Twilight wants to study.
Eating gets in the way of studying.
Therefore, Twilight wants to stop eating.

An entry for the 2025 No Dialogue Contest.

Twilight and Sunset have been together for so long, it's become hard to picture their lives without each other. Of course, the problem with a picture is its always in the moment.

Pre-read/edited with the help of the dazzling Stagehands, the ever wonderful Lunaria, and the kind Eileen.

This is my entry for the (Un)happy yuri contest! Falling under the doomed yuri category, yay! Pet the koi!

A crystal pony is defined, almost to exclusion, by their iconic gem-like bodies. So how does one define a crystal pony who lacks their most distinctive trait?

Originally written for the Quills & Sofas Speedwriting Contest #259: Crystal Pony Contest on 1/25-1/26. While the original entry was too short (and incomplete) for posting, this version has been cleaned up and expanded upon.

Ponyville's one and only schoolteacher likes to think she's good at her job. She likes to think that she's ready and equipped for the various problems that come with educating the next generation of fillies and colts.

Sadly, there are some things you can't prepare for.

I'm just kidding. This is actually a really wholesome story about filly Twilight and Shining Armor being brother and sister.

I'm gonna be totally honest, I suck at descriptions and use them as an outlet for the stress putting myself in a different body and location to write- well it impacts my brain and the comical nature of descriptions and how bad I am at summaries that don't sound like the Blu-ray disk teaser trailers for a Michael Bay transformers movie and-

Just read the thing. God help me.

(Idea extracted from BifauxnenStroganoff)

Dear Mister Quillifer:

This new draft of my chapter book for our toy company's publishing division is, as you ordered, about Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle, our two most popular characters.

Also, I don't even know what a 'self-insert OC' is.

Coins quietly pass from pony to pony and business to business everywhere in Equestria. They've been in service for centuries, used for everything from basic fruit sales to bribing pirates, but no one thinks about them twice. Even the most basic coin has the most fantastical stories to tell.

As she keeps running into the same coin across the country and throughout the centuries, Celestia wishes she knew what that story was.

Inspired by a discussion in Estee's Discord server.

Parables are stories written by accomplished astrologists, intended to help unicorns studying magic by teaching them how it feels to attune themselves to a particular star and harness its power. Young Twilight Sparkle is learning to teleport, but Asterism's Parable of the River vexes her. How can one say two different things are in fact the same?

Princess Celestia knows the feeling all too well. As Twilight forges forward, she wonders whether where she finds herself and what she tried to escape are really so different.