Bored one evening, Discord suggests to Celestia that they spice things up by seeing who's best at doing the other's job: he'll handle keeping things harmonious, and she'll be there to throw a big ol' spoonful of chaos into the mix whenever she feels like it. To his surprise, she agrees to do it. He's certain he's got this one in the bag—after all, how hard can something as boring as harmony be?

He shouldn't have underestimated his opponent.

UPDATE: Featured 2-15-14!
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For the Writer's Training Ground #007 down at Equestria Daily. Originally posted on my DA account, due to timing issues.
Cover Art and MLP:FiM in general © Hasbro/Lauren Faust

All side stories for the Spell to Happiness story will be posted here, and will have descriptions for each side story.

Running from the Ghost- Spike returns without the quills Twilight had sent him out for, but finds much more than an angry Twilight awaiting his return. Instead, he finds a ghost haunting the library, so he does the only thing a baby dragon in his situation can do! He runs for his life!

Edited by The Abyss

Silence is golden. Creativity depends on quiet time to think and focus the mind toward a greater goal. Oh...and music composition is damned difficult when there are wubs shaking your house. Asking nicely never seems to get her anywhere, so Octavia takes matters into her own hooves.

Sadly, this is only the first step in a great game of chess, and the resulting prank war proceeds to break all rules of conflict in an effort to save face and earn payback. There are no limits, no boundaries, and no song or solo too sacred to interrupt -- because silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

A Christmas present for Rattletcat that got completely out of control. Tagged for sex due to humor content, not to any actions taken in this story.

Written by 'red Sage

Featured 10/14/2014, and I didn't even have to trade blood for it! Oh, and to whoever found this story by searching 'tape+mouth' as the query, that's not what it's about, you sick freak.

Celly, Discord and Cadey have been spying observing. Luna and Twilight seem to have feelings for each other!!! The problem? They don't seem to know how each other feels!! What to do?Celestia, Discord and Cadence (Well, mostly Discord) come up with Operation TwiLuna, to get the two together in their own ways. subtletly, beautiful romance, and chaos.
I feel compelled to add "What could possibly go wrong?"

Winner of the first Twiluna group competition. (THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYPONY!!)

Mix a New Years party with plenty of booze and a night so great you'll never remember it, and what you might just get is an unexpected surprise sharing your bed when you wake up.

Awesome cover art found here.

Rainbow Dash's latest flying routine was interrupted by a sudden mountain, and Twilight can hardly sleep at night. No pony should be this excited to play with necromancy.

Edited by Deceased and JustAnotherTimeLord.

Cover art courtesy of pony-berserker.

Dramatic reading by WritingStylus

Polish translation by atom2004
Spanish translation by Spaniard Kiwi
Russian translation by NovemberDragon

Obiter dicta -- things said in passing.

A collection of short stories, vignettes, and delete scenes, mostly based in the Civil Serviceverse and tending to be either slice of life or comedy. Also contains contest entries including FanOfMostEverything's Imposing Sovereigns.

Currently contains:

1. An Afternoon For Dotted Line [slice of life] [comedy]
2. The Game The Princesses Play [comedy]
3. On the Inaccuracy of Proverbs [slice of life] [comedy][sad]
4. The Nature of War [history]
5. On Forensic Accounting & Choral Singing [comedy]
6. Hoofprints [human][sad]
7. Dr. Spinning Top—Specimen Annotated Daily Schedule [slice of life]
8. Love and Other Acquired Tastes [comedy][sad]
9. Any Other Business? [comedy]
10. Songs Like Snow [romance]
11. Civics [comedy]
12. The Other Princess [slice of life] [comedy]

A little blue monstrosity has stolen a dragon egg from the arcane tower. Celestia begins a chase that may only last a few minutes, but not a single vase will survive.

After countless failures, unkept promises, and horrendous public relations that have made changelings look like a swarm of mindless locusts, the Changeling Hivemind has fired Chrysalis as Their Queen. Now, They must choose a new queen, but in order to stop past mistakes from repeating, They decide to hold auditions and perform a thorough vetting of the candidates to find the best one.

Princess Celestia wants to establish diplomatic relations with the mushroom kingdom and Rarity is sent to make a good impression. Unfortunately the island where the meeting between rulers will be held is covered in a sticky paint-like goop, and Rarity is apparently to blame. Meanwhile the true culprit, a shadowy version of Rarity, is on the loose and has foalnapped Sweetie Belle.
It is up to Rarity to clean the island, rescue Sweetie Belle, and win the favor of the islanders before time runs out.
Will she succeed?
Will she thwart Shadow Rarity goopy plan?
Will she ever get to enjoy this island resort?