After centuries of ruling Equestria without a single day off, Princess Celestia is driven to true desperation: selling herself into slavery as a vacation on Earth, the one place she can go without being recognized. Can the sovereign ruler of Equestria adjust to the role of a domestic servant? Can this simpler life give her the peace and relaxation she desires?
More importantly, what happens when she meets her fellow ponies who do not have a way out of their predicament. Can she bring them back? Will they even want to leave?

The bodies of ponies haven't improved much in the last thousand years. Change of that sort takes time. But what if it didn't have to? Is it best to keep things as they are? Or, given the means, should Twilight choose to accelerate their evolution?

Written for GMBlackjack's Depth in Innocence contest. Contemplativeness is an emotion, right? Here's hoping this punches people's brains real good.

Oh, and I wasn't sure what genre a framed philosophical debate fell under, so I just didn't list any.

It's just a normal dinner at the castle with in-laws. What could go wrong?

Well, quite a lot really.

This was an entry for a duo contest in Quills and Sofas I wrote with Holtinater like a year or two ago and just never got around to publishing it. So here you go!

Rose Lizhi is a young kirin attending the School of Friendship. She and her family are the first kirin to move to Ponyville.

Cover image is a screencap from The Last Problem.

Every Friday, from five in the afternoon to eleven at night, Pinkie Pie does volunteer work. She doesn't have to do it, the world won't stop if she doesn't, but she chooses to do it anyway. Even if it's doing seemingly insignificant little things.

It is a matter of life and death, after all. Literally.

Fixing snowflakes is hard work. As Parasol was about to find out, talking to pretty mares without making an idiot of yourself is even harder.

An old entry into a crackshipping contest. The assigned pairing was Parasol and Fleetfoot

Cadance journeys out to the Pie family farm to get a lesson in earth pony magic.

Honorable Mention in the May 2021 Original Pairings Contest.

Being the little spoon doesn't hurt your wings?

Art: https://derpibooru.org/images/2102903

Kindly preread by Nitro Indigo.

Having been close friends their whole lives, it was only natural that a matter as personal as faith and beliefs would come to Fluttershy and Rainbow as a topic of conversation. Naturally, the two aren't exactly on the same page with that question, yet what follows isn't the kind of talk they were expecting.

Nothing is more of a temptation to Luna than secrets. But one secret Luna uncovers goes back to the earliest days of Equestria, one which Celestia is trying desperately to keep hidden.

Now, Luna must walk into her sister's dreams to understand the past she missed... and save her sister from the the same darkness that once consumed her.

CW: implied thoughts of suicide

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Originally done for a Quills N' Sofa's speedwrite on "Second Chances" in September 2021, where we took a story that we were not happy with and re-wrote it. The original version of this story was done in July 2020. Thanks to Lofty, Vis-a-Viscera,and Draconequus for encouragement and edits.

Cover Art by Yakovlev-Vad.

Notes on the story in this week's MT File.