Mattie Lewis
@devilsdoorbell.bsky.social
Folklore & folk horror enthusiast. Deactivates often, due to agonies.
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Mattie 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.
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.
Thinking of going social media hermit mode until after the holidays are over. It’s a stressful time of year for me.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Thinking of going social media hermit mode until after the holidays are over. It’s a stressful time of year for me.
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Mood, by noonsillustrations on IG.
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Mood, by noonsillustrations on IG.
Realized with where this scene is located on my scrivener doc relative go the others I’ve accidentally written rep for the PMDD/PME girlies and I think I’m just gonna make that as good as canon tbh
I fiddling around with my romance novel and started writing a scene i hadn’t planned on that I realized is actually going to be helpful for giving the story more structure/momentum, at least wrt to the development of the protagonists’ relationship.
It’s also real angsty
It’s also real angsty
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Realized with where this scene is located on my scrivener doc relative go the others I’ve accidentally written rep for the PMDD/PME girlies and I think I’m just gonna make that as good as canon tbh
There is little I hate to see more than lifted F1-50s in the city or suburbs. You do not need that tank to go to your office job or the grocery store.
pickup trucks for the average person should not have been allowed to advance past this. if you need anything bigger, you should have to provide some kind of documentation showing you have the license and need for special heavy machinery, otherwise you get the 1990 toyota hilux
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
There is little I hate to see more than lifted F1-50s in the city or suburbs. You do not need that tank to go to your office job or the grocery store.
If I was going to do a pithy summary of this story it’s “two people who hate themselves find love and self-actualization through folklore-heavy fantasy Satanism”
I fiddling around with my romance novel and started writing a scene i hadn’t planned on that I realized is actually going to be helpful for giving the story more structure/momentum, at least wrt to the development of the protagonists’ relationship.
It’s also real angsty
It’s also real angsty
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
If I was going to do a pithy summary of this story it’s “two people who hate themselves find love and self-actualization through folklore-heavy fantasy Satanism”
I fiddling around with my romance novel and started writing a scene i hadn’t planned on that I realized is actually going to be helpful for giving the story more structure/momentum, at least wrt to the development of the protagonists’ relationship.
It’s also real angsty
It’s also real angsty
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I fiddling around with my romance novel and started writing a scene i hadn’t planned on that I realized is actually going to be helpful for giving the story more structure/momentum, at least wrt to the development of the protagonists’ relationship.
It’s also real angsty
It’s also real angsty
“Toasted ravioli”
Lyme Disease
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“Toasted ravioli”
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I decided not to read the emails pedophiles sent each other. I understand the importance but that's not how I'm spending my day today.
November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I decided not to read the emails pedophiles sent each other. I understand the importance but that's not how I'm spending my day today.
I am having fun with my #Witch/InquisitorWIP again
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I am having fun with my #Witch/InquisitorWIP again
Can’t believe I forgot but also: femdom, but more in a “man submits to beautiful feminine woman in terrified reverence even and perhaps esp. if she is cruel to him despite the fact that he could strangle her one-handed” sense than “buff muscle mommy steps on man’s balls then brutally pegs him” sense
Not listing by character because sometimes the kink is just my barely disguised fetish but some that commonly come up in my work are:
Blasphemy
BDSM (emphasis on the D and M)
Outdoor sex
CNC
Monsterfucking (primarily demons)
Blood (generally, also menstrual blood specifically)
Spit
Breathplay
Blasphemy
BDSM (emphasis on the D and M)
Outdoor sex
CNC
Monsterfucking (primarily demons)
Blood (generally, also menstrual blood specifically)
Spit
Breathplay
In the spirit of kink positivity--what kinks do everyone's characters have (if this is something your characters have)?
*Important note: Ace people and characters can and do also have kinks!
*Important note: Ace people and characters can and do also have kinks!
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Can’t believe I forgot but also: femdom, but more in a “man submits to beautiful feminine woman in terrified reverence even and perhaps esp. if she is cruel to him despite the fact that he could strangle her one-handed” sense than “buff muscle mommy steps on man’s balls then brutally pegs him” sense
The St. Louis subreddit really delivers sometimes
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The St. Louis subreddit really delivers sometimes
Not listing by character because sometimes the kink is just my barely disguised fetish but some that commonly come up in my work are:
Blasphemy
BDSM (emphasis on the D and M)
Outdoor sex
CNC
Monsterfucking (primarily demons)
Blood (generally, also menstrual blood specifically)
Spit
Breathplay
Blasphemy
BDSM (emphasis on the D and M)
Outdoor sex
CNC
Monsterfucking (primarily demons)
Blood (generally, also menstrual blood specifically)
Spit
Breathplay
In the spirit of kink positivity--what kinks do everyone's characters have (if this is something your characters have)?
*Important note: Ace people and characters can and do also have kinks!
*Important note: Ace people and characters can and do also have kinks!
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Not listing by character because sometimes the kink is just my barely disguised fetish but some that commonly come up in my work are:
Blasphemy
BDSM (emphasis on the D and M)
Outdoor sex
CNC
Monsterfucking (primarily demons)
Blood (generally, also menstrual blood specifically)
Spit
Breathplay
Blasphemy
BDSM (emphasis on the D and M)
Outdoor sex
CNC
Monsterfucking (primarily demons)
Blood (generally, also menstrual blood specifically)
Spit
Breathplay
Not me looking wistfully at the Horror Writer’s Chat posts going up today lmao
Coming to the realization that I don’t really write horror-ass horror and kinda never did, especially looking at my projects in progress which are all better categorized as dark fantasy or gothic romance.
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Not me looking wistfully at the Horror Writer’s Chat posts going up today lmao
Having way too many WIPs going at once. I get things finished but I know I’d get them finished faster if it were easier to just lock in on one project at a time.
What's a bad writing habit you have that you'd like to kick? #WritingPrompt
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Having way too many WIPs going at once. I get things finished but I know I’d get them finished faster if it were easier to just lock in on one project at a time.
I’ve never really listened to Rosalia before but kept hearing about her newest album and this is incredible??????
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I’ve never really listened to Rosalia before but kept hearing about her newest album and this is incredible??????
imo it’s “people will put up with many things if you have a lot of money.” Nobody gaf if a working class kid is great with numbers. They’re still going to get bullied by their peers if they’re perceived as weird or annoying.
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
imo it’s “people will put up with many things if you have a lot of money.” Nobody gaf if a working class kid is great with numbers. They’re still going to get bullied by their peers if they’re perceived as weird or annoying.
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Prometheus implies the existence of Amateurmetheus
November 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Prometheus implies the existence of Amateurmetheus
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My hot Frankenstein take is that Frankenstein is a textually rich work and the beauty and longevity of these works is that different people can interpret them through radically different lenses. Making your monster movie about accepting your father/son's flaws is a new lens that enriches the corpus.
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 AM
My hot Frankenstein take is that Frankenstein is a textually rich work and the beauty and longevity of these works is that different people can interpret them through radically different lenses. Making your monster movie about accepting your father/son's flaws is a new lens that enriches the corpus.
I might if I wrote faster, but I write slow enough that I have a perpetual backlog of story ideas.
Writers, do you ever fear running out of story ideas? This is one fear I don’t have #writingq #WritingCommunity
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I might if I wrote faster, but I write slow enough that I have a perpetual backlog of story ideas.
My mom’s old Victorian poetry textbook from when she was in college. I got bored one day and started reading through it. I was 13 or 14.
Swinburne and Browning and Tennyson and both Rossettis rewired my brain. Formative in both developing my taste in literature and my style as a writer.
Swinburne and Browning and Tennyson and both Rossettis rewired my brain. Formative in both developing my taste in literature and my style as a writer.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
My mom’s old Victorian poetry textbook from when she was in college. I got bored one day and started reading through it. I was 13 or 14.
Swinburne and Browning and Tennyson and both Rossettis rewired my brain. Formative in both developing my taste in literature and my style as a writer.
Swinburne and Browning and Tennyson and both Rossettis rewired my brain. Formative in both developing my taste in literature and my style as a writer.
Coming to the realization that I don’t really write horror-ass horror and kinda never did, especially looking at my projects in progress which are all better categorized as dark fantasy or gothic romance.
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Coming to the realization that I don’t really write horror-ass horror and kinda never did, especially looking at my projects in progress which are all better categorized as dark fantasy or gothic romance.
Me @ everyone who has ever called my prose “purple” tbh
No one tells you how much of this writing life is maintaining a one-sided cold war against some writer you feel wronged you years ago.
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Me @ everyone who has ever called my prose “purple” tbh
Frankly this is why I love him. I love that his movies are so tender and sentimental at heart and I love his sympathetic monsters.
Crimson Peak is Del Toro outright telling you, at heart, he's not a horror guy; he's a romance guy.
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Frankly this is why I love him. I love that his movies are so tender and sentimental at heart and I love his sympathetic monsters.
Currently on Charlie Parker book 3, The Killing Kind. I am applauding myself for making this decision because these books whip. If you ever wanted to read detective/crime fiction so fucked up you could make a strong case for it being horror, Connolly’s your guy.
Decided that for my audiobook listening for the foreseeable future, I’m gonna do John Connolly’s Charlie Parker books. I’ve already read a ton of them but it’s fun to listen.
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Currently on Charlie Parker book 3, The Killing Kind. I am applauding myself for making this decision because these books whip. If you ever wanted to read detective/crime fiction so fucked up you could make a strong case for it being horror, Connolly’s your guy.
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An adorable black squirrel just ran up to me and gave me a tiny little letter it was carrying in its mouth it was cute till I saw it was a fucking subpoena
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
An adorable black squirrel just ran up to me and gave me a tiny little letter it was carrying in its mouth it was cute till I saw it was a fucking subpoena