Sunset Shimmer doesn't know who George Washington is; not a big deal, right? Turns out if you want to pass American History, it's actually a big deal. Turns out a lot of things are, and suddenly, Sunset Shimmer is failing out of most of her classes.

Add that to a very personal issue that has suddenly become a crisis, and it feels like everything in her life is crashing down around her. What can she do? Go hide in her bed - until her other self from this universe demands entry to her apartment, that is. But is she safe to reveal her biggest secret to her other self? Will it change their friendship - or prevent it from becoming something more?

Written for the Sunset Shimmer x Sunset Shimmer Contest!

Brief author's notes:
This story contains transgender themes alongside traditional high school drama, and there are very brief moments of un-affirming self-doubt. This is quickly corrected.

This story is a sequel to A Himbo Too Far

The common cold; enemy of mankind and ponykind alike. Shining Armor has faced many such colds in his lifetime, but when his newly-minted boyfriend Flash Sentry catches it, it feels like the end of the world. Shining Armor flies into the fray to protect him, commanding troops and royalty alike, and it's up to Flash Sentry to tell his boyfriend to chill out, dude!

This is a sequel to "A Himbo Too Far", but all you need to know from that story is that Flash Sentry and Shining Armor are in a new relationship, and that Shining Armor is in a marriage of convenience to his equally-gay childhood best friend, Princess Cadance.

I had a request for more of these two being silly and cuddly himbos, so here you are! Written for the M/M Contest as well! Just a light, silly story about two boyfriends, and some fun with the classic 'someone gets sick' trope!

Shining Armor just doesn't know what he's going to do with Flash Sentry! He's always getting into trouble! It seems like every patrol something goes wrong, whether it's getting blasted by a frost giant, or getting stuck up a tree with the cat he was supposed to be rescuing! Shining Armor would be more frustrated with him... if he wasn't so hopelessly in love with him. But Flash is straight, and so Shining Armor is left to pine alone, comforted by his gay wife. Oh, right; he's married, too!

But when Shining Armor finds out that Flash Sentry has gotten in over his head far more seriously this time, he races to the rescue; but what if everything is not what it seems? Will Shining Armor be able to come to terms with his feelings? And just how dumb is Flash Sentry?! Find out, in A Himbo Too Far!

Written for the M/M Shipping Contest, just a light and fun story about two silly stallions falling in love!

Family Day is an annual tradition in Ponyville where parents, family members, or guardians of young foals come to the Ponyville Schoolhouse and experience a day in their young charges' lives! Sweet, right? Cheerilee thought so, too, until the Mane Six walked through the door...

Written for my very first Quills and Sofas flash-fic contest, Panic #96: Pop Quiz! This was written in an hour (or just under an hour, I saw the announcement 9 mins late!), although I went back and made a few small edits for grammar after the fact! I placed second! Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome, it was a lot of fun!!

Bat ponies have long been believed to be extinct; they vanished along with Princess Luna a thousand years ago, or at least that's what the diurnal ponies believe. But when Princess Luna returned, so did the bat ponies, emerging from their hidden village in the Everfree Forest! Candle is one of those ponies; a young bat pony stallion, yearning for exploration. And what better place to explore than the far reaches of the Eastern Desert, the homeland of the zebras?

But when a mistakenly translated letter ends up getting him hitched to his handsome pen-pal, Candle will get far more than he bargained for, including setting off on an adventure across a strange continent! Candle and Zeffir will have to contend with the rainy season, fierce predators, and much worse. But what if, at the end of it, he's not sure he wants a divorce after all? Find out what happens to our daring duo in The Zebra and The Bat!

Written for contest: M/M Shipping Contest

The last thing Cozy Glow knew, she was about to be stoned; suddenly, she's in a mountain cabin, with Twilight Velvet asking her to color. What's the meaning of this?! Is Cozy Glow going to be ... redeemed? Or punished?!

Twilight Velvet knows one thing that her daughter Princess Twilight Sparkle has forgotten; that Cozy Glow might be a wannabe despot, a power-hungry pegasus who allied herself with Chrysalis and Tirek, but in the end ... she was only a filly. Twilight Velvet is determined to see just what kind of filly Cozy Glow really is, at her core. But can she be saved? Or is Cozy Glow truly irredeemable?

Written for the 2021 Cozy Glow Short Story Contest, for the prompt of "Cozy makes an unusual friend."

Contest: The 2021 Cozy Glow Short Story Contest

Second Place winner!

Trixie The Great And Powerful is now Trixie The Great And Apologetic. She's been away from Ponyville for a whole year, and she's had time to ruminate on her past actions. With Starlight Glimmer's help, she's making apologies for all of the unkind things she said, including an offhoofed comment to Maud Pie in the wake of her breakup. To apologize, she gives her tickets to her next magic show. But when the magic show is preceded by a psychic musician who lays all of Maud's innermost thoughts bare, especially her innermost thoughts about a certain apologetic magician, what will Maud do?

This is a songfic, a classic throwback to a genre that fell out of favor, with the song heavily tied into the narrative. Words have been changed to fit the setting, and set the scene for a lovely MauXie romance! SFW Maud Pie Trixie shipping, written for the StarTrixMaud shipping contest!

Contest: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/957718/startrixmaud-shipping-contest-24-july-31-august-2021

Doctor Maud Pie, on the heels of a wildly successful year teaching in Stalliongrad, returns to Ponyville to give a lecture at the School of Friendship, and very nearly bores the children to death. However, Gallus notices something strange; every time Maud Pie speaks, his principal Starlight Glimmer lights up! What's that about? Gallus is determined to solve the mystery of the extremely boring lecture, and perhaps reveal ... a secret relationship between professor and principal?!

Written for the StarTrixMaud shipping contest, this is just a sweet story about an established relationship between Maud Pie and Starlight Glimmer, with some of that sweet, sweet mutual pining after a year spent apart!

Contest: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/957718/startrixmaud-shipping-contest-24-july-31-august-2021
Winner of Tenth Place, and Best StarMaud!

A straightforward little slice-of-life that gives you exactly what it says in the longdesc: a snapshot of an established relationship between headmare Starlight Glimmer and Dr. Maud Pie that is very short and sweet. What makes this Guest Lecturer stand out from other works of this light and fluffy genre is the introduction of the characters and the ship through the eyes of the students, for whom school administrators and guest lecturers are categorized somewhat closer to textbooks and lockers than fully-rounded people with lives of their own outside of school, which makes the peek behind the curtain all the more intriguing to them. This really grounds the presence and reality of their relationship and love by contextualizing it as part of the observable world that third parties can deduce; a fact about the universe as mundane and as obvious as the difference between igneous and metamorphic rocks. And that mundanity is just what makes this type of story so pleasant to spend time in.

--Bicyclette

Maud Pie takes a few things in her life very seriously; rocks, her education, and her relationship with her fillyfriends, Starlight Glimmer and Trixie. But when it seems like her fillyfriends have forgotten her big doctoral defense coming up, Maud Pie will have to figure out how to balance her education versus her two fillyfriends, and manage one of the biggest days of her scholastic career all by herself!

Written for the StarTrixMaud contest, this was my very first attempt at writing a trio! They're very cute together, and while the relationships are romantic, there's only SFW material in here. I would call this a slice of life romance, with an established trio who love each other very much!

Contest: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/957718/startrixmaud-shipping-contest-24-july-31-august-2021

Winner of Second Place, and Best StarTrixMaud!

While it has been a joy to read the more unique and literary takes on what constitutes a "shipfic" between these three beloved characters, there is something to be said about the subset of works that are the most "central" to the theme: straightforward, slice-of-life stories without plot devices or unique premises or deep philosophical questions to distract from the shipping dynamics between the characters involved. While writing such a story can be very easy and quick, it is conversely a lot more difficult to stand out from similar stories of this genre simply by doing such a story very well. And that is precisely what It's Not A Big Deal; It's Just My Dissertation accomplishes.

Like many slice-of-life stories, as a sequence of events that happen, It's Not A Big Deal; It's Just My Dissertation could be described as a very common sitcom plot based on a misunderstanding. But the way said plot flows organically from the throuple dynamic, the richness of the little character details In their domestic life, and the sheer sweetness of their love and caring for each other evident in their every word and action had me squeeing at the end despite the resolution never having been in doubt. As any good slice-of-life fic, this one is about the journey and not the destination, and I just wish I could wrap the journey around me like Trixie's cape and nestle in its warmth forever.

--Bicyclette

The Six Pillars have returned to a modern Equestria, and managed to find a place to settle while they rebuilt their lives a thousand years in the future. Well, most of them; while most of the Pillars have made peace with Stygian, for some reason Rockhoof opens each day by commanding Stygian to fight him! Stygian is running out of excuses, and running out of patience! Will these two be able to work out their differences, or will the tiny Stygian have to battle the burly Rockhoof for dominance?!

Rockhoof x Stygian romance, written for the Rare Pairings Pillars Shipping Contest! https://www.fimfiction.net/group/215872/rare-pairings/thread/472953/pillars-shipping-contest