Starlight Glimmer wants to make amends to her friends for accidentally turning them into puppets, and there's only one way she knows to do that: magic. Specifically, she intends to have the same spell cast on her so she can know what it's like. Surely this can't go wrong.

Rated E, so don't expect anything not appropriate for that rating.

Starlight Glimmer wants to know why she's been left out of so many of Twilight and her friends' adventures this season, and so decides to have a little conversation with her mentor about the situation.

Pretty much a colour-coded conversation based fic, so please bear that in mind before going in...

Set just after the events of the episode known as Every Little Thing She Does.

On her way home one evening, Sunset Shimmer is jumped. Beaten and broken, she must now try and reintegrate back to her normal life, all while living under the constant fear her attackers will return to finish the job. As her mental condition worsens, it soon becomes apparent this is one problem that a blast of rainbow magic won’t solve...

Wonderful artwork courtesy of kul. Proofread by ForBloodySummer.
(Teen tag due to indepth description of physical violence in opening chapters.)

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Starlight is grateful for how accepting Twilight and her friends (and frankly any pony she meets) have been since her reformation, but all she can ask herself is why. Nothing ever came this easy for her before, so why should it now?

The portal between Equestria and Sunset Shimmer’s world has closed unexpectedly. Despite Twilight and Sunset’s best efforts, the girls have been unable to come up with a solution. Running low on pages to talk across the dimensional rift, Twilight reads what might be Sunset’s final message to her. However much to Twilight’s surprise, there’s also another message to a different pony.

Inspired by a conversation with Tired Old Man and the story The Last Page, with apologies to Holy.

Twilight and the others have just left a pretty nice restaurant, laughing and talking about a lot of their lives. The Alicorn is thinking about their lives too, unbeknownst to them.

She thinks about how short their lives are compared to her.

Hoping to stop her first Friendship lesson, Starlight Glimmer decides to break the law in order to delay her reunion with Sunburst.

Melanie is a young woman alone on a starship sailing through the vast reaches of space. To combat her loneliness, the ship has been equipped with a digital overlay and force-feedback system so she can create an endless amount of worlds (in a finite space) populated by the pony characters she holds so dear.

One such digital being, Starlight Glimmer, has a 10-year anniversary coming up. Melanie and her friends are planning a party for her. Along the way, Melanie shifts through the digital worlds she has created and meets friends which only her force-feedback suit allows her to see.

--You might like this story if you also like/know of:--
Lonely Space Voyages Made Better Through Technology and Creativity
Ponies and Melanie Being Friends in Comforting Scenarios
A Slight Bit of Mystery
Shifts Between Different MLP Locations/Universes
Humans Creating Friends of Their Own
Plurality/Multiplicity
A Starship with Potential Secrets

Twilight Sparkle finds out that apparently a certain pony doesn't consider it a big deal that they are related to the famous wizard Starswirl the bearded and Twilight tries to convince them otherwise.

Twilight Sparkle, pulling another late night, is finally confronted about by Spike and Starlight Glimmer. She reveals that she's been studying one of the realities she saw, specifically the one seemingly ruled by Flim and Flam. She just can't figure out how those two con artists could be as much of a threat as, say, Tirek or Nightmare Moon.

And then Discord shows up, telling her that she's looking at her information wrong. He volunteers to show Twilight, Spike, and Starlight what that reality is really like...

#1 in the Featured box on 4/25/2016. WOW. I'm... honestly surprised that so many people like this little dialogue heavy stream of consciousness fic. Thank you all very much!