I used to be lately reminded that My Little Pony — that everlasting franchise — has taken to adapting some much more everlasting literary classics. Beginning with Little Fillies in 2023, they’ve since achieved The Unicorn of Odd and, most lately, The Odyssey (no punny title this time).

After I talked about this to my fellow Guide Riot writers, Jamie Canavés steered it is likely to be enjoyable to do a submit with some tongue-in-cheek proposals for future installments of MLP’s “Classics Reimagined” sequence. With that, listed here are some extraordinarily severe strategies for IDW Publishing to think about. And sure, the deciding think about whether or not a ebook made a listing was if I used to be capable of flip the title into an unforgivable pony pun.

Jane Mare

The function of Jane goes to Twilight Sparkle, who agrees to tutor three younger ponies performed by the Cutie Mark Crusaders. She turns into intrigued and frightened by unusual noises coming from the home’s attic. When she lastly goes up there, she discovers that the children’ widowed father stashed all of his spouse’s stuff up there fairly than truly coping together with her loss of life, and the drive of his undealt-with grief brought about every little thing to magically come alive. This compels the household to truly course of their loss and admit that hiding your issues within the attic doesn’t assist anyone.

The Pony within the Iron Blinders

Throughout a really intense recreation of blind man’s bluff, Princess Luna journeys and falls into an underground cavern. Unable to get the blinders off, she stays misplaced for a very long time. Celestia is so upset and nervous that Discord is ready to benefit from the state of affairs and begin sowing chaos. It takes the bravery and ingenuity of the Six Musketeers, the best hide-and-seek gamers in Equestria, to search out Luna, break the blinders, and restore order to the land!

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Bridle and Prejudice

Athletes from throughout Equestria have converged on Ponyville to take part in a brand new type of occasion: groups will probably be made up of opponents from completely different areas so as to promote concord all through the land. Pinkie Pie throws a celebration to welcome all of them, however Rainbow Sprint rapidly runs afoul of a really impolite athlete and vows to do every little thing potential to keep away from being on the identical group as her. After plenty of shenanigans, it seems the opposite pony was simply drained from touring and in addition flustered due to her insta-crush on Rainbow Sprint, which teaches Rainbow Sprint about judging by first impressions and in addition that she’s a lesbian.

The Image of Dorian Dapple Grey

Rarity needs that her favourite outfits would stay good eternally as a substitute of succumbing to pure put on and tear. When she has her portrait painted in magical paints, she realizes that she will do no matter she likes whereas carrying the outfit she wore within the portray, and the faux model will turn out to be torn and stained as a substitute. She has herself painted in all of her favourite outfits (that’s, all of her outfits). It goes nice till — gasp! — she runs out of room in her closet as a result of she not has to throw out previous garments.

Pair of Stables for the Sowers

Candy Apple Acres turns into a goal for sabotage after the Pear household will get jealous of the success of a brand new kind of apple seed that grows the crunchiest, tastiest, juiciest apples ever. Applejack and household are pressured to construct a wall round their property. The sabotage morphs right into a prank battle that culminates within the breach of the wall and the near-destruction of Candy Apple Acres. Upon seeing what they’ve achieved, the 2 teams reconcile and assist rebuild one another’s property, together with the stables from the title that I’m solely barely sorry for.