Ah, social pressures. From dressing like others to keeping quiet about what you really think of things, just about all of us have something to fear from those we think to be our "peers", don't we? This is true for some ponies more than others, especially when fondness for one outside their circle may go a little beyond enjoying a common mare's music, or giving a royal listener the occasional friendly glance.

After receiving a strange letter from Aunt Orange, Applejack and the gang go to Manehatten where they find her Aunt Orange in love with...King Sombra?

For the June Crack Ships Inc. contest.

Twilight's Parents are thrilled to find out she has a coltfriend.
And it's....the Headless Horse?

for the August Crack Ships Inc. contest.

To Octavia, espionage and sabotage are as easy as breathing. Assassination however is a pony of a different color, especially when the target is the newest alicorn princess, Twilight Sparkle.
Still, Blueblood is willing to risk it. Too much is at stake for him not to.

Authors note: This is my first story ever. It's really shitty.

Blueblood just wants to run his charity and be left alone, but High Society - and starry-eyed mares - have other plans.

He's not a good stallion, but maybe he's a better one than even he would guess. Now if only he'd stop being so cynical...

Bored of his lavish royal lifestyle, and the countless female suitors offered to him, Prince Blueblood takes a vacation from the good life to explore the simple quaintness of a small town. But only in Ponyville does the prince lay eyes on the most beautiful specimen he had ever seen: a brawny mare harvesting apples in the dirt and mud. Little does Blueblood realize how much his encounter with the simple farmer will change his way of life, and hers as well.

(requested by Charzoid)