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.

Sometimes those we love help lift us up.

Sometimes those we love help keep us grounded so we don't float away.

Author's Note: My attempt at an exercise in showing more than telling.

My entry for the 2023 May Pairings Contest.

A thank you to Thesmokingguy and SwordTune for proofreading before publishing.

Cover art by me!

Wallflower Blush is determined to make sure her first date with Starlight goes well. No matter how many times she needs to try.

An entry into the 2023 May Pairings 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!

The contents of a journal, recovered from the home of Wallflower Blush. One of few items found relatively undamaged at the location. Several pages are missing, but a few key entries remain, almost as if they were spared intentionally.

Copies have been made of the entries, and the original is being sent to our friends on the other side of the portal, where they can contain it and scan it for any dark magic. We need to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

Written on commission, for Moproblems Moharmoney, with money sent to a GoFundMe. If you'd like to commission me yourself, my rules are right here.
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Wallflower is not a florie; she just REALLY likes plants

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an entry to the Arboreal Yearnings I Contest

an entry to The Spring Fling Contest

i originally intended to write a longer story more fully and viscerally exploring Wallflower's relationship with plants, but that ended up too ambitious for the timeframe i had. this story is a standalone sequel to my original idea, as it takes place after the WallShy ship is well-established

Two fake vegetarians and a vegan sell weed, contemplate love.

Prereading by SockPuppet
The Spring Fling Contest entry. I don't interact with any other contests.

Sci-Twi tests the entire electromagnetic spectrum on Wallflower Blush.

A collaboration between Sockpuppet and Samey90.