Desperate for dates on Hearts and Hooves Day, Twilight Sparkle created a spell that would make others ask her to be their date. She's too shy to make a move herself.

But a mistake made the spell go wrong. The one who would get the action Twilight longed for was one that did not want love in this way. Even if she once thought that she would never get enough love!

Entry for the "No Author left unnoticed" Holiday Competition, with Heart and Hooves day being chosen as the holiday to make the story about, obviously.

Last, but not last, special thanks to flutterJackdash for editing this story. The edits came a day after the story was submitted, so the errors I missed when editing it are fixed now.

On the day of Twilight's ascension to the throne of Equestria, Starlight, Trixie, and Sunburst hurry to get ready for the big day. But somepony has certain feelings about the whole ceremony. Great and powerful feelings, at that. As Starlight and Sunburst discuss with Trixie what's bothering her, they both begin to realize that the magician might actually have some valid points.

Warnings: Some talk of sex, vague mentions of sexual actions, and Trixie having great and powerful ideas.

Trixie has been having nightmares ever since her return from inside the Changeling hive. Powerless to act, she is forced to watch as she is unable to protect the one thing that matters to her more than fame and glory. The thought of her only friend being hurt because she is unable to do anything scares her more than she is willing to admit.

But that may not be the only thing she is unwilling to admit. And maybe, just maybe, Starlight means more to her than she realizes.

Contains some rather mild and one-sided Trixlight.
Has absolutely nothing to do with Don Quixote.

Starlight cuddles Trixie as the sun comes up. That's it. That's the whole story.

...Well, mostly.

Featured on 5-6 February 2021 - thank you!
Featured on Equestria Daily, March 2021

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Trixie has been taking lessons from Starlight Glimmer on how to hone her magic into something more focused and malleable. However, it turns out that Trixie’s magic is too unstable for Starlight to handle. When Trixie sees Starlight’s outburst, she tries to make it up to her in the only way she knows how.

Edited by: The Abyss

Starlight and Trixie are eating at a local restaurant when the former has a different magical cloud appear from her horn. When Starlight realizes what feeling is bringing this cloud, she knows it is something she must hide. But does she really need to?

Three months after defeating the combined forces of Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, and Tirek, Starlight holds a brief meeting with Twilight. The guilt of not being able to save Cozy Glow and the personal anger that she was given a second chance when Cozy wasn't causes Starlight to demand the filly's release. Twilight agrees to it, and accepts Starlight's proposal to take in the troubled filly.

Meanwhile, Twilight begins to deal more heavily with the oncoming minotaur threat, completing her plan with the gracious help of Sunburst. Anxiety, worry, and stress all weigh her down to the point of breaking completely.

Finally released from her imprisonment, Cozy Glow resists the encouragement and reformation pressed forward by Starlight. Increasingly frustrated and angered by her surroundings, she begins plotting her escape, using the knowledge and experience of her past mistakes and time imprisoned. However, everything changes when a new element, and new knowledge of the fate of her and Equestria, are introduced to her.

Additional tags include trauma.

Extra characters include
Princess Cadance
Shining Armor
Flurry Heart
Main Six
Trixie
Thorax
and Changelings.

Part of the HoE storyline.

Starlight and Trixie don't get to talk a lot; Trixie's always traveling, and Starlight's always busy with her mentor, Twilight. And for the most part that's okay, because Trixie can catch up with Starlight whenever she comes back into town. Maybe it's a while between her stops in Ponyville, but that's okay, she doesn't really like the town all that much anyways. And the last time she tried to bring Starlight with her on a tour, there were a lot of problems.

But it's okay. Because Trixie has been thinking. She's had a lot of time to think, because there's not much else to do out on the road. Mostly about how to solve those problems.

After years building up her courage, Trixie is ready to confess her feelings to Starlight and ask for her hoof in marriage, so she asks Sunburst to choose the perfect ring for her proposal.
However, Starlight has other plans in mind.

This story is a sequel to Timescales

Blurb

Boulder's journey into the cosmological future of Equestria, and what he took with him.

Author's Note

Sorry, had to get this out of my head.

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