Having completed their very first friendship mission, Applejack and Rarity soon find out that they're stuck in Manehattan for the night.

Perhaps it could be that "friendship" wasn't what the map had in mind at all.

Art by tcn1205

After a long and stressful day with Flurry Heart, Spike desires to remember the blissful feeling of being tickled by the dearest pony in his life. Unfortunately however, if he wants tickles, he'll have to earn them first.

Inspired by this lovely art from ShutterflyEqD and the episode A Flurry of Emotions.

Pinkie Pie knows that life isn't just one big party. Sometimes bad things happen, and ponies can get hurt, sick, or even die. But one thing she knows for sure is that the day will never come in which a young filly's birthday goes uncelebrated. In fact, the very notion is so far beyond her comprehension she cannot even begin to entertain it.

That is, until it does...

Applejack has never known how it feels to believe that her life is coming to an end...

....that is, until she awakens one day to find herself falling through the sky....to a seemingly inevitable death...

After a long day of peril and danger, all Twilight wants to do is cuddle up with her baby dragon, who, for only a brief minute, had been the ruler of all dragonkind in Equestria.

A tense conflict with Starlight Glimmer has come to an end, but not before her persistent efforts to change the past culminated in a brief exchange of laser blasts with Twilight, to which Spike was an unwilling witness.

With the long and stressful day finally over, Spike approaches Twilight with a simple request...

A tough week for the Princess of Friendship has ended with an extended stay in Canterlot to repair broken friendships while also successfully getting Moondancer to embrace it again.

But as Twilight and Spike head home to settle in for a long night's rest, a sudden realization hits Twilight like a sack of hardcover books, leaving her utterly distraught and Spike as the only one capable of consoling her.

If he can, that is...

The Everfree Forest. Most ponies do not dare to enter it, yet it maintains a vague sense of mystery and wonder that has yet to be discovered in its entirety.

One day, Rarity enlists Applejack on a venture into the Everfree to retrieve a rare bit of silk. But what else will they find when they're deep in the thick of the trees? What friendship bonds will they discover when the forest brings them closer together?

Background by RainbowRage12
Vectors by SilverMapWolf and TehMage

Thanks to Rainbow Dash, winter has arrived early in Ponyville, leaving the Apple family woefully unprepared.

As a long and busy day of harvesting apples draws to a close, Applejack soon finds that a certain somepony has made her barn a home for the winter...

Unwilling to sleep in his own boring and less-than-comfortable bed, Spike presents Twilight with a deep and compelling argument as to why she should be his bed for the night.

TwiSpike cuddle time abounds...

Now with a reading by Quillo Manar!

Art by jesrartes