Story Updates February 5th (Morning)

I think pony fanfiction is about to break some sort of word creation barrier.  We had seventeen new stories submitted today. 

Good thing story updates slide right on through! Have some after the break.

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Story: Human (Update Part 8!)

[Adventure][Comedy][Light Grimdark][Sad]

Author: DannyJ

Description: A thousand years ago, when the royal sisters were at the height of their power and the Elements of Harmony were still alive, two legendary beings emerged to take their place among them, and though through trial and hardship the ponies eventually defeated these two so called 'Humans' that they had named the First and the Second, to this day nopony knows who they were, where they came from, and what their motivation was.

Flash forward to the present day. The First is long dead and the Second is now a decoration in Celestia's sculpture garden. The land has been at peace for years, but now things are stirring again. A break in at the royal archives results in the theft of the ancient Reaper's Horn, an entity is released which seeks out the surviving human, a young colt learns of the legends of humanity and becomes enraptured with them, and a brotherhood of thirteen ponies of varying ages and backgrounds all come together with the sole intention of releasing the human of legend from his stone prison. And all throughout, one of the few surviving ponies who was there when this first began is left to ask herself, "Just what were they anyway?"

Human

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Story: Frigid Winds and Burning Hearts (Update Part 11!)

[Normal] Prince Blueblood slipped up again! Apparently it's pretty awesome too, since it hit 6 stars.

Author: Grey Prophet

Description: A heated confrontation with Celestia over her portrayal as Nightmare Moon and her sister's authoritarianism leads Luna to search for answers about the past, unwittingly tangling Twilight and her friends into a cosmic struggle between order and chaos that ultimately inspires only more questions. Set one year after the first two episodes.

Frigid Winds and Burning Hearts

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Story: Tales of the Winter Magic Academy (Update Part 23!)

[Adventure][Slice of Life]

Author: Storytayler

Description: Twilight and eight fellow unicorns from Ponyville enroll at Princess Luna's revived school for advanced magic studies. Best known as the Winter Magic Academy, the establishment is located on an ancient island of mysterious history since Luna's banishment over 1000 years ago. While the ponies think they're in for simply a semester of intensive magic studies, they will encounter much more than they initially expect through personal struggles and mysterious misadventures.

Tales of the Winter Magic Academy

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Story: Canterlot Follies (Update Part 8!)

[Comedy] [Crossover] - Crossovers with Jeeves and Wooster

Author: Lady Moondancer

Description: Frivolous and none too bright Birdsong finds himself saddled with two nigh-impossible missions: to steal a rare artifact right out of the Royal Museum and to bolster the flagging reputation of his cousin, Prince Blueblood, in the wake of “the Gala incident.” With the help of his brainy valet, young Birdy just might succeed . . . but can he trust the opinions of a coltservant who scorns his taste in silverware?

Canterlot Follies

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Story: Social Standards (Update Part 6!)

[M/MShipping] [Sad] Due to the nature of this ship, you should probably expect a lower star rating than is actually real. Please ignore it!

Author: RadaVonVon

Description: Braeburn Apple has always been raised in a conservative household, as a member of the Apple family.
Throughout his life, he's been taught what's 'wrong' and what's 'right', who he was allowed to love, and who he wasn't. Above all, he was told what to be, and how to be it.
When he meets a certain blue Pegasus stallion buying a pie at Sweet Apple Acres while he just so happens to be staying there, he discovers feelings he never knew he had.
Unfortunately, they happen to be the same ones he was always taught to suppress.
Can Soarin convince him that it's not wrong to be in love, and that, sometimes, in order to be happy, you need to break out of your comfort zone?
A story about discovering who you are, and being that person, no matter what others tell you to be.

Social Standards

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