Twilight is gone, living in the castle as a Princess.
But her presence still burns brightly in her friend's hearts as they are left at home, to wait for her return.

What happens when a DJ, captain of the royal guard and a lunar guard have too much to drink and a deck of cards? Games of dress up poker. How can such events be explained to their respective significant others or commanding officers? Read and find out.
Image by Silfoe. Again. :P

Lyra explains the unfortunate series of events that drove her to cry when the parasprite devoured her pie. Very minor shipping elements, with Bon Bon, obviously. It was inevitable.

After being brutally rejected by Rainbow Dash once again, Scootaloo is left distraught. that is until a kinder pegasus comes into her life and shows her some compassion.

Picture by Kloudmutt http://kloudmutt.deviantart.com/

"I can handle the cold. I'm a pegasus. Pegasi are supposed to be able to handle the cold. Sure, most of them have a warm, fluffy cloud home and a nice warm bed...and this is the coldest winter I've ever had to survive through...but I'm tough. I'll be fine...It's just a little cold weather..."

Thanks to my pre-reader: Mcstuffins
Cover art: kanashiipanda
"Alternate Universe" in only the strictest sense. Some things deviate from the show's canon, but only by a little

Chinese Translation: Link
Russian Translation: Link

The start of February gets all of the children at Ponyville Elementary in a good mood, no matter what the weather is like, because they know Hearts and Hooves Day is coming up.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders are having a bit of difficulty finding out how dating really works. Applebloom doesn't know what to say, Sweetie Belle doesn't know what to do, and Scootaloo... well, Scootaloo has an entirely different problem.

When the call to go to war in foreign lands has finally arisen, Shining Armor takes one last look at the pictures that adorn the hallway and staircase. Doing so reminds the unicorn of times of innocence, peace, and devotion to the greater good.

Twilight Sparkle is working on a new teleportation spell. This one is different because it allows her to travel distances much further than usual.
But, as no one suspects, she makes and error in her calculations, and she finds herself in a place that she does not recognize. The only sign of life are the corpses of trees.
It's cold, so very cold, and she is lonely. Will she ever find her way back?

Inspired by that awesome (but very sad) picture. Twilight Sparkle posted it on Ponyhoof. I haz been inspired. Wait...this is my first story without humans in it! Nice! I made it bigger, and cropped it down a bit, but nothing else, I swears it. I swears....on...on the precious! Yes, we swears.

When Twilight springs some great news on her friends, she didn't seem to notice that Rainbow was less than ecstatic. In fact, it was all the pegasus could do to not pin her down and force her to take it back! Now, time is running out, and Rainbow Dash has to make a decision. Should she take a chance? Nothing is worse than the road not traveled, right?

Wrong.

An Equestria Daily feature from a time when that meant something.

Rarity, a name that will ring as a topnotch tailor and worker by many. But time doesn't stand still for anypony. For she has reached her final night with love and passion. But even Rarity knows that when it is time to go, you don't need to fight death off. Embrace it as a friend you never had but always wanted to have.

Follow the elder unicorn as she goes through the last night of her life, but also join her on the road to the Great Beyond. The realm where all the souls go to when they pass away and what joys they shall bring to her.

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You can consider this my 'one year anniversary story' as I came up with it after I wrote the blog.