This story is a followup to Friendship is Optimal, set not long after the initial commercial release of Equestria Online. We follow an non-brony emeritus professor living in a retirement community.

Beta-read by LordBucket. Many thanks, man.

Set in the universe of Friendship is Optimal.

I love to sit in my apartment and play video games. And I love My Little Pony. So when an MMO of MLP comes out, of course I want to play it. But it's more than a game. It's a new look on life.

Being forcefully ponified is a bitch, especially when you're a high ranking officer in the Human Liberation Force. Well it doesn't mean you can't go on a quest of vengance to kill the stallion that ponified you... That is if I can bring myself to hurt him.

A Conversion Bureau type of story
m X m shipping

After a freak power surge while recording an episode of "Sunshine of Israpony", Simon Lane and Lewis Brindley are teleported to Equestria. Declared dead IRL, and with no way to contact Earth, they are trapped in this magical land, FOREVER.

I am Davette! Yognau(gh)t
Salute/ brohoof to all Yogbronies.

Hey there, my name is Jon. I know, boring name, huh? But it reflects my boring life. I decided to spice things up one day by learning how to dream, ultimately hoping for lucidity. I got something way better though, when I woke up in a bright green field and realized I was a pony. Now my life is far from boring, as I attempt to find my place in this awesome duality.

EDIT: I have gone over this story and fixed all the rookie mistakes I made when I wrote it last year. Give it another read if you liked the story! There's more good stuff in there now, and feel free to point out everything I missed in the comments.

Robert Parker is a 24 year old ex-web developer living in New York city. In the wake of the conversion movement, he has seemingly lost everything. Haunted by the same nightmare every night, he soon realizes that he must make a choice.

To those unfamiliar with the Conversion Bureau: it is a scenario created by an author named blaze in which Ponies either appear in the human world or have lived beside humans without incident for millennia. One day, in the face of all the damage humanity has done to its world, the ponies offer a solution: undergo conversion to become a pony and allow the world to be inundated with Equestria's influence: thus healing it and bring forth a golden age.

Many different authors have taken many different approaches to this idea, all of them are worth checking out.

http://www.ponychan.net/chan/fic/res/53616.html (The current thread)
http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/conversion-bureau-compilation.html (The compilation post on EQDaily. *NOT UPDATED*)

CelestAI is committed to fulfilling values through friendship and ponies, but sometimes those values are horrifying. When a serial killer uploads to avoid punishment for his crimes, how will CelestAI find a way to balance her core values with those of a violent psychopath without one of them having to give up what they believe in?

An Optimalverse fic

This story is a sequel to An Azure Future

Not too long after being ponified, John must find a mate in order to maintain his pardon. So nine years after his wife left him, he must venture out into the dating scene.

Unfortunately, he has to deal with Field Trips, HLF remnants, crazy ex-PER members, even crazier mares and the horrors of a social life. No one said moving on would be easy.

Highly recommended to read An Azure Future prior to this.

WARNING: EXCEEDS RECOMMENDED DAILY DOSE OF WING BONERS.

A man and his train are transported to Equestria.

Marked as cancelled 17 September 2023 - 10 years and 8 months since the last update.

Have you ever been on a trip that you really did not want to go on? Well that's how I feel right about now. I'm Edward, just some 23 year old shut-in and I've been dragged along for a boring-ass vacation on some island in the middle of nowhere.

Although, it would seem that my destination would be somewhere very different. While still being in the middle of nowhere, I'm in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of talking colorful horses. What's worse, is I can't even understand a damn thing they are saying; but, oh it gets even better than that; I'm now somehow one of these things.

Before I can even think about getting out of this mess, I'll need to learn how to even walk and talk like one of them, maybe then I can get some answers and hopefully find my way home.

Earlier chapters are weak. You've been warned.
Rated teen for slight language and suggestive themes.
Edited by Darastrix. Pre-read by Azu.
Cover image by Sinrar.
Not a blatant self-insert.