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In The Cutie Pox episode apple bloom speak bagguet , that mean french culture exist
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I think alternate versions can be AUs and headcanons too. But AU is more different from сanon than headcanon
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The two are by no means mutually exclusive. An AU is a much broader-scale headcanon than an individual character, as implied by the term “alternate universe.
 
Mind you, there aren’t hard and fast definitions for the terms. This is just me disagreeing with yours.
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@Mr100dragon100  
Lil cheese is a fine male like party favour or is a mare , really dont care ,it dont do anything relevant in the seconds if appear, that is more important
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“Sudan doesn’t even exist in her universe” Yup, that’s why we have French haute couture and Dutch apple pie in the show. Oh wait, by S1 canon they actually DO exist, author just went full pot kettle black thinking his headcanon is somehow “canon”.
 
Also, AU doesn’t mean what you think it means.
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my headcanon Lil cheese has lashes because 1: it makes him cute and 2: he will eventually lose them (which at this point he did).
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So headcanons are semi-au’s?
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@TheSultanAkbar  
Looks like yes… My god…
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Celestia bless the Au’s they exploit the imagination of the fandom.
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Headcanon is when you create a fact that fits (or doesn’t) within your interpretation of the show, whether it fits with the shows’s canon (or general) or not.
 
An AU is when you’ve created an entirely alternative version of the setting, characters, timeline, etc…
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…someone actually thinks like that?
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