It was one of those nights where everything was making him sad.

Tonight was the Blue Moon festival, and Smolder wanted to celebrate the holidays with Gallus to spice things up a bit. Gallus, however, thinks that she wouldn’t appreciate the her visit due to… some of the griffon’s attitudes.

Gallus just hopes that Smolder doesn’t think she made a mistake. The last thing he wants was for her to feel unwelcome. He would do anything to impress her in this shabby town of Griffonstone.

Written for Wanderer D for Jinglemas 2023

Special thanks to goofy goober starcoder for being the only proofreader and doing the cover. That helped immensely. 🙏

From the wise words of The Red Parade, “Please don’t ban me oh god.”

"Misty is tired of being incompetent at villainy, so, in a desperate bid to impress Opaline, she seeks tutoring from a professional, artsy delinquent to learn how to be a proper miscreant. Things don't exactly go to plan, however."

Disclaimer: This story takes place midway through the events of Make Your Mark chapter 4 and, as such, it contains some tiny spoilers.

I wrote this little one-shot in a single sleepless night, so I apologize if the quality is unsatisfactory.

"Hearth's Warming? Hearth's completely set on fire, more like."

Written for Yoshikage Kira for Jinglemas 2023

With aid from her newly-acquired friends, Misty learns how to appreciate the traditions of Winter Wishday: food, drinks, holiday merriment, and an old waltz and accompanying dance from ancient pony history. Well, Misty is actually new to that last part.

A festive holiday romp written for Scyphi as a contribution to Jinglemas, 2023!

The Young Six have been frequent customers of Sugarcube Corner ever since enrolling in the School of Friendship, and all of them, even Smolder, have fallen in love with almost every treat made there.

So...why not learn to make them for themselves? And with Hearth's Warming fast approaching, there'll be plenty of time to get it right...right? How hard could it be?

Funny you should ask...

After hours at the School of Friendship, Pinkie Pie and Mrs. Cake try to teach the Young Six how to bake with terrible results. Optional part is they all mess up badly in different ways except one of them who is great at baking for their first time. Surprise me with who it is!

Developing romantic feelings for a friend is awkward.

It's extra awkward when you're a ruler, they're an ambassador of another nation, and oh, bonus, they were raised immersed in that nation's culture and so you have no idea if the signals you're trying to give are even being picked up on.

On a visit to Ponyville to catch up with Spike, Ember has just noticed how handsome her first and best friend has gotten, and has no idea what to do with herself about it. She needs to figure that out asap, and so needs some advice, badly. Thankfully, ponies are good with mushy-feely things, so she just needs to track down the local romance expert and shake them down.

And hopefully not burn the town down in the process.

Written on commission, for Spamotron. If you'd like to commission me yourself, my rules are right here.
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Sunny wants to get to know Spike better after their battle with Opaline, so she takes a trip to the Isle of Scaley for a simple conversation between friends. Unfortunately, Spike seems incapable of grasping this one simple fact about her. Together, the two of them attempt to settle the dispute as to whether or not Sunny truly qualifies as a princess once and for all.

She…might not like the answer though.

A/N: Featured on Fimfiction’s List of Stories On The Homepage: December 3, 2023

Gallus reflects on being kidnapped, escaping a dingy dungeon, narrowly avoiding death a number of times, and defeating yet another no-name bad guy with the power of friendship and rainbows.
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A short writing exercise that I refused to post for three years.

Tagged with "Adventure" for the subject matter, "Romance" for light shipping, and "Slice of Life" for writing style.

Cover art is a reproduced painting by Albert Bierstadt called "Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California"

My entry in the Ponyville Ciderfest 2023 anthology book, "Scattered Pages: Tales from the Book of All Stories."

An all-powerful book of destiny, the Book of All Stories, has had its pages scattered throughout time and space. Containing all the stories of ponydom (past, present, and future), whoever has a page of the book can rewrite history and reality at will. One of these pages has sent Zipp Storm back to the time when Princess Twilight still reigned. If she's ever to get home again, she needs to recover that page with the aid of Rainbow Dash and Smolder. If not, whoever comes across the page can alter reality as they please, to potentially disastrous results.