Don't mess with the Pie Ho's [new story, new chapter]

Pushing Pink Daisies

The facts were these:

Approximately Five years, eight months, one week, and five days ago a brand new televison show premiered from the imaginative creative mind of Bryan Fuller. Fuller's was the mind behind such short-lived cult-favorite darlings as Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me. His shows have always been creative and quirky in their writing, their visual elements, and there premises. However, his shows tend to not have very long lives.

Pushing Daisies sadly was not going to be the exception. Although the show reached critical success upon its premiere, it had the misfortune of beginning its life in the midst of the Writer's Strike of 2007. This – along with its own naturally clever and quirky yet slightly macabre nature – found it slipping through the cracks and unable to find a large enough audience. It has a grand total of twenty-two episodes over two small seasons.

Daisies was the story of Ned the Pie Maker, who owned and ran a bakery in the shape of an enormous pie and could wake the dead with one touch. The rules of his gift were always clearly explained within the show (first touch life, second touch dead again forever. Keep a dead thing alive longer than a minute, something else has to die) and always rife for entertaining hijinks.

Starring Lee Pace (Wonderfalls, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn pt 2, The Hobbit), Krisin Chenoweth (Wicked, The West Wing, Glee), Anna Friel (Timeline, Land of the Lost [2009], Neverland [SyFy miniseries]), Chi McBride (voice of Nick Fury in several Marvel cartoons, Human Target, Golden Boy) and Jim Dale (Harry Potter US audibooks) as the narrator, the series was told in an almost fairy tale storybook way. The visuals and dialogue of the show always seemed to follow along that same vein. It was at its heart a love story between Ned and the girl named Chuck. Whose murder he and Emerson Cod solve in the first episode. Not willing to re-touch her after he wakes her up, Ned chooses to keep her alive knowing full well that he could never touch her again without losing her... again.

There are several other very wondrous elements to the show, but that really is the heart of it. When deciding to bring this series into a crossover/meld with MLP though, I chose to turn the clock back a bit before the real show begins.

It's stated in the first episode how Ned's and Emerson's partnership began, but not explicitly stated how long they were doing their special brand of private investigating before Chuck's murder. I decided to start during that time, even before Ned bought and established the Pie Hole.

I really hope to at least attempt to capture some of the whimsy and imagination the actual series has. I've been trying very hard to mimic the narrator's style of explaining even if I feel I might be screwing up spectacularly. [The first whole part of chapter one is a paraphrased and abridged version of the first five minutes of the pilot episode.]

If you haven't heard of or seen the show but are stumbling upon my story, I really sincerely hope that you will seek out my other non pony source material for it. However close I might come to capturing its magic, the real Pushing Daisies is by a wide margin much better than my little tale.

(still a bit in need of some PR service for this story if someone is so inclined, PM to inquire.)

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Deja Discord:

Chapter seven should be up now, and it took me a while to get it all ready to go. Mostly due to my wanting for you not to have to wait as long this time around for chapter eight (even though that forced you to have to wait a while for this one... gotta love my logic). Its also a bit due to my search to find an additional prereader for the story because my current one (RBT) will be going away for a bit. I have since found another set of eyes to help me out, so with hope I can make good on that promise to get the rest of the story out soon. I'd like to have it all posted by aPS's anniversary. I've got it and my FiMfiction anniversary coming up so those would be some good days for chapters to come out. ;P

As I've been finishing work on this one, I've been starting to hammer out the crude ideas/outline for story number three. It used to have a title, but now that old title doesn't really fit anymore. I really like what I have so far in terms of where things are going and where I want Discord and Twilight to end up.

I'd say DD still has another four or five chapters to go, and I hope you all are still enjoying it. I'm kinda proud of the Dissy/Mac scenes in this chapter, and my PR enjoyed them too.

Once DD is all done, I'd like to learn how to use Livestream (if any pony can help me out with that, that would be fantastic). I think it would be really fun to have a Livestream party celebrating its completion by having a viewing of Deja Q (the episode on which DD is loosely based). It might be fun for me and you to see what elements I ended up using and how they differ.