Mattiiv

she/her, call me matt || ocs, thoughts and things

[aroaessidhe]

faves of 2024: YA horror/thriller/gothic

The Invocations

Don’t Let The Forest In

Have You Seen This Girl

Lockjaw

Old Wounds

All The Dead Lie Down

The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette’s

Compound Fracture

So Witches We Became

[conceptofjoy]

big fan of characters who have it all under control when theyre put in situations but no idea how to be like a regular guy doing regular stuff when all is said and done.

[chainmail-butch]

Hello my name is Angry Reactionary and I hate linguistic drift. Stop making new words for things you fucking proles.

[prokopetz]

The concept of "love languages" as a totalising picture of relationship dynamics may be pseudoscientific bullshit, but I have to credit the idea's proponents for enabling all those jokes of the format "my love language is [something objectively unhinged]". Top form there.

[autisticlittleguy]

There was a paper in 2016 exploring how an ML model was differentiating between wolves and dogs with a really high accuracy, they found that for whatever reason the model seemed to *really* like looking at snow in images, as in thats what it pays attention to most.

Then it hit them. *oh.*

*all the images of wolves in our dataset has snow in the background*

*this little shit figured it was easier to just learn how to detect snow than to actually learn the difference between huskies and wolves. because snow = wolf*

Shit like this happens *so often*. People think trainning models is like this exact coding programmer hackerman thing when its more like, coralling a bunch of sentient crabs that can do calculus but like at the end of the day theyre still fucking crabs.

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

its so easy to pander to me in fiction media. show me a guy that for some reason doesnt feel himself to be as human as most others are and i will sit with him for hours

[prophetic-writer]

Writing is all fun and games until you have to describe a room.

[serdunkthelunk]

I think in the same way there's a 90/10 rule with horror and comedy (horror works best when it's 90% horror and 10% comedy and vice versa) there's a 90/10 rule for some relationships in fiction that's like. Wholesome and fucked up. A good friendship is at its most compelling when it's also 10% a bit fucked up. Fucked up relationship is at its most compelling when there's at least 10% of something actually sweet and substantive within. Do you get me

[bittersweetresilience]

one of my favorite things to do in limited perspective is write sentences about the things someone doesn't do. he doesn't open his eyes. he doesn't reach out. i LOVE sentences like that. if it's describing the narrator, it's a reflection of their desires, something they're holding themselves back from. there's a tension between urge and action. it makes you ask why they wanted or felt compelled to do that, and also why they ultimately didn't. and if it's describing someone else, it tells you about the narrator's expectations. how they perceive that other person or their relationship. what they thought the other person was going to do, or thought the other person should have done, but failed to. negative action sentences are everything.

[annabelle--cane]

such a profound sense of delight when I realize that a piece of media is matching my freak to the very letter. there are creators out there who are my exact kind of sicko and we are reaching out to each other as if across the cosmos.

[iamthetruestrepairman]

is anyone else constantly afraid they’ll be “caught” doing stuff they’re obviously allowed or even supposed to do

[mattiiv]

is this not a universal experience

[mattiiv]

Three guys running the local government-subsidised monster-protection racket (we love capitalism) fighting one of their monsters. Waistcoat guy is frequently more acrobatic than he should be.

[ezrul-00]

prodigal daughter out now!

link to get zine on gumroad

hi guys !! very pleased to announce that prodigal daughter, a digital charity zine about kristen applebees from dimension 20’s fantasy high is out today!!! over 40+ amazing artists and writers from the community contributed to it. i had a lot of fun with this piece and i feel very honoured to have been chosen to contribute. you can pick up a copy for free OR for a pay-as-you-want donation to care for gaza.

[mattiiv]

Some lads! They're chilling, and their unfortunate family history means that maybe a few people end up getting disappeared into a wheat field.

[what-even-is-thiss]

When inventing a fantasy religion a lot of people a) make the mistake of assuming that everyone in fantasy world would worship the same gods and b) assume that polytheistic religions see all of their gods as morally good

[doublism]

they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

[mattiiv]

if i could hit code to make it work i wouldn't be failing comp

[mattiiv]

This is Matt, Cassie and Jonathan, three kids living together in an ancient crime syndicate's best idea of a children's home. I am allergic to consistent design so Matt and Jonathan are not quite the same as in their mugshots version.