This story is a sequel to p-value

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Destabilized by Equestrian magic, Wallflower’s world is dying. For its sake, Sunset had to leave forever. All Wallflower can do is hold on to the last connection they still have: the journal Sunset left behind.

Review

Long-Distance is a wrenching story and more than one of our judges said that, though they won’t ever be able to bring themselves to re-read it, it will stay with us for a long time. Everything is ending, it may or may not be anyone’s fault, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. The time it will take to reach that final tragedy doesn’t make it any less remote. Sunset and Wallflower are separated across worlds, and have only Sunset’s journal to link them. One of them will die and the other will live on. They’re left to learn how to cope with and share and grieve the time they have left.

Long-Distance is superbly written, with just enough detail about the nature of the tragedy to make it feel realized without overwhelming readers with exposition. There’s a novel’s worth of story in this short story, but none of it feels compressed. Sunset and Wallflower’s tightly written, wrenching, and affecting, and the last chapter left us breathless.

--Judges of Scampy's SunFlower Shipping Contest

The result was an emotional tale of making the best out of a bad situation through inevitability and – if you’ll pardon the title drop – long distance. Bicyclette’s work is a delightful story that exemplifies how to Show a hard-hitting story through meaningful dialogue, contextual narrative clues, vivid scene setting, and a firm grasp of the characters and their struggles.

--PaulAsaran, Paul's Thursday Reviews CCCXLVII

Contest

Literal last-minute entry to Scampy's SunFlower Shipping Contest, and now unexpectedly the fourth-place winner. Go read the other entries please, there's a lot of good stuff in there!

I originally pulled this story for revisions after the contest results came out. I regret this, and I am sorry.

Credits

Thanks to Sledge115 for emotional support!

Wallflower dreads having to let Sunset go.

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for the Sunset’s Sci-fi Shipping x Villain Contest

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Wallflower and Maud talk to each other on a class hike, and are not very good at it.

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happy literal last minutes of Pride Month!

I fnid mslyef staindng bfeore a gorup of grils. Who are tehy? Who am I? Why cna’t I ueandrstnd my own tohughts?

This fic was written for the A Thousand Words Contest II in the category Experimental. Check out the other entries here.

Huge thanks to The Sleepless Beholder for prereading the fic and to Punished Bean for the cover art!

If FimFic had allowed us with extra tags: Kiwi Lollipop, Supernova Zap, and Vignette Valencia

Spike goes to summer camp at Camp Everfree, where he makes friends with five girls…and a camp counselor.

Sunshine, hot nights, and camp misadventures ensues, as Spike plans to make happy memories with his fellow campers. Though the girls may have other plans.

Featured on: 6/14/2023

Wallflower Blush, driven by loneliness, fear, jealously, and anger, used the Memory Stone to make folks in CHS think that Sunset Shimmer was still a bully. Doing so sparked an incident that helped drive the Sonic Rainbooms to do the unthinkable: they betrayed Sunset.

When the dust settled after a tragic sacrifice and the stone's destruction, Wallflower renounced her cruel ways and Twilight Sparkle apologized to Sunset for not believing her to be a good person. She would not be the last to do so as the girls affected by that fiasco reflect on themselves and seek to move forward...

Current Spot in the Friendship is Worth It Timeline:

Forgotten Friendship
What Mistakes Tell Us
Rollercoaster of Friendship
Spring Breakdown
Sunset's Backstage Pass
When Life Gives You Snow...

Series Info and Timeline

Ancient Greece: A land of gods, heroes, monsters... and very few roles for women beyond wife and housekeeper.

In other words, it's a pretty terrible place and time for a renegade student of Princess Celestia to find herself. But Sunset Shimmer is nothing if not determined and resourceful. She will bend this world to her will.

That's the plan, anyway. Given how the heliocentric model is still a few millennia away from wide acceptance, maybe she can settle for finding happiness.

Winner of the Sunset x Villain Period Piece contest.

Wallflower worries a lot. About a lot of things. One thing she'd never expect to worry about was a relationship, a romantic one. Labels concern her a lot. And for the past few months, the label on her and Applejack's relationship remained unknown.

Deep down, she really wants to know why.

An entry into the 2023 May Pairings Contest.

Sunset Shimmer, the school's hottest girl has asked her out to the Spring Fling. Now she knew Sunset couldn't possibly be interested in her, but this was still going to be a night to remember! In fact, to make sure nothing could possibly go wrong she had arrived early.

But her mind tends to wander when she got nothing better to do, and Wallflower Blush has a lot of thoughts about her crush.

(Alternate Universe tag exists here just to be safe, things play out a bit differently compared canon).

This was written for the 2023 EqG Anniversary Spring Fling Contest!