Twilight Sparkle has retired from her role as ruler of Equestria after a two hundred year reign. Expecting to enter a peaceful retirement, she is instead confronted by the return of King Sombra, who once again seeks to enslave the ponies of Equestria and bring darkness to the land. Her friends having grown old and passed away long ago, Twilight must face Sombra alone.

Art by Adreamera, http://derpibooru.org/images/2600332

After spending some more time with Scootaloo, Twilight starts to wonder about her home life.
Her discovery has her want to give Scootaloo the family she deserves. She should have no problems with Spike and Rainbow Dash there to help.

Warning: contains small amounts of twidash, scootadopt, cuteness, and ponies

Starts after the episode "Twilight Time" but before "Maud Pie"

When a young man goes to a comic-con cosplaying as a character they made up after watching Steven Universe, he will find his life flipped around after meeting the infamous "Merchant". Going under the name of his Original Character (OC), Sky will once again face the one enemy he has always dread the most: High School.
However, it seems everything in this school is not as it should be. Can he help some new friends he meets? Or will this event become a major crash and burn?
(A possible start on my Crystal Gem displaced series. Hope you all enjoy it.)

Tear into a can of the meanest energy drink in Ponyville, Monster Energy®.

It's the ideal combo of the right ingredients in the right proportion to deliver the big bad buzz that only Monster can.

Monster packs a powerful kick but has a smooth easy drinking flavor.

Athletes, musicians, anarchists, co-ed’s, road warriors, metal heads, geeks, hipsters, and bikers dig it- you will too.

Flavor Profile: Sweet and Salty - It tastes like Hay!

Unleash The Beast!

Homura Akemi had it all: magical powers, the world in the palm of her hand, and a best friend with a safe, happy life.

What's this about breaking the Law of Cycles? It was only one little piece. It used to be Madoka Kaname, before she ascended and was erased from existence.

She thought what she was doing had saved her- that she was doing her friend a favor, but she never truly understood friendship- or sacrifice- until the Queen of the Incubators attacked...

Okay, fine, maybe that's not what happened. But you can't really blame her for thinking that's who it was, right?

Twilight has a few things to say to Cadance before she marries Shining Armor. Namely, that she's terrible.

Written for the Cadance is a Terrible Mom 2021 competition .

Every day, more people upload themselves into Equestria Online, to live forever as ponies. Even in their final minutes before uploading, they struggle with the pains and joys of being human, and remember the world they leave behind.

Oh yeah, this story DOES have something to do with Friendship Is Optimal, the Optimalverse, and the April 2021 Friendship is Optimal Writing Contest.

Thanks For My Prereaders

I've been writing drafts of different story ideas for the April 2021 FiO story contest. Bananachips and Bicyclette have both been very helpful prereaders! They might not have expected that my reaction to their feedback would be to write THIS ALMOST COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STORY, though.

With no other ideas, and unwilling to steal Seaquestria's Orb, Twilight Sparkle is left to wonder what could have been and where it all went wrong.

But when Queen Novo returns, seemingly having changed her mind, and offers to give the Orb to Twilight and her friends, her hope is born anew. What happens next nopony saw coming.

The Last Equestrian Princess, and the Queen of the Seaponies. United in a way never seen before, and nothing will stand in their way. Not an army, not the Storm King. And certainly not a broken horn unicorn.

Cover art is now done by this awesome possum.

This story is a sequel to Rise of the Element Gang, Book 2: Friendship Adventures

Some time has passed since we lost saw our heroes and everything looks like to be going well for them, especially Dusk. He was now leader of the Element Gang, haves good friends, a good life, and a mare he would give his heart to. With everything being so perfect, it seemed nothing could go wrong.
But, as our heroes will soon learn, things would need to be worse before they can get better. After a thousand years of being trapped in the stone, Discord the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony is now free, about to reign chaos over Equestria once more. As the Mane 6 prepare to use the Elements of Harmony once more, Princess Luna sends Dusk into the Everfree in the hopes that he finds something that can help his friends in the battle against this powerful threat.
Will our heroes be able to defeat Discord or will Equestria be plunged into chaos?

This story is a sequel to Twilight Daylight: The Cold War

After returning to reality from Narmeelah's Time Pocket, Dawn and a handful of creatures witnessed a battle for magic with Twilight "Arcadia Nova" Sparkle, Saviour of Psera at the helm. Psera's military was damaged, ponies now lie dead in the streets of Equestria. Dawn was too late to put a stop to a war between her and the rest of the world.

Twilight Sparkle, the most powerful pony to ever exist, the creator of spells, mistress of the elements, and role model to millions, now awaits her sentencing for crimes against ponykind.

But a threat looms over Equus. A threat that Dawn herself has seen. A threat that will destroy all of ponykind unless Arcadia Nova is released. They won't do it. Only she remains.

But what is she to do? With her father, King Shimmering Madun dead, and her mother Queen Arcadia betraying the world, Dawn is left in limbo alone. Her home untrustworthy for her safety and Equestria refusing to engage with anything to do with Arcadia...

How can she save Equus?