Fear of Success
Only halfway through her career as Ponyville's resident librarian and friendologist, Twilight Sparkle is already well known for her expertise with magic. You don't become the personal protege of a princess by making rookie mistakes, after all! But when Celestia issues a seemingly harmless homework assignment, her most faithful student must face a puzzling paradox locked in a curious conundrum: To succeed, Twilight Sparkle must fail.
Set immediately after the finale of Season 2, this story explores Twilight's obsession with perfection like never before. Can she complete her assignment with her sanity intact? Can her friends finally talk some sense into her? Will her seemingly innocent experiments plunge Ponyville into a fate worse than doom?
No, no and yes. Batten down the hatches, cause a storm's a brewin'... and this one's been a long time overdue.
24 Chapters:
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%i%: The prologue you'll probably just skip over anyways. Naw, it's cool. [Cache]
May 21st, 2013
3,589
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%i%: Twilight gets a letter and brews some tea. [Cache]
May 19th, 2013
3,920
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%i%: Non-deterministic problems... won’t. Polynomial-time problems... can’t. [Cache]
May 19th, 2013
4,852
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%i%: Twilight solves for X... TREME!! [Cache]
May 19th, 2013
6,114
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%i%: Pinkie Pie reconciles the deterministic nature of the cosmos with the metaphysical libertarian view of free will. [Cache]
May 19th, 2013
4,555
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%i%: Pinkie Pie wins a pickled-onion eating contest. [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
8,792
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%i%: Twilight changes Applejack’s... mind. Heh. Hehe! MUHAHA*snrk*HAHA! [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
4,865
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%i%: Twilight loses her glasses. Wait... she wears glasses? [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
8,211
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%i%: Into every generation, a seamstress is born... [Cache]
May 21st, 2013
6,305
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%i%: FIGHT THE FUTURE [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
6,392
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%i%: Applejack runs out of time. [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
6,300
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%i%: Twilight goes beyond the impossible. [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
8,014
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%i%: Fluttershy is the only pony who can save Equestria! We’re doomed. [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
8,014
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%i%: Pinkie Pie sings and dances. Doesn’t narrow it down much, does it? [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
4,981
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%i%: Twilight Sparkle dies. She dies in this chapter! TWILIGHT SPARKLE TOTALLY DIES!!! [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
7,595
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%i%: Then she gets better. [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
7,329
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%i%: It's hard to be humble... [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
8,983
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Chapter 18 [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
6,359
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%i%: “We don’t need no education” is a double negative. [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
5,567
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%i%: Apple family motto: Faithful to the core. [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
6,642
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%i%: Knock Knock. [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
6,640
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%i%: Who's there? [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
8,545
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%i%: A few loose ends to tidy up. [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
6,369
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And now, a very special message. [Cache]
May 20th, 2013
1,018