Fluttershy refuses to give up on Discord.

But what is their relationship really like, behind closed doors? How can she stay with a creature who was born without a conscience, who uses others as playthings and hurts them again and again?

A love triangle in one and a half scenes. (Or is that a lie too?)

Fluttercord Week 2022: This story might celebrate Day Seven of #FluttercordWeek2022: (Free Space), but it isn't officially for Day Thirteen: Stars, because I don't want to wait that long to celebrate the amazingness and flexibility of the Fluttercord ship, and how many different ways there are to imagine it!

Day Seven: Saturday January 25th 2020

Let’s end this awesome week with a freebie. Write whatever you want as long as it’s Fluttercord related and as long as it’s appropriate within the G-PG rating.

When Twilight Sparkle returns to Canterlot from Equestria's frontier, the unicorn finds out just how much fashions can change.

For one thing, her old friend Rarity Belle is now an alicorn.

AU Or Not?

This is one of those stories that might or might not require an alternate universe. The main difference is, in canon EqG we don't see Sunset and Adagio interacting this much. But this story COULD have happened offscreen between other events, so it's hard to say. IF this story is squeezed into the canon world, Adagio and Sunset could have gone through a big, messy breakup before "Equestria Girls: Sunset's Backstage Pass."

Prereader Credits

TheSmokingGuy preread. Short-tale preread portions of this story too.

Contests?

An entry in the 2021 November/December Sunset Shimmer x Adagio Dazzle (Sundagio) contest.
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/215660/sunset-shimmer-x-eg-villains-shippers-group-competitions/thread/484182/adagio-x-sunset-competition-deadline-extension

Human values are very important! Maybe even more important than the opinions of Hanna, creator of the world's first superintelligent AI.

This story is a non-canon Friendship Is Optimal (FiO) side story.

Prereader Credit:

Several months ago Bicyclette was kind enough to preread a draft, and over the time since then I've tried to apply Bike's feedback...about as far as the story seemed to permit. The story's remaining faults are my own doing.

While investigating a murder, Fluttershy learns one of the Equestrian Postal Service's biggest secrets, and finds romance in the last place she would have expected.

Preread Credits: Thanks to TheSmokingGuy for prereading (and to Punished Bean and TheSmokingGuy for some logistical help.)

Some of you have read Le Guin's classic, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." I bring you a story from the perspective of the starved child in the cellar, shying fearfully from a mop.

Also, ponies.

Content Warning: Child abuse.

Preread Credits: Thanks to RDT and GaPJaxie for prereading (and to Punished Bean and TheSmokingGuy for some logistical help.)

Contest notes:

If friendshipping and other types of relationships are admissible to a 'shipping' contest, this story might qualify for Bicyclette's Woman x Mare Shipping Contest.

Do fanfics for Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" qualify for the site's current Science Fiction Contest? Maybe.

Note to moderators about the poetry/verse: I composed the prophecy (or excerpt from the prophecy) myself. Le Guin's own story didn't really need this poem, but I thought my story did.

As the title says, I was rewatching 'Run to Break Free' for like the 100th time, and one line in it always interests me. Rainbow Dash says she "Lives in slow motion" and the video shows everyone in slow motion, so I thought of a story idea. what if she actually does 'live in slow motion?' And how would that affect her relationships, how the movies went, etc. Do you see where I'm going here?