@SkunkStripe  
And don’t forget, Daring’s adventures were fictionalized by A.K. Yearling, alias Daring Do. It’s not exactly a historical work.

please be butterfly coocons…

I don’t see whats so complicated. I’d say the simple answer is that there is still a real one. And that this just the one that came out the book.
 
I don’t really think there any contradiction there? At least I don’t see any reason why characters based on real ponies would be excempt.

I wonder…  
We know that Twilight will do something that will restore everything in the end.  
What if this something got a few ounce of timespell magic (to restore the book as they were in the past), but one Daring Do book is too far away so it’s affected different…  
It takes the books cast back in time.  
And in order to make sure that she always got a few bits for food and travel expenses, Daring Do started to write stories about her old adventures between her new adventures.

I honestly can’t consider the comics canon to the show’s timeline in the least.

@ReifuTD  
I’ve always assumed the episodes don’t necessarily take place in order.  
Heck, since Twilight was geeking out with Rainbow about Daring’s adventures in that episode, but had to ask Rainbow what happened in the comic, it makes sense that this comic took place before that episode. This actually retroactively improves my opinion of Daring Don’t.

now we have an explanation for daring don’t

@bico-kun
 
 
Well they brought up the comicbook from Power Ponies, witch took place after Daring Don’t. But that’s implying that the episodes take place in order

@F  
I think I prefer that explanation over all the others.

@bico-kun  
Or it was all a fanfic written by Rainbow Dash.  
Her friends probably got tired of her waiting for the book, and the only thing they could get her to do was to make a fanfic.

@bico-kun  

@F  
One could make the argument that the AK Yearling the Mane6 met in the show is a Daring Do who escaped from one of the books and was merely pretending to be her own author as a cover.

@hentaispyder  
Motion lines from him putting it on his head.

What is up with that pot?

@F  
Yes, yes, all of my yeses!!!!!!

@Star Cavalcade  
At least until Twilight manages to get her back into the book again.  
…wait a minute…  
We could have one copy of Daring Do from each of her books, giving us… many Daring Dos… and what if the library had multiple copies of specific books?  
Holy Macaroni, we could have a Too Many Daring Dos episode now!

@Star Cavalcade  
Rainbow Dash is going to have heart palpitations.

@Star Cavalcade  
The comic doesn’t make any exact reference to the real life AK Yearling one, but for the continuity to work, this is implied.

Dat smug face

So we have TWO Daring Dos running around now?