"You cut up my rainbow flag T-shirt into HOW many pieces, Rarity?"

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Twilight accidentally turned her parents into houseplants, back when she was a filly.

Some ponies are never able to change their parents back.

Even though her life seems to have fallen apart, and everything she thought she was working for is lost, Sunset Shimmer still doesn't rush to commit suicide.

Well, not right this minute anyway.

A story for Suicide Procrastination Week.

What's it like, knowing one of your best friends tried to kill almost everypony in the world who looked like you?

Sometimes Pinkie Pie would wake up from a nightmare, and remember.

Soon she started hoarding cans of paint...for her own protection, she said. But that was only the beginning.