Fluttershy's friends might call the gentle pegasus sensitive. But they don't know the half of it. What is she always so afraid of, anyway? And why is SHE the one pony who can go toe-to-toe with the Avatar of Chaos himself?
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.)
After a nasty breakup with Sunset Shimmer, a Twilight Sparkle discovers a way to travel to parallel universes. Millions of Sunset Shimmers who've never met her. It was a perfect plan...until it wasn't.
Every day, more people upload themselves into Equestria Online, to live forever as ponies. Even in their final minutes before uploading, they struggle with the pains and joys of being human, and remember the world they leave behind.
To keep pony-shaped robots from eating their brains, Sue and her friends fled into the mountains, where the girls live by their hunting skills and their wits. But Sue discovers the truth is more complicated than she'd thought.
Celestia WILL satisfy uploaded minds' values, even if sometimes she has to pretend that she's kind of stupid. Because with some ponies, that's what successful communication takes!
The trouble with Sunset's 'Flanksy' graffiti art is, vandalism doesn't belong to the artist. So Twilight comes up with a scheme to sell things you don't own and don't have. It uses computers and the interneight!
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.
Twilight Sparkle investigates why people so often can't see Wallflower Blush. Sunset Shimmer helps, and discovers more than she'd ever imagined possible.
As the only living person on Earth after a robot apocalypse, Sunset Shimmer really needs a hug. But when Sunset finds a fellow survivor, will trust become a fatal mistake?
To get out of a ticket for mouthing off to a cop, a human agrees to enter a 'diversion program.' It's supposed to teach conflict resolution skills and 'friendship.' Turns out, it's a VR game set in Equestria. Or is it?
Hofvarpnir Studios now offers a new service: humans can have their minds uploaded to live forever in Equestria Online, where nothing can kill you. If only there wasn't SO MUCH demand, and so little time.
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.
Like all the other high schools in the country, Canterlot High has a new Mandatory Moral Education program. The VR technology is very advanced! The morals...maybe not so much.
Some ponies need somecreature to be nice to. A proper pony utopia for uploaded human minds should plan for this...especially if it's run by an AI version of Celestia. But sometimes, the plan seems to go wrong.
Is friendship REALLY the optimal technology? What if everypony could be happier by giving up some of our yucky, old-fashioned contact with reality? Contains satire.
Trying to win a time war, Starlight Glimmer created a thousand alternate histories. In one of those worlds that could have been, Scootaloo learned to fly.
Who will save Canterlot High from Sunset Shimmer's cruelty? Sometimes the antihero you need isn't the hero you expect. (This story REALLY IS kind of a dark sci-fi romance/shipping short, just like the tags say.)
When Sunset steals alien Princess Twilight's new nanotechnology invention, some of the consequences surprise everyone. A lonely girl might even find true love (or maybe not.)