[Additional Tags: M/M Shipping]
Sea storms are a nasty but well-paid business: the business of Mobile Ops Pegasi Stormfighters. The small, pet-like "storms" cultured on mainland are nothing by comparison and hardly deserving of the name. Tempests on the ocean have no master. They're monstrous machines of pure untamed brutality. Only cruise-liners or larger naval vessels maintain teams large enough to actually waylay a storm of such scales, and even then each pegasus has the work of five.

Smaller ships with only a team of four, like The Bumbler, could at best hope to make the weather a little less deadly in anything stronger than a squall. By the mediocre standards of most inland ponies it would seem cruel to send two pegasi out in such conditions, but that's what they are paid to do. And the more dire the storm, the more necessary their job.

Cover Image graciously provided by MalineTourmaline.

Everypony is doing their part to fight the forces of Sombra and the Crystal Empire. On the front lines, Soarin sees the horrors of fighting an endless army of mind-controlled soldiers firsthoof. It's enough to make anypony lose hope.

It's why he looks forward to the shipments from home so much. And more importantly, the pony bringing those shipments. Sometimes, all you need is one reminder that there's something to fight for.

With every breath and heartbeat, two lovers drew further apart. With every second they spent together, two lovers drifted away like icebergs at sea.

Written for the mxm shipping contest.

Jabari Swift always held feelings for his bandmate, and fellow musician Coldcast. The griffin, always while up on stage has made magic all while dressed in tight leather.

...it's all been for naught though, eyeing him. Because his attention is never on him, isn't it...? Isn't it?

(Genderfluid original character x bisexual original male character, written for the 2021 M/M Shipping Contest)

King Sombra has been brought back to life once again—only this time, he doesn’t have his horn. Weak without it and withering away day by day, Sombra sets out for the Crystal Empire to find his missing piece, chaperoned by the downtrodden and endlessly kind Troubleshoes Clyde.

They’d better hurry. Twilight Sparkle has caught wind of Sombra’s return, and she’s getting awfully tired of destroying him.

Winner of the M/M Shipping Contest.
Cover Art by aquoquoo.

Butterscotch has just moved to Ponyville from Cloudsdale, comfortable to have his hooves on solid ground now instead of clouds, but uncomfortable around all the new sights and sounds, and utterly terrified of meeting the new ponies there.

As he soon finds that he has unexpected feelings for the farm-pony Big Macintosh, whom he just met, Butterscotch has to question himself: could he possibly have the courage to take it to even first base with him, let alone beyond?

Yes, yes he does. WAAAAY beyond first base. Or even second, or third.

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Last minute submission for the September 2021 M/M Shipping Contest.

This is the teen version of this story. Mature version can be found here: <link when done>.

Obvious Flutter/ButterMac ship-fic is obvious. I've always found this couple's male/female couple adorable and finally decided to take my own spin on a Flutter/ButterMac romance now that I believe my writing skills could do it any amount of justice. Plus, this is an entry for a contest. This is also my first foray into male/male romance or sexual relations, so here's hoping I did it justice.

Also, this is only tagged 'Alternate Universe' because Mac never gets with Sugar Belle, like in the official show's universe.

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Unrelated to the story tags, but there's a brief scene involved where a complete perv is trying to (unsuccessfully) solicit and exploit a vulnerable, clueless stallion for sex. If that disturbs you, well...yeah, it doesn't actually end in anything except comeuppance for him.

Contains: A secret crush situation, then a budding, then growing, romance between two stallions, including kissing, dating, and so on; mentions of mares in estrus, m/m fantasies, implied masturbation, making out, pheromones/scents, implied sex, aftersex cuddling. May also contain other things I forgot, but nothing explicitly sexual. That's in the other version.

Credits:

Written with help idea and editing help from my friend AngelDust. Thanks!

Cover art is by cartoonlion, and was found on Derpibooru.

Days after returning from his (unintentional) grand adventure to reunite the pony races, Hitch Trailblazer is called to the home of Sprout and Phyllis Cloverleaf following an event in Maretime Bay.

Days after trying to harm the very ponies Hitch worked to help, Sprout finds himself stuck in his garden following a series of events mostly out of his control.

Now face-to-face, both stallions realize that they both need help only the other can provide.

Written for the M/M Shipping Contest! But let's be honest, I was just looking for an excuse to do Hitch/Sprout eventually.
Art by FraumFlug! Go follow them for more cute art.

Shortly after the premiere of his sixth symphony, Pyotr Tchaicoltsky, composer of Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker is dying. Far away from his home country and stuck in Manehattan, he expects that he will spend his final days alone. That is until he gets an unexpected visitor - a griffon by the name of Gregory has come to the dying composer for an unusual request... to ask him out on a date. Seeing that he has nothing left to loose, he agrees to do it the day before he dies. What the old composer doesn't know is that this final date has a few surprises.

A huge thank you to Lilrq28 for proofreading this story.

This story is written as an entry for the M/M Shipping Contest!

Update: This story has been awarded The Medallion of Melancholy from the M/M Shipping Contest!

Ever since he first saw the charming and dashing Flash Sentry, Sunburst is head over hooves in love. Unfortunately, all his attempts to get the stallion to notice him are all in vain. Starlight and Twilight make it their mission to get them together. Will they succeed?

Written for the M/M Shipping Contest

Cover art belongs to SUGARKITTYCAT04.

Oh my gosh, featured on the first day!! Squeeeee, thank you so much everyone!!

Princess Twilight Sparkle, Principal Starlight Glimmer, I hereby send this letter to formally request a meeting, in private if possible. There is something important I have share, urgently. Signed, Starswirl the Bearded.

Warning: Romance-driven story written by someone who has never personally experienced romantic love, only stories about it both fictional and not. Not that I mind, but I'm just putting this out, in case this might come off as, eh, stiff, or something, though I hope it won't be.

Written for the M/M shipping contest.

also fun fact no-one asked for, this was originally inspired by the Pillars fic contest, but I kinda forgot about that entirely until it was way too late to even start so here it is now I guess woo