Princess Celestia gets legit deaded by everyone's favorite bacon head.

This story is a sequel to Swimming Lessons

Canterlot. The capital city of the great nation of Equestria. It had seen many a disaster over the centuries. But once, many years before Tirek, before Queen Chrysalis, Discord, before even Nightmare Moon, it faced a disaster unlike any other. One that threatened to topple the crown itself by the most unconventional means.

This is the story of The Great Tabloid Disaster.

A sequel to Swimming Lessons, and another side story in the A Tale of Two Suns continuity.

Cover art graciously done by Uz Naimat. Proofreading done, as usual, by Setokaiva.

ATOTS stories have their own TV Tropes page, so feel free to flesh that out.

07/18/23: Popular Box and Feature Box on the first day! O___O

It doesn't matter what a gift is. It's all in the presentation.

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A "non-entry" for https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1038499/dialogue-only-contest

I am not competing. Do not judge me. Or do, but not the story at least. Anyways, if you want to enter and actually compete, the rules are there and there's 175$ across three prizes (100, 50, 25) to be won. Good luck!

On the last mission to save Equestria, Rainbow Dash was hurt. Not critically and she'll heal, but for now she's grounded. But she also promised that she'd do a Sonic Rainboom at the next Wonderbolts show for Scootaloo's parents, and she is not going to let her girl down.

Solution: get another Rainbow Dash.

There's just two problems.

First, Spitfire knows her team backwards and forwards and she's not fooled.

Second, the human Rainbow Dash doesn't actually know how to do a Rainboom as a pony.

I'm sure this won't cause any problems.

Written as part of the Quills & Sofas 2024 Wonderbolts Contest.

Featured 4/30/2024 - 5/5/2024!

Also appearing on Equestria Daily on 5/3/3024!

In a miscommunication gone awry, Starlight Glimmer has killed Twilight Sparkle with a fork.

Luckily for Twilight, Starlight's already acquired a resumé in doing the impossible.

She's totally got this.

Coverart created by Lord Destrustor!

After an incident at a dance club in Ponyville, Twilight is thrown out for good. To her horror, she finds out that her dancing is the cause.

Cozy Glow has a lot of problems.

There's the megalomania, of course. Then there's the lying and manipulation, and we can't forget about all that pent-up rage.

Truly, this is a filly in need of a lot of help. After letting her serve a month's time out as a pigeon roost, Starlight's taken pity on the wretched pegasus and given her a healthy outlet for her anger.

That's her official story, and she's sticking to it. Nope, no ulterior motives here.

Rated 'T' for Tom & Jerry style cartoon violence. Nopony actually gets hurt. Reader discretion is advised.

Worried that she may not always be there to bail them out, Twilight hires the renowned Iron Will to stage an intervention and teach Celestia and Luna how not to get their plots kicked all the time. But can even the greatest motivator of all time accomplish such an impossible task?

Warning! Contains IRON WILL, booty shaming, implied pre-marital hoof holding, napping on the job, and not reading the contract.

Featured on 12/8/2021! Thanks!

With the end of the reign of the Two Sisters, Celestia and Luna decide to raise the sun and moon together in one final solar eclipse. Where it once represented the rebellion of the moon against the sun, it would now represent a display of stellar beauty where the sun and moon rise together in harmony. It would mark the transition to a new time of peace for Equestria, under Princess Twilight.

Too bad they forgot to notify Twilight about this. Or anypony else for that matter.

This will end well.

Huge thanks to Soaring for pre-reading and helping me get off my flank to finish this, and thanks to ThePeer for pre-reading as well!

Written in celebration of the last total solar eclipse to be visible from the US for the next 20 years!

Yes, I know it was a week ago. Yes, it's a skill issue.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders test the urban legend of writing to Princess Celestia at 3am. Everything goes wrong.

May you find many wonderfully atrocious grammar errors, if there are any o.o.