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Lyra feels weird, gets meta about it, and wastes* Bon Bon and the reader's time⠀⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀. ⠀* what constitutes as "wasting time" is a subjective judgment

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written for the Quills and Sofas Constant Chaos Contest, maresterminded by the peerless mushroompone

my contribution to RockstarRaccoon's Operation: Crackfic Storm - 2022

This story is a sequel to Sisters

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A Quills and Sofas Christmas Fic Exchange gift for applejackofalltrades with the prompt "gimme any applejack ship but DONT make her straight :gun-2:", spruced up from its first draft. Inspired by Space_Kase's amazing Past Tartarus and Back, which you should really be reading instead.

Thanks to daOtterGuy for convincing me to kill many, many darlings by not adding back in the scenes I cut from the initial idea, and to Emotion Nexus for help with the shortdesc.

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In the future of the Crystal War timeline, King Sombra has finally been defeated. But the war being over just means that its wounds can only begin to heal, and all Applejack can do is give Pinkie the home that her family's rock farm can no longer be.

Sequelness

While this is a sequel to Sisters, it can be read as a standalone without missing anything.

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Shining Armor has a broken horn. An Exquisite Corpse story.

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An Exquisite Corpse by: Bicyclette, TCC56, daOtterGuy, Emotion Nexus, Fiddlescotch, The Sleepless Beholder, chris the cynic, Decaf, iAmSiNnEr, Techno Flare, Bicyclette again.

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Sunset Shimmer and Abacus Cinch have a conversation at the end of the world.

Setting

Set more than ten years after the Point of Divergence, which takes place during Friendship Games, which makes this an AU of both Equestria Girls and my own fic Long-Distance.

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An entry into Abacus Cinch x Sunset Shimmer Contest (September 1, 2021 to September 29, 2021.)

A humble addition to the genre of Rooftop Conversation Between Depressed Sunset Shimmer And A Current/Former School Administrator, which has its origins in chris the cynic's Indifference.

Thanks to Dewdrops on the Grass and The Sleepless Beholder for prereading the first draft!

Thanks todaOtterGuy for the suggestions on the flowers!

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In the Dreamlands, the Princess of the Night meets a young fashion designer named Coco Pommel, drawn to her passionate vision of sparkling white and brilliant diamond and rich indigo. While helping her learn to speak her feelings to the mare of her dreams, Luna is reminded of a mare from her own past. One that lived and died a millennium ago, in an Equestria far different from that of the modern day.

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Idea to write CocoLuna inspired by RDT's Broken Promises at a Hearth's Warming Eve Pageant.

Credits

Thanks to Jarvy Jared, Sledge115, RanOutOfIdeas, RDT, and Thought Prism for prereading the first draft, with especial thanks to Mike Cartoon Pony.

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Before becoming the Pillar of Strength, a young Rockhoof is separated from his lover, a unicorn hailing from the distant lands beyond Old Equestria. This is the story of their reunions throughout the years. Fated by circumstance to long for, but never regain, what they had lost in their youth.

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The first draft of the first section was an entry in the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting G is for Gay contest.

Thanks to and Graymane Shadow and TCC56 for prereading the second draft.

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On the day before starting her apprenticeship in Ponyville, Sugar Belle is confronted by a mare from her past.

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The first draft was an entry in the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting B is for Bisexual contest. The prompts were "Something to Believe" and "The Colour of the Sky".

Thanks to Mike Cartoon Pony for prereading the second draft.

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There's nothing left that can save Equestria. Not Discord, not Celestia, not Luna, not Cadance, not Princess Flurry Heart. But their presence can at least buy Starlight Glimmer time to escape. She just needs to convince Trixie to come with her.

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An entry into the Pride and Positivity event.
The first draft of this fic was the third-place winner in the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting T is for Trans contest.
The first draft of this fic was a submission for a prompt from Bean's Writing Group Discord server, "Five Minutes Too Late". Thanks to Bean and RanOutOfIdeas for their feedback.

Thanks to The Sleepless Beholder for prereading on the second draft.

Longdesc

Was this all there was? For her and Maud to die out here, at the foothills of the Crystal Mountains, never having had a chance to live their lives beyond that little rock farm?

There was supposed to be something more, wasn't there?

But what?

Author's Note

Based on various thoughts about how weird the Pie family is, my Dr. Maudileena Daisy Pie headcanon, and just how much more would be different in the various alternate Starlight-induced timelines beyond the little bits we saw.

Based off a prompt from Bean's Writing Group Discord server, "From the beginning, you know the end". Thanks to Short-tale, RDT, and Techno Flare for their feedback.

Under Construction

Second edition is currently being worked on. Until then, I've decided to unpublish all chapters besides the first, which will be pretty much intact between editions.

Contest review below is based on the first edition, which if you really wish to read, you can do so in this blog post

Review

Long-Distance is a wrenching story and more than one of our judges said that, though they won’t ever be able to bring themselves to re-read it, it will stay with us for a long time. Everything is ending, it may or may not be anyone’s fault, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. The time it will take to reach that final tragedy doesn’t make it any less remote. Sunset and Wallflower are separated across worlds, and have only Sunset’s journal to link them. One of them will die and the other will live on. They’re left to learn how to cope with and share and grieve the time they have left.

Long-Distance is superbly written, with just enough detail about the nature of the tragedy to make it feel realized without overwhelming readers with exposition. There’s a novel’s worth of story in this short story, but none of it feels compressed. Sunset and Wallflower’s tightly written, wrenching, and affecting, and the last chapter left us breathless.

--Judges of Scampy's SunFlower Shipping Contest

Contest

Literal last-minute entry to Scampy's SunFlower Shipping Contest, and now unexpectedly the fourth-place winner. Go read the other entries please, there's a lot of good stuff in there!

Author's Note

Thanks to Sledge115 for emotional support!