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acreuball http://acreuball.tumblr.com
User ID: 15,930
Registered: 25th Feb 2012
Last Seen: 7h, 59m ago
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So I'm Acreu the Ball. Why Ball you may ask? (Kay, you probably didn't, but let's humour me, alright?) There are reasons. Lots of awesome people are named Ball. Am I gonna name them? You bet.

Hugo Ball, Ernie Ball, Ashleigh Ball, Cannonball Adderley, and Harvey Ball, are specifically who I'm thinking of. But, for the sake of brevity--for I am most definitely one to acknowledged and appreciate the values of being quick and to the point--I won't, for the sake of sparing you from unnecessary slogging through mounds of text on a topic you are only marginally interested in to begin with, go to lengths to exactly express why I have chosen each one of these Balls from history.

Anyway, I am a fashion/textiles major, age 22, who has altogether too much to say, and who hails from Canada. Halifax, currently. Small-town Alberta, previously. I'm trying to major in fashion with a minor in illustration. I did my avatar and my  over arts and a few other people's cover arts and stuff.

And actually, I want to be a comic book artist when I grow up. (Or rather: when my failure to grow up is complete) Hence the writing.

Oh, and I love ponies.

Rarity is best pony. Twilight is very close. Octavia and Vinyl Scratch are best OTP. I do mostly love all the ponies and all the pairings, though, so those are nearly moot points.


A couple of years ago, I happened to be talking to a man about pitching horseshoes. He told me his uncle had been a three-state horseshoe champion for several years running. He said he once asked his uncle how he'd gotten so good at the game, and the uncle said, "Son, you got to pitch a hundred horseshoes a day." That's the kind of advice beginning writers should listen to:

Keep pitching them horseshoes.

- Ted Kooser, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate

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#554258 · 1d, 9m ago · · ·
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And that's what it's all aboot.

#549531 · 3d, 11h ago · · ·
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>>549465

Man, good to hear you're alive and kicking!

I'm looking forwards to reading whatever stuff you dish out! :twilightsmile:

About that cover, don't make a fuss out of it. I mean, since you're doing it for free, and for a friend (as opposed to some multinational corpo-thingy that commissioned you to draw them ads), you can take all the time in the world you want. ^_^

How's your fashion line been doing? :raritystarry:

#549465 · 3d, 12h ago · · ·
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>>549176

Oh, just barely!

Ah! This is kind of like a hiatus isn't it? Oh no! Well, I've just been busy or lazy or sometimes both... I am writing stuff though! Lots of stuff! Stuff's just not at a point where I want to post it yet. (I keep telling myself I'm working on my debut--the indies have been great, but I'm totally ready to break into the mainstream! :raritystarry:)

Sorry I promised you that cover art but never really have gotten around to it... I just kind of feel blah about drawing lately... I gotta stop promising things and then not doing them! :facehoof:

#549176 · 3d, 16h ago · · ·
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Man, are you alive out there? :rainbowhuh:

#541171 · 1w, 1d ago · · ·
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I appreciate the favorite on 'Mayflies'! :pinkiehappy: I'm glad you liked it so much!

#521438 · 2w, 4d ago · · ·
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>>521415 Quick, ball! We must die dramatically in order to save the ones we love!

#521415 · 2w, 4d ago · · ·
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>>519168

I know right??

Ahh! It's so awesome!!

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Wait... what if...  FIM is our N.H.K.!! :pinkiegasp:

It's a conspiracy... I know it! :trixieshiftleft:

#519168 · 2w, 5d ago · · ·
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Ball. Hoh my gosh Ball.

I just finished Welcome to the NHK.

Ball.

It was so amazing.

Holy gosh, Ball.

What is my NHK? That's so frakkin' clever, why is that so clever Ball?

Ball. Holy Gosh.

#510443 · 3w, 3d ago · 1 · ·
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Comment.

#488932 · 4w, 6d ago · · ·
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Um Acreu?

I hate to be a pest, but did my message get through? If so, my apologies for pestering you.

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Ball Rolling · 1:40am

So I had this fashion show a while back, and it was totally perfect in every way and also awesome, and then my parents stayed for a week and helped me clean, bought me food, and we drank tons of wine. After that, a week pasted and nothing happened except mostly sleeping.

I have several first chapters of various things mostly finished, and one even totally proofread and everything, but I'm gonna wait a bit before posting, and write ahead a bit so I can do more regular updates, or something. I'm wanting to be wild and crazy and post all three stories (ScootaDash-ish one, RariJack Project, and See White sequel) basically at the same time, and have the three all in progress at the same time. Maybe it's a bit nuts, but meh. I'm off school now, I got time and stuff.

But anyway, should be ready to post stuff in a few weeks, hopefully. Dunno how regular I'll be able to do updates for them, but I'll shoot for posting some kind of thing every week or so once they're started. The only other fic where updates needed to happen was Mercy, and that was like, a bajillion years ago so I don't even remember what the hell I did for that. I'm pretty stoked about these fics though, so it's not like I'll forget about them. Also... I know exactly where I want them to go, what's gonna happen, and how they'll end... so it's just a matter of getting it down in a way that doesn't suck!




Honestly, the one I'm most stoked about is the ScootaDash (+ScootaBelle) one, called Like Sisters, Probably. I'm loving writing in first-person(pony?), and the story really came naturally. Well, I started listening to an album that was so weirdly perfect, that it made the story come naturally. Do I still call that "naturally"? Anyway, the theme is dependence vs love vs independence. Yeah, that kind of sums it up. Also, it's probably going to have a healthy amount of unhealthy romance.

If you happen to care or something, it's the album The Con by Tegan and Sara, which is pretty much completely about those aforementioned themes. Just don't listen to the last track, cause it'll spoil things. Also, Scootaloo definitely is not Nineteen, and the fact that this fic is set Ten Years after the show has nothing to do with anything.


Ah, screw it... this song's just way to perfect

Does anyone else use music to write? Any songs that just make you think up all kinds of awesome scenes or anything?


S'all

Ball out

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Mercy, Mercy, Mercy!

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Cover art by me. Used with permission or something.

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