• Member Since 22nd Jul, 2016

SkeletonMilk


I collect horror stories (cordyceps, zombies, cosmic horror, the works)

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Bittersweet Top Picks 7 stories
  • Bittersweet Top Picks 7 stories These ones kinda hurt, but it's not all bad. Implies some sort of 'gentle' or hopeful resolution that cushions the blow from the rest of the story. Everything else might've been painful but it's over, they're at peace.
    Created by SkeletonMilk
    - July, 2020
Found 7 stories in 54ms

Total Words: 22,927
Estimated Reading: 1 hour

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  • Stuff about Apocalypse Scenarios 11 stories I just like stories where everything is basically awful forever for the whole world. Might have overlap with Dark With A Good Ending and Dark n Bitter depending on how many ponies survive.


  • Dark with a Good End 9 stories Shelf Title does not necessarily mean nobody dies. It just means that the badness stops one way or another and at least someone survives long enough to see the end and maybe move past it. Horror comedies are abundant here!


  • Bittersweet Top Picks 7 stories These ones kinda hurt, but it's not all bad. Implies some sort of 'gentle' or hopeful resolution that cushions the blow from the rest of the story. Everything else might've been painful but it's over, they're at peace.


  • Pony of the Week Becomes A Freak 4 stories Involves the sudden or secret downward spiral of a single focal character into Probably Murder. Implies a lack of outside forces directly acting on the character's mind such as possession, but can include mind altering drugs and supernatural sources of stress. It's usually Twilight or Pinkie.


  • Impostor Syndrome 3 stories Implies that the wrongness is contained entirely within one horse, and is the result of an outside force acting upon that horse instead of being a (semi)voluntary action. Said horse may not actually be who they claim to be, hence shelf title. Mutually exclusive with PotWBaF shelf


  • Dark n Bitter 14 stories Well that went REALLY wrong REALLY fast. 'Oh Shit...' ending and/or elements of fridge horror are mandatory here! Nobody gets a happy or even painless ending here!


  • What In Tarnation? 4 stories There's a repulsive twist in there somewhere. Something gross happens to at least one person as the focal point of the story. The gross thing can be gorey or not, but cannot be sexual. This genre overrides all other shelf categories unless there's a total apocalypse scenario in there somewhere too.


  • Everypony Hated That 3 stories (Bookshelf title does not indicate I disliked the fic!!!) Wow! That basically didn't end well for literally anyone in the story! It wasn't even an apocalypse, everything just went horribly wrong for a few stupidly unlucky horses! Usually implies sadness over sheer fear factor, but still the sort of sadness that makes your skin crawl. There is no happy ending. The pain lives on after the credits roll.


  • Sort Later 4 stories Ah crap, the lazy strikes again. Wild cards I have yet to sort

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A changeling and his brother live different lives, but one knows and the other doesn't. When jealousy rises, who has to pay?

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Shining Armour had a great life, everything he could ever want. He was happy.

That is until the Monster arrived.


Violence tag due to certain themes within the story. CW: Child Abuse

An entry in the A Thousand Words Contest under Horror.

Preread by The Sleepless Beholder and mushroompone.

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Twilight has been studying so much recently, so Rarity comes over to try to shake her out of it.
Then, the next day, Rarity comes over again.


Winner of the second Spookfest competition for the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting Group.
This is also a prize fic for the very talented Snow Quill, who graciously provided the cover art.

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After several bloody years of war, we are about to defeat King Sombra. I almost wish we would have lost.

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This story is a sequel to Mistakes We Make


The mirror showed a reflection, sure, but it was almost like looking at… a stranger.

Applejack struggles with an identity issue and finds solace in someone close. Although, things don't go quite as expected when the truth is revealed. Everything is fine, though. It has to be. Does it really count as lying if it’s to yourself?


Part of my Transverse AU!

Written as part of Quill’s and Sofas Speedwriting’s T is for Trans contest! Thanks to everyone who read the original version of this and left awesome comments on it. Here they are: applezombi, themoontonite, Undome Tinwe, The Red Parade, Silvermint, Bicyclette, wishcometrue, The Hat Man, Vis-A-Viscera, and Atom Smash.

Consider donating to Point of Pride (A charity for Trans People!)

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Every Friday, from five in the afternoon to eleven at night, Pinkie Pie does volunteer work. She doesn't have to do it, the world won't stop if she doesn't, but she chooses to do it anyway. Even if it's doing seemingly insignificant little things.

It is a matter of life and death, after all. Literally.

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