In the wake of a harrowing experience in the caves beneath The Pie Farm, Pinkie Pie is left twice-cursed—first by disturbing visions, and then by a question: will she ever sleep again?
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Huge thanks to Chudo, RB, TMBT, Oblivion, Wayward, Smokinguy, and gapty for helping fine-tune the fic via prereading and editing.

Cover art done by MissTwipie.

A lot can happen in a single night. Friends can be made, perspectives can shift, the world can be saved...

Four weeks have passed since Nightmare Moon's defeat, and Twilight is still living in Canterlot. It's a beautiful city with boundless opportunities available to those who chase them, but a certain few things could stand to be improved. The din of rioting voices still echo in Twilight's mind, her mentor is absent, her mother is stuck beneath all the paperwork, and worst of all...

... it is still in the sky.

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The starting point of the Triad Verse. Serves as a direct prologue to both Golden Ghost Library and Paint the Town Red.

Set after a thoroughly restructured version of Nightmare Moon's return. Contains occasional dark imagery and mentions of death, but is otherwise safe.

The original draft of this story can be found here if you're interested.

Aria Blaze is history's most prolific composer. Writing music constantly for upwards of a thousand years will earn you that title. Now, after a defeat which robbed the three sirens of a magic they've known their entire lives, she relies more than ever on her passion to carry her through an uncertain time. Whatever form fate thrusts upon her, she will never stop making music, and that's all that matters...or it would be, if she could get one roommate to stop pestering her, and the other to stop a downward spiral of self-destruction.

Sunset Shimmer wears a leather jacket, walks with confidence, and used to be the school bully. So it's only obvious that she could probably kick anybody's ass.

Tonight, she's having her friends over and they're going to find out just how true that statement really is.

Edited by: Autumn Bramble

Apparently someone made a Spanish translation of this fic, so that's pretty rad.

Applejack would profess herself to be something of a genius when it comes to produce. She can spot what kind of tactics an unfamiliar vegetable will use to grow before she even plants it in the ground, and taste her way through an entire collection of wine and transmogrified fruit with ease.

But there’s a problem. Applejack thinks she has seen all she needs to see. The concept of learning about new ways of farming and new kinds of crops used to excite her, but now she has reached a limit. She knows about every fruit and vegetable relevant to her work, but no further. What good is knowing how to farm something she knows doesn’t grow in Equestria?

With a bit of encouragement and a small kick up the backside for good luck, Discord will show her.

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Warning: Contains instances of Google Translate. You have been warned.
Edited by Eldorado and MasterFrasca!
Cover art from the Musingsaremagic Tumblr.

He's misanthropic, anti-social, lazy, shallow, and kind of a jerk. He's also not very bright. So why on Earth -- any Earth -- would a complete stranger expend the magical energy necessary to shove him into another reality, give him unfathomable power, and grant his every last wish?

Why indeed...

As requested, here's my parody of the second-worst thing to ever happen to fanfiction.* The cover art is only tangentially related, but it amuses me, so I'll keep it unless something better comes along. (A talented artist who loathes this ponyfic sub-genre as much as I do might attempt at some point to draw the main character in all his gear, but I'm not counting on it.)

*The number one spot goes to Erika "Snowqueens Icedragon" Mitchell, a/k/a E.L. James.

A broad, clear path runs through a deep wood on the far side of Ponyville.

No one goes there.

Four young colts want to know why.

Moonlight Raven enjoys darkness and gloom. Nopony understands her. If only she could meet a vampony or something, but what are the chances of that?

After the long winter, the first earth pony-assisted crops of the spring have come in, apples included. But Applejack has something more important to worry about, which will make her question her family, her life, and her very destiny.

A reimagining of "Owl's Well that Ends Well" and winner of Skeeter the Lurker's Switcheroo! contest.

What if Rainbow Dash never existed to turn six young lives upside down with her Sonic Rainboom?

Harmony will always find its Element-bearers, and something certainly would have united six friends to wield them ... but a change as small as the flapping of a butterfly's wings can have enormous effects on everything that follows.

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Second-place winner in Skeeter the Lurker's "Switcheroo!" competition! This entry centers around the episode "Sonic Rainboom" (with influences from several others).

"Recommended" by Present Perfect: "Though this is well-worn material, the directions in which horizon takes it are remarkable. ... That alone makes it worth the read."
Reviewed by PaulAsaran: "horizon's re-imagining of Equestria is almost complete, defying the norms and tossing most of our expectations to the four winds. ... I am very impressed."
★★★★ rating by Louder Yay * Reviewed by Titanium Dragon