The words still echoed, spinning clearly in her mind...

Applejack stared at the ceiling, her eyes tracing over the gaps and grains of the wooden rafters for what felt like the hundredth time.  Of course she didn’t “enjoy” being forcibly transformed by magic, and in the split-seconds of the magic working over her body, contorting her, dressing her in riding gear and hardening her flesh into fiberglass, she’d been nearly overwhelmed with fear...

...when it was done, however, she’d felt something different...

...as she went around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around, and around...

A slow-burn descent into an unusual place, as Applejack and the CMC become obsessed with being turned into a carousel. May count as psychological and/or body horror, or maybe fetish-fuel, possibly a trans/queer narrative (?), depending on who reads it.

Content Warning: Contains a lot of inanimate-TF fixation. Nothing really "disturbing" about it, but that's what the story is about.

Because of the horror aspects, I am submitting this as part of the Nightmare Night in April Writing Event. If that interests you, go check out the other stories in that folder!

This is a followup to something that happened in the IDW My Little Pony comics, Issue 78, the end of the Cosmos arc, where the image is from. You do not need to read that to understand the plot, as it's just one scene and I explain everything relevant (I haven't read it myself since it came out), though it's a year-end 4-parter with Discord so you should probably read it either way.

This was an old commission that's sat mostly finished for a while, but was delayed by my severe nerve-damage from COVID.

Octavia's had a fine career. But all good things just come to an end. She performs her final performance, and takes her final curtain.

This story is a sequel to Don't Bet On Ocellus Related Topics

When Gallus has finally built up the courage to ask out Silverstream, he realizes that he has no idea what he's doing. So he asks Ocellus to mind control her. Completely reasonable.

This story is a sequel to Pearl's Travels 1: Hollow Shades

The Human-turned-Changeling Pearl and her adoptive clutch-sister Oval leave the safety of their hive to venture deeper into the pony lands of Equestria.

First stop: Canterlot, where unforeseen circumstances cause a delay the pair of Changelings can't afford...

(Image done by AeylinFaith)

Red and Yellow have only completed a few missions and they're still as green as grass, so it's up to Orange to teach and guide them. If he can find the patience to deal with Red's sass and Yellow's complaining. The job is as simple as it is dangerous though: to salvage leftover trash from abandoned facilities. They'll need teamwork and trust and the mental fortitude to stare down the very horrors that led the previous inhabitants to flee in the first place. And maybe, just maybe, they'll even need... sacrifice...

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A Lethal Company fanfic. You don't need to be familiar with the game to follow along. I was careful with it :P

Surprise is a simple Cloudsdale mare. To make ends meet, she is hired by ponies to perform stunts for them at parties. Nothing grandiose, really -- a few spins, flips, and loop-de-loops work wonders on a frowning face.

But as she returns home one evening, she bumps into a mare who sees promise in her, a mare who grants her a once-in-a-lifetime chance doing something she had only barely thought of before.

An entry into the 2024 Wonderbolts Sitewide Contest.

Jin Isagi was a regular 15 Yr old. He lived his life normally, until one day, his Mom forces him to suddenly move to the USA for a new job in a backwater town called Equestria! Also, his life turns into a game... Yep, totally normal

The Gamer × PTJ-Verse × A Variety of Anime × Equestria Girls?!
This is a fever dream of an idea...
(Rewrite of a previous story with the same name)

This story is a sequel to The Hearth-Warmers of Canterlot High

After a fun-filled Winter, which included a dramatic snowball war and a souffle, Sunset Shimmer is hoping that this Spring will be a mostly peaceful one.

Given all the adventures, mishaps, and mayhem (magical and otherwise) that she and the Rainbooms have gone through, who could blame her for wanting the break that they have been enjoying to last a little longer?

Life, as if responding to that desire with a snicker, sends the girls revelations, mysteries, magical antics, and blasts from the past to test them and their friendship at every turn.

Sunset will wish she hadn't jinxed things.

Current Spot in the Friendship is Worth It Timeline:

When Life Gives You Snow...
Holidays Unwrapped
The Hearth-Warmers of Canterlot High
Spring Surprises

Series Details and Full Timeline

This story is a sequel to We don't go to Sub-Level Five

With the nightmares of the Silos behind them, Astral and Sassi begin to adapt to a world that lacks any understanding of the horrors now buried underneath glass and stone. The only creature in their life who can serve as a confidant is Arcane. However, the chaos-unicorn is busy learning to adapt to a world and society now alien to him. But they have each other, and their lives start to settle into a form of pleasant normality.

As life in Equestria and the Gryphon Empire continues on, Twilight and Tanzil are forced to confront troubles both within and outside their borders. Sometimes peace is but a thin, false veneer over chaos, and the two rulers quickly discover that their budding relationship may be the least of their troubles.

When a familiar horror emerges from the shadows, Astral, Sassi, and Arcane are forced to confront a terrorthat looms not only to engulf their new home, but all of Equestria and beyond. With their nightmares no longer confined to their minds, the three ponies desperately try to save who they can from the oncoming storm. When faced with some threats, all you can do is run and pray that it doesn't find you.

But for the two Thestrals, a unicorn, and their friends, they're sick of running. And they've got lots, and lots of ammunition.

Spoilers for We Don't Go to Sub-Level Five, Timeless, Sunspots, and Cure for a Toxin

While attending a party in Canterlot as a Wonderbolt, Rainbow Dash realises that, although Surprise is almost childishly cheerful with the other Wonderbolts, she is composed and calm in public. Rainbow also realises that Surprise always wears her flight suit in public, and wants to understand why.

Takes place six months or so after Newbie Dash.

I did not enlist an editor nor a proofreader, so I would appreciate it if attention were called to any typos or the like.

This story was my entry to the 2024 Wonderbolts contest, hosted by the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting group.