This here is a short story that came to me as I sat in the shade of a Humvee, eating an MRE. It's a little funny and a little sad, and it is the tale of how a mare named Jade became the afterlife receptionist for Ponyville.

What does it mean to truly be the Princess? To always know what to say, how to fix any problem, when to act for the good of your subjects over yourself? If this is the truth, then Princess Celestia certainly was not ready to become the Princess in the first place. Now, as she sees herself reflected in the new Princess Twilight, she decides to tell Twilight the story of her past in the hopes that she might learn from her successes along with her failures.

Fluttershy has never been happier. She is happily married, and feels she is surely living the good life. She waits each night for the return of her husband, ever so patiently...

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I know this story won't be everyone's cup of tea. I worte it, and it's the kind of story I wouldn't normally touch with a ten foot pole. However, once it entered my head, I knew I had to write it.

If you hate this concept, feel free to tell me. If you hate the story, or how it made you feel. Feel free to tell me. I won't even bother to have a flame shield up for this one, I deserve the burns.

Read at your own risk. And I'm sorry for making this.

...excuse me while I have a good cry, now.

When Prince Blueblood crafts a new magical spell, he is transported to a mystical plane of existence. There, he is informed that he is to become a full-fledged alicorn prince.

He takes it rather well, all things being considered.

Equestria as a whole takes it a small bit less enthusiastically.

Blueblood's Ascension Series:
Blueblood's Ascension; or, Alicorns Just Aren't What They Used to Be
Blueblood's Ascension Part II; or, The Otherworldly Adventure of an Alicorn Prince
Blueblood's Ascension Part III; or, Even Alicorns Have Dreams
Background Ascension; or, Alicorns are "in" This Season (Side Stories)

Recommended Reading Order:
1. Blueblood's Ascension; or, Alicorns Just Aren't What They Used to Be
2. Background Ascension; or, the Heart of an Alicorn
3. Brother's Ascension; or, Alicorn Sales-Ponies Nonpareil
4. Backstory Ascension; or, Apple Alicorns are Anonymous
5. Beauty's Ascension; or, An Alicorn Love Story
6. Blueblood's Ascension Part II; or, The Otherworldly Adventure of an Alicorn Prince
7. Bogus Ascension; or, Alicorns Don't Count for Much Nowadays
8. Badguy Ascension; or, An Alicorn's Crime of Fashion
9. Blank Flank Ascension; or, A Very Alicorn Hearth's Warming Eve
10. Blueblood's Ascension Part III; or, Even Alicorns Have Dreams

In the gardens of the castle, the home of Equestria’s princess sisters, Celestia and Luna, there are many statues. Some depict brave ponies in the midst of equally brave deeds. There are some of the princesses, mostly the eldest sister, Princess Celestia, but that was to be expected, seeing as the younger, Princess Luna, had previously resided in the moon for a thousand years as Nightmare Moon. A few are made purely for decorative purposes, or to show support for local artists.

There is, however, a statue that is attributed to none of these reasons, a statue that depicts something terrible and frightening even as a statue. This statue is the current form of a draconequus by the almost ironically appropriate name of Discord.

The constant orderliness of her life prompts Celestia to break Discord free and ask him to rule alongside her. Can Princess Luna and the Elements of Harmony defeat the combined might of the two most powerful beings in Equestria before it is too late?

When you have only memories of what once was, what can you do to help rid yourself of them?
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Just a one-shot my buddy Inferno and I cooked up (Mostly him, I just did the writing) Hope yall enjoy!

• Having been elected a national hero for his antics in recovering the Crystal Heart, a modest Spike is now left wondering how it’s possible to accept all the sudden unflattering attention and fame he’s not completely convinced is so necessary – or terribly deserving, for that matter. WARNING: Contains copious amounts of material based upon Season Three's introductory episodes – previously edited by and dedicated to Martian, Bookplayer, theburningone94 & hunterz263, TheMyth, plus the kindly input of Not Worthy, Phazon and Bad Horse. Cover art created by author.

After being supposedly 'reformed', Discord returns to Canterlot with Princess Celestia. Once there he realizes that it would be a long run before the ponies would accept him. Shunned and mistrusted, Discord slowly returns to his older ways.

This time there is no holding back.

BeauZoe helped with story development and slight editing, editing help also provided by Boolyboo.

If your entire life was nothing but an endless expanse of ordered grey, what would you do?

For the last 200 years, Equestria has been moulded and formed into the perfect order where there can be no creativity, no imagination, no emotions and nothing outside of perfection, just normalcy. There can be no chaos or disharmony, no madness or malevolence when only order rules but the pristine, perfect world is cracked and rotten at its core.

Twilight Sparkle, a young unicorn studying under the Princess herself will soon discover what Equestria had lost 200 years ago and what lengths she will have to go to bring back that which has been stowed away for centuries.

Because sometimes order is a far more vile thing than chaos could ever be.