Caramel and Big Mac get ready for Hearth's Warming dinner.

This story contains LGBT themes. Emphasis on the G.

Written for Apple Bottoms for Hearthswriting.

Prompt: Big Mac x Caramel, anything but sad endings! Sad middle okay!

Thanks to The Sleepless Beholder, Bicyclette, and The Red Parade for prereading.

Big Macintosh tells his friend about his problems and how he feels. He tells about his life and how he grew up the gentle, caring stallion he is, and how others don't see it.

On what was supposed to be a short jaunt to Trottingham, Bright Mac, Pear Butter, and Granny Smith meet their ends leaving the Apple siblings alone.

Big Mac, as the eldest and the only adult, now must take on the mantle of the Sweet Apple Acres patriarch.

He only hopes he can see it through.

An entry in Imposing Sovereigns III, using the prompt Big Mac/Perserverance.

This story contains LGBT themes. Emphasis on the G.

Edited by LuckyChaosHooves

Pre-read by Mushroompone, Captain Hairball, and The Sleepless Beholder

Apple Bloom realizes she’s a fillyfooler, but now the pressure is on to keep it a secret. Her family has always been conservative, and Equestria only recently learned to accept ponies like her. Can she handle it? Will the truth come out? Will she?

Takes place during Season 4-ish

Apple Bloom gets out of school for the day only to be disappointed by the fact that Big Macintosh's boyfriend, Caramel, is yet again not with her brother to pick her up. Three days prior, an incident occurred at that same schoolhouse that led to Caramel shutting himself in his home. While trying to understand why, Big Macintosh finds it best to explain to Apple Bloom that some ponies are simply against the idea of the two dating. Some ponies, such as Caramel, find it hard to simply shake off the words of others. Regardless, she tries her best to understand.

Applejack discovers a dark secret about Rainbow Dash.

She can't cook.

Out of the kindness of her heart, Applejack tries to teach Rainbow Dash a few basic recipes. But what starts as a cooking lesson soon turns into a bit more than that, especially when sparks start to fly - both figuratively and literally. Through this culinary misadventure, Applejack and Dash quickly discover that the potential exists for them to become more than just friends.

But will this relationship prove successful, should they choose to pursue it? What will their friends and Applejack's family think? Will Dash to actually learn how to cook? Only time will tell...

(An AppleDash shipfic, just to clarify. Originally a one-shot, now expanding to a full story.)

After becoming an alicorn in his dream, Big Mac ponders his identity.

Warning, this story...
• contains spoilers for the newest episode of MLP
• discusses gender dysphoria

Twilight sealed off her heat when she was twelve, thinking it was just a distraction she didn't need in her life. After she got her new castle, she reveals this fact to her friends. Now her friends decided to release it. After all, what's the worst that could happen?

No actual sexual content. Just some sexy implications. Twimac and Sparity.

EDIT: Featured on 11/23/2019! Thank you so much!