To whom it may concern

My "favourites" list is a comprehensive list of everything I have read on this site. While I have liked almost everything I've read, there are a couple in there which I actively dislike. If you want recommendations, start with those featured frames down there, and then follow up with everything by the authors on my follow list.

Note: Now that the bookshelves feature has been added, I'll eventually get around to sorting things into more intuitively named lists, but for now, I've just updated the above with a link to my favourites list, since it's currently somewhat difficult to find other users's bookshelves.

I try to leave a comment on everything I read now, so if you're wondering what I thought of a story on that list, look for my comment.

Art

Epics

Background Pony "My name's Lyra Heartstrings, but you won't remember anything. Listen to my symphony, for it by shortskirtsandexplosions 432,377 words · 6,599 · 235
Eternal Princess Celestia and Twilight Sparkle's bond is tested by miscommunication and guilt. by device heretic 159,827 words · 2,996 · 65
Contraptionology! When life gives you lemons, make robot monsters. by Skywriter 133,117 words · 1,053 · 29
The Flight of the Alicorn Rarity finds herself forced into an unlikely alliance when her airship crashes far from home. by Ponydora Prancypants 227,108 words · 1,419 · 29

These are all incredibly long and incredibly good stories. All the stories in this category are well in excess of 100k words. They also happen to be my all time top 5 stories on FimFiction. Like the rest of these frames, they are ranked top down, left to right. Back when I first came here, I gravitated towards longer fics, on the theory that a long story was one whose author was sufficiently dedicated to it to write that much, and thus were likely to be high quality. So far I haven't been proven wrong. Though I've long since branched out and read things of all lengths and types, these remain my favorites.

Medium Length Stories

Integration For once, a pony wishes to join the changelings instead. by Raugos 118,733 words · 1,858 · 24
The Best Night Ever Grand Galloping Gala meets Groundhog Day time-loop by Capn_Chryssalid 53,935 words · 5,240 · 84
Twice as Bright Celestia likes her routine. Tax reforms, grants, laws and construction projects are all a princess needs to be content. It's just her luck that for Pinkie Pie, "content" is not nearly enough. by Cloudy Skies 52,160 words · 1,631 · 25
Apotheosis Twilight and Luna explore a land that appears on no map by Daetrin 46,300 words · 2,701 · 45
Mendacity Bon Bon, Lyra, and the Unseelie Court by Dromicosuchus 74,794 words · 2,258 · 37

Mid range stories, generally in the neighborhood of 50k words each. About the length of a short novel. Good for a nice long read, but won't take you all week. Incidentally, the top two are both stories which take place concurrently with two MLP season finales, shown from an alternate perspective.

Oneshots

Twilight Sparkle Makes a Cup of Tea Sometimes, a cup of tea is just a cup of tea. This is not one of those times. by GhostOfHeraclitus 1,671 words · 1,519 · 30
Hot Chocolate Rarity and Sweetie Belle spend a day together snowed-in at Carousel Boutique. Cuteness ensues. by Portmeirion 4,886 words · 385 · 3
Perihelion What secret wish lay in the dreams of eternity? by Sunchaser 1,219 words · 134 · 5
A Filly's Guide to Not Making Headlines PRINCESS SPARKLE IN CAMELU DUSTUP – Reports emerged Sunday that H.S.H. Princess Twilight Sparkle slammed Griffonstan over Camelu water rights. "I mean, they have plenty. It's not a 'threat to their sovereignty' to ask— by Bradel 8,218 words · 1,475 · 18
An Unepic Pony War In The Non-Distant Future Ponyville hosts the 1003rd Summer Sun Celebration. Celestia and Luna are taking a vacation. Nothing could possibly go wrong. by anowack 10,030 words · 1,806 · 23

Oneshots seem to be those stories writers crank out when they're not working on their magnum opus to keep themselves from becoming bogged down in the same story all the time, or when they're just struck with an idea and can't sleep. These are short stories, anywhere from 1k to 10k words, suitable for a quick read in a spare moment. If you've actually read all these comments, a final note. Some of the best oneshots and mid length stories I've read are by authors listed in the previous frames. However, in order to ensure reasonable diversity, I have avoided putting more than one story by any single author in these frames. The longest best story by any given author takes precedence.

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