A traveling salespony stumbles into a mystery: a town where there are no mirrors.

Eventually, he finds out why.

"We shall not sleep, though poppies grow..."

I thank for prereading: FanOfMostEverything

Cover Art: detail from Van Gogh's "Field With Poppies" (1889)
^{(I made a custom crop of a small bit of that painting.)}

#custom-story-commission #commission (see author's note for details)

Finding out she and Applejack might be related was the worst day of Pinkie Pie's life.

What is it with these contests?

Dear ApplePie contest judges: You said you wanted an ApplePie story? Maybe even an authentic one? There's this MLP:FiM episode called "Pinkie Apple Pie."

Depending on how you look at it, maybe the episode is a little bit tragic...or maybe a whole lot.

Rainbow Dash makes a bet, without understanding the dangers.

Raven Inkwell discovers evidence of a secret, deadly crime.

Both confront their sovereign, Princess Twilight Sparkle.

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With thanks to Secret Artichoke for some prereading/feedback.

"This is Spur-Tack!" Fluttershy said as loudly as she could. "And friendship can't be beaten. Yay!"

Come and take our friendship.

(Prereaders: Kirtai.)

Hofvarpnir Studios now offers a new service: humans can have their minds uploaded to live forever in Equestria Online, where nothing can kill you.

If only there wasn't SO MUCH demand, and so little time.

...

(You don't really have to read Friendship Is Optimal before this story.)

I am about as surprised as you are to find that this story is an entry in the Cander's Birthday Competition. Seriously, MAYBE it can barely wiggle into the 'canon-compliant' category if it happens during just the right stage of the Great Uploading, when enough of the characters have already rushed to upload.)

To get out of a ticket for mouthing off to a cop, a human agrees to enter a 'diversion program.' It's supposed to teach conflict resolution skills and 'friendship.'

Turns out, it's a VR game set in Equestria. Or is it?

Some details have been "edited" away from any real life inspiration, to protect the innocent and the guilty alike.

(This story might qualify as a canon Optimalverse (FiO) story, because CelestAI has a good reason to at least temporarily welcome her guest into an "Equestria Girls" themed setting.)

This story is an entry in LoveandEdify's "Y/N x Main 6 Shipping Contest."

In the Everfree Forest, Wallflower and Fluttershy try to become trees.

"I ran to the rock to hide my face,
The rock cried out, 'No hiding place.'"

I thank the prereaders: Thesmokingguy, MorganaTheNotCat, Felfox, Carlos S.

Art Credits: a fragment I cropped from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cherry_tree_and_St._Martin%27s_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2922195.jpg, based on a photograph by Jonathan Thacker.

#celestai #lunai

Trixie finally finds an appreciative audience for her mentalist act...in a poultry plant on Earth. But behind the scenes, she discovers a game of life and death where she almost always loses.

For Admiral Biscuit's Not-A-Contest about ponies working on Earth.

A free-standing story. (You don't have to read anything else first.)

Admiral Biscuit seems to have inspired a lot of fimfiction authors, like some kind of muse. Biscuit also authorized this story as an unofficial sequel to "Trixie Kicks a Bigot," in case anyone really cares about such details.

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Image source: a show screencap at https://derpibooru.org/images/2443111

_{(#portal-transformations portal-transformations)}

Every teenager has to discover for themselves who they really are.

Everyone has to make the journey in their own way.

I'd like to thank a lot of people for being who you are, as imperfect as we all are. I know we couldn't do what we do AND be perfect.

Quite aside from any talk about imperfections, Chatoyance and (someone who would perhaps rather not be named) are two of the people I'd like to thank.