After defeating the Tantabus, Princess Luna finds herself staying with Fluttershy in her cottage to continue healing. Despite destroying the Tantabus, the fight is far from over as Princess Luna continues to struggle to accept love and forgiveness. Old habits die hard, especially ones a thousand years in the making.

Cover art by Joellethenose!
Contains self-resentment, self-punishment, self-sabotage, unhealthy cycles, breathing exercises, and sad ending.

This story is a sequel to Love Hurts

Nearly a year has passed since Luna first turned to Fluttershy for healing, and through ups and downs, the Princess of the Moon has come a long way. Though, Fluttershy wonders, why does Luna keep returning to her cottage? She spends more time at Fluttershy's cottage than at the castle, since she can take care of ponies' dreams anywhere.

At a coffee shop the day before Hearth's Warming, Fluttershy is set on finding it out.

Cover art by Chub-Wub
Written for Miller Minus for Jinglemas 2023!
Can easily serve as a standalone without any prequel reading required.

College is easy, most of the time. As long as you keep yourself fed, show up to classes every once in a while, and don't help your former best friend through a rough night of over-indulgence and then accidentally imply you're exactly as much of a party animal as she is, you're good to go.

But if you're like Button Mash, and you're dumb enough to do the third thing, you can get through it no problem. All you have to do is go out for fraternity rush week, pretend you're not a socially stunted dork in front of the hardest-partying guys on campus, and keep faking it until you make a girl you've had a crush on since middle school think you're interesting enough to actually be interested in.

It'll probably work out fine. And it definitely won't teach Button exactly who he really is, or who Sweetie Belle has always been, or what both of them could maybe be for each other. Because that would be complicated, and college is supposed to be easy.

A romantic comedy about college, identity, and discovering the second thing through the first one.

Spike and Thorax have been living together for a while. One day, Thorax comes home and seems just a little bit different. Spike has a conversation with him about colors.

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Written for the M/M Shipping Contest 2022!
Cover art and Older!Spike design by me.

Rock farms are boring places. Igneous Rock Pie and his best friend Cloudy Quartz want out. Unfortunately for them, destiny has other plans.

Written for FanOfMostEverything's Ancestral Tribute contest. Chest out the other stories here!

The weather's grown cold, and the leaves are starting to fall. But this change in temperature's never quite so bad as long as you have somecreature with you, and at least for now Applejack and Ember have each other.

But all things change. The seasons, most of all. And as the seasons change, all things under the stratosphere must change with them, for better or for worse.

Maybe—just maybe—A weekend in a cabin in the middle of the woods might be enough to change all that. Especially a weekend with a special somecreature. Maybe it could even be enough to bring about a satisfying ending.

There's only one way to find out.

This isn't, literally speaking, my 50th story; it's a couple stories too late for that. But in terms of wanting a story to celebrate a big, round number, well—here it is. This is something I've wanted to write for a while, but struggling with writing in general's gotten in the way; were it not for EFNW being the shot-in-the-arm that it was for getting me excited about writing again, I may never have finished this at all.

But it's something. And, hopefully regardless of how much everyone else likes it, it's something I can feel glad about for having written. Here's to hoping it won't be the last time I can find satisfaction in a story.

All of my thanks to Flashgen and Wanderer D for helping me out with this; It needed quite a lot of help in the end. Thanks to Cyonix for drawing the cover art of this (I know, actually commissioning art, right? I think that might be a first for me.) Thanks to a musician that I've already thanked before, who I'll be annoyingly cryptic about.

And thanks to the many, many other people responsible for making MLP:FiM exist.

That isn't Fiddlesticks. That isn't her. That isn't her. That isn't her.

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the current draft is an entry into The Red Parade's The First FiddleDust Festival

the first draft was an entry into the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting Group's Anonymous Contest 2, hosted by The Red Parade

thank you to iAmSiNnEr for moral support

Gallus felt like he wanted to make friends but doesn't know how and feeling that he never give back. And this is before season 8 came around.

This is basically a sort inspiration of young Sheldon story s2e22 but a very short story and probably my only one time story.

Smolder and Gabby both encounter a string of rotten luck. As the day goes on, it becomes one that they won't forget.

Written for Miller Minus for Jinglemas 2021

The birth of an alicorn is a truly blessed occasion.

Or so some ponies believe.

Part of the Jinglemas 2021 collaboration.
Written for Pen and Paper, who requested a story about Cadance and Shining Armor.
Edited by ROBCakeran53.
Big thanks to Redruin for the cover art.