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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼
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Horror Writer of the Queer Kind 🛸 • Award-winning playwright • Chronically Tired Dude Made Out of 90s Arcade Carpet Fabric • [🇵🇷✊🏽/🏳️‍⚧️/🏳️‍🌈] They/He

🌐 https://mitchmiller.carrd.co/
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astramachina.bsky.social
There's busy and then there's ✨️BUSY✨️

It's been 3 weeks of scripting/recording/editing an audioplay, drafting a screenplay while putting on my film producer pants for the 1st time, fighting to secure funding, getting ready for TBB '25, AND traveling for work--

Lemme nap. Please.
Selfie of yours truly looking off into the distance. Photo of a very foggy Portland taken from my hotel porch.
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
"Americans love their Big Drinks" is a true statement but "we poured your drink into a take-out broth container" feels a biiiit overkill tbh.
A literal take out container meant for broth filled with soda. I am pointing at it. A literal take out container meant for broth filled with soda. I am holding it for scale. My hand looks TINY.
November 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
If only for a moment, we were perfect.
Get Ready for Monitored Activity by Miller Miller. Can we count on your pledge for our upcoming project? Yes, count me in! Join /69/ other people!
October 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
meme image of guy standing in the corner while others party hard. the top text says "they don't know it's a teaser trailer for Monitored Activity", one dancing couple has the text "It's cool bro" and the bottom couple says "bottom text".
October 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
astramachina.bsky.social
October 21st, 2025, marks the 24th anniversary of the gruesome events that took place in the small town of Trenton, Maine.

Tune into the 'Expedition Truth' podcast this November 1st to hear why I was compelled to write MONITORED ACTIVITY.

Discretion is advised.
October 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
Baby's first #SLUDGEPIT? Ayo. Let's talk about my upcoming novella, MONITORED ACTIVITY.

📼 Sentient malls
📼 Serial killer/Final 'Girl'
📼 80s through 00s nostalgia (derogatory)
📼 MC [🏳️‍⚧️&🏳️‍🌈] is more than a little fucked up.
📼 Aliens...? Cults???
📼 "That should NOT be a kink, dude. JFC."

#WIP #H #D
A three by three image mood board that has a long underground hallway without end, a lit up skeeball machine, the back light of a car with a metal plate that says 2000, a brutalist structure, a sandy beach, a hand gripping someone else's forearm, a screen filled with lines of green code, blood on white tile with a hand doing the sign of the horns and a pair of white sneakers almost out of frame, and a single illuminated escalator in a dark room. In neon green text are the words Monitored Activity, Horror, Sci-fi, Unficion, @Astramachina. The overall background is a glitchy mess in tones of dark blues and purples. MONITORED ACTIVITY: A state-of-the-art security system arrives with the New Millennium, and shoppers at Prime Plaza can now spend their time and hard earned money with newfound peace of mind. That same luxury doesn’t extend to the mall’s employees. Hallucinations of missing girls and impossible hallways haunt Shaw's every shift. Footage of bloated corpses vomiting sand, violent indiscretions committed by management, and a hell-dimension of perverse delights makes the security guard equal parts sick and turned on. It’s a good thing that Shaw is impervious to shame. There is no serial killer, haunting, or starved alien life-form that can stop him from getting what he wants: PTO, and in his boss' pants. The overall background is a glitchy mess in tones of dark blues and purples. Two rough black and white sketches in the form of Polaroids. The one labeled Shaw Price '01 is of a young man with dark eyes and eyebrows, long hair tied back in a ponytail, he looks cocky and gay. The one labeled Eddie Conners 2001 is of a basic looking middle-aged man with short hair, serial killer glasses, and bags under his pale eyes. The entire graphic is covered with 2000s style sticker decorations: a glitter heart, a glitter star, a CD, and a swoopy star circle in neon green. The overall background is a glitchy mess in tones of dark blues and purples. In bright green text: Nov. 12, sentient malls, nostalgia-bait, final "guy", sexy hell dimensions, getting off on company time, t!m/c!m, evil DILF propaganda, everyone's an asshole, serial killer/potential victim. At the center of the graphic is the book cover for Monitored Activity by Mitch Miller: a mostly purple background with gltched out CRT monitors, and a banner on the bottom that says Welcome to the night shift. The graphic's overall background is a glitchy mess in tones of dark blues and purples.
October 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
Jumping on the "fauxflix" #TheBookBazaar25 promo bandwagon.

Since I was already working on a 'little' something for MonAct, figured I'd get flashy with it.

tinyurl.com/monitoredactivity
October 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
astramachina.bsky.social
People have been doing this forever. You talk about fan fiction and people have been doing that for decades, if not centuries. We've never been short on creativity, nor the tools or skills to create art.

Calling food pics and selfies the original "slop", one can tell OP's never had any fun ever.
Screenshot from the article that reads: If history is a guide, the social media platforms that thrive are those that support and protect human creativity—in this case, the creativity to make the TV and movies you always wished existed.
October 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
Since I'm already here.

Eddie Conners, third shift and Security Manager at Prime Plaza.

He's so normal he's married to a beautiful wife and has 2.5 kids. Upstanding member of the community. Has never murdered or fed anyone to any fleshy anomalies in the mall's bowels because a voice told him to. 👍
black and white sketch of a tired middle-aged man who has obviously seen some shit. he's so basic looking it hurts. his hair is styled in that "basic dad on the cover of a 90s Sears magazine" way. he's also wearing serial killer glasses but that's unrelated.
October 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
3 likes & 12 hours later—

Meet Shaw Price, second shift security guard at Prime Plaza and MonAct's MC.

He's pretty, he'd dumb, a raging fa[LOUD BUZZER], high school dropout, took the concept of shame out back and shot it point-blank, & his only redeemable quality is being a "cool dude".

#MonAct
black and white sketch of a very pretty young man. he's got thick eyebrows, dark eyes, a very light "has been on T for about a year or two" mustache, windswept hair that's tied back in an unruly ponytail, and a vague pattern tattooed on the right side of his neck. he's rocking a pair of earrings and a shark tooth necklace. sketch was made by crimson-chains!
October 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
I have no real horse in this race but it WOULD be catastrophically funny.

I'd only need... 🤔 about 100 followers to beat them both?

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Meme image of Tiffany Pollard, a Black person with long black hair, white blouse, black pants, and glasses, leaning back against a pink headboard with her hands clasped in her lap. She looks patiently impatient and 100% iconic.
October 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
Was the nearly 21-hour day after only 4 hours of sleep worth it? Hell yeah it was.

I am, however, getting too old for this shit.
The entrance archway to Universal Studios Hollywood, with a sign for Halloween Horror Nights under it. It's a beautiful sunny day with palm trees against the blue sky. Selfie of me, a brown person with wide greenish eyes, glasses, a black face mask, a black hat and a red flannel shirt, standing in queue. Behind me is an entrance modeled after the FNAF movie pizzeria.
October 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
Here's a snippet from Monitored Activity's chapter one revision!

I'm particularly fond of this little snapshot into Shaw's headspace when it comes to his co-workers.
No locker is labeled—officially or not—but an unspoken gentleman's agreement stands. The one closest to the door belongs to Miss Janice, the third shift janitor. Hidden behind a pile of crusty rags are her gallons of bleach, the kind management won't approve in favor of the standard mandated stuff that, I quote: "doesn't work shit on shit." She keeps spare clothes and meds on the top shelf—with the threat to chop the fingers off any motherfucker who dares touch her hydrocodone—and a photo of her and her wife pinned to the back. The second locker is haphazardly split between regulars. My Walkman is jammed up against Carol's CD case, Mike's Gameboy is on top of Eddie's many issues of the Scientific American, backpacks and laptop bags are crammed in with a spare pair of non-OSHA compliant shoes sticking out between them; you get the gist. The third and fourth locker though, that's where we keep the communal stuff. Spare AA and AAA batteries, stationery, puzzle books, computer chargers, bulk boxes of chips, gum, and jerky. Further back, hidden behind a spiral notebook: condoms, lube packets, and a frequented tin of mints that hasn't been occupied by mints for longer than I've worked here. I don't know who keeps supplying the office with fresh joints, but in my heart of hearts they're the one who deserve employee of the decade.
September 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
The 1st of Halloween is right around the corner so figured it was finally time to bring out the decor.
A photo of my black cat inside a brown box, but only her head is clearly visible. Next to the box you can see the top of a plastic pumpkin.
September 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
Morning routine where I sit and either do some reading or listening to music and my cat vibes out in my lap.
Photo of a black cat resting her face on my thigh. She looks really sleepy and incredibly cute.
September 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
The tiniest sliver of description from inside Prime Plaza. 100% authentic 2000s mall back rooms.

#QueerWritersChat
Nature sounds get shot pointblank when the door behind them slams shut, the ringing in his ears muffled until he flexes his jaw and forces them to pop. The concrete walls that separate the back rooms from the areas frequented by guests are thick, with multiple coats of white glossy paint dampening the noise that threatens to escape the confines of the food court. "Same old, same old. Ready for another exhilarating day at the office?" Shaw snorts, stopping by the gumball machine and popping a quarter into the slot. Oliver stands next to him, killing time. "At least I don't have to deal with parents putting their stinky babies on freshly cleaned food counters."
September 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
astramachina.bsky.social
Did you know that, right now, you can get over twenty short stories ‼️FOR FREE‼️ over on itchio? There's a little bit of everything in this bundle, so consider it the perfect opportunity to maybe find your next favorite indie author. 👀

💙📚
#booksky

itch.io/b/3272/free-...
Majority red and orange image with a blue monochrome image of the waves on the beach. Text reads “Moon Glow” and “Mitch Miller, presented by Synth & Syntax.” Text over top reads “Free Short Story Bundle. September 15th-22nd” and “20+ Stories”. A graphic with large neon text reading "Itch bundle - 20+ free short stories - Sept 15-22" with a variety of book cover style images in the background.
September 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
🔊 old lady is a lean mean purring machine.
September 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
me every time The Midnight drops a track
September 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
astramachina.bsky.social
My guts have been trying to kamekazi since Thursday. Like any normal personal, I turn to reddit. OP says that laying on your left helps with thr pain.

The following comment made me sob in pure hysterics.
Reddit comment by user retsevi86: Remember though, if you're in the Southern Hemisphere lay on your right
September 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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September 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
astramachina.bsky.social
ah yes, thank you youtube. you're doing great. fantastic even.

i cannot turn off restricted mode because i guess i've watched enough fnaf videos for some unknowable "administrator" to deem me a minor.

i fucking hate this place.
screenshot from a drop down menu on youtube that says restricted mode is turned on by your network administrator to help hide potentially mature videos. the toggle to turn it off is grayed out.
September 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
astramachina.bsky.social
well shit. going through some of the footage and oh yeah.

oh yeah, this going to fuck most severely.
frame from a video that looks to have been taken on an old camcorder. the image is of dry ground with a small but deep hole dug out. frame from a video that looks to have been taken on an old camcorder. the image is that of a low but large building at the top of a distant hill.
September 6, 2025 at 4:55 AM
astramachina.bsky.social
I'm so close to catching 'em all....
Screenshot from the Pokémon Go pokedex. 150/151 caught from the Kanto region. I also have 30 shiny Pokémon.
September 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
astramachina.bsky.social
Did a lot of cool things this weekend, I'm fuckass exhausted, BUT!!!!! I got to play THIS bad boy and my soul healed a bit at having my hands on physical buttons & a joystick.
An original TRON arcade cabinet.
September 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM