The Pie Family Rock Farm has always relied on a single heirloom, an arrow-shaped artifact produced, for all anypony can tell, from a very rare kind of meteorite. It's made it possible for them to tend the earth successfully in the harshest of conditions, and granted odd talents to some of the family members. Then A.K. Yearling, actually rogue author-adventurer Daring Do, steals it using a bizarre magical ability of her own.

Now Marble, Maud and Limestone have ten days to find her, get it back and return it to their homestead, before generations of magic dry up and the farm goes bust for good. If only Daring made it that straightforward.

Partly inspired by my favorite album, Reverie Sound Revue, and the band of the same name. Cover art by romanticponydream.

UPDATE: the general I was originally writing this in died.

For thousands of years the Rainbow Gates have remained closed.

In Equestria:

One day, a trio of young fillies on a quest for their Cutie Marks stumble upon a gate. What they find beyond the gate is an adventure of a lifetime. Monsters, knights, strange blank flanked ponies, witches and dragons and creatures that go ‘shoo-be-doo’. Can the Crusaders find their way home? And what is the mysterious shadow lurking in the darkness…

In Dream Valley:

It is celebration time for the Ponylanders and their allies, the Flutter Ponies, the Grundles, the Stonebacks and Sea Ponies. A new ally had joined their ranks, and a witch from the Volcano of Gloom has betrayed her own. But when their friends vanish, Wind Whistler and Gusty must cross a mysterious gate to a strange world of wooden wolves, diamond loving dogs, griffins and ponies that seem both familiar and strange. And lurking in the darkness, is an old foe.

Two worlds. Two enemies. Two shadows.

Let the Rainbow between Worlds connect.

Trixie wasn't sure if it was when she purchased that artifact with her last bit, or when she found herself wandering into a ruined shrine in the woods that she first went astray, but astray she certainly had gone. And now she was standing under an alien sky, empty of Luna's moon, or Celestia's sun.

Trixie was afraid that if she was not the guest of this dark and monstrous lord, she would find herself something much, much worse.

So it it was showtime. Time to earn her keep, her welcome. Because she'd rather be a guest to lunch, than the first course at dinner.

Though she might not want to admit it, it had been too long since she had a captive audience.

And who could be more captive than a Lord of Shadows entombed in a half-tartarus doom-world?

Faced with redemption or prison, Tempest Shadow accepts Twilight’s hoof in friendship, though she fears how much trauma her new friend has endured on her behalf. With a hopeful heart, Tempest takes her place at Twilight’s side, but when she falls for the one who gave her a new meaning in life, things only get more complicated.

Editors: Ponysopher and Crowley
Prereader: Toothless

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'Unseen and unheard: They must never know'.

That's the motto of the CMAA, the Cutie Mark Allocation Agency. Nopony knows who they are or what they do, but they're vital to the workings of Equestrian society.

This is the story of two of these unsung heroes of the pony world, who selflessly sacrifice their time and energy for those blasted mysterious cutie marks that the ponies seem to like so much.

(Thanks to Zemious for the excellent cover picture for this story!)

Wake up. Go to work. Save Ponyville from unimaginable horrors beyond time and space. Have lunch with your PFF.

Ditzy Doo lives in a different world than her fellow ponies. She sees things nopony else can see—like higher-dimensional spatial anomalies, fae creatures, and eldritch abominations. And she uses what she sees to solve problems that nopony else even knows about.

But this time, Ditzy may have bitten off more than she can chew. Something very unfriendly is trying to enter Equestria through Ponyville’s Town Hall. An earth pony with an hourglass cutie mark has taken an unhelpful interest in Ditzy. The Princess’s personal student has grown suspicious. And, most irritating of all, her alarm clock radio is acting strangely.

Ditzy must race against the clock to save Ponyville—a clock that keeps playing the same song over, and over, and over ...

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Traducción al español por SPANIARD KIWI aquí.
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Many thanks to everyone who preread and edited my WORDS WORDS WORDS:

Japanese Teeth
Sessalisk
Sereg
Kuroi Tsubasa Tenshi
CDRW
Clever Pun
Connelly
Justanotherbrony

Cover art assembled by yours truly, using a Derpy vector by Sierraex.

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Shoop boopy boop boop doop bedoop.

King Sombra ruled with an iron hoof in the Crystal Empire. He had big dreams of world domination and, in his mind, they were cut short by a couple of wanna-be rulers who don't even understand how monarchies work much less the world beyond their borders.

Now deposed, and with a to-do list that keeps growing King Sombra is going to have to work harder than ever to restore his former glory. If, that is, he can get out from under the hooves of the princesses that defeated him in the first place. If not, well, maybe he'll annoy them enough to force them to let him go.

Queen Chrysalis has now had a consistent track record of humiliating defeat. Alone and at the end of her rope, she has come up with a plan that's foolproof to succeed! Filly nap a pony expected to have been enrolled into Princess Celestia's school for Gifted Unicorns, and mirror Princess Celestia's devious tactics! After all, how hard can mentoring a magic embodied apprentice to defeat your sworn enemies be!? But as Queen Chrysalis will soon find out, it's never that simple.

This story is a sequel to A Different Sunset

Princess Sunset Shimmer may reside in Ponyville. She and her friends may have defeated Nightmare Moon and her forces of darkness.

But her story is just one of many. Every pony has a story, and I'm here to tell them. From the Princess of Flames herself, to the most meek and demure of ponies that are lost in the background. They all have their own lives, their own adventures in love, loss, happiness and utter levels of wat.

We'll see all kinds of stories here. It is my job to tell them, and yours to read them. may they bring you smiles, tears, feels and the desire to make a psychologist appointment.

So far, all stories here will be considered canon to the storyline set within the Shimmerverse.

Part of The Shimmerverse

Coverart by Yakovlev-Vad

This story is a sequel to The Most Powerful Dragon in Equestria Visits for Tea

Ember is back, and she's more sarcastic and adolescent-minded than ever. She's returned to the dragon lands; older, wiser, and more understanding of ponies. That's when somepony tries to kill her.

Rated T for language and suggestive themes. Cover image by Léa Imalou.