If you're on this site and not reading these fics, you're missing a big part of this fandom. In PAST SINS, Pen Stroke creates a wonderful story of redemption and gifts the fandom with one heck of a fun original character. RAINBOOMS AND ROYALTY is the most fantastic alternate universe fanon fic I've ever seen. It's unfair to call it alternate universe; this is more like alternate canon because you can easily see how, if this was the actual canon, the show would be just as great and epic as it is with the current canon. CyborgSamurai does THE POWERS OF HARMONY as a side project (his first love is making music) but you can't really tell. You'll run across my griping somewhere in the comments but this is really and truly a fic to watch. MY CHOICES: TWISTED THROUGH TIME doesn't get many updates but it's worth reading and re-reading lots and lots of times. It really gets to the core of the kind of pony Twilight Sparkle is--and you realize that in every possible interpretation of the word, Twilight is a hero. If you want a laugh involving a disgruntled evil AI in Equestria, look at MY LITTLE GLADOS. It will make your inner evil cynic laugh and sing.

A DREAM IS A WISH OR A NIGHTMARE is still in-progress and incomplete but every indication is that this will be a great take on NightLight shipping and Nightmare Moon generally. ALL-AMERICAN GIRL is a fiction with every chapter good and complete enough to be its own single-chapter one-shot story. This is Fallout Equestria level work, people, but better. FANFIC IS CRAPSACK is an author raging against fanfic tropes, trollfics, and making fun of every perversion and weirdness we bronies subject the poor ponies to. His Pinkamena kicks flank, all day long. THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE NIGHTMARE NIGHT is a ponified adaption of the fantastic show "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and shows that Equesrtia is such a great place that its undead horrors are unbelievably cool. Also, Pinkie and Pinkie in a lucid dream; 'nuff said. VALKYRIE is just starting as of me writing this but this unique take on the universe of the show, with Princess Luna as top pony being absolutely best Luna, is extremely well-crafted and you owe it to yourself to watch this closely.