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Apple Bottoms


Pony got those Apple Bottoms jeans, jeans! Boots with the fur - with the fur!

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Hooray, another grand adventure featuring Twilight Sparkle and her merry band of pony pals, or close enough! Nopony can save the world like Twilight Sparkle can, but now that she's gone, a group of highly-practiced changelings who have dedicated their lives to recreating the Elements of Harmony will probably be able to save the world in her place... right?

But what happens if they can't? What is the price for failure in a world where friendship isn't enough anymore?

Written for the 2024 Non-Pony Writing Contest!

Author's Notes: An AU set in the future in a dystopia setting featuring mostly original changeling characters. Only warnings are for some scary moments.

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Windy Whistles: the mare, the mystery, the legend. Who is she?

You may know her from her philanthropic work as the young student founder of the Birds Undergraduate Territorial Taskforce of Safety (BUTTS) program. Perhaps you were invited to her bespoke wedding (the colors: neon pink and electric blue) which featured the Longest Conga Line in Cloudsdale.

But perhaps, if you checked page twelve of the Cloudsdale Weekly last Monday, you would know her for another reason... the narrowly-avoided Plucky Lucky Disaster. Erm, the Plucky Lucky Wildfire? The Plucky Lucky Moderate Mishap?

Anyway, if you want to read a moderately-truthful telling of that adventure, read on!

An entry in the Ancestral Tribute contest.

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Equestria has fallen to the Storm King.

It felt like it could never happen in a place like Ponyville, where the biggest concern most years was the summer harvest. Danger remained safely outside of the realm of their charming little hamlet, locked away in the Everfree Forest. Whenever danger appeared, the Elements of Harmony were soon to follow, blasting away any evil that might threaten the pony populace! It felt like no real harm could ever befall Ponyville.

But now the Elements are gone and the princesses are imprisoned. What will happen to the innocent townsfolk left behind?

Follow the adventures of Big Caramel as he is thrown into a work camp and fights to stay alive with other imprisoned worker ponies. He'll have to contend with a screaming neighbor who's lost his sanity, a self-appointed leader of the farm ponies, awful food and worse working conditions. Will a new friend offer a hope for escape, or merely a distraction from their inevitable fate?

It can't get much worse than the constant screaming - right?

A/N: Big Caramel was the popular name for this background pony a decade ago, but the wiki says he is also called Creme Brulee or Chance-A-Lot!

I would call this story dark, but it has no gore or any other special warnings. It's a grim setting, but not especially grimmer than the movie itself, it just focuses on the grim parts the movie glossed over.

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Sequel to Only A Filly.

Cozy Glow, the filly scourge of Equestria, was snatched from her stone prison mere moments before her destruction. Twilight Velvet tried to recover the innocent filly hiding within the hardened shell of the brutal Cozy Glow, but Cozy Glow cannot change so easily. She's convinced that Twilight Velvet must be using some kind of mind magic to make her feel things that she thought she had repressed long ago.

Now Cozy Glow must contend with the dangers of the forest as well as the dangerous Princess of Friendship who still pursues them. But the most dangerous risk of all may be learning to trust another pony ... and Cozy Glow isn't sure she'll make it out alive.

Written for the Cozy Glow Short Story Contest #3, with the same prompt as before - "Cozy Makes an Unusual Friend."

Author's Note: Although this is a sequel, my intention is for it to function as a stand-alone story as well. There is a little bit of catch-up in the first chapter so we can be reminded of some of the events of of the first story, but keep in mind that Cozy Glow is an unreliable narrator! You may prefer to read Only A Filly before this story, but I hope you will enjoy it as a stand-alone as well. A lot of people asked for a sequel, and I really hope you all enjoy it!

Featured September 23-26, 2022

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Argyle wakes up in Bridlewood with no memory of who he is or how he got there, with a strange stallion looming over him! Who is Alphabittle, and why is he so protective of the dangerous earth pony who wandered onto his lands? As Argyle unravels the mystery, will he be able to discover who he was, but even more, who he might have been ... and is it too late to reclaim a life set aside?

An entry in the Ancestral Tribute contest.


Possibly the first Argyle/Alphabittle story, at least that I could find! And for some bonus alliteration, let's throw in some amnesia! I wanted to create a loophole where Argyle didn't have to die, and got to live his best gay life somewhere else in Equestria. This fic is marked M/M, for the Alphabittle/Argyle ship. The title is a quote taken from a poem, "Seventy Years of Sleep #4" by nikka ursula.

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Rarity returns to Ponyville a broken mess of a mare. Her snotty Canterlot fashion friends have informed her that white is unfashionable to wear after the end of summer! Weeping, she recounts her sad tale to the unsympathetic Cranky Doodle Donkey, who makes an offhanded comment that kicks her fashion mania into top speed: what if she simply dyes all of her white clothes so they're fashionable again?

Even better, Rarity decides, what if she dyes all of the white ponies so they're fashionable, too?

Follow Rarity as she leaves a trail of colorful mayhem behind her, and see if her friends can talk her down from the sequined ledge of madness she's teetering on!

Written for Jes for Hearthswriting! Many thanks to my friend M for the preread!

The prompt was “Rarity gets caught up in a “No White After Summer’s End” trend to the point she starts trying to change everything white including pony’s manes and fur without them noticing."

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con·struct: an artificial being created using forbidden magic. Only recently deemed legal by the Equestrian Council in aid of the ongoing conflict against the griffon nation. See: Abomination, Synthetic Pony, Fakie. Related: blood magic, dark magic. Associated subjects: Blue Lace Agate, Ilium. "Equestria's only hope lies in creating new magic that is powerful enough to keep up with the griffon technological advances; constructs will fill that need." - Equestrian Council Meeting notes.

Centuries in the future, Ponyville rises as a grand city of gleaming chrome and neon ... but every city has a seedy underbelly. When ponykind finds their magic outpaced by griffon technological advances, they need something to turn the tide, and thus consider the taboo. They revive blood magic, a forbidden ancient blend of unicorn magic and alchemy that combines organic materials with magic to create new life, in the hopes it will stem the tide of griffon expansion. But will that safety cost them everything?

Blue Lace Agate is one of those new lives, and he has a mission: to protect his creator. But is everything what it seems in the brutal Ponyville landscape?

In the world of My Little Pony collectors, 'fakie' is a catch-all term commonly used for plastic horse toy knockoffs created by non-Hasbro companies. Fakies can vary from extremely-similar to wildly-different in comparison to official Hasbro toys. Some even use stolen molds from official MLP toys! Some seek to be copies, while some companies create something very different yet similar. I thought it would be fun to consider how a fakie toy might exist in the world of "real" My Little Ponies.

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This story is a sequel to I'm Going To Woo Fluttershy And Tase Discord


Despite everything, Fontana Beyoncé is still in Equestria, and she's trying to find where she fits in Fluttershy's life. But it seems wherever she turns she's hit with setbacks, whether it's the metaphorical guilt that hangs over her head for lying to the sweet Fluttershy, or the literal hooves of a foal kicking her shins in the market.

Fontana knows she has to tell Fluttershy the truth; but can she do it between 90s movie references, Fluttershy speaking like a living self-help manual, townsfolk insulting her at random, Rarity's speciesism, and a possible Discord return? Find out! In WOO FLUTTERSHY 2: 2 DISCORD, 2 TASE!

Written for Bicyclette's contest! And because Fontana is so ridiculously fun to write!

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Some people just want to snuggle with cute, soft ponies, and daydream about how lovely their life would be with one by their side. Other people want to wreak terrible vengeance upon any creature who would dare infringe upon their happy, carefree pony life.

Fontana Beyoncé (not her real name) is the latter. She's got an enchanted universe-hopping candle from eBay, and she's got her taser: she's ready to take down Discord. But is she ready to face her feelings?

Written for the Y/N x Mane 6 Shipping Contest Part isekai, part romance, part silly, all fun!

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Being a princess looks like sunshine and rainbows from the outside; but for research-obsessed Twilight Sparkle, being a princess sounds scary, and those new wings aren't helping either!

So she does whatever any stressed bookworm would do, decides to seek advice from the best: successful rulers from the past! But she's not here for bookish research, oh no; she wants to see these rulers in action! Twilight decides to start off at the very beginning, with the first recognized ruler of Equestria: Queen Majesty. But once Queen Majesty catches her and forces the truth out of her, Twilight Sparkle will be dragged into a whirlwind adventure through time. She will have to face old foes, new foes, old magic, and the most powerful magic of all: friendship.

Written for the Imposing Soverigns III: SOUL of Equestria contest, using prompt Twilight Sparkle and Majesty/Bravery.

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