An anthology of stories pertaining to Government in Equestria and beyond, especially the ponies that work in it. Each story will be tagged separately, but general tags will always apply.

None of these will be related. Most of them will be silly. All of it will be stupid.

Same goes for the stories. ba-dum, tish!

Short Descriptions for each story:

• The Star Court [Dark][Profanity][Comedy] - Celestia finds out where all the bodies are buried. Well, incinerated, if you want to be technical. Plus, a discussion about corporeal punishment, jurisdiction, and court-procedure.
• Civics Lesson [Comedy][Slice of Life] - Applejack briefly considers Nepotism before getting a lesson in government she won’t soon forget.
• The Royal Advisor [Comedy][Random][Slice of Life][Profanity] - Spike takes a tour of his new job location, and solves a financial crisis. With special guest, Raven Inkwell!
• Ponies, Please [Comedy][Random][Slice of Life] - Have your papers, ID, and Visa ready at the checkpoint. GLORY TO EQUESTRIA!
• Proscription [Comedy][Dark][Random][Violence] - Octavia and Bonbon have some business to discuss.
• Chaos, CHAOOOOS! [Comedy] - The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
• A Question of Succession [Comedy][Alcohol] - Never ask Celestia for advice, or storytime. At least not while she still has the keys to the liquor cabinet.

Luna suspected something was troubling Twilight, but she didn't realize just how deep the hurt went...or how close she was to losing her.

Art by FidzFox

Featured from 4/5/2021 to 4/8/2021, peaking at #1. Thanks, everypony!

An audio reading of this story by Rainbow Infinity is available at this link.

Longdesc

Was this all there was? For her and Maud to die out here, at the foothills of the Crystal Mountains, never having had a chance to live their lives beyond that little rock farm?

There was supposed to be something more, wasn't there?

But what?

Author's Note

Based on various thoughts about how weird the Pie family is, my Dr. Maudileena Daisy Pie headcanon, and just how much more would be different in the various alternate Starlight-induced timelines beyond the little bits we saw.

Based off a prompt from Bean's Writing Group Discord server, "From the beginning, you know the end". Thanks to Short-tale, RDT, and Techno Flare for their feedback.

Applejack helps run her family's successful apple orchard, while Dusty is the Cadet Colonel of Canterlot High's Junior ROTC. For the last few years, they had been a item, with many students looking on with amazement and wonder at the seemingly “perfect, All-Equestrian couple.”

But one day their lives are turned upside down when Applejack begins showing symptoms of being pregnant. The pregnancy test will be one hundred percent accurate a week after ‘conception’, which is only a few days away. With the clock counting down, Dusty and Applejack are left with a question: Do they spend their possible last few days of their youth in loathing and fear or do they spend it with the people they care about the most: each other?

Written for and edited by my right-hand man DustyPwny and his weird infatuation with Appleheorse.

Rainbow Dash's morning was pretty much ruined.
She tripped getting out of bed and landed flat on her face, giving herself an aching muzzle.
She forgot to buy her favorite brand of hay flakes at the store yesterday and had to eat plain toast for breakfast.
She found out she had to pull double-duty today and tomorrow on the weather patrol.
Oh, and she found a nearly-dead foal, broken and bleeding at the edge of Ponyville.

The rest of her day became a whirlpool of stress and worry but the colt woke up, thank Celestia.
Something's not right, though. Nopony can find his parents, he's not in the registers, and there's an unsettling look in his eye...

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YouTube reading by Fire Hearth

Chinese Translation by forgivenlove

Russian Translation by Likantrop

TV Tropes page, if you're interested in that sort of thing.

Your marefriend, Octavia Melody is stressed out practicing for her performance in a week's time at Canterlot. Being the only human in Equestria, and her coltfriend no less, you try to change that, one cuddle at a time.

Fluff. Just plenty of fluff.
Rated Teen for implied sex, to be safe.

Special thanks to 13 Shades of Sunset for proofreading for me, you should check them out, they write some cute stories!
Cover art not mine, check out NCMares at DeviantArt!

Mistle-what? An innocent question on an otherwise normal Hearthswarming Eve sends you on a short journey of introspection with your best friend. The closer you get towards discovering the truth about yourselves, the less sure you are of what exactly the holiday tradition of “Mistletoe” actually means, and you begin to wonder whether the innocence or question that sparked it all was actually there to begin with.

Special thanks to DE_K for editing!

Featured on 11 March 2021 - Awesome! Thanks for all the attention! Though I think you made Dash blush...

Celestia may be going crazy...

And how shall these "negotiations" through e-mail turn out?

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Its cover is torn
Pages are ripped out
And its contents are almost all lost.

But what does remain tells the story of one Crimson Wire and his life during the Changeling-Pony war.

Written in collaboration with my boi Darthball
This is also Darthballs and LSTS Connor's submission for the 4th EAW Write Off

Inspired by This war of mine really good game go play it if you haven't.
Coverart taken and edited from the Contests announcement/forum post and the Logo of This war of mine

WARNING: THIS STORY HAS BEEN DEEMED AN OLD SHAME. IT DOES NOT REFLECT THE AUTHOR'S CURRENT WORK, AND IN FACT SUCKS ASS. FOR PRESERVATION PURPOSES IT WILL REMAIN.

The Mirror Portal is a mysterious device, capable of bridging gaps between worlds and allowing access between them. It's one of the most powerful creations of magic known to equinity, and nobody knows what might cause it to falter and smash the two worlds together like a poorly built Newton's Cradle.

So naturally two bullheads figure out how to exploit it.

Sex tag for occasional reference. Massive Thank You to Casketbase77 for proofreading and making a few suggestions, on top of generally being a great guy.

Written for the 6th Appledash contest.

01/04/20 got on the trending box or w/e it's called. No longer trust said little box.

02/05/20 200 likes. Y'all realize this is a bad story, right? Those likes are ironic?