Dragon Knight
@jonathandraak.bsky.social
Autistic author and lover of all things fantasy.
Currently Querying: The Land of Dragons
Currently Outlining: The Shattered Sky
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@jonathandraak?si=UfrOUlwsPpl-W8Bb
(should start making videos here soon)
Currently Querying: The Land of Dragons
Currently Outlining: The Shattered Sky
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@jonathandraak?si=UfrOUlwsPpl-W8Bb
(should start making videos here soon)
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Dragon Knight
@jonathandraak.bsky.social
· Jan 20
Hello #booksky friends! I am a new #author currently querying my first #epicfantasy book, The Land of Dragons, while also outlining my next planned book, The Shattered Sky.
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Imagine the art and culture and writing we could have if we had universal basic income
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Imagine the art and culture and writing we could have if we had universal basic income
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That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
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sorry to get political, but if they wanted to protect kids, they would feed them. they would invest in their education. they would build more parks, more programs, and invest in their future.
if they wanted to protect kids, they would build a world meant for them.
if they wanted to protect kids, they would build a world meant for them.
August 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
sorry to get political, but if they wanted to protect kids, they would feed them. they would invest in their education. they would build more parks, more programs, and invest in their future.
if they wanted to protect kids, they would build a world meant for them.
if they wanted to protect kids, they would build a world meant for them.
Recently hit the 1/3 point in the first draft of the Shattered Sky. This one has been a rough journey so far, as my chronic pain keeps getting in the way of my writing time. But I am proud of the progress I have made despite the pain.
June 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Recently hit the 1/3 point in the first draft of the Shattered Sky. This one has been a rough journey so far, as my chronic pain keeps getting in the way of my writing time. But I am proud of the progress I have made despite the pain.
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Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.
This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.
The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality
June 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.
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ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people
June 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people
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Ms Rachel got hands
May 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Ms Rachel got hands
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Guess we gotta keep up the sentiment that GenAI sucks so that more companies start to feel it.
May 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Guess we gotta keep up the sentiment that GenAI sucks so that more companies start to feel it.
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The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI:
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
May 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI:
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
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Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down!
www.404media.co/republicans-...
www.404media.co/republicans-...
Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.
www.404media.co
May 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down!
www.404media.co/republicans-...
www.404media.co/republicans-...
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Last night's episodes of Andor were powerful and harrowing, especially in just how many parallels they had to Israel's still ongoing genocide of the people of Gaza.
May 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Last night's episodes of Andor were powerful and harrowing, especially in just how many parallels they had to Israel's still ongoing genocide of the people of Gaza.
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With Threads debating whether authors should review, and people asking if I'll keep reviewing as a publisher, I wrote this:
"It is not a coincidence whose voices get stripped away first under these expectations of 'professionalism.'"
mareas.binderybooks.com/item/0DmpyoW...
"It is not a coincidence whose voices get stripped away first under these expectations of 'professionalism.'"
mareas.binderybooks.com/item/0DmpyoW...
Bindery Books | Critique or Career Risk?
Exploring why I still believe in public critique, even ...
mareas.binderybooks.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
With Threads debating whether authors should review, and people asking if I'll keep reviewing as a publisher, I wrote this:
"It is not a coincidence whose voices get stripped away first under these expectations of 'professionalism.'"
mareas.binderybooks.com/item/0DmpyoW...
"It is not a coincidence whose voices get stripped away first under these expectations of 'professionalism.'"
mareas.binderybooks.com/item/0DmpyoW...
Manifesting this for myself.
It's absolutely wild to be sitting at a book festival, signing books for a Very Prominent Bookstore, see someone lurking at the edge of the conversation holding your book, strike up a conversation, and realize it's a Very Prominent Literary Agent.
I still can't get over little things like this. XD
I still can't get over little things like this. XD
April 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Manifesting this for myself.
The amount of people in the Magic: the Gathering community who are vehemently against deep and culturally literate worldbuilding is flabbergasting.
Context: WotC recently released the Planeswalker's Guide for upcoming Tarkir: Dragonstorm set. This outlines the new lore added in the set.
Context: WotC recently released the Planeswalker's Guide for upcoming Tarkir: Dragonstorm set. This outlines the new lore added in the set.
February 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The amount of people in the Magic: the Gathering community who are vehemently against deep and culturally literate worldbuilding is flabbergasting.
Context: WotC recently released the Planeswalker's Guide for upcoming Tarkir: Dragonstorm set. This outlines the new lore added in the set.
Context: WotC recently released the Planeswalker's Guide for upcoming Tarkir: Dragonstorm set. This outlines the new lore added in the set.
I just finished reading The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, and I cannot recommend this book enough. What an absolutely fantastic read.
February 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I just finished reading The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, and I cannot recommend this book enough. What an absolutely fantastic read.
A casual reminder: No amount of hard work will make you a billionaire.
You could earn a thousand dollars an hour working 24 hours a day every day without weekends or holidays, and after a hundred years (even if you didn't spend a dime of it) you still wouldn't reach a billion dollars.
You could earn a thousand dollars an hour working 24 hours a day every day without weekends or holidays, and after a hundred years (even if you didn't spend a dime of it) you still wouldn't reach a billion dollars.
February 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A casual reminder: No amount of hard work will make you a billionaire.
You could earn a thousand dollars an hour working 24 hours a day every day without weekends or holidays, and after a hundred years (even if you didn't spend a dime of it) you still wouldn't reach a billion dollars.
You could earn a thousand dollars an hour working 24 hours a day every day without weekends or holidays, and after a hundred years (even if you didn't spend a dime of it) you still wouldn't reach a billion dollars.
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
Huge.
Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
wrd.cm
February 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
Huge.
Chronic pain sucks. I would very much like to be writing right now, but instead I am lying down with a heating pad on my back desperately hoping the pain lets up enough to let me get back to writing.
February 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Chronic pain sucks. I would very much like to be writing right now, but instead I am lying down with a heating pad on my back desperately hoping the pain lets up enough to let me get back to writing.
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In the era of the broken information distribution system, stop accepting that things are a problem without any evidence. Start with, "I'm going to need you to show me some credible sources." Make them go do the homework before giving something credence.
“Our side concocted the ‘bathroom safety’ male predator argument as a way to avoid an uncomfortable battle over LGBT ideology, and still fire up people’s emotions.”
This was from 2018, they were bragging about how they manufacturing a moral panic.
www.thepinknews.com/2018/12/07/a...
This was from 2018, they were bragging about how they manufacturing a moral panic.
www.thepinknews.com/2018/12/07/a...
Anti-trans group admits bathroom predator myth is made up
Empirical research shows bathroom predator concerns are baseless.
www.thepinknews.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In the era of the broken information distribution system, stop accepting that things are a problem without any evidence. Start with, "I'm going to need you to show me some credible sources." Make them go do the homework before giving something credence.
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I tend to refer to that iterative category as "machine learning," sort of leaning into the idea that it's a tool, a process, rather than a Capital-I Intelligence (which I see as a dangerous misunderstanding/misrepresentation overall).
February 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I tend to refer to that iterative category as "machine learning," sort of leaning into the idea that it's a tool, a process, rather than a Capital-I Intelligence (which I see as a dangerous misunderstanding/misrepresentation overall).