Princess Luna is trying to find ways to remember the important ponies from her past, but is finding that it is difficult to maintain a perfect recall over the events of a long life.

Then Discord gives her something unexpected to think about.

This was written for the May 2020 Pairing Contest.

Princess Twilight Sparkle has always been quite the student, even before she earned the title of Princess. However, her new responsibilities require some new knowledge; an idea of what Equestria was, what the world was before Order was established and the Princesses came to power. The problem is finding somebody who can teach these things.

If only there was some ancient being who had been through everything, who had been alive before the time of Order, before Princess Luna became Nightmare Moon, before King Sombra ruled over the Crystal Empire. Perhaps someone from the Era of Chaos, when Discord Draconequus had reigned over everything... But where in Canterlot Castle would they ever find somebody like that?

Pinkie Pie, reality's "Blind Spot." Capable of impossible things, things that nopony would understand. That is, if they ever tried. Everypony gave up on figuring her out a long time ago, including Equestria's most notorious scholar, Twilight Sparkle.

Enter Discord. He senses something that should be impossible, even for him, and traces it back to Pinkie Pie. Then he does what he should have done back when he was first freed from stone.

A.N. Cover art by the talented Hei201 Featured on March 29th, 2015.

This story is a sequel to Advanced Lessons

Discord's been reformed, or so we've all been told. Sure he's as unrepentant in his mischievous ways as before, but who are we to argue? So, when he tells Princess Celestia that he wants to reach out to his fellow former villains, how can she say no?

Why not humor the very embodiment of Chaos, if he wants to do something constructive with his time? The fact that Princess Celestia knows a couple of individuals that could actually use some support in dealing with their past actions, doesn't hurt either. Discord might not be the ideal candidate for the role, but how badly could it turn out...?

...It's probably best, that Princess Celestia plans on keeping an eye on things anyway.

--A fun one-shot, that lets me set up the groundwork for some future stories.--

Endcap to "What About Discord?" Twilight confronts Discord as to his true motives for getting her friends to exclude her.

Set in Lopoddity's Pandora-verse, where Discord and Twilight had a daughter. Pandora wants to know if draconequuses have their own country. After Discord's attempt to correct her pronounciation is mistaken by Pandora for the name of the country, Discord tells her a bedtime story about the fate of the country Draconequui and all the draconequuses that ungrammatically lived within it. And dad-trolls the heck out of her in general. Written with permission.

(Image is actually from moments after Pandora's hatching, though I may replace it if Lopoddity publishes a Discord-and-Pandora image that seems more apropos.)

Twilight could possibly have forgiven the thief for stealing books from the library. But when she finds food stains all over a few the thief returned... oh, now it is on.

(This description will likely change in future, but it's accurate now. More character tags will be added in future as well.)

Progress Bar at my writing journal.

What happens when something crafted by a creature with no real care for material things is taken from him? Nopony else knew the answer either. But they found out. Oh... They found out.

Rated 'Everyone' because EVERYONE needs a good knock in the teeth!

Enjoy!

Featured on Equestria Daily April 2, 2015! *face melts*

Twilight's overjoyed... the map is restored, and it's sending her on her first map mission in ages. Then she finds out who's going with her...

Lyra thinks Discord is an idiot for not thinking to dodge when the Elements of Harmony were about to strike him. Discord thinks this is the perfect opportunity for a game.

Part of the Borderworld.

Now with audio reading by Dreamless Portal. Chinese and Spanish translations also available.