Princess Twilight Sparkle wakes up to find herself in an alternate Equestria, where everypony is nice, nothing ever bad happens and everything is just 'perfect'.

Naturally the place bores her to death.

gilded (adj): having a pleasing or showy appearance that conceals something of little worth

Sick in bed with nothing better to do, Shining Armor meditates on the parts of himself that the public doesn't know. When a weakness from the past threatens to manifest itself, Shining begins to fall into despair, wondering if he is truly the figure that Twilight and Cadance see him as. But, even in the wake of illness, there shall always be hope...

The emotionless Twilight Tragedy has served Master Discord for a thousand years along with her fellow Elements of Chaos, handing out death to those who defy him. But, who was this one filly, who LAUGHED in the face of Master's chaos? Twilight Tragedy doesn't understand, she wants to know.
THERE IS LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL! This story SHALL have a happy ending!!!
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Meanwhile, Shining Armor wakes up on the day of his promotion to captain of the royal guard, the day that Twilight is to be sent to Ponyville to prepare for the Summer Sun Celebration. Everything is normal. Everything is fine. Nothing confusing or otherworldly going on at all, nope, none. *Liarjack face*. Why does it take a second for ponies who remember who he is?

Cover art by Mystery Ezekude. http://mysteryezekude.deviantart.com/art/Pony-POV-Series-Dark-World-Shining-Armor-Cover-324097810

The Audio adaption Is here:
ORIGINAL fan-art, ORIGINAL fan-music and VOICE ACTORS galore await!

AUDIO ADAPTION OF DARK WORLD IN PARTICULAR!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l6T74g9vTc&list=PL7BQRCw7-xJZRq45rN8Q5PPr3xUAEd5z4

Recursive fanart and fan stories are here. http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/journal/MLP-FiM-Pony-POV-Series-Fanworks-audio-adaption-274110361 Many are rubber stamped by me as optional canon stories that reveal some of other sides of these stories.
Tropes page found here. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/PonyPOVSeries
Fan Labor Pages here http://mlpfanart.wikia.com/wiki/My_Little_Pony_Fan_Labor_Wiki:Workshop/Pony_POV_Series_Season_Zero:_Discorded_Ponies and here. http://mlpfanart.wikia.com/wiki/My_Little_Pony_Fan_Labor_Wiki:Workshop/Pony_POV_Series_Season_One:_Reharmonization

Also can be considered Season Zero Point Five.

Raven Inkwell has been the royal aid to Celestia for all her life. Now that Twilight has taken the throne, she too will learn to harness the gift that Raven has to offer. But what exactly is Raven? And why has nobody bothered to ask this before?

A commission for Snow Quill, who also did the art!

This story is a sequel to Trixie's New Role

When Trixie wakes up in Celestia's bed she's stunned and finds out she's spilled her guts to Celestia the previous night. Apparently Celestia assumed something that Trixie hadn't and that leads to some troubles.

This is a rewrite of one of my more popular stories to see how people might like a more traditional style of writing from me.

Twilight has never been interested in romance, at least not for herself. But a rather flustered epiphany changes that and now she must try and work out what it is, exactly, that she feels for her athletic friend, Rainbow Dash. A friend she's convinced would never like her back in the same way.

It's going to take a bit of courage to measure the degree of her affections and to test the waters... but perhaps it'll be worth it.

To ponies, the Windigos are some of the worst beings imaginable, but for young Orli, they are the brethren she is proud to accept. For too long, she felt that pony society would only accept her from afar, and so she chooses to provide unseen aid as her kind has done for centuries. But as she recalls the brave actions of her mother, she inadvertently performs one of her own, one that leads her to a sudden epiphany: perhaps enemies don't always stay enemies...

For the Equestria Daily Outside Insight contest.

Luna's homecoming tour has taken her to every major city in Equestria. Every city but one. Lunangrad, the frozen sentinel of Equestria's forbidding north, and Luna's ancient sacred center.

Twilight, along for the ride, finds herself drawn inwards towards some horrible secret as the world she knows trembles before some great revelation. The Pilgrimage has begun.

While Tirek is brooding in confinement, Celestia sends him an unexpected visitor.

Hey look, some person did a reading of it.

The Crystal Empire. A great kingdom, new in its birth, and unproven, but with much to gain if it moves fast. It holds enough troops to put up a great deal of resistance, especially when led by a stallion who has no moral obligations, and magic no other pony has ever used.

On the other side, we have Equestria. At peace for so long, and yet, still having a strong, standing army. Its length gives itself plenty of resources, but to cross such terrain takes time. Led by a powerful bureaucrat, and supposedly no sister, Celestia is a force few would wish to deal with, and many are inspired by.

Who wins when these two clash?

If anyone else thinks of Germany and Russia here, you know why I made this. I hope to look at all the ways Sombra could fail, or even perhaps, win. I have plenty of thoughts on the matter myself, but if you would like to suggest a way for this timeline to go for either side's favor, please, let me know, I will take it into consideration.

Thank you to RK_Striker and StardustSurvivor.