In the wake of the events of "Infernal Machines" and the Nightmare's most pathetic assault on Ponyville yet, Applejack is thrown into an existential crisis, despite her not knowing what the word "existential" means. So when a stranger named Stranger arrives in town, teaching a new way of coupling talent to power using complex machinery, she is quickly suckered in, along with everypony else. Now, it falls to the Most Dependable of Ponies to bring the resulting ruckus down to earth, but can even Applejack's legendary pragmatism stand up to the brain-fizzing horror that is... CONTRAPTIONOLOGY?

Now with a Spanish translation by Spaniard Kiwi!

Have you ever wondered how Fluttershy can afford the vast amounts of animal food to take care of all her critters? Well lets see about her "second occupation" then.

What difficulties a top athlete like rainbow dash have to face when controlling the weather?

What devices are known to ponykind to simplify the day to day routine for non-unicorns, let Applejack explain them to you!

Aren't you curious how fast Rarity could get the shining gemstones during sisterhoof social? Here's the explanation how she did it so fast and found blue gems only!

What is going on in Twilight's mind when she has one of her breakdowns? Follow closely to see a work council meeting of her psyche which reflect on the events.

And the still unsolved mystery of Pinkie Pies keen senses and amazing ability to pop out of nowhere. Learn more about it while you take a stroll with our all favourite party pony!

Authors note:

I'm not a native speaker and I'm going to play around with time forms and narrative styles. At least I try to write each chapter in a different way. I'm not good at English and when it simply hurts to read what I write go tell me, I do this to improve my English and get some ideas out of my head ^^

Don't take the story too serious it has a "comedy" and "random" tag for reasons ^.~

I'm an anwefully slow writer. A turquoise with arthritis is faster than me. Good part about it, you can get your eyes healed between each chapter :x

The order of ponies in the introduction may or may not be the order in which I post the chapters.

Last but not least, I also like to draw sometimes. So I may or may not add pictures to the chapters involving some scenes of it. I will have an update section here and will announce changes I made in the comments as well.

Updates:
12/9/2011 added a picture of "Bass Soul" into chapter one. Fluttershy aka Bass Soul

Thank you for purchasing a Cutie Mark Crusader unit, this one guide will cover the Cutie Mark Crusader Expansion.

Upon eavesdropping on a conversation between Rarity and Twilight Sparkle, Spike discovers what his "true love" really thinks of him, and after reminiscing on his thoughts about it, he slowly begins to drift away from his friends. With sorrow and despair in his heart, Spike runs away from home, and runs into an old enemy that tries to help him out.

However, after realizing what she has done, Rarity begins to realize and discover that she has feelings for Spike after all, but can she save him before it's too late?

Scootaloo goes to the park with her fellow crusaders to see the Cake's new foals. When she meets them, she notices that Pound Cake can already fly. This reminds her of her own inability to fly. She leaves the park depressed. However, a visit from Spitfire gives her an idea.

(Formerly "Strange Love")
It started off as a completely normal morning for the mane 6, until they woke up. All six awake to find their opposite gender counterparts from a different universes in their beds. No-one knows how they arrived. Now with their opposite sex selves, they must discover why they are there and, if possible, how to send them home. Unfortunately there are many alternate universes in existence, some not very nice, some that have beings who would wish to enter the mane six's world and bring harm upon it.

This is a remake of my terrible fic "Limitations of Love" but without the villain sue Smiley. I would also like to say that I am in no way trying to rip off Connor Cogwork's "On a Cross and Arrow".

Character tags will be added as the story goes on.

Cover image is mine
( http://darkone10.deviantart.com/art/Across-the-Cosmic-Ocean-289491464 ) Higher resolution version here

COMPLETE! NOW WITH SEQUEL!Diamond Tiara has moved away to Manehattan leaving behind a lonely and friendless Silver Spoon. Depression slowly sets in, but one Cutie Mark Crusader extends the hoof of friendship. The sequel The Spoon That Refused Polish

(Author's note: This Fic is a parody. Therefore it’s full of grammar errors, plot holes and bland characters. The sole purpose of this story is to give at least some people a good laugh. Every comment from the “author” inside the story should be taken with a grain of salt. And I don’t hate Fluttershy.)

Twillight Sparkle and her five friends (even Fluttershy who's worst pony) must to stop Celesia, the evil queen of Ponyland before she can do more evil stuff. Luckily Doctor Whoovas is on their side as well as THE BEST OC EVER. Did I already mention that Fluttershy is worst pony?

(This is a 101% serious story and everybody who's laughing about this masterpiece of fan work is as bad as Fluttershy.)

Thanks for the feedback, I'm officially continuing this project!
In the ruins of the old stonefarm, long abandoned, a journal is discovered. This is the journal of Ponyville’s famed joker, Pinkie Pie (Pinkamena Diane Pie). It covers Pinkie’s life on the stonefarm, and how her life was back then. It also covers the sightings of a mysterious mare pegasi flying around near the farm. Who could that be? And why is the old mayor of Ponyville so corrupt? The story of Pinkie is discovered.. Pinkie’s past.

(READ ALL OF THIS) You have been given the Human's Guide to Life if Equestria. By some odd series of events you have come to this wonderful land of talking ponies. But a lot of you can't just jump into it without a little knowledge of your new home. Also you haven't been given this book, more like you have been forced to read every last word by Princess Celestia herself. But this is not a normal guide, no. This is a story, a story about you! In this we will cover, love and mating, your new self, settlement and careers, and many more things. So don't panic, because OMG THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.

(Please I hold nothing against humanity, or HiE stories, I love each and every one of them. In fact I'm giving them each a big shoutout for inspiring me. This is my second fanfic, and I just did it for the pure enjoyment of writing. It is roughly based off the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I will update occasionally and I will finish it.)

(Rated Teen for: Some sexual references, crude humor, and mild goofiness, and a teeny tiny bit of swearing. And fourth wall breaking. )

And this also a Guide, not a Manual.