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* TheAtoner: Trixie feels guilt over her past actions despite her persisting ego, and often sympathies with Katia (from ''Prequel'') trying to recover after little mistakes seem to ruin her life.

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* TheAtoner: Trixie feels guilt over her past actions despite her persisting ego, and often sympathies sympathizes with Katia (from ''Prequel'') trying to recover after little mistakes seem to ruin her life.



* FateDrivesUsTogether: Lyra left Bonbon because she wishes to remain a free spirit, but told Bonbon that fate may one day bring them back together.



* InVinoVeritas: Drunkyshy is sotably more passionate and blunt then her sober counterpart. She doesn't lose her caring nature, but she does become willing to call her friends out.

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* InVinoVeritas: Drunkyshy is sotably notably more passionate and blunt then her sober counterpart. She doesn't lose her caring nature, but she does become willing to call her friends out.


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* SingleTargetSexuality: Related to 'ReplacementGoldfish' above, Bonbon is not interested in ponies ''like'' her world's Lyra, but alternate Lyras specifically.


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* UptightLovesWild: Octavia is stuffy. Vinyl is untamed. It's true love.
** Although she discovers that it was unrequited love, Bonbon (who is always striving towards a goal) still has feelings for Lyra the free spirit.
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* The47Society: The Wonderbolts belong to the 47th Special Operations Group.
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* InVinoVeritas: Drunkyshy is sotably more passionate and blunt then her sober counterpart. She doesn't lose her caring nature, but she does become willing to call her friends out.


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* [[KissingUnderTheInfluence Confessing Under The Influence]]: Fluttershy finally managed to confess her love to Big Mac... and made him swear to get her to do it while she was sober.
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* Magitek: The Wonderbolts' "clandestine operations" are rumored to involve this.

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** Also, Spitfire, after realizing why she treated Lighting Dust the way she did.



* [[Magitek Magitek]]: The Wonderbolts' "clandestine operations" are rumored to involve this.

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* Magitek: The Wonderbolts' "clandestine operations" are rumored to involve this.

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* Magitek: [[Magitek Magitek]]: The Wonderbolts' "clandestine operations" are rumored to involve this.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: ''Sonichu'' is so utterly vile, Mac blogging about it on his computer has somehow manifested a virus that sympathizes with CWC and desperately wants to get out.
* TheAtoner: Trixie feels guilt over her past actions despite her persisting ego, and often sympathies with Katia (from ''Prequel'') trying to recover after little mistakes seem to ruin her life.



* SmallNameBigEgo: The Great And Powerful Trixie is still convinced that she's an excellent showmare, even after Gilda, Bonbon, and Brainy Twilight all work together to muck up one of her shows.
* SophisticatedAsHell: Octavia (who is prim and proper despite a rural upbringing) reading Jailbreak (which features such acts as public urination) leads to the "Slang delivered innocuously" version of this trope.



** Also to a lesser extent Bonbon. She often references the way her late parents raised her to explain why she does what she does, including her extremely reverent attitude to the Princesses (including Twilight, to her annoyance), wanting to marry and have a family early, and even her friendly rivalry with Pinkie Pie.

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** Also to a lesser extent Bonbon. She often references the way her late parents raised her to explain why she does what she does, including her extremely reverent attitude to the Princesses (including Twilight, to her annoyance), wanting to marry and have a family early, and even her friendly rivalry with Pinkie Pie.
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* CampStraight: Soarin is a bit of a goof, and he tends to accentuate his camp habits in social gatherings. He is also married to Spitfire and is the father of Lightning Dust.

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* CampStraight: Soarin is a bit of a goof, and he tends to accentuate his camp habits in social gatherings.gatherings, including flaunting around without his uniform to prove he doesn't need one to advertise that he's a Wonderbolt. He is also married to Spitfire and is the father of Lightning Dust.
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* {{Author Avatar}}: Bonbon runs another blog in which she tells a {{show within a show}} story. In it two characters are blatantly supposed to resemble Lyra and a self-insert of Bonbon herself.
* {{Butt Monkey}}: Whenever Bonbon's blog updates with an image post it usually involves her getting injured physically or emotionally. Bonbon has to date been "sucker-punched" by Rainbow Dash, fired out of a cannon at Lyra in a wedding dress, had a very public breakup with Lyra, been sawed in half and lobotomized (though those last two were later revealed to be a prank), and most recently is about to be the victim of pinkie's ultimate culinary attack: the Ultimate Cake Works. Her artist has actually mentioned that s/he enjoys drawing Bonbon in peril. Several are cases of {{SlapstickKnowsNoGender}}.

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* {{Author Avatar}}: AuthorAvatar: Bonbon runs another blog in which she tells a {{show within a show}} story. In it two characters are blatantly supposed to resemble Lyra and a self-insert of Bonbon herself.
* {{Butt Monkey}}: ButtMonkey: Whenever Bonbon's blog updates with an image post it usually involves her getting injured physically or emotionally. Bonbon has to date been "sucker-punched" by Rainbow Dash, fired out of a cannon at Lyra in a wedding dress, had a very public breakup with Lyra, been sawed in half and lobotomized (though those last two were later revealed to be a prank), and most recently is about to be the victim of pinkie's ultimate culinary attack: the Ultimate Cake Works. Her artist has actually mentioned that s/he enjoys drawing Bonbon in peril. Several are cases of {{SlapstickKnowsNoGender}}.SlapstickKnowsNoGender.



* {{Rage against the author}}: Agate from Crystalstuck has some rare moments where she seems to resent the commands tumblr gives Bonbon to write the story with.

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* {{Rage against the author}}: RageAgainstTheAuthor: Agate from Crystalstuck has some rare moments where she seems to resent the commands tumblr gives Bonbon to write the story with.



* {{Show Within a Show}}: Inspired by the command-based webcomics her friends were reading, Bonbon gets her gaming group, including Pinkie, Roseluck, and Thunderlane to help her draw another webcomic called Crystalstuck that takes commands from tumblr. Events from her main blog often effect the Crystalstuck blog, and vice-versa.

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* {{Show Within a Show}}: ShowWithinAShow: Inspired by the command-based webcomics her friends were reading, Bonbon gets her gaming group, including Pinkie, Roseluck, and Thunderlane to help her draw another webcomic called Crystalstuck that takes commands from tumblr. Events from her main blog often effect the Crystalstuck blog, and vice-versa.
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* {{Author Avatar}}: Bonbon runs another blog in which she tells a {{show within a show}} story. In it two characters are blatantly supposed to resemble Lyra and a self-insert of Bonbon herself.


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* {{Rage against the author}}: Agate from Crystalstuck has some rare moments where she seems to resent the commands tumblr gives Bonbon to write the story with.


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* {{Show Within a Show}}: Inspired by the command-based webcomics her friends were reading, Bonbon gets her gaming group, including Pinkie, Roseluck, and Thunderlane to help her draw another webcomic called Crystalstuck that takes commands from tumblr. Events from her main blog often effect the Crystalstuck blog, and vice-versa.
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* {{Butt Monkey}}: Whenever Bonbon's blog updates with an image post it usually involves her getting injured or embarrassed in some way. Bonbon has to date been punched by Rainbow Dash, fired out of a cannon at her (now ex) marefriend in a wedding dress, been sawed in half and lobotomized (though those last two were later revealed to be a prank), and most recently is about to be the victim of pinkie's ultimate culinary attack: the Ultimate Cake Works. Her artist has actually mentioned that s/he enjoys drawing Bonbon in peril. Also a case of {{SlapstickKnowsNoGender}}.

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* {{Butt Monkey}}: Whenever Bonbon's blog updates with an image post it usually involves her getting injured physically or embarrassed in some way. emotionally. Bonbon has to date been punched "sucker-punched" by Rainbow Dash, fired out of a cannon at her (now ex) marefriend Lyra in a wedding dress, had a very public breakup with Lyra, been sawed in half and lobotomized (though those last two were later revealed to be a prank), and most recently is about to be the victim of pinkie's ultimate culinary attack: the Ultimate Cake Works. Her artist has actually mentioned that s/he enjoys drawing Bonbon in peril. Also a case Several are cases of {{SlapstickKnowsNoGender}}.



** After Pinkie threw a huge multiverse party for Bonbon with over a dozen other blogs making cameos Bonbon is nigh-obsessed with finding a way to travel to other universes/blogs, especially ones starring Lyra.



* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done Daughter" Girl]]: At one point, Lightning Dust heavily injured herself trying to impress her mother, Spitfire. Spitfire's response was to (figuratively) disown her.

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* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done Daughter" Girl]]: At one point, Lightning Dust heavily injured herself trying to impress her mother, Spitfire. Spitfire's response was to (figuratively) disown her.her.
**Also to a lesser extent Bonbon. She often references the way her late parents raised her to explain why she does what she does, including her extremely reverent attitude to the Princesses (including Twilight, to her annoyance), wanting to marry and have a family early, and even her friendly rivalry with Pinkie Pie.
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* RunningGag: To Vinyl's chagrin, all of the Wonderbolts keep saying that she plays nothing but dubstep.
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* IncompatibleOrientation: Big Mac had a crush on Twilight, who isn't actually into stallions. Leads to SorryImGay.


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* SorryImGay: Basically Twilight's reaction to discovering Big Macintosh had a crush on her.
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* {{Butt Monkey}}: Whenever Bonbon's blog updates with an image post it involves her getting injured or embarrassed in some way. Bonbon has to date been punched by Rainbow Dash, fired out of a cannon at her (now ex) marefriend in a wedding dress, been sawed in half and lobotomized (though those last two were later revealed to be a prank), and most recently is about to be the victim of pinkie's ultimate culinary attack: the Ultimate Cake Works. Her artist has actually mentioned that s/he enjoys drawing Bonbon in peril.

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* {{Butt Monkey}}: Whenever Bonbon's blog updates with an image post it usually involves her getting injured or embarrassed in some way. Bonbon has to date been punched by Rainbow Dash, fired out of a cannon at her (now ex) marefriend in a wedding dress, been sawed in half and lobotomized (though those last two were later revealed to be a prank), and most recently is about to be the victim of pinkie's ultimate culinary attack: the Ultimate Cake Works. Her artist has actually mentioned that s/he enjoys drawing Bonbon in peril. Also a case of {{SlapstickKnowsNoGender}}.
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* Butt Monkey: Whenever Bonbon's blog updates with an image post it involves her getting injured or embarrassed in some way. Bonbon has to date been punched by Rainbow Dash, fired out of a cannon at her (now ex) marefriend in a wedding dress, been sawed in half and lobotomized (though those last two were later revealed to be a prank), and most recently is about to be the victim of pinkie's ultimate culinary attack: the Ultimate Cake Works. Her artist has actually mentioned that s/he enjoys drawing Bonbon in peril.

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* Butt Monkey: {{Butt Monkey}}: Whenever Bonbon's blog updates with an image post it involves her getting injured or embarrassed in some way. Bonbon has to date been punched by Rainbow Dash, fired out of a cannon at her (now ex) marefriend in a wedding dress, been sawed in half and lobotomized (though those last two were later revealed to be a prank), and most recently is about to be the victim of pinkie's ultimate culinary attack: the Ultimate Cake Works. Her artist has actually mentioned that s/he enjoys drawing Bonbon in peril.
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* Butt Monkey: Whenever Bonbon's blog updates with an image post it involves her getting injured or embarrassed in some way. Bonbon has to date been punched by Rainbow Dash, fired out of a cannon at her (now ex) marefriend in a wedding dress, been sawed in half and lobotomized (though those last two were later revealed to be a prank), and most recently is about to be the victim of pinkie's ultimate culinary attack: the Ultimate Cake Works. Her artist has actually mentioned that s/he enjoys drawing Bonbon in peril.
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** Surprise and Blaze of the Wonderbolts both have knowledge of the "Human World," the former having "old friends" there, as well as her pop culture references, and the latter with her love of flight simulators.
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* FoeYay: Lightning dust HATES Rainbow Dash and wishes she'd stop being so sexy.
** Admittedly this is one-sided. Rainbow neither hates Lightning nor thinks of her as sexy.
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** Admittedly this is one-sided. Rainbow neither hates Lightning nor thinks of her as sexy.


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* TheMultiverse: Openly acknowledged to exist, and occasionally crossed over with.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Fluttershy believes this is the reason Bonbon wants to travel the multiverse.

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* AccidentalProposal: Vinyl Scratch (from the Trixie blog) may have made one to Octavia after watching an emotional video and asking her to join her on a tour that would last forever.

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* AccidentalProposal: Vinyl Scratch (from the Trixie blog) may have made one to Octavia after watching an emotional video and asking caused her to join her on worry about their friendship. However, the matter caused Octavia to have a tour that would last forever.LoveEpiphany, and after discovering what Vinyl actually meant, she decided to make an authentic proposal back to Vinyl.
* CampStraight: Soarin is a bit of a goof, and he tends to accentuate his camp habits in social gatherings. He is also married to Spitfire and is the father of Lightning Dust.


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* DisabledLoveInterest: Gilda is in a relationship with a mare named Galaxy, who literally has no eyes.


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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Gilda may not have a high tolerance for dweebs that inquire about her personal life, but she will quickly come to the aid of friends like Rainbow Dash if needed.
* TheMatchmaker: Vinyl Scratch has tried to be this, but almost always fails, most notably when she set up a date between Lightning Dust (whom Vinyl did not know was only 16) and Rainbow Dash. A drunk Fluttershy, on the other hoof, successfully hooked up Gilda with a blind mare named Galaxy.
* TroubledAbuser: It turns out that one of the reasons Lightning Dust has such a rocky relationship with her mother Spitfire is because Spitfire had a equally bad (if not worse) relationship with her own father.
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* [[ItsAllMyFault]]: Spitfire, during her therapy session, when it was revealed that she accidentally killed her father.

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* [[ItsAllMyFault]]: ItsAllMyFault: Spitfire, during her therapy session, when it was revealed that she accidentally killed her father.
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* [[ItsAllMyFault]]: Spitfire, during her therapy session, when it was revealed that she accidentally killed her father.
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* FunetikAksent: Big Mac types using one of these.


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* [[INeedAFreakingDrink I Need Some Freaking Cider]]: Big Mac often has this reaction to the comic he reads, and he seems to be drinking more and more.
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* UnreliableNarrator: It's sometimes hard to tell when Trixie's telling the truth.
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A collection of blogs that focus on ponies reading various webcomics and the interactions between them. The following blogs are all a part of the same 'continuity', despite being run by different people:

* ''Rainbow Dash Reads {{Webcomic/Homestuck}}''
* ''Fluttershy Reads {{Blog/Moonstuck}}''
* ''Trixie Reads {{Webcomic/Prequel}}''
* ''Dungeon Master Bonbon''
* ''Gilda Reads [[Roleplay/NanQuest Dweebs Reading]]''
* ''Pinkie Pie Reads [[Webcomic/ProblemSleuth Problem Sleuth]]'' (discontinued, though other Pinkie Pie Reads blogs have popped up, and it's unclear how connected they are to this Verse)

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A collection of blogs that focus on ponies [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic ponies]] reading various webcomics and the interactions between them. The following blogs are all a part of the same 'continuity', despite being run by different people:

* ''Rainbow Dash ''[[http://rainbow-dash-reads-homestuck.tumblr.com/ Rainbow Dash]] Reads {{Webcomic/Homestuck}}''
* ''Fluttershy ''[[http://shyreadsmoon.tumblr.com/ Fluttershy]] Reads {{Blog/Moonstuck}}''
* ''Trixie ''[[http://trixie-reads-prequel.tumblr.com/ Trixie]] Reads {{Webcomic/Prequel}}''
* ''Dungeon Master Bonbon''
''DM [[http://dungeonmasterbonbon.tumblr.com/ Bonbon]] Draws [[http://crystalstuck.tumblr.com/ Crystalstuck]]''
* ''Gilda ''[[http://gilda-reads-dweebs-reading.tumblr.com/ Gilda]] Reads [[Roleplay/NanQuest Dweebs Reading]]''
NanQuest]]''
* ''Pinkie Pie ''[[http://pinkie-pie-reads-problem-sleuth.tumblr.com/ Pinkie Pie]] Reads [[Webcomic/ProblemSleuth Problem Sleuth]]'' (discontinued, though other Pinkie Pie Reads blogs have popped up, and it's unclear how connected they are to this Verse)



* ''Lightning Dust Reads {{Webcomic/Narbonic}}''
* ''Big Mac Reads {{Webcomic/Sonichu}}''
* ''Discord presents [[Webcomic/TheChosenFour TC4]]''
* ''Octavia reads {{Webcomic/Jailbreak}}''
* ''Wonderbolts read [[Webcomic/AirForceBlues Farva]]''

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* ''Lightning Dust ''[[http://lightning-dust-reads-narbonic.tumblr.com/ Lightning Dust]] Reads {{Webcomic/Narbonic}}''
* ''Big Mac ''[[http://big-mac-reads-sonichu.tumblr.com/ Big Mac]] Reads {{Webcomic/Sonichu}}''
* ''Discord ''[[http://discord-reads-tc4.tumblr.com/ Discord]] presents [[Webcomic/TheChosenFour TC4]]''
* ''Octavia ''[[http://octavia-reads-jailbreak.tumblr.com/ Octavia]] reads {{Webcomic/Jailbreak}}''
* ''Wonderbolts ''[[http://wonderbolts-read-farva.tumblr.com/ The Wonderbolts]] read [[Webcomic/AirForceBlues Farva]]''



* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done Daughter" Girl]]: At one point, Lightning Dust heavily injured herself trying to impress her mother, Spitfire. Spitfire's response was to (figuratively) disown her.

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* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done Daughter" Girl]]: At one point, Lightning Dust heavily injured herself trying to impress her mother, Spitfire. Spitfire's response was to (figuratively) disown her.
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* AccidentalProposal: Vinyl Scratch may have made one to Octavia (see 'The Verse', below) after watching an emotional video and asking her to join her on a tour that would last forever.
* {{Crossover}}: ''Ask Facebook Derpy'' is connected to the Reading Rainbow-verse (see TheVerse below), but is also connected to the ''Ask Cyberbully Fluttershy'' universe despite it being mutually exclusive, with no better explanation than Derpy being...Derpy. Also, a ton of other blogs came to a party meant to comfort Bonbon after her breakup, with ''Ask Brainy Twilight'' still hanging around until she can get back home.

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* AccidentalProposal: Vinyl Scratch (from the Trixie blog) may have made one to Octavia (see 'The Verse', below) after watching an emotional video and asking her to join her on a tour that would last forever.
* {{Crossover}}: ''Ask Facebook Derpy'' is connected to the Reading Rainbow-verse (see TheVerse below), Rainbowverse, but is also connected to the ''Ask Cyberbully Fluttershy'' universe despite it being mutually exclusive, with no better explanation than Derpy being...Derpy. Also, a ton of other blogs came to a party meant to comfort Bonbon after her breakup, with ''Ask Brainy Twilight'' still hanging around until she can get back home.



* [[IHaveNoSon I (Figuratively) Have No Daughter]]: Uttered by Spitfire from the Wonderbolts blog and directed towards Lightning Dust (see 'The Verse', below).

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* [[IHaveNoSon I (Figuratively) Have No Daughter]]: Uttered by Spitfire from the Wonderbolts blog and directed towards Lightning Dust (see 'The Verse', below).Dust.
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A collection of blogs that focus on ponies reading various webcomics and the interactions between them. The following blogs are all a part of the same 'continuity', despite being run by different people:

* ''Rainbow Dash Reads {{Webcomic/Homestuck}}''
* ''Fluttershy Reads {{Blog/Moonstuck}}''
* ''Trixie Reads {{Webcomic/Prequel}}''
* ''Dungeon Master Bonbon''
* ''Gilda Reads [[Roleplay/NanQuest Dweebs Reading]]''
* ''Pinkie Pie Reads [[Webcomic/ProblemSleuth Problem Sleuth]]'' (discontinued, though other Pinkie Pie Reads blogs have popped up, and it's unclear how connected they are to this Verse)
** ''Demotivated Pinkie Pie reads [[Webcomic/EightBitTheater 8-Bit Theater]] '' (an independent project by a Pinkie from another universe)
** ''Pinkie Pie reads [[Webcomic/UnicornJelly Pastel Defender Heliotrope]]'' (a blog made by the mod of Cyberbully Fluttershy specifically to confuse followers of the verse; it technically does not exist in the verse, but this version of Pinkie pesters Gilda all the time.)
* ''Lightning Dust Reads {{Webcomic/Narbonic}}''
* ''Big Mac Reads {{Webcomic/Sonichu}}''
* ''Discord presents [[Webcomic/TheChosenFour TC4]]''
* ''Octavia reads {{Webcomic/Jailbreak}}''
* ''Wonderbolts read [[Webcomic/AirForceBlues Farva]]''

''[[Blog/RainbowDashReadsHomestuck Rainbow Dash Reads Homestuck]]'' currently has a separate page. All examples pertaining to blogs that do not have an individual page should be contained below.

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!!This collection of tumblr blogs contain examples of:
* AccidentalProposal: Vinyl Scratch may have made one to Octavia (see 'The Verse', below) after watching an emotional video and asking her to join her on a tour that would last forever.
* {{Crossover}}: ''Ask Facebook Derpy'' is connected to the Reading Rainbow-verse (see TheVerse below), but is also connected to the ''Ask Cyberbully Fluttershy'' universe despite it being mutually exclusive, with no better explanation than Derpy being...Derpy. Also, a ton of other blogs came to a party meant to comfort Bonbon after her breakup, with ''Ask Brainy Twilight'' still hanging around until she can get back home.
* FoeYay: Lightning dust HATES Rainbow Dash and wishes she'd stop being so sexy.
* [[IHaveNoSon I (Figuratively) Have No Daughter]]: Uttered by Spitfire from the Wonderbolts blog and directed towards Lightning Dust (see 'The Verse', below).
* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done Daughter" Girl]]: At one point, Lightning Dust heavily injured herself trying to impress her mother, Spitfire. Spitfire's response was to (figuratively) disown her.

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