A Cutie Mark is meant to represent the personality and special talent of each pony that has one. Cheerilee's flowers symbolize her desire to help her students bloom, and the smiles represent the cheer that she hopes to bring to their lives.

At least...that's what she tells everypony who asks.

[SEMI-SAD]

My name is Diamond Tiara. I am the most popular filly in school, and with good reason. I'm smart, I'm funny, I'm cool, I'm rich, and I'm resourceful. Everypony wants to be me... which can be kind of a burden at times. Alula, get off of me already!

I'm Alula! I'm not quite as smart as DT here, but I'm a really good athlete, and I'm full of energy every day! After all, I get to see Diamond Tiara every day, so how can I not be?

After the invention of radio, DJ-P0n3 (aka Vinyl Scratch) holds the first Equestrian talk show with her co-host Octavia. Octavia quickly finds out her superior is very eccentric, leading their broadcast to be constantly derailed, yet somehow remain popular. These episodes were recorded for historical significance and transcribed. These are the Vinyl Scratch Tapes.

[Update 1/25/13]: Fully updated to contain all of season 1 and 2, correcting a vast oversight on the part of the author. Sorry it took so long to update it fully on Fimfiction, guys.

Diamond Tiara loves winter. The cold weather means even ponies in Ponyville wear clothes. With clothes, she can proudly display how much better she is than other ponies. For this reason, her annual pre-winter shopping trip is of key importance. On its successful conclusion will hinge much of her enjoyment of the coming winter.

Filthy Rich is a busy pony. The needs of his store chain occupy his time, leaving little for anything else, including his daughter. When a cancelled meeting leaves him with a free day, he takes advantage of the opportunity to go shopping with his little girl.

Two months have passed since the Alicorn Amulet incident. While struggling to get her magic act afloat again, Trixie finds herself filling in behind a bar in Manehattan, to work off a rented room upstairs. That night, just before closing time, she encounters journalist and adventure novelist Ember Roundup, who reveals that she has been trying to track her down for over a year, since the death of her best friend and writing partner - Trixie's cousin Gusty - as it seems Ember has a significant debt to repay...

Inspired by the Daring Do pages at TV Tropes - credit for the relevant OCs goes to Zarbi Nerada, Clato Lawa (AKA me) and Peteman.

Credit for the premise of Daring Do and the Amber of the Smooze goes to Jenny Nicholson and Griffin Lewis, for Friendship is Witchcraft

Credit for the premise of Daring Do and the Ruby of the Blank VIllage goes to Donitz, for Story of the Blanks.

Credit for the name Checker Monarch goes to Shadow Raikou and Godzillawolf, for Trixie's Gettin' Back On Her Hooves.

Before the founding of Equestria, before the final alienation of the three pony tribes, Star Swirl the Bearded was famed as the greatest teacher of magic in unicorn history. Now, one of the legendary conjurer's students finds himself exiled across time, trapped in a world he hardly recognizes. As he struggles to uncover the forces that displaced him, the unicorn Bellbray must use all his magical training to find a way back to the life he left behind.
— Featured on Equestria Daily.

This story is a sequel to Rainbow Factory

Cloudsdale Weather Corporation has been running without incident for over twenty years. That is, until two foals manage to avoid being processed and find themselves in the haunted bowels of the massive facility. Can they make it out of the abandoned factory with their sanity intact? Will they uncover the secrets even a company as dark as the CWC is ashamed to keep? And what of the workers who help ensure that, in the end, not a single soul gets through...

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The carnival arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, it is simply there, arriving with the bombastic overture of spells, contraptions, and performances, as intricate as they are spectacular.

It isn't long before ponyville- and it's heroines- become involved... and all too soon, things seem to look strange. A great number of patrons, none of which seem familiar even in Equestria... A sudden upheaval that could threaten not just the carnival, but anything beyond... And a power, something great and arcane and incredibly ancient, that sits at the center of it all...

Silver Spoon awoke one morning only to find that her parents had left without preparing her breakfast. Alone, with a strange voice lurking about and hungry, she must fend for herself. But in a world where an upper-middle class filly lacks sufficient cooking skills, there is only one food that can provide relief. Can Silver Spoon withstand the challenge of: Breakfast Cereal? Dig in to find out!

The Chalk Family Cemetery is said to be the most haunted place in all of Equestria. On Nightmare Night eve Miss Cheerilee's class take a guided tour of the cemetery. An old-fashioned ghost story.