History Fanfic / TriptychContinuum

* KickTheSonOfABitch: InUniverse, at the end of ''Goosed'', Fluttershy is about the only one upset by the fact that the migrating Crystal Geese are heading to Protocera from Ponyville, and so will probably be eaten into extinction again by the griffons.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: "[[https://www.fimfiction.net/stories?q=Drunk+Little+Ponies Drunk Little Ponies]]" veers into this one ''hard''. Every three years, Ponyville holds a festival celebrating homemade alcoholic beverages, which invariably ends with nearly every single one of its residents getting completely trashed. Afterward, Mayor Mare explains to Spike that the festival helps ponies air out small disputes and settle them before they can grow more serious.

* PeripheryDemographic: PlayedForLaughs in "[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/491601/release-the-sparkle-cut Release the Sparkle Cut]]." Twilight pressures a film director into making a minutely detailed, 11-hour adaptation of an excruciatingly painful-to-read literary masterpiece. The finished film drives pony test audiences to madness but proves to be a smash hit with donkeys, who accept suffering and misfortune as a natural part of life. The studio turns a huge profit and garners a pile of award nominations, and the director's career is saved.

* LikeBrotherAndSister: The Spike/Twilight relationship: each regards the other as their sibling. Unfortunately for Spike, this includes Twilight's right to automatically dismiss many of his comments because they're coming from her ''little'' brother.
** This also causes some problems with newcomers to Ponyville: the town's residents openly refer to the two as brother and sister -- so those who see Spike first wind up deciding [[AssociationFallacy there's a full family of dragons]].

* AdventureFriendlyWorld: WordOfGod asserts that roughly 6% of the land and 7% of the sky of Equestria is actually a "settled zone", a place where ponies actually live and work. The rest of the continent is all wilderness, often crawling with monsters.

** Taken to a ridiculous extreme in "[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/541204/school-fundrazer School Fundrazer]]." The candy bars that Cheerilee's students are selling have a "Not for Sale in Stores" notice on the wrapper, which can only be read through a powerful magnifying glass. The contract signed by the school board contains this same clause, but Diamond Tiara needs ''two'' of those super-strong lenses to read it. Then she has to get [[RuleOfThree ''three'']] in order to read the ingredient list and find out just how low the quality standards are.

** Taken to a ridiculous extreme in "[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/541204/school-fundrazer School Fundrazer]]." The candy bars that Cheerilee's students are selling have a "Not for Sale in Stores" notice on the wrapper, which can only be read through a powerful magnifying glass. The contract signed by the school board contains this same clause, but Diamond Tiara needs ''two'' of those super-strong lenses to read it.

* XenophobicHerbivore: Ponies view carnivore with intense fear and revulsion. As a result, it's extremely difficult for carnivorous and omnivorous immigrants in Equestria to have access to proper nutrition, since buying meat is all but impossible. The few living in Canterlot have to make do with a few small shops carefully tucked out of sight, some of which technically sell pet food, and a couple of eateries similarly insulated to make sure that the city's herbivorous residents never have to actually acknowledge their presence. In ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/209574/naked-lunch Naked Lunch]]'', when an enterprising griffon tries to set up a butcher's shop to cater to this market, a mob quickly forms to try to shut it down on moral grounds. A mirror of this trope happens across the sea in the griffon nation -- the hypercarnivorous griffons see plants as prey food and have parallel objections to produce shops in their cities, making it difficult for their own herbivorous and omnivorous minorities to get their food.

** During "[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/539481/1/once-upon-five-dozen-mattresses Once Upon Five Dozen Mattresses]]," Rainbow gets locked for the night inside a factory that make the best cloud mattresses known to ponykind. There are 60 different models on display, which she thinks is paradise at first -- but it soon drives her crazy because she doesn't have enough time to sleep on all of them.

** During "[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/539481/1/once-upon-five-dozen-mattresses Once Upon Five Dozen Mattresses]]," Rainbow gets locked for the night inside a factory that make the best cloud mattresses known to ponykind. There are dozens of different models on display, which she thinks is paradise at first -- but it soon drives her crazy because she doesn't have enough time to sleep on all of them.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: At the press conference meant to explain the nature of eclipses to the populace through newspaper articles (which ultimately leads to the government still having to do its own one-sheet educational printing -- just for starters), one reporter asks how ponies are supposed to get used to the idea, especially if this is going to be any kind of regular event. Luna then decides that from that point on, all daylight conferences in the Lunar Courtyard will be held under total solar eclipse, just to let that reporter get used to it.

* MundaneUtility: In [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/537687/mundane-utility the story of the same name]], Pipp Petals experiments with pegasus weather control magic in order to generate lightning so she can keep her phone charged all the time. [[StuffBlowingUp It does ''not'' go well.]]

* AdaptationalWimp: Changelings in the Continuum have gone from the shapeshifters capable of assuming any form, from pony to monster to inanimate object, of the canon to being completely incapable of ''shapechanging'' at all: instead, they project an easily-undermined illusion of their "assumed" form. It's established the best changeling detection device one can have is a humble bucket of water; splash the legs and it will make a very distinctive pattern.

->''My Little Pony: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Reality Ensues]].''

The standalone stories ''Fanfic/AnchorFoal'', ''Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl'', and ''Fanfic/AnchorFoalII'' incorporate much of the Continuum's background but occurs in a separate continuity.

The standalone story ''Fanfic/AnchorFoal'' incorporates much of the Continuum's background but occurs in a separate continuity.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In-universe example in [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/198011/blessing Blessing]]. All of the UnwantedFalseFaith in the princesses began with a joke: