Celestia reunites with her former student over tea after a forty-year vacation spanning the world, only to find that Twilight has changed quite a bit more than she expected.
Rarity is known throughout Ponyville and Canterlot as generous, beautiful, and a notorious flirt. Twilight has something she wants to clear up about that last part.
Discord, facing off against the Elements of Harmony in a final stand, thinks that pulling a future version of himself may give him the edge he needs to win… He was very wrong.
Celestia is the very image of beauty and perfection, and has been for over a thousand years. Inevitably, she receives a large number of letters every Hearts and Hooves Day. Luna is not amused, especially when they interfere with politics.
After seeing Rarity's new boyfriend, Spike realizes that he's too ugly to ever date her. But what if he's not ever attractive enough to date anypony? It takes a conversation with Twilight to help him realize just how special he is.
I love my brother. I know lesser mares would've quit by now. When he boarded that train to the changeling territory, he was still Macintosh. When he came back he was still the same, but... different.
During one particularly stressful day, Sweetie Belle gets into Rarity's makeup. Rarity demands an explanation. The answer isn't quite as simple as one sister trying to emulate another.
Pinkie asks Spike to keep Maud company until she gets off work, but he can't just sit there and say nothing to Maud, right? But she barely talks back, so he continues filling the silence, and... well, he should have stayed quiet.
Dear Princess Celestia, I'm sorry I haven't written in a while. Things seem to be falling through the cracks lately. Spike thinks I should go see the doctor, but...
Cheese Sandwich doesn't consider his own birthday to be more special than the happy faces he encounters. After getting a doozy pointing him to Ponyville, it might shock everyone with who he happens to share the same birthday with.
When Twilight gets an advance preview of what she'll look like a few years after ascending the throne, she is not impressed. Can a certain special (soon to be not so) little guy help her see that the future might not all be that bad, after all?