Rarity enjoys one last picnic with her friends.Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/581817/a-dream-goodbye

SFX Attribution:

Biting Apple #1 by AUDACITIER -- https://freesound.org/s/632232/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

She's beautiful, she's kind, she's a philanthropist who spends her days helping animals in need.

Professional models envy her face and figure, her boyfriend is a literal god of evil.

It's no wonder (if very unfair!) that some ponies want her dead.

Special Content Warnings: 'Death' (but she gets better! Honest!) 

This story is almost certainly an entry in PseudoBob's 'Fluttershy Best Pony Contest.'

(cover image source: I cropped an MLP screencap)

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/581379/killing-fluttershy

SFX Attribution:

Squelch, muddy and squishy by redafs -- https://freesound.org/s/379499/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

It's a simple idea on paper. Now that the Crusaders have their cutie marks in understanding cutie marks, they can do the same thing they did with the Bearers of Harmony, just with the rest of town. It'll give them a better understanding of possible clients.. and hopefully keep Apple Bloom from trying to make a cutie mark problem the next time she goes stir-crazy.

The complications come in when they have to deal with a mare who, to put it lightly, has a complicated history with marks...

An entry in GlimmerGlamour's Starlight Glimmer contest, set during early Season 6.

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/581611/a-star-is-scorned

SFX Attribution:

Storming in South Alabama by Kavos_Dreams -- https://freesound.org/s/816289/ -- 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

Pinkie killed you! How could she??

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579704/so-pinkie-killed-you

Anonymous and Celestia go to the royal gardens to walk and get air. As they walk passed by a swan, Anonymous makes a comment how Celestia reminds him of a swan. Tall and graceful. He also makes a comment on how she always follows him which Celestia confesses why she’s always with him.

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Cover art artist: Thebatfang

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/581368/swan

Scootaloo has made her peace with not being able to fly, and she's never let that stop her or hold her back. Even so, a part of still has that secret desire to see the world that only flight can see.

By chance, on one particular birthday, Scootaloo is given a pair of prosthetic wings as a present from Rainbow Dash. It's a gift that the filly initially isn't really on board with, she thinks it's unnecessary.

However, when Rainbow challenges Scootaloo to a flying race, Scootaloo decides to give the new wings a chance. In doing so, she may discover more about herself than she initially thought.

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/580328/scootaloos-awesome-wings

Fluttershy decides to make her first pony friend since making the decision to move to the outskirts of Ponyville. But just how can she do that when she's as painfully shy as she is?

An entry in the A Thousand Words Contest IV, in the Slice of Life category.

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/578277/building-bridges

Translating from English to Equestrian is hard...

when you're translating George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' and don't want ponies to get very, very confused.

(I really don't think this is an entry in any contest.)

Cover image: https://manebooru.art/images/747886, by muddyfudger and zacatron94

Link to Fic: https://www.fimfiction.net/story/578656/gained-in-translation

APPLEJACK! VS! RAINBOW DAAAAASH

BEGIN!

Who can please the most mares, most efficiently, most lovingly? Who can love and cherish women in the best, most fierce ways? Who is the strongest Mare-Lover, and can that even be quantifiable? Let us find out!