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>I have already established that 1): Celestia was manipulative in Season 4 and 2)
only in those seasons though? Make New Friends But Keep Discord, Celestial Advice, A Bird in the Hoof or The Best Night Ever say hi (I am undecided to add Horse Play to the list though)?

>she could have easily given Spike the book.
keep in mind that lots of mundane events could occur behind the cameras and the book could have been gifted to him as a birthday present or for Heart´s Warming. So it might not be all that outlandish to believe that.

>What's her motive here?
>What other episode had fiction coming to life! Daring Don't.
that episode was a twist indeed and destroyed the implications of her fictional stories into part of Equestria´s diary of an adventurer.

>Ya'know the one that just so happened to have a character who was fictional turn out to be real?
yeah, I remember it perfectly. It was quite controversial at the time for approaching it in a risky way even though the show went further with other episodes (even season 6 has an episode featuring Daring Do that is called Stranger Than Fanfiction) and it opened itself to fiction of its own fictional world. This pays off with The Last Problem and the book closing itself.

>Mane-iac is real too and she is dancing like she never danced before!
Though I didn´t think too much about Mane-iac, there were several cameos of her in EQG (like you have posted) or in the show itself, Rarity cosplaying as her in Dragon Dropped (going to a convention). I believe that correlating the conventions of Daring Do with Power Ponies´ might add up to your theory. If Daring Do was actually real with fictional conventions of her, why wouldn´t Mane-Iac actually exist with the same pattern? However, this relies on the causation fallacy of: A leads to B because of C reason, so D leads to B by following C´s logic.