I am crawling out of my bed for my laptop to watch Florence and you should to!!!

Yeah. I made a kids show about it

It’s the seamless & un-self-conscious transition between the material & the meta which really defined Jim Henson’s approach to the characters & craft of The Muppets. Post-Jim, both The Jim Henson Company & then Disney have hidden the performer & the magic of performance. A shame.

The name riffs on @shing.bsky.social's wonderful keepsake game, A Mending. In A Sending, you use watabou's Medieval Fantasy City Generator to procedurally generate a city and then write a postcard based on your imaginary stay there!

I ran a session on PCG for keepsake games at Dagstuhl earlier this year, and as part of that @junevamp.bsky.social, @dipikarajesh.bsky.social, @mtrc.bsky.social and I made our own keepsake game, A Sending! You can download it for free on itch: florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/a-sending

Here’s the link onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This is one of my fave events of the year and I designed the shirt this year!!! I really enjoyed putting in lots of little references, can you find them all?

This year's Roguelike Celebration steam sale is up! Check out some awesome games, and don't forget to buy tickets for the conference *this weekend*! (also @shing.bsky.social's art is so good, I'm so glad we got them to do this year's art!!) store.steampowered.com/curator/4122...

It is pub day for this book!! I am so grateful to @hannaalkaf.bsky.social for inviting me to join this cast of superstar authors with a quiet little diaspora story about a Malaysian cryptid. It is a gorgeous book, and every story is illustrated by the remarkable @jesncin.bsky.social !!

extremely important low stakes pear drama

spent the weekend learning sign painting from Bryan at www.welldonesigns.com!!

a very important part of puppet design is deciding how cheeked up you want each puppet to be.

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Leslie's show is also opening at Stranger Factory next month! It is absolutely mind blowing and Leslie levels up with very show. We're driving out together so if you are in the ABQ or Santa Fe area, come visit us in Algodones on Nov 1st!

I've been hard at work building hand carved wooden masks and spiky little guys for ARMOR, my upcoming solo show at Stranger Factory. You can get on the preview list on their website!

I'm a huge fan of Kevin and @jimdemonakos.bsky.social's work, and they (with Meghna Balakumar) are back with a thoughtful documentary about Gilmore Girls, that's about fandom and relationships between mothers and daughters. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ink...

took this reference photo for one of my fabricators and it's got some real Frances Glessner Lee vibes.

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

at a local music venue to see a pal play and was told he was opening and the show was at 9:30...the doors opened at 9:30 and he goes on at 10:30 and friends, i am too old for this

what is this, a set for ants?

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years. Thread

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me. azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

Excited to announce that Geronimo Was A Beaver, my first puppet film with @jayackley.bsky.social will be making its big screen premiere as part of DOC LA's film festival!! We're on Saturday 10/25 at 5pm as part of their short films block! Tickets: filmfreeway.com/DOCLA/tickets

I have returned from co-organizing the Wayward retreat with a shaved head, dry hands (I run the kitchen, so I've been washing my hands 40x a day) and as always, a new grounding in my art practice. I've been without internet for 2 weeks and it felt good and I'm going to try to keep that up.

good comics criticism needs your funding!!! (also you can get some rad cards from me)

@shing.bsky.social's A Mending litterally rewrote my brain and changed the way I concieve games and stories (keepsake games have been an obsession of mine for a while now, although most I haven't published), and their work is a continued influence on my own, though at a different scale !

In a real talk-less-build-more phase of my life, so sorry for the lack of entertaining posts but I am very happy!

hey are the french okay

i know i just finished fundraising but i also gotta buy 300 cans of sardines for a mutual aid grocery day in MacArthur Park - are there three people who want to give me $150 for a custom reverse mermaid painting? you pick fish type and the leg type.

I got these amazing tiny mugs from @brodyqat.bsky.social today! Can't wait to add them to the set!!

Thank you all so much for your support! Crowdfunding is real rough these days, especially for this medium, but we are going to get to make a puppet musical and I'm grateful! Late pledges for the things that are not painstakingly handmade remain available! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

every words that starts with "qu" automatically begins with "qw" when i type it.

LAST HOUR LAST POST. (seriously, I am exhausted, thank you all for your support and I can't wait to make this and i appreciate you so much and there is one hour left to get in on the handmade miniatures tier!)

WE HAVE THREE MORE HOURS! I am flailing like Kermit which is not the kind of puppetry in this puppet musical (we are using marionettes) but still feels appropriate at this time!!!

as much as I would love to stop here, I really would also love a higher budget to work with.

shing yin khor is the real deal. Eisner winner, proven track record of getting projects done. I think this is way exciting and hope you will too.

Our Kaiju is voiced by @erikaishii.bsky.social. Support our puppet musical about community and food and hope in the face of unrelenting doom (Erika is unrelenting doom): www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

he's 48!!! there are plenty of trans women with k-beauty skin routines who've figured out a better longevity strategy

Look at these scrappy little miniatures for our scrappy little puppet musical. You can own a few! This is the last 12 hrs they'll be made available! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

thirteen hours left to go, help me make a puppet show www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

oh god we are down to 12 hrs this is nerve wracking

The UN has recognized that Israel is committing & has committed genocide in Palestine. Here’s June Jordan saying I SAID I LOVE YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP in 1996 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

There is ONE DAY left to pledge to our puppet musical (and also get rad rewards for it, you are welcome to give me money anytime)! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

Our Kaiju is voiced by @erikaishii.bsky.social. Support our puppet musical about community and food and hope in the face of unrelenting doom (Erika is unrelenting doom): www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

Jay's music for this is so dang good y'all

three more days to get rad props from the film! they will NOT be offered after the KS ends!

I wanted to go real hard on pushing the Kickstarter on its last three days but I just got back from a 3 day hiking/camping trip and my body is paying for the hubris of deciding to sprint downhill. Please support us as we make a puppet musical!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...

Today's Love Letter is from the unstoppable @shing.bsky.social. Shing's ode to Making Little Guys is one of the single most nourishing pieces of nonfiction I have ever read. Maybe you need this one as much as I do.