It is the first time that two creatures will be approaching the catastrophic planet. Never before has anything made by the inhabitants of Weil come close to it. What better creatures for this than two ponies?
Indeed, the mark on its surface, a crater, is one of the most recognized symbols in all of pony folklore. It's a symbol of peace, of joy, of fear and evil. Legends give it miraculous properties, as well as terrible corrupting powers.
Is there a link between this crater and pony folklore? Even if the planet is so far from Weil that it can't even be seen with the naked eye, it wasn't always the case. Millenia ago, it would have been visible in the night sky, barely smaller than the moon. Only for a brief period of time.

What will those two ponies find here? Are the legends true? And if they are, which ones? The good? Or the bad ones?

Warning: While there is no gore or physical violence so to speak, there are some disturbing things and implied pain. That's why the fic is rated "Teen". I don't think it needs the "Violence" tag, but I'm ready to add it if people deem it necessary. I'm also really bad with tags in general so I've put Horror and Dark because I think they do fit. Or, at least, the fic is intended that way.

Story written for the Science Fiction Contest III. I was planning on participating in the Wonderbolt Contest with another fic, but I couldn't do both in time, and this one was way more inspiring for me. So I did this one.
Art by Taïga Blackfield.
Music used: Ketsui to Kakugo (Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S)
Sweet Dreams (by RisenFromTheDust, from the album Beyond and Below of Neighsayer/Furtherproof & Feathers)
Light of the Seven (Game of Thrones)
We Die in Here All the Time (Borderlands 3)

Dear Twilight, my most faithful student. DO NOT READ THIS LETTER.
For the betterment of everypony you love and care about do not read or take anything in this letter seriously.

To: Twilight Sparkle
From: Twilight Sparkle

This story is interactive, in order to read everything and get both sides of the story you need to turn on or turn off dark mode on the site its self, also be warned secret text is really small so sorry you need to work for your sweet sweet LORE.

Or you could be a complete jerk and just highlight it with your curser and ruin all the work I did.

WARNING: The interactive part of this story may not work if you are reading on mobile sorry.

First read with dark mode on then after you are done reading, turn off dark mode and read it again.

(This was made for the dialogue only contest.)

I like my act in this, but really I am way more than my creator makes me out to be.

Starlight was practicing a new spell when she accidentally ends up transporting a group of Napoleonic soldiers to Equestria. Shenanigans ensue.

Also, did I mention there was a zombie plague?

Sweetie Bot goes through life on a series of commands and prompts, and all is well. She has plans with her fellow Crusaders today. Surely nothing can go wrong.

An experimental piece, and an entry into Science Fiction Contest III.

It takes enormous will to stand up to centuries in exile, and great mental strength to hold one’s self together.

This story is part of Nightmare Night in April.

Soarin was getting old. He could fix that. But should he?

Speedwrite from the Quills and Sofa Wonderbolts Contest

Written for the Wonderbolt's Contest.

CW: Body Horror

Preread by The Sleepless Beholder

A pony investigates the scene of a murder. One problem: no memories.

An entry for Nightmare Night in April 2024 ( group | stories ).

Excellent cover art by IrradiatedPirateBooty!
Thanks to gapty, Silk Rose, and Scriblits Talo for pre-reading and feedback.

What happens when a pony develops a phobia of a colour that surrounds her?

Asking for a friend.

An entry for Nightmare Night in April 2024 ( group | stories ).

Originally written for the Bean's Writing Group prompt "Trying to escape from somewhere/someone". On top of the prompt, and the "using color to convey emotion" bonus, I also tried to write it with only periods.

Thanks to RDT and Silk Rose for pre-reading and feedback.

Everpony in Snow Castle thinks Blackberry is part-troll because he is so naughty, and so Clever Clover sends him away, forever. After talking with his naughty friend, Jealous Jasmine, and his good friend, Light Heart, he finds out what he is made of.

The setting is G2, but the fic is heavily FiM-inspired. The G2 setting in the comics is whimsical and silly - think a rainbow having a sleepover with a unicorn.

Short & Sweet at 2K words.

While written as a children's story, it is readable for all ages. There is some candy horror/drama if you read between the lines. There is also a little humour, but I ran out of genre tags.

Written in simple English and in first person.

Special:
Written in poor taste about recent events. Goodbye, pony friends!

Info:
Image from Baby Dew and Baby Tickle Heart clean the house, from Lavender Lagoon. Check out this resource if you want to find out more about G2! http://www.lavenderlagoon.com/comics.html

The words still echoed, spinning clearly in her mind...

Applejack stared at the ceiling, her eyes tracing over the gaps and grains of the wooden rafters for what felt like the hundredth time.  Of course she didn’t “enjoy” being forcibly transformed by magic, and in the split-seconds of the magic working over her body, contorting her, dressing her in riding gear and hardening her flesh into fiberglass, she’d been nearly overwhelmed with fear...

...when it was done, however, she’d felt something different...

...as she went around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around...

A slow-burn descent into an unusual place, as Applejack and the CMC become obsessed with being turned into a carousel. May count as psychological and/or body horror, or maybe fetish-fuel, possibly a trans/queer narrative (?), depending on who reads it.

Content Warning: Contains a lot of inanimate-TF fixation. Nothing really "disturbing" about it, but that's what the story is about.

Because of the horror aspects, I am submitting this as part of the Nightmare Night in April Writing Event. If that interests you, go check out the other stories in that folder!

This is a followup to something that happened in the IDW My Little Pony comics, Issue 78, the end of the Cosmos arc, where the image is from. You do not need to read that to understand the plot, as it's just one scene and I explain everything relevant (I haven't read it myself since it came out), though it's a year-end 4-parter with Discord so you should probably read it either way.

This was an old commission that's sat mostly finished for a while, but was delayed by my severe nerve-damage from COVID.