Everyone always tells Twilight that the ones who love us never truly leave us.

But that's a lie. It's always been a lie.

Things that live must also die. It's simply the cycle of life, and that cycle doesn't care about love or the pain it causes.

Until one day, that cycle is broken by a forgotten figure from her past: a little tortoise who's not so little anymore.

This story is, first and foremost, a gift for the incomparable Mushroom, who clearly must be some sort of undiscovered species of fungus dog since we definitely don't deserve her. I have it on good authority that this story gave her Many Feelings, and I hope it gives them to you, too. :)

This also won first place in the of the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting '2021 Gift Fic Exchange' contest portion, which is neat.

Cover art commissioned from the lovely Shaslan!

It's not easy to go back to your life after a thousand years of insanity and exile. It's not easy for Luna to even leave her room. All the same, there's a special somepony that Luna desperately wants to get closer to, and that's worth facing the outside for. All she has to do is get up the nerve to talk to her.

(Cover art on its way, most likely)

It's time for another Dream story. In this episode, we'll see everypony's favorite hypno villain setting her sights on a rather shy pony we all know. However, will Fluttershy give in that easily or will Dream finally find a mare who can stand up to her? Read and find out.

Themes: Hypnosis, latex, sexy evilness but no clop, slight humor.

Co-written with Sirloin.
Edited by moi, personally.

Pony Games Done Quick: an event where speedrunners gather to show off their skills with the best My Little Pony games based on fanfics. Coming up next is The Enchanted Library, which is sure to make for a great show. Especially once the characters in the game start commenting on the run.

It's recommended to read The Enchanted Library all the way through before reading this. The Enchanted Kingdom isn't necessary, but suggested.

Written with Monochromatic's permission.

(To clarify, this isn't a real game)

Translated into Chinese

After the death of Phyllis the philodendron, Starlight gets a new—very different—plant.

Brainstormed in the Triptych Continuum Discord. I imagine this story will be disavowed by the server management.

A one-shot, co written by Able DuStable

Time moves on and years after the great adventures of her youth Applejack has a chance meeting with Rarity at a convention, and discover they have a lot more in common than they thought.

Leave it to Twilight Sparkle to create the greatest spell of the past century – and then want to destroy it.

It's too dangerous to use, she says. It's too tempting. It can't help you the way you think it can.

Well, Starlight Glimmer knows a thing or three about temptation. She'll prove to Twilight that this spell – this magnificent book – is too important to destroy. That it can help ponies.

She just has to survive using it, first.

Second place in the May 2018 WriteOff.

Cover art is "Reformed" by Okaces.

Can Twilight Sparkle stop the new menace that's suddenly taking control of her beloved home?

Spoilers: No

A short piece about the end of human life in the Optimalverse. Lan Zan has lived on the moon away from the ever increasing reach of the Celestia AI for many years, but if there is one constant in human life, it is that it does not last forever.

It's been weeks since Equinox had been hired by Abluforte, the leaders in both public sanitation and artificial intelligence, and ever since then one of the sweepers had taken a special interest in the pegasus, trying day in and day out to collect "her" prize.

So far he had been lucky in avoiding the rogue machine.

But luck can only get you so far, and now not only does he have to deal with the sweeper but also the machines in the Processing Facility.

Abluforte was created by Rusty