A thousand years ago in Equestria, Luna's frustration and desperation has been building for years and years as her social and political isolation grows, but just before Luna's jealousy and resentment can turn into murderous hatred against her sister, a new event triggars Luna's mental collapse and pushes her over the edge. When Luna by circumstance finds herself alone in Celestia's room she reads her sister's diary out of curiosity and discovers all of the disparaging criticism that Celestia has leveled at her over the years about how much of a nuisance Luna has been to her, but has been too polite to say directly to Luna's face.

Luna and Celestia had always supported and stuck with each other all their lives. Even when the common-ponies critisism and shunning of her was at its worst, the knowledge that her sister loved her kept Luna going. The realization that nopony, not even her own sister valued her or thought she was fit for the throne completely shattered whatever remained of her fragile psyche.

And so Luna just gave up...

She gave in...

If no one wanted her there...

Then she wouldn't stay there...

She would leave.

Luna is giving a press conference to the ponies of Equestria after her return from the moon at the request of Celestia, when she hears two words that strike her soul with curiosity.

"Holy cow!"

Now determined to find out why cows are holy, she pursues her leads with advice from various ponies.

It definitely won't dissolve into insanity.

Written by iAmSiNnEr. Not to be taken seriously.

It's a sunny afternoon, and all of the girls have managed to gather for a picnic on a hill.

Each has drifted in their own way; life has called them somewhere else.

Twilight Sparkle struggles to bring them back together: to make those giddy times return.

You have to learn how to say goodbye in life. Goodbye to friends and farewell to family.

But, sometimes, there's the odd few that will always be with you.

A typographical mistake leads Nightmare Moon's return to play out very differently. It still gets the job done, though.

Inspired by the song of (nearly) the same name.

Anon and Celestia enjoy their time on the beach.

Cover art by pink-pone on DA. If they want me to remove it, I will.

—Story doesn’t contain any copy pasted lyrics from the song. Just makes slight inferences to them—

(Takes place during Season 2.)

Princess Luna has slowly readjusted to the changing times and changing world of Equestria that she has returned to. There is still much she has to learn and she's made peace with that fact.

But then the princess of the night receives a bombshell of a surprise: She has a niece. And not just any niece, this niece is an alicorn princess just like Luna.

What will it be like for Luna when she meets her niece for the first time? And what is this "Cadence" like?

(Featured from 3/03/2022 to 3/05/2022.)

I got featured again!!!! June 19th 2021 - June 22nd 2021

Luna has spent untold lifetimes in the dream world with other ponies, and on a cold winter night, she settles in for another- with a colt who has just one hour to live. Luna's spent incredible amounts of time in the dream world, and while her body doesn't reflect it, she is much, much older than her "older" sister.

Hickory is a teenaged colt, an orphan, living in Canterlot. He's spent more of his life being sick than being well, and he's very familiar with "his" hospital room by now. One night, for some reason, the doctors wheeled his machines out of the room, letting him go to sleep in silence for once. The room, usually filled with the whirring of the machines, was actually quiet enough for him to dream.

And on that night, Luna happened to be drifting through the dream world...

Chinese translation by gezhehuohu can be found here: https://fimtale.com/en/t/25240

This story is a sequel to Details Create the Big Mac Picture

In an alternate universe where Sombra walks the ponies of Equestria’s dreams, Daybreaker - the beautiful usurped Empress of Equestria - and Big Mac - the best stallion to ever live - have began a romance together after a long and rocky friendship, and they couldn’t be happier.

Everypony doesn’t get them, but no matter. They’re in love. What more could they ask for?

This and it’s sequel don’t necessarily have to be read in order to be understood.

Man, I’m really killing the cleverness of the previous title(s) with this one.

It was a dark and stormy day when I began the next chapter of my latest book, which was concerning, given that it had been sunny just moments before.

Featured 1/13/2022 - 1/17/2022!

* Post-S7 finale.
* Edited by Double R Forrest.
* Cover art by the awesome KamDrawings.
* Live reading by Skijarama.

Celestia travels to a far corner of her kingdom to investigate a rumor about a colt with strange, illicit cutie marks. She meets Radish Root, a boy whose marks make him an anomaly in the fabric of Equestria, a mystery to himself, and an outcast among society.
When Radish joins the Royal Guard just prior to the return of Nightmare Moon, he finds his life being complicated by all the changes coming to Equestria. His marks will lead him into adventure, intrigue, and trouble... but will they ever lead him to answers?

Proofreader: Slavenger Karl
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