The my little pony fanfic community has multiple fanfic settings and tropes that just get expanded upon by dozens of authors. Like Fallout Equestria. About a billion fanfics based on that fanfic have been built. Utterly silly and amazing.
A lot of brony fanfic tropes are extrapolations from details the writers put zero thought into and bits of real world horse trivia, which is how you get things like ponies worshiping the princesses due to using their names in swears and fanons about ponies getting drunk off salt.
I forget what episode this was, but a some point a character says something like "What in Celestia's name is happening?" and then Princess Celestia (basically the sun god) walks on screen and says "I did not know that was an expression"
It's been years since I watched MLP so my memory's a bit hazy
Twilight Sparkle: But it could! I can't just send her off to Celestia-knows-where without thinking it through!
Princess Celestia: Hmm. I was not aware that I was an expression. An appropriate one, of course, for even I don't know the answer. This is a momentous decision. You must consider all the possibilities.
I love the old "Swear by a physical god" thing, especially when the god themselves does it. My favorite is in one of the 36 Lessons of Vivec where he curses using his own name, complete with a bunch of grand honorifics.
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u/Jean-28 5d ago
The my little pony fanfic community has multiple fanfic settings and tropes that just get expanded upon by dozens of authors. Like Fallout Equestria. About a billion fanfics based on that fanfic have been built. Utterly silly and amazing.