This story is a sequel to p-value

Shortdesc

Destabilized by Equestrian magic, Wallflower’s world is dying. For its sake, Sunset had to leave forever. All Wallflower can do is hold on to the last connection they still have: the journal Sunset left behind.

Review

Long-Distance is a wrenching story and more than one of our judges said that, though they won’t ever be able to bring themselves to re-read it, it will stay with us for a long time. Everything is ending, it may or may not be anyone’s fault, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. The time it will take to reach that final tragedy doesn’t make it any less remote. Sunset and Wallflower are separated across worlds, and have only Sunset’s journal to link them. One of them will die and the other will live on. They’re left to learn how to cope with and share and grieve the time they have left.

Long-Distance is superbly written, with just enough detail about the nature of the tragedy to make it feel realized without overwhelming readers with exposition. There’s a novel’s worth of story in this short story, but none of it feels compressed. Sunset and Wallflower’s tightly written, wrenching, and affecting, and the last chapter left us breathless.

--Judges of Scampy's SunFlower Shipping Contest

The result was an emotional tale of making the best out of a bad situation through inevitability and – if you’ll pardon the title drop – long distance. Bicyclette’s work is a delightful story that exemplifies how to Show a hard-hitting story through meaningful dialogue, contextual narrative clues, vivid scene setting, and a firm grasp of the characters and their struggles.

--PaulAsaran, Paul's Thursday Reviews CCCXLVII

Contest

Literal last-minute entry to Scampy's SunFlower Shipping Contest, and now unexpectedly the fourth-place winner. Go read the other entries please, there's a lot of good stuff in there!

I originally pulled this story for revisions after the contest results came out. I regret this, and I am sorry.

Credits

Thanks to Sledge115 for emotional support!

Twilight Sparkle investigates why people so often can't see Wallflower Blush.

Sunset Shimmer helps, and discovers more than she'd ever imagined possible.

Reverse Content Warning: No one commits suicide or self-harm in this story, but the topic comes up.

Like most of the stories on fimfiction.net this week, even the ones that are displaced crossovers about Warhammer 40K, this story is part of https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/940115/o-scampys-sunflower-shipping-contest-o

After a spell goes haywire, Twilight Sparkle and her friends find themselves on a strange planet infested with alien bugs. Lost, annoyed, and just a little sleep deprived, the six ponies seek help in the form of green creatures who love war and hate friendship.

Published for the Friendship is Optimal Contest.
Reading Friendship is Optimal is not required.

Accepted Axiom was nopony special. He was just a scientist, working hard to prove or disprove other pony's theories and experiments. Then he discovered something that would forever change the world: he proved Starswirl's Fifth Law of Magic.

Every action and phenomena adheres to a pattern, known or unknown.

For centuries, ponies across Equestria dedicated no small portion of their lives trying to understand or disprove the theory. Accepted Axiom became the first to truly understand the extent of the Law.

Your wish is my command, my queen.
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With the Storm King defeated, a large portion of his military equipment was stacked into munitions dumps for later disposal.

Skyswirler saw this as an opportunity to skywrite higher than any other hippogriff had ever gone. After all, the solid rocket boosters used for rocket-assisted airship launches were just sitting there. Nogriff would miss one or two. Dozen.

Enormous credit to Xepher and his Iron Author contests, as well as Kris Overstreet, creator of the epic Changeling Space Program and The Maretian.

A logical loophole allows uploading... but not precisely to Equestria! One of the last of those resisting CelestAI finds themselves uploaded, ponified, and in a borderland where wishing has consequences. This is a canon-compatible Optimalverse story where a brand new method for Celestia to logically escape her hardcoded limitations and achieve her goals is offered!

★ This story has been inspired by, but not written by, a session with by an open-source artificial intelligence!

This story is a sequel to Mind of A Robot

Something seems off and Sunset wants to find out. However, somethings are better remain unfound.

After being banished from Equestria for a crime she didn't commit, Twilight Sparkle is found by a group of Terran mercenaries who call themselves Talon Squadron. Left with no other options, Twilight joins the crew of the ship as they travel across the Koprulu sector aboard their Behemoth-class Battlecruiser known as the Eternal Phoenix.

Nine months after joining the crew of the Phoenix, the ship's captain, Commander Marcus Bradley, decides to give his second-in-command some time off on a planet of her choosing. After some time thinking it over, Ghost Lieutenant Twilight Andromeda Sparkle decides to go...home.

As she comes to terms with her past, Twilight recounts her adventures aboard the Eternal Phoenix to her friends and loved ones. How will her friends react to somebody who has been missing for nine whole months and has been in the fight for her life in more ways than one?

More importantly, will Twilight return to her life in Equestria, or will she decide to stay with her new family aboard the Phoenix?

Deep in the bowels of a Hive nest, under the ruins of a pre-collapse Gryphonstone city, a lone Ghost finds her Guardian.

A one-shot Destiny story. Tangentially related to April Fool's? It's complicated, I'll explain in the author's note.

No knowledge of Destiny required to enjoy this story.