It weighs on Spike heavily, sometimes. He appreciates Twilight, even if he never says it.

Twilight adores everything Spike does for her and the girls, even if she doesn't tell him so often enough.

But they know. They'd go to the ends of Equestria for each other. Blood is thicker than water, and no one knows it better than them.

Donut Joe keeps his store open on Hearth’s Warming Eve. And why not? He doesn’t have anywhere else to be, and neither do the tired, bitter ponies who find their way inside.

But the Eve is young, and strange things lie ahead. Who knows what might happen on a night like tonight?

(Inspired by the song "Old City Bar," by Trans-Siberian Orchestra)

Reviewed by TheifofZ here.

Ever since they got back from the hospital, Caramel has been very unsure of himself. How can he be a dad when he screws up so much? How can he be expected to care for something so helpless? He doesn't know. But, sometimes, the smallest things can make the biggest difference.

GoldenVerse Fic.

Luna has put up with Blueblood's verbal assaults, trolling, and drunken shenanigans for four years now. Celestia defending Blueblood as misunderstood suggests that Luna talk to her honorary nephew. So now as her sister goes to set things straight with Spike, Luna's new nephew. Luna herself is on a hunt for the biggest mortal troll Equestria has ever seen.

And depending on his answers to her questions might end up banished to a far distant star, or the n-th dimension. What will Blueblood say? How much damage with Luna's Royal Canterlot Voice do? Will she really be willing to fillout the paper work needed to banish ponies to planes of non-reality? Read on to find out.

The AU Bit:

Set directly after Chapter 6 of http://www.fimfiction.net/story/212009/types-of-love. You don't need to read ToL to understand what's happening. And there are no spoilers for the fic here. Nor do you really need to have read any GoldenVerse fics to know what's going on (since everything was posted above for everypony .

Editor: Kingtiger666

Art: Myself

A ruler is defined by those that follow them.

Queen Chrysalis is the master of a cunning hive. What they lack in strength, they make up for in number, what they lack in raw power, they make up for in skill. What they lack in individual smarts... Well, Chrysalis tells them what to do anyway.

The swarm is a good army, for all but one member. The queen decides to have a talk with that one.

"How do I know you're real Fluttershy?"

Discord struggles with accepting reality when four of his senses have been stunted for so long.

Twilight is asked to choose which branch of the Equestrian forces she would like her guards to come from. In response, she invites one representative from each of the three branches to stay in Ponyville so she and the Elements can choose her and Ponyville's protectors with the proper amount of knowledge. Nocturnal is picked by Luna as the representative for her forces. He does his best to meet Luna's expectations, educate ponies about what it means to be a bat pony, and stay out of trouble during his brief stay.

4th Place winner of Equestria Daily's Bat Pony Write Off event.

Princess Twilight has to marry wealth to save her kingdom, but the king's not what she expected. What's worse, while she's to get closer to the king, she finds herself growing fonder of his captain. While at the same time the king finds he's growing closer to another mare, one who he feels a deep connection to like never before. When so many things stand between the pairs what will they decide to do in the end? Which will the two choose at the end of this game Love or Power? And what will their choices mean at the end?

A/N The *sex* tag is just for implied themes, there is nothing explicit in this story.

*SPOILERS - Please skip to the story link below if you do not wish to read the synopsis

*Also please note: This is a FlutterCord fanfiction, but it is NOT a "shipping".
It is about them seeing each other as FAMILY. Please keep that in mind
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Synopsis: This is a short story about my headcanon as to why Princess Celestia chose Fluttershy to befriend Discord and not somepony else. Considering Discord never had a true friend before and Fluttershy has never mentioned her family at all, both of them were lonely for companionship beyond the Power of Friendship.
Fluttershy filled the void of lonliness with her animal friends, not that the other 5 didn't matter, but Fluttershy wanted someone to love and take care of as her own family, in turn the countless animals.
Now that Discord is reformed and has Fluttershy to take care of him, both he and Flutters both got what they wanted.
Discord got a friend, and Fluttershy got someone to take care of as family.

This short story explains the dreams Fluttershy has with longing for that family connection and the unconditional love of caring for someone and having them love you back, and the realization that Discord was alone in this world and needed her just as much as she (didn't realize) she needed him.

Following the Tirek incident, Equestria is once more at peace and festivities abound by ponies grateful for their freedom. Princess Twilight Sparkle and her friends have perhaps the greatest deal to celebrate, especially with the key-bearers who helped them to access Rainbow Power.

So Twilight decides to spend quality time with Discord—lord of chaos and final key-giver—investigating the Tree of Harmony, and the two friends must learn to work together towards a common goal while coming to trust each other. But friendship is not always easy, and when a struggling Discord receives a visit from a shadow that claims to be Tirek and threatens to destroy the mane six out of revenge, it tests their newly forged bonds and reveals many ancient secrets along the way.