Twilight and Luna are spending their first heartwarming as a married couple. Eager to celebrate this wonderful time of the year with their friends and family. Nothing can go wrong right? Princess Luna would probably not share the same idea as you. Especially not after the Heartwarming she had experienced.

Luna had just wanted to share a kiss under the mistletoe with her wife, Twilight Sparkle. But, attempt, after attempt, the young couple kept getting interrupted by somepony. Luna is trying her best to stay calm and not lose her temper. But when Luna's special gift for Twilight is suddenly shattered. What could possibly go wrong?

"Do not speak to us of flame or wrath! Lest we show thee what the words truly mean!"

Twilight, Starlight, and Trixie go back in time to answer two questions: why did Celestia become Daybreaker, and how did Equestria survive?

Note: This story assumes the events of Friendmaker, but can also be read on its own.

The opening titles of MLP have always felt like they were from a different version of the show. This is that version...

Fed up with being useless at magic, a blank-flanked Twilight Sparkle does the only thing she feels she can do... she runs away. Fortunately, she has a good friend along for the ride...

Now has a sequel: Nightwaker, which presents the return of Nightmare Moon in this timeline.

Featured 10/16-10/19/2018 -- thanks, everypony, for your kind support and feedback on this version of the pilot story!

"I am Friendmaker!"

Twilight Sparkle is concerned that she may one day go insanely evil, as with Nightmare Moon or Daybreaker. So, knowing Twilight, do you really think for one moment she's just going to wait for it to happen?

Includes the charter members of the Reformed Villains Society, plus Celestia and Luna, and a brief magic-journal cameo from Sunset Shimmer.

Featured from 9/11-9/16, 2018... wow! Thanks, everypony! It wouldn't have happened without all of you! By way of a thank you, I've uploaded a higher-res version of the cover art for those who asked for it. Enjoy!

Twilight finds out that Rarity was nervous about asking her out.

Surprisingly, this is quite upsetting information.

In a world of snakes and ladders, Rarity has had to learn a single, simple fact:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single mare who desires recognition and success must, without a doubt, be a social-climbing bitch.

Edited version of my entry to Everfree Northwest's Iron Author competition. Special thanks to Swan Song for the encouragement, support, and for believing in this story strongly enough to throw money at it when I was ready to give up on it.

Amazing cover art by the fantastic lilfunkman

Twilight knows that Rarity is a hopeless romantic, experienced through countless romance novels.
Twilight knows that Rarity has had some bad experiences with romance and courtship.
Twilight knows that Rarity still dreams of somepony to properly sweep her off her hooves.
Twilight has no idea how Rarity keeps missing the hints she keeps dropping.

Written for Monochromatic's Raritwi contest.

Cover art generously offered to all contestants and provided by the skilled Multiversecruise.

Top of the Feature Box on 05/05/17 and then for 72 hours straight: A huge thanks to everyone who liked or commented on this story.

It all starts at a pirate coffee shop...

An exquisite corpse is a form of collaborative art where each participant only knows about part of the whole work, and must complete their part with limited context. In this case, each writer only had access to the previous chapter, resulting in the story getting confused, yet still moving forward undeterred. The exception is me having full context when helping out the others, and Nonchalant writing two chapters here and thus having a bit more context.

Participating writers were me, Posh, Nonchalant, Seigneur / Tache bleue, TGM, kits, Cynewulf, and trAce.

"Because I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and there’s not a single creature with wings I can think of who is exclusively attracted to the opposite sex.”

Now with a reading!

And another!

We all know the story of Equestria Girls, but did you really think Twilight Sparkle went the whole movie without thirsting for Sunset and calling her senpai? Did you really believe that? You fool!

A quick fic to put out something for the FiM 10th anniversary. I had considered a similar premise for the first FiM episode, but it just wasn't working out for me.