After i read no.29 of this fic i was struck with the idea to make this april fools fic (even though it's past april fools)

The Cutie Mark Crusaders, a group of three fillies all searching for their Cutie Marks, end up in Europe as the infamous Castlevania returns for the third time in the Century. And it seems that only one of the three leave... the other two stay... and... well... stuff gets crazy!

Castlevania X MLP:FiM crossover

Sweetie Bot needs fifteen bits. A month. For a subscription.

Author's notes blog (spoilers)

Audio Reading

One fine morning, Lavender wakes up with hiccups. How will she cope with them?

This is a short side-story to As Sweet As Lavender.
Proof-reading provided by Eeveexpert.

Sweetie Belle is lost in her own thoughts during the autumn season. Reminiscing about the past, but also thinking about the future. She wonders if she'll ever earn her cutie-mark, will she ever find a purpose in her life. Some thoughts are painful and scary for her to think about. But wonderful times and memories spent with a certain Earth Pony and Pegasus give her the strength to push on.

As a slightly alternative universe to the cannon, the cutie mark crusaders each earn their individual, nonlinking, cutie marks. And while they will always be friends forever, life is strenuous. Ponies get new jobs, some acquire fame, and some of them go off to start a fresh life with somepony else tugging on their heartstrings.

Not everypony is happy with the hoof life has given them, or the life given to the ones they care for. Will the cutie mark crusaders be able to handle the real world? Will family bonds be torn apart by betrayal?

I hate depression. It randomly comes and goes, even with my medication it can still get bad. This time, it's doubts about my classmates. Yeah sure, I defeated the sirens with the Rainbooms and I'm widely accepted by the school allegedly. I can't help but feel that they still secretly despise me from time to time. I know that's my mind being stupid but I've come up with a test to guarantee we are true friends and the school truly trusts me. But first, I'll need some help.

Button decides to buy an NFT. The CMC check on button a while after he shows him his new NFT and he has become a discord moderator who has his own discord kitten. Near end spoiler: His kitten rejects him and he gets angry.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders always enjoy their special time with their favorite Ponyville princess as they learn so many cool and interesting things, even if Scootaloo isn't too fond of the whole "studying" part. Sweetie Belle is especially excited as she tries to grasp the second basic spell of unicorn magic, illumination. After a mixing mishap causes an early close to Twilight Time, the little unicorn is left in the library without a teacher to help her practice until a certain sun-raiser pops in for a surprise visit to her former student.

Join Sweetie Belle as she learns that magic isn't always about simply casting spells, but how it can be a gift to bring joy to everypony.

Edited by jeray2000
Cover Art by postcrusade

The words still echoed, spinning clearly in her mind...

Applejack stared at the ceiling, her eyes tracing over the gaps and grains of the wooden rafters for what felt like the hundredth time.  Of course she didn’t “enjoy” being forcibly transformed by magic, and in the split-seconds of the magic working over her body, contorting her, dressing her in riding gear and hardening her flesh into fiberglass, she’d been nearly overwhelmed with fear...

...when it was done, however, she’d felt something different...

...as she went around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around...

A slow-burn descent into an unusual place, as Applejack and the CMC become obsessed with being turned into a carousel. May count as psychological and/or body horror, or maybe fetish-fuel, possibly a trans/queer narrative (?), depending on who reads it.

Content Warning: Contains a lot of inanimate-TF fixation. Nothing really "disturbing" about it, but that's what the story is about.

Because of the horror aspects, I am submitting this as part of the Nightmare Night in April Writing Event. If that interests you, go check out the other stories in that folder!

This is a followup to something that happened in the IDW My Little Pony comics, Issue 78, the end of the Cosmos arc, where the image is from. You do not need to read that to understand the plot, as it's just one scene and I explain everything relevant (I haven't read it myself since it came out), though it's a year-end 4-parter with Discord so you should probably read it either way.

This was an old commission that's sat mostly finished for a while, but was delayed by my severe nerve-damage from COVID.