Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴

@illusiveken

Author of The Raven Knight saga, an Asian medieval Zorro who kills nobles and avoids therapy | Buy Book One: Freelancer at Paste Magazine. My stuff:

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Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· 20d

I don't know, guys. Is my book romantasy? Is it ethical? It is fantasy, it has kissing in it, and they do go on about the ethics inherent in violently killing aristocrats when authorities won't just arrest them like the law literally says. I guess buy it and tell me: www.patreon.com/IllusiveKen/...

Booklist Publications' "ethical romantasy" post that they turned off QRTs to, probably because they are getting dunked on like crazy.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· 25d

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Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Jul 3

IF YOU DEDICATE YOUR LIFE TO HEALING THE UNWASHED AND MARGINALIZED INSTEAD OF DIRECTLY SERVING THE FAMILY OF THE SHOGUN, YOOOOOOU MIGHT BE A

Criterion collection cover of Akira Kurosawa's "Red Beard"

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Jun 2

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· May 24

Just in case you were wondering if you not seeing anything on here about somebody taking a shot at him yesterday is a function of you being in a bubble, no, it isn't. Here's what's above the fold on CNN's main page less than 24 hours later.

An image capture of CNN's 5/24/2026 main page, with no mentions of the shooting in front of the White House mentioned anywhere, less than 24 hours after it happened.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Apr 10

Julia Louis Dreyfuss and that other douche from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Mar 30

The set designers REALLY pulled one over on George with Dooky's balcony.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Mar 28

Lots of folks at the #NoKings in Springfield, IL. Very well attended, a lot of different issues represented. As before, vast majority of signs seem to be handmade. Comparable number of folks to past events here.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Mar 16

Quote from Frank Herbert's Dune: "I used atomics against a natural feature of the desert," Paul said. "It was in my way and I was in a hurry to get to you, Majesty..."

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Feb 21

This triumph was inevitable. Soon I will have my revenge

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Feb 20

Hello, #booksky. I am seeking #ARC readers for my #fantasy novel about an Asian Zorro who actually imposes consequences on rich elites (amazing). Cover by @gruselzirkus.bsky.social, a look at the protag by @thisisradinsky.bsky.social Sign up to receive a digital ARC here: forms.gle/m7YoJeoU5o6m...

The cover of The Raven Knight, Book One: The Last Burden You Must Discard, with art by @gruselzirkus.bsky.social. The cover depicts a black knight mounted on an armored horse rearing before a backdrop of white trees.

A portrait of the main character from The Raven Knight, Book One. Art by @thisisradinsky.bsky.social. The Raven Knight is clad in a black helm and a feather-mantled cape. His visor is raised, revealing him to be a man with Asian features, a red beard, an intense glare, and a red glint in his eyes.

A trope card for The Raven Knight, Book One with text:
FEATURING
- Secret Asian Man
- Genderfluid Horse
- BIG SWORD!
- Magical prosthesis
AND SO MUCH MORE
- Consequences for the powerful
- Intelligent corvids
- Unpronounceable armor terminology
- "The hero's alter ego? You just missed him."
In a larger font than anything else in the image: - YEARNING

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Feb 19

One thing I should've asked my grandparents while they were still alive is what it was like being survived by institutions.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Feb 11

Come on guys. Somebody wants to be the one.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Jan 26

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Jan 13

The "Just Walk Out" meme from Da Share Zone

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Dec 19

You can still get my #fantasy novel "The Raven Knight" before Christmas. Give the gift of demon possession, gender affirming care, bad people dying, and a HEMA-trained Asian hero who is *sick of everything.* www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSWBF9R4 Art by: @thisisradinsky.bsky.social @gruselzirkus.bsky.social

An image of the official cover of "The Raven Knight, Book One: The Last Burden You Must Discard." Design by Béla Großlaub, AKA @gruselzirkus.bsky.social, whose comms are currently open! On the cover, the Raven Knight, a man in spiky black armor and a feather-mantled cape astride a black warhorse in elaborate horse armor, rears up in front of a dark forest scene of twisted white trees.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Nov 12

I want to take my wife to Florida for the manatees, so I'm preparing to visit a ruined underwater civilization swarming with Nazis in the only way I know how.

The cover image of the PC adventure game "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis."

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Nov 11

I am stuck in The Dark Place with my own personal Taken. It's not a loop, it's a spiral. #amwriting #booksky #fantasy

A typewriter on a dining room table with a page partway written in the carriage and a small pile of manuscript pages next to it.

A typewriter with a pile of manuscript pages next to it beneath a paperweight. The paperweight is an insidious Taken from the dark realm, in the shape of a black cat sunning and licking himself.

A typewriter, with the same evil Taken sitting in a sunbeam, staring holes into the camera with his feline eyes.

A p.o.v. of the typewriter but with the rear end of a cat-shaped Taken in one side of the shot because its front end is busy standing on my shoulder and licking my face to prevent me from writing my way out of the Dark Place. It's not a loop, it's a spiral.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Nov 10

I will never need to wonder if a body snatcher is texting from my mother's phone, at least.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Oct 27

I'm really pleased with our jack o lantern this year, great group effort.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Oct 25

We took the kids to the pumpkin patch today and the good news is the weather is nice and the cider is good, but the bad news is we have caught the pumpkin curse.

Two high school gals at a pumpkin patch whose heads have been transformed into pumpkins by the dread power of midwestern autumn. (Totally not them just holding pumpkins up in front of their faces)

Me and my wife but we are changed forever, the very act of coming to the pumpkin patch has transformed our heads into gourds. My hat is on my pumpkin head. It isn't just the two of us holding up pumpkins for a silly photo.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Oct 19

My wife and I did not actually plan on being rescue rangers today, the weather has just finally turned to the point where she needs a leather jacket and I need a Hawaiian shirt.

Me and my wife accidentally dressed like Chip and Dale because she's in a leather jacket and I'm in a Hawaiian shirt.

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Oct 18

Da Share Z0ne's "JUST WALK OUT" poster, which features a skeleton booking it outta there and the wisdom: "IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS! real winners quit"

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Oct 18

Also worth mentioning: If there's police presence here (a block from their HQ) it is light enough I haven't seen it. #NoKings

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Oct 18

The signs are also pretty focused. And most of the reap saltiest ones are being lofted by some happy olds

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Oct 18

I can't recall any other rally where we've had overflow onto the Supreme Court and other corner lots. #NoKings

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Oct 18

Lots of noise, all different kind of folks. Cars honking as they go by constantly #NoKings

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Oct 18

Most rallies struggle to fill up the area right in front of Abe. This is wide and deep over here. #NoKings

Ken Lowe 🐦‍⬛🐴@illusiveken· Oct 18

I'm at the Springfield IL #NoKings protest and it's unquestionably larger than the last one. This is one of the biggest crowds I've seen here at the capitol.