Maud Pie gives Boulder, her pet and friend, a sincere talk.

Slice of life with a sprinkle of sad/uplifting. And also rock humor.

Boulder is missing, Maud is desperate to find him, but how does a pony find a rock in a field of rocks?

Written for a PANIC! held by ROBCakeran53 the prompt was "insanity"

Thanks for Rob for hosting, and thanks to every pony who read this.
Prereader/editor: Halira

This story is a sequel to The One With Gummy and Boulder

At long last, Gummy and Boulder have finally taken over the world!

Any bets on how long that will last?

A story set in the Idiocyverse.

Co-written by Tom117z

Marble Pie is the shyest and youngest of the Pie sisters. With her sisters Maud and Pinkie gone off on their own, it leaves Marble with her parents and her other sister Limestone to tend to the rock farm. With so much work to do, Marble tends to get stressed a lot. One day while in the attic, Marble decides to vent her feelings and frustrations, not knowing someone (or rather something) was going to be there to "listen."

This story is a sequel to Timescales

Blurb

Boulder's journey into the cosmological future of Equestria, and what he took with him.

Author's Note

Sorry, had to get this out of my head.

Blog Post

On a visit to Ponyville, Autumn Blaze messed up. Badly. After fleeing the town, she's not sure what to do. It is then that she encounters a wise rock, who may be exactly the sort of friend she needed to talk to.

Entry for the 2023 May Pairing Contest

Maud Pie is a simple pony in a complicated world filled with nearly-impossible-to-understand creatures. Why don't others just say what they mean instead of using all those unnecessary words? Why don't they understand her when she says exactly what she means? If she tries to provide proper context to help them, they get bored. Still, she tries her best to be clear and make herself understood, even in the face of questions whose context is most of her life and the geological history of the world. In those little pauses before she speaks, Maud thinks fast. This is one such question.

Proofread by the wonderful Scribblestick

Glorious artwork and many others are from SambaNeko

Winner of Bicyclette's Maud contest!

Struggling to find somepony to cover for Rarity for You, Rarity is surprised to find that Maud's available. But Maud's not alone; she's got Boulder to help. In fact, she might be the one helping Boulder.

Has a not-so-dramatic reading by River Babble.

Blurb

A tragic cutting short of a budding romance. A confession of time travel and incurable disease. What was left behind. An instant, a lifetime, millions of years. Three timescales. Two timelines. One love story.

Tags

• Death: The main theme of the entire story, I'd say.
• Boulder

Author's Note

Disclaimer: Any errors in neurochemistry, neuropsychology, the study of prions, geology, linguistics, evolutionary biology, and paleontology are due to the author not being in any of these fields. My deepest apologies to the readers who are, and must cringe at my misunderstandings.