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I make fish marionettes and fortune cabinets. National Book Award finalist, Eisner, Ignatz winning cartoonist; Indiecade winning game designer. they. 🇲🇾🇺🇸🌈

Los Angeles, CA

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@sawdustbear

shing yin khor

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I’m Shing Yin, a cartoonist/experience/game designer. My deal is Americana, epistolary forms, keepsake games, strange divinations, and strange beasts. 📖:The Legend of Auntie Po, The American Dream? 🎲:A Mending, Remember August, Field Guide to Memory

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@sawdustbear

shing yin khor

4 years

They let us buy the floor model so we just disassembled a twelve foot skeleton in the middle of a Home Depot and his name is Paul Bone-yan.

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1 year

finally, a good gender neutral bathroom sign.

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4 years

I am several celebratory mimosas in and made myself the Four Seasons Total Landscaping shirt I desperately wanted in my life. If you want it too, I'm tossing all profits to the Georgia runoffs.

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2 years

it is demoralizing to know that you are a website's product but really energizing to know that you can be a really terrible product

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shing yin khor

4 years

I am performing this for the next hour, with my deepest apologies to Marina Abramović. Your pre-printed ticket code is GVH1T.

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4 years

The Artist Is Present #AnimalCrossing

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7 years

tbh I don't really want women to remain silent on Twitter for a day, I want all men to say nothing and only amplify women's voices.

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2 years

thinking all day today about bill watterson and how he made an absolutely beloved comic, refused to monetize any of it as merch, disappeared for a nice long while, and is now back with a horror comic that he doesn't have to draw. this is the absolute dream. what a legend.

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7 years

She’s an aircraft terrier.

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1 year

if you are about my age or older, watch this to the end to feel really old.

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7 years

This image is from a Sweet Valley High book where a Kansas boy pretends to be a pair of twins so he can hook up with both Jessica and Liz.

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3 years

hey baby, I am a sexy mermaid too.

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4 years

The Artist Is Present #AnimalCrossing

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4 years

A love letter to airports. I am deeply missing liminal spaces tonight.

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7 years

. @Patreon frankly misjudged the relationship that creators have with their patrons. I don't think that most of us think of them as customers, but as people who are invested in our success, and are aligned with our creative and personal goals.

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4 years

to be clear, I am donating profits to the DEMOCRATS(Ossoff and Warnock) in the Georgia runoffs, as well as grassroots progressive GOTV orgs led by BIPOC, in case anyone did not already know me and was confused.😂

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7 years

I just learned that Frank Sinatra tried to order a mob hit on Woody Allen when he found out about Soon Yi and Dylan and I can’t believe we are giving dudes ally points just for saying they support women.

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2 years

do conservatives truly have an easier time explaining to their children "sometimes, you will die before recess" than "yeah, your friend has two moms"?

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shing yin khor

4 years

I’ve been learning to carve marionettes and now I have a new member of my family.

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shing yin khor

8 years

long live resistance auntie.

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shing yin khor

4 years

Artnet did not publish this segment of my interview, amongst others that were on the snarkier side, but I am reposting it because I am tired of the exhortation to be creative and make art in the middle of all this.

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shing yin khor

3 years

baba yaga’s duplex.

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shing yin khor

6 years

take off your shoes mulan, we let you go to sleepover one time only and you shame us

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MULAN IN HIGH TOPS AND ROLLED UP JEANS! TIANA'S NATURAL HAIR !!!!!!!!! these casual princess lOOKS 😍😍

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1 year

I knew I was going to love @melgillman 's foraging zine but I was still surprised at how I got the good kind of weepy at the last couple of pages. It is beautiful, go get it!!

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Mel Gillman

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If you're out on a walk today admiring all the lovely trees in bloom, and find yourself wondering "how many of these...will make fruit I can eat??" I've got a new comic for that! 17 easy-breezy-beautiful pages, chock full of fruit foraging info, for FREE:

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shing yin khor

4 years

If you’re generously offering career help to Black creatives, maybe don’t impose a false time limit on that help, because right exactly this moment is probably not the ideal time for Black creatives to be scrambling to get their portfolios and pitches together, yeah?

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shing yin khor

5 years

so, about formal spaulders.

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shing yin khor

4 years

hey babe, think of me when you break your tools.

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shing yin khor

8 years

Oh wow. Okay, my #resistanceauntie painting is available for use under a free culture license(CC Attribution 4.0).

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shing yin khor

2 years

i separate art from the artist all the time, but generally only for extremely charming people who make bad art.

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shing yin khor

4 years

It will take some time for Threadless to get me an accounting and payout of profits(but I think it’ll be $5000+) but I’ll split the profits between Warnock and Ossoff campaigns, and Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight(), which is doing integral voter access work!

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shing yin khor

6 years

my therapist suggested I try exploring my anxieties in fiction rather than autobiography, so here is a depressed mushroom.

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shing yin khor

4 years

Oh, suits.

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Erika Ishii

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Suits? Suits.

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shing yin khor

4 years

i miss ren faire #AnimalCrossing

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shing yin khor

6 years

a drawing of the best bird and of the worst bird; jim henson was a genius. thanks jim, now I can’t think of any bird without imagining a bearded man puppeteering it.

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@sawdustbear

shing yin khor

6 years

It feels weird to share good news today, but hey, I’m working on a middle grade graphic novel. It’s about immigrants building and feeding America, late 1800s logging camps, and kind-of Paul Bunyan.

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shing yin khor

3 years

when you volunteer to put together a Muppet-themed snack platter for a Muppets viewing marathon but didn’t have time to pinterest about it.

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shing yin khor

4 years

I think we've raised $500 for the Georgia runoffs so far(profits are between $1.5-$7 per shirt, Threadless is slow to update profit dashboards)?!!

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shing yin khor

5 years

AN AIRCRAFT TERRIER.

@sawdustbear

shing yin khor

7 years

She’s an aircraft terrier.

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4 years

How it started: How it’s going:

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3 years

problem: bath water gets cold before I am ready to exit it solution: *maniacal grin*

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shing yin khor

7 years

I wrote this comic over three years ago, before the refrain “believe women” felt particularly common. The Nib published it anonymously. I feel okay claiming it now. Thank you, to everyone who has spoken.

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Trigger Warning: Breakfast

The morning after I was raped, I thought I could create another story

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shing yin khor

4 years

His name is Paul Boneyan.

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1 year

any cheese can be swiss cheese when you own a drill press

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shing yin khor

4 years

Here is my recipe for congee, a meal that uses very little rice and is very warm and comforting, which some of us might need today.

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shing yin khor

5 years

My “recipe” for congee, taught to me by my mother, who might have gotten from it from her mother, passed down through generations of the maternal lineage of my family, or from the back of a bag of rice.

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4 years

hello, would you like to come with me on a Thick Gatorade adventure?

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3 years

Me: I am stressed and anxious and I can’t get any work done. My brain: That’s because you need to take two hours to chill out and carve a spoon with a gar on it. Me: That is very specific, brain, but okay.

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5 years

shower beer is for amateurs.

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shing yin khor

3 years

Happy AAPI Heritage month. This year, my battle cry is exhaustion. (With thanks, as always, to my sublime editor @nicolesjchung )

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shing yin khor

4 years

...holy shit. 😂

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Threadless

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This needs no explanation. →

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shing yin khor

3 years

embracing the worm as my animal guide for 2022. they thrive in the muck and they grow back their butts.

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shing yin khor

5 years

I made this to celebrate the incredible Iditarod achievement of bunch of extraordinary(and very cute) dogs, and also the incomparable @BlairBraverman and @QuinceMountain ! #uglydogs , a new coloring sheet and high res image is in the next tweet.

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shing yin khor

4 years

I have been moving sets and untold amounts of lumber in a 2010 Honda Fit for years, and it continues to not disappoint.

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3 years

baba yaga’s brutalist tower

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baba yaga’s duplex.

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My AirBnB host is a lovely 80+ year old woman who’s never seen a graphic novel before, and I gave her a copy of my book on Friday and she read it and loved it and is going to seek out more comics and I am so happy and I love comics! Comics are good! Sharing comics is good!!!

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4 years

just muttering “four seasons total landscaping” under my breath like an incantation.

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1 year

look at this pie chart ass flower

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4 years

A preview of a strange and clunky gnome divination device.

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My “recipe” for congee, taught to me by my mother, who might have gotten from it from her mother, passed down through generations of the maternal lineage of my family, or from the back of a bag of rice.

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6 years

a guide to heart emoji, from a comprehensive study of my text logs. ❤️: I love you. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜: I love you; I’m gay. 💛: I haven’t a strong opinion. 🧡: I like you well enough. 💚: I love succulents, and also you. 💙: I love you and my hair is blue. 🖤: I love ghosts.

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shing yin khor

7 years

Do you have any idea how much PoC writers, esp. women and queer people, stress out about portraying characters outside their experience?

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shing yin khor

4 years

My new keepsake game, A Mending, is about visiting a dear and distant friend, using story-building, map-making and sewing mechanics. I love beautiful, tactile, collaborative games, and I respect craft and making. And, it's live on Kickstarter now:

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5 years

This year, I am planning to thrive in crop top season.

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6 years

Maps of places by the roadside to take a nice and comforting short rest, with some very pleasant NPCs and items you might find. #DnD

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shing yin khor

6 years

I mean, when I said I was gonna draw 250 pizzas, no one really thought I meant pepperoni, right? #projectpizza

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shing yin khor

2 years

the only thing worse that the conservative all out assault on civil rights and trans rights and childbearing people's rights is the liberal inability to ever do fuckall about it. imagine having power and just like...being lily livered cowards about wielding literally any of it.

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Little known fact, but the Democratic Party currently controls Congress and the Presidency and could pass a law that enshrined a woman’s right to choose.

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5 years

I’m watercolouring this drawing of the #bravermountain Iditarod team(the dog part) tomorrow, but my secret hope is that some #uglydogs friends decide to use it as a coloring sheet so I’ll be easier for me to figure out all the dog fur markings. 😜

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shing yin khor

4 years

A good way to feel less hopeless about the centrism of the Democratic party is to funnel your energy into local organizations that are doing good quantifiable mutual aid work in your neighborhoods. For instance, Lifekit is operating a free bodega and laundry days in K-town.

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lifekitla

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We are so happy to be up and operating in our new space! Thank you to our #lifekitcommunity for helping support this initiative! Together we made it happen :-) If you want to help us keep our doors open until December help us close the gap by donating today!

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3 years

okay, new thread for my wordle scores. Wordle 226 6/6

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shing yin khor

4 years

tl,dr; 1. We raised $28k+!! 2. This is now a tax problem for me! 3. Please be patient as I sort accounting, and wait 2 weeks for Threadless to actually send/transfer money. 4. Here are my max contribution receipts for the Senate runoff campaigns. 5. Shirt comes down at 2pm PST.

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shing yin khor

3 years

The LAPD confiscated fireworks, and then turned their own bomb squad truck into a pipe bomb, bombing a South LA neighborhood with utter incompetence and also an actual bomb. #AbolishThePolice

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Unexpected explosion as the bomb squad tried to detonate homemade explosives in south LA. People injured, cars destroyed, windows shattered. It’s chaos out here right now. @FOXLA

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shing yin khor

3 years

Instead of buying rainbow stuff for Pride Month, I think I’m just gonna buy a full set of armor.

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shing yin khor

4 years

Happy Lunar New Year, here is a gift for you! Bug’s first Lion Dance:

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4 years

This Somali inmigrant’s restaurant was burned and she unequivocally supports the protests. Her daughter’s been out protesting every night. Here is their rebuilding fund:

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shing yin khor

3 years

happy international non-binary to all the non-binary people and also the people like me who are non-binary and don't wanna talk about it.

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shing yin khor

6 years

@Nicole_Cliffe My face is barely in this one but I think it screams “I am hotter than your boyfriend and I can build a table for you.”

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shing yin khor

3 years

The reason why I haven't written about anti-asian racism lately is because I already wrote about my lack of desire to grieve in public last year, and that still stands. Thank you for your invitations to speak/write/contribute, but I would prefer not to.

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2 years

why do people developing AI seem to be preternaturally focused on making the things they do not have the skills to achieve themselves, which so far seems to be art and hot girls?

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7 years

OR MAYBE WE CAN STOP PERPETUATING A CULTURE OF OVERWORK AND PRETENDING THAT SUCCESS IS ACTUALLY PREDICATED ON LABOR. shing it’s just a bottlecap NO I AM MAD ABOUT THIS.

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shing yin khor

5 years

Jason got me a rad birthday gift, perfect for my “get you a girl who looks like a pillbug” vibes.

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shing yin khor

4 years

Going to start an OnlyFans. No nudity, only fans.

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shing yin khor

4 years

This is an amazing and extremely educational thread about where our food comes from and who labors to harvest it.

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Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we’ll share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou #ThankAFarmworker

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shing yin khor

6 years

It is very difficult being at a writing retreat with several very good prose writers because they’re all like “I have written 3000 words in this last hour” and I’m like “well, I drew a worm this hour and I will probably draw two more today.”

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shing yin khor

4 years

I know I’ve been promising these gnome divination devices for a long time, but I FINALLY packaged them up today and will send them to my store fulfillment partners tomorrow.

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shing yin khor

3 years

Today, I got an eviction notice for my studio space because the master leaseholder stole our money, hired armed guards to change the locks, and faked his death(he’s back from the dead). This is all very wild, but if you don’t hear from me for a bit, I’m moving an entire woodshop.

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shing yin khor

6 years

yesterday, we ended up at a fancy rooftop bar with horrible rich people, so I spent my time casually stealing succulents from their fancy planters.

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shing yin khor

2 years

was not expecting such a concise explanation of narrative design that also feels like a very precise dragging in this book, but okay from a great essay by @Jill_on_Wheels in Procedural Storytelling in Game Design

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shing yin khor

3 years

If Simon and Schuster does not want to be constantly dragged for being an anti-black, extremist, pedophile publisher, they should end their distribution deal with Post Hill Press, who also publish Laura Loomer, and Matt Gaetz.

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Sarah Nicolas aka Sarah N Fisk

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Just to clarify, cuz it's confusing: Simon & Schuster did not sign a book deal with that cop. They distribute books for a publisher who signed the book deal. They should 100% cancel the distribution deal but cannot cancel the book deal; know what to ask for when you contact them

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shing yin khor

2 years

here you go, it is called The Mysteries, in collaboration with John Kascht.

A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bestselling creator of the beloved comic strip Calvin an...

www.simonandschuster.com

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shing yin khor

3 years

do not speak to me or my long radish son

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shing yin khor

5 years

Why is my timeline getting all worked up discussing art supplies for kids? The best art supply to give a kid is OBVIOUSLY one of these 12-in-1 pens that switch colors of ink.

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4 years

SHIRTS ARE BACK! I will be working directly with Threadless to get money directly to voting charities(the ones mentioned earlier)!! However, I am still refusing to offer shirts on black, out of respect for the beautiful oranges of Gritty's fur. Thank you.

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2 years

I got dressed up to go to a Oscars party that got cancelled, so please feel free to compliment me for the effort.

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shing yin khor

3 years

I've made A SHORT REST, my collection of pastoral fantasy hand-painted watercolor maps and cards, available for download on ! It's pay-what-you-want for 7 maps and 50 cards, and there is some guidance for printing.

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shing yin khor

3 years

I don’t trust any internet activist that only tweets about big news events but I trust almost every internet activist that tweets about city council meetings.

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4 years

Yep, still some of my finest work.

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shing yin khor

3 years

If you want to destroy the environment with art experimentation, I recommend getting into woodcarving instead of NFTs, because it is more satisfying when you can fuck up a tree with your own two hands.

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shing yin khor

3 years

It’s my book birthday! I’ve been working on THE LEGEND OF AUNTIE PO for three years, in the company of @Tweetpathi , @dongwon and Jasmin Rubero, and I am so excited for you to finally see this book of my heart and hands. ❤️

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shing yin khor

6 years

self care tip: buy a large thermos and make yourself a giant batch of hot tea in the morning and later in the day, you can thank past-you for already having made you your comforting cup of hot tea.

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