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Hi, I’m Polydina Flynt.
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Polydina Flynt is an independent fiction-maker, media artist, and cult worldbuilder based in Aotearoa. For over a decade, he’s freelanced across writing, design, and experimental storytelling—crafting everything from punk zines and machinima to psychological horror screenplays and open-source games.His creative journey started in the most unlikely place: the back of a truck. At sixteen, after dropping out of high school, he spent a soul-crushing season helping a truck driver on daily rounds. Bored out of his mind, he was dragged to a careers expo and stumbled across a booth for television, theatre, and radio. That moment of epiphany sent him back to school to earn university entry, then on to Aoraki Polytechnic, and eventually to a creative writing degree specializing in screenwriting—with merit in short fiction.Polydina’s work blends visceral honesty, surreal worldbuilding, and countercultural critique. He fuses body horror, sad comedy, and gonzo narrative theory, often working in CC BY and open-source spaces to share his process and invite collaboration. His fiction leans experimental, his games are glitchy and raw, and his visual work channels a DIY punk aesthetic with a literary twist.---### Upcoming Releases:* Three novels — a fictional memoir, a weird-literary body horror, and a surreal urban fantasy
* Three zines — on nerd culture businesses, creative rebellion, and a punk docu-memoir
* A machinima series — made in RPG Maker, satirizing post-college startup dreams
* An open-source video game — Grounders2D, a sewer-soccer survival sim
* A 50-page graphic novel — about time-theft and moral collapse
* A body horror feature screenplay — being developed as an FMV game
* A full rewrite of a 90s-mod rulebook for Marvel’s OverPower CCG, reimagined as an open-source strategy deck systemAll projects live under the Greenscreen Commune (Patreon/Discord) or Synaptext (experimental software). He writes and builds daily—turning a chaotic past into a sustainable creative ecosystem.---Polydina Flynt is a genre-scrambler, punk surrealist, and DIY fiction-maker. His work lives between a haunted sketchbook and a glitching Saturday morning cartoon—where malformed faces grin through broken teeth and every absurd moment feels uncomfortably real. With roots in screenwriting, digital art, and underground theatre, Polydina’s voice is shaped by mental rewiring, creative recovery, and obsessive worldbuilding.Equal parts grotesque and vulnerable, his stories draw from body horror, lo-fi animation, and alt-lit to explore alienation, identity, and quiet apocalypse. One moment you’re laughing at a sentient finger puppet, the next you’re gutted by emotional weight. That tonal swing is intentional—nothing real is just one thing.He’s drawn to stories that punch through normality with weird emotional logic: Upstream Color, Oldboy, Monster in a Box, The Compleet Molesworth, Gunshy (2000), It’s Such a Beautiful Day—and creators like David Firth, Eric Chahi, Raul Salazar, Chris Hallbeck, Ken Reid and Brian Colin. His aesthetic is wired by '90s PC weirdness (Freedom Force, Close Combat, Lemmings), cult series (Lexx, Home Movies), and modern analog resurgences like Warzone Eternal and Magic: The Gathering.Other core fandoms are deep and weird: Rage CCG, Epic 40K, JTHM, Friends of Maxx, Child’s Play, and cult docs like Cartoon College and Crumb. Influences span from Stephen King, Glen Duncan, Chiodo Bros, and Jim Henson, to Peter Chung, the Cronenbergs, Casey Pugh, and Mark Rosewater. He vibes with the worldbuilders too—Aaron Beck, Ade Chappell, Sam Kelly, Jorsh Pena—plus indie visionaries like Media Molecule, Subtle games, Playdead, Strayfawn, and Muro. This isn’t homage—it’s emotional alignment with art that breaks reality to reveal something truer.Right now, you’ll find him building a punk story empire one Patreon drop at a time, sketching grotesque heads in cafés, and rewilding the canon. If you like your art raw, weird, funny, and haunted—welcome to the cult.---### 🔜 2025–2026 Hyperfocus Slate:* 180-page graphic novel — written, pencilled, and coloured in 18 months
* New novel — lit spec fic, experimental, and emotionally raw
* New open-source video game — an rpg about group therapy + CC BY design files
