(Applejack/Fluttershy, or "Appleshy" relationship)

Fluttershy scares easy, and that's awful when her friends are pulling her on adventures while she's trembling, hanging back and wanting to be home.

Fluttershy scares easy, and that's wonderful when Applejack is against her, pushing her and making her breathless. Fluttershy likes her own trembling then.

After a terrifying nightmare, Applejack discovers that the truth can hide in many places waiting for a moment to reveal itself, including within her own heart.

Set a couple days after the near-disaster that was Rarity's fashion debut for new up-and-coming designers (Honest Apple), this story is about two ponies who tried to ignore and shove away their feelings.

After Rarity finds out from Apple Bloom that Applejack sometimes goes out to some unknown location in the orchards to work off stress. And that she's been gone out there for a couple days this time, she makes her way to Sweet Apple Acres; determined to find out what is wrong with her friend.

Oh wow! Was featured on 7/21/17!

Mama used to love birdwatching before she passed on. Fortunately for Applejack, she carried the tradition long enough to meet a real live angel. Or somepony close enough.

Preread by Cryosite, Jondor, Timaeus, Twinkletail, and Zodiacspear.
Cover art by Pitenpon.

What happens when you realize that your feelings for one of your friends aren't quite the same as your feelings for the rest of them? Do you just prefer some friends for others, or is it a sign of something deeper? What do you do with those feelings? Hide them? Admit them? And how will the rest of your friends react when they find out?

Twilight is going to have to do her best to find the answers, because they're anything but obvious.

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Yes, this is a story about romance, but I'm trying to use it to explore the relationships between the characters and see how they'd really react if romantic feelings ever did crop up, and how such a development would impact the cast as a whole.

Now with a TvTropes page!

There's also a dramatic reading in progress on youtube, here.

And also an updated verison of the cover, courtesy of Novel Idea.

When Applejack gives Rarity a lick on the cheek, both mares find themselves thinking about their friendship in a whole new light, while a young dragon must face reality...

My first romance story, originally posted on deviantART. Inspired by the cover art, drawn by mellowhen.

Contains Rarijack, chubby Rarity and semi-chubby Applejack

There was a fight and it does not turn well. But, at the same time, something tragic happens to Twilight and Applejack. Alone and unwanted, the friends think about what they done wrong.

Rarity reads a romance novel that has a small twist on her expectations. This spirals out of control and she finds herself fixated on Applejack, of all ponies.

Is the book to blame, or is it something else?

Time twists and loops, and it does not always play out again as it did before. In this eddy of time, one rainbow-maned pegasus has been cut out of the loop before she ever existed.

Snow. Everywhere there is snow. It lies in neat layers on roofs, in intricate crystalline networks in the branches of the bare trees, in hard-packed pathways underhoof. No clouds are in the sky to trap any of the sun's heat; light scatters off the snow in an infinity of golden glittery flecks and dances away back into the sky. The air is still, the main street of Ponyville quiet on this Tuesday midmorning. The ponies outside go about their business quickly, bundled in scarves and woolen hats and winter saddles and covered boots. Twilight Sparkle is one of these few.