This story is a sequel to Dashaloo Days and Scootabow Nights

Have you ever needed to be loved so bad that when you got it, it was painful? Scootaloo has! And when her mom shows back up from deployment for a bit of leave, her idol/big sister Dash faces new challenges with an intense internal conflict, compounded by her meddling friends, suddenly boiling over. Will she be overcome by the new barrage of gut wrenching emotions and insecurities? You bet she will! Will Ponyville still be standing after their spat? Will the barrage of anxiety on Scootaloo ever end as she's caught in the middle?

Cover art by Neko-Me!

Rainbow Dash promised to take the rambunctious Scootaloo under her wing on the whim of pride. However, when Scootaloo's repressed emotions come to surface, Dash finds there's more to the little filly than fun and flight training. Can Dash master her own insecurities as she struggles in expanding her comfort zone to give Scootaloo what she really needs? Will she accept the responsibilities to a much deeper meaning with the title of Big Sister?

Dedicated to DawnFade who inspired, through elegant prose, a shattered writer to follow his dreams once again.

And to my daughter Ella, who is a wonderful big sister, but really needs a big sister herself sometimes.

Edited by Unknownlight
Pre-read by MasterLuke07

Twilight invents speed dating.

Rarity tries not to perfect murder.

(Part of the Triptych Continuum, which has its own TVTropes page and FIMFiction group. New members and trope edits welcome.)

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Despite being her unofficial sister, Rainbow Dash has yet to meet Scootaloo's parents. This changes when the young pegasus has something to show them and Rainbow tags along for the ride.

"Get off of me Trixie."
"Nope."
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Cover Art by Egophailic
Editing/Proofreading by EchoTheWolf

Now readings by TheaterCritic
Part 1

When troubled dreams lead to onstage accidents, Luna advises Trixie to think deeply on the magic of friendship. Trixie ponders her errors and realizes what she must do: swallow her pride, atone for her misdeeds in Ponyville, and befriend the ponies she has wronged...

... and then the power of the Elements of Harmony will be hers!

Star Swirl the Bearded is said to be the greatest pony who ever lived and is credited with being the most powerful unicorn of all time, at least until Twilight Sparkle came along.

However what no one knows is that there is something that Star Swirl wanted more then anything. More then fame, more then fortune, more then glory. It was a family.

Now Princess Celestia and Princess Luna discover that the descendants of Star Swirl have been living right under their noses the whole time. The most recent descendants are none other then Shining Armor, Twilight Sparkle, and Trixie Lulamoon.

Shining Armor and Twilight may already be use to being part of a family but Trixie has always been on her own. Is there anyway this unusual family can come together or will they drive each other up the wall?

Partway through her morning practice routine—and routine it is—Octavia seems to have gained an audience. Well, if that mare wants to listen, she'll get a good show.

Expanded from the tenth-place finisher in /fic/'s first minific write-off, "What Lies Beneath."

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Cover art by drawponies

Reviewing help from Mystic and Chris.

You know what they say once you hit rock bottom...

Twilight casts a new spell labeled as a "pick-me-up" that, among other things, gives her the ability to smell color and causes her to lose all meaning of the words "personal space."