Wow! RB's back! And what has he brought? A new Detective Rarity? The sequel to Castlefic? No! It's...

TSide Effects Include...

• MLP: FiM
• Dark
• Horror

Sometimes the medication can be worse than the disease.

• Twilight

RB_ · 2.9k words  ·  92  6 · 1.1k views

Another shitty fic no one asked for! Wow! Amazing! What a great writer who's totally not a hack! Read it! Please! I'm in a bad place right now, what else is new, I'm sorry.

Funny story, that! I was writing a 30,101 word original novella that I decided I wanted to do in one month because I only know how to be cruel to myself (FoME, if you're reading this, that's why I didn't enter Imposing Sovereigns even though I said I would, I'm so sorry, next time hopefully?)

If you want to learn more about what that was like, check after the break!

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TYou’ll Be Just Like Me

• MLP: FiM
• Horror

Ocellus wakes up with holes in her legs.

• Thorax
• Gallus
• Ocellus

RB_ · 4.2k words  ·  93  3 · 961 views

Actually done before Halloween this year! I wrote all of this in one go a couple days ago. Cutting it close!

Story with this one, and this is sorta spoilers, so maybe read the fic first.

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If you're in the mood for a good spooking this season of spooks, check out this story by my good friend Perfectly Insane:

TInsomnia

• MLP: FiM
• Dark
• Horror
• Tragedy

What is sleep but a shortness of death?

• Profanity
• Twilight
• Pinkie

Perfectly Insane · 31k words  ·  47  5 · 715 views

I helped preread it, so I can affirm it's good-ness! Give the first chapter a read.

EWhat's in a Name?

• MLP: FiM
• Slice of Life

Silverstream learns an interesting fact about Smoulder's name. Naturally, she has to share! Smoulder isn't too thrilled.

• Smolder
• Young Six

RB_ · 1.3k words  ·  147  4 · 1.4k views

Little short student six slice-of-life. Bit of a palette cleanser after the last fic, mess that it was. I promise I'll stop with these tiny minifics at some point and focus on something with a bit more substance, but sometimes you just gotta write what you fancy, y'know?

TNo Safety in Numbers

• MLP: FiM
• Thriller

At 8:35 AM, Canterlot burns.

• Death
• Twilight
• Celestia

RB_ · 1.8k words  ·  115  14 · 1.3k views

Wrote this in one sitting. Needed to vent some emotions. Did my best.

New story!

EDamselfly

• MLP: FiM
• Drama

Smoulder learns something new about her wife. Ocellus wishes it had been under better circumstances.

• Ocellus
• Smolder

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Controversial topic. Don't care. If you don't like it you can suck an egg.

TWaking Up is Hard Sometimes

• MLP: FiM
• Comedy

After 10,000 years, one of the Great Old Ones has awoken. Surely this spells doom for Equestria. Surely.

• Pinkie

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I originally had the idea for this back in 2014, as an entry to the Equestria Daily Outside Insight Contest. I started writing it and then stopped and never came back to it. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), that version has been lost to time. But the idea stuck with me until now, so it can't have been too bad, right?

Right?

"Rainbow!"

"Gah!" Rainbow Dash shot up, her copy of Daring Do and the Dread Tomb slipping from her hooves. "Rarity? What the heck was that for!?"

"Sorry darling," Rarity said, stepping into the room. She was dressed in her trenchcoat and hat. "I just had the most simply marvelous idea, and I had to share it with you."

Rainbow dusted off her book and set it on the couch she'd been lying on. "Hit me."

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As the title implies. My mental state is such that I’m having trouble getting much of anything done right now, and the couple of times I’ve managed to start a blog something else has gotten in the way, so I’m officially putting it on hold for this year (unless something changes in the next week or so). I’m very sorry. You can check out the old ones if you still feel like torturing yourself this summer; I’ve conveniently linked them on my user page. Sorry!