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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🍬 ARCHERS STEADY 🍬 Preorders for SWIFTER THAN ARROW will be extended until MAY 15TH The main reason for is to create time to find a new supplier -- ethically speaking, the Swifter Than Arrow team would prefer not to work with vograce! Thank you for your understanding!

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

PROOF ACQUIRED! We now know what Swifter Than Arrow will look like printed, and it's absolutely beautiful!

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CyberellaDraws - Commissions Open @cyberelladraws.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Sneak peak for my piece for @rubyrockszine.bsky.social Check out the store for the zine and merch bundles!

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Chibii - Team Mystery @chibiihime.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Do you think we’ll be sisters in every universe? (Sneak Peek of my Ruby Rocks artwork!! Check out our store for our zine and mech bundles!!)

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Nexus @nosnexus.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Small sneak peak of my piece from the @rubyrockszine.bsky.social

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carla @carlsdraws.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

preview of my piece for @rubyrockszine.bsky.social !!

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🏹 LOOSE YOUR ARROWS 🏹 The Swifter Than Arrow: A Ruby Rocks Zine shop is now OPEN, February 27th-April 15th! The full-color zine -- featuring over 40 pages of lovingly made fanworks about Ruby Rocks -- is available, alongside some fantastic merch! 🍬🔗https://rubyrockszine.bigcartel.com/🔗🍬

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

🏹🍬 COVER REVEAL 🍬🏹 We're so excited to reveal our fantastic cover done by the inimitable @andromelite.bsky.social! ONE WEEK REMAINS UNTIL PREORDERS OPEN

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🍬 COVER ARTIST SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on @andromelite.bsky.social and we're delighted to have him as our cover artist!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in red at the top left, the icon at the center of a smiling tan-skinned tiefling. Eli's words are "hi hello so excited to be a part of this!!! collaborative fan projects are my favorite thing about being in any fandom and i love getting the chante to create along so many talented oomfs and friends :)"

red background with "artist spotlight" at the bottorn right corner. the featured art is kipperlilly copperkettle holding a dagger in front of flowers

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on @phosilli.bsky.social and we're delighted to have him as an artist!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center of a redhaired person in a hat holding leaves in front of their eyes. Phosilli's word are "first half of acoc hit me like a truck man"

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on Remi and we're delighted to have her as a writer!

a red background with the words "writer spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center of a tiefling and a person with blonde hair hugging. Remi's words are "I'm excited to get my piece for this zine out into the world and even more excited to see what everyone else comes up with!"

red background with "writer spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured writing is: Ruby Rocks was just short of her twenty-first nameday when she had the horrifying realization that she might be turning into her mother.

Not in every regard, no. She hadn't been trapped in a loveless marriage, for one. She had no doubt that one had been suggested at some point, but someone had had the good sense to stop the suggestion from being made to her face, or maybe they just hadn't been able to catch up to her yet.

Like her mother, the other half of her soul had been ripped away - her twin in her case, her mother's wife in hers. Very different loves, obviously, but the most important loves of each of their lives.

But even beyond that sad similarity, there was... for all she had been born and raised without Amethar Rocks in her life, it turned out that like Jet, Saccharina had taken much more after their father. Not in terms of their abilities, of course, but.. Both of them were born leaders, getting people to follow them off the strength of their personality alone. Jet would have grown to be the same, Ruby knew, had always been the one of them worth following.

Ruby had never wanted to be that, and found as she grew older she wanted it less and less, and so instead she was doing the quiet things to make certain that her half-sister could keep doing the loud ones and could keep that throne and Ruby would never have to even think about occupying it. The difference, she really hoped, would be that she would not miss a Calroy the way her mother had in her grief.

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on Jade and we're delighted to have her as a writer!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center is the starry night sky. Jade's words are "I love ACOC - it's one of my favorite show seasons of anything ever, and one of my favorite fictional worlds to play in as a creator. (Who doesn't love high-stakes political games with pivotal pieces of candy?) Ruby has a special niche in my heart, and I'm thrilled to be part of a zine centered on her and her story!"

red background with "artist spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured writing is: Ruby makes her first arrow on the steps of Castle Candy’s training courts. She sits crosslegged, her fingers coated in dust, her face screwed up in concentration. The arrow parts were easy to obtain, but trying to make them come together into something workable is an evil little process. She messes up the binding cord twice - wrapping it too loose the first time, then getting strands of her hair painfully trapped in the flax thread on the second.
“Lapin,” she whines, “I don’t have to redo it all just because it got a bit of my braid in it! Right?”
The Chancellor of Castle Candy looks down at her from the doorway. His face is weather-worn, craggy and familiar. Ruby and Jet have joked before about that expression he gets when he’s exasperated with them, where his eyebrows go up into the stratosphere until they form a squiggly line straight across his forehead.
The angry caterpillar, Jet had dubbed it the other day, nodding her head sagely. A smile had flickered at the corner of her mouth like a stray flame. It is a most terrible sign! It portends doom and disaster!
And us getting grounded, Ruby had chipped in. Again.
Exactly!

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on Liu (liunchandinner on twitter) and we're delighted to have him as an artist!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center is a person with green hair drawing a dog. Liu's words are "Baby's first zine and fandom related project!!!! Yippeeeee!!!!!!"

red background with "artist spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured art is of the bad kids moving forward over a blue background

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on @lessmouse.bsky.social and we're delighted to have them as an artist!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center is a blue person with short spiky hair and round glasses. Mouse's words are "I like D20, but i love the community, and im excited to be part of this project along with some incredible artists!"

red background with "artist spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured art is of belizabeth brassica lounging unhappily

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on Rae (zonkvervonk on twitter) and we're delighted to have them as a writer!

a red background with the words "writer spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center is of a white person with brown hair. Rae' words are "Rae's honored to be a part of their first zine, and can't wait to show everyone what they're cooking up!"

red background with "writer spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured writing is: Liam had told her once about Ohm, a spirit of the Sweetening Path. About how people were created with 2 heads, 4 arms, and 4 legs, but in a fit of jealousy Ohm had split them, leaving each person to spend their life searching for their other half. Ruby thought she was luckier than most. She had found hers the moment she was born.

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on @gluegunshots.bsky.social and we're delighted to have them as an artist!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center is a sketch of a smiling person. Una's words are "Ruby Rocks send tweet"

red background with "artist spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured art is of cumulous rocks devouring a soul

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Apologies! The fantastic @carlsdraws.bsky.social is an *artist* for us, and we are beyond happy to have her

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on @carlsdraws.bsky.social and we're delighted to have them as a writer!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in white at the top left. the icon at the center is of a person with purple hair and a green shirt grinning and doing a peace sign. Carla's words are "nothing in the world will ever top experiencing acoc while it aired"

red background with "artist spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured art is of Caramelinda Rocks tracing Lazuli Rocks' shadow on a castle parapet

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on @sanssheriff13.bsky.social and we're delighted to have him as a writer!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in white at the top left. the icon at the center is of three horses, pink, light blue, and teal. Fayvel's words are "Ahhhhhh! My first physical zine work! Real excited to be here, part of this project. I’m even more excited to see the whole thing printed out."

red background with "artist spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured art is of Caramelinda Rocks with short, tightly coiled hair in a fancy frilly dress

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on @capythusiast.bsky.social and we're delighted to have her as a writer!

a red background with the words "writer spotlight" in white at the top left. the icon at the center is of a capybara with glasses in front of a purple background. Pia's words are "I am so excited to be a part of this zine! It's always a pleasure to work with such amazing creators. ACOC has impacted me as a person and as a writer in so many ways, and it is so thrilling to be in a space that allows me to share the love I have for it. The women of ACOC are PEAK, and I will be defending Ruby with my entire chest. "

red background with "writer spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured prose is:
Caramelinda's badly concealed smile made Amanda forget all about the jesting and the memory of her and the Archmage’s encounter. It may as well have been her favorite thing in all of Calorum, seeing her smile and being its source. She could not understand why anyone would give it up, anyone, even the Archmage. It always confused Amanda– the way that Lazuli had the ability to make Caramelinda laugh the way she did, pure and unapologetic, and still left her.

Amanda could curse her over and over again.

Yet she, for all her trying, could never make Caramelinda smile the way she did that night. There would always be something held back, some form of exhaustion or melancholy or grief. There was a lightness in Caramelinda’s gaze, the night Amanda first laid eyes on her, that did not return after the Archmage died. And it would be the greatest tragedy of Amanda’s life, that she was able to see Caramelinda at her happiest and never be able to see it again.

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on @nosnexus.bsky.social and we're delighted to have them as an artist!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center is of a blonde person in a white sweatshirt with a pink heart at the center. Nosnexus' words are "I'm excited to be participating in my first Zine alongside so many amazing artists and writers! I love drawing pieces with fantasy themes, detail, symbolism, and LOTS of color - a perfect mixture for the world of Calorum and our celebrated licorice princess!"

red background with "artist spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured art is of the Rat Grinders from Fantasy High Junior Year on the ground in a circle around a red fissure

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on @cyberelladraws.bsky.social and we're delighted to have her as an artist!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center is of a smiling green elf with pink hair. CyberellaDraws' words are "I am excited to be alongside so many great creators!"

red background with "artist spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured art is of Lady Amangeaux Epicée du Peche, an orange woman with long red hair, holding a dagger

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on Cait and we're delighted to have her as writer!

a red background with the words "writer spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center is of water with lines of fish swimming through it. Cait's words are "writing is hard <3"

red background with "writer spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured writing says: One of the snobby elves that live next to the Embra's tell him that they went on a surprise trip to Fallinel. Still, Oisin returns every day, in case they come back.
And then, nearly a month after she first disappeared, she returns.
When she opens the door, Oisin's first reaction is to hug her tightly.
She tenses up and doesn't quite relax fully after that, even after Oisin apologizes for getting overexcited.
"How was Fallinel?" He asked, walking with her down the street.
"It is like it always is. Did you get new glasses?"
"Yeah, do you-"
Oisin can't even finish the offer before Ivy is taking them off of him and putting them on herself.
"Your vision is truly horrendous. What do you think?"
"I missed you." He said and she peered at him over the glasses.
"Don't get sappy on me, Hakinvar." She scolded before handing the glasses back to him and crossing her arms. "I missed you too."
Oisin mimed throwing up. Ivy rolled her eyes, a smile returning to her face for the first time since she exited her house.
He thinks about telling her about how pretty she looks before quickly dismissing the thought - he wouldn't be telling her anything she didn't already know.

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We've set our sights on @charlililart.bsky.social and we're delighted to have them as a merch designer!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in red at the top left, the icon at the center is a pale person with long brown hair. Charli's words are "It's always a joy to be a part of D20 fan projects, everyone is just so immensely creative and lovely. I can't wait to see this project come together <3"

red background with "artist spotlight at the bottom right corner, the featured art is all green, featuring a small person being held by the lab coat by a larger person, who only has their face and hands visible

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on @voxphantasma.bsky.social and we're delighted to have her as a page artist!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center is a pale person with long blond hair doing a peace sign. Elin's words are " ACOC is my favourite season of D20 and I hold Ruby so close to my heart, I’m so excited to be part of this zine!! Squid would’ve had to come over and physically prevent me from participating in it if I hadn’t been accepted into it."

red background with "artist spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured art is of a two cowboys on blocks and dun horses, speaking closely

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on @emptyjr.bsky.social and we're delighted to have them as a page artist!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center is a tan person with long brown hair. Maia's words are "I like art that's strange, fantastical and colourful and no other media has provided so many delicious little characters like Crown of Candy. I always love drawing in this world and am happy for more opportunities to mix candy fun with artist angst."

red background with "artist spotlight at the bottom right corner. the featured art is of a green statue with a white, deconstructed skull head and holding a white unicorn; around the statue are broke pieces of a blue person with long hair

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SWIFTER THAN ARROW 🏹 shop open! @rubyrockszine.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🍬 CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT 🍬 We've set our sights on @darlingicarus.bsky.social and we're delighted to have her as a page artist!

a red background with the words "artist spotlight" in red at the top left. the icon at the center is a smiling person with short dark hair that ombres into a light tan. Alana's words are "I'm always looking for excuses to be dragged back into my ACOC Art Era™ and this zine was the perfect opportunity! I'm so excited to be working alongside so many incredible artists and writers. I hope you're all ready to get messed up by some Ruby feelings, because I definitely am."

red background with "artist spotlight" at the bottom right corner. the featured art is of a purple tiefling with long black braided hair, paintindg an iridescent dark purple dragon with yellow eyes

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