Last time for me using the former work laptop for scoring a #rollerderby bout. I'm retiring.
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Good day all! Fireside Fedi Episode 52 starts NOW!
Special Guest: @roadriverrail
#rollerderby #owncast #software #arcade #retrogaming
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👣 Maïtané :empoleon:
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Hey Clermont-Ferrand ! Tu fais quoi le week-end du 22-23 novembre ?
Parce qu'on te propose des matchs de roller-derby 🤩
Double Triple Header "Block Busters" organisé par la ligue Auver'Niaks 💥
3 matchs par jour ! Avec buvette et snack, merch, tombola et de la bonne ambiance ✨
Tu connais pas le roller-derby ? Pas de soucis, les matchs sont commentés pour que tout le monde comprenne !
Toutes les infos sont sur l'agenda participatif clermontois : https://pommesdelune.fr/event/2025/11/22/13635-block-busters-matchs-de-roller-derby
👣 Maïtané :empoleon:
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Et en parlant de matchs de roller-derby, il y a un autre Triple Header le samedi 1er novembre à Arlanc !
Les Niaks de Clermont-Ferrand y seront 🔥 (moi malheureusement non 😭 )
Allez les souteniiiir !!! Et puis, matez cette affiche magnifique !!!
Toutes les infos sur Pommes de Lune : https://pommesdelune.fr/event/2025/11/1/13537-batsabbath
Et en parlant de matchs de roller-derby, il y a un autre Triple Header le samedi 1er novembre à Arlanc !
Les Niaks de Clermont-Ferrand y seront 🔥 (moi malheureusement non 😭 )
Allez les souteniiiir !!! Et puis, matez cette affiche magnifique !!!
Toutes les infos sur Pommes de Lune : https://pommesdelune.fr/event/2025/11/1/13537-batsabbath
Hey Clermont-Ferrand ! Tu fais quoi le week-end du 22-23 novembre ?
Parce qu'on te propose des matchs de roller-derby 🤩
Double Triple Header "Block Busters" organisé par la ligue Auver'Niaks 💥
3 matchs par jour ! Avec buvette et snack, merch, tombola et de la bonne ambiance ✨
Tu connais pas le roller-derby ? Pas de soucis, les matchs sont commentés pour que tout le monde comprenne !
Toutes les infos sont sur l'agenda participatif clermontois : https://pommesdelune.fr/event/2025/11/22/13635-block-busters-matchs-de-roller-derby
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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I found roller skates my size for sale, barely used, for cheap, with protective gear thrown in for free.
My partner, @sparrowsion , was kind enough to pay for me to buy the skates, since cheap or not, I am still perpetually broke.
And it's like... aside from getting into roller derby as a sport, this feels like such a... moment. A milestone.
I am absurdly happy and giddy. My first pair of roller skates!
...except it's not? xD
Like, if you count roller blades, which I did use to have as a kid (hey, it was the nineties), this is NOT my first ever pair of skates.
But like... I know it's stupid to gender things, but it's like... it was a boy gift for a presumed boy, getting and then using the roller blades felt... masculine-coded.
I can't explain it. Some things just... are. I was never a girl getting her first bicycle even though I owned many bicycles in my life. I was never a girl getting her first pair of roller skates. Prepubescent AMAB and AFAB kids are not that different in any inherent ways, but gendered patterns are already there, because everyone unknowingly puts them there.
I feel like this is righting a wrong. That it's as part of getting into possibly the most queer sport there is? That's just a cherry on top.
I know my need to rethink, recapture, redo, repair things related to not having had a girlhood as a kid borders on obsessive. I know that. But I think I might need it? I am trying not to be ashamed of it. I'm almost forty, but some childishness is just... I don't know. Inevitable. I need this. I need to catch up. I need to feel things I never felt properly, I need a do-over even if it might make no sense to cis people or even perhaps many trans people.
If I don't get these things, if I don't recapture and don't take possession of my past and present, I'm afraid I might just... start screaming. And screaming. And screaming. And never stop screaming ever again.
That's how it feels. You know?
So let me try this again.
My first pair of skates! I'm so excited!!
I found roller skates my size for sale, barely used, for cheap, with protective gear thrown in for free.
My partner, @sparrowsion , was kind enough to pay for me to buy the skates, since cheap or not, I am still perpetually broke.
And it's like... aside from getting into roller derby as a sport, this feels like such a... moment. A milestone.
I am absurdly happy and giddy. My first pair of roller skates!
...except it's not? xD
Like, if you count roller blades, which I did use to have as a kid (hey, it was the nineties), this is NOT my first ever pair of skates.
But like... I know it's stupid to gender things, but it's like... it was a boy gift for a presumed boy, getting and then using the roller blades felt... masculine-coded.
I can't explain it. Some things just... are. I was never a girl getting her first bicycle even though I owned many bicycles in my life. I was never a girl getting her first pair of roller skates. Prepubescent AMAB and AFAB kids are not that different in any inherent ways, but gendered patterns are already there, because everyone unknowingly puts them there.
I feel like this is righting a wrong. That it's as part of getting into possibly the most queer sport there is? That's just a cherry on top.
I know my need to rethink, recapture, redo, repair things related to not having had a girlhood as a kid borders on obsessive. I know that. But I think I might need it? I am trying not to be ashamed of it. I'm almost forty, but some childishness is just... I don't know. Inevitable. I need this. I need to catch up. I need to feel things I never felt properly, I need a do-over even if it might make no sense to cis people or even perhaps many trans people.
If I don't get these things, if I don't recapture and don't take possession of my past and present, I'm afraid I might just... start screaming. And screaming. And screaming. And never stop screaming ever again.
That's how it feels. You know?
So let me try this again.
My first pair of skates! I'm so excited!!
Matt Cropp 🌲🌲
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Get ready for a night to remember — and a roller derby smackdown you’ll never forget.
Green Mountain Roller Derby is throwing it back to the ‘80s with a homecoming showdown of good old-fashioned roller derby revelry! Join us at the Champlain Valley Exposition on Saturday, September 27 as we face off in an action-packed double header against our frenemies from New Hampshire Roller Derby.
Doors: 3:00 pm
Game 1 (4:00 pm): GMRD Grade A Fancy vs. NHRD All-Stars
Game 2 (6:00 pm): GMRD Juggernauts vs. NHRD Cherry Bombs
Don’t forget to dust off those shoulder pads and shake out that tulle, because throwback fits aren’t just welcome — they’re encouraged.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now: https://sevendaystickets.com/e/gmrd-sept-2025
🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩🪩
Get ready for a night to remember — and a roller derby smackdown you’ll never forget.
Green Mountain Roller Derby is throwing it back to the ‘80s with a homecoming showdown of good old-fashioned roller derby revelry! Join us at the Champlain Valley Exposition on Saturday, September 27 as we face off in an action-packed double header against our frenemies from New Hampshire Roller Derby.
Doors: 3:00 pm
Game 1 (4:00 pm): GMRD Grade A Fancy vs. NHRD All-Stars
Game 2 (6:00 pm): GMRD Juggernauts vs. NHRD Cherry Bombs
Don’t forget to dust off those shoulder pads and shake out that tulle, because throwback fits aren’t just welcome — they’re encouraged.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now: https://sevendaystickets.com/e/gmrd-sept-2025
My newest #zine is all about free places to #rollerskate near Boston. It's two sided, so if you unfold it, there's a map and listing of outdoor rinks in public parks.
Big ups to Bruised Boutique, a #rollerderby focused shop in Nashua, NH. The staff there were super helpful and friendly and set me up with the right skates for me.
Although they are derby-focused, they also have artistic skates (the classic skates I use) and other skate sport stuff. https://bruisedboutique.com/
Look at that, I got a pair of roller skates. #rollerskates
All from Bruised Boutique, a queer-friendly skate shop with a focus on roller derby (but well stocked across the spectrum of skate enthusiasms).
Highly recommended. https://bruisedboutique.com/