#Junior Roller Derby

[foronceididntlookback]

pretty much the only goals for derby I have this year is to

A) level up to at least 3 (but 4 would be amazing)

and B) learn to apex jump properly

[1451514-emojis]

Roller skate! Specifically, a quad style skate used in roller derby! I've been playing for 6 years, so I figured this would be a fun one to put out there :D

(This totally isn't kind of modeled after my actual skates)

[sunfloweringstories]

Fuck a breakup, have you ever realized that you are terrible at the only thing you love? The thing you dedicated more than seven years of your life to? Have you ever been sat on the bench for the entirety of the biggest, tensest game your new team has played? Have you ever sat through your team crying tears of joy and saying how proud they are of everybody and how everybody did a great job, knowing you never played? Have you ever felt like you aren’t really on the team, and all the kind words from your teammates are so fake? Have you ever been sitting on the bench slightly upset and been told you are playing ‘so well’ when you haven’t been on the track? Have you ever realized your teammates just say stuff and don’t care how well you are actually doing or if you played at all?

This is worse than a breakup. I can’t keep feeling like I’m half on this team.

[nocklebeast]

Surf City Shredfest Santa Cruz Gromshells vs Cherry City 29 April 2023. Scotts Valley, CA. by Mark Nockleby

[douglasfeiffel]

I wish I hadn’t gotten made fun of in the bathroom by a big name in the jrda community and her friends because every time I see her posts I feel sick to my stomach 🫶

[reanimatedandmedicated]

various updates and facts about my family

my mother huffed raid bug spray and ate wallpaper paste as a child. my grandfather believes my autistic sibling is an alien and is asking him to provide the winning lottery numbers. my sister tried to kill her boyfriend recently.

My dad is getting married to his seventh wife.

And my little brother (J) is smelting pawn shop jewelry in efforts to make silver bullets to load in .22 casings

My grandfather swears he was abducted by aliens and they modified his cum.

In 2009, he attempted to trade firearms for an alleged crystal skull which he believed contained the blueprints to rebuild Atlantis.

In 2012, my family created a convey of six cars all loaded with guns, ammo, canned food, etc. in order to prepare for the apocalypse. In December of 2012, my grandfather led us to where he believed our family would hold off the forces of evil, a last bastion for our bloodline- A fucking Super8 motel in Forsyth GA.

My mother used to drink blood in the 90s and beat the shit out of football players as a hobby, so she could beef up for roller derby. She raises baby animals, and has more than once attempted to kill a man during intimacy.

All if my dad's ex wives have tried to kill him. He's had attack dogs sicced on him, beaten with a crowbar, chased with a hammer, run over with his own car, and pushed out a vehicle. His new wife was a pen pal he met when she was in jail.

My aunt believes she convenes with the angels when she's hopped up on ambien and percocet, so she's like the goth version of Mama Murphy from Fallout 4.

I was conceived in a crack den in North Carolina. My mother's organs don't like having kids, so much so that both me and my sibling (J) were born dead and had to be resuscitated. In both cases it was due to the umbilical cord playing a game of Hangman.

My little brother (J) taught Igor, our Vulture, to vomit on command. Nobody knows how.

He has been using the infestation of rats at my family's cabin to do... something. He's been running a rat cannibalism fight club, in an attempt to fish out a Super Rat which he plans to do... Something with?

My little brother (M) spends his spare time firing at passing cars. We have managed to make sure he's using BB guns, is the compromise. (J) went through a similar phase when he was an early teen, and would shoot a bow and arrow at the neighbor's house. I did the same with a potato cannon in my youth. It's a tradition.

My dad is missing his appendix. He has no idea where it went and has no record of it ever being removed.

My grandmother reluctantly admitted to having an affair with a ghost in her 40s.

My brother (M) used to love botany. By the age of 6 he could tell you anything you wanted to know about the flora of southeast GA. He had a garden. And he also grew weed for my step-dad until my mom found out. After that he was banned from gardening and picked up junior robotics as a hobby after i gave him K'nex and some Lego Mindstorms stuff years ago. He took apart an air conditioner in a motel once. To this day we don't know what he did with the screws. He builds airsoft guns from scrap and is a mechanical prodigy. He is almost illiterate.

My brother (A) disturbs me. He was raised by the internet and YouTube. He is whatever this new generation is personified. He's frighteningly... Normal.

I am waiting for the shoe to drop and for him to reveal some darkness to him never before seen in my family.

He's just. A normal kid. A little zoomer that watches Mr. Beast and YouTube long plays. He's also the straight man to most of all my family's bullshit. He's dangerously genre savvy. He also has a weird interest in law???

My sister (H) is your average country girl. She's attempted to kill more than one of her boyfriends (will clarify that they were abusive), has totaled three cars and always walks away from these nightmarish accidents unscathed. She was found on the side of the road last year hitting her vape and flagging down a car, while her own was stuck five feet above a ditch in a tree.

She has a job and plans to go to New York to "see what them city twinks got goin' on"

My other little sister (C) is the only other queer member of my sibling roster. She's a lesbian, and enjoys shooting things. Sometimes living things. She, like (A), is dangerously genre savvy and doesn't play into my family's religious fanaticism. She wants to be a firefighter because she is also a pyromaniac and wants an excuse to see "big things burn".

A bit more about (J)- He claims to speak to the dead, and has used this to become my grandfather's right hand man, and the beneficiary of his estate. He is an autodidact, self taught with blacksmithing and metalworking. He dresses well, and also has a hidden laboratory in my grandfather's shed where he has taken a fixation in herbal tinctures and remedies. He knows they're bullshit. But my family buys his potions, and he uses the money to buy pawn shop jewelry and scrap metal to build stuff. He believes firmly in werewolves, and is convinced Furries are a psyop to prepare the general public for their emergence in society. Which is why he's making silver bullets.

I wish to stipulate that not a single word of this is a joke. This is on god, IRL bullshit I have to contend with.

I should probably update this to remove real names what the fuck

[numberonecodwomenfan]

im going crazy thinking about my idea for a cod women roller derby au

i play roller derby and i literally just finished practice so its fresh in my brain rn

also theyre all on the same team because i want them to be besties ok

laswell is the captain of the glam grenades (yes i know the name is corny, derby team names usually are lmaoo), and her wife coaches the corresponding junior team. laswell’s derby name is watcher, and her number is 01. she usually plays as a blocker, but she’ll pivot sometimes.

farah is almost solely a jammer. her derby name is farah scare-‘em (which again, i know its corny but all derby names are 😭). she’s a speed DEMON, and she’s insane at jumps. if she’s jamming against you, you’re barely even gonna land a hit on her. she’s jumping around on her toe stops and squeezing around blockers like she’s dancing. alex goes to all of the team’s practices and bouts, and he’s practically drooling the whole time like “holy shit thats my badass girlfriend”

valeria is usually a pivot. her name is slammin’ scorpion (referencing that one line where alejandro calls her a scorpion 🤭), and when i say slammin, i mean it. shes one of those blockers that gets penalties constantly. she is VICIOUS. she send jammers flying when she hits them. she has a lot of pent up anger, ok? god forbid a woman has hobbies.

roze is a blocker for sure. she’s sturdy as hell and it takes a lot to take her down. her derby name is ragin’ roze and shes a bad bitchhhh!!! i like to think shes pretty tall, so sneaking around her is a no go with those long legs. she also seems like the type to manhandle her teammates a lot. like if the jammer is moving to the opposite side, shes yelling “out!” and just yanking the other blockers over.

callisto is a blocker too. she prefers to play as a point because she’s a control freak, and while she trusts her teammates, she prefers to be able to see the jammer. this is a really stupid joke but i think it would be funny if her derby name was lady liberty because she’s from france and moved to the US lmaoo

i feel like stiletto’s derby name would just be stiletto. its cool enough on its own lmao. she also gives blocker to me, and i feel like shes the type to get penalties a lot and then get insubordination penalties for giving the refs sass.

nova feels like a jack of all trades to me. i think her derby name would be nova, and i feel like she would be one of those players that just throws caution to the wind and charges in with no hesitation.

kleo is greek and i also imagine her to be pretty tall, so i think her derby name would be something like amazon lol. i feel like shed be a pretty aggressive blocker. she is NOT letting that jammer past, so much so that she sometimes gets stop block penalties.

uhh yeah thats all the brainrot i have lmao. i might draw them 😏😏

[mads4urmom]

and if you kick every queer curious teen out of this country, then who will play for you, junior roller derby?

[thatswhatsushesaid]

For the AU ask game: Xiyao skating au 👀

oh damn you have inadvertently touched on a scenario that i have some ~specialized knowledge~ about, but probably not in the way you were thinking lol. because i'm going to make this a men's/all-gender roller-derby AU, and i'll just start with the different positions/teams i envision for various characters:

meng yao is a jammer (aka principle point scorer) for lanling city, but he used to be a pivot when he skated with qinghe and qishan. since his nephew skates with the no-contact juniors' league, he spends a lot of his free time shepherding pre-teens to and from practice bouts and exchanging Lingering Eye Contact with their coach

lan xichen is the gusu team captain, as well as a blocker; he also coaches the no-contact juniors' league and serves on the board of directors for the general governance of the sport

nie mingjue used to be the qinghe team captain and jammer, but suffered an injury and had to quit skating competitively after a particularly aggressive bout against the qishan men's team. now he's the team coach, and also serves on the board, but grudgingly has to recuse himself from any matters that involve meng yao

wen qing does not actually skate, but since she's a paramedic and her husband is the captain of the lotus pier team, she's the first responder who attends all bouts and provides first aid in the event of injuries on the track. she also has the dubious honour of being the medic who attended nmj when he was injured in the bout against qishan 😬

okay that's enough for now, this AU is quickly spiralling out of control in my head for both xiyao and chengqing reasons

[womenties]

Jamming it up in Roller Derby

Had I been in this rink before? If so, it was back in Junior high school in the late 1970s, when roller skating added music, lights, and fun to a teen’s life. If you were lucky, the rink dimmed the overhead lights so strobes and fluorescent lighting illuminated the ground where your quad skates slid across the wooden floor. But today was 2024 and this ole 59’er hadn’t tried roller skating since she was a teen, making this new sport of Roller Derby an interesting prospect. The thing that happens as you approach your sixth decade of life is your center of weight shifts as your weight increases. Sure, I run half marathons, but that’s easy when your feet hit the pavement and nothing is rolling beneath you. I think my last 8-mile run, which took over an hour, was easier than standing on roller skates for one hour. New experiences give you realistic points of view you wouldn’t gain otherwise.

So, there I was, along with one other 50-year-old woman celebrating her birthday by trying roller derby, and twenty 20- and 30-year-olds, prime for the adventure. The women there were fantastic – friendly, some apprehensive like me, some excellent at the sport already, and accepting of all others in the room. No matter your size, age, gender identification, or skill, every woman was welcome, just like rugby. The Central New York Roller Derby organization based in my hometown of Rome, NY was well organized and coached. Their leaders made sure we had the essential equipment on – helmet, elbow pads, mouth guards, wrist guards, knee pads, and quad skates. For $50, you get all the rented equipment plus eight weeks of lessons and activity making it a reasonably priced sport to try. They were patient and helpful with the newbies.

Like every sport, we began with warmups. I particularly liked doing pushups and sit-ups with roller skates on. It added some weight to the exercises. Then it was time to stand up and try gliding on the skates. I say this with the hesitation that’s intended. It takes a while to find your center of gravity and fearlessness to push off, glide, and stop without falling down. Okay, I did fall two times until I figured out to lean forward not back in my stance. Like anything in life, you have to adjust to new centers of balance. Then we got off our skates and learned about the key derby positions of jammers and blockers and did a few activities like getting into positions as blockers to stop the jammers and how to become a pivot blocker if you receive the jammer star/cover when it is handed to you. What I learned only from this small exercise is I need to watch a YouTube video on roller derby to piece it all together so I understand it better the next time I try it. I did this before trying rugby and it helped my comprehension level immediately. Don’t call it necessary due to my age, but rather because I learn best by seeing, and not hearing.

As our two-hour stint came to an end, we gathered for a group photo as buddies who experienced something new and fun for the first time. I vowed to go back next week to try it again since I felt it needed more time to say I tried the sport. I already have a new group of Syracuse roller derby sisters who want to carpool to Rome and a new roller derby name to try out – Pinky Habanero. Every roller derby chick has a nickname. I met Squash, BAM, Dead, Sunshine, Meli, and more. All I can tell you is if you want to feel young again (in some ways) and old (in other ways), try out roller derby at your local skating rink. Put on those four quads, helmet, and find your center of balance, smile, give yourself a badass name, and get into the rink. I promise you’ll smile, laugh at yourself, and even realize you can be humble, and somewhat graceful while trying something new.

[goodheartt]

𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐓𝐔𝐁 𝐂𝐈𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐒 - 𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐃

skunk has a band with his friends from high school named bathtub cigarettes. their vibe ?? angry midwest emo meets folk punk. we already know skunk is the drummer, so you might as well get familiar with the rest of the band !!

earl - lead vocals.

earl is twenty-two years old, non-binary trans-masc, uses they/them/theirs pronouns, and is loudly and proudly queer. when they aren't singing for the band, they are working as a bartender for a small dive bar right down the street from the bathtub cigarettes house. they rock a buzz cut that is dyed in a red and black checkerboard pattern. their favorite things ?? grape flavored candies, modello, roller skating, and black and milds ( specifically wood tip wine flavored ones ). earl can seem stand offish at first due to their protectiveness of their friends. to earl, the band is their family. once you get to know them, they will begin to open up, and show you how much of a goofball they can really be. earl met skunk for the first time in high school, specifically during their freshman year math class. they've been inseparable since.

mikey - guitar.

mikey is twenty-one years old, a cis-man that uses he/him/his pronouns, and is so unapologetically queer. when he's not rocking out on the guitar, you can find him making lattes at a coffee shop downtown. his hair is long and dyed black, the strands that frame his face have been dyed bright purple. his favorite things ?? malboro 100's, bush apple, fireball, cats, and skateboarding. mikey is incredibly scatter brained, bubbly, and goofy. he can be really unreliable at times and has been banned from making any group plans for the band ( due to him often forgetting he made the plans in the first place ). mikey met earl his junior year of high school and they have been best friends ( and partners ) ever since. earl keeps mikey on track, trying to steer their partner in the right direction. the two have been dating for five years now. mikey is always late to band practice even though he lives in the house that they practice in.

karp - bass.

karp is twenty-two years old, a trans-woman, and uses she/her/hers pronouns. karp is a lesbian and will not be afraid to tell you that, often making jokes about her shortly trimmed fingernails. when she's not playing bass for the band, she works as an apprentice at a local tattoo shop. yes, she is responsible for most of the bands tattoos. her hair is styled into a shaggy and choppy mullet that has been dyed lime green. her favorite things ?? menthol cigarettes, steel reserves, pop punk, roller skating, and animals. karp is incredibly kind an thoughtful, she would give her shirt off her back if she needed to. she met skunk in high school, specifically in concert band. she played percussion with skunk, and they hit it off right away. karp is the creator of the name 'bathtub cigarettes', drawing inspiration from late nights in her childhood trailer home, smoking cigarettes that they had stolen from their father with skunk in the bathtub.

martin - banjo/backup vocals.

martin is twenty three years old, non-binary trans-femme, and uses they/she/he pronouns. martin is bisexual with no preferences. his hair is styled into a mohawk that is dyed navy blue. when they aren't performing with the band, they work as a freelance artist, spending most of their time spray painting the sides of buildings with skunk. their favorite things ?? malboro reds shorts, montucky cold snacks, 80's grunge/punk music, and roller derby. martin has a very warm and caring heart, she is almost like a parental figure to the band. she loves to crack jokes and make others laugh. martin met karp in an after school board game club and was quickly introduced to the rest of the group. everyone quickly took them under their wing, seeing how perfectly they fit with everyone else.

[foronceididntlookback]

guess who managed to get three penalties last niiiiight

i did get to play level 2 and 3 which was awesome (I'm still a level 2)

my team lost tho, it was sad

then we got to watch my city's adult team obliterate the other team like 260/30 (which holy shit man that's hard)

[lifesafairytale]

What is the most random head canon you have for any character? For me, its Yang having a huge phobia of needles, like someone needs to hold her because 9 out of 10 times she will faint if she has to get blood drawn or something

That reminds me of what Tai said back in Volume 4, about Yang's first hair cut—

I still remember when Barbara said that Yang stubbing her toe unlocked her semblance—

Yang would definitely had been a fussy child when it came to doctor appointments but tries to put a brave face when she gets her shots.

Anyways, here are some random, personal headcanons I have for some characters:

Every time I remember Volume 1 Ruby, I always see her as that one kid who drew that 'S' symbol at the side of her papers. You know the one. Also, she was the type to do, of course, those embarrassing things middle schoolers did in the early 2000s. That was all her vibe.

I always imagine that Neon has been to a roller derby several times before. I like to think she activated her semblance one day while at one and she just knocked everyone over after getting too enthusiastic.

Fox asks the most mind boggling/silly questions sometimes. Either stuff like "How to spell letter like W or A?" or "Hey, if Cinderella was a baker instead of a maid, would she be called Mozzarella instead?" Cyno from Genshin Impact basically.

Characters who I believe are amazing cooks (no order, besides Ren when it doesn't involve making shakes): Tai, Yang, Jaune, Summer, Oscar

Junior has been a victim to the Malachite twin's pranks.

I don't know why, but I feel like Tai would have been the type of guy who was super cool in school (but a huge dork as well) but also deeply cared for him mom. No one really dares talk crap about her or else they're answer to him. Also, I have this headcanon that he was raised by a single mom and taught him everything about cooking, grocery shopping, and all those necessities.

Ciel was probably raised by very strict parents who planned out her life from the get go and all that. Also, I'm delusional and want to believe she's okay and that Penny's demise in Volume 3 affected her in some way and she gains her own arc where she wants to see who she wants to be. I want Pietro to adopt her. Anyways, this girl wakes up at the crack of dawn, even without an alarm and if she had a semblance, it would kind of work like Time Dilation (because I miss it).

[brightspite]

junior-senior year was crazy it was like. monday-friday go to high school for 7 hours, then go home and study for 2 hours. friday maybe hang out with friends for a little bit. saturday go to roller derby practice. come home and rest/shower. mayyybe hang out if i don’t have more school work. take my meds. be too exhausted to do anything sunday. do it again. barely had a social life how did i not literally lose my mind

[nocklebeast]

Surf City Shredfest Freaky Fridays vs Columbia 28 April 2023. Scotts Valley, CA. by Mark Nockleby

[m3gahet]

Ramble about Cheri! <3

Cheri you will get your due I swear to god-

She's in an all girl rock band and everyone in the band is on her roller derby team.

Both are called Fruit Force and all of them picked a fruit to represent themselves.

She never really knew her mom cause she walked out on her and her dad when Cheri was just like five. Her and her Dad are close but their interactions are awkward.

Her and Murderface were pen pals from 7th grade to junior year. Murderface just stopped writing her and eventually she saw Dethklok take off and assumed that was why.

She has an old hs photo of him in her wallet he sent her in their sophomore year and he started growing a "Sick" Mustache (You cannot see that mustache)

She doesn't have any bad blood with him though and when they meet again they pretty easily slip back into their old dynamic. (They're both gore obsessed history buffs)

She is my most well adjusted oc and she's gonna stay that way cause someone needs to be fucking sane in this madhouse.

Her and Murderface aren't technically dating. Cheri's band is taking off so she kind of comes and goes so they decided to keep themselves unlabeled. (Cheri also Identifies as poly as well)

Her and Fruit Force's lead guitarist (Celene "Sourpatch") are constantly bickering and Murderface bought Cheri a new guitar after she mentioned wanting to smash hers over Celene's head.

She did not infact smash her guitar over her head though.

I'm gonna design all of Fruit Force they're fun

Her and Murderface watch gory horror movies with Skwisgaar and her and Toki like to race on their skates.

They're trying to teach Murderface how but he's afraid of eating shit.