As the centuries pass, cutie marks come and go. Some are common: the healing cross, the basic compass rose, the courier bag. Others are extinct: no more mercenary companies, no more mercenary marks. A few are incredibly scarce, coming along once a generation or less: the mark for luck falls into that category. A number only manifest when the call for them arrives: train tracks didn't appear until it was railroading time. But for the most part, ponies take their mark with its associated talent and magic as a blessing in their lives -- no matter what that mark turns out to be. And they accept it as they accept themselves.

Luna, in her first truly open palace session dealing with the public, is about to meet the exception: Joyous Release, a pony who wants nothing more than to be rid of her mark forever -- and every bit of the talent which comes with it.

But marks are permanent...

(This story takes place shortly after A Total Eclipse Of The Fun.)

Cover art by Harwick.

Part of the Triptych Continuum, which has its own TVTropes page and FIMFiction group. New members and trope edits welcome.

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Lost, starving, and hunted by the law, a lonely changeling finds a traveling entertainer who he plans on using to restore his energy by extracting as much love out of her as possible.

Too bad his target turns out to be Trixie.

After a brief violent encounter and some mutual blackmail, the two of them decide to perform together in front of the town to raise enough bits and love for them each to go their separate ways.

It works out better than they expected.

Picture credit: Ashindo (Check out his Dark Equestria)
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Editors: Peter, Tek, Themaskedferret, Bluepaladin42, D48

Once more again the Summer months have made their way around, and all of Ponyville will see the joyous times abound. The Harvest celebration is seen just 'bout every year, and every-time it comes along you'd hear the shout and cheer.

Yet, some were not invited, though, for fear of how they'd act, causing certain accidents from the carefulness they lacked.

That all changed one fateful day when a stranger came to town, and with nothin' but a snap he turned the whole world upside down. He wouldn't change it back until they passed a single test, a challenge to the lot of them to prove who was the best. Now every pony started lookin' 'round with certain fright, cause who among them there could even save them from this plight?

But a certain mare stood up real tall and stated with a grin, that she'd take his little challenge cause she's the best there'd ever been!

(Vector image by Typeox. Original sketch by Mickeymonster.)

This story is a sequel to The Second Pony in Space

Long ago, Starswirl the Bearded created a time travel spell. Nopony has ever traveled through time without the use of that spell. Except for one.

Rainbow Dash has returned to Equestria, and nothing makes sense. She knows the pegasus that visited her, but if Rainbow had been gone for ninety two years, she should be dead. And she knows that purple unicorn, but she should be an alicorn and look different. Her dragon should look different too.

But Nightmare Moon returns, and Rainbow and her new friends need to go obtain the Elements of Harmony to stop her from causing eternal night. But Rainbow doesn't want to send Princess Luna back to the moon again, and needs to show why she represents the Element of Loyalty.

Loyalty isn't always easy for everypony, but maybe Rainbow can make it look like it is...

This is the second story in the Shadow-Dashverse. Reading the previous story is highly recommended to understand what's going on.

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What's the one thing most boys like Pipsqueak are known for doing when it's a boring day at school? Dream of heroic adventures, of course!

In Canterlot, every foal goes to Magic Kindergarten. Every unicorn, every pegasus... and even a certain earth pony.

I have to be the only earth pony here. Why in Equestria does this have to happen to me?

It wasn't as if Aurora was uninterested. It was that she was bored. Extremely bored. They taught her nothing about theory, nothing interesting. Class time was all about levitation for the unicorns, flying for the pegasi. But nopony really knew what to teach an earth pony. Not really. All of their magic was passive, right?

Right?

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Princess Celestia finds a photo album of her and Luna when they were just little fillies. When Luna joins the scene, they find a photo that reminds Luna of every thing she tried to do to reach her goal that day.

And that goal was to get a cookie.

Twilight woke up to a horrific sight: she overslept and is late on Picture Day! Will she be able to make it on time for a good picture, or will she end up with a blank slot in the school yearbook?

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Based on semi-true events that happened to me on August 17, 2016. I wasn't late on this particular Picture Day, but there was a mix-up. The only good thing that came out of it was inspiration.
This is story is kind of a spiritual successor to my first successful story on this site, Twilight's Name Tag is Missing (read that, by the way; see how I've evolved from novice writer to pretty decent writer). Hope you enjoy!
"Tragedy" tag is used as a joke.
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Sunset Shimmer returns to reclaim her place as Celestia's student, how you ask? by Stealing Twilight's body! only... things don't exactly go as planned.

Twilight discovers Sunset sneaking around her library trying to catch her off guard, attempting the mind swap spell Sunset is met by Twilight with a counterspell, however the incredible magical ability of the two unicorns mutates the spells, crossing them and warping it causing a very unusual effect.

now the two must work closer then either of them is comfortable with to reverse it, all the while the two of them fighting for control.

Many years have passed. Rainbow Dash left Ponyville to join the Wonderbolts. The Cutie Mark Crusaders are all grown up and now Scootaloo is following in Rainbow Dash's hoofsteps albeit with her own personal twist.