In the stars, a hundred years' journey away, the alicorns gather, to mourn, to mate, and to give birth to the new. They call to their sisters across the galaxies, and Celestia hears them.

Meanwhile, Dotted Line wants her to review tax rebate applications.

(2nd place out of 113 in the "No Regrets" write-off. Dotted Line is from "Whom the Princesses Would Destroy" by GhostOfHeraclitus. Picture by Earthsong9405 & AquaGalaxy, found by Georg. Reading by Super Trampoline. Russian translation by Doof Ex Machina.)

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After being "reformed" by the Elements of Harmony, Luna has finally returned to Canterlot and her rightful place of rule. But time has passed her by, and she must adapt to the current society to survive.

However, a rampant aristocracy, internal strife, and unsolved grudges hold her back from advancing.

And through it all, the nightmare doesn't stop.

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I would like to formally thank each and every one of my bosses (aka people I edit for) for prereading this chapter. Without their opinions, I am not sure I would have released this story. They will be listed in no real order:

The Albinocorn, RavensDagger, PaxBellorum, Kwakerjak, Page Turner, Frederick the Saiyan, Icarus_Gizmo, Blackbelt, ToixStory, IridescentDash DandE.

I do not own the story artwork. If you go to this awesome woman's page, you will find the artwork and more!

Twilight Sparkle is happy with her life. Although the newly founded Twilit Court presents her with challenges, she can still continue her studies and even discover a new kind of friendship. However, this quickly ends when she suddenly loses a large portion of her memory. Now her friends have to adjust to a Twilight who doesn’t seem to know a thing about friendship. As if all that wasn't enough, a sinister force is pulling strings without anypony being able to unveil the identity of the puppeteer...

"The past catches up to everypony. We try to forget some events, but we do not know what we have lost once they have left our minds. We are no more than the entirety of our memories. Hold on to them, for they are what you are."

Artwork by CosmicUnicorn

Twilight Sparkle was banished from Equestria a long time ago for a crime she didn't commit. The rest of the Mane 6 have been searching for her to tell her that she can return. When they do find Twilight, they realize that the trials of surviving outside Equestria have changed their old friend. Not all the changes are necessarily good.

As they return to Equestria, they must figure out who is opposing them. Shadows lurk in every corner, enemies watching for a single misstep. Not to mention, Twilight's shadows are creeping up on her. But even if they do manage to face the trials and troubles, do they have what it takes to face what awaits them back home?

If you want to chat to me, we have a discord server here!

Editing team: Stinium_Ruide
People who've helped me before:
Ex-coauthor: computerneek
Ex-editor: Holtinater

Falling into a volcano trying to impress people isn't very fun, and while it was quite hot for a very long time, eventually I actually started to feel a tad chilly, after a while though I blacked out, and woke up in a burning field, as a horse no less.

Featured 06/09/2016 (what did I do? How? I'm not this popular, if I knew this would happen I would have gone through and re-edited my grammar before I posted. Now I feel like a jerk.)

Featured 06/11/2016
Featured 3/26/2018
The editor is The Wind King
Proofreader is Nonameknight

Cadance tries to be the best mom in the world. She really does. But when she's summoned to Flurry's school after her young daughter gets in a fight with a classmate, she wonder just how good of a mom she's capable of being.

My technically-not-late entry into the Cadance Is a Terrible Mom contest.

Buckball was a low-key thing. Something the Apples played around with at family gatherings; where fancy horn 'n feather in-laws could get involved with their Earth type kin.

Nothin' serious...

Then, cuzin Braeburn had ta open his big mouth ta Applejack. That wouldn't have meant nothin', usually...'cept Braeburn wuz bringin' in ringers...

Might've worked, too...'cept Applejack knew some ponies herself...

Then they held that little contest, which kinda broke along the town lines there in Appleoosa...cuz Ponyville showed up ta root 'their team' on...and with everypony watchin'...

Ponies jest don't go in for half-measures...do they...??

(Just a small sample montage of ponies...being nuts...)

AKA The Snailmancer and the Long Winter's Bridge
AKA Princess Celestia and the Snailmancer
AKA The Crossing of the Bridge in Long Winter
(Et cetera, stories like these often have alternative titles!)

Original Snailmancer fairy tale here: http://haretrinity.deviantart.com/art/MLP-comic-Tales-of-the-Snailmancer-1-266848870

People liked the fairy tale part of the comic a lot, so I did another. Enjoy!

Equestria is celebrating the ascension of a new Alicorn. Nightmare Moon, Discord's brief return, the Changeling attack, and the battle for the fate of the Crystal Empire are all behind our heroes now; the future looks brighter than ever for Equestria... until shadows of the distant past make themselves known. An entire nation the Royal Sisters had only thought a vague possibility, an empire of golems hailing Celestia herself as their mother. Is this an opportunity for the Princess of the Sun to regain something she lost millennia ago, or is there a darker side to this?

Thanks to Alex Warlorn for letting me adapt certain mechanics of his POV work (I won't say what specifically just yet, lest I spoil events to come).

The bamboo forest, a quiet haven for Rush the reed worker. His quiet life of self imposed isolation comes to an end one night when he goes to investigate unusual noises near his home. There, half covered in the first snow fall of the winter, he finds the still form of one who will change his life forever.

Edited by JBL