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Dr Alice Violett
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Worrier princess. Very into books, alternative music, board games, cats, and the Oxford comma. Web editor, erstwhile historian, book blogger, occasional short […]

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Gus 💛 #dogsofmastodon #dogstodon
A golden retriever poking his head up behind a table with a cup of coffee and snacks on it A golden retriever being petted on his back under a table A golden retriever being petted on his head under a table
December 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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This week's charts...
• Shes_on_fire (Last.fm via Pano Scrobbler, week of 1-7 December 2025) Top artists: Home Front The Chameleons AFI Silversun Pickups Top albums: What Does Anything Mean? Basically (The Chameleons) Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... (AFI) Games Of Power Watch It Die (both Home Front) Top tracks: New Wave The Wreckage (both Silversun Pickups) Home Is Where the Heart Is (The Chameleons) A World Unmade (AFI)
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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I had a nap with my nap buddy. #caturday #catstodon #catmastodon
A portly black and white tuxedo cat curled up sleeping on his side on a blue and white bold floral duvet
December 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Me: I'm gonna go home, my social battery is depleted and I'm going to to get into my bed.
Toby: the fuck you are.

#catstodon #catsofmastodon
A large black and white tuxedo cat sitting in the middle of a purple and white striped duvet on a bed
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Same bat time, same bat place.
A woman with red hair, in a dark floral top and black skinny jeans and with a black handbag with mushrooms embroidered on it, taking a selfie in a toilet half tiled with dark blue tiles
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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November round-up is here! See what I read last month and plan to read this month:
https://www.draliceviolett.com/what-i-read-in-november-2025 #bookmastodon #bookstodon #amreading
Book covers of: Opposite World by Elizabeth Anne Martins, The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo, and The Old Goat and the Alien by Veo Corva
December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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This week/month, I mostly listened to...
Top 4s for Shes_on_fire on last.fm for November 2025, via Panoscrobbler Artists - White Lies, Creeper, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, AFI Albums - Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death (Creeper), Silver Bleeds The Black Sun (AFI), Odonis Odonis (Odonis Odonis), Everything Out There Has Teeth (shedfromthebody) Songs - all from the Creeper album above Top 4s for Shes_on_fire on last.fm for 24-30 November 2025, via Panoscrobbler Artists - Home Front, Nothing Teenage Wrist, White Lies Albums - Watch It Die (Home Front), Dazed (Teenage Wrist), Completely Careless 2012-2015 (Drab Majesty), Organisation (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) Tracks - all from the Home Front album above
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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I put my presents down for A MINUTE #boardgames #catstodon #catsofmastodon
A portly black and white tuxedo cat sitting at the end of a bed on a purple and white striped duvet some Christmas gifts, including a packet of mystery dice he's put his paw on
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Now onto Betrayal Legacy (we warmed up with Things In Rings) #boardgames
A small board game figurine in a pink dress with a purple card showing her stats and what she can do
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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So nice to play expanded Wyrmspan at max player count, even if it does take ages! #boardgames
A view of Wyrmspan being played by five people (mostly out of shot) on a big round table. Everyone has a player mat, and there are cards, round tokens representing coins and food, small egg pieces, and cubes of various colours on and around the players' and central boards
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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They've let Alice loose in the superlative charity bookshop again. #bookmastodon #bookstodon
Hand holding a black cotton tote bag open to show five book spines: Go Back At Once and Dark Entries by Robert Aickman, Larry's Party by Carol Shields, The Proof of my Innocence by Jonathan Coe, and Wise Children by Angela Carter.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Chesham, I AM IN YOU.
A tabby and white cat sitting on a tartan footstool, being booped on the nose by someone wearing purple nail polish
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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I just
Photo of a baked potato with the caption 'let the potato rest for five minutes'
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Strangely satisfying.
Cropped screenshot of spots 8, 9 and 10 of my top artists on Last.fm for the past 365 days: 8. Molchat Doma - 777 plays 9. Modern English - 771 plays 10. White Lies - 711 plays
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Cosy vibes pre #caturday #catstodon #catsofmastodon
A pudgy black and white tuxedo cat lying on his side on purple and white striped duvet. You can see the trousered thigh of a human who's spooning him, except their heads are at opposite ends of the spoon. A Kindle is also slightly visible Slightly different view of the pudgy black and white tuxedo cat lying on his side on purple and white striped duvet. You can see the trousered thigh of a human who's spooning him, except their heads are at opposite ends of the spoon. A Kindle is also slightly visible
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The Offal Fest poster crossed my stream *squints* it's like a magic eye image. I'm pretty sure that logo on the bottom right is just some TV static cropped into a funky shape 😅 I bet my metalhead friends can recognise all of them!

Bit disappointed they didn't put 'TBC' in a metal font tbh.
The Offal Fest 4 poster, for July 2026, with typical tree-branchy metal band logos. I can make out 'Devourment', 'Immortal Suffering', 'Infected Disarray', 'Twitch of the Death Nerve', and 'Butcher ABC'. No idea about any of the others.
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Morning fedi :comfy: today I'm on the blog tour for Opposite World by Elizabeth Anne Martins. Read my review of this imaginative, sophisticated, and suspenseful sci-fi novel: https://www.draliceviolett.com/blog-tour-opposite-world #bookstodon #bookmastodon
Part cover of Opposite World by Elizabeth Anne Martins, featuring a pink and purple hued, stylised upside down image of a young woman sleeping woth a headset on, but in the bottom half of the image, the headset is a big pinecone. As well as the book's title, there's the subtitle 'where every dream is a battle cry'
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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This week, I have mostly been listening to...
Last.fm/Panoscrobbler charts for Shes_on_fire, 10-16 November 2025. Top artists - Odonis Odonis, Creeper, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, White Lies Top albums - Odonis Odonis by Odonis Odonis, Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death by Creeper, Crush (40th Anniversary) by OMD, and Everything Out There Has Teeth by Shedfromthebody Top songs: Work It Out, Bliss, Come Alive and Consumed, all by Odonis Odonis
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Welp, that took forever. #boardgames #jigsawpuzzles
A completed jigsaw of various water birds from the board game Wingspan, with a lot of blue between them
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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A spot of toot serendipity courtesy of @instantiatethis @liiwi @closedcaptionsbot #caturday
Two consecutive toots on Tusky: instantiatethis [boosted by Jaakko Niemi]: I have captured a holy grail of caturday not even two hours in. Look upon the toe stretch and be glad [video still of a tabby cat with their toes outstretched) Closed Captions: [wondrous, uplifting music playing]
November 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Today's my stop on the blog tour for Scars of Silence. Read my review of this gripping, twisty, and powerful crime thriller: https://www.draliceviolett.com/blog-tour-scars-of-silence #bookstodon #bookmastodon
Part cover of Scars of Silence by Johana Gustawsson and translated by David Warriner, featuring the book's title and a pair of red candles trailing red ribbon instead of flames
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Me: spredges are just a marketing ploy by Big Book to sell more books.
Also me: it's PINK!!! :blobcataww:

(This was a free review copy anyway 😁)
A hand holding open a hardback book that has edges sprayed fuchsia
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Today I'm reviewing The Whisper of Stars for the blog tour. Read my thoughts on this captivating alternate history:
https://www.draliceviolett.com/blog-tour-the-whisper-of-stars #bookmastodon #bookstodon
Part cover of The Whisper of Stats by Cristin Williams, featuring the book's title and an illustration of a Russian monastery surrounded by flames, and a wolf and bear.
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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A black and white tuxedo cat sits upright in a Zatu Games cardboard box in the corner of a living room. Also visible is a Lego tuxedo cat, a music centre, and CDs in a storage unit
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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And so it goes. (Double Decker out of the way first, Éclair last. Guess there weren't many Twirls to begin with.)
Eight Cadbury's chocolates lined up in a tub. I will eat them right to left: Double Decker, Fudge, Creme Egg Twisted, Crunchie Bits, Caramel, Wispa, Dairy Milk, Éclair
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM