makapatag

Poet. Author. Serialist. Fantasist. Tabletop Game Designer. Catholico-Buddhist-Anito Mystic. Non-Binary. MLZT Communist. They/Them.

JK Saavedra is a writer and game designer from and based in the Philippines. They enjoy diving deep into unacknowledged pasts, antinationalist, non-ethnocentric ideas, consummation of Buddhacommunism and Buddhamarxism, and synthesis of Individualism + Collectivism through dialectics, dharma, and specutlative realism

They have been writing for most of their life, starting with fanfiction of video games, until he cultivated a love for hermeneutics, semiotics, and anthropology.

Their favorite books are Shri-Bishaya, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, and Journey to the West. their favorite philosophers are tsongkhapa, rizalino malabed, walter benjamin, alain badiou, quentin meillasoux, karl marx, vladimir lenin, mao zedong, bodhidharma, and takaaki yoshimoto.

One can find them anywhere either as makapatag, tagamantra, vajrapoet, oinonsana, or the holy red fool.

Reach out to them through: jkvsaavedra@gmail.com

I make all my money from my games. If you want to support me, you can pledge on my Patreon to get early draft access for everything I write, alongside some other special perks. Find me on twitter and tumblr.