Love is one of the most powerful forms of magic there is. It's also one of the most dangerous, and Sunburst may have lost track of some love poison he had lying around. This could only go well, of course.

Anon feels like there's no need to get up today. He's been feeling a lot of things actually, and that's why he has been spending most of his time in the library lately.

But today he won't be able to stay put, because at the incredibly important festival they've set up a mystical tent, that even magic itself compels him to visit.

A pony wakes up in Equestria with no memory of their past. As they search for answers, they quickly realize that this world may not be real and that the princess may be hiding a dark secret.

Rated TEEN for Language, Non-Explicit Sexual Content, and Some Violence

This story is a sequel to Don't Bet On Ocellus Related Topics

When Gallus has finally built up the courage to ask out Silverstream, he realizes that he has no idea what he's doing. So he asks Ocellus to mind control her. Completely reasonable.

With Maud settling down in Ponyville, Marble studying in the Crystal Empire, and her parents finally deciding to retire, Pinkie Pie wonders if Limestone is going to be okay running the Pie Family Farm all by herself. She's never done well on her own, and her cold demeanor probably isn't going to get her a boyfriend anytime soon.

Luckily, she knows an equally lonely human who is perfect for the job!

Celestia has been putting off a very important conversation for far too long. Her friends and family send her some letters telling her the truth.

Celestia is not good at the whole being in love thing.

Thanks to a good friend for helping edit my garbage writing.

Late in the evening, in the early summer of 2017, the EweChannel user 'silicapacket99' uploads a video that's a bit different from her usual content of several-hour-long, no-commentary let's-plays of various city-builder, factory manager, and colony-sim games.

The title: |Now It's Our Problem Podcast - Episode 1: The Fall Formal Inferno|.
The thumbnail: a .png of a horse that's been 'shopped directly into a burning building, both of which were probably taken from Giggle Images; all overlaid with the video title in bold text, plus the subtitle, |Feat. Sunset Shimmer|.

Might as well check it out. Her previous attempt to use her channel for something other than silent game footage kinda stalled out when the workload got to being more than she could balance with her education, but it was definitely interesting while it lasted.

Three Shadowbolts on the eve of graduation start a podcast about magical disasters – a conceptual crossover with Well There's Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters.

Rated Teen for vulgar discussions between young adults about motherfucking, pony profanity, and Pedestrian politics and religion.

Ad Astra Per Aspera: To the stars with difficulties.
Ad Astra Per Derpy Aspera: To the stars with Derpy difficulties.

Lightning Dust strands herself on her way to the red planet. With no way to move her rocket, she'll die unless Equestria's Best and Brightest find a way to bring her home despite cloak-and-dagger sabotage, snobbery, limited resources, and bureaucratic incompetence.

The final chapter will be published before May 1st!

Content Note:
Death - Mentioned in the Prologue and Chapter 5. Chapters 7, 9, 10 (spoiler): Touched on: miscarriage.
Narcotics - Chapter 14 - Performance enhancers and blood doping discussed.
Sex - Inappropriate government-required questions in Dossier chapters; Ch. 11- a slightly saucy section.

Show Era: After Season 9.
Cover Art: The background Mars is by Kevin Gill with license to only the background Mars cover art at this link. The pony interposed on Mars is by owlicious, who also combined the two images.
Special Thanks: to owlicious for edits from the start through Chapter 11.