Lyra and Bon Bon: foster parents? It'll happen, if they can only get past their sardonic caseworker, nerve-wracking inspections, and each others' neuroses. That's assuming things work out with any one of the children that passes through their home. After all of that, there's just the matter of the adoption and the birth relatives. Hugs, heartbreak, and humor will follow in droves.

Also, Lyra tries to cook soup.

Cover made by the wonderful Whipstitch.

For all those ponies with no-one to love or be loved by, with nowhere to go and nothing to do, with no place to call home or companions to call on. For those who resent the attention the richer ponies receive, and for all those who feel alone at times. As autumn rolls on by and winter is just beginning to peep over the horizon, what are the thoughts of those less fortunate than the majority?

Rarity's tea party has an unexpected visitor, who is surprised that a certain someone is sitting and sipping tea.

Cover Image by JohnJoseco.

Reading by Midnight29: https://youtu.be/GxJ6gF0qHxc

After school, Scootaloo is approached by Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Rather than the usual comments about her lack of cutie mark, however, Diamond Tiara gets much more personal and hateful with her insults towards the young pegasus. So much so that to everyone's surprise, herself included, Scootaloo reacts with violence.

After Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara teased Scootaloo for not being able to fly, she gets depressed and can't stop thinking about it. Rainbow Dash decides to take her to somepony that can help her. Hopefully she can help her little sister and get her out of her depression.

With the new Friendship Rainbow Kingdom erected in Ponyville, The mane 6 plan to celebrate with a party where anypony in Ponyville is invited. A sudden knock on the Kingdom's door however, will create a chain of events that all revolve around one former Great and Powerful pony.

Twilight, being concerned for the roughed up pony, seems to be the only one, as the other 5 ponies still think of Trixie as the pompous and jealous pony she once was.

Can Trixie prove to each other pony that she has truly changed for the better?

Read along as Trixie gives up being a magician to find something that she would be truly good at without hurting or making anypony else sad like she did in the past.

Living behind a mask is difficult enough. It becomes unbearable when the mask you wear becomes known for what you do best. Then the mask becomes a part of you, an inseparable part of you own being, one that looms over you even when it does not conceal you. This is the world that Scootaloo lives in every day. Every waking moment is a balancing act between her masked talent and her contrived personality.

This is the story of Swan's Mask.

Special thanks to Auramane for prereading/editing and the half dozen of others who gave me great feedback!

Poor little Spike. Time and time again he's heard vicious arguments between Twilight and Trixie, but now he finally sees it, first claw, and can't take it anymore- he pours his heart out to Applejack.

Scootaloo has been on her own for quite some time, after her parents were taken from her. No one had suspected anything of it. But the orange pegasus will discover that she doesn't have to face life alone when she is in need of love.

Deja Vu
(noun)
a feeling of having already experienced the present situation

Lightning Twister finds himself in a very familiar situation when he finds an abandoned colt and filly one night in ally in Ponyville.

Coverart done by: The Irish Pony