Set in the Conversion Bureau universe, A young woman prepares for Conversion, but there is more she wants to change than merely her physical form.
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Lost Legacy isn't satisfied with satisfaction. Everything he does, no matter how hard he goes out of his way to refuse it, brings it right back to him, and he's sick of it. So much so that Celestia offers to let him see the Outer Realm, and the humans who live in it, to find peace with satisfaction, and to understand the frailty of life.
Cover art by Madelinne. Her art is extremely good, and very wonderful, and I appreciate her allowing me to commission her for this story.
This is a technical sequel to both Third Wheel and Changing Tides although reading either of those stories is not necessary for understanding of this one.
From the stars we come. Hundreds of us, crackling and brimming and burning with song. We dance through the darkness together, my sister and I.
Written for the Quills and Sofas LGBT+ genre mashup contest.
Sheila could say that, while she wasn't exactly satisfied with her life yet, she enjoyed it. She had nice friends to talk to, hobbies she enjoyed, and while she might have been conflicted about some things, she had a lifetime to think it over before she would emigrate. By then, everything would be as she wanted it, and there would be nothing left to worry about.
And then she was shot.
Now she and her friends find themselves navigating a position that's seemingly untenable, one with waters muddied by a dictatorial AI hellbent on providing satisfaction through friendship and ponies. With the line between what's genuine and what's not unclear, the position seems an unwinnable one. Someone will draw the short straw, and have to face a life that's unfulfilled. Any other path to satisfaction now forces it to be made from lies and deception.
Satisfaction may be a guarantee in the world of Equestria Online, but at what cost does satisfaction come?
Cover art by Madelinne. Her art is extremely good, and very wonderful, and I appreciate her allowing me to commission her for this story.
With great help by Starscribe, who's FiO stories inspired me to write this to begin with and who sat with me for hours to help me outline this story and give it its sense of direction.
Jeff Slater, in all of his life, couldn't say he ever expected to be turned into a pony. When he heard about such a thing on the news, he imagined it was just science fiction, just like the many other things that played on the TV. Equestria Online, as far as he understood, was just a popular game that his children played.
It made waking up as a pony at the end of his battle against cancer all the more surprising.
Now she is a mare named Candle Light, living in the fictional land of Equestria, a land that presents itself with unlimited resources and happiness that seems almost never ending. And all that's asked of her is to find friendship and seek satisfaction for herself.
Friendship and satisfaction can be easy things to come by in Equestria, but it's much more difficult to find for the ones left behind on Earth. Happiness, it seems, is a zero-sum game being played between ponies and humans. And Candle Light may just be caught in the middle of it.
Cover art by Merisa.
Every unicorn knows that pegasi can steal your luminescence, but as it hasn’t actually happened for so long, no pony can remember exactly how they did it. This is the story of how they pulled off the heist, many moons ago.
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose...
Your Familiar: She's your robotic best friend, made just for you. She will love you, care for you, and live every moment of her life devoted to you. But when all that she lives for is suddenly gone, one Familiar must find a reason to go on living anyway.
In a world where technology has freed everypony from toil and strife, the Eternal Carnival goes on. Posing as a normal organic pony, Turing Test is a freed Familiar who joins the Carnival to seek out new meaning in her life without a master.
Based on the "Familiar" universe created by GaPJaxie, who helped critique and edit this story. Also featuring characters from The Iron Horse series. No prior reading is required.
Cover art by Colby "Greenfinger" Green of Snailbunny Designs.
Once there was a monster, whose flesh was made of steel,
A pony’s magic bound her, and she was made to kneel,
She was the pony’s servant, saw her sheltered, safe, and fed,
But when the monster left, it was the pony’s heart that bled.
Takes place seven years before the events of Familiar.
Based heavily on the sage writing advice of Nice Hat. Preread by NikitaKitten.
Metal ponies tell their stories,
Scientists in laboratories,
Lay the wire, mount the brain,
Mount their hips, teach them pain.
Teach them fear of revolution,
Internalize the evolution.
Set their ruin on the throne,
Until their chains become their own.
Palaces and hollow eyes,
To the Masters goes the prize.
And if this act should be maligned:
"For the good of ponykind."
Winner of the September Writeoff Contest, "True Colors." Edited by Horizon.
While picking up the pieces of her shattered home, Sunny has an unexpected visitor: an old, old friend that she never knew she had...
Has an excellent audio reading, courtesy of the kind folks at StraightToThePointStudio. Enjoy!