An ordinary day in Equestria and/or Pedestria
A My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Round Robin fanfic by Insaneponyauthor, and set in the same verse as their prior fics.
After braving metafictional narratives and crazed fanfic authors, Daring Do meets her greatest challenge yet: Canterlot High School. Meanwhile, the school science club has inadvertently set up an exchange student program with Equestria of their own. Will anypony or human find their way back before reality collapses under the sheer weight of the plotholes?
You can experience the craziness here
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Provides examples of:
- Apocalypse How: Class X-5 or Z, alluding to the (then) impending end of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and upcoming reboot.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Bon Bon, who is far more level-headed than Lyra when they're talking to Daring.
- Continuity Cavalcade: This story contains a large number of callbacks to the previous fanfics. A nonexhaustive list:
- Daring Do was stranded in the real world in the previous story.
- Lyra's dream from Dream On You Crazy Princess is repeated in chapter 2.
- The address book that Luna consults in Dream On You Crazy Princess is also mentioned.
- Princess Cara from Parents of Ponyville shows up, as does Scootaloo's alien chevotrain friend from her dubious flashback.
- The police are still looking for the lawyers that EQG!Star Swirl banished in Dream On You Crazy Princess.
- Cara's changelings are familiar with Nihilbog from Diamond and Silver's Excellent Adventure.
- Somepony once again gets called The Other One, although this time, it's Wallflower.
- Depending on the Writer:
- The time that Star Swirl's failsafe activates changes from midnight to early evening.
- Heist Episode: Pinkie plans an elaborate heist to get Luna's magical address book.
- Highly-Visible Ninja: Pinkie thinks that wearing a black ninja outfit will make her invisible, even in broad daylight. It fails because she got pastel chalk dust all over the suit.
- Insistent Terminology: Daring Do is not a grave robber, she's a treasure hunter.
- The Last Straw: Star Swirl the Bearded did extensive damage to the fabric of space-time with his magic mirror, but stopped just before anything catastrophic could happen. Then Twilight uses the mirror once, and that's enough to destroy everything.
- Lemony Narrator: Being a round-robin, it naturally depends on the author, but the author of the prologue and chapter 1 comments on such things as Daring eating all of his potato chips, or binging Netflix.
- Motor Mouth: Lyra, who rattles off information on Indiana Jones at one point when no one else is listening, and can apparently get through the plot of three movies in about four total exchanged sentences between Bon Bon and Daring.
- Mundane Horror: In Chapter 1: The Doom, the narration describes Canterlot High like it's a Cosmic Horror story.
- Mundane Solution: Twilight spends hours trying every possible trick to activate Star Swirl's magic mirror, only to realize that it just needed new batteries the whole time.
- Mythology Gag: As Scootaloo ponders the impending end of the universe and the possibility that this could be the start of a new universe, she looks at her locket which has a photo of G3 Scootaloo.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Star Swirl the Bearded enchanted a small mirror so he could use it to peer into (and communicate with) other universes. Only after using it extensively did he realize that he was damaging the fabric of space-time in the process. Then Twilight, unaware of the danger, actually destroys the multiverse when she gets the mirror working again.
- Real After All: In Parents of Ponyville, Scootaloo's version of what happened at the parent teacher conference seems like nonsensical blatant wish fulfillment, including stuff like her flying through space on her scooter, going on quests around the galaxy, defeating an enemy alien armada, fighting a space T.Rex, etc. However, this story implies that it was all true.
- Real World Episode: The prologue continues from the previous story, where Daring Do got stuck in the real world with the author.
- Remember the New Guy?: Justified with Wallflower Blush, since no one notices or remembers her anyway.
- Repeating So the Audience Can Hear: The White Violin's one sided conversation with Lord Dumplin.What do you mean you were supposed to rain havoc and destruction, not give them a bucking therapy session, you imbecile, you need to keep spreading chaos so those idiot heroes will show up to stop you and you can defeat them and take their magic jewelry and give it to me so I can obtain ultimate power muhahahahahaha?...What do you mean stop repeating everything I say verbatim, I know you can hear me perfectly well, it's really quite tiresome?
- Shouldn't We Be In School Right Now?: Lampshaded when the humane seven decide skip class and help with Daring Do's adventure:The purple human looked like she was about to object, but the blue human preempted her complaints. "Come on Twilight, we skip like all the time. Remember the dance contest? Besides, the police are probably still busy investigating the disappearance of those lawyers."
- Shout-Out:
- Chapter 1 is titled "The Doom."
- Chapter 2 is titled "A Dream Derailed."
- Chapter 3 is titled "Your Lyra Is In Another Chapter."
- The first interlude features Iron Will admonishing the narrator to get on with it when he goes off on a tangent, as in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- "Pedestria" as the name of the EQG universe was inspired by Fimfic user Oliver's various musings on Pony canon.
- Pinkie’s first motivational song is to the tune of ”Get Into the Bus, Aloha” by Daniel Amos. Her second is to the tune of some really obscure song.
- Lyra goes on a long tangent about Indiana Jones at one point, even referencing the
Fanon Discontinuity centered around the fourth film. - Daring is adamant that she is not a thief, she's a treasure hunter.
- Bulk Biceps basically gets akumatized into a villain named the White Violin.
- The Librarian gets transformed into an orangutan that says "Ook".
- Pinkie Pie rejects Cara with "We reject your offer and substitute our own,"
- "Because everyone is blind and always leaving me behind."
- A.K. Yearling asks Cara "What have I got in my pocket?" The answer is a magic ring.
- "One by one, without any fuss, the stars were going out."
- Skewed Priorities:I guess I just got busy with important stuff and forgot about the whole Round Robin thing.
"Busy? You just watch Netflix all day!" she shouts again despite my previous admonition.
Like I said, important stuff. - Something We Forgot: In the previous story, Daring Do wound up in the author's house, then disappeared from the narrative entirely. So this story opens with Daring still stuck with the author in the real world.
- Stylistic Suck: The cover art is just pony and EQG faces awkwardly photoshopped onto a stock photo—one still covered in watermarks, to boot.
- Unreliable Voiceover: The narrator keeps insisting that Daring Do's sanity has been shattered by her arrival at Canterlot High and transformation into a human. All the while, Daring barely reacts to the alleged horrors."Meh, I've had worse," she said, gamely attempting to conceal the revulsion that must pervade every fiber of her being, as she gingerly picked herself up. "Now where did those blasted unicorns get to?"
- Near the end, the narration refers to Cara's guards as Changeling #1, Changeling #2, etc. and insists that they "probably don't even have names" despite the fact that two of them are named in the dialog.
