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"textContent": "---\nSource\n\nGlimmy time! You WILL read about her.\n\n\n\n\nThanks to Whisper Key for gathering them, and be sure to check out last year's for a completely different list!\n\n\n\n\nNow go read Starlight fics below.\n\n* * *\n\n\n\n\n__\n\n____\n\n**S lice of Life**\n\n**____**\n\n**____**\n\n**____**\n\n**The Magic, Or Friendship? by bahatumay [5k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/502632/the-magic-or-friendship____**\n\nPrincipal Starlight Glimmer has a student who thinks magic is more important than friendship. The best pony to assuage his doubts is one who made that choice, and now can’t take it back.____\n\n____\n\n**Daily Accounting by Joker_vD [3k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/586732/daily-accounting____**\n\nPrincess Twilight Sparkle said that Starlight Glimmer should stay for a few more days in the mirror world and enjoy the experience, so she does. Naturally, she stays at Sunset's place because who'd be better at chaperoning a unicorn-turned-human than another unicorn-turned-human?____\n\nSo the next morning the two are about to sit down to have breakfast when Starlight sees something strange before they could do just that. Sunset Shimmer helpfully provides the explanation. Starlight Glimmer is not too sure how to feel about it.____\n\n____\n\n**Dancing Among Stars by Lunaria [1k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579843/dancing-among-stars____**\n\nLiving in the Crystal Empire was something Starlight adapted to quickly; she'd never really been one to grow roots in any one place. Yet the life she'd carved out for herself in the Empire was hardly one she could quickly grow comfortable with.____\n\nSelf doubt rages in her heart, and the confidence she wielded so freely many years ago to do horrible things is kept under lock and key. But...____\n\nAt least she has a loving family there to support her.____\n\n____\n\n**Castles in the Air (Starlight Glimmer's Beautiful Dream) by Mockingbirb [2k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/581237/castles-in-the-air-starlight-glimmers-beautiful-dream**____\n\nWhere does Sunset Shimmer live?____\n\nSometimes a homeless girl has to make the oddest compromises. ____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n**Comedy**\n\n**____**\n\n**____**\n\n____\n\n**Turning Trixie by The Hat Man [2k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/586512/turning-trixie____**\n\nTrixie shows up one morning and she's polite, well-dressed, and using first person pronouns. Starlight finds this _incredibly disturbing_.____\n\nA New Year’s Day story!____\n\n____\n\n**Good First Impressions by TheDriderPony [13k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/584607/good-first-impressions____**\n\nOne of the most important, but often understated, tasks of any member of the Castle Staff is to properly get to know the princess. To understand her likes and dislikes. To plan for how she reacts to good and bad news. To learn to anticipate her needs and accommodate them before she even asks.____\n\nBut Duly Noted just cannot seem to wrap her head around the princess. No matter how many times she tries or what side of her she sees.____\n\n____\n\n**Can We Just Not Dance on Tuesdays? by overlord-flinx [1k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579812/can-we-just-not-dance-on-tuesdays____**\n\nPonyville—all of _Equestria_ but mostly _Ponyville_ —loves their random bouts of theatrics and choreographed dance routines. But is it at all possible for us to not do it during business hours? It's not really asking for a lot, is it?____\n\nStarlight's a big fan of it, don't get her wrong. But there are a few complaints...____\n\nHow about not on Tuesdays? That seems reasonable, right?____\n\n____\n\n**Starlight's Miscalculation by TheBlackAndWhite [1k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/587728/starlights-miscalculation____**\n\nStarlight Glimmer is extremely resentful after her loss of Equality Village and decides to travel back in time to prevent Twilight and her friends from even existing.____\n\nSecuring Star Swirl's spell, she is on her way back to the past with the intention of altering the timeline. She had calculated every step she was going to take with a hundred percent of success.____\n\nHowever, a calculation can derail if you miss so much as a negative sign in the process, and Starlight forgot to account for that negative sign.____\n\n____\n\n**The Tour of Twilight's Castle by Silk Rose [1k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/586114/the-tour-of-twilights-castle____**\n\nStarlight gives Sunset a tour of Twilight's castle. Surely nothing could go wrong with this.____\n\nTurns out, most of the rooms aren't even accounted for. Still, why are there so many broom closets?____\n\n____\n\n**Heccin' Mayo! by Test4Echo [6k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/581655/heccin-mayo____**\n\nSince reforming, Starlight Glimmer has led a sometimes eventful, sometimes dull, sometimes outlandish life as Twilight's friendship student. Said aspects of her time in Twilight's castle have not disappeared after de facto graduating and continuing on her own friendship journey without as heavy a guidance from her mentor. Therefore, as she has stopped Chrysalis and led the changelings to a true understanding of love and other emotions, performing simple tasks to prepare herself lunch should surely be a simple task.____\n\nAfter all, how difficult could it be to open a jar of mayonnaise?____\n\n____\n\n**Star Tracker: Pickup Artist by SockPuppet [2k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/586780/star-tracker-pickup-artist____**\n\nStar Tracker practices negging Starlight Glimmer.____\n\nSurprisingly, he survives.____\n\n____\n\n**Twilight Gets The Saw by Art Inspired [5k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/574478/twilight-gets-the-saw____**\n\nThe Main Six are helping Trixie and Starlight to prepare for tonight’s magic show in Ponyville, but there’s... just one trick that Trixie’s planning to do that's concerning. What's worse, she wants Twilight to be her assistant.____\n\nWill Twilight go through with it?____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n**Sad/Dark**\n\n**____**\n\n**____**\n\n____\n\n**Acid Trip by daOtterGuy [1k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579925/acid-trip____**\n\nStarlight sees the possibilities. She can move to them. One of them will save her and who she loves.____\n\nIt has to.____\n\n____\n\n**Botany and Adaptation by Str8aura [2k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/463135/botany-and-adaptation____**\n\nStarlight decides to change the world, and the world begrudgingly changes with her.____\n\n____\n\n**The Ultimate Alicorn (Personal Growth) by Mockingbirb [4k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/519099/the-ultimate-alicorn-personal-growth____**\n\nWhat if anypony could become an alicorn...whether they really wanted to or not?____\n\nWhat if they couldn't make the changes stop?____\n\n____\n\n**The Cold Wind Blows by Frazzle2Dazzle [6k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/568787/the-cold-wind-blows____**\n\nOnce upon a time there was a ghost in the woods, and she was cold...____\n\nSent by the Cutie Map to fix the problem, how can Rarity and Starlight hope to succeed against such a supernatural enemy?____\n\n____\n\n**What lies behind the mask by Shaslan [3k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/516685/what-lies-behind-the-mask____**\n\nTrixie is on the verge of saying something to Starlight. Finally. But then she sees Sunburst and Starlight together, and her world begins to crumble.____\n\n____\n\n**What You Hold Dearest, What You Love Most by Mockingbirb [2k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/580292/what-you-hold-dearest-what-you-love-most____**\n\nStarlight Glimmer and Sunburst were childhood sweethearts, practically inseparable.____\n\nBut it turns out, even what seems the strongest connection can be broken.**____**\n\n____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n**Shipping**\n\n**____**\n\n**____**\n\n____\n\n**Refrigeration Folly by CherryPopsyPone [1k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/585136/refrigeration-folly____**\n\nA healthy polycule will, typically, divvy up chores and other domestic duties between its members, as would any group of sensible ponies who live together. There are consequences to this when one of said members is Trixie Lulamoon.____\n\nSunburst just wanted something to eat.____\n\n____\n\n**Plasma by Baal Bunny [4k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579463/plasma____**\n\nSunburst's researches are leading him to the weird idea that the sun might be something like a huge ball of superheated gas. With Starlight and Trixie's help, he'll try to convince Twilight.____\n\nBut nothing's ever as simple as _that_ in Equestria.____\n\n____\n\n**Good Things****by ChrisRainicorn [4k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/577563/good-things____**\n\nWould she ever believe her own self? If she told past Starlight Glimmer that one day she would be lying down in a makeshift pillow fort, with the Princess’ face cradled in her hooves, feeling her heart be the fullest she ever thought possible? Old Starlight Glimmer would have cackled on her face. And the New Starlight Glimmer would cackle in her face! And call herself an idiot.____\n\n____\n\n**Good Enough by Nailah [3k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/508425/good-enough____**\n\nStarlight debates through a series of moments if she's good enough for Trixie.____\n\n____\n\n**Objects at Rest by a kobold [113k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/579101/objects-at-rest____**\n\nTwilight Sparkle's life is going just fine. Sure, she only barely scraped through school. Sure, her job is boring busywork. Sure, she has no prospects for growth, no social life, and no real interests. But it's all going just fine, until a strange mare named Starlight Glimmer comes along and starts asking questions she can't answer. Things like why did Nightmare Moon never wake up, and are you happy? But the answers don't matter when you've got a perfectly normal life in Canterlot.____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n**Drama**\n\n**____**\n\n**____**\n\n____\n\n**If I Stumble by Shay492 [2k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/582946/if-i-stumble____**\n\nStarlight experiences a classic Rainbow Dash prank! Something funny should have happened to her. Should have. Now she just needs to figure out what changed.____\n\nSet between seasons 5 & 6.____\n\n____\n\n**Instability by a kobold [5k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/581846/instability____**\n\nSunset Shimmer's continued presence in the human world puts both worlds at risk. The Mirror being forced open has only made it worse. She must come home, and the Mirror must be sealed, or else two realities will collapse into nothing. Sunset knows there's only one choice here, but that doesn't make it hurt any less. Luckily, some unexpected new friends are sure to help.____\n\n____\n\n**Assumption of Guilt by Pascoite [1k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/580143/assumption-of-guilt____**\n\nStarlight Glimmer can’t forgive her past. Princess Luna knows all too well how that feels.____\n\n____\n\n**Be the Kite by marmalado [4k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/581719/be-the-kite____**\n\nSelf-levitation is a spell that, while recognized in Equestrian history and used by many famous unicorns of the past, is not one that just any unicorn can master. It takes a great deal of practice and skill to be able to lift up your entire body mass and transport it in midair in a manner similar to flying.____\n\nFor Starlight, the task certainly isn't coming easy. But with enough dedication and passion, she is eventually able to do it, and it becomes one of the first spells she ever teaches herself. Why, though? What use does self-levitation have in a world where many ponies were friends with pegasi eager to give them a wing up?____\n\nThe answer lies in a single device that can do what she once could not. A single, stupid device, but still...it could be useful.____\n\n____\n\n**A Glimmer of Friendship by Pen Mightier [3k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/302632/a-glimmer-of-friendship____**\n\nStarlight Glimmer and Twilight Sparkle save the future of Equestria together. ____\n\n____\n\n**If I Should Fall Again... by Boltstrike58 [4k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/588151/if-i-should-fall-again____**\n\nStarlight Glimmer, alongside Trixie, Thorax, and Discord, has just saved Equestria! However, the next morning, Starlight comes to Twilight with a request. A request Twilight isn't sure she can honor.____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n**SciFi**\n\n**____**\n\n**____**\n\n____\n\n**The Fusion by bkc56 [5k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/556736/the-fusion____**\n\nStarlight Glimmer is transported to the distant future against her will. She discovers an Equestria she helped create that is both amazing and sickening. It turns out this utopia has a deadly problem that only she can fix.____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n____\n\n**Adventure**\n\n**____**\n\n**____**\n\n____\n\n**Find Herself by ChrisRainicorn [4k words]____**\n\n**https://www.fimfiction.net/story/582998/find-herself____**\n\nShe felt she was closer to revenge on Princess Twilight Sparkle than she had ever been. And _how_ she was going to do that was starting to come together. Admittedly, her research material on time spells was lacking, but who better to fiddle around with spells than Starlight Glimmer? She needed to come up with something, and she would.\n\n* * *\n\nFollow Sethisto on Twitter and Bluesky!",
"title": "31 of the Best Fanfics to Read for Starlight Glimmer Day!",
"updatedAt": "2026-03-20T17:00:00.132Z"
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