Spike has outgrown his youthful crush on Rarity, but now he finds himself desperate to win the heart of another mare closer to his own age: Sweetie Belle. Desperate to make an impression with her, he decides that he needs to get her the greatest, most perfect gift he possibly can. The only problem? He has no idea what that gift might be. Not wanting to let his friends know about his crush before he can give Sweetie her present, he wracks his brain to solve the puzzle of finding a perfect gift alone. Until one night, he finds help from an unexpected source.

Will he be able to find Sweetie's dream gift within his own?

Written for ScarletRibbon for Jinglemas 2022

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/528780/dreaming-of-a-perfect-gift

This story is a sequel to Symbiosis

Just keep digging. As long as we break through soon, we'll live again. Just keep digging.

Second place entry in the Expanding Universes #2 Competition for the Quills and Sofas Speedwriting Group.
Our prompts were to do a sequel or prequel to a story submitted by another user, and I wrote this based on Silent Whisper's wonderful piece Symbiosis
Lovely cover art is also by Silent!

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/501669/sol-invictus

SFX Attribution:

Digging 2.wav by Alexbuk -- https://freesound.org/s/541903/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

This story is a sequel to Why I stopped watching My Little Pony

"The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealed from me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good."
-Franz Kafka

Artwork Done by the amazingly talented Maii. Follow her on fimfic to see some of her great work and her devianArt page KKrazi-DV
Co-written with the incredible MisterNick. I suggest following him as he writes fantastic stories.

Also check out the prequel story Flutterschmooze

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/336762/wanna-play

This story is a sequel to The Truth Behind My Little Pony

"I turned away as I heard a sickening tearing of cloth and flesh… only cared about getting away. Above the doorway out of this room, I saw the final message clawed into the metal with bone or fingernails…"
"ABANDONED BY GOD"
"They didn't want anyone like me getting in."
"They didn't want anything like that getting out."
-Abandoned by Disney. by Slimebeast (Creepypasta)

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/336313/flutterschmooze

This story is a sequel to My Little Cat Horse

One off stories set in the same world as My Little Cat Horse. Not necessarily in chronological order. Hope you enjoy.

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/574237/my-little-cat-horse-life-in-equestria

SFX Attribution:

Magic item being grabbed by jmd4252010 -- https://freesound.org/s/761460/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Wooden chair 1 by Aiwha -- https://freesound.org/s/415937/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

f_Synth_Whoosh_23.wav by cyclonek -- https://freesound.org/s/529408/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

The Shy family take filly Fluttershy on an outing. While there, she experiences an awakening that will live with her for the rest of her life.

What's cuter than Fluttershy? Filly Fluttershy with a butterfly on her nose.

Setting is prior to S1 when the Mane 6 are fillies.

Additional tag: [Cute]

Buddleias are known as the 'butterfly bush'. For a short summer period, butterflies flock to their spire-like blooms. They are named after the botanist Adam Buddle, who introduced the plant to Europe from South America.

Art by snowblackluck

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/580999/buddleia

SFX Attribution:

Drawing.wav by Razzvio -- https://freesound.org/s/79141/ -- License: Attribution 3.0

It's dangerous for fillies to play in the dark—especially with a ouija board.

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/569769/pipp

My name is Smarty Pants.
I want to tell you about my friend, Twilight Sparkle.
She's my best friend. And I'm her best friend too.

Or, at least I was...

...for a while.

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/334350/the-ballad-of-smarty-pants