It's the first annual Carousal Congregation, a semi-formal meeting where all of Rarity's business partners meet up and, theoretically, discuss the business of fashion. After all, keeping up with trends from across Equestria is always important. And it couldn't hurt to meet the boss's other employees. It's not like they're from entirely different social spheres with no similarity at all, right?

A reader's poll in Equestria's leading newspaper rates the Princesses by approval ratings.

OOC meta humor ensues as the four discuss the findings.

Pre-read by RT Stephens, MythrilMoth, and The Albinocorn.

After weeks of dealing with a fussy filly's bedtime ritual, Shining Armor finds the perfect story for his daughter.

What happened to Big Mac after he ran off after Starlight Glimmer had made the stallion known for silence unable to stop? Cursed to say everything he had always held inside, how will Mac survive a day as every thought he has he says out loud. What will Mac do when he runs into ponies that he had always wanted to say something to, but held his tongue? Will Ponyville survive a uncensored Big Mac?

Just a fun little story I came up with as I have become completely blocked on Auction and Ghost Rider again. Also a early birthday gift to the ever so awesome Jake the Army Guy. Thanks go to Arbarano, Chief Maximus,Docontra, Jake the Army Guy, and The Masked Ferret for all the edits.

Thanks also goes out to Golden Vision and again Chief Maximus for having to deal with my ranting and belly aching.

You can now listen to this story, from two different readers!

Neighrator Pony version can be found here

DRWolf version can be found here

Featured 5/3/16

Every Saturday, Night Light and Shining Armor practice magic together; preparing Shining to be a guard for the princess one day. And every Saturday, Spike watches them from a distance in misery. He badly wishes he could be a part of the unicorn family, but without any magic of his own, What's a dragon to do?

Cadence has come down with a terrible flu. Luckily, one pony is always there for her.

Twilight is home for the holidays, and she and her brothers have a special little tradition between them as they reflect on the events past.

Discord is firmly planted as Ponyville's Number One Frenemy. The draconequus has gone from foe to friend and back again enough times in recent years to make that apparent. However, after a spirited weekend in the company of most of the Elements, Discord has found himself solidly in friend territory.

So then, there is little question or concern when Fluttershy invites him out to a group picnic with the others. Or, at least, there was no concern until Discord saw the newest member of the entourage: Starlight Glimmer.

Discord knows what Starlight has done. And he is far from happy.

When you get married there are many quirks you'll notice about your spouse. Some of them are things that everyone knows and there are some things that only you know. When you're alone, those things you know about them become unbearable.

(Art by: Nobody)

Pinkie loves eating. Wholeheartedly. Too much actually, sometimes. Often? She just did it again. While set on righting that wrong, her mind wanders.
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Happy Pi Day!
A little explanation on the weird sentence structure: Every i-th sentence has exactly as many words as the corresponding digit in Pi. So the first sentence has 3 words, the second 1, the third 4 etc. 0 means a new paragraph.
I'm not a writer, so it was not easy to come up with fitting words to fill the sentences just right :)
http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/math/pi.html