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.

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?

This story is a sequel to A Canterlot Leaddening

After the Crystalling of Flurry Heart, things had calmed down for a while. About the only incident of the last few weeks related to not getting her her bedtime snack in time. But now, she has achieved a milestone. Six whole months.

As is tradition by now--at least according to Cadance--all the Sparkle family must be trained in the ways of love. Not the magic of love, for that's her specialty. No, Flurry will learn the ways of the lead, and spew much death and destruction upon her enemies. If she can figure out how to pull the trigger, that is.

Reading the prequel is not required to understand this story.

An entry for the Cadance is a Terrible Mom competition 2021.

In the wasteland, it is often the toughest meanest creature with the biggest stick that rules. That in order for you to get your way strength and arms was the song of the day. I find this uncreative, the way of fools. For a Griffin my weapons are simple, charm is my guns, lies are my bombs, stealth is my poison, and scheming was my claws.

Words are more deadly than bullets, looks are more dangerous armor, and speech can kill more than any bomb. Follow me as I show how the skills of an actress, and how to apply them like a weapon.

Art by mysticalpha
mysticalpha

After Equestria was threatened by war from the Dragon Lands, Celestia calls for a program to help bolster the army! Because that's totally original, right!? Creating soldiers for war through artificial means to make expendable soldiers. After several failed attempts, the team is able to get one embryo to survive. However, a few Draconequii interfere and attempt to prevent war at all costs! Will their prevention cause even more trouble? It's time to find out, in The Legend of The Skunk Mare!

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This is a pet project I have wanted to get up and running since 2013, but I have felt that my writing skills weren't up to the level that I think they should. So here it is!

Despite my other story, which features the fetishization of skunk pony hybrids, this one will not be featuring that. Yes, there will obviously contain spray scenes, but it's only for the story and hilarity sake. There will not be fornication in this story. If called for, I will be writing separate stories as a between moment.

The year is 1007 ALB, and the Griffonian Empire lies dying.

Suffering from a combination of major revolts, rampant corruption and power hungry griffons vying for power, the Empire's direct holdings have shrunk greatly from it's glory days.

With the health of current Emperor Grover V in very poor condition and his son being a mere child unable to rule, the Empire braces itself for another violent power struggle. Whoever wins the coming struggle, whether it be the religious conservatives under the guiding talon of Archon Eros VII or the ever wise cousin of Emperor Grover V Gabriella Eagleclaw will still have to contend with the task of healing an Empire long on the decline.

Facing it's darkest hour, many Griffons pray for the Empire, as many of them know only one thing is certain:

May Boreas save the Empire, for no one else can...

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The amazing cover art is done by none other than the ever so lovely mushroompone, make sure to throw some love their way! Not only are they incredibly talented at drawing, they're also pretty damn good at writing horsefics! So check em out, and tell em General Soarin sent ya!

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This story is inspired by the popular mod for Hearts of Iron 4 Equestria at War, especially it's content on the Griffon continent. Please note that while I will try my best to keep the story accurate to events and characters that are prominent in the mod, I will take some creative liberties in making sure that I can tell a proper story as at the end of the day, Hearts of Iron is a war simulator. However, don't let that stop you from playing the mod if you haven't already or getting your hands on the game, it's a fantastic mod made by ludicrously talented people that I highly recommend you check out!

I hope you enjoy, for this is my first time writing MLP related fanfiction in a long time. Also...a word of warning, this story is completely unedited as I have lost contact with many of my previous editing/proofreading friends in the fandom. So if you see any spelling or grammatical mistakes, please point it out so I can fix them!

(Cover art pending)

My name is Lumina Moondancer, and this is the story of how I began my career as a defense attorney in Canterlot City. Just a month shy of completing law school and getting my badge, I find myself representing my best friend in court, who was accused of a crime she didn’t commit.

It’s a mundane profession to some, but to me, this is my calling. To be a voice of both reason and justice, to defend those who had no one else to defend them.

I didn’t know it then, but this was the first step on my road to becoming something great. Each of these cases were their own kind of ordeal, but so long as I trusted my client and held on to the truth, I couldn’t go wrong, right?

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This story is a spiritual crossover of MLP/EQG and the Ace Attorney series by a fangirl of both of them. It’s a dialogue and detail driven mystery story focused on recreating the intrigue and tone of Ace Attorney while reimagining MLP/EQG’s setting, characters, and lore to match. All of the characters have received overhauls in name, style and role to fit the new setting, as most of them were initially background characters that needed interpretation.

If this sounds like something for you, have fun! If not, have a nice day.

This story is a sequel to Guardian

This story is a sequel to Unfriendship: Pony Gods

Two years have passed since the defeat of the Equestrian Magical Regime. Twilight is imprisoned in Tartatus along with her followers and Celestia is struggling to put Equestria back together. But when the Storm King and the villanous First Order appear on the scene, will she be able to swallow her pride and join forces with her former student and friend in order to save Equestria? Is there redemption to fallen tyrants? And how does a lone, orphaned unicorn named Luster Dawn come into the picture?

Based on "Injustice 2".

What if Equestria was on Nirn? The planet that The Elder Scrolls is set. The Mane 6 get lost after a friendship problem and end up in the continent named "The Arena" AKA Tamriel.
This takes lore from all of them, except the travels games "Stormhold and Dawnstar" Although I'm debating Shadowkey and it also takes all the lore from MLP, obviously.
It is set during late Season 8 on the MLP side, and set during the events of Skyrim on The Elder Scrolls side.