"For her last trick, The Great and Powerful Trixie will disappear... forever."

Around the time the Season 6 finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was finishing production, there was another episode that went under everyone's radar.

Inspired by Red Mist Re-Take and Mouse.avi Re-Take, both by vibingleaf.
High quality verions of the screenshots used in the story can be found here and here. They were made lower quality for authenticity.
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Sandbar can't resist the distraction of a soft tail swishing across his desk on a slow day in class. The harmless curiosity leads to a new complication in his relationship with Gallus.

Once upon a time, the School of Friendship was praised and accredited, after its lessons drove a little filly mad. Imprisoned in Tartarus with only an ancient monstrous centaur to keep her company, Cozy Glow was in the perfect place for Grogar to whisk away so that he could force her to do his bidding.

Twilight Sparkle's friends, bastions of Equestria's highest virtues, left Cozy Glow forgotten and alone, locked in that rusty cage deep underground. Nopony ever attempted to visit her, check up on her, care for her, reform her, or try to find out what was wrong with her.

This is not that story.

Scootaloo has a dream: to surprise Rainbow Dash on her birthaversery by finally learning to fly. Predictably, this doesn't go so well. Ready to resign herself to being an earthbound Pegasus, her last hope comes in the form of Fluttershy.

But what can Fluttershy teach her that everypony else has failed to do? The answer may come from one key thing the two have in common: dyspraxia.

A slice of life fic with secondary romance elements. Rated T for brief discussion of death.

Cover art (and inspiration) provided by John Joseco. Find out his work at: https://www.deviantart.com/johnjoseco

Edit: 07/01/2019 - Story in the feature box with mature content filter turned on! Thanks to all my readers and editors for making this happen!

Pharynx is forced by his brother to take Ocellus to a carnival. He discovers that the experience is unbearable. Will he make it through the day?

Rated T for Pharynx mild swearing.
Cover belongs to someone on DeviantArt called FanaticPanda.

This happened after the 2017 MLP movie. Twilight has a nightmare about the Storm King being alive again, Tempest joining him again, and Spike getting killed by her. She wakes up, crying and rushes over to him. Spike comforts her, telling her that there won't be any way of her losing him.

A stay in Equestria to spend quality time with her dearest friend turns awry when Gilda learns of a secret Rainbow kept from all of her friends. Even worse, a moral dilemma forces Rainbow to face a difficult decision, her only confidant in this situation being Gilda. But Gilda is determined to do whatever it takes to help Rainbow see this through, and has the ability to do so as long as she adheres to one important rule:

Don't give in.

Entry for the "A two-faced charade" contest.

Proofreaders/life savers: Midnight Quill and Setokaiva

Rated and tagged for implied suggestive situations and themes of cheating (don't try this at home, kids!).

When a song doesn't help them see the light, what else can you do?

Print a second edition that calls them out for what they really are.

Twilight has let her anger get the best of her, and has called out her worst detractors for what they really are. But one fan shows her that her aim was not as precise as she thought, and those that took no sides paid the price for her negligence.

Whether they feel genuine care for their heroes, choose to show their upset in more mature ways, find inspiration, or find light after years of darkness, Twilight sees that the fans she'd thought so little of were more than she'd ever imagined.

Rated T for one slight hint at suicide.

I didn't write this for popularity. I wrote this as a metaphor to call people out. Just like they did.
Only I was more careful and actually cared. They didn't.

Big Mac and Sugar Belle have been dating for a few month now. One morning, Big Mac seems more contemplative than usual, and Sugar Belle asks what's on his mind.

Hugging his special somepony close, Big Mac recounts the dream he had last night.

Lovely cover art courtesy of Dilarus.

Sometimes friendships are simple.

Sometimes they're complicated.

And sometimes a little thing like waking up next to your best friend makes them go from one to the other really, really fast.