This story is a sequel to Acting Like You're Happy

Sunset is happy. She's found a loving girlfriend who understands her issues, and together they've found their own ways to happy. Now, Sunset is looking at a new way to make her girlfriend happy: taking her to see her home world of Equestria. It should be a fun adventure, a sightseeing tour at the worst, yet Sunset is worried as she usually is. She wants this day to be special, but she knows it would be all too easy for things to get out of hoof. But as long as they're together, things should work out okay.

An entry for Oroboro's Sunset Shipping Contest 2: Electric Boogaloo. And one that actually follows the prompt this time, yay! Although it seems my skill with deadlines has not improved in the past year... Oh well, happy thoughts! I am actually in the running for a win this time! Not that I expect to win, but it's nice to know I haven't disqualified myself for silly reasons. Either way, enjoy this sequel fluff! I know I did (when I finally sat down and wrote it, blargh).

"What's beneath the love? The embittered heart." -Queen Chrysalis

The future casts a dark shadow on the Equestrian continent. Far up north, the Crystal Empire is on the verge of becoming a slave of Sombra’s eternal tyranny. To the northeast, Stalliongrad quickly industrializes on its military might, insuring a communistic conquest towards the continent and beyond. And most importantly Changeling hives unite under Chrysalis’ flag with the goal to establish their Hegemony over the world.

A decade has passed since her defeat at Canterlot, her yearn for revenge grew ever more, but patience is a virtue, Chrysalis has learned. No matter how smart or convoluted her plans are, it's just not enough. The power of "friendship" always wins the day. But changelings are adaptable creatures, with enough time and resources nothing can stop the changeling war machine. No power in the world can stop the ravages of total war.

Based on the community mod for Hearts of Iron IV: Equestria at War

Cover Art by MrScroup

Written for Terry the Human for Jinglemas 2018.

Thunderlane got his marefriend, Flitter, a signed Wonderbolts jersey for Hearth's Warming. That same year, Cloudchaser gave her sister a set of paints. Clearly, she couldn't let this blatant insult stand, so next year, she made sure to get her sister the best present she could think of, kicking off an ever-escalating battle of gift-giving between herself and Thunderlane. Will the two remember the true value of a present before their relationships with their loved ones are ruined forever?

Features a very brief crossover with Doctor Who

Life is hard. It’s a fact that Lapis is all too familiar with and one he wishes he didn’t understand. By the time he’s almost 18 and living with a certain magic performer he truly believes that his life is destined to be horrible. Unknown to him however is that his life is about to change in a rather strange way and to his horror, all of the secrets and horrors from the past he’s fought so hard to hide are suddenly beginning to surface.

Twilight just wanted to spend a nice, quiet, relaxing evening studying a mysterious piece of jewelry. She certainly wasn't expecting to discover that her history textbooks had just become woefully inadequate, nor that she would end up traveling across Equestria both to fix the oversight and reunite lovers separated by treasure hunters.

Collaborative effort with thewondersomethingorother.

Late one night, several months after the events of the Fall Formal, Sunset calls Rarity at a frankly unreasonable hour. Things go from there.

(This was originally a standalone one-off thing. The list of sequels is starting to get lengthy, so I decided to compile them all together as one thing for neatness's sake.)

Applejack is living happily with her siblings, parents, and grandmother in Ponyville. She has good friends, Rarity and Pinkie. But tragedy eventually comes for everypony. A previously unknown monster destroys the delicate peace in Applejack's life, leaving her broken and scarred. But, surely, there isn't anything else to be done.

Written for The Whodunnit? Youdunnit! Contest, hosted by the wonderful RB_, which ends the night of October 24th (EST). Write a story yourself! Speedwrite if you have to! (Or don't; goodness knows I couldn't.) Check out the other submissions as they are posted! Also, be sure to check out RB_'s Detective Rarity series if you haven't, which is a wonderful series of fun whodunnits. I had a lot of fun reading them as they came out. (Well, the latest one, I wasn't here for the first few.)

Content warning: Death, depictions of grief, brief depictions of characters worried about early-onset Schizophrenia in Chapter 1.

The map has called for Twilight Sparkle to solve another friendship problem. Fortunately, it is in Ponyville. Unfortunately, however, the problem is between Applejack and Rarity. Twilight thought, as the Princess of Friendship, she has heard everything and can handle anything to solve a friendship problem... She was wrong...

Credit for cover goes to Critchleyb.

I rated this "T" for teen as there are sexual references.

Rarity has been avoiding hanging out with her friends and Fluttershy takes notice.

In an attempt to give Rarity a break from her busy schedule, the two bond closer together as they both learn it's okay to stop and smell the roses every now and then.

Living as an outcast is hard. Living in fear of becoming an outcast is harder. For Sweetie Belle, discovery would mean ostracization from society, family and friends. This story follows the life of Sweetie Belle and the ponies in it, in an alternate universe where Equestria upholds strict moral values.

Warning: contains the crushing of dreams.

There are quite a few plot spoilers in the comments below. I advise against reading them until you've finished the story. I don't delete comments except for blatant attempts to ruin the ending, spam or shitposting, so read at your own peril...