David J. Peterson
@dedalvs.bsky.social
Language creator (Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, Dune, The 100, others). (He/Him/His)
Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is ñuton “pot”. The glyph is in the shape of a pot with water inside. Due to the nature of cooking, the glyph is used for the unrelated word keragon “to cook”.
#conlang #highvalyrian #hotd #HouseOfTheDragon #gameofthrones #got #orthography
#conlang #highvalyrian #hotd #HouseOfTheDragon #gameofthrones #got #orthography
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is ñuton “pot”. The glyph is in the shape of a pot with water inside. Due to the nature of cooking, the glyph is used for the unrelated word keragon “to cook”.
#conlang #highvalyrian #hotd #HouseOfTheDragon #gameofthrones #got #orthography
#conlang #highvalyrian #hotd #HouseOfTheDragon #gameofthrones #got #orthography
Next up for #HighValyrian #Lexember: zākon “mint”. I like mint in savory things. It’s a fun little surprise. :) #conlang
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Next up for #HighValyrian #Lexember: zākon “mint”. I like mint in savory things. It’s a fun little surprise. :) #conlang
I cannot believe I forgot my own #HighValyrian #Lexember here yesterday… Double shot today. First one is havon “bread”. #conlang
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I cannot believe I forgot my own #HighValyrian #Lexember here yesterday… Double shot today. First one is havon “bread”. #conlang
Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is bāne “hot”. It’s also used for dija, which also means “hot”, but hot inside, not to the touch. #conlang #hotd #houseofthedragon #language #orthography #highvalyrian
December 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Today’s #Lexember #Valyrian glyph is bāne “hot”. It’s also used for dija, which also means “hot”, but hot inside, not to the touch. #conlang #hotd #houseofthedragon #language #orthography #highvalyrian
#Lexember has started! It’s the month where conlangers share a word they’ve coined in one of their conlangs. In my case, I share a new #HighValyrian glyph each day, and today’s glyph is associated with ñuragon which means “to grind”. #conlang #Valyrian #hotd #HouseOfTheDragon
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
#Lexember has started! It’s the month where conlangers share a word they’ve coined in one of their conlangs. In my case, I share a new #HighValyrian glyph each day, and today’s glyph is associated with ñuragon which means “to grind”. #conlang #Valyrian #hotd #HouseOfTheDragon
I like the new @mercuryphx.bsky.social logo better than the previous, but I don’t think it’s a final. It’s close. I love the moon which evokes the old Coyotes logo. Would love that to become a general Phoenix motif! #WNBA #Mercury #PhoenixMercury
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I like the new @mercuryphx.bsky.social logo better than the previous, but I don’t think it’s a final. It’s close. I love the moon which evokes the old Coyotes logo. Would love that to become a general Phoenix motif! #WNBA #Mercury #PhoenixMercury
Folks my age may remember when you had an old TV whose color was screwed up and you got wild, freaky, unidentifiable colors on the screen that felt like you were on some kind of high. The Minnesota Timberwolves have tried to recreate that experience with their court:
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Folks my age may remember when you had an old TV whose color was screwed up and you got wild, freaky, unidentifiable colors on the screen that felt like you were on some kind of high. The Minnesota Timberwolves have tried to recreate that experience with their court:
Love these Pittsburgh Steelers uniforms! www.bondsuits.com/wp-content/u...
October 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Love these Pittsburgh Steelers uniforms! www.bondsuits.com/wp-content/u...
For those headed to Los Angeles Comic Con, @quothalinguist.bsky.social and I will be presenting on our latest #Kryptonian #conlang from the recent #Superman film. Our presentation is Sept. 27th at 3:00 p.m. in room 405. Hope to see you there! #LACC
September 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
For those headed to Los Angeles Comic Con, @quothalinguist.bsky.social and I will be presenting on our latest #Kryptonian #conlang from the recent #Superman film. Our presentation is Sept. 27th at 3:00 p.m. in room 405. Hope to see you there! #LACC
I just learned that Graham Greene died. :( He was always very kind to me the set of #Defiance, very chatty. I always looked forward to spending time with him. This is a photo I took of him at a cast Q&A for a preview we did in Toronto. I’m sad not to be able to see him again.
September 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I just learned that Graham Greene died. :( He was always very kind to me the set of #Defiance, very chatty. I always looked forward to spending time with him. This is a photo I took of him at a cast Q&A for a preview we did in Toronto. I’m sad not to be able to see him again.
Look what they did to my boy! #TheHuntington
August 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Look what they did to my boy! #TheHuntington
We’ll share more about the language in the coming weeks (we want to give everyone a chance to see Superman). We hope you enjoy it!
July 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We’ll share more about the language in the coming weeks (we want to give everyone a chance to see Superman). We hope you enjoy it!
The original Kryptonian from the comic books is kind of a mixed bag, but Jessie and I did our best to rescue as much vocabulary as we possibly could. You see it everywhere as you sift through Suh Ankripton.
![sound system overview consonants p [p] k [k] th [θ] w [w]
b [b] g [g] s [s] l [l]
t [t] kw [kʷ] z [z] r [ɾ]
d [d] gw [gʷ] sh [ʃ] y [j]
ch [tʃ] f [f] zh [ʒ] m [m]
j [dʒ] v [v] h [h] n [n] vowels a [a] e [e] i [i] o [o] u [u]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6qzfewza574acbtyz5dmdzg/bafkreia7mmjexmrdl2wlxysoktnz3yhmuou4a3ysusdh6isfyr7av4zveq@jpeg)
July 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The original Kryptonian from the comic books is kind of a mixed bag, but Jessie and I did our best to rescue as much vocabulary as we possibly could. You see it everywhere as you sift through Suh Ankripton.
The latest work from me and @quothalinguist.bsky.social is the new #Kryptonian language in #Superman: #SuhAnkripton! #conlang
July 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The latest work from me and @quothalinguist.bsky.social is the new #Kryptonian language in #Superman: #SuhAnkripton! #conlang
I visited Cleveland for the first time in 2015 and absolutely fell in love with this gorgeous building called the Arcade. Little did I know that a movie I worked on would showcase that gorgeous building ten years later. Well done, @jamesgunn.bsky.social! #Superman
July 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I visited Cleveland for the first time in 2015 and absolutely fell in love with this gorgeous building called the Arcade. Little did I know that a movie I worked on would showcase that gorgeous building ten years later. Well done, @jamesgunn.bsky.social! #Superman
Our last #Kopikon speaker is none other than Jessie Peterson! Today is a big day, as Jessie and I celebrate our new #conlang in #Superman, our new languages in the album Chronicles of the Residuum, and Jessie’s new textbook The Conlang Guide, coming from Cambridge University Press in October!
July 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I’ll be speaking fourth at #Kopikon in Edinburgh this October! Last time around I made a jellybean language you can eat. This time…!
Register here:
kopikon.com
#language #conlang #dothraki #valyrian #trigedasleng #langtime
Register here:
kopikon.com
#language #conlang #dothraki #valyrian #trigedasleng #langtime
July 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I’ll be speaking fourth at #Kopikon in Edinburgh this October! Last time around I made a jellybean language you can eat. This time…!
Register here:
kopikon.com
#language #conlang #dothraki #valyrian #trigedasleng #langtime
Register here:
kopikon.com
#language #conlang #dothraki #valyrian #trigedasleng #langtime
Our next #Kopikon speaker is the @biblaridion.bsky.social! Biblaridion is easily one of the best conlangers today, and we’re grateful to have him back! Kopikon II is at the University of Edinburgh on Friday, October 10th, and you can register here:
kopikon.com
kopikon.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Our next #Kopikon speaker is the @biblaridion.bsky.social! Biblaridion is easily one of the best conlangers today, and we’re grateful to have him back! Kopikon II is at the University of Edinburgh on Friday, October 10th, and you can register here:
kopikon.com
kopikon.com
Our next #Kopikon speaker is Jake Penny (@jakecito.bsky.social)! Jake is the cohost of @letshaveabouba.bsky.social which streams every Tuesday at 1:30 pm Pacific (e.g. today!). Jake will be speaking second this October at the University of Edinburgh! To register head over to:
kopikon.com
kopikon.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Our next #Kopikon speaker is Jake Penny (@jakecito.bsky.social)! Jake is the cohost of @letshaveabouba.bsky.social which streams every Tuesday at 1:30 pm Pacific (e.g. today!). Jake will be speaking second this October at the University of Edinburgh! To register head over to:
kopikon.com
kopikon.com
#Kopikon is back! This October (Friday the 10th) we’re hosting our second #conlang event at the University of Edinburgh, and our first speaker will be linguist and conlanger Keras Saryan! Stay tuned this week for more speaker intros! #langtime #langtimestudio
July 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#Kopikon is back! This October (Friday the 10th) we’re hosting our second #conlang event at the University of Edinburgh, and our first speaker will be linguist and conlanger Keras Saryan! Stay tuned this week for more speaker intros! #langtime #langtimestudio
Heartbroken to hear of the sudden and unexpected passing of Jill Sobule. I met her at the e.g. Conference. Attendees/presenters there became a part of a kind of loose-knit family, and we had dinner at least one other time (can’t remember where). Here’s a photo of her on stage at e.g.:
May 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Heartbroken to hear of the sudden and unexpected passing of Jill Sobule. I met her at the e.g. Conference. Attendees/presenters there became a part of a kind of loose-knit family, and we had dinner at least one other time (can’t remember where). Here’s a photo of her on stage at e.g.:
Berkeley at night.
April 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Berkeley at night.
March 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM