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          <description><![CDATA[In a white and endless expanse, Rarity and Applejack sit on two of six empty thrones in a circle.&#160; “You know,” Applejack says, “we never did sit on these much, did we?” In the middle of this circle is a large round table with a map of Equestria.&#160; Applejack fidgets a little, feeling an urge to fill in the silence her companion is imposing.…]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[In a white and endless expanse, sitting on two of six empty thrones in a circle, Rarity and Applejack try to understand why were they left behind. I had a lot of feelings regarding Rarity and Applejack, but mostly Rarity, being excluded from G6. I put them in a fic. This is set in the same continuation as Someone to Hold On To. It&#8217;s…]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[Today we find a despondent Sweetie Belle in a place where she wants to be: the bottom of a well. The well is as deep as Canterlot Castle is tall. It is made of blue brick, it is round and narrow, and crucially, there is no water in it so rather than floating, Sweetie is sprawled on the bottom of a well, her face…]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[On the way home from Canterlot, Rarity the unicorn had unequivocally told anyone and everyone that the second she got to Ponyville, she would be busy resting with a capital R. Until such time as the secret event they were all scheming happened, she would speak to no one (except for Twilight), help no one (except for Twilight), and do nothing (except for… well…)…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[Here is a scene delivered unto you as it happened and as it felt:&#160; It was a Tuesday afternoon, the weather a cold 40° degrees Fahrenheit [4° Celsius] , rolling gray clouds shadowing the university grounds and Twilight Sparkle, a half-full backpack hanging from her shoulders.&#160; Twilight Sparkle was, in that moment, committing two grave sins. The first—we will speak of the second at…]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. This is Mono! I need to make an announcement regarding the story, and I need it to happen within the story, and this is my website so here I am. I am sorry this isn&#8217;t an actual update, but it&#8217;s relevant to updates, so please bear with me. To anyone still reading this, or interested, or invested, I need to be fully…]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[I. No one commented on Twilight’s silence during dinner. She would have liked to think it was because they thought she was tired, but she knew better than that. Maybe Incantation might think that, but she’d seen Princess Luna and Primrose speaking. She couldn’t imagine Princess Luna hadn’t said something, even if she hoped the more personal details had been kept private.&#160; She didn’t…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[I.&#160; Despite the thousands of years Twilight had been gone, Canterlot and Cadance looked much the same as she’d left them.&#160; It was obvious Cadance had prepared for a much more emotional Twilight Sparkle, one who would weep and wail over her parents, and her brother, and her lost life. This was not the Twilight she met.&#160; This Twilight Sparkle had no more tears…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[how is everyone today, i messed up with a post, ignore this, ship raritwi, ily]]></description>

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          <title>please don&#8217;t be mad</title>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, Rarity asked Twilight Sparkle a very important favor. &#8220;Twilight,&#8221; she&#8217;d said, rushing to leave and catch her train to Canterlot, &#8220;I am expecting a letter.&#8221; &#8220;A letter?&#8221; Twilight had asked, watching as the unicorn ran to and fro, making sure she&#8217;d not forgotten a thing.&#160; &#8220;Yes, a letter,&#8221; Rarity asked, wrapping a scarf around her suitcase, and then around her…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[Twilight forgets to bring a very important letter. She can totally make up for it, though. Right? Rarity? Right, Rarity? Rar&#8211;]]></description>

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          <title>General Mono Updates</title>
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          <description><![CDATA[Hi everyone! Thank you all for your patience with writing these past few months. As some of you know, I started grad school last year, and my first semester was very good but also incredibly difficult&#8211;both adjusting to school work, to writing original, and to coping with the brutal winter at my new home. But! It&#8217;s a new year, and I&#8217;m adjusting better even…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[I.&#160; Without a way of telling it, time stretched out before Princess Twilight Sparkle like an ocean.&#160; Minutes melted into hours, hours melted into days, days into weeks, weeks into months, months into years, and years into decades, until the ocean of time swallowed her whole and she couldn’t even feel it around her anymore as she sunk to its bottom. Minutes could be…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
          <dc:creator>Monochromatic</dc:creator>
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          <description><![CDATA[Our story begins with a letter, an alicorn, and half her memories gone.&#160; ‘Dear Princess Twilight,’ it reads, written in beautiful calligraphy, ‘you have consented to magically-induced temporary amnesia. Don’t worry! If Discord—who you should remember—did as agreed, your memories since moving to Ponyville have been altered. Crucially, certain ponies in your life have been removed from your memories, so as to prove a…]]></description>

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          <description><![CDATA[In order to win a bet with Discord, an amnesiac Twilight Sparkle needs to go on dates with five ponies she doesn&#8217;t remember and guess which is her significant other. &#8212; Written for the &#8220;A Spark For Us&#8221; Twilight zine!]]></description>

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          <title>[1/4] nothing to protect</title>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[I. His name was Copper Tune. He was a unicorn. This was his first meeting. This was her fourth.&#160; There was a lot that could be said of Copper. That his coat—copper like his name—looked remarkably soft, almost as if inviting you to touch it. Or that his mane, a pretty olive green, should look wrong, like rust, but somehow fit him perfectly. Or…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[There exists a world in which, in the darkest moment of her life, trapped in a prison of her own making, Twilight Sparkle&#8217;s nightmare ended when her love for Rarity for a moment burned brighter than her miserable self-hate. A world where this was enough to free her mind, to use a necklace one last time, in time to fix what could still be…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[Rarity hadn&#8217;t slept with many men—not because there was shame to it, but because it was simply not her interest—but she’d gone to bed with enough of them to feel she’d pretty much experienced it all, seen it all, felt it all.  Even while still dating Blueblood, she thought she’d pretty much never feel butterflies ever again. That twisting hurricane in her stomach and…]]></description>

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          <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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          <description><![CDATA[Just tell me, oh, tell me the truth Tell me you&#8217;re too scared to lose Everything that we made While our dreams wash away in the rain Darling, oh, what did you do, love? If my life in the future was plagued by isolation, my return to the present was everything but. If it wasn’t my friends coming to see me daily, it was…]]></description>

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