
The Weed
In a garden filled with perfect flowers, nopony ever loves a weed...
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Would a weed by any other name be as repulsive?
The starting entry in the Weedverse.





185475 words: Estimated about 15 hours to read
112 Chapters:
- Sprouting 2015-05-24 01:25:20 UTC2149
- Life in the dirt 2015-05-24 17:42:26 UTC1038
- A weed in the brambles 2015-05-25 23:39:02 UTC1092
- Even a weed has needs 2015-05-26 21:17:27 UTC1874
- A weed in the marsh 2015-05-27 19:33:40 UTC2692
- The weed cares for his needs 2015-05-28 22:14:59 UTC2105
- A weed in the sun 2015-05-29 19:20:58 UTC1016
- To be rid of a weed 2015-05-31 17:08:59 UTC2495
- The rock 2015-05-31 20:01:59 UTC1485
- What rhymes with rock? The weed has a talk... 2015-06-01 18:43:24 UTC1084
- A weed in the wind 2015-06-02 22:01:46 UTC1210
- Bug 2015-06-02 22:18:45 UTC85
- The rock reveals her crevice 2015-06-05 01:35:19 UTC1332
- To put down roots, or to be uprooted 2015-06-05 20:12:53 UTC1611
- Geology and biology... the talk 2015-06-07 00:40:16 UTC1199
- A weed in Rock Haven 2015-06-09 19:31:03 UTC1425
- A weed on the farm 2015-06-12 00:48:33 UTC1582
- A weed's first bloom 2015-06-14 02:45:54 UTC1185
- Flowers are just very pretty weeds 2015-06-15 01:10:24 UTC1140
- Who photographs weeds, anyways? 2015-06-17 22:46:50 UTC1293
- Wet crack 2015-06-18 20:41:57 UTC1412
- Who knew a rock could be so comforting 2015-06-21 02:11:12 UTC1189
- Rhodonite 2015-06-22 17:42:03 UTC1487
- Something blossoms amongst the weeds 2015-06-23 17:57:07 UTC2223
- Dinner is served with pie 2015-06-26 19:02:38 UTC1087
- Growth 2015-06-28 17:28:09 UTC1463
- When a weed and a rock entwine 2015-07-02 00:59:36 UTC1649
- Weedkiller 2015-07-03 22:35:48 UTC1833
- Botany held at bay 2015-07-05 02:09:44 UTC1286
- NaCl 2015-07-06 20:23:11 UTC1130
- Don't sweat the petty stuff and don't pet the sweaty stuff 2015-07-07 16:32:29 UTC317
- A weed that needs watering 2015-07-08 19:18:54 UTC1353
- A weed in a wagon 2015-07-09 18:49:24 UTC1713
- Home 2015-07-10 21:20:02 UTC686
- Cryptocrystalline 2015-07-11 23:51:05 UTC1450
- Fertile ground 2015-07-13 21:31:30 UTC1415
- Sampling Maud's Pie 2015-07-15 17:23:08 UTC1180
- Taking root 2015-07-17 02:27:19 UTC1013
- Fields of blue 2015-07-17 22:18:55 UTC1040
- How to make Pie 2015-07-18 20:56:32 UTC1046
- Casual cannibalism and the devouring of little pies 2015-07-20 20:02:08 UTC1384
- Rampant growth 2015-07-21 02:22:02 UTC972
- Excuse me, but you have a blossom on your butt 2015-07-23 04:44:02 UTC1319
- A vital part of nature 2015-07-25 16:14:07 UTC1426
- Back to the beginning 2015-07-27 01:46:58 UTC1216
- A weed is watered 2015-07-27 20:10:17 UTC1956
- And then the morning comes 2015-07-28 14:57:09 UTC1595
- A soft and fuzzy rock 2015-07-29 22:10:47 UTC1390
- Weed becomes legalised 2015-07-31 15:41:04 UTC1478
- Assiduous 2015-08-01 15:55:22 UTC1221
- It really brings the room together 2015-08-02 18:07:51 UTC1062
- The day that a rock almost destroyed Ponyville 2015-08-03 22:18:04 UTC1838
- The clock is ticking 2015-08-04 17:08:34 UTC2154
- Bu-rock-racy 2015-08-05 15:53:49 UTC1807
- Invited inside 2015-08-06 18:15:36 UTC2288
- Frosted Pie 2015-08-07 16:40:57 UTC1130
- A thirsty weed longs for morning dew 2015-08-08 18:29:14 UTC1460
- The Unabridged Compendium of Curious and Peculiar Geological Oddities: Volume CCCXXXIV 2015-08-09 19:30:13 UTC2484
- That's a paddling 2015-08-10 23:09:16 UTC2032
- To poke a Pie 2015-08-11 20:08:49 UTC2308
- Escape! 2015-08-12 20:22:14 UTC1798
- Whatever develops 2015-08-13 17:22:33 UTC906
- Coffins 2015-08-14 21:42:59 UTC1518
- The Pie sisters are guano have a sound future 2015-08-16 01:51:59 UTC1729
- Putting the past to bed 2015-08-16 22:16:30 UTC1663
- Not a rooster pot pie 2015-08-17 19:48:11 UTC1697
- Boulder 2015-08-18 16:21:51 UTC1159
- Entering the back door 2015-08-19 18:10:00 UTC1388
- Happy husband hugs 2015-08-21 19:27:02 UTC1566
- Side of the road 2015-08-22 04:03:19 UTC1199
- Leaving home 2015-08-24 18:41:04 UTC1665
- To go a ramblin' 2015-08-25 15:44:23 UTC1514
- Where the river runs 2015-08-26 23:24:09 UTC2157
- Go where thou wilts 2015-08-28 01:12:38 UTC1762
- In which adventuring is discussed 2015-08-29 17:57:39 UTC1621
- In a wet bed 2015-08-30 17:33:46 UTC1694
- Mud pie 2015-08-31 18:02:24 UTC1682
- Slipping in and sliding out of the mud hole 2015-09-01 21:30:59 UTC2282
- When life gives you rocks, make gravel 2015-09-03 13:13:14 UTC2094
- If you eat his Pie, he'll get steaming mad 2015-09-05 17:31:05 UTC2358
- My unicorn runneth over. 2015-09-07 00:20:08 UTC1274
- Drip 2015-09-08 16:10:47 UTC1698
- Stoned 2015-09-10 00:22:49 UTC2410
- When Pinkie met Maud 2015-09-10 22:02:59 UTC2138
- Gorge rising 2015-09-12 02:52:46 UTC1690
- Islands in the stream 2015-09-12 04:51:49 UTC1663
- Probe? No thanks! 2015-09-15 04:23:23 UTC1655
- What a friend we have in cheeses 2015-09-16 16:05:34 UTC1660
- It's okay to throw rocks at things you don't like 2015-09-17 00:14:35 UTC2511
- Fangs for the memories 2015-09-17 05:27:15 UTC1931
- 20% cheesier 2015-09-18 02:56:28 UTC1970
- Owl's well that ends well 2015-09-19 04:59:40 UTC1756
- Glory 2015-09-21 18:48:22 UTC1682
- Twinkle time tango 2015-09-22 21:46:21 UTC1926
- Crossing over 2015-09-23 22:39:35 UTC2029
- Becoming a unicorn 2015-09-26 17:30:01 UTC2004
- How is a pegasus like a writing desk? 2015-09-29 21:45:42 UTC2422
- Grape! 2015-10-02 17:00:31 UTC2293
- Observations 2015-10-07 04:01:27 UTC2180
- A weed just blue himself 2015-10-08 16:05:20 UTC2548
- Hotzone! 2015-10-12 19:50:58 UTC2097
- I'll stop the world and melt with you 2015-10-22 15:34:32 UTC2339
- Delirium 2015-10-24 02:18:38 UTC2620
- That's 'Mister Teapot' to you! 2015-10-27 21:43:43 UTC2850
- Recovery 2015-10-30 15:44:24 UTC1634
- Eyes open 2015-11-04 04:38:37 UTC1519
- Above the clouds 2015-11-24 17:04:08 UTC2375
- Reflections upon the road 2015-12-15 18:17:54 UTC1572
- The weed gets smuggled 2015-12-26 23:01:21 UTC2071
- Cartwheel catharsis 2015-12-29 04:20:35 UTC1635
- Parasprite philosophy 2016-01-01 22:56:49 UTC1918
- When roots run deep 2016-01-11 18:34:35 UTC2369