Rarity has found a new hobby in meditating with Fluttershy, and through months of practice, she's not only learned how to listen to nature, but also how to read ponies and the inner feelings they hide. But she never wanted to read her best friend.
After a particularly trying episode of dealing with her cat, Rarity decides to go to Fluttershy for some much-needed relaxation. There, she's introduced to a secret of Fluttershy's that nopony yet has understood.
When some ponies look at the Bearer of an Element, the Element is all they see. Fluttershy surely has no choice but to be kind, every time, no matter what. A belief which encourages that kindness to be abused.
Flitter thinks Fluttershy is the weakest pony in the world. Flitter has never confronted what Fluttershy's job really means. Nopony ever wants to or should. Now Flitter has to. And 'weak' will turn out to be exactly the wrong word.
Faced with the frequent and perpetual collapse of Ponyville architecure, Twilight Sparkle decides to solve the problem. With triangles. Triangles everywhere.
Most of the time, Applejack is honest. A lot of the time, she's faithful and strong. Then, sometimes, she's full of squirrels piloting her in a war with the Chipmunk Confederacy over a sacred acorn.
Queen Rarity constantly rejected the advances of other noble ponies - after all, her bodyguard Twilight was already her secret special somepony. Unfortunately for them both, Sweetie Belle is intent on finding out who is her sister's secret crush
Sweetie_Belle.jpg lives a fulfilling life, surrounded by close friends and family as she traverses the unusually thin world she lives in. She will become a hero, whether she likes it or not.
For Twilight, the increased lifespan that came with princesshood had forced her to outlive her friends, but thanks to Rarity, she will learn that centuries could be lived in but a single day.
As Twilight attempts to get Starlight Glimmer to see the error of her ways, Spike can't help but interject. If Starlight had a portal to take her to any place or any time, why fixate on one single event when she could accomplish so much more?
When one fateful search through the Everfree Forest leads Rarity to a secret library inhabited by the spirit of an ancient alicorn princess, she realises that it may be time to start believing in fairy tales.
Rarity liked the tale of The Four Princesses as a filly, even if she knew it wasn't real. Princesses fighting against a spirit of chaos? A library under a tree? Please. But then she grew up and found out some bedtimes stories were quite real.
When five foals asked Princess Twilight Sparkle to please try and paint the moon purple, she only agreed because she thought she couldn't do it. She wished she had been right.
An initiative is made in Ponyville inviting ponies to write their autobiographies, but Rarity simply doesn't have the time to write one. Or she thought she didn't, until Twilight insisted on it, and... how could she say no to her adorable marefriend?
After a long day, Princess Rarity's bodyguard is ready for a quiet night keeping watch over the Princess. Or, it would have been a quiet night had the Princess not decided Twilight's sleeping arrangements were 'simply unacceptable'.
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Twilight Sparkle has been on a ROLL solving friendship problems lately, but there are some lines even she won't cross for a friend. At least, that WAS the case, until she became inspired by Rainbow Dash's antics; nice knowing you, Twilight!
Fillydelphia's in trouble! A wildfire ravages Wheatland Farms, and thousands of ponies are facing starvation! One mare has a daring plan, but for it to work, she needs the help of her friends, and most of all, a pegasus as stubborn as her...
Pinkie Pie goes to the Crystal Empire to help Princess Cadance plan her baby shower. Then there's something about Twilight Sparkle, time travel, and plushies. Also doughnuts happen.
"Another day, another life passes by just like mine, it's not complicated... Another mind, another soul, another body to grow old, it's not complicated. Do you ever wonder if the stars shine out for you?"
For years, Twilight felt that something was off within her. With the emptiness more pronounced than ever, she decides to confide in Celestia. What the princess reveals, however, will test their relationship to its limits.
Just as Princess Celestia puts the finishing touches on a great gift to her subjects, Twilight interrupts her mentor with an odd question about an obscure beast. Why is she acting so strange, though?
Gilda's father taught her many lessons about life and dealing with the ponies therein. Her return to Appleloosa after a day of flight is the last way she expected to need to apply some of them.
In the single most important night of her life, Rainbow Dash decides she wants to impress Rarity by ordering a impressive drink. In other words, chocolate milk with a swirly straw.