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Rosie Derivator (Manic Pixie Dream Gerblin)
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Rosie Derivator (Manic Pixie Dream Gerblin) @rosiederivator.bsky.social · Sep 10
Hey y'all! I'm Rosie 🧑‍🔬 I'm mostly what it says on the tin: a vet roller derby player, a nuclear PhD student/research assistant, neurodivergent/POTSy human & a big ol' nerd. I like to cosplay (badly), play FFXIV (also badly) &/or consume queer content & coffee while on the couch with my cat. TYFP 💖
Rosie, in a red uniform, pink and blue quad skates and a striped cover on her helmet, performs a maneuver on the track that, in roller derby, is called a "star pass." Rosie stands in her school lab, adorned in a lab coat and nitrile gloves, giving an excited thumbs up to the camera. Rosie, a fair skinned white girl with pink and brown hair and glasses, sits in her computer chair with her tuxedo cat, Mayhem, staring up at the camera. Rosie and her sibling, standing outside a building at DragonCon, make faces at the camera while dressed as Alphinaud and Alisaie from FFXIV.
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Dissertation officially sent to committee. One week until defense. Still doesn't feel real.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

#LittleEngineerThatCould #PhDerivator #ItsBeen84Years
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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I have pajamas on, a freezer full of pizza rolls and a partial bottle of blackberry Jack Daniels. Time to see if I can finish my first full dissertation draft this weekend (TODAY IS ONE MONTH UNTIL DEFENSE AHHHHHH)!

#LittleEngineerThatCould #PhDerivator #PagingDoctorDumbBitch
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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I just backed The Monolith Collection: Modular RPG Dice Jewelry on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/yan...
The Monolith Collection: Modular RPG Dice Jewelry
A collection of modular RPG dice jewelry featuring swappable dice pendants and allergy-friendly materials.
www.kickstarter.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Dragged my exhausted butt (and my kazoo) out to No Kings today. I haven’t been able to do much the last few years, so I’m looking forward to having more spoons and money next year to be more of an active supporter ✌️🚫👑
October 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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The way I steering-wheel-slapping-ly cackled during the “I’m the asexual in the corner everyone’s been ignoring” line, with a damn good idea of what was next was an absolute delight (thought it was gonna lose me at the worm but I managed 😅). Which @chucktingle.bsky.social book should I read next?
October 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Reposted by Rosie Derivator (Manic Pixie Dream Gerblin)
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Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️
The Bisexual Manifesto: We are tired [the rest is redacted].
September 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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🎶🏝️🎶
sixhundredstrike.bsky.social EPIC THE MUSICAL LYRICS @sixhundredstrike.bsky.social · Sep 10
CALYPSO:
I'm not sorry
I'm angry and tired and restless and sad
I'm stuck in the moments I swore that we had
I wish you would chase me
Or try to embrace me
For once, I wish you would lie and say-
September 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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First four chapters of my dissertation draft (4/9, currently, counting references and Python appendices) officially sent off to my advisor. PLEASE CLAP 😮‍💨
#LittleEngineerThatCould #PhDerivator #ITakeANapRightHere
September 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I do not want to work/study/do research today. I just want to go back to building my Meteion cosplay, running around as my WoL doing society quests and watching YouTube videos on my couch with my cat.

/sigh
August 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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I have officially applied for my first postdoc position. Everyone cross your fingers, light some candles and/or send some positive vibes my way because the next 6 months are going to be an exhausting last push!!!
#LittleEngineerThatCould #PhDerivator #AmericiumIBarelyKnewEm
July 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Hi gay friends in my phone! Please cross your fingies, light your candles & send out your best well wishes/aura boosting energy as I am working on my first 2 post doc applications that will either keep me in Knox or bring me back to ATL. Please & thank you 💖🧑‍🔬💖
#LittleEngineerThatCould #PhDerivator
June 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Hey friends!
For a very silly reason, I need some help coming up with dirty nuclear/chemistry puns and jokes. What’chu got? Please and thank you :)
May 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Bringing more stuff over:

Cross your fingers that one semester into year 5 (or in approximately 7 months), I’ll be done and officially Dr. Rosie ☢️🧑🏻‍🔬💥
A screen shot of an old social media post where Rosie announced that she’d been accepted into Virginia Commonwealth University’s Mechanical and Nuclear engineering PhD program. A selfie of an excited looking Rosie in a pale pink, blue and yellow tie-dyed sweater that says “VCU RAMS RICHMOND.”
May 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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ttps://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjyStDMo/

I deleted TikTok from my phone after they posted to thank trump for restoring the site or whatever, so I can’t post there, but to share for the upcoming game: I think the best thing I’ve discovered is how much more I’m capable of than I ever thought possible…
May 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Hard Knox Roller Derby is doing a May the 4th skate-a-thon & your favorite grenade-loving Ewok is aiming for 250 laps! If you happen to have some spare pennies to donate to help mitigate the current empire horrors, let a Bright Tree engineer know! Thanks so much yall! Alaay loo ta nuv ❤️‍🔥
Rosie in a closet Cosplay of an Ewok for a May the 4th themed party. A donation form that says “HKRD Skateathon” at the top and “May the 4th be with you” at the bottom. There are sign up spaces for name, contact info, pledge per lap, flat amount donation, total and a column for checking if paid. Art by DarkModeTwinnie of Rosie’s SW5e Ewok character, Koo, peeking over a high counter edge and asking the shop attendant for grenades, please.
May 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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It’s hard to believe this was an entire year ago, while simultaneously feeling like a lifetime ago. Cross your fingers for me, y’all. I’m hoping to graduate in 8 months!!!
#littleengineerthatcould #phderivator #hotgirlshit
A screenshot of a social media post from last year in which Rosie happily exclaims that she had passed her PhD qualifying exam. The screenshot also includes an image of Rosie in a blue floral dress with a blue suit jacket, making an excited face and with her hand raised as if gasping and attempting to cover her mouth.
April 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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After a lot of anxious sweating & “OOPS!” macros, I finally have a Stormblood-level, big girl Starry Bitch™️. I need all of my friends to stop being so busy so I can hang out in voice with y’all & creep out from leveling dungeons. I’m not good or brave enough yet to do this with randos 😅 #FFXIV #AST
A character screen from Final Fantasy 14 shows a purple humanoid-rabbit woman in a long lavender gown decorated with gold dangling chains and white trim. She holds a weapon that looks like a floating blue globe surrounded by golden tarot cards.
April 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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I did not mean to make myself cry while trying to write my dissertation acknowledgements but here we are.
Is there a somewhat classy and academic way to call your dad a bitch for dying before he got to see you fulfill your dream or nah?
#LittleEngineerThatCould #PhDerivator #Respectfully
April 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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My endurance is not at all conducive to the jamming style I wish to have and I hate everything about that sentence 😅
#DatPivotLyfe #YearOfTheSadHat #HartSaidComeToTheDarkSideSoIGotta
April 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Reposting not only so everyone can see how amazing this is, but also so hopefully I’ll remember to buy one if my financial situation is better soon enough!
April 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I wish I’d have taken so many more picture with the amazing people I spent time with this weekend, but I’m a chicken and mostly just took pictures with the puppos, so there’s that 😅
A full body shot of Rosie’s pink, blue and purple floral dress and black studded crop jacket. She also wears a crescent cut stone necklace and a beaded necklace with multiple blue and purple die on it. The captions ask id it’s giving odd good queer vibes for a roller derby wedding. A close up of a table setting at a wedding, where Rosie’s name card designated her seat. A far off shot of the brides and the wedding party during speeches. Rosie poses and takes a selfie with a black lab dog. The dog has pulled back slightly behind Rosie and is in the process of laying down.
April 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I’m doing a terrible job of being on Facebook less this past week, but please enjoy the best thing that’s come of it (this is so wholesome to me and I cannot stop watching and laughing with pure joy): www.facebook.com/share/r/15Lb...
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April 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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A mood.
rachelseeley.bsky.social Rae @rachelseeley.bsky.social · Apr 12
Anxiety "disorder" doesnt cover it. Anxiety aura. Anxiety AOE. Anxiety gauntlet.
April 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Y’all, what’s a good late-career derby goal?

Between grad school and the state of the world, I’ve been physically exhausted and mentally burned out and am really struggling with motivation. Watching high level games still makes me excited to play, so I still don’t think it’s retirement calling…
April 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Post cat.
A tuxedo cat, tinted red from the glow of plant lights, sticks his tongue out in a tiny blep to the left.
April 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM