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Melancholia

Sort of a loose and somewhat pretentiously titled category. Anything sad, depressing, or tragic can be filed here. It needs to actually evoke those emotions, though. The whole fic doesn't need to be sad or depressing, but a reasonable period of it should be for it to end up here.

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ESomething to be Weathered
MLP: FiM
Slice of Life
Try as she might, the weather's just not Rarity's medium.
Rarity
Sweetie Belle
Carabas · 1.8k words · 70 1 · 351 views
EAll I want for Hearthswarming...
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Poor Diamond can never seem to catch a break.
Diamond Tiara
Silver Spoon
Snips
Snails
Rumble
RarityEQM · 1.4k words · 32 1 · 1k views
EEchoes
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
The Apple family house is empty. Winona sits alone, waiting for the day it'll feel full again.
Applejack
Apple Bloom
Big Mac
Granny Smith
Winona
Tela · 5.5k words · 105 1 · 1.1k views
EThe Only Day
MLP: FiM
Dark
Sad
Tragedy
Today is the worst day of my life. Today is the best day of my life. Today is the only day of my life.
Applejack
OC
naturalbornderpy · 4.9k words · 778 6 · 9.6k views
TA Human's Guide to Surviving Equestria
MLP: FiM
Dark
Drama
Exerts taken from a journal found in a human's shelter deep in the Ponyville sewer system.
Profanity
Human
Other
Main 6
Arcanum -Phantasy · 2.4k words · 512 17 · 7.2k views
TThe Night Before Nightmare
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
For nearly every citizen of Equestria, it's a holiday: a chance to get together with friends, gather a few treats, and laugh in defiance of the darkness. For Celestia, Nightmare Night is something else entirely.
Gore
Celestia
Fancypants
Estee · 12k words · 292 4 · 4.3k views
EHow to Go to Prison on Hearthswarming Eve in Five Easy Steps
MLP: FiM
Comedy
Sad
What would YOU do to stay out of the cold?
OC
Harmlesskitten13 · 11k words · 239 1 · 2.6k views
TTender Loving Care
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Bright Mac told Applejack he'd build her a treehouse. He didn't make it that far.
Death
Applejack
Big Mac
Bright Mac
TCC56 · 1.1k words · 78 0 · 1.2k views
EI Am Waiting For A Bus
MLP: FiM
Sad
Sci-Fi
Slice of Life
Ocellus waits for a bus beside a black hole. Several ponies stop to talk. In memoriam.
OC
Other
Ocellus
darf · 4.7k words · 136 3 · 1.7k views
ESomewhere Only We Know
MLP: FiM
Sad
Every night, in a little stable just outside of town, an old mare lays down to sleep. Every night she has the same dream of rainbows and open sky...
Alt. Universe
Rainbow Dash
Applejack
Rarity
PatchworkPoltergeist · 4.7k words · 875 19 · 17k views
TIt Spills Over
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Berry Punch struggles against the alcoholism that has taken control of her life.
Twilight
Spike
OC
Berry Punch
Other
ambion · 7.5k words · 372 3 · 4.9k views
TNow Hiring
MLP: FiM
Sad
In the wake of tragedy, the Apple Family is looking for somepony to help them. A mare, new to town, might be just who the need, in ways they didn't realize.
Death
Applejack
Apple Bloom
Big Mac
Granny Smith
OC
miss-cyan · 3.6k words · 186 3 · 1.9k views
EStetson
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Applejack reflects on the mistakes of her past.
Applejack
Apple Bloom
Scribblestick · 4.8k words · 776 8 · 13k views
TPeaceable Kingdom
MLP: FiM
Drama
Slice of Life
Tragedy
A time without war, a time without fear—until it isn't.
Celestia
Luna
Other
Main 6
AShadowOfCygnus · 25k words · 144 15 · 1.8k views
EAnyone You Want Me To Be
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
A changeling sets up a secret shop inside of Ponyville. He can be anyone you want him to be. Just don't ask him to be himself.
OC
Changelings
naturalbornderpy · 4.9k words · 1,471 16 · 16k views
TRun for the Roses
MLP: FiM
Drama
Slice of Life
The landlord of Ponyville’s public house, the Run for the Roses, recounts events in the village in the week following Applejack’s disappearance.
OC
Main 6
8686 · 25k words · 157 1 · 1.7k views
TAdagio's Codetta
Equestria Girls
Dark
Adagio can't handle her greatest failure.
Dazzlings
Majin Syeekoh · 2.6k words · 289 6 · 7.5k views
TDECEPTION
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Drama
Sad
Hybridization of MLP+Inception. Shortly after Twilight finishes a spell that allows her to enter the subconscious through dreams, the Mane Six must perform an inception on Spike when his mind becomes threatened by a split personality. Featured on EQD
Crossover
Twilight
Spike
Luna
OC
Main 6
Christian Harisay · 298k words · 142 7 · 6.1k views
TBetween The Lines
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
After Twilight delivers a batch of books to Sweet Apple Acres as a gesture of goodwill, she finds that Big Macintosh is not interested in her offerings. Through her efforts to discover why, she inadvertently discovers his most shameful secret.
Twilight
Applejack
Spike
Big Mac
Granny Smith
Bad_Seed_72 · 12k words · 992 11 · 13k views
EMother's Night
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
Diamond Tiara is visited by Princess Luna in a dream, and learns an important lesson about what being 'family' truly entails.
Luna
Diamond Tiara
Razalon The Lizardman · 5.4k words · 63 3 · 2k views
TWinter Storm
MLP: FiM
Romance
Dark
Adventure
Sad
Sequel to Together Forever. Twenty years into the future, tensions begin to mount in world as Shining and Cadence try to press on together.
Alt. Universe
Twilight
Celestia
OC
Cadance
Shining Armor
Snake Staff · 104k words · 306 22 · 3.6k views
EHappily Ever After
MLP: FiM
Sad
Tragedy
The tale of a kingdom, a dragon, and a brave child who wanted to become a knight. To earn their title, all knights must first face a great challenge...
OC
Dark Avenger · 2.8k words · 34 2 · 705 views
TGhost Lights
MLP: FiM
Adventure
Sad
Alone together at the mysterious Seawall, on the edge of the known world, two ponies will help each other share what it means to be a pegasus, unicorn, or earth pony - and the painful wedges those things can create.
Twilight
Rainbow Dash
OC
Winston · 109k words · 105 3 · 1.2k views
EStand Ready
MLP: FiM
Sad
Slice of Life
An old soldier must deal with the tragic end of his career.
OC
Bat Pony
JMac · 3.4k words · 99 1 · 1.9k views

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