After a long day of selling carrots, Carrot Top relaxes in her house with a carrot cake muffin without incident.

What you just read was a complete fabrication.

Credit for Carrot Top's characterization goes to previous stories I've read about her by Blue Cultist, Meta Four, and Knight Breeze (as well as my own thoughts). I recommend the stories which include her by those authors wholeheartedly.

(Oh, and I have to mention the inspiration for the story itself, which was these excellent comics. The actual sources to the comics are linked in that blog post as well.)

Cover image from this Recipe Website.

As a filly, Applejack is the most friendly pony other than her mom. When another filly moves into the farm across the street, she and the filly quickly become friends. The two go through practically everything together. School, houses burning down, family members passing.

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Not every day can be about battling monsters and mad gods. Not every day can be about a farm in danger of going under, or a political gambit from one of your rivals in the Night Court. Not every day can be about old family secrets coming to light. Not every day can be extraordinary. But that doesn't mean that the ordinary days can't be some of the most important days of our lives - or at least some of the most fun.

A Lunaverse story, with Raindrops as an important character throughout. We need a Raindrops character tag.

This story is a sequel to Dinkys New Word

After researching all day, Lyra looks forward to telling her wife all about it. Typically, Bon Bon looks forward to it but she had a rough day at work.

Ponyville's weather is never quite the same without Rainbow Dash at the helm.

When a week of bad weather frays the nerves of Ponyville's farmers, they'll go to dubious lengths to stop one of their own from winning the heart of Rainbow Dash, and hogging all the good weather in the process.

Tcherno's Honorable Mention in the second AppleDash contest: Applejack, the Chaser!; Featured on Equestria Daily Aug 13th, 2013; Live reading by TheHollowSpectrum

Prereading by First_Down and Jackie

A ton of vectors in the cover art:
Applejack
Rainbow Dash
Berry Punch
Carrot Top
Daisy, Rose, and Lily

And, as usual, scene change markers from here.

Sometimes the most awkward company to keep is your own.

Impossible as it might seem though, that's quite literally the situation Carrot Top and herself find themselves in. The situation is beyond surreal, to say the least, as each mare struggles with the effort of trying to relate and come to terms with someone who simultaneously so eerily similar and yet also so very different.

Is such a thing even possible?

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• Lunaverse fic, and semi-canonical tie-in to RainbowDoubleDash's Crisis on Two Equestrias.
• Additional special thanks go to Talon and Thorn for all the support he's given me. Be sure not to miss his own story about how these two ponies try dealing with each other.
• Cover art complied from vectors by boem777 and longsummer.

Golden Harvest is not jealous. Sure, her neighbor Applejack has a life of adventure and glamor, friends who are national heroes and princesses, an appallingly lucrative share in the local fruit market, and firm, toned flanks. And sure, by contrast, Golden Harvest has been stuck with her snout in the same old muddy patch of carrots pretty much every day since she earned her cutie mark, her best friend is a dentist, and her idea for a 'Carrot Juice Season' never really gained much ground for some reason. But Golden Harvest is not jealous.

Not jealous at all.

She just wishes Applejack would stop being so distracting.

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Pre-read by Midnight Herald and Communist Bob (no link).

The fruit of Sweet Apple Acres are grown with skill, experience, and love.

That last part makes them nutritious for changelings, a fact which Applejack is only now about to learn. But the changelings themselves have known for a long time – after all, they are some of her closest friends.

Most of the year, Written Script enjoys his job as town treasurer--but not when tax time rolls around, and everypony thinks they're paying too much. Then he becomes the most disliked stallion in all of Ponyville.

Now with an audio reading by TheCaptainSand (CaptainBron3y)
Now with a reading by AShadowOfCygnus!

Screwball. The strange Earth Pony that represented true chaos and once lived as a rich land owning mare from Canterlot. Now shrouded in confusion and self doubt, she wonders who she really is now that Discord had unintentionally opened her eyes. Is she the pony that everyone wants her to be or the pony she wants to be?

A tale of discovering her true self, friendship and apology. Screwball will learn what it is to be who she was always meant to be.

Her.