Ancient Greece: A land of gods, heroes, monsters... and very few roles for women beyond wife and housekeeper.

In other words, it's a pretty terrible place and time for a renegade student of Princess Celestia to find herself. But Sunset Shimmer is nothing if not determined and resourceful. She will bend this world to her will.

That's the plan, anyway. Given how the heliocentric model is still a few millennia away from wide acceptance, maybe she can settle for finding happiness.

Winner of the Sunset x Villain Period Piece contest.

Equestria is an old nation, and one that has had the luxury of the same, immortal, regime for centuries. While this has given them unprecedent stability, especially in a land that seeks to throw a world-ending threat at them every other Tuesday, it does come with a tendency for the rulers to not so much repeal laws as just ignore them and act as if they've been done away with already.

Most of the time, this works out just fine. Until another immortal--such as, say, a starving royal changeling looking for somepony to help her regain her strength--remembers these laws and invokes them to use to their own advantage. By arriving at Twilight Sparkle's castle and declaring herself a member of Twilight's royal harem.

And she's just the first.

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Audio reading!

Sweetie Bot learns to play chess. Rarity gets checkmated by her electric bill.

Brainstorming and prereading by SockPuppet. Sweetie Bot Vector by java--jive.

Prophesy says that Twilight Sparkle will not outlive her friends.

To preserve the Princess, her friends must survive.

They may not be immortal - but one year can become a thousand at the speed of light.

An entry for Science Fiction Contest II, where it took a Committee Prize!

Additional tags for spoiler purposes: My Little Pony: A New Generation ; Mane 5

Featured 3/23/2023 - 3/28/2023!

And featured on Equestria Daily on 4/4/2023!

Thanks to my pre-readers: The Sleepless Beholder, Dewdrops on the Grass, daOtterGuy, and Avery Day.

Creaking doors that move without being touched. Lights switching on and off on their own. Moans and whispers coming from empty rooms. There's only one explanation: Something has made its way into the house. Something... unearthly.

But what, exactly? I mean, you can't really exorcise a ghost without knowing what kind of ghost it is first.

Looks like it's up to three fillies to figure it out!

The eternal night of Nightmare Moon’s reign is a harsh and unforgiving time, and growing food during it proves to be a most difficult affair. When famine hits, Applejack believes she has a good idea on how to fix the problem.

Now with a reading by Skijarama - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX1J0EIWPA8

Winona is a good dog, so she wants Applejack to be happy.

Rarity makes Applejack happy, even if both of them are too dumb to realize it.

To make her human happy, Winona will have to work with her counterpart, Opalescence.

Featured 11/12/2023 - 1/14/2023!

When Princess Cadance started sending coded letters to Queen Chrysalis via an old changeling dead-drop, the Queen was sure it was a trap.

But the invitation to take Cadance's place for a Hearth's Warming was too tempting to pass on. And so - a truce was struck. For now.

A Breezie story written for Str8aura for Jinglemas 2022

And featured 12/27/2022 - 12/29/2022!