Jon Keevy

@jonkeevy.bsky.social

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Writer of games, film & fiction. IGF nominated Narrative Excellence. Father of Coco. The Unwoven Warrior out now in South Africa. (Seeking reps in N America) Open for consulting & commissions

A tiny lizard on a child's arm.
User Why @why.bsky.team Putting Claude in charge of reading my notifications and deciding what to do with them was a fantastic idea.
Screencap from Goodreads: “His rage at what the soldiers had done to these people transformed into a righteous pride by their strength.” At its core, The Unwoven Warrior is a “Chosen One gone wrong” story — destiny twisting back on itself, heroes questioning their purpose, and fate proving far less benevolent than legend suggests. Keevy doesn’t hand out easy answers, and I appreciate that. There were moments of awe, moments of dread, and moments when I simply whispered, “Wait, what just happened?” But that’s part of the fun — I closed the book with a head full of wonder and more than a few questions still lingering.
Screenshot of an under-development computer game. The screen is a map of hexagons featuring icons such as weather and resources. Along the bottom left is a row of crew characters and to the right a row of tasks.
The zine jams are consistently our favourite events, bringing a quiet, quirky community to collaborate and/or co-work with physical materials. If you haven't attended before and don't know what a 'zine jam' even is - well, folk get together to assemble small experiences packaged as booklets, pamphlets, magazines, maps or anything really. They can be unique or photocopied. They can be filled with writing or drawings or collages or anything really. This February we're leaning further into that in two ways... Number one is our theme: ANALOG. Literally 'analog' means data stored in physical qualities, but it has become the antithesis of modern progress, and maybe the antidote to modern problems. Which leads to number two: we're asking participants to turn off phones during the jam.
Screenshop of a bluesky post with a wildly incorrect opinion that reads: "Finally watch Spider-verse. Huh. That was a much weaker film than the first, even ignoring the cliffhanger, which I didn't know to expect so woof nice sour note to end on. I'm not even sure if I liked that? Not that I disliked it, but compared to the first it was just content. IP slop. Bleh."
Logo of an eye-like shape formed of scattered dots reminiscent of flocking birds or iron filings in a magnetic field. Below it in lowercase text is "murmurant games".
Screencapture of a stock image titled "radiology and x-ray image of head, generated with AI." The image seems to be a merge of spine and hips over the back of a man's head. No skull, and detailed soft tissue like ears are clear.
AI generated cartoon of diverse women holding signs. Centred is the most telling artifact: a three armed woman whose lower half seems partly in a wheelchair.
Crayon drawing of a muppet-style monster named "Johnny McCally"
Image of a bare-bones game UI framing the stark silohouette of an industrial complex against a sky of glitch-textured yellow.
Secind page of The Snake and the Rose. The story is gentle and wonderful. By Wendy Eyton, illustrated by Charmain Veitch.
Instagram story screenshot of text with an image of two cartoon wolves. Text line one: Inside me there are two wolves Line two: Chappel Roan & Chris De Burgh Line three: They're a pack. That's how wolves work. Here endeth the skeet.
5 star review of The Unwoven Warrior on goodreads by user On the Book Case.
A 4 star review of The Unwoven Warrior on goodreads from fellow South African speculative fiction author Tanya Meeson.
A 4 star review of The Unwoven Warrior on goodreads by user MrPinkInk
A 5 star review of The Unwoven Warrior on goodreads by the author's mother.
5 star review of The Unwoven Warrior on goodreads by user Balthazarinblue.
Best selling book display at the Book Lounge, Roeland Street. Jon Keevy's The Unwoven Warrior is at number 4.
A wonderful two year old child in a colourfully striped jersey sleeps on her father's chest. The picture is not well lit or composed but that's not the point.
Quote from the op article: They want to be like "yes, I played Super Mario World 3," and have people be like "wow, this guy has a whole lot of taste." What people? Their parents, mostly. That sounds glib, but the person is going "my parents hate that I play games and suggest that I am not a Real Adult because I like games" They want what they believe other art has - some specific level of cultural prestige that gives them (emphasis) cultural prestige for consuming it.
Cover of The Unwoven Warrior by Jon Keevy. In the foreground is a male warrior with a curved sword and dressed in a shuka. He is looking up toward huge zeppelins emerging from the cloudy sky.
Screenshot from Guardian article. "First of all, I'm not the one filing the contract. It's the people at SpaceX or something," said Musk, the founder, chief executive, chief engineer and chair of SpaceX.
Text quoted from the article in which the CEO recites word-salad.
Examples of fire pistons
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, oil painting by Ilya Repin 1891