Miss Addled Miss

Writer. Booklr. History nerd. A way too passionate enthusiast for architecture, music, and the colors of dying leaves. Writing Blog: @mthollowell-writes

[mthollowell-writes]

Writeblr Introduction

Hello! My name is MT (she/her, in the twilight of my 20s) and I'm a writer looking for other writers to connect with! I'm a bit of a Tumblr dinosaur (first account circa 2014) but I've been away from Tumblr for a number of years. This is my first time making a Writblr introduction so without further ado...

About my Writing:

I write mostly speculative fiction with a bent towards horror and the weird though I love to experiment with other genres every once in a while. I've spent the last year focusing on one long-term project that I would classify as a horror thriller (though it keeps evolving). I'm just about out of the outlining stage for its second draft. In between that, I work on a number of short story projects in various stages of drafting.

Common Themes/Tropes/Things I Like:

I like a light touch of the fantastical. Ghosts, magic, the potential for the strange.

I also like to toe the line between what's real and what's imagined. The psychological and the existential. The fluidity of time and the absurdity of existence. Most of the time, my characters are battling something within themselves that's manifesting as something strange outside of themselves. To put it simply, I like messy characters.

Monsters, eldritch horrors, and the things we cannot name.

I love a good mystery. Long buried secrets coming to the surface, a strange death without cause, detectives solving puzzles. I've been working this more into my current WIP

I love history. I've been recently obsessed with the American frontier circa 1850s-1890s, the counterculture and social movements of the 1960s/1970s, and most things Victorian. Cultural and social histories are my obsessions and I like exploring concepts in my fiction

Genres I Read:

I try to read widely but my go-tos will always be mystery/thrillers, speculative fiction, horror, and a good nonfiction book that explores a historical or true crime obsession. I'm also partial to fantasy and romance when I'm in the mood for it.

That's about all I can think of to write at the moment! If any of you want to connect, feel free to say hello!

This is a blog solely dedicated to writing. My main blog is @missaddledmiss.

[tieflingkisser]

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Voting ended onJun 11

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[m4nsch]

happy pride! remember that being a transgender is everything but fiction. there are so many real historical figures from every century about whose transgenderism we aren't even aware of

on this picture i drew Alexandr Andreevich Alexandrov - cavalry officer of the russian imperial army that participated in napoleonic wars. people persistently keep on misgendering mispronounsing deadnaming and calling him a crossdresser although alexandrov clearly stated that he didn't want to be called by his deadname and being treated like anything but a man. that's an interesting historical figure and i wanted to draw attention to his person. i can't tell everything about him in only one post so i recomend you to read about alexandrov by yourself

also be proud of yourself and remember that you're valid! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[shencomix]

My Fitness Coach is a Dark Wizard [Complete]

[shutyourmoustache]

When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

[party-gilmore]

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

The time for Los Jibbities has arrived!

[leebrontide]

Literally was quoting this to my wife this morning. Happy Los Jibbities particularly this person's mom; a stellar ally.

[maddiesharafian]

A Blacksmith’s Dream

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[greppelheks]

[walerihq]

[sag-dab-sar-follows]

[scouts-cosplays]

normal day in tf2 casual

[conzoop]

This is what goes on in those gmod RP 128 player servers that are always full

[official-kircheis]

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities

[animentality]

[soulandwine]

[crispy-ghee]

There's a book that we had in our house growing up that I was obsessed with as a kid. It was just called "PAKISTAN: PAINTINGS BY LIN YONG AND SU HUA" and it was an art book of 100+ paintings/sketches by two Chinese artists who travelled thru Pakistan in 1978 and 1981, a sort of travelogue of their trip, and to little-kid me, it was some of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. I have no idea why we had that book, but I would stare at it for hours, and it made me wish I could draw/paint/do whatever it was that these artists had managed to do.

Anyway, we've moved house a bunch of times and I lost track of the book and haven't seen it for probably two decades now. But I think about it now and again, and had struggled to find it over the years, but I finally, finally got my hands on a copy of my own and i want to cry haha

I was afraid that maybe the art isn't as good as I remembered, being just a kid and all, but I cracked it open and nope, it hits me just the way it used to. Maybe even more now. It's so fucking pretty. Have some random pages:

[crispy-ghee]

Sure! Have some more portraits from the book

[durbikins]

[pending-trans-action-2]

[transgender-er]

DEVASTATED to learn that there is no widely known adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray that sets the story during the rise and peak years of the Disco Craze.

[transgender-er]

Reasons I feel like this story and setting could be a perfect combo:

The obsession with Youth and Beauty!

The drug use!

The Queerness!

The outrageous Fashion!

Dorian is a literal musician!

The HEDONISM!!!

[transgender-er]

I need a Disco musical version of The Picture of Dorian Gray

[transgender-er]

The artist Nea! gets me, apparently. Their song "Dorian Gray" goes hard.

[poppitron360]

@lokisr77

[mayakern]

listen, i don’t usually take commissions, but if someone’s gonna pay me to draw characters i designed..? i can be tempted.

ty hannah for commissioning me to draw this lovely duo from my licensable character design tier on patreon, which have found a wonderful home as NPCs in your game!