NOTICE! This story is a randomized Choose Your Own Adventure story! The first chapter explains how to play on a simplified d20 system!

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All Sprout wanted to do was learn about chess. A leather book embossed with a rook on it's cover in gold leaf caught the ex-sherrif's eye. No title to it, strangely enough. While the lack of a title should have been a red flag, Sprout's curiosity and naivete cause him to read it anyway.

Cozy Glow? What did somepony named Cozy Glow have to do with chess?

Sprout was about to find out...

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This story was originally written for the Cozy Glow contest, but missed the deadline due to busy IRL circumstances. I hope you enjoy regardless.
Featured 10/3/23 - 10/4/23 - Thank you for the support!

NOTICE! This story is a Randomized Choose Your Own Adventure story! The first chapter explains how to play on a simplified d20 system!

My friend kept joking about filling my living room with salt, so much so that I swore I'd write a story about it.

This was purely written because my my friend’s terrible joke.

It's the weekend after the Crusaders have received their Cutie Marks, and things have changed forever. Except... why is Diamond Tiara still being so cruel? Even WORSE than the way she was before. They thought she'd reformed...

The answer to that question may surprise you. Or it won't. You visionary genius, you.

This story is a sequel to Trepidation

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Trixie's trip through the portal results in what she feared.

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happy literal last minutes of Pride Month!

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There's nothing left that can save Equestria. Not Discord, not Celestia, not Luna, not Cadance, not Princess Flurry Heart. But their presence can at least buy Starlight Glimmer time to escape. She just needs to convince Trixie to come with her.

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An entry into the Pride and Positivity event.
The first draft of this fic was the third-place winner in the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting T is for Trans contest.
The first draft of this fic was a submission for a prompt from Bean's Writing Group Discord server, "Five Minutes Too Late". Thanks to Bean and RanOutOfIdeas for their feedback.

Thanks to The Sleepless Beholder for prereading on the second draft.

As punishment for his actions, Sprout Cloverleaf is sentenced to clean up all the rubble from Sunny Starscout's destroyed lighthouse. Furious at how successful Sunny is, at how happy all the Unicorns and Pegasi are with their magic, and at how his mother Phyllis has begun to distance herself from him; Sprout constantly stewed in his anger and wished for some way to get revenge. However, when he comes across the ancient Bewitching Bell among Argyle's collection of Equestrian artifacts, it seems that the bigoted would-be emperor would finally get his wish.

Sunny and her friends soon find themselves fighting and fleeing for their very lives as they are faced with the newly self-proclaimed "Final Emperor of Equestria."

An entry in Imposing Sovereigns III, using the prompt Sprout Cloverleaf/DETERMINATION.

Sunset hasn't received a message from Princess Twilight in a week. When she finally receives one, it's not from Princess Twilight. When she reads it, she finds that it's from her past self.

Knowing this, Sunset sets out on a course to make her past self realize that the mirror was false. That being an alicorn wasn't their destiny. She needed to make her past self understand. Otherwise, everything could go wrong. She doesn't care about the consequences.

However, the ramifications of her somehow being able to talk to her past self is something even worse than she expected...

This is an alternate universe, set in within one of the time altered universes that Starlight created.

Written for the Sunset Shimmer X Sunset Shimmer Shipping Contest!

Edit: Dammit. I'm late for the contest. Nevermind. BUT ENJOY IT ANYWAYS

Edit: 14th August 2022, edited shipping to friendshipping.

When Sunset Shimmer first came to the human world, she met a very special girl. This girl would go on to become her guide to the world, as well as her girlfriend. This pairing didn't last, however, as Sunset's selfish and destructive nature drove a wedge between them.

Now, years after their breakup, Sunset gets an invite from her former lover to meet up again. No longer the manipulative bully she once was, Sunset takes the opportunity to make amends with the one girl she never got a chance to, and repair their broken relationship.

An entry for the Sunset x Sunset contest. Also my first story published to FimFiction!

Edit 30/10/21: What the crap, I won?

Just over a decade ago, two budding entrepreneurs made a major discovery: changelings convert love into power. And that power could be extracted.

Spurred on by the sudden infusion of energy, Equestria has rapidly industrialized and modernized. Transformed, technology and society has advanced by leaps and bounds - all thanks to Flim/Flam Corp and their changeling batteries.

Not every pony is accepting, however. Not every pony is okay with mass-produced changelings kept in tanks to turn Equestria's ambient love into electricity.

After years of leading her rebel organization on a campaign against the changes, the former Princess Cadance has finally made a breakthrough. Though it has cost her dearly, she's found the key to bringing down Flim/Flam, freeing the changelings and returning Equestria to its normal state.

Unfortunately, Shining Armor - her personal Javert - is blocking the only exit.

Written for Imposing Sovereigns III.

Have a helping of Princess Cadance and Integrity.

Or alternately, Shining Armor and Justice.

Featured 10/19/2021 - 10/22/2021!

And reviewed by Reviewfilly!

And listed in Equestria Daily's 25 of the Best Shining Armor and Cadance Day Fanfics on 2/14/2022!

Smolder has a thing for Ocellus. She has had it for a long time, but each time she is given the opportunity to profess her feelings, she chickens out and swears next time will be the one. Hopefully this one will be the one.

After all, it has been years since they last spoke, and they are not getting any younger.

Cover art by Kerui8d.

Set after the end of the show.