Imprisoned (without charges) by the Paw Patrol
Dear Diary
In a series of entries into a diary long-abandoned, Wallflower Blush comes to terms with the end of her relationship.
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Twenty years ago, Wallflower Blush and Sunset Shimmer fall in love.
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Summer waxes, summer wanes. The sunflower sees it all.
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This, especially the messsages at the end, felt painfully real.
I hate this so much yet it's absolutely perfect and sad.
Great job!
Savage. Props, girl.
Yeah, gonna echo Beholder on this. This ached in a good way - it hurt proper. The texts felt right, too, for a more modern relationship.
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Thanks, I appreciate it! Glad I was able to get across the appropriate level of happy-sad there
God, that “effect/affect” bit was so buttery smooth...
And God help you if the girl at the deli was the love of your life.
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I do try
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At that point, it's time to accept fate hates you.
My favorite writer tbh
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<3 Right back atcha
I am pleased you found such an a propos way to display the award ribbon!
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Heh, I thought it fit. Didnt even have to change the size, the native resolution happened to work perfectly for the cover art!
It didn't hit as hard for me, personally, but I can absolutely see why this won the contest. This is actually incredible.
Sunset's emoticon game is strong. :D
Got an "I glad" in there, fyi.
signals
oh my god :D
oh my god, these text convos aren't just for funsies :O
she wanted the handcuffs tho
How you gonna hit us with this gem and then end on that note. D:
I coulda kept reading this for ages.
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Aww, thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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also, so glad someone caught this
this is kinda sad, made me want to cry. buy in a good way.
Very good story 10/10 would recommend
def going into my favs
good work, it shows your skill if you can actually get your readers emotional especially if you wanted them to feel the certain emotion.
I am at a loss to express my reaction without sounding consummately pathetic. Even setting aside the matching of resonant frequencies, this was absolutely brilliantly written... The texting reparteé (with timestamps to suit and the glorious contemporary references), the diaiy voicing, the threads and elements that weave across the brickwork of a melancholy narrative...
Thank you.
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). It really means the world.
Thanks for leaving such a great comment! I'm delighted you enjoyed it so much (if enjoyment is really the right word...
Wally is so clueless I love it
Oh no she’s a furry
She may be named Sunset but I feel like something is dawning
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ouch what the fuck
This is amazingly written and heartfelt but also WHAT THE FUCK
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You are evil
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Sorry not sorry, thank you
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No, thank YOU for writing this
I had planned to read another story after this one before going to bed. That's... clearly not gonna happen anymore.
Hm. I'm conflicted. Depending on interpretation/the angle of your perception, this could be a heart-warming story full of hope. She endured her hardships, she pushed through and came out the other side. Life goes on. And that image with the single sunflower among the ivy is just... beautiful. Even though it makes me wonder: Considering how little I know about sunflowers, I assume that for a single one to grow there, it had to be planted very recently, does it not? So maybe Sunset had been around not too long ago.
Oooon the other side, though, this is heart-breaking and sad, as it lays bare that nothing is sacred, nothing is timeless and eventually, given time, even the strongest bonds will succumb. There is no 'happy ever after'. Just 'happy for some time before it gets really nasty (again)'.
I think... what you can take from this story heavily depends on what nature and mindset you, as a reader, have. And I'm a pessimist at heart. Always have been, always will be. Many of Wallflower's lines hit uncomfortably close to home. Feeling like she was made to be alone. Feeling like she unlearned how to have a normal conversation. Desperately wanting to not wake up alone.
It's bleak.
On an unrelated note: I wonder if Sunset just returned home. And I mean, like, Equestria-home. If she's hurting this much, getting as far away as possible must be a tempting prospect, and there's not much farther away than another reality.
I wholeheartedly agree with Ice Star's sentiment:
Thank you for writing.
oof… that is the truth, isn’t it? and as wonderful friends and people they are, after a breakup…
yeah, with the weight of twenty years, i would be tempted too. and i really feel the weight of those years in the words of this section, somehow. you do a fantastic job of that, as always
augh this is so true. the assumption that since plants are Wallflower’s “thing” that they would totally be her cutie mark and what brings meaning and fulfillment to her life certainly could be! but this interpretation is much more depressing and re-inforces her themes
augh love the story told in timestamps
and a very Wallflower assumption and response
so true actually
ooh, love this!
and augh, this really says it all. the gears seizing up, and it sneaking up on you, so real.
oh i feel this
oof. i haven’t thought about my breakup experience in years but this is really bringing those memories back! you’ve really captured it
interspersing it with snippets of their actual text convos is just so perfect, augh this is art
hehe this must seem like a very strange swear to the human high schoolers!
fantastic touch with the split emoticon. i mean i just love all these exchanges they are so good
so very Wallflower (and ugh, me) to think of this first of all
love this Sunset
so many hints! i mean is it even “hints” at this point? love it
oof, that is quite a move to do without a marriage!
okay now i’m relating to Sunset, since this is totally what i would do!
hey, you’re all the same age! but also, relatable
augh! this captures Wallflower so well. wanting to leave that mark, to be seen, even in a process that is stressful and awful. closure! having the world recognize them! perfect! and given this,
absolutely perfect that it was Wallflower that just “meh”-ed her way out of it
i love her
omc she’s just like me fr
love it. this is Wallflower’s favo(u)rite plant in every story and canon, i’ve decided
hehehe i always love this
pfft, perfect
so true and also existentially horrifying
well if this was a different genre of story i certainly would worry about it! that does sound very ominous out of context
ehehe nice
so true they do have that in common
oof
augh. that aching love and need buried under all the awful tangle… and if Sunset is the one who broke up suddenly and left, and is not doing well, and is wanting to talk then, well… i’m starting to get a picture of something. excited to see if i’m right!
hehe. that does sound hot!
oh, dang! that is quite the insecurity, and an understandable one, given how being the protagonist of this TV show works
um because you’re cool as hell, Sunset?
so true
ahaha yeah, i would totally be Wallflower here
ooh, one hour and twenty-five minutes? at midnight? they liiiiiike each other!
such wise words. feel like they should be on a mug or something
oof! don’t want to see Wally go down this road
yeah that would be a lot for a new friend. ugh, breakups suck!
also a good mug candidate
again, love the interleaving! why can’t more stories be like this
i love them so much. they are so good at bits! they belong together
ahaha i mean is that a bad thing?
augh love them
ugh, i can feel the dread in my stomach and i’m sitting here an entire reality away!
augh that is so wonderful! and so awful to know you will never get back to that state…
and augh! those complex emotions. yeah. relatable, every bit
oof, i remember this. i remember.
augh, so real. a stranger indeed
and oof, yeah. that closure again
just magnificent, this
ahaha love it
dang, right before midnight again! Wallflower’s sense of timing is impeccable
ooh, what did she say next? what did she say next???
oh dang, i totally thought this was going to be at the end of her life, given the title!
augh, the themes of change and never going back to what things once more, and the mundanity of it all. i love it so much
love that the ivy got a callback, and wow, what perfect symbolism
augh, chills! tears, almost! dangit, Botched, you’ve done it again!
and “Sunnybuns” having been there the whole time, augh. so much full circle on everything
well, my heart feels like it’s been ripped from my ribcage. it’s almost midnight here, and i’m just left staring off into space, sitting with my feelings, you know?
dang, Botched, what can i even say? i’m just glad that the SunFlower Contest judges picked this for first because they were very right to. this was just exquisite. and i both regret not reading this earlier because it deserves so much to be read by everyone, and am thankful that i am getting to it only now so that the me of the present can be here to savo(u)r the experience of reading this for the first time.
just, thank you for writing what you do. i am so very glad you exist!
You can has review!
found this gem through the front page review through Paul Asaran! just wow, mare! incredibly readable
did a silly smol review on the first 4 chaps https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1040576/review-tending-to-the-hearts-forgotten-garden-botched-lobotomy-random-recommendations-in-50-words-18