Fried, exhausted and ZOMG, fanfoal! · 6:02am Nov 26th, 2014
This is the end of the fall quarter, and as you can imagine, I am way, way overclocked. I wind up reading and commenting on tons of essays. You have no idea how much I envy professors who can grade with a scantron machine. Sometimes I learn things I didn't know. For example, I had no idea there were Alots in Elsinore ("Alot happens in Hamlet.")
Today I had office hours and nothing else, and since the likelihood that any students would show up was very small, I figured I'd just wear a thermal shirt and my La Grande et L'Incroyable Trixie shirt. One of the Linguistics professors passes by--
Linguistics Prof: Ooo! My Little Pony!
Me: Oh, hey, your daughter likes the show? (I know she has a daughter, so it's the first thing I thought of.)
Linguistics Prof: I like the show!
MY LITTLE PONY: RECOMMENDED BY TWO OUT OF TWO ENGLISH PROFESSORS (sample size, two professors.)
I took some time out to browse through DeviantArt and I do not know how I missed this, but behold:
Sachertorte, the only CheesePie fanfoal I actually made up. The other two, Cheesecake Surprise and Silly String, are borrowed, and I kinda regret that now, since it limits some flexibility, but I wasn't thinking I'd ever use them again for anything but a toss-away joke in Triple Threat. Anyway, A HUGE thank you to Carranzis for making him for me.
A Sachertorte is a Viennese dark chocolate cake with a layer of apricot preserves. They are delicious, and they're also DENSE. They're just really solid, thick chocolate all the way through.
Anyway, Tortie is the Silent Cal of the family. Unlike his Aunt Maud, he doesn't speak with a flat affect--he just doesn't speak much at all. He's also inherited the Pie family ability to shift extremely heavy weights. "Tortie" was originally just short for "Sachertorte," a name taken from Cheese's side of the family, but gradually he also became "Tortie," as in "Slow And Steady Wins The Race."
Tortie's tendency to sit and stare blankly at other ponies means that they sometimes assume that he isn't very bright. They are completely wrong. Tortie is extremely bright. And he never forgets anything anypony says to him . . .
Why, yes. I do intend to use Tortie eventually. How could I not, right? Tortie's name is also another hint about Cheese's family background, some of which is buried in Command Performance. That will probably update soon. It was meant to be a cute little thing with a dance, and then it became a Twelve Days of Christmas fic, and then Luna started taking over, and finally ANOTHER character decided to hijack the thing. This is how little one-shots become big fics.
The other fics are still in the hopper:
Princess of Pastry--an EG Pinkie Pie fic.
Fascination: Also EG, Applejack and Rarity
Collection of short requested prompts, along with a bigger thing embedded in it. If said bigger thing gets much bigger, it will become a stand-alone fic.
As-yet-unnamed sequel to Looking Glass World.
Something, perhaps two somethings, following Command Performance.
And I have not given up on Princess Trixie and Her Magic Dragon. It's just going to take a while, because it's completely different from what I usually do: an on-the-road buddy adventure quest fic with Mirrorverse Spike and Alicorn Princess Trixie. I can't NOT use the Justices Flim and Flam, especially since it's now canon that Flim and Flam are in love with the same mare. In the comics, anyway. And besides, I feel kind of bad for Formerly Good King Sombra all locked up under defensive shields and thick plates of ice because he's convinced he's evil. He deserves a better fate.
And I'm infamous for dishing out happy endings. And in fiction, anyhow, you can do that, so I do.
Holy shit you are an English Professor?
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Don't even ASK what I'm doing reading and writing fanfic, except that it's not all that surprising. It exercises muscles I don't normally get to use. And the really cool part is that my school may be doing a fanfic event for National Library Week, because we have one professor who specializes in Doctor Who and another who specializes in Harry Potter (me), and we both want to do it.
(*ahem*)
Hamlet is a story about the inderisive Prince Omelet who is a melancholy Great Dane. When he finds out that his uncle isn't his father, he wants to kill him but he doesn't have a ghost of a chance. He pretends to be mad but he's even madder than that, but not mad enough to kill yet. His girlfirend Ofeelya is a bit of a drip. In the end he kills everyone and then fights a poisonous dual which kills more people and then he gets killed. It's an epic travesty.
How many points did I get on the test, Professor?
2617079 80%. Our standards are not high. Besides, you're clearly doing one of the essay assignments for my class and decided to review Green Eggs and Hamlet.
So are you unfamiliar with Kevin Smith's character Silent Bob, or are you just a President Coolidge fangirl?
Given my screaming ignorance of big chunks of the latter half of the twentieth century, it's the latter.
"I bet I could get you to say three words to me."
"You lose."
MY LITTLE PONY: RECOMMENDED BY TWO OUT OF TWO ENGLISH PROFESSORS
(sample size, two professors.)
Why, yes, My little pony is good for your English. I can personally tell you, as a fan of the show with English as second language, that writing fanfiction and watching the show have helped my Emglish very much!
My mother actually had to quit being a high school English teacher because her own standards demanded a workload she couldn't manage, and she refused to compromise. I know how the bad papers are the worst to grade, and I can only imagine what it's like on a college level.
As for Tortie, I can't help but think that Gummy was a major influence in his upbringing. Also, something about his adult form looks disturbingly unhinged. I think it's the lack of eye reflections and the darker tone of his coat.
Looking forward to everything you have planned.
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The funny thing about Calvin Coolidge was that he was highly-intelligent -- he just didn't feel the need to blather on all the time.
Oh wow, he's gorgeous! And yaaay more fic and approval of English profs.
AWWWW, how cute!