Twilight, Applejack, and Rarity all know something is wrong in Equestria, but can they discover the truth before they suffer the curse of the Candy Cult?
I am curious what would happen if an abomination meets with an other one. LIke the candy mare meet with the boogie-mare, and they like:
> Candymare starts doing her things > Boogiemare: Hey, I called this world! Quit touching my stuff! > Candymare: Yeah, yeah, tell it to my bubblegum ball ass. And they begin to fight like Godzilla and kingkong.
It has an interesting story so far and as I read one book after the other I started to get curious about how exactly you started this book franchise. Was it because you wanted to create a serial killer who is made out of candy? or was there something in MLP that you felt it needed to correct?
11805394 Back when I first got into MLP, it was mainly thanks to the creepypasta side of the fandom - all the best fanart, music, and fanfiction seemed to be coming out of that part of the fandom and I really wanted to be a part of it. Something I noticed though, as I got deeper into the various fanfics is that the vast majority were along the lines of 'insert member of the mane 6/side character goes crazy and kills their friends', which is fun the first couple of times you read it but after awhile it was getting pretty stale. I wanted to introduce an antagonist that was a true monster, still a pony, but not just a main character that had gone crazy 'for reasons' but who had a genuine tormented back story to justify (at least to themselves) both their state of mind and state of being.
Also as entertaining as a lot of the most popular stories were, most of them weren't really that scary and weren't really written as horror stories, with building suspense and glorious payoffs. Most of the time it was just a parade of gore, delivered as woodenly and matter-of-factly as a book report, with lots of detail but almost no emotion aside from maybe 'I'm scared and confused' - well you're dying grotesquely, usually at the hands of someone your trusted, so of course you're scared and confused! But where's the nuance, ya know? Likewise there was some obscenely gross fetish stuff that was getting passed off as 'grimdark' around then and I wanted to show that you could write horror without having to fetishize it to make it interesting.
As an aside, I loved Halloween and the idea of Nightmare Night being a thing in Equestria had me really excited to see horror themed content from the show itself. I've always been a huge horror fan, especially of films like Halloween, Trick R Treat, and Killer Klowns - fun and campy but still grotesque and gory fare like that. I knew MLP was never going to be able to pay a proper homage to horror (although they got close with 28 Pranks Later) so I wanted to do a Nightmare Night themed horror story that lived up to those classic 80's style slashers.
Truth be told, however, when I wrote the first story I never planned to make it a long, ongoing series - it was going to be a trilogy, maybe with a prequel or two. That's why the fourth story was called 'The Last' Something Sweet to Bite. The main thing that drove me to keep writing Candy Mare stories for as long as I did was fans asking for more. Not usually old fans either, but new ones who would tell me that my story was their favorite creepypasta and what had got them into MLP. And of course it was something of a cliche of the 80's style slasher stories I was seeking to emulate that the antagonist always came back, no matter how improbable or unlikely it might seem for them to do so.
It's been a blast writing this series and I'm thankful that so many people have read and enjoyed it.
I am curious what would happen if an abomination meets with an other one. LIke the candy mare meet with the boogie-mare, and they like:
> Candymare starts doing her things
> Boogiemare: Hey, I called this world! Quit touching my stuff!
> Candymare: Yeah, yeah, tell it to my bubblegum ball ass.
And they begin to fight like Godzilla and kingkong.
You made a bunch of Lovecraft references and now I really really need to know what pony Cthulu is like
It has an interesting story so far and as I read one book after the other I started to get curious about how exactly you started this book franchise. Was it because you wanted to create a serial killer who is made out of candy? or was there something in MLP that you felt it needed to correct?
11805394
Back when I first got into MLP, it was mainly thanks to the creepypasta side of the fandom - all the best fanart, music, and fanfiction seemed to be coming out of that part of the fandom and I really wanted to be a part of it. Something I noticed though, as I got deeper into the various fanfics is that the vast majority were along the lines of 'insert member of the mane 6/side character goes crazy and kills their friends', which is fun the first couple of times you read it but after awhile it was getting pretty stale. I wanted to introduce an antagonist that was a true monster, still a pony, but not just a main character that had gone crazy 'for reasons' but who had a genuine tormented back story to justify (at least to themselves) both their state of mind and state of being.
Also as entertaining as a lot of the most popular stories were, most of them weren't really that scary and weren't really written as horror stories, with building suspense and glorious payoffs. Most of the time it was just a parade of gore, delivered as woodenly and matter-of-factly as a book report, with lots of detail but almost no emotion aside from maybe 'I'm scared and confused' - well you're dying grotesquely, usually at the hands of someone your trusted, so of course you're scared and confused! But where's the nuance, ya know? Likewise there was some obscenely gross fetish stuff that was getting passed off as 'grimdark' around then and I wanted to show that you could write horror without having to fetishize it to make it interesting.
As an aside, I loved Halloween and the idea of Nightmare Night being a thing in Equestria had me really excited to see horror themed content from the show itself. I've always been a huge horror fan, especially of films like Halloween, Trick R Treat, and Killer Klowns - fun and campy but still grotesque and gory fare like that. I knew MLP was never going to be able to pay a proper homage to horror (although they got close with 28 Pranks Later) so I wanted to do a Nightmare Night themed horror story that lived up to those classic 80's style slashers.
Truth be told, however, when I wrote the first story I never planned to make it a long, ongoing series - it was going to be a trilogy, maybe with a prequel or two. That's why the fourth story was called 'The Last' Something Sweet to Bite. The main thing that drove me to keep writing Candy Mare stories for as long as I did was fans asking for more. Not usually old fans either, but new ones who would tell me that my story was their favorite creepypasta and what had got them into MLP. And of course it was something of a cliche of the 80's style slasher stories I was seeking to emulate that the antagonist always came back, no matter how improbable or unlikely it might seem for them to do so.
It's been a blast writing this series and I'm thankful that so many people have read and enjoyed it.