Who Am I?

"It is certain that apparently, though I have seen the same actor a hundred times, I shall not for that reason know him any better personally. Yet if I add up the heroes he has personified and if I say that I know him a little better at the hundredth character counted off, this will be felt to contain an element of truth."
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

Classics

The Book of Friendship Two ambiguously gay Mormon ponies. by BillyColt 226,064 words · 239 · 20
What Meets the Eye A stallion finds there is often more than what meets the eye. by Butterscotch Cream 17,378 words · 154 · 6
Not an Adult Twilight Sparkle has been living a lie. Everypony told her what a beautiful and accomplished mare she was. Everypony thought she was a responsible adult. They were wrong. She was still just a filly trying to stumble her way through life. by Sapidus3 4,178 words · 870 · 31
Allegrezza Vinyl and Octavia have some adventures. by Gravekeeper 47,565 words · 3,345 · 62

Older stories that have stuck with me over the years

TFairness in Our Town
MLP: FiM
Dark
Drama
Double Diamond isn't pleased by all aspects of Starlight Glimmer's society of true equality. But even if it isn't always great, at least it's fair, right?
Sex
Other
Starlight Glimmer
Double Diamond
SparklingTwilight · 4k words · 17 3 · 308 views
EPublic Boundaries
MLP: FiM
Romance
Drama
Slice of Life
Flash Sentry takes Sunburst out for a date, but things go awry when Sunburst doesn't put his demon's to rest.
Flash Sentry
Sunburst
Milo_Chalks · 4.8k words · 93 10 · 2.5k views
TThe Art And Zen Of Learning Absolutely Nothing
MLP Gen 5
Slice of Life
Sprout knows that if ponies are afraid of something, the world is a better place. And if he's going to be restored to power, they need to be scared by something new. Hey, didn't Sunny's dumb father say something about an 'Ursa'...?
Sex
Sprout
Mane 5
Estee · 9.8k words · 76 4 · 1k views
EASMR With Fluttershy
MLP: FiM
Comedy
Mystery
Slice of Life
You made a grave mistake. Fluttershy is trying to fix it.
Second Person
Fluttershy
Discord
SparklingTwilight · 1000 words · 9 4 · 380 views
EOnce Upon A Luggage Inspection Station
MLP: FiM
Comedy
How many ways can somepony screw up bringing baggage onto a zeppelin? There's seven of them. Let's set the ceiling at 'infinity'.
Spike
OC
Main 6
Estee · 7.1k words · 255 6 · 3.1k views

Oct

15th

2023

Hi, I'm Golden Tassel · 5:24pm Oct 15th, 2023

Just "Tassel" is fine, thank you. And please read this as a message in a bottle:

I grew up on the old Internet where the last thing anybody was online was themselves. (and we were all better for it oldmanyellsatcloud.jpeg) So it has never been my inclination to say anything with more than a vague allusion to anything ever going on in my personal life.

Report Golden Tassel · 99 views · #personal

My Favorite Poem

OZYMANDIAS.
I met a Traveller from an antique land,
Who said, “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read,
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeles things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, King of kings.”
Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!
No thing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that Colossal Wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

—Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1818

A powerfully chilling reading by Brian Cranston

TCrossroads to You
MLP: FiM
Equestria Girls
Romance
Drama
Slice of Life
A part of her felt a sense of emptiness inside, like a key part of her died between those thousands of years. Despite the fact that her home was as busy as ever, she still felt useless, she could be doing more, she should be doing more. But what?
Sex
Violence
Suicide / Self Harm
Alt. Universe
Sunset Shimmer
Main 7 (EqG)
Meadowbrook
Wallflower Blush
The Lone Doctor · 15k words · 17 4 · 439 views
E8 Realms of Magic
MLP: FiM
Dark
Adventure
Drama
A world with 9 interconnected realms, 8 arbiters are chosen by the Cosmic Tree that connects them. They must unite to find harmony and prevent the coming of a prophecized tragedy.
OC
Mistmane
AzuraKeres · 28k words · 20 1 · 299 views
TSubjunctive
MLP: FiM
Adventure
In this romance of language and culture, a changeling linguist struggles to salvage what remains of the failed invasion of Canterlot with only himself, his words, and his deception as his weapons.
Fluttershy
Changelings
Integral Archer · 120k words · 280 17 · 5.6k views
TBlank Slate
MLP: FiM
Romance
Dark
Littlepip has always felt a complete disconnect between her thoughts and her environment. When a strange encounter in the basement churns up her thoughts, she reaches out for support. But whom to trust? Based on the Fallout: Equestria universe.
Crossover
Alt. Universe
OC
Other
Integral Archer · 70k words · 49 5 · 2k views

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