeathIsCheap: Each time the cat Minos is killed, he comes back to life. Anna also dies once but comes back to life a few years later.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Very much so. In the second half of the story, the Pony Pals meet the people who made the book and realize they're characters in a modified story.
* DeathIsCheap: Each time the cat Minos is killed, he comes back to life. Anna also dies once but comes back to life a few years later.
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* LampshadeHanging: Much of the second half lampshades absurd things about the story. For example, it's outright stated later that it makes no sense for Pawnee to simultaneously be a girl and a town.
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* IHaveManyNames: In the story, Acorn is the identity of many famous ponies, from real life and from mythology. Minos mentions Grani, Liath Macha, Arion, the Darley Arabian, Eclipse, Cincinnati, Traveler, and Xanthos among the names Acorn has identified as.
* LampshadeHanging: Much of the second half lampshades absurd things about the story. For example, it's outright statedlater that it makes no sense for Pawnee to simultaneously be a girl and a town.town.
* LemonyNarrator: Very much so. Example:
--> Pawnee was clutching her head, reeling in shock. Can you blame her? She just got some really fucking heavy news. I think we can all understand if she needs to sit the next few paragraphs out while she deals with this stuff.
* PhysicalGod: Acorn is stated many times to be a god-like pony.
* LampshadeHanging: Much of the second half lampshades absurd things about the story. For example, it's outright stated
* LemonyNarrator: Very much so. Example:
--> Pawnee was clutching her head, reeling in shock. Can you blame her? She just got some really fucking heavy news. I think we can all understand if she needs to sit the next few paragraphs out while she deals with this stuff.
* PhysicalGod: Acorn is stated many times to be a god-like pony.
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{{Deconstruction}}: One of the main themes of the book. Most of the whole second half is focused on deconstructing the story.
LampshadeHanging: Much of the second half lampshades absurd things about the story. For example, it's outright stated later that it makes no sense for Pawnee to simultaneously be a girl and a town.
ShoutOut: The story is filled with intentionally obscure references to obscure works. A list of all references can be found [[http://detective-pony.tumblr.com/credits here]].
{{Deconstruction}}: One of the main themes of the book. Most of the whole second half is focused on deconstructing the story.
LampshadeHanging: Much of the second half lampshades absurd things about the story. For example, it's outright stated later that it makes no sense for Pawnee to simultaneously be a girl and a town.
ShoutOut: The story is filled with intentionally obscure references to obscure works. A list of all references can be found [[http://detective-pony.tumblr.com/credits here]].
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* AuthorAvatar: Two of them. Jeanne Betancourt (author of the original Pony Pals) and Dirk Strider (the Homestuck character who modified it)
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* {{Deconstruction}}: One of the main themes of the book. Most of the whole second half is focused on deconstructing thestory.
story.
* LampshadeHanging: Much of the second half lampshades absurd things about the story. For example, it's outright stated later that it makes no sense for Pawnee to simultaneously be a girl and atown.
town.
* ShoutOut: The story is filled with intentionally obscure references to obscure works. A list of all references can be found [[http://detective-pony.tumblr.com/credits here]].
* {{Deconstruction}}: One of the main themes of the book. Most of the whole second half is focused on deconstructing the
* LampshadeHanging: Much of the second half lampshades absurd things about the story. For example, it's outright stated later that it makes no sense for Pawnee to simultaneously be a girl and a
* ShoutOut: The story is filled with intentionally obscure references to obscure works. A list of all references can be found [[http://detective-pony.tumblr.com/credits here]].
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[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2427119?view_full_work=true ''Pony Pals Dirk Strider Edition'']] is an edited version of the ''Pony Pals'' book ''Detective Pony'', by someone under the screen name ''sonnetstuck''. In ''Webcomic/Homestuck'', Dirk made Jane an edited version of Detective Pony for her 13th birthday, and we get to read the first two pages of it; Sonnetstuck did a modification of the whole book that goes along with Homestuck's description of the story. It follows Anna Harley, Pam Crandal, and the City of Pawnee, Indiana as they find a demonic cat named who they and Anna's godly pony Acorn want to erase from the world. After a long series of events, they meet Jeanne Betancourt and [[AuthorAvatar Dirk Strider]], and they realize they're fictional characters in a messed-up version of an innocent story that they hope to restore.
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[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2427119?view_full_work=true ''Pony Pals Dirk Strider Edition'']] is an edited version of the ''Pony Pals'' book ''Detective Pony'', by someone under the screen name ''sonnetstuck''. In ''Webcomic/Homestuck'', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Dirk made Jane an edited version of Detective Pony for her 13th birthday, and we get to read the first two pages of it; Sonnetstuck did a modification of the whole book that goes along with Homestuck's description of the story. It follows Anna Harley, Pam Crandal, and the City of Pawnee, Indiana as they find a demonic cat named who they and Anna's godly pony Acorn want to erase from the world. After a long series of events, they meet Jeanne Betancourt and [[AuthorAvatar Dirk Strider]], and they realize they're fictional characters in a messed-up version of an innocent story that they hope to restore.
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->''His revision is a tough, emotionally draining read. But it's cathartic, in all the worst ways possible.''
-->''--Homestuck's description of Dirk's edit of Pony Pals''
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-->''--Homestuck's description of Dirk's edit of Pony Pals''
[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2427119?view_full_work=true ''Pony Pals Dirk Strider Edition'']] is an edited version of the ''Pony Pals'' book ''Detective Pony'', by someone under the screen name ''sonnetstuck''. In ''Webcomic/Homestuck'', Dirk made Jane an edited version of Detective Pony for her 13th birthday, and we get to read the first two pages of it; Sonnetstuck did a modification of the whole book that goes along with Homestuck's description of the story. It follows Anna Harley, Pam Crandal, and the City of Pawnee, Indiana as they find a demonic cat named who they and Anna's godly pony Acorn want to erase from the world. After a long series of events, they meet Jeanne Betancourt and [[AuthorAvatar Dirk Strider]], and they realize they're fictional characters in a messed-up version of an innocent story that they hope to restore.
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