Dr Alice ViolettWorrier princess. Very into books, alternative music, board games, cats, and the Oxford comma. Web editor, erstwhile historian, book blogger, occasional short story writer. Ideologically opposed to "a quick call". Own views etc.
Dr Alice ViolettI really am going to do that blog post now. Even though I'm at the early stage of a cold where my entire face hurts.
Dr Alice ViolettIt's here! Take a look at my top 30 (I know...) reads of 2025: https://www.draliceviolett.com/best-of-2025 #bookstodon #BookMastodon
Dr Alice ViolettMy fiction is in the new issue of The Kleksograph 
You can give my Gothic short story, Two Dreams, a read here (with apologies for PDF accessibility shortcomings!): https://www.kleksograph.be/ #ShortStories #ShortStory #Gothic #WritersOfMastodon
Dr Alice ViolettThousands of years from now... humans have long since left a depleted Earth, and much of what we know about it is forgotten or confused.
But the arts are thriving, and two drama graduates find something unexpected when they make a pit stop to find parts to fix their tea machine...
An Unscheduled Stop: a short story inspired by Orford Ness
https://www.draliceviolett.com/an-unscheduled-stop/
#ShortStory #WritersOfMastodon #SciFi #Hopepunk
Dr Alice ViolettI contributed to a report for the WHO Behaviour and Cultural Insights Hub, so that's pretty cool. It's about how history (all sorts of times, contexts and considerations) can inform how we think about and address loneliness today, and is a super interesting read: https://bci-hub.org/documents/history-loneliness-what-we-know-so-far #history #loneliness
Dr Alice ViolettOh, go on then #FediCard
Dr Alice ViolettI really am going to do that blog post now. Even though I'm at the early stage of a cold where my entire face hurts.
Dr Alice ViolettIt's here! Take a look at my top 30 (I know...) reads of 2025: https://www.draliceviolett.com/best-of-2025 #bookstodon #BookMastodon
Dr Alice ViolettTaught him Qwirkle and Parks, and he won at both 🙃
Dr Alice ViolettI really am going to do that blog post now. Even though I'm at the early stage of a cold where my entire face hurts.
Dr Alice ViolettOh, now Dad takes up my offer to teach him some games, when I was all geared up to put together my 2025 round-up blog post 😅
Dr Alice ViolettTaught him Qwirkle and Parks, and he won at both 🙃
Dr Alice ViolettOh, now Dad takes up my offer to teach him some games, when I was all geared up to put together my 2025 round-up blog post 😅
Dr Alice ViolettMy fiction is in the new issue of The Kleksograph
You can give my Gothic short story, Two Dreams, a read here (with apologies for PDF accessibility shortcomings!): https://www.kleksograph.be/ #ShortStories #ShortStory #Gothic #WritersOfMastodon
Dr Alice Violett#MusicWomenWednesday Skunk Anansie - Charity
https://song.link/gb/i/1737076899
Excited to see them tomorrow! But also apprehensive because it's meant to be really hot out!
Dr Alice Violett#TuneTuesday #PaletteMusic that thing where you get so paralysed by choices, you just go with your first idea 😅
Chelsea Wolfe - Everything Turns Blue
https://song.link/gb/i/1711265612
Dr Alice Violett#MondayRandom10 first ten songs thrown up by VLC out of 7196 on my phone...
1. Tame Impala - Alter Ego
2. Creeper - Crickets
3. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
4. HIM - Join Me In Death
5. Jack Off Jill - Everything's Brown
6. Soft Vein - Colder
7. Emilie Autumn - Ancient Grounds (live recording)
8. Radiohead - There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)
9. The Twilight Sad - Drown So I Can Watch
10. Muse - United States of Eurasia [Collateral Damage]
Dr Alice Violett#TheSundayStarter AFI - Behind the Clock
https://song.link/gb/i/1824013548
I just love it so much aaaah
Dr Alice ViolettThe photos I took aren't great but my friend got A Place for All My Books and it's so cuuuute!
And also very realistic that you have to bumble around at home resting and reading and rearranging your books to build up the social battery to go into the village for more 😅 #BoardGames