Every Hearts and Hooves Day has been identical for Fluttershy - alone, locked up at home, similar to Nightmare Night. But instead of just fear, she dwells on solemnity and loneliness, longing to someday feel this "love" everypony makes such a big deal of.

It started out the same for her on this Hearts and Hooves Day - until he showed up, asking for just one night with the Element of Kindness.

Rarity is visiting the Crystal Empire to woo Double Diamond while he is participating in the Winter Games.

Nothing will stop her from being with her beloved Prince.

For the May Pairings (2021) contest.

Edited by the amazing SockPuppet.

After his encounter with Yozora, Sora finds himself awake in a new world. Though it was far from ideal.

Trapped as the leader of a depressing little village where people gave up what made them different while stuck controlling the body of their leader was bad enough. But add onto that the fact that everything he learns about said leader makes him like her less, and the situation looks bleak for our hero.

Can he really just sit back and keep enforcing this girl's messed up beliefs of friendship? Or will his sheer belief in his ideals end up winning out in the end, undoing everything Starlight Glimmer has worked to maintain?

Author's Note: This is a complete re-write of a previous premise, which I liked, but felt like I could have done better. I've been hard at work trying to make the changes substantial, and to make them better than the previous attempt. I hope you'll enjoy the new version.

Update (2/27/23): New Cover Art!

Years after Starlight Glimmer fled the hidden village, the lives of the village ponies have greatly improved. They are now free to make their own choices, to lead their own lives, to love and hope and dream.

But with that freedom comes risks.

Night Glider made her own choices, led her own life, loved and hoped and dreamed. And she lost some things and gained some others.

These are her memories. The memories of her snowcolt.

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This story is a sequel to The Lay of Canterlot High

He was at the head of a mighty host, sergeant in a great army of the voiceless 200 strong and growing. As they marched from Our Town in the northeast down towards the capitol, their numbers swelled, seeming to double with every three towns they passed through. The air in their camps was electric, brimming with promise, with hope, the hope that the revolution might succeed. All was going so well, he couldn't help but grin.

But it was still his fake grin, the one he wore to try to cover up the screams whirling around inside him. And as they settle down for the evening, preparing for the last leg of the journey, he desperately tries to stop them from escaping, from giving voice to his hidden fears.

But in the darkness of the night, however much of a sergeant he might be in the daytime, Party Favor is still the boy who cried himself to bed with laughter, and the fears he tried to leave behind are not done with him yet.

TW: Interphobia, some non-sexual reproductive organ depiction (non-explicit)

Continuity: The Song of the Spheres
Branch: The Seekers of the Stars

Zephyr Breeze has work to do.

Written for the Much To Do Panic for Quills and Sofas Speedwriting.

A cute DoubleFavor fic about Party Favor being too shy to let Double Diamond know anything about his true feelings. Double Diamond is a top-notch skiier with a secret admirer who is closer to him than he thinks.

Trigger Warning: Cuddles, Minor Language, Suggestive Themes, Cuteness

Double Diamond is convinced he and Starlight had a thing going on, unbeknownst to everyone else while she led their town. He can’t rationalize why she chose Sunburst and forgot all about the bond they had shared. He tries to move on but his feelings keep making him miserable the more he tries to secretly hide and kill them for the sake of the couple.

Title based off the episode “Uncommon Bond”.

Double Diamond isn't pleased by all aspects of Starlight Glimmer's society of true equality. But even if it isn't always great, at least it's fair, right?

Content Note: Double Diamond is with ponies who he doesn't particularly want to be with since he is pressured by society to do something "fair"; Our Town's policy on sharing--inspired by real-life utopian cult communities--is based on an extreme conception of equality.

Cover Art: by me.

Double Diamond is having a bad day. He goes to his normal place to order coffee, and they totally screw up the order.

So he murders somepony. Naturally.

Now with at least 50% more metestential dread! It's a word we just made up that means 'read it'!

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