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Rosie Derivator (Manic Pixie Dream Gerblin)
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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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Fundraiser day costume that I definitely did NOT spend way too many hours working on 😉
Rosie wears a burnt Orange hood with attached ears, to look like an Ewok, while in full skate gear. She also has prop grenades in a bandoleer across her chest and a sling on her hip.
May 10, 2025 at 2:17 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 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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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
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The world is on fire and I am (by my own stupid fault) very sick, so please enjoy these adorable cursed wizards who are bonded and obviously in love. I am obsessed 🥰
A dwarf ruby eyed white and a grey lop/lionhead mix rabbit lay snuggled with their heads together next to their litter box. A dwarf ruby eyed white and a grey lop/lionhead mix rabbit lay snuggled together in their pen, with the REW laying her head on the lionhead’s back. A dwarf ruby eyed white and a grey lop/lionhead mix rabbit eat from the same small food bowl, despite a second full bowl being available.
April 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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This is the love of my life, Mayhem. His favorite snuggle spot is under whatever blanket I am also under.
A tuxedo cat looks up at the camera from under a purple blanket where Rosie also is laying. Roller derby is on YouTube in the background. A tuxedo cat sticks his nose and paw out from under a purple blanket where Rosie also is laying. He is curled up with his head resting on her armpit. A tuxedo cat looks away from camera from under a blue starry blanket where Rosie also is laying. The lighting indicates they were likely watching TV and that’s where his focus is directed. A tuxedo cat faces in the direction of the camera while on top of a pink blanket where Rosie also is laying. The lighting indicates that YouTube is on in the background, but the cat looks toward the camera phone with a tiny blep and closed eyes instead.
March 31, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Darling Boy in question and I catching up on missed cuddles and watching Clover Cup 🥰
A tuxedo cat looks out at the camera from under a blanket. A YouTube livestream of roller derby plays on a laptop behind him.
March 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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It only took 4 years and a trip to Hawaii, but I finally understand why people like conferences. What an amazing week. I missed my Darling Boy, though, so I’m happy to be home!
Rosie and her colleagues stand in front of a sign that says MARC with a volcano in the background. Rosie in front of a room of people giving a research presentation. Rosie and her colleagues stand together, raising their glasses to the camera, at the farewell dinner.
March 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Grad school is hella stressful, but I’m so incredibly grateful for conference opportunities like these!
#littleengineerthatcould #phderivator #radiochemistry
Rosie holds a tasting cup of coffee in front of a fence that holds a bag that says “Kona Coffee.” Behind everything is the coffee farm in the distance. Rosie, arms stretched out in a “Ta Da!” Motion, stands in front of the entrance to a lava tube. A close up of the Kilauea crater in Hawaii, spilling an active trail of lava that glows against the dark background. The Hawaiian night sky, so devoid of light pollution that it is not only full of bright stars but also seemingly covered in tiny pricks of much further stars.
March 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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For anyone following along, I very impatiently deviated from the bonding guide’s suggestion of waiting 2 weeks and decided to start the process early. Maybe I’m being too optimistic and it’ll bite me in the butt later, but it seems to be going well so far 🥰
Two rabbits, a grey lop/lionhead mix and a dwarf ruby eyed white, lay cuddled together in the corner of a small exercise pen.
March 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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After almost 3 years of scheduling conflicts (and honestly just terrible luck 😅) that lead to missing every single River City photo day over my time there, I cannot tell y’all how excited I am to have headshots again!!! Also super excited to be back on an open gender team!!!
Rosie, in a black and green roller derby jersey that says HARD KNOX, makes a muscle in the air a-la Rosie the Riveter. A fake little barrel of radioactive waste balances on her flexing arm. Rosie, in a black and white roller derby jersey that says MARBLE CITY MAYHEM, holds a blue and gold skull between her clenched fists. NERD LIFE is written across her knuckles, although it is hard to see.
March 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Decided to bring a new old man wizard into the family today. We’re not sure if he’s a Gandalf or a Dresden yet, but the settling in process has gone super smoothly and hopefully we start bonding next week!!!
Rosie smiles up at the camera excitedly while holding a grey lion head/lop rabbit in her arms. A grey lionhead/lop mix rabbit and dwarf ruby eyed white rabbit sit together in a small exercise pen, eating hay. A grey lionhead/lop mix rabbit and a dwarf ruby eyed white rabbit sit in separate pens, both chewing on their respective boxes.
March 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Why I’m a HOOT at parties (click for some silly nerd nonsense, because the cropping here is terrible) 😹🤎🤓💚😹

To be fair, these days I think I’d pick yellow 💛
A screen shot of a social media post where Rosie talks about a conversation she had at a party, specifically where they’re discussing which color of aes sedai (a magic user from the Wheel of Time book series) they’d be if they could choose.
March 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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A very helpful lad, giving his opinion as to which book I should bring as a prop for team headshots (I did not end up using either, but this was too good of a photo of him not to share).
A tuxedo cat looks up at the camera from the floor, where he’s laying on a book titled “Nuclides and Isotopes” and next to a book titled “basic radiation protection technology.”
March 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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My siblings got me the most ridiculous and absolute best birthday presents this year. Just look at his glorious, derby face yall (also included are all the bedtime snuggles we’ve gotten post work trip)!!! I just love him so much 💖🐈‍⬛❤️‍🔥
A pink throw blanket with a picture of Rosie’s tuxedo cat’s face printed on it. Rosie and her tuxedo cat lay together in bed, him under the blanket like it’s a fort. Rosie and her tuxedo cat snuggling in her computer chair. He stares some what annoyed at the camera.
February 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Watching Y’all stars while my samples run and repping Jewish Roller Derby while I do ⚡️💙⚡️
A close up shot of Rosie’s pink jacket. It has many patches and pins on the breast and pocket, specifically a name tag, a patch of the iconic Rosie the riveter muscle pose and is drawing specific attention the pin that is a pikachu in skates with a Jewish Roller Derby jammer cover on its helmet.
January 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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4 years ago, I got my program offer letter. Sometimes, it still feels fake. Like, any minute now they’re going to realize they made a mistake, that I’m not smart enough to be here & I’ve been sneaking/lucking my way through checkpoints. Guess I’ve become the trickster goddess I always hoped to be 😹
A screen shot of a social media post where Rosie talks about her journey to receiving her PhD program offer letter. Mostly, describing how unsure and “on a whim” the whole process felt and how proud she was to have made it that far.
January 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Bunny themed margaritas!
A pink frozen Margarita in a cocktail glass, with a marshmallow on the rim made to look like it has bunny ears.
January 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Dinner buns!
Two plates of various types of filled buns. One plate has three lighter colored mushroom dumplings and the other has three slightly darker colored teriyaki chicken bao.
January 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Yesterday was a nice, chill makeup birthday with the fam, Including a rain barrel workshop, seester lunch date, a mani/pedi and a bun themed evening of trauma dumping and laughter. I really needed this little break.
A yellow PowerPoint presentation slide talking about location suggestions for placing a rain barrel. It references a site that can accommodate it, a roof point that collects maximum yield, its proximity to pants and any HOA rules. A Snap of a table at a restaurant with three iced coffees, a bánh mì and a bowl of pho. The caption reads “Seester coffee and Vietnamese food date” and includes a boba tea emoji. Rosie’s hand curled to show off her freshly done SNS nail treatment. Her nails are short, with a black base and an iridescent, chameleon shimmer over them. Small silver dots, stars and moons are painted sporadically over the nails. A cheese board in the shape of a rabbit, with slices of cheddar to make ears, a small wheel of Gouda for a head, bree for the butt, baby bel for the tail and triangles of spreadable pepperjack for the feet.
January 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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If only my past self could see me now! Doing dope national lab shit like a badass science bitch 🧑🏻‍🔬
A screen shot of a social media update, specifically Rosie talking about applying to a National lab internship and how nervous she was (while commenting on how much of grad school has been about proving she can do what she’s afraid of).
January 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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As I slowly disconnect myself from Meta, I hope to bring some of my favorite bits here, so please enjoy this absolute goober being the best thing to ever happen to me:
A tuxedo cat lays on Rosie’s lap, front legs stretching out to push himself out of the ball he was curled into, showing off an impressively long blep.
January 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM