As ye well know, nearly every sailor author comes up with more ideas than his head can hold or his quill can ink... but sometimes them little scraps o' storytellin' do make it down onto the page... a scene here, an introduction there; little snippets o' grander tales, cursed to forever sail a sea obscured by an unpublished fog...

These here be such stories; the scribbled scrimshaw of yers truly: MrAskAPirate!

Uh, cut! Cut please!

What? What's wrong?

Really? That's how you want to introduce this glorified scratchpad?

Okay, okay; I'll drop the accent.

And take off the eyepatch?

::sigh:: ... Fine.

Anyway, this is going to be a collection of the little bits and pieces that I've written and want to share with everypony, but don't quite qualify as anything that could be published on their own. In some cases it'll be a story I wrote the intro or a few scattered scenes for, but never completed. Sometimes they'll be little side-stories to my other works, or even the occasional 'deleted scene.'

As per normal for these types of collections, expect the characters, tags, and tone to vary widely. If you follow my writing you probably already know that I like to try out different things, so expect more of the same!

... I mean, more of things that are very different! From one another. Which is the same as my usual body of work. Of different things.

Smooth.

Shut up, Sparkle.

A Twin Canterlots anthology—first in the Lectern’s Books series

It’s good to find new hang-outs and not see the same old places constantly. Sci-Twi suggests Lectern’s New and Used Books—a pretty nice place with a pretty nice owner. It even has a front room and a back patio set up to hang out in.

Interior plans and pictorial views of the store and its lot are available.

Set during the summer vacation between the girls’ junior and senior years at CHS—latter half of season five.

Reviewed 16 July 2017 by Singularity Dream.
Featured on TCC56’s Recommendsday.

After deciding it best that Equestria lay claim over all of Earth and its inhabitants, Princess Celestia finds she now has a very special birthday present to offer to her sister.

Namely: Canada.

Tirek had returned and this time there was nothing that could be done to stop him. The Elements of Harmony had been defeated, the Tree of Harmony had been ripped from the ground, and every spell that was thrown at Tirek was useless. It was only a matter of time before he found the alicorns and then all would be lost.

What happened next though, nopony saw coming.

Now with a Russian translation, which can be found here.
Big thanks to Armorer.

After the defeat of Tirek, Equestria is safe once more, but Luna can sense that her sister is troubled. When Celestia retreats to the starry realm of ascension in order to look upon the past, Luna joins her to discover what is bothering her.

There is now a Spanish translation of this story, courtesy of Spaniard Kiwi

It's Fluttershy's birthday, but all of her friends are busy! ... Well, all but one of them, and he's going to make sure it's the best birthday she's ever had.

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New cover art created by melissathehedgehog. Also with a reading by Dr. Wolf!

Equestria finds itself caught in the cold war between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. Can friendship prevail, or will this cold war turn hot, despite their best efforts?

This is a crossover with Star Trek, taking place in late 2269 of the Prime timeline, during the fourth year of the five-year mission of the original television series. It's not a crossover with the movies made by J.J. Abrams. It is mid-season five or so for Friendship is Magic. it is my humble offering for the fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek, which debuted September 8, 1966.

Thanks to FoalsHalf for being essentially my co-writer/sounding board, and to all those who have helped with proofreading and editing.

Space Battles thread.

Trope page... some day?

Fluttershy has a new job!

...and it's commanding the Imperial Super Star Destroyer "Executor" at the Battle of Endor.

No one in particular appreciates this.

A Star Wars crossover fic commissioned by Shoggoth. Special thanks to Propmaster.

After the second defeat of Chrysalis and the subsequent exposure of her infiltrators in the highest seats of power in Equestria, the common and noble ponies gather behind one enterprising stallion who promises them that he will rid Equestria of all Changeling influences. Hoof McCarthneigh.

He promises that he will not stop until every last Changeling along with their supporters are banished from Equestria forever. He will make Equestria great again, even if that means exposing the Diarchy and the Main Six as Changeling Sympathizers.

Until I can post the image I want from the Season 6 Finale I'll use the current one as much as I am dissatisfied with it.

There's a mare I see every day in town; you may know her, and you've certainly heard of her if you don't. I've watched so many ponies make assumptions about her that it makes me want to scream, before I sweep in and show them the error of their ways. They think that just because she's sweeter than her favourite desserts that she can't stand up for herself; they think that just because her eyes are a little funny that she can't be beautiful; they think that just because she's the mailmare that she can't be the most wonderful, amazing, gorgeous mare in existence.

And because I've seen them think this way for so long, maybe she's started to believe that too...

Not anymore. I'm here to put things right.

Pre-read by the wonderful author Tofazz.