This story takes place during the time skip in the final chapter of Run Without Debugging, but knowledge of that story is not necessary to enjoy this one.

Weddings are beautiful things. For many ponies, a wedding is the best day of their lives. Years ago, Chrysalis, the ex-queen of the changelings, adored weddings as well. Her intentions, however, were less than noble.

Today, she has put her past behind her. She has been (somewhat) forgiven. She has a place in society. She has someone who loves her. The real her.

It's finally time for her own wedding.

She didn't show up.

A rare night drinking alone at your local lesbian joint is steadily sliding into forgettable when you meet a pony. You've never met a pony before. She strikes up a conversation without hesitation, and you find yourself drawn in by her peppy attitude as you talk about culture, dexterity, cherry stems, and intimacy.

Also, in a stunning maneuver of sharp extra-dimensional ambassadorship, you flirt with her.

This story did not explode! What a relief and/or letdown.

Part of OPERATION CRACKFIC STORM 2024 ( group | stories ).

Thanks to Silk Rose for coming up with the idea, writing chapters 22 and 9, and developing the code; thanks also to Meadowsys for general code help.

Thanks to IrradiatedPirateBooty ( tumblr ) for the awesome character art.

And thanks to everyone in the comments who stuck around for the final countdown!

Everypony can find love in Princess Cadance's Shipping Sea! Everypony, that is, except 8-Bit and Gaffer.

When Gaffer swears to find 8-Bit the love of his life, the two besties' friendship, patience, and incomprehensible nerdery will be pushed to the limit. And just maybe, they can both find what they're looking for.

Written for Scattered Pages: Tales from the Book of All Stories, a book that was published for Ponyville Ciderfest 2023: An Interactive Storytelling Adventure!

Art by Pixelkitties!

Twilight and Shining visit their parents' home for the holidays.
They have worked very hard all year to be on the Nice list.
But back together again under the same roof for Hearth's Warming night...

Written for tailsopony for Jinglemas 2023

If there's a holiday, then somepony's probably overdecorated for it. The Greening has seen entire homes blend into the local grass, while Lambvent shrouds neighborhoods in wool and Hearth's Warming traditionally welcomes guests into homes through making it impossible to see where the front door is. But if Ponyville's going to get dressed up anyway, then Town Hall might as well have a little contest built around it. The mayor signed off on that.

Which meant there was a period of at least two seconds in which Marigold Mare completely forgot her town hosts the Bearers -- and that she'd just given them a reason to compete against each other.

Shall we count down to the inevitable one home visit at a time? In six, five, four, three...

(Now with author Patreon and Ko-Fi pages.)

Rated C for they don't celebrate Christmas Crackfic.

This story is a sequel to Long Road to Friendship

Once upon a time, Sunset Shimmer was a terrible person. Then a pretty purple princess punched her with a rainbow.

She didn't get better.

Now she's stuck in a redemption story. Only she doesn't want to be redeemed. And it's barely a story. Can Sunset survive this satirical retelling of her rise from the ashes?

Well, she doesn't really have a choice.

This is a parody. If you haven't read the original, read that first. It's marginally better than this.

Cover art customized by Amber Spark

I regret nothing!

"If you stay in this place," Tempest said. "They will saw off your horn the first chance they get."

"Is that what they did to you?" Sunset asked.
 
First Place winner of the Sunset X Villain AU competition (October 4th 2023 to November 2nd 2023).

It's just a normal dinner at the castle with in-laws. What could go wrong?

Well, quite a lot really.

This was an entry for a duo contest in Quills and Sofas I wrote with Holtinater like a year or two ago and just never got around to publishing it. So here you go!

Twilight and Luna have both been escaping to the moon for when the burdens of Equestria become too much, and they want to be absolutely alone - except it's always been to the opposite side of the moon to each other, so they've never noticed the other there before. Now that Luna's found Twilight, she'll have to fight her for it! This is obviously a love story about the inherent eroticism of a land based tax system.

Set in the timeline between Twilight's coronation and the events of the finale.

A commission for Iisaw, one of my favourite people.