Yep, its another #MLP:FiM story review, because I read way, way, way¹⁰ to many stories.

Bed Bug
The first of a series of stories pairing up Anon and Chrysalis and leading to them marrying and having children. If not for the current story, I likely wouldn't've given this a look, I'm not a huge Chrysalis fan, and even less of a fan of Anon, but I'm glad i did. While the stories can have their rough edges, and sometimes logic goes out the window in service of the story, (Chrysalis' old alter ego that infiltrated SMILE and comes in handy so she can infiltrate it again, how's that work?), the stories are a fun casual read.

Moonlighting
•sigh• I wanted to like this, despite it having a description that seemed a bit odd, but it failed from minute one. Seriously, its time for NMM's return and… Celestia and Twilight are waiting for her with the elements. I mean the actual elements, not Twilight's friends, WTF? And then Luna shows up in a space ship talking about her plans to develop the moon. Uhh…
Seriously, this could've been great, I mean imagine a story with Luna/Nightmare Moon having been found by a space faring society, got over her issues, and been having adventures in outer space all this time. Imagine her treating the end of her thousand year banishment as a scheduled appointment she needs to make, imagine her showing up as Luna and being like 'hey, I'm doing great, just stopping in to say hi, Tia you can keep Equestria, I'm having fun out in the galaxy', that's the kind of thing I was hoping to see, but nope, and not even something at least halfway decent, definitely not a story worth your time.

Equestria Exiled
It really sucks that this one is in hiatus, because its a really interesting story. Basically pony-kind is scattered across a number of stations, Manehatten Station, Ponyville Station, etc, ruled by a council, and the princesses are just a legend, as is any kind of a home world.
That would make for an interesting story in itself if we were following a whole new group of ponies, but that's the thing, we're not. Lyra, Derpy, Octavia, Vinyl Scratch, Sunset Shimmer, Sombra and more are there. Roles are a little different, locations are sometimes different, and the Mane Six are no where to be found, legends of ancient Equestria they are, as are the elements. Except that Octavia accidentally found an element, and the other elements are activating.
Something weird is going on, I feel like I'm missing something obvious here, but I've no idea. I really hope the author has a good plan, because this is the kind of story that could have an incredible pay-off… Or we could get to the end and say 'That's it? Really?'

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