shing yin khor
@shing.bsky.social
Eisner and Ignatz winning cartoonist, National Book Award finalist, 2x Indiecade winning game and experience designer. I build strange and delightful things, like fortune-telling cabinets and medieval eel marionettes. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
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shing yin khor
@shing.bsky.social
· May 2
I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan.
(thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)
(thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
This came in during an intense production week so I completely missed it, but my first little LARP got an honorable mention in the Golden Cobra Challenge! You can read it, and many other amazing short LARPS, on their website!
Honorable Mentions
Final Commencement by Francine Wildt
Gods of Nothings by Shing Yin Khor
LOOP GAIN by Lin Codega
Our Queenblessed Bodies by Natalie Pudim
Paranormal Parasocial by Hazel Anneke Dixon
WE WILL NOT SPEAK OF THIS by Allison Rassmann
Find them here: www.goldencobra.org/submissions2...
Final Commencement by Francine Wildt
Gods of Nothings by Shing Yin Khor
LOOP GAIN by Lin Codega
Our Queenblessed Bodies by Natalie Pudim
Paranormal Parasocial by Hazel Anneke Dixon
WE WILL NOT SPEAK OF THIS by Allison Rassmann
Find them here: www.goldencobra.org/submissions2...
Golden Cobra Challenge
www.goldencobra.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This came in during an intense production week so I completely missed it, but my first little LARP got an honorable mention in the Golden Cobra Challenge! You can read it, and many other amazing short LARPS, on their website!
All I am doing these days is building tiny sets and I couldn't be happier.
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
All I am doing these days is building tiny sets and I couldn't be happier.
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also mute “canyon”
just go ahead and do this mute now, I promise you'll thank me later
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM
also mute “canyon”
back on my bullshit, are people
tired of these yet
tired of these yet
November 18, 2025 at 5:19 AM
back on my bullshit, are people
tired of these yet
tired of these yet
okay, this IS my first rodeo, but I have seen a horse before
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
okay, this IS my first rodeo, but I have seen a horse before
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
I'm headed to Comics Camp next year (for the first time since pre-pandemic) and it is truly one of my favorite comics events of the year!
Our 2026 first wave of guests continued... @boltcity.bsky.social, @lizyerby.bsky.social, @lubellwoo.bsky.social, @renstrapp.com, & @shing.bsky.social... And more to come!
Applications for the camp are due November 24th.
Applications for the camp are due November 24th.
2026 Guests & Exhibitors – Alaska Robotics Mini-Con
minicon.alaskarobotics.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I'm headed to Comics Camp next year (for the first time since pre-pandemic) and it is truly one of my favorite comics events of the year!
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MAKE ME BETTER is my forthcoming novel about the horrors of community. It is about cults, wellness, control, and the things we will do to escape grief.
Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure.
It comes out in May.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure.
It comes out in May.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
MAKE ME BETTER is my forthcoming novel about the horrors of community. It is about cults, wellness, control, and the things we will do to escape grief.
Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure.
It comes out in May.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure.
It comes out in May.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Consider donating or commissioning Priya for artwork! And if anyone has any leads on affordable housing let us know so we can pass it along
www.gofundme.com/f/rbf6x-supp...
www.gofundme.com/f/rbf6x-supp...
Donate to Support a Disabled Family Facing Eviction, organized by Priya Huq
We are being evicted and need to find another place to live. Rent in NYC is insane… Priya Huq needs your support for Support a Disabled Family Facing Eviction
www.gofundme.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Consider donating or commissioning Priya for artwork! And if anyone has any leads on affordable housing let us know so we can pass it along
www.gofundme.com/f/rbf6x-supp...
www.gofundme.com/f/rbf6x-supp...
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Happy pub day to my beautiful daughter!!!!!! she is so smart and funny and weird and thoughtful and I am so excited for you to meet her!!!!
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Happy pub day to my beautiful daughter!!!!!! she is so smart and funny and weird and thoughtful and I am so excited for you to meet her!!!!
okay, i've been burnt out on comics for a hot minute but THIS, this makes me so excited for the medium again. it is so good! the lettering! the paneling! the vibes! absolutely incredible.
“I Thought I Heard Your Voice Just Then” is a new eight-page comic drawn by @jlaguff.bsky.social and written by myself. You can read it below or purchase it on a pay-what-you-want basis on Itch.io (which I recommend, Bluesky compression being what it is):
hagaipalevsky.itch.io/thoughtiheard
(1/2)
hagaipalevsky.itch.io/thoughtiheard
(1/2)
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
okay, i've been burnt out on comics for a hot minute but THIS, this makes me so excited for the medium again. it is so good! the lettering! the paneling! the vibes! absolutely incredible.
Meguey and Vincent Baker'a development of PbtA as an open, hackable, space is something a generation of game designers owe a debt to. And now, we have new Apocalypse World to look forward to, which is just such a good game!!!
Here We GO! Come along, my dearies!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...
Apocalypse World: Burned Over
The 3rd edition of the groundbreaking original.
www.kickstarter.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Meguey and Vincent Baker'a development of PbtA as an open, hackable, space is something a generation of game designers owe a debt to. And now, we have new Apocalypse World to look forward to, which is just such a good game!!!
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#Gerrymandered and fired up? Fight back—run for office, even when the map is rigged. Can’t Win Victory Fund helps “can’tidates” in impossible districts make noise, grow the vote for up-ballot races and push for fair maps—and yes, we make it fun.
Apply to run: cantwinvictoryfund.com/run
Apply to run: cantwinvictoryfund.com/run
November 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
#Gerrymandered and fired up? Fight back—run for office, even when the map is rigged. Can’t Win Victory Fund helps “can’tidates” in impossible districts make noise, grow the vote for up-ballot races and push for fair maps—and yes, we make it fun.
Apply to run: cantwinvictoryfund.com/run
Apply to run: cantwinvictoryfund.com/run
I try not to let my personal tastes affect my students' work too much, but for their final board games, I have a team making a fish romance game and one making a fish mafia game.
The titles they were (jokingly?) considering are "don't sleep with the fishes" and "sleep with the fishes.
The titles they were (jokingly?) considering are "don't sleep with the fishes" and "sleep with the fishes.
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I try not to let my personal tastes affect my students' work too much, but for their final board games, I have a team making a fish romance game and one making a fish mafia game.
The titles they were (jokingly?) considering are "don't sleep with the fishes" and "sleep with the fishes.
The titles they were (jokingly?) considering are "don't sleep with the fishes" and "sleep with the fishes.
this looks like they got vinyl cutouts and didn't know how to apply them, so they just taped the sheets up
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
this looks like they got vinyl cutouts and didn't know how to apply them, so they just taped the sheets up
cheney is dead, mamdani won, AND there's gonna be a miss piggy movie?!! hope springs eternal?!!
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
cheney is dead, mamdani won, AND there's gonna be a miss piggy movie?!! hope springs eternal?!!
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Marionettes by Gustave Baumann, at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Marionettes by Gustave Baumann, at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
My new show, ARMOR, is now up online for purchase!
I'll post some additional views of the sculptures(and their titles) in this thread.
www.circusposterus.com/product-cate...
I'll post some additional views of the sculptures(and their titles) in this thread.
www.circusposterus.com/product-cate...
November 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
My new show, ARMOR, is now up online for purchase!
I'll post some additional views of the sculptures(and their titles) in this thread.
www.circusposterus.com/product-cate...
I'll post some additional views of the sculptures(and their titles) in this thread.
www.circusposterus.com/product-cate...
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The Strange Beast Tarot by artist @shing.bsky.social is full of weird creatures here to help guide you. Which card is your favorite? 🔮 #tarot #witchtok #tarotdeck
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The Strange Beast Tarot by artist @shing.bsky.social is full of weird creatures here to help guide you. Which card is your favorite? 🔮 #tarot #witchtok #tarotdeck
the backyard of jim gray's petrified wood co in AZ might be the best place in the world for a rock enthusiast
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
the backyard of jim gray's petrified wood co in AZ might be the best place in the world for a rock enthusiast
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
oh good god, giant fucking splinter right under the fingernail i might die from this
October 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
oh good god, giant fucking splinter right under the fingernail i might die from this