Things I Found While Bored and Surfing the Web · 1:35pm Jun 11th, 2014
So, I was bored and decided to find some CheesePie stuff. What I found:
1) Wading through some posts of this Cheese-obsessed fan on some website I can't remember the name of, I come across a mention of Tomato.
My first thought: "Yay! Someone mentioned Tomato! They read my fic!"
My next thought: "Hey... are you suggesting murder? DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH TOMMY."
Okay, what Tomato did does not warrant murder. Even if they're joking, murder would certainly not help the situation I've put him and Cheese in. Besides, I'm the only one allowed to torture my OCs...
I should get back to my grumpy stallion OC, but I'm still trying to figure out just where and how I want to set this thing. All I know is that I want Pinkie to meddle, and their parents to not get involved (egh, I don't want to bother writing them).
2) Apparently, the prologue of The Rock Farmer's Daughters has a reading on YouTube:
Granted, it's two months old and kind of rambly, but it's still a nice surprise. ^^
Anyway, that's all, folks.
Holy CROW! You got yourself a fanbase! And fan art! And a YouTube video! That's amazing!
Sounds as though you also have OC characters out on the loose, which may feel like a mixed bag, but it's all love. Sometimes it alarms me how quickly readers' minds run to murder, but not worth worrying about.
I am amazed, and so pleased for you!
2198297 And I was only writing The Rock Farmer's Daughters because it was a story I wanted to read, and I figured no one else would write it.
Did not expect this stuff to pop up.
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Best kind of story, usually. Not that it's as successful, but that's why I started writing The Looking Glass World of Cheese and Pie. I wanted very much to see Pinkie and Cheese interacting in the EG universe, and I knew that chances were that I'd never see it. No one seemed to be writing it, and I didn't think he'd make an appearance in Rainbow Rocks, so it was DIY or nothing.
Readers can tell when an author loves writing his or her story. It makes a huge difference. And another thing is that you wanted to tell an unusual story. There is no other CheesePie fic out there like yours. Come to think of it, because of the AU setting, they haven't done anything they're usually shown doing: throwing a party, smooching, other stuff, angst-ing--or, of course, having a funeral. Because of the setup, they're not going to do a lot of those things in the very near future, and that means other things have to happen. What will they be? We don't know. Plus, there's more than the love story to sustain it. We could always get monsters. And you've created a character who loves to tell stories (and who reminds me of a cartoon horse version of Ulysses.) What's not to like, when you come to think of it?
Yeah,I was probably that fan.... eheh.. heheheh.. Wait, do you have a Wattpad account? That's where I wrote that.. Don't kill me....
2198993 Nah, I'm not the killing type.
And no, I don't have a Wattpad account. Was just browsing through because I was bored.
2199013 Ok.. I was friggen scared..
2199020 Also, I was NOT joking! NO ONE MAY BREAK AN ACCORDION. OR DEATH PENALTY.
2201277 It's not worth the death penalty.
2201314 HECK YES IT IS!!! RAAAAAWWWWR
2201317 I hope you realize how annoyed I am.
2201382 I loooooove being evil!
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I'd squeal at the appearance of Cheese in an EG movie (heck, I'll squeal when he's mentioned in a fic). But, yeah, seems like hardly anyone around here even thought of EG CheesePie before you took it upon yourself to write it.
Likewise, I wanted to see what Cheese would become without Pinkie's influence (there are a few ways it could have gone), but since a bunch of people's minds were stuck on the cliche "throw a party, fall in love" fics and the funerals (no good wedding fics?
Come on...), I decided, "Screw it, I'm writing it myself."
And yes, I'm having a blast writing it.
I usually have little confidence in my ability to write a romance, but throwing a bit of action, some comedy, and Cheese's penchant for telling tales (since he's a traveller, I don't see why he wouldn't have any stories) makes it easier on me. Also, stripping the party pony from both of them sure was an interesting exercise.
To be fair, Cheese does get to throw Pinkie's wedding at the end of Popping Her Balloons. It just isn't a wedding to him; it's to Pokey Pierce. And I really, really enjoyed the way the author handled that.
There is a new-ish CheesePie fic in which they're throwing somepony else's wedding, but I hesitate to recommend it.
Honestly, I don't think of myself as a romance writer, either. I think of myself as a comedy writer. In fact, come to think of it, I've barely shown Cheese and Pinkie interacting since It Bombed in Seaddle.
. . . oh, my gosh, I've actually shown him interacting with Trenderhoof more than Pinkie lately. There must be something deeply wrong with me.
Popping Her Balloons