(They wrote about us doing WHAT?)
It's Glim day, and the crazy posting begins now! We've got a bunch of fanfics again from Whisper Key. Different from last year. Head on down below the break to read them all! If you don't see your fav, it was probably in last year's post.
(Note: Formatting fixed!)
Slice of Life
The Book of Might Have Beens by Cold in Gardez
Leave it to Twilight Sparkle to create the greatest spell of the past century – and then want to destroy it.
It's too dangerous to use, she says. It's too tempting. It can't help you the way you think it can.
Well, Starlight Glimmer knows a thing or three about temptation. She'll prove to Twilight that this spell – this magnificent book – is too important to destroy. That it can help ponies.
She just has to survive using it, first.
Time-Out Tuesday by Majn Syeekoh
Starlight returns from the marketplace to come across two sworn foes calmly sharing tea, much to her confusion.
Much to her confusion.
Words on a Page by Tranquil Serenity
Spike finds something interesting while cleaning. Something that he never thought somepony would treat so poorly. If only he knew the significance of the item he'd just found.
Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety-jig by Justice3442
The mysterious Table of Harmony has called on Starlight Glimmer to solve a friendship problem at Canterlot Castle, but wait! A second cutie mark belonging to a magically inclined alicorn has appeared, and unfortunately for Twilight, it’s not hers.
Can Sunset Shimmer help Starlight Glimmer untangle this mysterious problem in Canterlot, or will her own personal past prove more a hindrance than anything?
Am I a Political Pawn? by Bonster
Ocellus has been having some conflicting thoughts on her place at the School of Friendship. She loves her time there, and the friends she's made, but she can't help but wonder if there's anything more to it than just friendship. So she does the sensible thing and asks her guidance councilor.
The Next Best Thing by Posh
Summer vacation has come and gone, and school's back in session, only Diamond Tiara isn't interested in attending if Cheerilee isn't standing at the front of the class. Her solution? Hire Twilight as her teacher.
Except it's not Twilight she runs into at the castle.
"Did you know that it would work, Princess?" by Arkhivez
This takes place after "Mirror Magic".
Starlight Glimmer has immensely enjoyed her time with Sunset Shimmer and the Canterlot High group. However, as she has a last conversation with Sunset, an important question comes to her mind to ask Twilight. The answer may not be quite what she expected.
Trixie's Nap Hole by Majin Syeekoh
Trixie tries to convince Starlight of the reality of nap holes.
Twilight Fights Starlight for Eternity by Diamond Aura
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/316547/twilight-fights-starlight-for-eternity
"...we could be stuck doing this for all eternity!" Twilight said.
"That's fine with me!" Starlight responded.
Starlight never thought that Twilight was actually being serious.
What would have happened if Starlight hadn't turned herself over to Twilight? If she rejected friendship, even after being given a chance to come back?
Starlight Glimmer is strong. She always has been. She always will be.
But Twilight wants that to change.
Infinitely Too Many Pinkie Pies by Pineta
On hearing the story of the Mirror Pool, Starlight Glimmer questions what happened to all the Pinkie clones sent back to the pool and the ethics of apparently eliminating sentient beings. Further investigation shows that the pool has the magical means to accommodate an unlimited number of orphaned souls. This is put to the test by an infinite set of Pinkie Pies.
A Glimpse of Shimmering Sky by Long Long Way From Home
Sunset's friends may be away on vacation, but a broken air conditioner will still get her out of her apartment. And Sunset isn't one to let a little loneliness get in the way of an adventure! Perhaps she'll even be able to make a new friend along the way.
Great and Powerful Snuggles by The Abyss
On the coldest night of winter, Trixie is wholeheartedly certain that her wagon would be able to keep her warm, but... she was wrong. Luckily for her, Starlight knows a very snuggly way to keep her warm.
The Taste of Friendship by Bookish Delight
A magic experiment strands Starlight Glimmer in another world, with no way to get home.
There's only one thing to do in this situation: learn a friendship lesson! Oh, and have some lunch. Okonomiyaki, to be precise.
"It's Not a Phase, Dad!" by FamousLastWords
All Starlight wants to do is stew in her emotions. After all, nopony really understands her.
Of course, her dad won't leave well enough alone.
Ethical Quandaries by Majin Syeekoh]
Starlight Glimmer presents Sunset with an ethics question while they spend time at the mall.
Comedy
Live to Be Reformed Another Day by Fire Gazer the Alchemist
Chrysalis kidnapped a dozen ponies, threatened Equestria, was betrayed by her own kind, and has now vowed vengeance on Starlight Glimmer before leaping from the ruins of her castle and flying off. She is definitely going to get away.
Absolutely.
Yep.
Trixie's Back-Alley-at-Midnight Fireworks Shop by Alex_
Finding themselves with a surplus of illegal fireworks, Trixie and Starlight begin selling them on the black market, to make a bit of extra money on the side. But what sort of ponies would want to buy illicit fireworks?
I'm Listening by DrakeyC
With the breakthrough of the radio in Equestria comes a new medium through which one can reach out to the masses and help with their problems. Determined to help as many ponies as she can, Starlight begins Equestria's first call-in radio program to give ponies an outlet to vent their frustrations and seek wisdom and guidance.
Surely an open forum for anyone to call in asking for help can only result in good!
Sunshipped by Masterweaver
"Hey, Glimglim--can I call you Glimglim? I've got a serious important question for you. Why aren't you snogging Sunburst yet?"
Starlight Glimmer is the Best at Friends by Majin Syeekoh
Starlight Glimmer is hanging out in the kitchen when an otherwordly entity pops in.
Naturally, she decides to befriend it.
With an avocado.
Starlight Repeatedly Teleports into Custard by Loganberry
Starlight's teleportation skills are becoming very impressive. There's just one little problem: she doesn't seem to be able to go anywhere without coming to a rather sticky end. Okay, not end exactly. But definitely sticky.
Frg n Yr Thrt by Rambling Writer
Starlight convinces Spike to let her test out a new spell on him, one that should let him understand every language ever. He really should've known better.
Glimmer, Can I Ass You a Question? by Tired Old Man
Twilight knows Starlight Glimmer has been reformed under her guidance. Er, mostly—she’s still a work in progress, but there is no doubt Starlight is improving in her eyes.
However, there’s just one bad habit Twilight noticed that’s been nagging at her ever since she first saw it. But how would she converse about it? Should it be handled delicately? And when would she bring it up?
Today. Today, she would talk about it.
Starlight Explores Twilight's Castle by David Silver
Her brilliant plan was ready to put into motion. All she had to do was get to the right place, then wait. How hard could that be? It wasn't like Twilight had any security measures of any kind.
Hero Antagonist by dungeonguy88
Starlight Glimmer has worked hard to bring about her vision of perfection. Molding ponies to fit where they were supposed to and making them happier for it. Pity no one told her that when they made the Great and Powerful Trixie, they broke the mold.
Twilight Sparkle and her friends were not the first ponies to stumble upon Starlight Glimmer's utopia. They weren't the first ponies to rock the foundations of her perfect society, when they rejected Starlight's vision. Yes, they might have been the ones to shatter her vision, but the cracks were formed well before then...
...By the most annoying, abrasive, infuriating, stubborn, arrogant hero the world has ever seen.
When the Great and Powerful Trixie rolls into town she's gonna put on an unforgettable show. Whether you like it or not.
The Starlight & Pals Magical Half Hour by Cold in Gardez
That's right kids! My Little Pony Generation 5 is here with The Starlight & Pals Magical Half Hour! Join Starlight Glimmer, Spike, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and all the rest for this fun-filled magical adventure. With this week's special guest, Applejack!
Be part of the adventure with Starlight & Pals as they learn valuable lessons, including: friendship, magic, small claims court, probable cause, sorcery and Nichomachean Ethics!
Starlight Glimmer Overreacts to Everything by Yukito
Starlight Glimmer is TRYING to be a good friend, but she just has this awful tendency to overreact at just about anything.
Sad/Dark
The Broken Bond by TheApexSovereign
Starlight Glimmer had always been a difficult pony.
She's getting better, though! Really! Three years of living with the Princess of Friendship, one of the most beloved ponies in Equestria, is bound to rub off on a mare. Though Starlight continues to grapple with her insecurities and past mistakes, she never would have presumed she'd be free of the guilt - as it should be.
Yet over the years, she's come into her own as a devoted, passionate, and empathetic friend (despite a few bumps here and there).
But one day, like any other, a strange illness befalls Princess Twilight Sparkle. Starlight is driven to a foal's storybook for answers. Armed with her magic and faith, the ex-student follows a crumb trail leading to one reclusive group dwelling in the heart of an otherworldly bog. If there was any salvation for the pony who'd saved Starlight, it lay solely with them. Except when the time comes for payment to be collected, what's left behind is picked up by Twilight and her friends.
And Starlight doesn't want them to. For how can something so broken be put back together? She'd much rather save them all the trouble...
The Thirteenth Hour by Jade Ring
Since she was a filly, Twilight Sparkle has sought to solve one of the greatest magical mysteries in Equestria's history.
Now, with the help of her very own student, she might be able to do just that.
But so concerned is she by the thought that she can so something, she never stops to consider whether she should...
Sweet Dreams by Summer Dancer
After the changeling invasion, Starlight becomes very possessive protective over Twilight.
In Their Town by milesprower06
Having accepted Twilight's offer of apprenticeship in the magic of friendship, Starlight Glimmer returns to the community she founded long ago, in her first attempt to make amends.
All That Remains by JackRipper
Twilight Sparkle is at her limit.
She has long since dismissed her original objective, forgetting exactly why she is stuck in this alternate timeline in the first place. Her only mission now is to stop the mare in her way— an adversary with uncanny magical strength and indefatigable purpose.
It’s time to finish this... once and for all.
Shipping
Uncommon Ground by Undome Tinwe
Falling in love while falling to your death? Easy.
Staying in love when you're firmly planted on the ground? Harder.
Starlight and Sunset only ever learned how to fall. Now they have to figure out how to get up again.
An Advanced Lesson in Friendship by AndrewRogue
Sometimes friendships are simple.
Sometimes they're complicated.
And sometimes a little thing like waking up next to your best friend makes them go from one to the other really, really fast.
My Best Friend's Kinda Hot... by Such A Chlorbag
Trixie has been best friends with Starlight Glimmer for months now, and the bond between them has never been stronger. But, after a bull-headed mistake and lack of critical thinking, Trixie manages to leave Starlight Glimmer angry and disappointed. Again.
Over the course of a single day, Trixie takes the steps to make things right between the two of them and, in doing so, instantly discovers some feelings inside of her that she never thought possible. Her best friend was kind, sweet, and yes, very hot. And now she was in love with her.
Four To The Floor by Waffen Pony
When Twilight Sparkle prepares to turn in for the night, she is approached by an intoxicated Starlight Glimmer. Unable to stand or form complete sentences, the drunken unicorn attempts to profess her love for the princess of friendship.
Burn Out Our Innocence by FamousLastWords
When Spike and Starlight get invited to a couple's night out with their friends, they agree just for the sake of doing something with their weekend. But they would never get caught up in the hype of romance like their friends have, though. They're way too cool for that, right?
...Right?
Size Ursa Minor by XenoPony
One evening on the eve of the Grand Galloping Gala, Starlight Glimmer can think of only one pony she wants to be her plus one, her best friend Trixie. Seeing no other alternative but to face her fears and ask Trixie out herself, Starlight pays the show mare a visit. The discussion that ensues however, is far from what Starlight was expecting. She just can't understand how Trixie is only a size Ursa Minor.
Drama
Help by Jay David
With the bad blood between them now over, Twilight decides that, for her new friend, Starlight, there may still be things that she needs to get off her chest. As such, the young princess arranges a meeting between some old acquaintances of hers, hoping it will help Starlight come to terms with her actions.
When We Were Friends by FamousLastWords
Spike and Starlight became friends the moment life put them in the same castle. As they grew closer over the years, they didn't think anything could break their friendship.
Unfortunately, all it took was one night to throw that belief into chaos. Now, they have to not only work together but battle their own doubts and insecurities to figure out a way to fix the broken bond between them.
A Matter of Time by Justice3442
As Twilight attempts to get Starlight Glimmer to see the error of her ways, Spike can't help but interject. If Starlight had a portal to take her to any place or any time, why fixate on one single event when she could accomplish so much more?
As it turns out, Starlight Glimmer has an answer. Several in fact.
Equestria: Civil War by LightningSword
Twilight Sparkle has always been known to forgive easily. Many of the worst threats to Equestria have gone unchecked after Twilight forgave them for their actions. But when Starlight Glimmer, a former enemy of Equestria, causes a major accident that endangers lives, Princess Celestia has no choice but to review and approve a plan to implement a checks and balances system against former antagonists—the Reformed Antagonist Regulation Act.
The introduction of RARA splits the Mane Six, and many Equestrians, into two factions. Supporting a former villain's right to choose their own destinies is Princess Twilight Sparkle. Supporting a system of accountability and a fail-safe for potential relapse is Twilight's former friend, Moon Dancer.
Friendships are tested, loyalties are questioned and switched, revenge burns in the air, and all the while, a new threat pulls strings in the background, ready to destabilize Twilight and her friends' bonds forever.
Sci-Fi
The Maretian by Kris Overstreet
Twilight Sparkle's experimental interplanetary drive has malfunctioned, stranding Starlight Glimmer, Spitfire, Cherry Berry, a changeling and a dragon on a hostile planet in another universe. With limited food supplies, very little magic, no communications with home, and no way to leave the planet, they must survive until somepony rescues them.
Fortunately they crashed right next door to another creature with the exact same problem- a creature named Mark Watney.
They're going to science the buck out of everything- and do whatever it takes to survive Mars and get everybody home.
My Battery is low, and it's getting dark by Naughty_Ranko
The global dust storm of a century, the dying message of an indomitable robot, and a unicorn who just can’t let go of a mystery.
Quantum Starlight by Rambling Writer
When knowledge of Sunburst's great skill in magical theory spreads to the small Streamhaven University, he's offered a position on a time travel experiment. Knowing of Starlight's history with time travel, he invites her to see the moment of truth, the first actual use of the time machine. Starlight accepts. After all, what could possibly go wrong?
Everything. The time machine malfunctions. The project director disappears. Time begins stuttering. And Starlight and Sunburst find themselves pursued by the mysterious Monarch Solutions, a company that knows much more about time travel than they should. Now it's up to Starlight and Sunburst to find a solution to their predicament before time itself ends forever.
Adventure
The Destiny Trap by AndrewRogue
Returning from a trip to Manehattan, Trixie has a brand new magic trick that she's all too eager to share with Starlight.
Unfortunately, when things don't work quite as expected, Trixie and Starlight are forced to go on a journey across Equestria to find the pony that gave her the trick and make things right once more.
The Olden World by Czar_Yoshi
Equestrian culture loves cutie marks. Filly Starlight Glimmer hates them and never wants one. So, she leaves Equestria.
Deities by Chinchillax
When Starlight compressed all of time into a single moment, her friends became the Deities that control the multiverse.
A collection of mostly Starlight-centered super short stories set in that multiverse.
Rip Van Glimmer by Rose Quill
The fight against the Pony of Shadows didn’t go according to plan, and when Starlight comes to, she finds she’s been in a magically induced coma for two hundred years.
Nothing is as recognizable as the Equestria she knew, not even the landscape.
Lost in time, how will she cope?
Wanderlost by GMBlackjack
Equis has fallen. Long ago, those few gifted with immortality left their dying world, searching for a new home.
That was ages ago. They have been adrift in space for an eternity, and they have found nothing to brighten their spirits. They are starting to lose hope that there is anything for them out here.
However, what they don't realize is that their journey has just barely begun...
Unreviewed submissions for Glim Day
Glimmer Glow
ummer break is upon The School Of Friendship and every pony has plans of how to spend the time away from academics (Sans Twilight)
Starlight has plans, too. However they are ones that only Trixie knows of and even The Great And Powerful illusionist isn't totally aware of what Starlight plans to do upon releasing Cozy Glow from Tartarus.
I'm Listening
With the breakthrough of the radio in Equestria comes a new medium through which one can reach out to the masses and help with their problems. Determined to help as many ponies as she can, Starlight begins Equestria's first call-in radio program to give ponies an outlet to vent their frustrations and seek wisdom and guidance.
Surely an open forum for anyone to call in asking for help can only result in good!
The Enforcer and her Blackmailers
Starlight Glimmer's past and future collide in Canterlot a few years before the 1000th Summer Sun Celebration. Still bruised by the loss of Sunburst, runaway Starlight Glimmer tries to forget her recent past at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns but the crimes of that past and Celestia's original protégé, Sunset Shimmer, make that difficult. What happens will change Equestria forever.
