This thread is so that anyone looking to refresh their memories of a particular story can do so. As a byproduct, you may also read these summaries in order to skip reading the actual stories, but why would you do that to yourself?

Everything in here is a massive spoiler. You have been warned.

Again. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. ENDLESS MISERY AND SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT ON.

During the events of Midnight at the Crystal Library, which takes place a few days or weeks following The Ending of the End, SciTwi and Sunset Shimmer travel to the Crystal Empire’s main library, hoping to learn more about the Mirror Portal and any ways they can better control the flow of magic from Equestria to the human world. They are joined by Trixie, Starlight Glimmer, Spike the dog, and Sunburst. Finding Starswirl the Bearded already there performing Time Magic experiments to restore Tempest Shadow’s horn, they elect to help in the hope that he will tell them all he knows about the Mirror in return.

This backfires spectacularly. Possibly due to Starlight’s previous messing with time, or due to Harmony itself taking a hand in events, the spell goes awry, and accidentally summons Sunset Shimmer’s demonic form and Midnight Sparkle from moments before their defeats in their respective specials, as we as the members of the Mane Six Princess Twilight met during her time traveling battle with Starlight. Confusion abounds, and a battle begins.

Happily, Midnight is eventually defeated as a re-reformed Demon Shimmer and Alternate Mane Six channel the Elements of Harmony, in conjunction with a memory-erasure spell, to send all the misplaced creatures back to where and when they belong. In the end, SciTwi partially gets over her inferiority complex when compared to her Princess counterpart, Sunset gets the spell she needs to better regulate the flow of magic between universes, and Tempest gets a crystalline prosthetic horn.

Starlight is, however, depressed. She now knows that there are potentially half a dozen universes out there she personally ruined everypony’s lives in. This is made worse later (See: Home Again). But in the meantime, Starswirl makes contact with those doomed timelines, and finds out that their channeling of the Elements protected their memories, allowing them to take the first steps to fixing their timelines (See: Time’s End)

A few days later, the events of Home Again take place. Sunset and SciTwi attempt to return home from their trip to the Crystal Empire, only to end up spending the night in the Castle of Friendship due to the Cutie Mark Crusaders breaking the Mirror Portal for a bit. This allows Discord time to annoy everypony, especially Sunset whom he believes is his close friend due to him almost getting free from her teenaged angst alone while she lived in Canterlot. SciTwi also reveals that the Temporally and Dimensionally Displaced Characters from the previous story had their memories of the story preserved, meaning that Midnight Sparkle has always been waiting for another chance to take over her mind.

This is proven to be the case by Princess Luna, who initially believes Midnight to be an Incubus – a dream-demon that causes madness in those afflicted by it – but ends up proving she is a true split personality of Twilight’s caused by their despair and a frightful amount of magic back during the finale of the Friendship Games competition.

Discord, trying to lighten the mood, travels to the human world with the others the next day and goofs around with the spell they need to fix the imbalance of magic between worlds. The human world is low on real, ambient magic, but it turns out to have an overabundance of Chaos Magic, which latches onto Discord when he uses it to screw around with Sunset and the others. The Chaos of the human world uses him as a template for its own Avatar, a Human Discord (or, Disqord as he names himself).

The Chaos piles up, transforming people into ponies, mixing things together, and generally causing trouble. And it’s going to destroy the world, so everyone gangs up to convince Disqord to help them fix the problem. He eventually comes around after Fluttershy asks him to… but it’s not enough. They need something else to save the world.

Turns out, Midnight Sparkle knows the spell they need. Since Friendship Games established that she learns about magic the more she’s exposed to it, Midnight has extrapolated how to cast the spell needed to reverse Chaos’ destructive changes and set the world right again.

Being clever, Twilight makes a deal with Midnight, saying that she’ll willingly give up being the dominant personality for assistance… and a promise that Midnight will have to say one nice thing about each of their friends beforehand. Realizing that she is Twilight, in a sense, Midnight delves into her other self’s memories for the answers… and because she’s now living through the memories, she realizes that destroying the world would destroy her friends, and leave her alone forever.

Working together, Midnight and Twilight help cast the spell needed. Unfortunately, during the process it becomes clear that even with everyone blasting away, they lack the magic necessary to pull off the plan. That is, until Midnight uses her superior calculating brain to figure out they just need one more Alicorn-level caster involved to save the day… and that Sunset Shimmer is the only candidate.

Despite this being a horrendous betrayal of everything Sunset stands for, Midnight feels she has no choice and so creates a new spell to forcibly ascend her.

The spell is complete, and the world is saved. Afterward, Midnight and Twilight decide on a compromise, casting a new spell to split them into independent human bodies. They thereafter decide to act as Sisters (as opposed to anything more confusing than that). The Humane Seven and Mane Six get together for a “World Got Saved Again” party, during which the Sirens – having been deeply affected by the day’s events – arrive seeking help and forgiveness, which they receive.

The next story in this Story Arc is All These Midnight Days, wherein Midnight and Twilight attempt to lead normal lives now as twin sisters. This is complicated by several factors, including a series of memory gaps and personality shifts that lead them to believe they might only be clones of the original Twilight, who would technically now be dead according to certain reads of the philosophical nature of their Split.

Another issue is the presence of a Shadow, a dark force that appears at first to merely be a series of shared nightmares the girls each have, but soon grows into a dark, evil personality all its own.

Midnight tries to acclimate to normal life again, learning how to deal with her rage and trauma gained from her years of isolation at Crystal Prep, and then again when she was suppressed in Twilight’s mind. Through making connections with family and friends – including Trixie, who becomes her best friend, and Sunset, over the Alicorn issue she eventually reconciles – she slowly comes to realize that she has value to those around her, culminating in a vicious battle within her own mind against the Shadow. Accepting the love and admiration of her friends and family as genuine, and seeing herself as a real person in her own right, Midnight is able to overcome her darkness.

Only about two months later, following High School graduation, the events of Humans are WHAT Color? takes place. In this short story, Starswirl the Bearded visits the Rainbooms in order to help them find and contain a few of the magical artifacts and monsters he previously dumped into their dimension. While visiting, he appears quite cagey. Worried, even. Though he allays Sunset and company's fears of a magical catastrophe, the truth of the matter is that one has already occurred.

Specifically, humans aren't supposed to be technicolor. Through a flashback, we see that the humans of the distant past accidentally broke something Starswirl left in their dimension, changing all human skin color to more closely match that of their pony counterparts. Clover the Clever, apparently being officially done with cleaning up Starswirl's messes by this point, decided to just use the Memory Stone to make everyone think they were supposed to be their new coloration.

And no one figures it out. Yet...

A few weeks later, Midnight and Twilight Sparkle are working in their lab during Spike: The Wonder Dog, when a dimensional rift opens up, and they are forced into the Panic Room. Thinking quickly, they activate an old project of theirs, turning Spike into a super-powered puppy of destruction to save the day.

And nothing they build turns self-aware. For once.

Sunset Glimmer takes place several months later, as Sunset Shimmer visits Equestria. She quickly finds that not only is Pony-Trixie heavily pregnant with Starswirl the Bearded’s child (See: Trixie’s Great and Powerful Adventure), but that Starlight is having a baby with Sunburst right that moment over at Ponyville General. However, things quickly become strange as it is discovered that Starlight has just given birth… to Sunset Shimmer.

Consulting the forces of magic, harmony, and time itself, Princesses Twilight and Celestia, Starlight and Sunburst, and the two Sunset Shimmers discover that there has been a disturbance in the fabric of time and space. The Spirit of Harmony explains that when Starlight Glimmer broke Time to enact her revenge on Twilight, even restoring the original timeline couldn’t fix all the damages caused. So, Harmony – from a nonlinear multidimensional vantage point – fixed the mistakes by creating a closed time loop that would concentrate enough variables and damages into one spot so as to minimize the damages Starlight caused.

But, by its nature, this Loop would need to be made out of something. And something close to the epicenter of the damages would be ideal. Therefore, Sunset Shimmer must be sent back to the past, where she will live the life she’s lived up until the present. But since it was Celestia who raised her, Starlight is forced to let her child be taken away from her.

This creates turmoil for all involved. Sunset realizes she wasn’t left at an orphanage because she was unloved. Celestia questions whether or not she’s still Sunset’s mother by virtue of raising her. And Starlight and Sunburst, who have been wanting very badly to have a child together, have to give her up for the salvation of Time itself. All parties involved eventually perform the deed, but in its aftermath decide to try and become a real family again.

Starlight and Sunburst also vow to one day have another child, hinted to be Luster Dawn.

Time’s End will take place a few weeks or months after Sunset Glimmer, and will essentially be the Grand Finale of the Midnight Arc as it was originally conceived and outlined.

I'll Be Home For Hearth's Warming also takes place during this phase of the Anarchyverse, set sometime around The Best Gift Ever special. In it, Princess Luna speaks to Sunset about getting a Hearth’s Warming present for Celestia. Luna reveals she does not know Celestia all that well, one thousand years being a very long time during which a pony might change. In giving advice, Sunset is also given a gift: Luna reveals that Celestia has created a stain-glass window of Sunset in the Palace of Canterlot, in a place of high honor, and that the window declares their relationship as daughter and mother.

Finally, Civics Lesson from My Little Minister: Bureaucracy is Magic, takes place a few years after Time’s End, and is a simple story of Applejack seeking out a cousin of hers that works in the new Equestrian Government under Princess Twilight Sparkle. This story serves merely to explain how Twilight’s form of government is different from her predecessors’.

The first Trixie Arc story is Trixie's Great and Powerful Adventure, which picks up shortly after The Ending of the End, while Twilight Sparkle is still living in Ponyville during Canterlot’s reconstruction. She invites Starswirl the Bearded over for tea and magical discussion, when Trixie Lulamoon shows up out of the blue. Trixie states she has arrived for a lesson with Starlight, and bullies her way into the Castle of Friendship.

Trixie has been studying a spell for her act (secretly cribbing off some of Starlight’s notes) and wants to show Starlight before she takes the trick on the road. The spell is supposed to make Trixie disappear and reappear, but without the telltale pop of a teleportation spell, and without the magical cost of an invisibility one. The spell Trixie uses is intended to time travel her up to five or so seconds into the future, which would naturally be more impressive, and result in a “perfect” trick.

Unfortunately, this spell triggers the Cutie Map Table, causing her to be sucked into a time vortex and lost. Twilight and Starlight panic over the idea of Trixie being lost somewhere in history, as does Starswirl when he shows up moments later.

After a few tense seconds, however, the portal reopens, and Trixie returns to the present, though from her perspective she had apparently spent at least a year trapped in the distant past. It is at this moment that Starswirl remembers Trixie… revealing her to be his original magical teacher. He also reveals that he has held a crush on her since they first met, and she reciprocates this feeling now in the present.

While Twilight has a slight mental break over this twist in time, Trixie and Starswirl go on their first date.

The Legend of Trixie is an ongoing story detailing later events in this timeline. As of 15 March 2021, there are eleven chapters of this story completed and published.

As seen in The Legend of Trixie, Trixie and Starswirl eventually marry and have one foal, Celeste, who proves to be skilled enough at magic to become one of Princess Twilight’s students. From certain events seen in Anarchy, we further see her become friends with Princess Flurry Heart and a mentor/older friend to Luster Dawn.

Twenty-five years after the events of Trixie’s Great and Powerful Adventure, Princess Twilight finally finds evidence that could prove or disprove the tall tales Trixie has been telling about her time traveling adventure. The Princess sends Daring Do to retrieve the evidence, and ancient tome that was written by Trixie herself as a sort of journal while she was lost in time.

The journal – heavily edited by Daring for historical clarity – reveals that Trixie appeared sometime a few centuries before the Hearth’s Warming story is set to take place. She soon ran into a town called Hyneighria, which the historical record implies may have been built on the future site of Ponyville. There, Trixie seems to meet a number of ponies who resemble her modern-day friends and acquaintances, as well as a young colt she soon learns is a younger Starswirl the Bearded.

Due to Trixie’s showboating, word of her being a Wizard apparently reaches the Father of Monsters, Grogar, through the traitorous Bray the Donkey. Hyneighria is destroyed, with only Trixie and Starswirl escaping. She swears to protect him, and to train him as a showpony.

During their journey towards Gallopoli, they encounter some of Grogar’s minions, and a pack of Timberwolves. Finding refuge in the ruins of Ponhenge, Trixie is eventually accosted by a strange alicorn princess calling herself Aeva. Aeva claims that Trixie has interfered with Time, and must therefore be destroyed.

However, once Aeva realizes that Trixie is from a future free from Grogar, where Aeva’s daughters are the rulers of Equestria and the shepherds of the Sun and Moon, she freaks out a little bit before explaining what the problem is.

Grogar, at some point, tricked the pony tribes into committing a heinous act of such evil that the Alicorn Tribe broke off relations and ascended into their own plane of existence. Due to the alicorns’ use of binding magical oaths, they are prevented from intervening further in the world without consequence. Thus, the Crystal Empire has been founded by Princess Amore, who was once an alicorn, but gave up her wings to save as many ponies as possible from Grogar.

Aeva apologizes profusely for not wisely using her time magic to figure this out before causing Trixie such heartache, and so swears to do whatever she can to help. This is limited to one day giving her children, Celestia and Luna, to Starswirl to raise as Princesses of Equestria.

Trixie also discovers that Princess Luna can perform a very limited form of Time Travel via her dream magic. Luna spends time during dreams speaking to Trixie and counseling her on what course of action to take, eventually even granting Trixie a temporary alicorn-boost of magic to create a complex illusion spell, which allows Trixie to scare off the Timberwolves hunting her and Starswirl.

Starswirl also learns about Trixie’s time traveling, and some major spoilers for his future. This is less than ideal.

Also less than ideal, is that Trixie cannot spend Luna’s magic fast enough to prevent it from causing her real harm. She eventually moves the Sun and Moon to burn off enough magic to survive, but this appears to break the Day-Night cycle, ensuring the future where ponies control nature manually.

Starswirl drags Trixie away, only to be ambushed by ancient changelings, called Deer, who better resemble their Reformed selves in the future. Their leader, Gaia Everfree, prophesizes their doom, and announces that the future is no longer theirs due to Trixie’s actions. This causes a civil war amongst the changelings that appears to lead to their eventual fall from grace.

None of which Trixie saw firsthoof. She spends much of this time unconscious. And later, she learns her injuries are preventing her from using magic for a time. Despite this, she and Starswirl make it to Gallopoli, tricking some of Grogar’s terrible Troggles, and meeting a childlike Discord along the way. While they fail to find any relatives of Starswirl there, Trixie does try and put on some performances to pay their way, which soon leads to them meeting a group of ponies actively resisting Grogar’s rule, one of whom appears to be the famed unicorn Gusty the Great… except that she’s a kirin.

Future Trixie Updates will go here

In the present, as Twilight Sparkle reads through Trixie’s journal, Trixie herself falls ill. She is dying of an incurable hereditary disease, and while she’s grateful for Twilight believing her stories now, she demands Twilight finish the journal and learn the whole truth. Twilight begins struggling with the fact that she knows of a spell that could change Trixie into an alicorn – invented by Midnight Sparkle back in Home Again – which would heal her, but the use of such a spell would be a gross violation of every principle and ethic she believes in.

And to make matters worse, Discord appears to have a hand in things.

Chronologically, the events of Guarded Hearts take place before the other Anarchy-related stories. Set five years after The Ending of the End, it is Hearts and Hooves Day in the Crystal Empire, and an older Flurry Heart is trying to play matchmaker with her guardians, Flash Sentry and Tempest Shadow. Her attempts are quite adorable and childish at first, so the two guards play along… until they notice she is trying to slip them a Love Poison, at which point they pretend to have a full-on battle in order to draw her out and chastise the princess for being so reckless.

It is eventually revealed that Flurry Heart needn’t have bothered, since Flash and Tempest are already dating due to Cadance also playing matchmaker, though in a more responsible manner.

Who Wears the Pants takes place approximately a decade after The Ending of the End, and is centered on a fight between Applejack and Rainbow Dash. The rest of the Mane Six look on as the two devastate the landscape in an all-out row. And when the dust settles, it is Applejack who is victorious.

The loser, Rainbow Dash, now must wear a dress to their wedding, instead of a Wonderbolt uniform.

The events of Anarchy: Pony of Chaos take place twenty years after The Ending of the End. In this borderline anthology, Discord and Fluttershy have a foal named Anarchy. Anarchy, or Ann, straddles the line between pony and draconequus, and struggles to find her place in the world.

She grows close to her grandfather, Grogar, who has spent millennia in retirement from villainy, and to Little Cheese, the son of Pinkie Pie and Cheese Sandwich. She also tries to balance between her gentler pony nature and the wild and unpredictable Chaos magic inherited from her father. It doesn’t help that Discord, despite maturing somewhat since the show ended, still lacks impulse control, and this often causes trouble for Ann as well.

She begins attending school, and eventually makes a slew of friends despite a rocky start with some of them. Ann makes friends with Pearl Rose, the daughter of Blue Blood and Twinkleshine (not a happy marriage there), as well as Moon Wane the batpony, Shade Bright the kirin, and Goldie the (shy) griffon. With their help, she is able to eventually learn how to use her magic more constructively, as well as to fly using her wings.

And just in time. Ann quickly butts heads with a crystal pony named Flawless Gem, as well as her friends/lackies Beauregard the unicorn and Mandible the changeling. This does not devolve into a bully-situation, but instead develops into a buckball rivalry, as Flawless and Pearl are tremendous sports fans.

However, by the end of the game, Flawless and her mates have grown to like Ann and her friends (now the current Cutie Mark Crusaders). Flawless even helps Ann get over her initial stage fright. Even with Ann losing the big game, there are no hard feelings, and everypony seems to think the worst is behind them.

Soon, however, everything goes wrong. Ann begins to question her lack of a cutie mark, and starts wondering if her lack of one will drive her apart from her friends, who all mostly possess marks of their own. Due to a combination of this fear, Grogar pressuring her to be ‘more evil’, and some ill-placed confidence in her Chaos Magic leading her astray, Ann eventually casts a spell that frees Cozy Glow from her stony prison.

Freed from stone, Cozy goes on a rampage. She steals back Grogar’s Bell, becomes an alicorn again, and begins ambushing the Main Six as they arrive for their monthly Council Meeting. She turns all of them to stone, plus Discord, the entire royal guard, Spike, Flurry Heart, Celeste, and all of Ann’s friends.

The last straw, however, is that Cozy destroys Little Cheese’s statue, effectively killing him.

Ann absorbs all of her father’s Chaos through the Bell… and becomes the Princess of Chaos. Now virtually all-powerful, and absolutely livid beyond comprehension, Princess Anarchy begins taking Cozy Glow apart, first by stealing her magic, then by crushing her body, mind, and soul. Anarchy, in full terrifying theatrics, absolutely disabuses Cozy of the notion that she was the villain of this story.

Grogar deeply regrets what he’s done by this point, but is prevented from helping due to freeing one of his undead servants (as he promised Ann he would). The undead, but now free-willed Frosted Apple whacks him in the head and flees to Sweet Apple Acres, her home.

Through her madness and despair, Anarchy eventually makes an empathic connection with Cozy, and finally relents just before she can do something totally unforgiveable. And after a pep-talk from Discord, as well as a talk with what might be a hallucination of Fluttershy, Ann restores everyone to normal (including Cheese!), and accepts punishment for her actions.

Surprisingly, Twilight decides on three separate cases. One, she punishes Grogar by assigning him to work with Pinkie Pie for community service (a fate worse than death for the old ram). Two, she decrees that since nopony told her that the stone spell used on Cozy, Chrysalis, and Tirek left them awake while frozen, she is ending their cruel and unusual punishment by granting them immediate parole.

And three, Cozy is magically remanded to Ann’s custody. Ann’s punishment is to teach Cozy friendship, as their strange connection is the closest thing Cozy’s ever legitimately experienced to it.

Ann offers to abdicate as a Princess, despite her father’s heavy objections, but is informed that since she’s technically a Princess now, the laws say she can only hand things off to a Regent. So, she returns Discord’s magic, returning her to her original form… with the exception being that she now bears a Cutie Mark of her own!

Peace is restored, the world is safe (though Cloudsdale is beat to Tartarus and back), and in the epilogue(s) it is revealed that Ann will be living with Cozy at Fluttershy’s tree home for the foreseeable future, and that her parents have decided to have more children. The story ends as Anarchy meets her little brother Frenzy (Zee) and her little sister Mayhem (May).

Oh. And Frosted Apple, though still a zombie, is now living on Sweet Apple Acres despite Applejack’s misgivings.

In the immediate aftermath of Anarchy: Pony of Chaos, Anarchy: Parole of a Queen takes place. During this tale, the fate of Ex-Queen Chrysalis is discussed and implemented. Though he appears incredibly bitter and angry towards his mother, Prince Pharynx eventually relents on Princess Twilight's plan to release her into a parole system. But, as their discussion goes on, it becomes clear that Chrysalis will prove a uniquely dangerous creature to release, from her biological advantages against such things as Magic Suppressor Rings, to the fact that she's both an incredible physical threat, and that she's crazy enough to do literally anything to regain her throne.

It is eventually decided to use a rare, essentially mythical changeling spell against her. Costing the hive a vast sum of its love and magic, the Restoration Spell was supposed to de-age a noble or heroic changeling to the prime of their life, in recognition of services. Chrysalis abused this spell in order to rule for over a thousand years, leading Pharynx to sell Twilight on the idea of reducing Chrysalis to a young nymph in order to negate her physical abilities and her changeling magic (nymphs not being able to cast spells). Chrysalis is thus de-aged and placed into the care of the most experienced changeling in the ways of friendship: none other than Ocellus.

Which presents a unique wrinkle to the plan, as Pharynx refuses to let Chrysalis out of his sight... but he and Ocellus once dated, and suffered an awful breakup due to his own backwards ways and emotional baggage. Now forced to work together to raise Chrysalis in the town of Ponyville, the very capital of Friendship in Equestria, they decide to be professional about things, while both secretly wish for Pharynx to move past his issues so that they might one day be together again.

And Chrysalis immediately attempts to steal the cookie jar and flee the town. So her future is looking up already...

One week or so following the events of Anarchy: Pony of Chaos, the events of Rarity’s Pregnant and Spike is the Father take place. In this short story, Rarity confesses to Twilight that she has discovered she is pregnant. While Twilight takes this as good news, Rarity spends a great deal of time wailing and crying on a nearby couch about how her life is ruined forever.

Especially, in her mind, since she’s in a committed relationship with Spike, and so does not know how she became pregnant (knowing dragons and ponies cannot crossbreed) nor how she can prove she’s remained faithful to him.

Twilight then reveals that, since Spike was technically created via magic instead of the normal process of dragon eggs hatching (going so far as to say that Spike’s egg was a fake as part of a test of character for potential students to Celestia’s School), he is in fact a Magic dragon, which may lead to the normal rules of biology not always applying. Realizing that Spike is the father of her unborn child, Rarity is ecstatic at the idea of finally marrying her Prince Charming, and runs off to tell him the good news.

Nightmare Night takes place around the same time as Rarity's Pregnant.

The various (mostly unpublished) Zap Apple stories will take place over a period of time yet to be determined, but the first story, Zap Apple: Rainbow Dash vs Maternity Leave takes place within a month of Anarchy: Pony of Chaos ending, and features the new status quo at Sweet Apple Acres. Frosted lives with the Apples again, butting heads with Applejack over ancient family drama. Rainbow Dash takes this opportunity to head back to Cloudsdale to get things ready for her eventual Maternity Leave. During the events of Anarchy, she and Applejack decided to grow their family, and with Ann as a great example, they went to Discord for help with the process. But Chaos is... chaotic. So instead of Applejack being magicked to carry a foal built from her and Rainbow's genes, it was Dash that got stuck with being pregnant with Zap Apple (yes, they already named the kid).

Taking advice from Spitfire, who retired to marry Soarin and raise their filly Wildfire, Rainbow Dash opens up about her fears and worries about becoming a mom. And in the process, she realizes that she may become a mother soon, but that won’t necessarily end her Wonderbolt career. Not until she finds somepony to replace her.

It’s just that she has a recruit, named Rusty Bolt (child of a one-night-stand between Lightning Dust and Zephyr Breeze) who is not only her biggest non-Scootaloo fan, but can also achieve the legendary Sonic Rainboom.

Anarchy 2, Anarchy: Reformation (of a Queen), and the Zap Apple shorts will eventually follow up these events.

The story The Spirits of Harmony, will act as a Grand Finale to the Anarchyverse’s original plotline, and is set after Time’s End.