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[epaily]

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[boutbetties]

Broken bones can’t keep a derby skater from the perfect headshot! @moose_def plays for @the_mnrd in Minnesota. Donating to Reclaim the Block means supporting a coalition that demands that Minneapolis divest from policing and invest in long-term alternatives. Donate at https://linktr.ee/reclaimtheblock. • Via @moose_def • Broken foot can't kill my vibe. #slay . . . 📸: @rtwilbur 💄 @moreauregime, of course! . . . . . . #rollerderby #boxbraids #athlete #hgcapparel #teamcroptop #croptop #model #fitness #tattoo #melaninpoppin #blackgirlmagic #ootd #black #mnrg #mnrollergirls #portrait #photooftheday #fashion #hair #healthy #minneapolis #style #instagood https://www.instagram.com/p/CA-2fFyH61h/?igshid=4nlrv2xrjvgp

[switchplease101-blog]

#10yearschallenge 2009: Naval nuclear Electricians mate. 2019: Minnesota All-Star #Rollerderby Come watch our @mnrg game tomorrow at the #RoyWilkins #mnrg #SwitchPlease #MicroSwitch #lego #minnesota (at Roy Wilkins Auditorium) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsybSYgAiqf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13zgigibqv0li

[makingloveinminnesota]

I’d known this was here but it was still great to see it in person. Nice stop on my way to family! By the way, things worked out and I’m not apartment-bound! #rollerderby #mnrg #mnsportsball (at Delta Terminal - Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport)

[todaysderbygoal]

August 16th, 2017

Today's goal, start blogging again! A lot has changed since I last frittered away on here. The most important thing that's happened is I've been drafted to the Minnesota Rollergirls' Officials team as an NSO/ref in training! I haven't been this excited about derby since I seriously started back in Tucson. Everyone has been so welcoming and kind and I feel like I'm really making strides as an official. This doesn't mean that I'm giving up my dream of being a player. I'll still play in the Rec league and try out. But for now I really feel like I've met my goal of being part of the best league in the world! Other fun things, I've learned how to clean my bearings. I've switched my toestops from Gumballs to Jupiters (more ground covered and automatically flat). I'm stronger in general. Anyways, I'm back and I'll be writing a lot more!

[photoskunk]

RollerGirls 1.19.19 #rollerderby #rollerderbyphotography #mnrg #mnrollergirls https://www.instagram.com/p/BtphZy3A3f1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=in4ij9x0ybpx

[witchwhohits]

I’ve never had to take my skates off and end practice before it was over-over before. Today, though, I jam reffed for the NERDy-TCJRD friends and family bout (NERDy won, 244-77 - the NERDs were super pumped for that because it’s the first time they’ve won ANY bout against another league), which took 2 1/2 hours all told (the first whistle was at 1:10 and the last was around 3:30), and then I zoomed across town to the DebuTaunts practice and skated for another solid two hours.

At the end I just ran out of steam around 5:55 or so. Not unreluctantly I took off my skates before the last drill. Participated in stretching, but that was it for the day otherwise.

[ineffablefool]

Hello! If you're still accepting WIP Ask Game requests, "locky" & "demon king" ❤️

Sorry, yours was the very last one of these and got ignored for a while there.  But now it is unearthed!

"locky” is the fic I started the day they released Good Omens Lockdown, and which remains incomplete even now.  It’s 1.5k words and actually pretty far along now that I look, though.  Perhaps someday I will finish it.

Here is an excerpt!  It starts just after the Lockdown call.

“‘Just calling to see how you’re doing in lockdown’,” he muttered at the ceiling. “Bloody great, thanks for asking, thanks so very much. I’ve started flamewars on every major social media platform, I’ve listened to every one of my records a dozen times, I’ve reorganized my wardrobe by color which didn’t exactly take long because it’s almost all black…”

He rearranged himself on the bed until he was in a better position for moping. “And you’re baking cake.”

“demon king” is the one that’s definitely not a Sleepy Princess In The Demon Castle AU, even if it kind of a little bit is?  Instead of the Demon Cleric it’s got Anathema.

Here is some of the next bit after the section I posted previously.  (please forgive Crowley for being very Gender Binary, demons don’t really do gender so he’s kind of just heard things second-hand)

"Mnrg," Crowley said, then froze when the human [Aziraphale] looked at him again. "You, uh. You're... not Princess Aurora of the Kingdom of Eden?"

The human arched an eyebrow. "Dear me, no. What could cause you to think that I was?"

Short hair meant male human, right? Except that gentle lilt in the voice meant female. Females were supposed to be smaller, but this human was almost Crowley's height, wide and round and sturdy. Males were supposed to be rough and violent, but this human's movements were almost absurdly delicate.

Blast it, nobody should be expected to recall their Human Studies tutoring decades later. That was what scholars and spies were for.

There is a specific reason why Crowley’s minions went to capture the eleven-year-old princess and came back with her forty-something uncle, and it amuses me very much indeed.

This was an ask game for which I am not accepting any more asks!

[twincitiesgeek]

Minnesota RollerGirls’ Season 15 Semifinals Set the Stage for the Home-Team Championship

It all goes down this weekend with the Minnesota RollerGirls championship! Get pumped with a rundown of February’s semifinals.

The regular 2018–2019 season of the Minnesota RollerGirls ended back in January on a frigid night, with the Rockits defeating the Dagger Dolls as expected and the Atomic Bombshells winning over the Garda Belts. In February, things couldn’t have been faster as four teams fought to survive in the fierce arena of rolling battle that is the Legendary Roy Wilkins Auditorium. Here’s how the Survival of…

[traumaqueentmi]

By the way these are all pictures from derby 101

[switchplease101-blog]

@mar.mar_superstar NEVER!!!! The #switchshenanigans will never end! 😀😁😅😂🤣 . . . #SwitchPlease #DamnItSwitch #mnrg #shinySquirrelAward https://www.instagram.com/p/BstdK8Rgg1s/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2ao1ifd9ntfi

[makingloveinminnesota]

I got drafted by @mnrg #teamzebra tonight. This is the happiest day of my adult life. I have not felt this loved in a long time. World, I am now a member of the best roller derby league in the universe. #rollerderby #teamzebra #mnrg (at Camp)

[phantomphotographics]

@jacksonvillerollerderby Vs. @mnrg #rollerderby #rollerderbyphotography #sportsphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz4nFqKH2uX/?igshid=939fjk7xhmqg

[boutbetties]

mnrg Happy Easter to all the roller derby peeps of the world! #peeps #easter #rollerderby #peepdiorama #candy #mysaintpaul by Citizen Pain

[witchwhohits]

My impression of the bout last night:

Philly: “Ok, we think we’re stopping the bleeding. We got lead jam against Shock Therapy last jam, that’s good.”

Minnesota: “That’s nice! Have some more Brickyard.” Brickyard: *lead jam, 30 points before time expires* Philly: “Back to square 1...”

[schoolinhell-lucifer-library]

Chapter 43

A sword or a shield

Keys concentrated. He knew that with his normal spirit weapon he would stand no chance against Rory. He would need a strong will to attack, or something similar. That’s what Takut had said, in the end only I can do it. But where would he get that will to attack, he didn’t like it to just attack people. But he needed to do, it he needed to protect his friends. If he wouldn’t beat Rory now Takut would be doomed, and after that the rest of his friends were next. He just wanted to protect them, them and everyone else who was close to him. Just protect. The black fog in his hand started to manifest, but somehow it still wasn’t enough. Keys knew, if he wouldn’t give all his power to protect his friends he would stand no chance of doing so. The will to protect, that was what he really was. Suddenly he understood what Takut had meant. He didn’t need a will to attack, he just needed a will to fight, and he got that from the will to fight for his friends, the will to protect them. The fog in his hand fully manifested and as he looked at what he held he grinned. It was a sword in a sheath. The sword was a longsword with an unnatural width. Keys didn’t know where he got that knowledge since he hadn’t even taken the sword out of his sheath, but he just knew what it was. As he looked at Rory he could see how surprised he was. With a confused face Rory asked, “What the hell did just happen?” Keys didn’t reply so Rorys face got even more confused. Then it turned arrogant again. “Well whatever. I’m just gonna kill you now” he pointed with his finger at Keys and a green lightning bolt shot out of it. Keys had just a split second to react, but he immediately knew what he had to do. He held the sword up and unsheathed it just enough so that the bold would be blocked. He had the perfect angle and the bolt was blocked without even leaving a scratch. Keys himself was surprised but as he looked at Rory he saw that he was even more surprised, he looked like he had just seen something unbelievable. His facial expression then changed back and he just pointed with his finger again at Keys and shot another bolt of green lightning. Keys blocked it again with ease, perfectly predicting where the bolt would strike and how he needed to block it. He somehow did it intuitive, he didn’t know how but he did it. Now Rory seemed to realize that it was not luck or random weaknesses that had saved him “Just what the hell is going on? You shouldn’t be able to do anything against that attack. You have a sword. The best it can do to block attacks is cutting through it. Just how are you doing that?” Keys grinned and replied “I don’t really know how exactly it works but I do know the name of it. Scharfes Schild. The way of using a sword to protect yourself like with a shield”. Rory looked even more confused “What did you just say. I didn’t understand it” “Well, that makes two of us Trottel” “Mnrg whatever, just die now. This damn technique won’t save you”. Green light gathered in Rorys hand. Keys could feel that the next spell would be much stronger than the last one. He still left the blade in the sheath. He knew that that was the way it was used. Rory held now both of his hands infront of him and they started to shine green. Suddenly a beam of green light shot out of it. The beam was fast, but Keys still managed to block it. As he looked at Rory he noticed that that wasn’t everything. Again and again beams of green light shot out of his hands, sometimes alone sometimes multiple. Keys managed to block every one of them. He unsheathed his sword wide enough to block as many as possible. He still had no idea how he did it, but he knew that this would save his life. Then Rorys hands stopped glowing green and the beams stopped coming. Keys had trouble reading the expression of Rory, it was angry but also confused. He probably was expecting Keys to be dead by now. Rory screamed “How” Keys replied with a satisfied grin “I already said so? I have no idea”. He started running towards Rory who now looked scared. “Stay away from me” he started shooting green lightings again, but Keys blocked them all, every bolt blocked by his sword. Just as he was nearly where Rory was, the figure of Rory started to blur and then disappeared. Keys looked around, he had heard of that magic. It was a very powerful magic called “Teleport”, but the range was not very great. As he looked around he saw Rory. He looked angry but not exhausted. First Keys was confused, a teleportation spell takes a lot out of a person, so he should be exhausted. As he thought about it he noticed something that was hovering in the air just a few centimetres before Rory. It was a single gold coin, Keys hadn’t realized it before cause it was hard to see with the golden pocket watch in the background. He once had read about a leprechaun being able to tie all of his gold together. That single gold coin was connected to the rest of the gold. Through that even if the monster was destroyed, he would never get exhausted. He needed to attack that coin not Rory. Keys ran again to Rory but this time he had a plan. He would wait for the right moment to strike. Quick and powerful attacks that was the way of the technique “Scharfer Schild, the sword was too heavy for many swings, it focused on fighting smart with as few strikes as possible”. He saw Rory firing his bolts at him again. But this time he was prepared and knew what he had to do. Instead of slowing down to be able to block the bolts more precisely he ran even faster. He knew that there was the risk of not being able to block the attacks but that was a risk he had to take. Rory seemed nervous as he was firing desperately more and more bolts, but Keys didn’t waver. With one last sprint he was infront of Rory. Rorys figure was blurring again. He wanted to use teleport, but Keys didn’t let him. In one smooth incredibly fast move he unsheathed the sword and cut through the single gold coin from underneath. The sword was too heavy to make big swings from above or from the sides. So you simply swung it with one short swing from underneath. The gold coin was perfectly cut in half and the shocked Rory fell to the ground. “How?” Keys replied the same as before “I already told you. I have no idea. But without the coin you can’t draw power form your monster without weakening it”. For a second the look on Rorys face was desperate, then he grinned in arrogance again. “Not bad you managed to corner me. But too bad for you I can still call upon the power of my monster. Your friend should be dead by now, so it doesn’t matter that I weaken my monster. I just take a bit of the gold and kill you”. Keys froze he had heard of that technique and he also realized that they had been fighting for far too long. Takut couldn’t have held himself against a disaster class monster for that long. Rory held his hands up to the sky and made an arrogant face. Then a second passed and nothing happened. Then another second passed, and nothing happened. Then three more seconds passed but still nothing happened. Rory looked at his hands “How? What’s going on here”. Keys didn’t know what was happening either, but he knew that he had no time to think about it. He stretched out his leg and kicked Rory with all his might. Cause to his small demon form Rory flew like a football. After about ten meters he crashed into a tree, fell down and was lying there unconscious. Even though Keys still had no idea what was happening he knew one thing. He had won.

Boy this chapter was exhausting to write but also a lot of fun. I like seeing inside the mind of a swordsman. For those who are confused about why Keys can fight so well, the headmaster once mentioned that Dullahan pass their sword techniques directly into their genes. Which means that their children will have the muscle memory necessary to use those techniques. Of course to use them to their full potential they still need to train tireless but against an untrained fighter like Rory it is enough.