J.K. Graves
jkgraves.bsky.social
J.K. Graves
@jkgraves.bsky.social
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Linguist, father, nerd. Creating languages on #PathfinderInfinite. Working on a couple of novels. Pathfinder Infinite: https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/m/product/454638
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Y'all, #ReadingRainbow is back, and it's great! I watched it with my five year old curled up next to me this morning, and my eyes got leaky. @mychal3ts.bsky.social
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Reading Rainbow emphasis is encouraging kids to read. The focus is not on teaching them to read. The mission is reading should be fun!

We are all readers, worthy of literacy. LeVar Burton said “but you don’t have to take my word for it” because he wanted us to look to the books. That’s the beauty 💚
So long, America. It was nice knowing you.
again, calls Your people to embody and advocate for that justice, especially for the most vulnerable - the fatherless, the widow, the foreigner.
Yet it feels like I'm this cultural moment, so many of us are branding the poor, the foreigner, and others as a threat to be destroyed. And the world(6/10)
Others become the victims of injustice that we, who claim to be Your followers, have perpetrated upon them.

Again, even if we can understand the reasons (assuming my articulation of them is accurate), we know that you are a God of justice. You are a God who, over and over and over and over (5/10)
injustice. Anyone else identity suffered from our own in any way feels like a contributor to the confusion which is already sending us into a bind, reactionary panic. Founding, we kick and flail to maintain our group on our own identities - and in our panicked flailing, others are hurt. (4/10)
dehumanizing change, how can anyone help but react in bind panic? How can anyone not lag out, failing against anyone, anything that seems to contribute to the overwhelming confusion of overly rapid change?

At the same time, however understandable it may, the result we are seeing is gross (3/10)
Lord, the world is changing fast. Garrett than any rational human being can be expected to keep up with. And it often feels as if the changes that come too fast to follow, too fast to process, tend towards devaluing humanity. Devaluing people made in your image. In the face of such rapid, (2/10)
I imagine that when a demon attacks your city hidden inside a volcano, some o' y'all are going to leave, even if it risks getting caught by the tyrannosaur empire. #anthropomorphic #magicusing #dinosaurs #booksky #rewrites #seconddraft
Oh, man, Exo Squad!!!
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Maybe Wheel of Time and A Song of Ice and Fire are just locked in some quantum uncertainty where you can either have a completed book series or a completed television series.
I absolutely intend to! Let chaos reign!
This second draft is still kind of a mess. But there's also a lot I'm really pleased with! #booksky #writing #fantasy #anthropomorphic #magicusing #dinosaurs
Sounds like a ton of fun! Looking forward to watching when I get a chance!
Seems like y'all are having fun!
Fixed it: Seven years is some serious procrastination.
It only took me seven years, but I finally finished a second draft of a novel! #booksky #writing #fantasy #anthropomorphic #magicusing #dinosaurs
Now you've got a real world example of what not to do?
It's been FAR too long in coming, but I have finally updated and expanded my Draklor Incantations to cover the Remaster. This work contains incantations in Draconic for every spell on the Arcane list in Player Core, expanded grammar, and a glossary of every word form used!
I'm actually working on making the fictional Florinese language (which S. Morgenstern's original novel was published in, only later "translated" by William Goldman) as a fan project. Looks like this: On nòum sed Inigo Montoya. Tu cuènts om pàir. Ariùrs meriùrs!
My time travel short story was not selected for publication! I'm not too upset about it. Gotta keep trying!