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Philosophical

Junk-folder type thing for pieces largely made to explore certain philosophies and ideas as seriously as possible.

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TStudy Project With Sci-Twi
Equestria Girls
Sad
Slice of Life
You have been paired up with Sci-Twi for a school project. Unfortunately, you've been absent so she agrees to meet with you at the library to talk about the work - and maybe more.
Second Person
Sci-Twi
ObabScribbler · 2.1k words · 45 4 · 1.1k views
TBranching Paths
MLP: FiM
Slice of Life
Life is like a tree: growing, stretching many directions. But the trunk remains the solid center it builds from. A branch may reach the sky, but stays anchored to and part of the tree. Twilight Sparkle isn't the only one to grow into a new role.
Death
Spike
Main 6
TCC56 · 9k words · 64 1 · 580 views
TThose Who Wield Power
MLP: FiM
Drama
A philosophy student puts Celestia to the ultimate thought experiment.
Celestia
OC
PresentPerfect · 3.1k words · 413 23 · 5.8k views
EForty Two
MLP: FiM
Drama
Twilight asks: What is the meaning of an immortal life?
Twilight
Celestia
Luna
Discord
Cadance
TCC56 · 2.8k words · 134 3 · 1.7k views
EMortal
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Twilight Sparkle's friends have lived long and happy lives. Now their time is coming to an end, but Rainbow Dash, at least, will not go gently. Twilight has the power to save her friend's life. Is it worth violating the natural order?
Twilight
Rainbow Dash
Benman · 42k words · 991 134 · 14k views
TSpike and the Methods of Rationality
MLP: FiM
Slice of Life
Ok, how does a castle that's practically brand new already have secret compartments that are filled with stuff?
Spike
Main 6
CMCs
Architect Ironturtle · 3.3k words · 68 17 · 1.8k views
THarry Potter and the Prancing of Ponies
MLP: FiM
Harry Potter
Adventure
Sci-Fi
Dumbledore doesn't reverse the trap he laid on the Mirror in time. The Mirror traps Harry and Voldemort outside of Time... and inside the MLP universe. MLPxHPMoR Crossover.
Crossover
Alt. Universe
The Guy Who Writes · 665k words · 205 34 · 6k views
TThe Mare Who Once Lived on the Moon
MLP: FiM
Romance
Sci-Fi
Slice of Life
In a steampunk reimagining of the universe, Twilight Sparkle finds perhaps the one pony as lonely as she is. It's rather unfortunate that they're on the moon.
Alt. Universe
Luna
Main 6
MrNumbers · 143k words · 3,014 57 · 29k views
EWhat My Destiny is Telling Me
Equestria Girls
Drama
Sad
Slice of Life
Five months into her existence as a human, Sunset confides her anxieties and frustrations about the turns in her life and what the future holds for her to her new adoptive sibling - Rarity.
Alt. Universe
Sunset Shimmer
Rarity (EqG)
EileenSaysHi · 3.5k words · 165 4 · 2.1k views
TThem
MLP: FiM
Adventure
[Now EQD Featured!] Rainbow Dash was not always Rainbow Dash. Her life was shaped against her will by shadowy, mysterious figures, and They will only be stopped if she can get her act together and find Them.
Rainbow Dash
Scootaloo
Big Mac
DJ P0N-3
Ether Echoes · 105k words · 288 32 · 8.1k views
EDiscourse on the Haycartes Method
MLP: FiM
Twilight and Moondancer set out to educate their friends about the history of philosophy by using the Haycartes method.
Crossover
Twilight
Minuette
Moondancer
Twinkleshine
Pineta · 923 words · 136 2 · 2.6k views
TThe Rariad
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Trixie and Rarity must bond to escape from Tartarus and survive the odyssey across realms and planes of existence on their way home. Along the way they encounter gods, demons, heroes, and friends old and new.
Violence
Death
Alt. Universe
Rarity
Trixie
Tundara · 137k words · 151 8 · 2.4k views
TIt's Called 'Living'
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Everypony Dies. No Loopholes. No Exceptions.
Spike
Trixie
Granny Smith
OC
Main 6
appendingfic · 13k words · 32 2 · 842 views
EGood Places
MLP: FiM
Slice of Life
Trixie and Twilight have a midnight conversation about the afterlife
Twilight
Trixie
RarityEQM · 1.2k words · 86 2 · 1.4k views
TPost Mortem
MLP: FiM
Slice of Life
Rainbow Dash has something to ask Twilight.
Twilight
Rainbow Dash
Whirl Hoof · 2.8k words · 109 4 · 1.7k views
TI.D. - That Indestructible Something
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Mystery
Sci-Fi
Gregoria Samson awakens transformed into an Equestrian pony - yet no other human being can perceive her new body in any way. What is the incredible, monumental truth behind her impossible change?
Alt. Universe
Human
Celestia
Chatoyance · 97k words · 11k views
Tlove; not wrong (brave)
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Cadance is the Princess of Love. That means she knows both sides of it.
Cadance
The Red Parade · 2.8k words · 130 5 · 1.4k views
EReveille
MLP: FiM
Drama
Slice of Life
Travellers meet in an antique land.
Twilight
AShadowOfCygnus · 5.7k words · 46 3 · 699 views
ELoqui Veritatem In Caritate
MLP: FiM
Slice of Life
Before the sun rises, the last priest of the last Church of Equus performs an important ritual. Unlike most of his services, he does not do so alone.
Alt. Universe
Discord
Other
Gay For Gadot · 2.1k words · 207 6 · 2.4k views
TCosmological
MLP: FiM
Romance
Sad
Sci-Fi
Boulder's journey into the cosmological future of Equestria, and what he took with him.
Death
OC
Maud Pie
Starlight Glimmer
Boulder
Bicyclette · 1.1k words · 46 5 · 549 views
TTimescales
MLP: FiM
Romance
Sad
Sci-Fi
A tragic cutting short of a budding romance. A confession of time travel and incurable disease. What was left behind. An instant, a lifetime, millions of years. Three timescales. Two timelines. One love story.
Death
OC
Maud Pie
Starlight Glimmer
Boulder
Bicyclette · 12k words · 53 6 · 736 views
TThe Real Question
MLP: FiM
Slice of Life
Tormented by the implications of her apparent immortality, Twilight Sparkle asks Discord for the painful truth. Instead, he gives her a complete answer.
Twilight
Discord
Coyote de La Mancha · 3k words · 66 1 · 1.8k views
EDon't Need No Mistletoe
MLP: FiM
Romance
Drama
There's a mistletoe infestation at Sweet Apple Acres. Applejack doesn't think that's as sweet as it sounds.
Twilight
Applejack
MayhemMoth · 5.7k words · 45 1 · 1.2k views
TThe Tale of the Terrible Doctor Twilight
MLP: FiM
Dark
Slice of Life
Twilight's convinced Discord hasn't really reformed, and has found a weapon to replace the Elements -- a reforming spell Discord missed eating. But a cornered draconequus is a dangerous beast...
Twilight
Spike
Discord
Main 6
alarajrogers · 22k words · 233 4 · 5.9k views

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