Twilight's parents strongly disapprove of her dating Moondancer. They may think she's an utterly fantastic mare but, really, Twilight shouldn't date any of her Canterlot friends.

Like, ever.

...

Night Light may have a couple of confessions to make.

Proofread by my fantastic friends, Heartshine and Rose Quill. Also props to RoMS for helping with the descriptions.

Cover art was done by the always lovely Nova Quill. She's the best.

This idea was selected by my patrons for my August project. If you want to vote on future monthly projects consider joining my Patreon.

Apparently somebody made a Russian translation of this which is kinda rad. And a Russian Audio Reading!

Honourable Mention for the Accidental August Incest Contest

"Oh my *god* gara" - Cynewulf

"This was awful and I loved it. Excellent exercise in crossing the line an even number of times." - FanOfMostAnything

This story is a sequel to The Best Laid Out Plans 3: An April Fools Trilogy

Prequels [sequels?] are not required reading but it helps. Actually, they're literally summed up in the first chapter. Honestly, the recap at the start of 2 and 3 are much better.

After Shining Armour and Cadence's wedding went about as well as you'd expect it to, the two, Twilight, their parents and there in-laws are sitting together at Joe's Donuts and the subject of 'how Velvet and Nightlight's wedding went almost/just as bad/worse than this one' comes up and they start telling the story.

The last 3 stories where definitely 'romantic' comedies but this is more of a romantic drama and was inspired in it's entirety by a single throwaway line from a random episode of Scrubs.

No humanised alicorn parents where harmed in the making of this story. Their children however probably got pretty scarred...
The Best Laid Out Plans NEXT: An April Fools Continuation, coming next april first.
Maybe... there was a 3 year gap between 2 and 3 afterall...

Gilda came to Ponyville to visit Rainbow Dash only to find she's out of town for a few days. Deciding to wait around town for her she does her best to avoid any of Rainbow Dash's friends and meets Gallus.
Despite the chapter names, this is not a shipfic.
Mild spoiler: Despite how chapter 2 ends and all of chapter 3, this is not a shipfic

New Chapter every Sunday! [hopefully] New Chapter every second Sunday! [check the published dates, I managed to post weekly for quite a long time] Hiatus for April while I work on my April Fools quadrilogy.

This was originally a 'just write something' project to start writing again and as such the first few chapters are a bit all over the place and a little slow before I figured out what the plot was.
And as such, Trigger Warnings! Out of date Headcanon, Midsentence Author's Notes, and jumping Forward/Backwards/Sideways abruptly where I didn't think it was worth writing.

This story is a sequel to The Best Laid Out Plans 2: An April Fools Sequal

Prequels are not required reading but it helps. Actually, they're literally summed up in about a paragraph at the start of this story.
It has been 3 years since Twilight told the others to stop pulling pranks since they just kept backfiring. Which was why they'd never expect her to pull one now.

Cadence, and Shining are roughly 20 and Twilight is roughly 16. Also humans.

No alicorn princesses where harmed in the making of this fic. Depending on if you think <spoilers> is a princess or not. P.S. she is. At least in my heart.

The Best Laid Out Plans 0: An April Fools Prequal, coming next april first.
But then again I said that about this story in 2 and that took 3 years...

Set shortly after Pinkie Pie got her Cutie Mark, this story follows her over the course of a few years as she meets her first best friend, a buffalo she nicknames Bysen. Wait don't leave! I know it sounds like an self OC shipfic and... it kinda is. But it goes off in a different direction than you'd expect.

This was written before season 4. This means that Pinkie's family hadn't been fleshed out yet. Specifically that Maud didn't exist yet and that Pinkie's family was named by the fandom after the ghosts from Pacman: Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde, and that they were Amish...ish. And Bonnie and Clyde was my personal touch.
In fact you can still google those names followed by pie and they'll show up [except Bonnie].

"You probably could have just made a story of just this chapter" - Crimson Dawn

This was pulled from a much MUCH larger story in which this was a single chapter and as such there are a few things that are foreshadowing/throwing back that are just kinda set by this point in the full story and probably need to be changed in this stand alone version.
And here’s the full original story.

New chapter every Sunday! Complete!
Lyra always loved the way her hand danced across the keys of her piano, her fingers jumping from one to another in a perfect seething of chorus and melody. By the age of 13 she had already played in front of a crowd of thousands and was by all means a prodigy in her art. Now, it's been three years since she lost her arm in a tragic accident and has been dealing with depression ever since, unable to get past what she'd lost.
One day in physical therapy she meets a girl roughly her own age named Bon-bon and though the two don't really say much beyond hello at first, the two eventually become the best of friends. But both of them still have their issues and will need one another to hopefully one day get past them.
This is not a shipfic.

Based on the two's appearance in Rainbow Rocks playing the piano and inspired by how I learnt to play the piano.
Also, an important message on the correct pronunciation of certain words as clarified by Meghan McCarthy. Link.

"Horse feels making me genuinely sad right now." - McStuffins.

It's a crutch you know. [oh god I just realise that horrible unintentional pun]
We use the fact that everyone here knows what the characters look like to skip over giving any physical description beyond anything that differs with our own head canon.
I didn't describe Lyra at all but you know what she looks like. Screw it, Lyra's black!

I got this idea a few months back when the 'exclusive preview' short came out showing Fluttershy wanting to play her hippy songs that I can only assume would be about small animals, trees, sunshine and rainbows, whereas RD plays some much heavier metal. But I never wrote it... until now.

Based on a World of Warcraft Machinima - Theory of a Death Knight.

Blame my proof reader McStuffins for being my enabler and not telling me that the error here was writing this.

Cadance and Night Light share a pleasant conversation in a café. Everything somehow manages to get really weird, really fast.

Proofread by Octavia Harmony and Selbi.

Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia's most prized and faithful student, is being sent to Ponyville to learn about the magic of friendship.

And she's not happy about it.

Hear what Celestia has to say back! Check out the spinoff:
Responses To A Disgruntled Friendship Student by keaton-furman-prower

Still want more? Have a multiverse spinoff by MixMassBasher, my contributing writer for Seasons 5-9.
Letters From Across the Disgruntled Multiverse

Editing by Neko Majin C.

Disclaimer:
The following is a work of parody, and is protected as Fair Use under section 17 U.S. Code § 107 of US Copyright Law. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and all affiliated characters are property of Hasbro Inc.