An alarm sounds. There's a planet nearby. I wonder if anyone can hear me.
Total Words: 15,515,350
Estimated Reading: 6 weeks
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When the Cutie Mark Crusaders dig up an ancient magical artifact, they unleash a spell on the town that allows everypony to see a "lie meter" floating above each other's heads. While attempting to solve the mystery, Twilight Sparkle has to analyze the tenuous balance between friendship and honesty. She doesn't like what she finds.
Based on a story idea conceived by theworstwriter
Written and posted with his permission
After the most important night of her career is ruined and its saboteurs not even so much as punished, Octavia's life changes. She begins to pursue a path that has never been seen before in Canterlot, where concertos and rhapsodies give way to controversy and rebellion.
A path where symphonies are composed with cans of spray paint.
Cover art used with permission by LuGiAdriel14
Ponyville is shaken to its core when a body is discovered in the Everfree Forest. As the townsponies grieve, the mysterious Special Agent Bentgrass from Their Majesties' Royal Investigative Service arrives at the Books and Branches library and drags Twilight into a world she's only read about: lies, corruption, suspicion, and murder.
Faced with an indifferent police force, and Agent Bentgrass's infuriating methods, Twilight must put the pieces together and catch the killer. But as blood continues to spill and questions pile up, one thing is terrifyingly clear: in the dark of the Everfree, much more is at play than mere murder.
Daring Do seeks a favor from her sister in Ponyville. Due to buried grudges, things quickly get out of hoof. She soon finds herself on her most perilous mission yet... with her biggest fan in the world. In the midst of truth and lies, loyalty and treachery, love and hate, one thing is clear ― some family situations are stranger than fiction.
The story extends in Through the Looking-glass and What Pinkie Found There and The Daughter Doo: Honorary Cutie Mark Crusader.
Many thanks to Honey Mead and statoose for their watchful and helpful pre-reading.
Ckat_Myla and statoose (CatNStat) have started an excellent reading of TSD.
This story is a sequel to The Sisters Doo
Twilight Sparkle is a scientific pony. She understands things when they are explained.
Pinkie Pie is... uh... not a scientific pony. And she can't explain anything.
But there are secrets in the Wabe that Twilight needs to know, and only Pinkie has the answers.
A side-story to "The Sisters Doo".
It has been ten years since the defeat of the Changling Queen, and Equestria is again at peace. Twilight Sparkle and the Elements of Harmony have reached their prime, and have begun to settle down. Love and life abound in Ponyville, especially for Twilight's friends, but she has nopony to call her own.
There is a reason.
A series of events lead to a horrible revelation, and Twilight is thrust deep into a terrifying web of secrets and lies. Her peace is over.
This time, however, she won't be fighting monsters or madponies. What she faces will be much, much worse.
Act One of Two.
Act Two is here.
Currently undergoing editing by the wonderful Mstar!
This story is a sequel to Eljunbyro
A broken party of friends struggles to reunite.
Rainbow Dash continues to fly east.
My name is Canvas. I remember because I wrote it in the corner of the white box. It takes twelve steps to get from the cot to the wall. And the lights hurt my eyes.
(Note: The story isn't in color because I decided to try this without the gimmick! But I still recommend reading the GDocs version.)
Twilight isn't having a very good day. An experimental spell blew up in her face, an army of changelings is attacking Canterlot, and she just died. Yet somehow, it looks like it's going to keep going downhill from here.
Given the chance to correct what's gone wrong, Twilight swears she's going to fix all this even if it kills her. Which it will. Frequently.
Cover art by Pixel Prism
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