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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 5h

Books aren’t super cheap but they’re not THAT expensive in the grand scheme of things and frankly they have a better cost/time spent enjoying ratio than most other media

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t typically dog ear or write in my books, but the only ones I really baby are my few books that are out of print. The others? If they’re still in print, who gives a shit. If it gets trashed and I love the story, I’ll just buy another copy and support the author twice.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway,

Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · Dec 17

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 23h

I consider myself reasonably tolerant of most vices, but nothing turns me into a Gilded Age temperance shrew like gambling.

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 1d

Ngl if chatbot erotica actually arouses you, you should fall upon your sword in shame.

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 1d

I could try

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 1d

Ime romance is worse about it than mystery, which kills me because I love romance novels

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I’d extend this to all genres. Doing a trope checklist instead of actually having something to say is uhhhh kinda bad?

Tropes imo should be something just naturally occurs in the story, not something you actively plan the story around.

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 2d

I love this but with one caveat: it better not be a book I love.

If it's a book I also hate? Stoked, love a good bitch about a bad book

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 2d

That whole collection is phenomenal, can't recommend it enough

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 2d

Never read Portrait or Ulysses but Dubliners is just banger after banger. The ending paragraph of "The Dead" is one of the most beautiful story endings I've ever read, second only to "The Tiger's Bride" by Angela Carter

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 2d

I kind of agree but I think it maybe be mostly due to my general dislike of free verse. Any decent songwriter cares about the rhythm and musicality of their lyrics and a lot of contemporary poets just like... kinda forgot about that

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think Sanderson has ever read a poem in his life he wasn't assigned for school and it shows

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 2d

It's almost like UKLG is a good writer who understands economy of language and Brando Sando is not

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 2d

Any book that goes longer than 300 pages (400 for heavy worldbuilding genres like fantasy, sci-fi, or historical fiction) needs to really earn it. Extremely few books with 600+ pages deserve that many pages.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 2d

That's the library

Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 2d

Skill issue tbh. You ever read an 18th century gothic novel? That shit slaps

Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately I don't have a platform RN since everyone seems to be cracking down on explicit content all at once, but I can certainly email you PDFs. Hit me up at [email protected]

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hello, new followers!

I'm Mattie and I'm a St. Louis-based writer. I mostly write short fiction though I've got a novel in the works. My genres of choice are dark fantasy, horror, romance, and erotic fiction—esp with gothic or folkloric elements. I love history, horror movies, and heavy metal.

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 3d

Björk’s greatest hits compilation. Bought it on a whim in 7th grade and listened to it so much in middle and high school that the disc wore out.

Frankly, this explains a lot about who I am as a person.

Dean @ordersson.bsky.social · 4d

on the flip, what did you buy blind on a total whim that turned out to be utterly life affirming?

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 6d

What albums does everyone regret buying? Loads for me, but the one that really sticks in my mind is K by Kula Shaker, which I forced myself to listen to joylessly several times in the desperate attempt to convince myself I hadn’t wasted my money, and still get cringes of regret about 29 years later.

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 3d

“No Church in the Wild” bangs but the rest of that album is so deeply whatever to me

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 3d

I am the opposite. Mountains freak me out but I’m totally comfortable in a flat-ass prairie. Missouri Life lol

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 3d

These are both very special to me. Harry Clarke is my favorite artist and I’ve been dreaming about owning an old edition of a book he illustrated for like a decade, and one of my core childhood memories is seeing the Duré illustration of Satan in the ice and being terrified and transfixed at once

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 3d

Went to the St. Louis Rare Books Fair on a whim today and was not financially responsible, but I did come away with incredible books.

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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 4d

Boursin is sooooo good

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