(Story idea partially inspired by Alzrius. This obviously takes place before "The Maud Couple".)

Now that Maud lives in Ponyville adjacent, Pinkie Pie can see her amazing big sister all the time. And Maud couldn't be happier to have a quiet place all to herself.

So when the Sisterhooves Social rolls around again, Pinkie gets the idea to compete in with Maud. Though hesitant at first, Maud comes around to the idea as a chance to make up for lost bonding time with Pinkie.

But the two sisters will be up against some stiff competition, including some of Pinkie's friends and even the twice denied champions of Applejack and Apple Bloom. Will Pinkie and Maud be able to work together well, and do they have a shot at winning first place?

The Aether. A dark place where the most vile of creature is sent to once their mortal bodies parish. Limbo. A space in between where time itself holds no power over those who are trapped. Within these two realms lies a shadow, forever imprisoned with no hope of escape. However, forever is a long time. A lot can happen.

EDIT: I updated the title card with a redraw. I hope you like it.

The changelings have shared their love and become more beautiful, more peaceful, more civilized. They have cast away the traditions of the past and accepted the traditions of ponies instead. What a joke. How dare they forget the proud history of changelings? How dare they cast away time-honoured traditions that we have revelled in for generations!

I am a proud Changeling warrior. A hunter. A spy. An infiltrator. Chrysalis had gone mad with power, but changelings are more than one Queen. There have been Queens before Chrysalis and there should have been Queens after her. I will not bend! I accept our treaties, but I will not disgrace my heritage. History, countries, societies, they are written in blood, why is ours so much more shameful? We had a mad Queen, so now our entire history is obviously disgraceful.

I will remain in the faction of changelings that have sprouted under Pharynx. We will be as strong as iron and silent as the shadows. This would never have happened under a proper Queen.

(Not my art. I wish I could draw like that)

The days of fear, torture and fierce opposition is over in the changeling hives. There is no longer the need for an elite, combat-ready military ready to eviscerate, pillage and destroy whatever they are ordered to kill. There is no longer a hive, only a hollow shell of pony lights, pony love, pony customs and the fading of changeling tradition. As each day passes, the old 'Chrysalis' ways are replaced by perverted versions of 'Celestia' and her subordinates' disgusting aesthetic.

Pharynx didn't think he'd be alone in his thinking. He didn't think he'd be the only one who stood defiant, fierce and intimidating to those around him. He didn't think that they wouldn't understand. They had to understand. They were his own kin! They turn their backs to him, ignorant to the years they've all spent as warriors and guards, in exchange for a life of comfort and ignorance.

He didn't think the entire hive would betray him. He didn't think the outcasting would be so unabashedly obvious. Is this what Thorax felt when he left the hive? Was this fate's sick karma of tormenting him until the day he dies?

You abandoned your brother. Now, they all abandon you.

This was no longer home.

Created as a pick-me-back-into-writing-again-write-as-I-go-kind-of-like-this challenge for myself. Can't say I am completely satisfied with how I conveyed the story, but it did get me inspired again.

Source Image: https://www.deviantart.com/inuhoshi-to-darkpen/art/No-Need-for-a-Soldier-702973099

After Secrets and Pies, Pinkie has discovered that Rainbow Dash doesn't like pie. ANY kind of pie. With the exception of Pinkie Pie, of course.

As it turns out, Soarin had followed the whole fiasco and decing that he can't let this stand, he decides to weigh in on the matter.

Extra tag: Food Porn. This may make you hungry, but that's about it.

Feather Bangs was finally ready to talk to mares and get to know them more. Luckily for him, three swooning mares were willing to volunteer to go on some dates with him. Whether the poetic stallion will succeed or fail, he will make sure the mares will have the time of their lives.

Twilight Sparkle and her friends had gotten the objects they needed to get Starswirl The Bearded and the Pillars of Equestria out of Limbo. However, after trying, nothing happened, and the Elements of Harmony abandoned the place with no hope.

Unbeknown to them, the Pillars are slowly returning to Equestria...

Sort of...

This is an alternate universe in which some events from "Shadow Play" never happen. A story told by the different points of view from the Main 6. Requested by JimmyHook19.

Stygian, still haunted by his past, looks deep inside himself to find out exactly what led him to become the Pony of Shadows. If friendship really is magic, how is it that his friends couldn't have saved him without Twilight and her friends intervening? How did his inner darkness convince him to turn evil? Was he really so wrong in what he did if there is no light without darkness? This origin story provides all these questions with an answer.

Cover art is an edit of P2P: The Pillars by SambaNeko.

https://www.deviantart.com/sambaneko/art/P2P-The-Pillars-796228634

For years and years, Grand Pear refused to go back to Ponyville, his pride utterly bruised by his daughter's choice. How dare she choose an Apple over her own kin! How could she do that to him, his own little angel, with her beautiful voice and the songs she learned on his knee?

For decades, he never dared answer his own question. And it's not just the guilt that's creeping over him in his old age. Not anymore. He stayed away for too long and has let too much fester in his heart.

Now his own wife WILL make him face the music. Pear Butter is no longer around to play. But it hardly matters, because old stallions can't dance again... can they?

I had a family. I wanted someone to love. I didn't realize I had to choose.