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Aporia (Fanfic)
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- 82 feature instances
- 2 referencing feature instances
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''Aporia'' is a My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Rational Fic that discusses My Little Pony's canon and the reason for its numerous inconsistencies, the "humans in Equestria" genre of fanfiction, and the nature of storytelling in general. It features two multiverse travelling women — Mary, a proper British lady and Rika, who simply describes herself as an Eldritch Abomination — who decide, on a whim, to visit one of the many versions of Equestria. Despite Mary's initial reluctance to interfere with the local ponies' affairs, soon they become caught up in the story, altering it heavily as they nudge the ponies into discovering the true nature of Equestria. It all starts with a simple question: "who invented sandwiches?"The story consists of "conversations", rather than chapters, never from the same character's perspective twice in a row, and while it indeed features a lot of talking, it also has some epic action scenes, sometimes involving tech from other universes. The story is both a treatise on the nature of fiction, and a letter of love to My Little Pony, anime, science fiction and other media. | |
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Dropped link to AddressTheAudience: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN | |
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AddressTheAudience | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_106f1a77 | type |
A Form You Are Comfortable With | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_106f1a77 | comment |
A Form You Are Comfortable With: Twilight Sparkle is disturbed when she realises that Rika doesn't breathe. Later confirmed by Dorothy who goes as far as calling Rika's body "a doll". | |
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Reading Ahead in the Script | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_11dc879d | comment |
Reading Ahead in the Script: Twilight Sparkle asking Mary for "prophesies". | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_170128e9 | type |
Right Behind Me | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_170128e9 | comment |
Right Behind Me: Lyra deliberately invokes it when failing to locate Bon-Bon through conventional methods. | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_170128e9 | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_17640aa8 | type |
The Anti-Nihilist | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_17640aa8 | comment |
The Anti-Nihilist: Mary believes that the true adventures are in making the universe better, even though on a cosmic scale this goal might be futile. | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_17640aa8 | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_1777688d | type |
Genre Savvy | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_1777688d | comment |
Genre Savvy: Many cases, including Spike and Shining Armor being geeks and knowing genre tropes. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_178ca149 | type |
The Worf Effect | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_178ca149 | comment |
The Worf Effect: discussed by Rika with Shining Armor. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_17ce80aa | comment |
All There in the Manual: The author spent so much time writing a blog of research notes on MLP canon and detailing various theories that went into the construction of Aporia, that the total word count of the blog posts exceeds the actual story they were written for. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_19769f50 | type |
Defeat Means Friendship | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_19769f50 | comment |
Defeat Means Friendship: Trixie just wants to be friends with Twilight. Her definition of friendship includes duels and mortal peril. | |
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MST3K Mantra | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_1ea7d12a | comment |
MST3K Mantra: reason for a quarrel between Mary and Rika about Watsonian versus Doylist: Mary refuses to employ doylean approach, insisting on her version of Moff’s Law. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_1fc8335e | comment |
Deal with the Devil: Lyra thinks this is what Rika offers her (expecting her to ask for her cutie mark rather than soul). | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_22cf536c | comment |
Chekhov's Gun: Used a lot of times literally, and also played with: Mary wields a laspistol that belonged to one commisar Chekhov. | |
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Bros Before Hoes | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_2943de8d | comment |
Bros Before Hoes: Blueblood's explanation of the way he treated Rarity so badly at the gala: it was his revenge for the way she played with Spike's feelings. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_2f36d97 | comment |
Older Than They Look: due to direct effects of repeated and frequent time travel, Mary looks considerably younger than she actually is, and at the same time, suffers from problems otherwise associated with old age. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_2f89c0c1 | type |
Food Eats You | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_2f89c0c1 | comment |
Food Eats You: National Dessert Competition ended with this, the dessert abomination coming alive and attacking the attendees. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_309b8806 | type |
Cursed with Awesome | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_309b8806 | comment |
Cursed with Awesome: Mary's golden eye causes her a lot of trouble, including making her immune to antidepressants and anaesthetics, but she admits it's actually useful. | |
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Deconstructor Fleet | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_30c40e9a | comment |
Deconstructor Fleet: neither Mary nor Rika can spend 5 minutes without putting a lampshade somewhere. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_378039e | type |
TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_378039e | comment |
The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: in Mary's original timeline, the three maidenly virtues were modesty, music, and applied mathematics. | |
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Zeerust | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_393ec3f9 | comment |
Zeerust: Spike, and later, Cadance refer to Mary's laspistol as a "death ray". | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_3b99a9e0 | type |
Reality Warper | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_3b99a9e0 | comment |
Reality Warper: literally everyone in the multiverse. Since the reality itself consists of stories, everyone is a storyteller of at least their own life. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_3d4bdbb8 | type |
AllStoriesAreRealSomewhere | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_3d4bdbb8 | comment |
All Stories Are Real Somewhere: The whole thing's premise. Whether storytellers create stories that become real, or just discover and write them down, is a chicken and egg problem that the characters argue about on occasion. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_3d4d3dc9 | comment |
Humans Are Bastards: discussed. Rika makes fun of it being a common trope in pony fanfiction, with humans interference causing Innocence Lost. Mary parries with Good Is Not Dumb, as ponies are anything but Incorruptible Pure Pureness, oblivious to evil. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_3d699462 | type |
Curb-Stomp Battle | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_3d699462 | comment |
Curb-Stomp Battle: Sombra is dispatched in seconds and Rainbow Dash complains it was anticlimactic. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_407d3e6d | type |
Morton's Fork | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_407d3e6d | comment |
Morton's Fork: discussed, taken to extreme with Rika who's nearly omnipotent, but says: "Have you ever encountered a situation where you can do anything, and yet, none of it will do the least bit of good?" | |
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Exact Eavesdropping | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_4712bc4f | comment |
Exact Eavesdropping: Fluttershy overhears Rika and Mary talking. At first it seems to be a Contrived Coincidence, later turns out to be part of Rika's plan. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_4832a3bb | type |
Always Chaotic Evil | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_4832a3bb | comment |
Always Chaotic Evil: Several character discuss whether changelings are this. They aren't. | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_4832a3bb | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_4a852458 | type |
Big Good | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_4a852458 | comment |
Big Good: According to Rika, this is what happens when a magical girl wins forever. She heavily implies this is exactly what happened to her, and it's far from being a happy ending. | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_4a852458 | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_4eaa9b84 | type |
Author Tract | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_4eaa9b84 | comment |
Author Tract: The whole story is essentially a treatise on the philosophy of storytelling in form of a series platonical dialogues (interspersed with some action). | |
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Painting the Medium | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_5009999d | comment |
Painting the Medium: Rika drags Lyra into a footnote to talk, essentially implementing Frame Break in a textual work. | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_5009999d | |
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_55ec42d7 | comment |
Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: being an actual Edwardian lady, Mary notes that Luna speaks this. | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_55ec42d7 | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_567beeb6 | type |
Theory of Narrative Causality | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_567beeb6 | comment |
Theory of Narrative Causality: discussed at length. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_568b9d5 | type |
Orphaned Etymology | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_568b9d5 | comment |
Orphaned Etymology: discussed at length. Seems like many Equish words have a completely different origin, and often, slightly different meanings, despite Equish being otherwise nearly identical to modern American English. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_581f6468 | type |
Hero of Another Story | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_581f6468 | comment |
Hero of Another Story: Mary insists she's this so often that it's almost Arc Words. Rika also states that her story had ended long ago, and she's not going to steal the spotlight from a different story's heroes. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_5e7163c9 | type |
Alternative Character Interpretation | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_5e7163c9 | comment |
Alternative Character Interpretation: Several ponies, especially Lyra and Blueblood, who are very different from their typical portrayal in the fandom. Also, Rika discusses Celestia's character interpretation with Celestia herself. | |
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Clarke's Third Law | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_5e7eb915 | comment |
Clarke's Third Law: Mary discusses it with Twilight. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_5fc516bf | type |
Mechanical Lifeforms | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_5fc516bf | comment |
Mechanical Lifeforms: the spiders were supposed to be just tiny robots, but Fluttershy knows better. | |
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Never the Selves Shall Meet | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_6369571f | comment |
Never the Selves Shall Meet: averted: during time travel Mary meets herself multiple times (and even gets to cry in herself's arms). | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_6369571f | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: Chrysalis. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_68da6712 | type |
Canon Welding | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_68da6712 | comment |
Canon Welding: The story is set in a multiverse where every story ever told is real somewhere, and it's possible to travel between them. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_6962ac13 | type |
Gigantic Gulp | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_6962ac13 | comment |
Gigantic Gulp: During the wedding arc, Luna drinks coffee from a vase. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_6a696742 | type |
The Power of Love | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_6a696742 | comment |
The Power of Love: magic can't ressurect the dead, but Cadence's love brings back Shining Armor. | |
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Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us! | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_6b05186f | comment |
Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us!: Twilight Sparkle doesn't want to think of the implications. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_6c05a4f8 | type |
Retroactive Preparation | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_6c05a4f8 | comment |
Retroactive Preparation: Mary explains this to Rainbow Dash. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_6ef6417b | type |
Disney Death | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_6ef6417b | comment |
Disney Death: Shining Armor is killed by Chrysalis, and immediately ressurected by Cadance's love. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_6ef6417b | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_7241785e | type |
You Can't Fight Fate | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_7241785e | comment |
You Can't Fight Fate: discussed by Mary, who has proven this to be wrong. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_7241785e | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_72c8ec66 | type |
Nested Story Reveal | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_72c8ec66 | comment |
Nested Story Reveal: Pinkie is really good at telling stories. So good she fools Rika, who steps into her story, rather than the main one. | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_72c8ec66 | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_753a61d4 | type |
Time-Travel Tense Trouble | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_753a61d4 | comment |
Time-Travel Tense Trouble: made even more confusing by talking about things that happen in different versions of the same timeline. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_753a61d4 | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_75979171 | type |
The Cuckoolander Was Right | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_75979171 | comment |
The Cuckoolander Was Right: Pinkie understands the multiverse reality much better than anyone else. Rika suggests it's due to a bug, as she was lucky to see These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know and not to Go Mad from the Revelation. | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_75979171 | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_762f71cb | type |
Unwinnable Training Simulation | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_762f71cb | comment |
Unwinnable Training Simulation: the dragon egg hatching test, which Twilight Sparkle manages to pass. | |
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1.0 | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_762f71cb | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_76c72a08 | type |
Schrödinger's Gun | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_76c72a08 | comment |
Schrödinger's Gun: According to Luna, the world includes undecided facts, and finding them out may be dangerous, depleting the resource that makes the miracles of harmony possible. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_79a60aec | type |
For Want of a Nail | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_79a60aec | comment |
For Want of a Nail: Multiple instances. While Mary's question of who invented the sandwich triggers a lot of changes in the canonical plot, what derails it completely is Rika spoiling Fluttershy the changeling invasion. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_7d7f4e4f | type |
Magical Girl | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_7d7f4e4f | comment |
Magical Girl: Rika, formerly (she gives Twilight Sparkle a lecture on the term). Later, Lyra. | |
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1.0 | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_7d7f4e4f | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_85df362c | type |
Fire Is Red | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_85df362c | comment |
Fire Is Red: Rika has glowing red hair and burns stuff. It's up to interpretation whether she's Red Is Heroic or Evil Redhead. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_85df362c | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_86e2d67b | type |
Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_86e2d67b | comment |
Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit: how Mary funds her travels without Rika. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: Rika. A Humanoid Abomination type, who Was Once a Man, and then than managed to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, becoming Anthropomorphic Personification of hope. | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_8774fb47 | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_89b8822f | type |
Go Mad from the Revelation | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_89b8822f | comment |
Go Mad from the Revelation: Mary is mostly used to Library and Rika, but even she has things that she prefers not to think about too much. | |
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1.0 | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_89b8822f | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_9970d26b | type |
Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_9970d26b | comment |
Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: Rika accidentally steps inside a story Pinkie is telling, rather than the main one. It took her time to figure out what happened, which pissed her off, because, apparently, telling the stories the way Pinkie does is an extremely dangerous form of reality-bending magic. | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_9970d26b | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_99ddfcec | type |
Unwitting Instigator of Doom | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_99ddfcec | comment |
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Mary can't help being that to whatever world she visits, her simplest actions starting a cascade of consequences — all to Rika's amusement. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_9de7a5d0 | type |
Fix Fic | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_9de7a5d0 | comment |
Fix Fic: In-universe, Mary fixes the ancient Japanese fairy tale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_a426ae28 | type |
Multiple-Choice Past | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_a426ae28 | comment |
Multiple-Choice Past: "decoherence" — Equestria in general and changelings in particular. Mary wastes no time pointing out that various fanfiction portrayals of Equestria are often Never Was This Universe to each other. | |
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Fingerless Hands | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_a5949dfd | comment |
Fingerless Hands: One of the story's central plotlines is Twilight Sparkle trying to figure out why pony civilization has so many artifacts designed for fingers. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_a63cfe4a | type |
Meta Fiction | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_a63cfe4a | comment |
Meta Fiction: In her very first conversation with Twilight, Mary insists they're *both* fictional characters, and proceeds with laying out a model of the universe where fictional worlds interpenetrate and cross-pollinate each other with no "real" world anywhere to be found. | |
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Alien Geometries | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_b3bdf232 | comment |
Alien Geometries: When Rika yanks Lyra 'from the chapter's text into a footnote', this is her experience. | |
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Acceptable Breaks from Reality | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_b6e1d40b | comment |
Acceptable Breaks from Reality: The first thing Mary realizes in Equestria is that the cartoon's portrayal of it was not entirely accurate. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Twilight Sparkle, when she witnesses Trixie. Destroying. BOOKS. | |
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Jumping Out of a Cake | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_bc867843 | comment |
Jumping Out of a Cake: Spike isn't sure what a bachelor party is, but ponies keep telling him it needs to include this. | |
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Must Have Caffeine | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_bddb820f | comment |
Must Have Caffeine: Luna, when she skips sleep for three days, guarding Canterlot from invasion. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_bed31639 | type |
Mind Probe | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_bed31639 | comment |
Mind Probe: Mary discusses this trope with Luna: she's surprised how ponies have little problem with mind invasion. | |
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Aporia (Fanfic) / int_bed31639 | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_c0d598fe | type |
Evil Gloating | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_c0d598fe | comment |
Evil Gloating: discussed. Rika believes it's a sign of Chrysalis being stupid, Mary argues it's a part of brilliant plan. Later on, Chrysalis actually does use gloating tactically. | |
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Angst | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_c2c30ef6 | comment |
Angst: Mary describes the Unlimited Library as causing existential dread, once you realize the humanity's insignificance. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: numerous, varying from Lovecraft to Aristotle. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_c928d01d | type |
Magic Music | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_c928d01d | comment |
Magic Music: "Heartsongs" are seen by ponies as an important part of life and self-expression, but with the introduction of Grayswandir, what would otherwise be just Music for Courage is used for more tangible side-effects — specifically, as a magic-conducting medium. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_ca9e3345 | type |
Temporal Mutability | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_ca9e3345 | comment |
Temporal Mutability: the branching timelines variation. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_ce515b47 | type |
Musical World Hypotheses | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_ce515b47 | comment |
Musical World Hypotheses: The Alternate Universe Hypothesis variant: all songs are in-universe, being a part of the harmony magic. Crowd Song and Audience Participation Song are seen as normal and usually desirable parts of life. | |
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| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_d46f812 | type |
Tastes Like Friendship | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_d46f812 | comment |
Tastes Like Friendship: the reason for the battle of Appaloosa becoming a food fight: buffalo don't fight those they shared food with, so Thunderhoof and Silverstar conspired to force-feed younger buffalo apple pies. | |
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_d67aae8f | comment |
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Pinkie starts the story of sandwich invention with this line. | |
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You Can't Go Home Again | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_da12bcfb | comment |
You Can't Go Home Again: the reason why Mary won't teach Twilight Sparkle to travel between worlds: she can only teach her to go away, not to return back. | |
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A Million Is a Statistic | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_dd082289 | comment |
A Million Is a Statistic: Defied by Mary: back in another world, she started a revolution that took lives, but she made point of making death toll as low as possible and knowing every victim personally. She later threatens Rika to recite her the names of every victim of her actions. | |
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Humongous Mecha | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_e6f18344 | comment |
Humongous Mecha: When Mary realizes that Rika had turned Lyra into a magical girl, she comments that at least she hasn't given her one of these. Later, Mary triggers Spike's greed growth, effectively using him as one and getting Shining Armor to be the pilot. | |
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Rubber-Forehead Aliens | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_e78aa97d | comment |
Rubber-Forehead Aliens: discussed by Celestia, when she talks to Twilight Sparkle about Mary and Rika, | |
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Cloak and Dagger | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_ec99fb76 | comment |
Cloak and Dagger: Whenever the Office of Special Investigations of Their Highnesses Civil Service is involved. | |
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Combat by Champion | |
| Aporia (Fanfic) / int_f0864fd9 | comment |
Combat by Champion: A non-violent version: Luna and Celestia disagree whether Twilight should continue looking for the answer to sandwich mystery, so Luna sent her own student (Trixie) to stop her and hope that whoever's right wins. | |
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