Tan Shao Han
@bigprawn.bsky.social
Hello! I'm a Gold ENnie-winning (2024) writer and TTRPG designer. I run Curious Chimeras, an indie TTRPG company in Singapore, and freelance as a writer, editor, and consultant for Evil Hat, Paizo, Pelgrane, Renegade, and Wizards of the Coast.
if u see this quote with the energy u bring to blue sky
September 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
if u see this quote with the energy u bring to blue sky
So, about my recent participation in the delegation of the Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers (TF-AML); this is a CSO that advises and supports the ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML).
This year's session, the 18th Forum, was held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the 9th and 10th of September 2025.
This year's session, the 18th Forum, was held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the 9th and 10th of September 2025.
September 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
So, about my recent participation in the delegation of the Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers (TF-AML); this is a CSO that advises and supports the ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour (AFML).
This year's session, the 18th Forum, was held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the 9th and 10th of September 2025.
This year's session, the 18th Forum, was held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the 9th and 10th of September 2025.
Indeed! By decree of the Great Tang, etc...
September 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Indeed! By decree of the Great Tang, etc...
Ok it's time to roll my Adulting check lol. This year, I'm with the "Task Force on Asian Migrant Workers" in a specialist and observer role, and we are seated right in front with the ASEAN Secretariat, the International Labour Organization, the International Organization for Migration, and UN Women.
September 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Ok it's time to roll my Adulting check lol. This year, I'm with the "Task Force on Asian Migrant Workers" in a specialist and observer role, and we are seated right in front with the ASEAN Secretariat, the International Labour Organization, the International Organization for Migration, and UN Women.
Doing this as a favour for some of my NGO and civil society friends, and so I'm warming up my engines and back to a life from a long time ago. (Alas, while details have changed, the socioeconomic structural forces seem distressingly familiar.)
Back to reading documents while rushing nasi lemak!
Back to reading documents while rushing nasi lemak!
September 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Doing this as a favour for some of my NGO and civil society friends, and so I'm warming up my engines and back to a life from a long time ago. (Alas, while details have changed, the socioeconomic structural forces seem distressingly familiar.)
Back to reading documents while rushing nasi lemak!
Back to reading documents while rushing nasi lemak!
back to school, not to teach, but to study; taking grad diploma in expressive arts therapy on weekends. lecturer is a Vienna-trained psychotherapist, so I feel safe enough to talk about my affective work with RPGs!
Also bumped into my philo and soci students from last year, who're happy to see me?!
Also bumped into my philo and soci students from last year, who're happy to see me?!
September 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
back to school, not to teach, but to study; taking grad diploma in expressive arts therapy on weekends. lecturer is a Vienna-trained psychotherapist, so I feel safe enough to talk about my affective work with RPGs!
Also bumped into my philo and soci students from last year, who're happy to see me?!
Also bumped into my philo and soci students from last year, who're happy to see me?!
After a while he decided to wander off and explore a laundromat. I think he's a...
Laundrocat.
I think he's a community cat cos his claws are long but he's really used to humans and seems to like pats and scritches. He went to this Myanmarese girl and bunted her too, then looked curiously around.
Laundrocat.
I think he's a community cat cos his claws are long but he's really used to humans and seems to like pats and scritches. He went to this Myanmarese girl and bunted her too, then looked curiously around.
February 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
After a while he decided to wander off and explore a laundromat. I think he's a...
Laundrocat.
I think he's a community cat cos his claws are long but he's really used to humans and seems to like pats and scritches. He went to this Myanmarese girl and bunted her too, then looked curiously around.
Laundrocat.
I think he's a community cat cos his claws are long but he's really used to humans and seems to like pats and scritches. He went to this Myanmarese girl and bunted her too, then looked curiously around.
I've had to move a lot recently, and I left a neighbourhood where there were many, many community cats... To one where there are decidedly less feline friends.
So as I'm going through my New Year weekend, I'm glad this fellow jumped into my arms (literally), and made himself comfortable on my lap!
So as I'm going through my New Year weekend, I'm glad this fellow jumped into my arms (literally), and made himself comfortable on my lap!
February 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I've had to move a lot recently, and I left a neighbourhood where there were many, many community cats... To one where there are decidedly less feline friends.
So as I'm going through my New Year weekend, I'm glad this fellow jumped into my arms (literally), and made himself comfortable on my lap!
So as I'm going through my New Year weekend, I'm glad this fellow jumped into my arms (literally), and made himself comfortable on my lap!
Happy New Year again, from myself and @mystickal.bsky.social (who did everything, I'm just posting it)
February 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Happy New Year again, from myself and @mystickal.bsky.social (who did everything, I'm just posting it)
Happy New Year of the Snack, I mean Snake!
Art courtesy of @mystickal.bsky.social! PRAISE MY WIFE PLS thx we good
Art courtesy of @mystickal.bsky.social! PRAISE MY WIFE PLS thx we good
January 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Happy New Year of the Snack, I mean Snake!
Art courtesy of @mystickal.bsky.social! PRAISE MY WIFE PLS thx we good
Art courtesy of @mystickal.bsky.social! PRAISE MY WIFE PLS thx we good
Flowers; getting new plants is a thing during New Year. Sometimes you get symbolic flowers, I didn't really go for poetic or traditional associations, just chose pretty colours!
I have a mint plant incoming as well. (A gift from a gardener friend with many mint, tomato, cucumber, and reaper plants)
I have a mint plant incoming as well. (A gift from a gardener friend with many mint, tomato, cucumber, and reaper plants)
January 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Flowers; getting new plants is a thing during New Year. Sometimes you get symbolic flowers, I didn't really go for poetic or traditional associations, just chose pretty colours!
I have a mint plant incoming as well. (A gift from a gardener friend with many mint, tomato, cucumber, and reaper plants)
I have a mint plant incoming as well. (A gift from a gardener friend with many mint, tomato, cucumber, and reaper plants)
New Year so that means:
1, adding new flowers to welcome the spring
2, preparing red packets to prepare for cash gifts to elders and juniors
3, reunion dinner (my wife, myself, our dads; and 2 spaces set at table in memoriam of dearly departed moms)
And.. also a chance to finally rest a little!
1, adding new flowers to welcome the spring
2, preparing red packets to prepare for cash gifts to elders and juniors
3, reunion dinner (my wife, myself, our dads; and 2 spaces set at table in memoriam of dearly departed moms)
And.. also a chance to finally rest a little!
January 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
New Year so that means:
1, adding new flowers to welcome the spring
2, preparing red packets to prepare for cash gifts to elders and juniors
3, reunion dinner (my wife, myself, our dads; and 2 spaces set at table in memoriam of dearly departed moms)
And.. also a chance to finally rest a little!
1, adding new flowers to welcome the spring
2, preparing red packets to prepare for cash gifts to elders and juniors
3, reunion dinner (my wife, myself, our dads; and 2 spaces set at table in memoriam of dearly departed moms)
And.. also a chance to finally rest a little!
Haha it's just one big puddle
January 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Haha it's just one big puddle
Got to the train stage! Subway levels! This is either a loading screen or a cut scene or another boss fight
January 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Got to the train stage! Subway levels! This is either a loading screen or a cut scene or another boss fight
Boss fight soon, confirm chop guarantee
January 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Boss fight soon, confirm chop guarantee
If I'm gonna have to make my living in a cyberpunk dystopia island, at least I have the appropriate vibes
*Icarus theme intensifies*
*Icarus theme intensifies*
January 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
If I'm gonna have to make my living in a cyberpunk dystopia island, at least I have the appropriate vibes
*Icarus theme intensifies*
*Icarus theme intensifies*
First day of work in the new Punggol Coast campus, used to come here for hikes! Now it's one of my many casual academic workplaces, albeit the one with the best view. Hope the wild boars, herons, otters, monkeys, snakes are ok; grateful for view, at same time, cognisant of my intrusions into swamps.
January 8, 2025 at 3:11 AM
First day of work in the new Punggol Coast campus, used to come here for hikes! Now it's one of my many casual academic workplaces, albeit the one with the best view. Hope the wild boars, herons, otters, monkeys, snakes are ok; grateful for view, at same time, cognisant of my intrusions into swamps.
Continuing my "No Room for a Wallflower" campaign for first-time Lancer players; they hit LL1 and were so happy for new options.
Miss playing with old friends, and also enjoy witnessing the PCs communicate and coordinate fun and effective team tactics in a non-hierarchical and engaging manner.
Miss playing with old friends, and also enjoy witnessing the PCs communicate and coordinate fun and effective team tactics in a non-hierarchical and engaging manner.
January 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Continuing my "No Room for a Wallflower" campaign for first-time Lancer players; they hit LL1 and were so happy for new options.
Miss playing with old friends, and also enjoy witnessing the PCs communicate and coordinate fun and effective team tactics in a non-hierarchical and engaging manner.
Miss playing with old friends, and also enjoy witnessing the PCs communicate and coordinate fun and effective team tactics in a non-hierarchical and engaging manner.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 20
#booksky
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 20
#booksky
January 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 20
#booksky
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 20
#booksky
First film of 2024: Gundam Seed Freedom
Last film of 2024: Flow
Last film of 2024: Flow
January 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
First film of 2024: Gundam Seed Freedom
Last film of 2024: Flow
Last film of 2024: Flow
For one of my birthdays nearly a decade or so ago, my TTRPG friends made me a custom cover sleeve for One Punch Man....
As "One Pun Man".
(I'm sure my Paizo friends and fellow freelancers will have witnessed my inordinate fondness for puns firsthand lolol)
NORMAL PUNS
CONSECUTIVE NORMAL PUNS
As "One Pun Man".
(I'm sure my Paizo friends and fellow freelancers will have witnessed my inordinate fondness for puns firsthand lolol)
NORMAL PUNS
CONSECUTIVE NORMAL PUNS
January 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
For one of my birthdays nearly a decade or so ago, my TTRPG friends made me a custom cover sleeve for One Punch Man....
As "One Pun Man".
(I'm sure my Paizo friends and fellow freelancers will have witnessed my inordinate fondness for puns firsthand lolol)
NORMAL PUNS
CONSECUTIVE NORMAL PUNS
As "One Pun Man".
(I'm sure my Paizo friends and fellow freelancers will have witnessed my inordinate fondness for puns firsthand lolol)
NORMAL PUNS
CONSECUTIVE NORMAL PUNS
On this 1st day of 2025, I begin to recover my Disney Princess powers.
Found 2 housecats crying distressed; vibe (at distance) with water and treats, looked for human family. Decided after a while to try to calm them down, they stayed put. Heard distressed human sounds, found human family. Hooray!
Found 2 housecats crying distressed; vibe (at distance) with water and treats, looked for human family. Decided after a while to try to calm them down, they stayed put. Heard distressed human sounds, found human family. Hooray!
January 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
On this 1st day of 2025, I begin to recover my Disney Princess powers.
Found 2 housecats crying distressed; vibe (at distance) with water and treats, looked for human family. Decided after a while to try to calm them down, they stayed put. Heard distressed human sounds, found human family. Hooray!
Found 2 housecats crying distressed; vibe (at distance) with water and treats, looked for human family. Decided after a while to try to calm them down, they stayed put. Heard distressed human sounds, found human family. Hooray!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 19
#booksky
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 19
#booksky
January 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 19
#booksky
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 19
#booksky
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 18
#booksky
(Thank you @chthonstone.bsky.social for such an amazing game, that reignited my passion and expanded my horizons for ttrpgs)
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 18
#booksky
(Thank you @chthonstone.bsky.social for such an amazing game, that reignited my passion and expanded my horizons for ttrpgs)
December 30, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 18
#booksky
(Thank you @chthonstone.bsky.social for such an amazing game, that reignited my passion and expanded my horizons for ttrpgs)
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers
Day 18
#booksky
(Thank you @chthonstone.bsky.social for such an amazing game, that reignited my passion and expanded my horizons for ttrpgs)
New Year for A Wallflower (impromptu Lancer session played with my gaming buddies from 90s AD&D/ Vampire the Masquerade days; they're new to Lancer but COMP/CON and "it's like if we just played Blades and 4E at the same time" meant we could have fun making Super Robot Wars sounds for a few hours.
December 29, 2024 at 5:09 AM
New Year for A Wallflower (impromptu Lancer session played with my gaming buddies from 90s AD&D/ Vampire the Masquerade days; they're new to Lancer but COMP/CON and "it's like if we just played Blades and 4E at the same time" meant we could have fun making Super Robot Wars sounds for a few hours.