It's the Met Gallop: the world's premier high fashion event, where careers are launched and lifelong relationships are formed. Pistachio's never been to one before. His mentor Rarity has been to more than she can remember. Both of them have a lot to learn from each other before this year's edition begins.

Skywriter's choice for Honorable Mention in the 2025 EFNW Iron Author competition. Yes, I am namedropping him because he's horsefamous. Broadly and in the context of this story's central metaphor, this ain't my first rodeo.

Did you know Equestria has a Constitution? Twilight knew that, obviously. Of course, she never actually read it all the way through, but it's a Constitution, y'know? It's pretty straightforward.

Her own life was pretty straightforward too, before a pair of wings and an ethereal montage made her a decidedly unconstitutional Princess. Fortunately, Equestria's founding legal document planned ahead for situations like this, just like how Princess Celestia planned ahead for Nightmare Moon escaping her magical prison, and Discord escaping his magical prison, and Sombra escaping his magical, uh...

Oh boy. This is gonna be a hell of a local election cycle.

Belated polishing and publication of my 2024 EFNW Iron Author entry, which I like a great deal even though it didn't place in the contest. "Snowblind" didn't place in anything either. These things happen. I'm only still seething a LITTLE bit.

It was supposed to be a simple day in the Crystal Empire.

But things take a considerable turn for the worse when Flurry Heart, alongside the visiting Cutie Mark Crusaders, are foalnapped, taken away, and assumed to be dead by their loved ones.

Trapped in parts unknown to them, the fillies must work together to get themselves back home. Encountering dangerous obstacles, wicked ponies, and their own insecurities, their journey will not be an easy one. Will they even make it through to the end? Or will the cruel world around them get the better of them?

Rated 'T' for violence, perilous situations, and the occasional use of language.

Starts off between the events of the movie and season 8.

Sunset's crash awakened something long sleeping. And for once, it's not hellbent on destroying the world!

So uh, it's already starting off on a positive! (It really shouldn't be. STAAAAAAARRRRRRRBEARRRRRRRDDDDDDD!)

- Many thanks to Prism for helping me write this fic, thanks so much~

Originally intended to be a chapter of What If... but things got VERY out of hand.

Tirek's returned. Twilight, of course, is the last pony standing against him. Or first, in this case, given that he just clawed his way out of Tartarus again.

This time, however, instead of the power of love and friendship and kindness and all that jazz, Twilight's got an orbital bombardment of anvil rain on her side.

Tirek thinks it'll be the end for the both of them. Twilight says otherwise.

This story is a sequel to Earth Pony At Magic School: Year One

Turnip Jones returns for his second year at the Canterlot School of Magic, but the school is under new management and facing dramatic changes. With Headmare Newman now in charge and the integration of Earth technology alongside traditional magic studies, nothing feels quite the same. The previous year's events still hang heavily over the school, and there are always new mysterious and new dangers.

Main character sections will be done in first person POV, while supporting characters will be done in third person.

Part of the Pandemic Universe

Profanity is light, consisting of rare outbursts from adults.

This story is a sequel to MLP: One as a Family: A Golden Week in Exile

A week after their banishment to the Golden Land, Wanda Young and her friends are finally going on the offensive to retake Equestria back from Gold Banks through Vanhoover, La Maresa, and Manehattan, which will lead to the final battle against the aristocrat with the Alicorn Amulet. But after the conflict is over, Wanda Young and her friends will finally make their way to her childhood home of Evevanya, where she will discover more about her past, and about her friends' past.

After an accident leaves her stranded in Ponyville, Alex manages to weasel her way into Twilight’s life. At first, Twilight doesn’t know what to do with the pushy, selfish, inconsiderate brat of a wizard, but perhaps in time she can learn to understand her behavior, or at least figure out a way to be rid of her.

Long before the Lightbringer and not so long after balefire rained from on high, the Goddess and Unity are weak. Every day threatens the fledgling alicorn race's survival. When a mysterious note promising power beyond compare falls into their grasp, the Unity jumps at the opportunity, even if they have no idea what this "Pyre" could be. These answers lie deep in the dark continent and the shell of the Zebra Empire.

When disaster strikes the small expedition, only one sister remains, alone and isolated from Unity by means she can't understand. If she is to survive and see her family again, she must adapt to the Wilderness, but that adaptation may remake her in every way.

As time passes, a growing fear nags at her. Will she even want to go back?

The land is harsh, and friends are few. Only one other question plagues her: just what is the Pyre?

Assuming that it is even real...

My name is Fairuz M.G, and I died.

Just like that, in a flash of tires and regret. But instead of fading into nothing, I woke up in a world I knew all too well from my years as a secret brony: Equestria. Now I’m a dragon, not Spike, but somehow his brother, his blood-related brother; and I love him like family, like someone I was always meant to protect. With every beat of my new heart, I can feel something shifting, a chance to change the plot, rewrite fate, and give everyone here the life they deserve. not just the Mane Six, but every soul in this world-ok that's too big for me so maybe in Equestria?

Maybe death wasn’t the end. Maybe it was the start of the life I was meant to live: one where I’m no longer just a fan watching from behind the glass, but a part of the story... helping shape a future brighter than the show ever dared to imagine.