[Season 5 Fic] Time away makes the heart grow fonder, or does it? On a cold winter's evening, Twilight visits the special ponies in her life: her parents. Things will tend to be awkward after being away for a long time...

Entrant in the the Writeoff Contest "All the Time in the World".

Special thanks to Pascoite for pre-reading and editing.

We walk down our long roads of life, but what of the roads not taken? Twilight and Applejack are carried along a different path, where their fates were bound in new ways. Fresh sorrows and avoided crisis gives friendship's flower a new shape.

This story will make an alternative universe, but will start grounded in the world we know. Have you read my other works? I love canon. I will respect canon, but we are also changing a core fact, and its effects will ripple outward. Our beloved ponies will be changed, as they must. The stream of fate carries them on tides we never witnessed before.

Twilight, Applejack, I hope you're both ready. Come, the water's fine, and I invite you to swim with me. Let us see what would happen if Applejack's mother survived where fate had once demanded her end.

Done for a patron, will update 1/month with 4k chapters.

Cover art by Jowybean!

Twilight is getting ready to move from Crystal Prep to Canterlot High School, but there is one thing she would like to do before leaving. The words are on the tip of her tongue, but instead of using them, she decides to move forward.

Featured on August 5, 2016!

This story is a sequel to The Best Laid Out Plans 3: An April Fools Trilogy

Prequels [sequels?] are not required reading but it helps. Actually, they're literally summed up in the first chapter. Honestly, the recap at the start of 2 and 3 are much better.

After Shining Armour and Cadence's wedding went about as well as you'd expect it to, the two, Twilight, their parents and there in-laws are sitting together at Joe's Donuts and the subject of 'how Velvet and Nightlight's wedding went almost/just as bad/worse than this one' comes up and they start telling the story.

The last 3 stories where definitely 'romantic' comedies but this is more of a romantic drama and was inspired in it's entirety by a single throwaway line from a random episode of Scrubs.

No humanised alicorn parents where harmed in the making of this story. Their children however probably got pretty scarred...
The Best Laid Out Plans NEXT: An April Fools Continuation, coming next april first.
Maybe... there was a 3 year gap between 2 and 3 afterall...

Twilight Velvet loves her daughter with all her heart; she outshines her in every way, is the prized student of Princess Celestia, and will no doubt go on to have an impact on Equestria the likes of which has never been seen before and never will be again. But despite Twilight Velvet's pride and love for Twilight Sparkle, somber thoughts weigh heavily on her mind when her daughter comes to visit.

Why does Velvet feel so inadequate? Why can't she be to her daughter what Princess Celestia is to her? What is the measure of a mother?

Set prior to Season 1. Celestia doesn't physically appear but is mentioned extensively.

Shining Armor mourns the loss of his beloved wife. After a month of searching the corners of the world, he returns home, tired and defeated. Feeling bad for her poor son, Twilight Velvet decides she needs to comfort him, and air out the biggest secret of her life.

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Written for the Mother's Day 21 Contest.

Inspired by a conversation between myself and the legendary Shakespearicles.

Twilight Sparkle wanted nothing more than to see the Northern Stars on the Zeppelin Cruise with her family. But thanks to Iron Will, who was running the cruise, her dreams are smashed into pieces. Saddened by seeing Twilight's heart broken, her family does everything they can to try and console her.

Author’s Note: This story is to serve as how Twilight’s family SHOULD have approached the situation when Twilight started sobbing after missing out on the Northern Lights.

When Rainbow Dash receives the verdict that her final grade is in jeopardy, she enlists the help of most eggheadiest person she knows.

Unfortunately, she encounters a problem. A naked problem.

A very naked problem.

A comedy of the nudist variety.

It brings me great pride to say that this fic inspired the Nudists and Nudity group. Go check it out for all your barebacked needs!

Rated "T" for trigonometry.
Sex tag is for lewd jokes and language, not sex scenes.

Twilight Sparkle dreamed of darkness. Her mane has a unusual streak of color on her.
Scary things occur and lead to a lineage that she couldn't fathom. And hopefully, Applebloom won't get mental scars.

This story is a sequel to A Mother's Comfort

A few days have passed since Twilight Velvet informed her children of their father leaving her. Her children have come to spend the weekend with her. But one night, her son has a nightmare. He doesn't want to become his father. Velvet tells him not to worry, because she knows exactly who he is- and so does he.

Mother son fluff and cuddles!