Rainbow Dash tries everything to get to sleep after a hard day of weather control. Frustrated when nothing works, she decides to enlist in the help of one of her friends in an attempt to curb her insomnia.

Meant to be a short story with cute moments. No shipping, but if you're a lover of Flutterdash, you might like it.

(art by flutterdoodles)

Don't expect quality from this fic.

Being a creator means creating your own world, where you pour your love and heart into it.

In a stormy night, after a strange event in her office, Lauren Faust gets teleported into the magical land of Equestria. The land... that she created. What will she do now? How will she return to the reality from her own imagination? Will she even be willing to leave?

Taking place one month after the events of the movie, Pinkie Pie and Twilight's relationship has been especially strained after everything that happened. Pinkie has been pretending that everything is alright, but Twilight notices how her pink friend takes extra caution in speaking to her lately...and how she eyes her horn warily every time she does magic. Eventually, Twilight finally manages to confront Pinkie about her strange behavior, only to find out that her actions had scarred the party planner more than she could have guessed.

[Rationalfic Deconstruction / Subversion of Displaced]
You’ve read the stories of people from Earth being “Displaced”: Their bodies are changed, their minds are warped, and they’re thrown across the multiverse, to whatever world and timeline their supernal "Displacers" decide upon.  Well, this story isn’t one of them...

...because when they tried to remake me, I didn’t let them.

A Rationalist Horror story, in which an Occultist from some version of Earth (implied to be the World of Darkness) undermines her own Displacement and ends up as a Self-Modifying Construct. Scientific Inquiry, Philosophical Debate, Rational Discussion, Body Horror, and Existential Hijinks ensue. Themes, Concepts, and Style inspired by HP Lovecraft, Elizer Yudkowsky, Gordon R Dickson, Edgar Allen Poe, Modern Prometheus (Frankenstein), Dresden Codak, World of Darkness, and Friendship is Optimal.
^{Front page on JUL 28th, AUG 12th, OCT 30, and every update after that.}

Your story breaks the shitty norm that most displaced stories have in common by being an 'actually interesting story' instead of a powertrip for a horny teen.

This is like brain porn. My head hurts but in a good way.

Author’s Notes

I often find Displaced fics to be more often Miss than Hit with me. Often, they're generic, poorly written, or just do not do anything worth reading with the concept.  This is an experiment to trt out a few other concepts which aren’t used often, even by me, including some which directly subvert Displaced as a genre, and maybe even come up with some advice for those authors. This is also a crossover with the upcoming Dragon: The Oroboroi Chronicles, a World of Darkness rulebook which I lead the development team for.

I hope you all enjoy this, and I implore you to leave some feedback in the comments section: I'll experimenting with a few uncommon concepts here, and I'd like to know how people feel about how they're coming across. :3

FAQ

Because people keep bringing these things up...

Horror/Dark Tags

I've had multiple people ask "how bad does it get?" Note the lack of the "gore", "sad", or "mature" tags or anything like that. Yes, there is blood and death at some point in this story, but the real horror of this story comes from the philosophical and scientific quandaries the characters go through: this is "intellectual horror", not "visceral horror".

Length

In the interest of this NOT becoming one of those long, sprawling fics, I plan to keep this limited to a manageable 10 chapter limit, not counting Prologue and Epilogue. No one wants to read something that long, and I'd rather not be stressing over this 6 months from now.

Sequel

The Sequel is already in the works, with scenes already written. It will be a more episodic story revolving around world optimization and interplanar hijinks.

Crossovers

To be clear, I do plan on having the main character make one of those "Token" things, but as they often get in the way of actual stories, that won't happen until the end of the story. The Sequel will be crossover-heavy.

It had been a long day of saving the world, and the usually perky pony wanted nothing more than to collapse into bed.

Unfortunately, somepony's waiting at Sugarcube Corner.

Pinkie was fine. She just needed to sleep.

With a review by the Royal Canterlot Library

Five trials. Complete those, and win the heart of Pinkie Pie.

The only problem? Spike wants Rarity, not Pinkie, but the years locked away in the library have offered him no skills in that endeavor. So he must endure the craziness—and the sanity behind it—of Pinkie Pie to learn what intimacy is really like.

Twilight didn’t know what to say. How easy it sounded, to just not think about things that hurt, but thoughts were all she had.

Thoughts were the only thing that were hers, for better or worse.

Special thanks to lilfunkman for the cover art and for generally being the best support I could ask for.

We all know of how Bardock attempted to stop Frieza but still suffered the same fate of Planet Vegeta, resulting in only his sons, Vegeta, Nappa, and Tarble being the only survivors of the saiyan race.

But what if they weren't the only ones to survive? What if, before he tried to save his race, Bardock at least managed to warn the one saiyan he knew for a fact would listen to him? And what if this saiyan managed to escape only to wake up in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic ponies and other creatures?

Through this tale, learn how Gine, the mother of Goku, will learn to live amongst Twilight and her friends, while also learning of what she will accomplish.

Spike will be aged up in this due to possibility of anything mature thrown in later. He'll be 18, and while he's not in the show, he'll be older than most of the students if not the same age as some of them.

Cover art done by RainbowDashVegetaFan123.
And the anthro look of the Young Six is the work of Traupa: https://www.deviantart.com/traupa.

The villains of Equestria are tired, tired of losing. So Discord in all of his brilliance set a fail safe, if he were to lose a clone of him was to find the being closest to him in terms of chaos, and give that being his powers, memories and good looks. To create Chaos and recruit allies. He found me.

Original posted 10/9/2014

Popular List 10/9/2014

Feature Box

Set after the Season 2 premiere.
Note; Discord looks like the Discord from the show, while everything else is anthro.

Troy Caliber and Neo Blake are two friends that have faced many things in their life together. So when they both buy some interesting stuff from a guy cosplaying as the merchant from resident evil, the last thing they would suspect is to be transported to a world full of walking talking ponies and other creatures like griffons, talking deer's and minotaur's, and becoming the people they cosplayed as in con. The ponies they meet are having a terrible case of demon attacks happening, not just near them but the other raciest, luckily the two are fast learners and find this to be more interesting than scary.

The double duo are going to face many ugly, monstrous demons in the world of equestrian. Taking them down and delivering demonic beatdown in style😎.