The time is a thousand years ago. A time before Canterlot, before Ponyville. After the last threat to Equestria was resolved ponies fell into a routine of peace. Princess Luna's role in ruling Equestria diminished over time as her sister took on more and more responsibility.

Falling into despair over the lack of attention rendered to her by her little ponies, Luna was ready to throw in the towel. Then she had a chance encounter with a pegasus mare and earth pony couple which renewed her desire to live for Equestria. Only to have her sister throw up a road block.

Can Luna hold onto the dream or will it be crushed like so much of her past?

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Featured top of the Popular Stories column 14/11/17!

Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle live an average life in an average home in the most above-average city in Equestria. Growing up in Canterlot they are subject to the inner workings of the government and Princess Celestia. Even though Shining SHOULD be studying, when his little sister asks him to help her with something, how can he refuse? After all, there's only one reasonable course of action at that point: take over Equestria.

Creative Consulting with MoonlitSparkle
Special thanks to ScratchnTavi, and docontra for editing/pre-reading.
Artwork done by Sleepy Panda
Featured 11/16 didn't see that one coming

Twilight falls for a mare that nopony expects, Rarity. The question was, how was she going to tell her, and what if '...She rejected me, or worse, even laughed at me for thinking something that seems near impossible to happen when thought about!?!?....'

Loosely based on Plucky and Hamton's road trip in the Tiny Toons' summer vacation special; dedicated respectfully to the memory of Joe Alaskey. After school's out for the summer, Sweetie Belle accompanies her parents on a road trip to an extremely popular amusement park. Diamond Tiara tries to tag along, but will she end up regretting this? Most likely.

Flashbacks take place during "the Mysterious Mare-Do-Well". Ever wonder why Rainbow's friends didn't try simply talking to her when her ego was out of control? The truth is, they DID try - several times. This story depicts the various failed attempts by the rest of the Mane Six to try to quietly speak to Rainbow before they decided to take more extreme measures. And it also depicts how the rest of the Mane Six got inspired to create the Mare-Do-Well identity.

After meeting Twilight in Equestria and making her his marefriend, Max faces one last problem, how will his parents react to the idea of their possible future daughter-in-law being an... animal.

inspired by this dead thread at this group
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Sex tag and Teen for... well you'll figure it out.

Also, please excuse some grammatical errors you encounter, I don't think I had the pleasure of going over this story more than one time. Time seems to be slipping away from me every passing moment ( but then again, who can escape the boundaries of time anyways?)

Earth, the birthplace of humankind, is dying.

Full-scale nuclear war has ravaged its surface, killing billions in the process, leaving Earth a glowing radioactive wasteland.

Years before the war, colonization of Earth's natural satellite, Luna. Was well underway to the point that dozens of domes dotted the lunar surface. When the war started, colonization funding was greatly reduced, bringing the effort to a halt.

Now, years after the war, the colonies find themselves with two options.

Die from starvation, or try to find a new home.

They chose the latter.

Old cargoships, once used to transfer supplies, were hastily retrofitted to the best of their abilities and outfitted with experimental warp drives salvaged from testing stations scattered around Earths orbit.

Three ships, the ULC Coral, the ULC Nightmare, and the ULC Amber in Arms were outfitted with these experimental warp drives and sent filled to the brim with everything needed to start over.

Humanity reaches out in need of a home, but what they find turns out to be a little too much for what they bargained for.

Editors: Magnificent Bastard

Story on hiatus until further notice, focusing on my other story for now.

Canterlot High and Crystal Prep Academy each have their fair share of amazing students, both academically and athletically. None, however, are quite as notable as Rainbow Dash and Indigo Zap.

A short time after the near-disastrous events of the Friendship Games, the two star athletes from each school arrange to meet up for a chat at a city park, where they find that they're not as different as they may have thought.

The artwork for this story was made by IJAB.

This story was graciously edited by Dubs Rewatcher.

Featured on Equestria Daily 31/03/2016.

This story now has an audio reading! Done by the ever amazing Lotus Moon

After the events of Portal 2, GLaDOS takes up a new hobby. Testing ponies.
Pinkie Pie breaks the Fourth Wall, bringing them to this universe where ponies are tested at Celestial Science. Will they survive testing and make it to the cake? Oh, and Chell is here too!
I am not as good at Portal, as I am at Minecraft, so let's see where this goes.
P.S. You need to have played Portal 1 and 2 or you will be incredibly confuzzled!

Star Power isn't Twilight Sparkle -- but she does play her on TV.

This story has an audio version!

Written for the December 5th Writeoff Contest. Prompt: "Behind closed doors."