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Mattie Gregory Lewis @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 4d

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 · 1d

“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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Boursin is sooooo good

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2d

The noble frog's reclamation from fascist pervert associations is so long overdue

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

Honestly not shaving is so valid. It’s not unhygienic to forgo shaving, but if you stink you either straight up aren’t bathing/showering enough or have a condition that needs to be addressed.

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

It’s actually not cool or punk to subject other people to your musty armpits and swamp ass.

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

I don’t expect human beings to smell like a rose garden every waking moment but like… if you fully reek like BO, you either have terrible hygiene or a condition.

Unscented soaps, deodorants, and detergents exist if you don’t want to deal with fragrances, but for the love of god clean yourself

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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

Honestly this slaps. I kinda want one. I uh… I actually really like dolls.

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

It’s why calling them “weird” was working so well and they never should have abandoned that tactic. Right wingers can’t stand the thought of not being the normal ones

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

This is like Peak Gamer Brain. Sorry, but if something is art it’s open to critique. You can’t have something both treated seriously as art and exempt from criticism

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

I haven’t played either Hades game and won’t because I am tired of myth retellings generally and additionally think the character designs are ugly and I hate them. Full support to you.

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

The wild thing is the real historical story the movie is based on is, if anything, even more bonkers

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

Hell yeah, it’s such a banger

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Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 3d

Stuff I'm looking forward to: I just started tucking into @devilsdoorbell.bsky.social stuff and it's fantastic; Wolfskin feels sort of familiar to anyone who knows folklore, (like perhaps strange noises in the forest?) but it's really freshly written.

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

Thank you so much!!

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

Thank you!

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

Thank you!

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

I am working on a painting

Unfinished acrylic painting of a woman with big brown hair in a frilly white dress and gold horned mask with pearls draped between the horns

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 14d

sorry you do have to write to be a writer. if the noun is mostly a verb, you have to do the verb to be the noun

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🎂 Sydney Screams 🎉 BIRTHDAY MONTH @sydneyscreams4u.bsky.social · 4d

porn is not evil.
sex is not evil.
pleasure is not evil.
kink is not evil.

none of them are things to feel shame or embarrassment about.

none of them deserve the heavy-handed censorship that they're facing.

resist oppression (even if you don't partake in what is being oppressed)

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