Outpost 13...often considered the most unlucky posting to be given when you’re a Royal Guard. It holds no real tactical value, and was built long ago before the Unification Period of the Three Pony Tribes. It’s now more of a historical site, being the last-standing remnant of a bygone era. It’s useless, it’s remote, and it’s boring.

And it’s the perfect dumping ground for when you want to get rid of three of the Royal Guard’s worst soldiers ever.

Private Samwise Tater (the Thinker), Corporal Plucky Guess (the Cynic), and Private Prism Rain (the Sleeper) --- the three of them have been at Outpost 13 for one year now, all on their own. Once you’ve been there that long, you begin to develop a routine: wake up at 0600, eat, then stave off boredom for the next 18 hours before it’s time to go to bed. Usually by talking or planning ways to take over the world, or if nothing else, how to raid Princess Celestia’s cake stash without getting caught.

Today’s their one year anniversary, and they’re at their breaking point.

(Heavily inspired by Rooster Teeth’s Red Vs. Blue web-series.)

Featured: 2021/08/18 - 2021/08/23
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SPECIAL THANKS: Cover art by Hunternif (Sketch 41: “Early Morning”)

Carrot Top's best friend crashes a balloon into her garden.

Originally written as an entry for Everfree Northwest 2021's Iron Author speed writing contest, where it won an honorable mention. I recommend checking out everyone's entries, they were all amazing.

The original draft was shorter than the word limit for FIMFiction, so consider this version an "extended cut" of sorts. Some additional dialogue was added, and some lines were rearranged, but it's as close to the original draft as possible. I've added the original, shorter draft -- which is the one I prefer -- as the second chapter.

While at a weekend-long diplomatic summit, Prince Blueblood and Dragon Lord Ember do not hit it off well and both take the encounter personally. So much so, Ember goes well out of her way so to arrange her spending the rest of the weekend at Blueblood's mansion, just so she can spend it driving him up the wall.

Tempers are inflamed, property is damaged, and fires are started.

And yet, somehow, this arrangement might just work out okay after all.

First place winner in the May 2021 Pairing Contest.

Featured 5/27/2021

(Cover art is temporary until I can get the time to make a proper one) Proper one and some additional edits made!

Autumn Blaze tries to find the right way to express how she feels to Derpy. She’s tried so much and couldn’t find the words. Finally the moon gives her the inspiration. Will Derpy really understand though?

Written for the may 2021 pairing contest by Original Pairings

War changed, and so did she.

Now, in the forgotten eastern reaches, where the empty forests fall to meet the glassy sea, the both of them learn to live with it.

With great and particular thanks to my pre-readers this go 'round, for getting through the longest story I've posted to date: Admiral Biscuit, Sunicathorsis, and my darling Dark River.

Cover art and story was Inspired by the fanart: Good Morning Equestria
By dstears

Equestria's newest of the radio has made a new show popular. It stars the Element of Laughter Pinkie Pie, kirin Autumn Blaze, student Silverstream, Gabby Griffon and Pinkie's sister Marble Pie. Listens get to hear the latest from across the kingdoms, from music to trends and everything in-between. Who knows what they will talk about next.

These will be a series of short chapters to get me started ^^
Hopefully they will be short but sweet little moments of fun

Blake and his friends are urban explorers, venturing into some of the most interesting places that the public isn't allowed to see. They deal with dangerous structures, poison gas, and even the occasional arrest. But when they venture into the bony catacombs of Paris, they could never imagine what they'll find waiting for them.

Now the whole group has been thrust from the world they knew, each one cursed with a terrifying new shape. If they ever want to see their home again, they'll have to work together, searching this strange new world for a return worldgate. But while return portals are numerous, finding one that's safe enough to get them back alive is another matter entirely.

Written thanks to the generosity of donations from Lightfox and Canary in a Coal Mine on my Patreon. Edited by my wonderful team of Two Bit and Sparktail. Cover by Zutcha.

Updates every Monday and most Tuesdays. Will update more frequently until Fimfiction catches up to my Patreon.

In the wake of Twilight’s escape from her kingdom, Nightmare Moon sentences Rarity, her palace steward, to a terrible fate: bound in gold and priceless gems, she’s to be thrown into an ancient dragon prison to be messily devoured.

Except the prison isn’t what it seems, nor is its sole occupant. Rarity just might find her life instead of losing it, and alter the course of Equestrian history in process.

Featured on Equestria Daily

Time passes quickly in a beautiful world, and Twilight Sparkle knows it all too well: the sun is warm, the skies are bright, and Ponyville a richness of wonder and opportunity. The friends, the roads, the food and drink are all in their place, little dramas come and go, and her reports to Celestia proceed apace.

It’s imperfect perfection, and all things proceed exactly as usual until exactly the moment they don’t anymore.

With special thanks to my pre-readers: Luna Farrowe, Thornquill, and Sunicathorsis.

Featured, to my surprise.

As the sun rises across Equestria, ten ponies muse on their lives. Princesses and farmers, fillies and athletes, they are as different as can be imagined. But for one fleeting instant, the common thread of the sunrise they watch links them together.

Written in 1hr 30 for the Character Sprint speedwrite in Quills and Sofas, came in second place.