Our society pressures people to be thin, no matter how unhealthy the obsession can become. What if we were idiotic enough to start treating other forms of self-harm the same way?

Running out of options, maybe Wallflower Blush would finally try to stand up for herself.

But she might overdo it.

Contains or references: anorexia, bulimia, related eating disorders, cutting, suicide, bad parenting, mass media giving terrible advice about how to look more attractive, Sunset Shimmer doing crimes, an innocent green-haired girl gone bad.

I thank bananachips for prereading a version of this story, and for helpful correspondence about it. This story's flaws, however, are not bananachips' fault.

(I made the cover image from show art. Details in the Author's Notes.)

This story is a sequel to Changing Cherries

Cherry's spontaneous night changes make her, in many ponies' eyes, a changeling-like freak. But one night, an innocent dream turns into a nightmare that leaves her no place to hide. (Unfortunately, an unauthorized sequel to a story by Shaslan; I wrote this sequel for complicated reasons, but I don't promise that my reasons were necessarily any good.)

It turns out that Shaslan is working on at least one more chapter to Changing Cherries. So you could go read that story instead of this one?

I have edited this title, description, etc., and moved the original texts of those to the Author's Notes. I wrote that stuff hastily while in a bad mood. In fact, I wrote and posted this story hastily while in a bad mood. Are you sure you don't want to go read something else instead?