Sunset Shimmer Is a general....But a general of what?
Pre-read by HoofPrintz
My ass submission for the 2024 dioluge only contest.

Orginal image by Orin331 on deviantart (W drawings btw): https://www.deviantart.com/orin331/art/Smug-Shim-841566699

Sunset Shimmer asks her girlfriend a simple question: “Would you still love me if I were a worm?”

Unfortunately, Twilight Sparkle has never given a simple answer in her life.

Written for Perfectly Insane’s Dialogue Only Contest.

Pre-read by Posh.

Sunset just wanted to give her friends an Equestrian experience without any magical mishaps, threats to life and limb, or tears in reality.

In hindsight, she really should have known better.

An exquisite corpse from many of the same folks who brought you Cheerilee's Normal Day, with each author only seeing the two chapters prior to theirs. Featuring the work of Jarvy Jared, PseudoBob Delightus, Dashie04, Silver Needle, EileenSaysHi, AltruistArtist, The Red Parade, Fillyfoolish, Bicyclette, The Sleepless Beholder, Rego, and yours truly.

Rated Teen for a precision F-bomb. (Hey, if it works for PG-13 movies...) Cover by PseudoBob.

Twilight sparkle was the new girl in school who had just who just move into canterlot city. Beside preferring to spend her time reading books and studying then making friends she was you regular average school girl. However after her first day of school she discovered that she is more than you average school girl as she and a few others are chosen to be the wielder of the elements of harmony . A group of magical girls whose purpose is to protect the world from the forces of evil.

Author note : This story was inspired by this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpGZY3fJjZ0

After watching this I thought why not make a story out of this.

Join Fluttershy and her friends as she travels to the past to bring long-extinct species back to the present day and give them a second chance.

Pontificating poetry pertaining to ponies.

Each chapter explores a particular aspect of a character from the show with the title sharing the name of its muse.

I was Inspired to write my own poetry after reading Ice Star's "Equinity".
Go read it people! Poetry needs more love on here!

Last Rainbow Dash heard, Sunset was on a date with some dude she'd never heard of, so she decided to follow up on it over Discord and see how it went.

This is my submission for the Dialogue Only contest (May 15 - June 15, 2024)

Note: Story is set to be removed shortly after the contest’s conclusion as per site rules. Download it if you want to have this stored somewhere you can reread later, otherwise it’ll be reposted as a blog post so it can at least remain on the site

Community service isn't exactly fun. Sunset Shimmer is learning that the hard way—especially when Saffron Masala keeps cooking extra meals that their soup kitchen couldn't pay people to eat. It's not fun, it's not worth it, and it's never ever ever going to change. And... for some reason, it seems Saffron's okay with that.

Now, six Wednesday nights out from the disastrous Fall Formal, Sunset decides that she might as well ask Saffron why.

Written for the May Pairings 2024 contest. Special thanks to my editors Octavia Harmony and Monochromatic, and to all of my wonderful prereaders. Art by me!

Two thousand years after Nightmare Moon's banishment, Equestria thrives. Celestia rules with her six princesses, six powerful Alicorns, given charge over different parts of rulership, using their powers and wisdom to make sure Equestria prospers.

Or, that is the official story, anyway.

In truth, after installing countless unstable cybernetics, Celestia has gone mad, and the Alicorns aren't much better. Ponies regularly disappear when they start to question things publicly. Wars are waged, species are slaughtered, and androids are kept as slaves, bought and sold as property.

Vinyl Scratch was a musician, owned by Fancy Pants. Her life had been well, really, but before she knows it, she finds herself thrust into the midst of conspiracies and rebels. Discord, an organization bent on overthrowing Celestia and bringing equality to androids, takes her in and keeps her safe. Vinyl wants to fight for what's right, but deep down, she wonders what is truly the right thing to do.

A bit of a twist on a stereotypical cyberpunk setting. While we have the evil government and the rebels, it does focus on more messages of harmony and friendship than you'd normally see. While 'the tree of liberty must be watered with blood of tyrants', it is necessary to 'love your neighbor as yourself', too.

Updates will be rare, but as I am working on this whenever I have time, it will not be set to 'hiatus'.

Okay, now for content warning:

--Foul language: As it should, it depends on the character speaking. Curses are usually going to be few and far between, but a few characters swear like sailors (or cyberpunk gangsters, as it were.)

--Violence and death: People have guns, and people get shot. I will not write graphic descriptions of violence, but it will be on screen.

--References to rape and brothels: Androids, as slaves, are used as prostitutes against their will in some places. I will not go deep into that, but it does happen in this setting.

--References and use of drugs: Without knowing too much about different kinds of real world drugs, I simply made up one I called 'Salt licks'. It is highly addictive and physically damaging.