Goldenrod has a pretty great life. A loving boyfriend, a decent home, a job that she loves and a class full of bright young fillies and colts who love her very much. But when one of her best students starts acting out in class, she tries to do everything in her power to help her. Will it be enough?

Based on characters created by TheFlimFlamBros and inspired by the AU created by Leviarex.

This year, more than 450,000 ponies and other creatures will undergo cutie mark cosmetic surgery. The Manehattan Times investigates, in this exclusive report.

(This story is written in the first person POV of a pony journalist. Takes place roughly 20 years after Twilight’s coronation.)

(Cover image sources: 1; 2; 3; 4)

1/15/21: Reached #1 on the feature box! Thanks y'all!

Toola Roola is a special pony, just like everypony else. She's learned that fighting with your friends doesn't mean you have to stop being friends. It just means you should let them win sometimes, otherwise it looks suspicious.

She didn't learn that from her parents, who have no time for her except by appointment. She didn't learn that from her best friend, who has too much time for her and spends most of it fighting anyway.

And she especially didn't learn that from her ancestral homeland: the distant, enchanted land of Skyra, whence her oddball uncle cometh, but which - in her entire life - she has never, ever seen for herself.

No, she learned it from a book. Princess Twilight Sparkle^TM's Journal of Friendship^TM, only $12.99 at your local tree-made, cloud-made, or conventionally built magical bookshop! Buy your way to a meaningful^TM, satisfying^TM relationship^TM now, while^TM stocks^TM last^TM!^TM

A pair of fillies approach you with a problem. Their favorite book is behaving strangely. What kind of magical shenanigans will you find within its contents?

Twilight woke up to experience another normal day in Equestria. Except she had this weird sense of deja vu and other abnormalities.

And to add onto the abnormalities (even though it was supposed to be another normal day in Equestria, not an abmoneral day), she and her entire reality is now being dictated by the whims of a capricious deity who, for once, isn't Discord.

Toola Roola, truck driver extraordinaire, trudges through a less-than-stellar day of trucking.

This is a crossover between My Little Pony (Gen 3) and Spintires, a 2014 Steam game about off-road trucking in remote parts of Russia.

Guess which one of these things I was able to tag correctly.

G3.5 characters in the MLP:FIM Universe

Toola Roola is cleaning up her grandfather's old shed and comes across a small dusty case filled with paint. She decides to test them out!

What she doesn't know, is that the paint was locked up in the shed for a reason...

Chip Cutter is not a popular kid. He just wanders around, looking for new sculpting inspiration. However, when he finds an abandoned artwork on the wall, it quickly leads him to the road to friendship.

He just wishes it wasn’t the scenic route.

Preread by Cinder Vel, RK_Striker_JK_5, and Dragonborne Fox
🇺🇦Translation🇺🇦 by repitter

Vectors used: Background by BonesWolbach, Kettle Corn and Toola Roola by Suramii, Petunia Paleo by pink1ejack, Chip Cutter by DashieSparkle, Coconut Cream by jhayarr23

This story is a sequel to Vehicle...Allegedly

Tradition dictates that Pennsylvania towns ring in the new year by dropping things. Harrisburg has a strawberry, Lebanon drops a 100-pound bologna, Dillsburg drops a pickle, Cornwall has a cannonball, Mechanicsburg drops a wrench, while York and Lancaster drop roses (white and red, respectively).

Buck Motorsports Park is dropping a truck after a demolition derby and fireworks extravaganza? Okay, you’ve got my attention…

Minty purchases a stereo. Then she discovers that in the week since she ordered her brand new stereo, she's already been left behind by newer forms of technology. Everypony has a phone. And a tablet. Unfortunately, all of these new gadgets & gizmos have a bad habit of self-destructing in her presence. Unable to comprehend the changes going on around her, she seeks council from her friends and even the princesses.

What she discovers goes far beyond anything she could have imagined. Sometimes the line between right & wrong is blurred. And sometimes doing what's right means knowing most ponies will never forgive you. Oh well, she's used to not being forgiven. She's Minty, isn't she?

Please note that while tagged a comedy, chapter 2 changes tone to courtroom drama (with a little humor on the side).

Additional tags: Star Catcher; Surprise; Gonk; Glouda