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drawinbutter · 2 months
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so, I knew I wanted to doodle some fanart for "WHEELS & ROSES: TV Pilot. An animated Sailor Moon meets roller derby coming of age story!" kickstarter, and I couldn't stop thinking about the Dragon background art for the Environmental Manipulation part of Magical Roller Derby (where you're only allowed to use magic on your skates).. so, this is what I came up with :D
by studio_orangeb - here's the link to the kickstarter, running through 3pm EST 2/29/2024: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wheelsandroses/wheels-and-roses-tv-pilot
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drawinbutter · 2 months
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Sick Ass Black Magical Girl Roller Derby Pilot
I don't know what else to say! Help support the kickstarter if you can! If you can't, please share around! This project looks amazing and I want to see it come to fruition!
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drawinbutter · 2 months
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Exclusive Cover Reveal: The Mighty Millie Novak by Elizabeth Holden
Today on the site I’m delighted to reveal the cover of The Mighty Millie Novak by Elizabeth Holden, a Sapphic YA contemporary releasing August 20, 2024 from Flux Books! Here’s the story: Social anxiety, her parents’ divorce, and messy friendships won’t stop Millie’s pursuit of what she wants—in roller derby or in love. But her own lies might . . . Sixteen-year-old Millie Novak is stuck in an “if…
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drawinbutter · 2 months
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Wheels & Roses is an upcoming coming of age animated series created by Pearl Low, a nonbinary animator who has been working on Craig of the Creek (one of the popular Cartoon Network shows) featuring the roller derby team, WHEELS & ROSES, lead by Sahara, an outcast at Rose Academy who wishes to become a champion in the Magical Roller Derby. It is LGBTQ+-themed Sailor Moon meets roller derby!
About animation company:
Orange Blossom Studios is an online-based independent animation studio founded by Pearl Low. Focus on the amazing stories for animation projects, create miracle animations and see out in the world, to make their dreams come true.
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drawinbutter · 2 months
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I am greatly intrigued by this Kickstarter 👀
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drawinbutter · 3 months
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oh hey! This doesn't happen often, so heads-up: a new roller derby graphic novel (with vampires! and queerness!) is being published in April (4/9/2024) :) Above is an early review.
Book Review: Blood City Rollers by V.P. Anderson and Tatiana Hill (2024)
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(Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review though Netgalley.)
-- 3.5 stars --
"Friends come and go. But teammates are forever ... Especially if most of them are undead."
Romanian tween Mina is under immense pressure from her parents to qualify for the Olympics. But, when she wipes out in a most spectacular fashion during a competition, her dreams are shattered - along with her arm. Mina's identity has been wrapped up in ice skating for as long as she can remember; who is she without it?
Mina has precious little time for self-reflection before she's kidnapped and conscripted into the Vamps - just one of many teams competing in the Blood City Paranormal Roller Derby. Each team is comprised of one human jammer, who plays alongside her extra-human teammates. Led by their hundreds-year-old captain Val, the Vamps are - you guessed it - vampires. With ghost judges looking on, they go up against all manner of supernatural foes, from witches to werewolves.
But this seemingly fun game has a much darker underbelly - the teams are literally playing for their lives, since getting dropped from the ranking makes you a nomad without union protection. Can Mina learn to trust her teammates and play nice with others, after a lifetime spent viewing other athletes as competitors?
BLOOD CITY ROLLERS is a fun middle-grade graphic novel about vampires, roller derby, self-confidence, and letting go - with a sapphic romance thrown in for good measure. (This is an all-girls' team, after all!) Think: ROLLERGIRLS meets BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER with a dash of VIKINGS. (What can I say, Val is giving strong teenage Lagertha vibes.) Overall I enjoyed it but it did start to drag a little in the middle - I feel like it could have been ~30 pages shorter. The messages sometimes feel a bit heavy-handed but are admittedly age-appropriate (at 45 years young, I'm not quite in the target audience lol).
I was surprised to find that the story ended with a cliffhanger - I'll definitely be checking out the next book in the series.
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drawinbutter · 4 months
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WIP. Will I ever finish it? Unlikely.
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drawinbutter · 5 months
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New cryptid just dropped 🎃
🌙Likes to trot around on its toes
🔮Only appears in deepest, darkest Kent on Sunday nights between the hours of 4.30 and 9 pm
💀Shrieks profanities when surprised or excited
This is my reminder to myself not to be so bloody tentative! It turns out that when you throw yourself into the thing with a bit of speed, it doesn’t give those nasty little thoughts any time to get into your head 😎
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drawinbutter · 7 months
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So, if you'd like to roll a d20 (twenty-sided polyhedral die) and get a random Roller Derby Action for any purpose... here ya go!
(Though of course you also might be like, "the more common interactions are probably 1-6, so [something something something nerd probabilities something] to determine if you should more often roll a d6 for common things, and other times roll a d20 for Anything")
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drawinbutter · 8 months
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When you try to explain roller derby, it seems the first thought is that everyone’s a hardnut and all we want to do is maim each other, (we do, but only a little bit). But I’ll never quite believe the kindness and patience I’ve been shown by the team.
This has been said so many times, but it’s never saying “don’t be a wuss”.
It’s saying:
We’re your people.
Take up space.
Do your thing.
Have patience and keep trying.
Now get back up, hit me and don’t apologise for it 🤣
This has been said at training so many times that I had to draw it out. I may even have to print it and stick it up💖 I’d love to eventually draw all the good and funny advice I’ve ever been given whilst skating.
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drawinbutter · 8 months
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The girlies are back in the rink!!
If you don't know, Skate & Date is a roller derby, rhythm game about two girls falling in love and the new demo will be out this September!
(Sorry for the delay! Life happened U-U)
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drawinbutter · 8 months
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A.N.D. Techniques 2: Delightful Knowledge. When the jammer's chasing the other jammer: it's not only the main time when derby becomes a foot-race, but it's also the only time a jammer has to watch their back outside of the pack :O
Derby 101: blockers can only engage the jammer within the pack (the concentration of most skaters on the track), but that doesn't apply to jammers! (Imagine chess if your Kings could somehow attack each other :)
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drawinbutter · 8 months
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A.N.D. Techniques 1: Familiar Child. Here we see a blocker managing to hold back one very high-energy jammer... perhaps using skills mastered elsewhere in life? :/
"Adjective Noun Derby Techniques" depicts (fictional) roller derby techniques. The technique's name is a random Adjective plus a random Noun, and the situation where it's used is determined by a random Derby Action card.
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drawinbutter · 8 months
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So I'd been trying to add new unified-drawing-styles / aesthetics to my derby comics, starting with derby commonplaces (apex jump, jammer hipchecked, etc) and trying to do something stylistically different... but most of them ended up just being genres or references or something :/ Here we see a SUPER Apex Jump, and why my drawing style is suboptimal for superheroics... but just about right for auditorium ceiling Architecture!
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drawinbutter · 8 months
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drawinbutter · 8 months
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so a while back, I did six "Derby Action" cards / templates / whatever, suggesting derby actions that are common (or flashy); but they all were designed to just feature 1 blocker and 1 jammer.
Lately I've been using them as drawing prompts, so I'm going to do another set of six more Derby Actions, this time Not necessarily limited to just 1 blocker and 1 jammer :) (though cuz the cards are small, they're probably still going to be mostly centered around 2 or so skaters).
Anyway here's the first new one:
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drawinbutter · 9 months
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Oh I'm so glad the comic helped!
I'd hesitate to call my long ramble a 'correction' -- at best it was a nerdy hair-splitting :) and I definitely learned stuff from your summary I didn't know before (I've been around flat-track for years but was only vaguely aware of some of the things that mainstream flat-track doesn't include -- like Penalty Wheel and Renegade)
(Also in the comic, "Jammi" and "Blocki" instead of "Jammer" and "Blocker", wasn't something I'd read in English before; it's evidently the Noun's Gender-Neutral form that can be used in German, where many nouns explicitly include gender -- I'd bet other romance-languages may do something similar too)
so i've been doing research on roller derby for my au, and i've noticed a bunch of stuff that i don't really see specified in other aus, so i decided to make a list of stuff that could be cool to include in a derby au if you ever wanna make one
*disclaimer: i've never played roller derby, i've only read up on a bunch of sources about it. if anyone who's actually played wants to add something, feel free!
to start off, there's 2 types of roller derby: flat track and banked track. flat track is more common considering it's a lot easier to find a flat rink vs building a banked track. however, banked track is more popular in mainstream media. the rules are also slightly different for each type of derby
to help decide what roles your characters play: jammers score the points for the team and rely on speed, blockers prevent the other team's jammer from getting through and rely on strength, pivots lead each teams pack and rely on strategy. i've heard flat trackers specialize in certain roles and bank trackers switch up a bit more
there's something called 'for entertainment' derby, where instead of being put in the penalty box (which i've heard is nicknamed the sin bin), someone spins a penalty wheel and they have to do a challenge to determine whether or not they lose the point. they're pretty silly things like pillow fights, skating backwards, dance competition won by audience cheering, so if you wanna do something goofy that could be fun
there's certain rules on where you can and cannot hit someone, but there's also something called renegade derby where there are no fouls and anything goes. these games would be rougher in the physical aspect and also more fast paced, so if you wanna focus on the physical aspect this would be better
announcers at derby games explain the rules to the audience while the game is going on, so you can use that for exposition
also not just roller derby players have derby names, which are punny persona names (if you've watched Whip It, Elliot Page's character's derby name is Babe Ruthless) referees and announcers also have derby names
because roller derby isn't for profit, they fundraise a lot to cover the costs of skating. typically they do charity things and pair up with a charity of their choice, sometimes it depends on a theme or location of their team, so you could play with this too
derby is a big time commitment, where you typically have to meet twice a week plus all the fundraising and organizing to keep it going. if you want your characters to be involved in other activities keep this in mind and think on what realistically they would be able to handle
there's an annual trip to roller con, which is a roller derby convention in las vegas. i think that might be more for the bigger orgs but im not quite sure. there's meetings on rule and regulation changes, mini matches where you play with people you wouldn't know bc theyre from across the country, and a semi-formal dance called the black and blue ball (any dress code is fine tho, i've seen on the website it ranges from prom dresses to leather harnesses as long as you're wearing black and blue), so if you want fun road trip shenanigans that could work
there are some junior leagues where if you're under 18 you can compete but there's not as much contact; if you have a cast of younger characters and don't feel comfortable writing sports violence as much this could work for your story
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