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.)