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@theshinyshrimp.bsky.social
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✨ She/Her/Hers
💖 Reader | Illustrator | Writer
✨ Lover of Fantasy, Romance, and Manga
💖 Magical Girl and Pokémon Master

Art: #theshinyshrimp
Bookish: #shinyshrimpreads
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So “The Cuffing Game” is absolutely adorable and the perfect YA read for wintery/end of year vibes without being a ✨holiday✨ book! Queer and diverse rep all throughout and just an overall sweet read 💖 (Also yes, I am indeed behind on my 2025 ARCs 😂)

#booksky 📚💙 #shinyshrimpreads
A screenshot from StoryGraph for the book “The Cuffing Game” by Lyla Lee. It shows that the book is 368 pages, originally published in 2025, and the user The Shiny Shrimp finishedh reading the book on November 19, 2025 and rated it 4 stars. Tags say the book is Fiction, Romance, and Young Adult. Cover features an Asian young man and Asian young woman outside a snowy cabin at a fire pit, with a film camera at her side.
November 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Finally picked up Legends ZA this week so if anyone needs me I will out catching all my Kalos babies, kthxbai. ✌🏼
An illustrated gift card sits crooked on top of its envelope and is fashioned in a two-tone pattern like a Pokeball. Across the card, it says "go forth & catch'em all", half in cursive and half in an illustrated mimic of the classic Pokemon font. The navy blue background features a monochrome pattern of Pokemon, such as Rowlet, Hoppip, and Applin.
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Oops. I read more than I thought in October 😂🎃

✨ I need everyone to read And the River Drags Her Down and I need it nominated for all the things. So damn good.

✨ Cinder House is an excellent novella!

✨ What Fury Brings is a disaster of white feminine rage

#shinyshrimpreads #booksky 📚💙
A StoryGraph reading wrap up for the month of October for user, The Shiny Shrimp. She read 19 books, with the highest rated being And the River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun, A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna, and Volume One of The Apothecary Diaries light novel by Natsu Hyuga. Her top genres were Fantasy, Romance, Manga, Sports, and Contemporary. Her reads were 100% fiction, with 63% in Print and 37% in Digital. A StoryGraph collage of books read in October by user, The Shiny Shrimp. These include: volumes 8-10 of Medalist by Tsurumaikada, The Nightshade God by Hannah Whitten, What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller, all eight manhwa volumes of The Villainess Turns the Hourglass, A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna, Cinder House by Freya Marske, volume 1 of Love-Bullet by inee, And the River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun, Saint Catherine by Anna Meyer, and volume 1 of The Apothecary Diaries light novel by Natsu Hyuga.
November 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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September Reading Wrap-Up! Lots of manga, since it was a very busy month at work.

✨Blasted through Girl Crush and I’m loving it so much!!
✨Villain Series is getting exhausting 😅
✨Also reading a ton of Regression/Isekai romance webtoons ✌🏼💖

#shrinyshrimpreads 📚💙 #booksky #readingwrapup
A StoryGraph collage of books read in August by user, The Shiny Shrimp. These include: Apprentice to the Villain and Accomplice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer, volumes 1-4 of the manga Fall in Love You False Angels, volumes 3-5 of the manga Girl Crush, volumes 5-6 of the manga How I Met My Soulmate, and The Foxglove King and The Hemlock Queen by Hannah Whitten.
October 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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One thing I love about US K-Pop Concert Culture is the freebies. It's a great way to break the ice, talk to other fans, and just be nice humans to each other. I finally gave out my first set of freebies and I'm stupid happy with how they turned out 😭

#viviz #na.v #kpop #girlgroup #theshinyshrimp
A series of four stickers sit against a starry night desk mat. One sticker features a car with an array of roses, tulips, and other flowers across the grill and bumper. The other features a blue butterfly and red blooming flowers with smaller butterflies glowing around it. Both of these are made as fanart to Korean girl group VIVIZ's music videos. The other two stickers and flipped to the back so the artist's handle, The Shiny Shrimp, is shown prominently.
September 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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A little K-Pop fanart today! I like my fandoms more subtle, so these sticker designs are in homage to their music videos. The stickers came out AWESOME and I can't wait to pass them out at the VIVIZ Philly stop this weekend 💖

#kpop #viviz #gfriend #girlgroup #kpopfanart #theshinyshrimp #na.v #buddy
In homage to VIVIZ's music video for the song "La La Love Me", the illustration features a vivid blue butterfly, framed with blooming red flowers, glowing smaller pink butterflies, and twinkles and bubbles. VIVIZ is written in printed English and Korean above the left wing, and La La Love Me is written in cursive above the right wing. A watermark of the artist, The Shiny Shrimp, is overlaid across the illustration. In homage to VIVIZ's music video for the song "Maniac", the illustration features an old blue convertible, with the grill covered in pink roses, blue tulips, purple flowers, and pale sprigs of baby's breath. Maniac is written in print in the windshield above the passenger seat, and VIVIZ is written in printed English above the driver's seat. VIVIZ is also written in Korean between the two front seats of the vehicle on the windshield. A watermark of the artist, The Shiny Shrimp, is overlaid across the illustration.
September 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Time for that August Wrap-Up! 📚💙 My highlights:

✨ The God and the Gwisin was everything I wanted from this sequel

✨ Love is a War Song is fantastic and deserved better promo like all the white cowboy romances do

✨ Ain't Burned All the Bright made me cry at work. So thanks.

#shinyshrimpreads
A StoryGraph reading wrap up for the month of August for user, The Shiny Shrimp. She read 12 books, with the highest rated being Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin, The God and the Gwisin by Sophie Kim, and The Last Session: Volume 2 - Rerolled. Her top genres were Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels, Manga, and Contemporary. Her reads were 100% fiction, and an even split between digital and print books. A StoryGraph collage of books read in August by user, The Shiny Shrimp. These include: Kaiju No.8 B-Side: Volume 2, Tusk Love by Thea Guanzon, Anjelica and the Bear Prince by Trung Le Nguyen, Pugs & Kisses by Farrah Rochon, The Secrets of the Silent Witch - Volume 1 of the Manga, Love is a War Song by Danica Nava, Of Swamp & Sea - Volume 1 by Mia Jay Boulton and Laurel Boulton, Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin, Hicotea by Lorena Alvarez, The Last Session - Volume 2: Rerolled, Girl Crush - Volume 2, and The God and the Gwisin by Sophie Kim.
September 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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For a project with hardly a name, but plenty of grief and love 💖 This cozy fantasy Romance is on the back burner, but I do still stir the pot.

#writingcommunity #writingromance #moodboard #aesthetic #wip #workinprogress
A series of nine images forming a moodboard for the story: cups of coffee strewn against a starry tablecloth of constellations, an A-frame bedroom built of warm wood and glowing with faint fairy lights over a clean bed, a bright countertop with a crisp espresso machine and scattered coffee beans, a white woman with short brown wavy hair in profile looking down, a latte resting on a wool sweater with a gold leaf decorating the foam, the same young woman sprawled on a bed reading on her stomach, an open book on top of a marble floor and scattered with dried roses, swaying wheat in the setting Sun, and a hand softly reaching for the moon at dusk.
August 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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July flew by since it's my bday month, but still managed some really fun reads!

✨ Always love Nghi Vo's novellas, but CW for famine and cannibalism in A Mouthful of Dust

✨ Absolutely recommend The Last Session for all the D&D lovers. Can't wait for Vol. 2!

#shinyshrimpreads #booksky 📚💙
A StoryGraph reading wrap up for the month of July for user, The Shiny Shrimp. She read 9 books, with the highest rated being Roll for Romance by Lenora Woods, A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo, and The Last Session - Volume One: Roll for Initiative. Her top genres were Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels, Contemporary, and Young Adult. A StoryGraph collage of books read in June by user, The Shiny Shrimp. These include: Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks, On Starlit Shores by Bex Glendining, Volume 7 of 7th Time Loop, Brielle and Bear: Once Upon a Time by Salomey Doku, The Last Tiger by Julia Riew and Brad Riew, A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo, Volume 4 of Bride of the Barrier Master, The Last Session - Volume 1: Roll for Initiative, and Roll for Romance by Lenora Woods.
August 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Sing, O Muse, the Hymn to the Chosen

Even when the Chosen One is a dumbass who's gone AWOL and now needs saving. This is the story of Arina of Tritos, who wanted to stay on the down low and now has to save her heroic cousin from the government, himself, and apparently the gods.

#BluePit📖 #NA #F #W
A 3x3 moodboard, depicting a series of Greek triremes, seas, temples overlooking cliffsides, scrolls, a sword with a trident, and a statue of Poseidon. In the center square is the logotype for the project's title, Hymn to the Chosen. A series of four character portraits are fitted into four squares within the square image, each depicting a different time of day. From top left to bottom right: Caine, a cocky, buff man with Mediterranean skin tones and curly black hair is flexing in broad daylight; Arina, a serious and slight young woman with similar features to Caine hugs her arms to herself at dusk; Aurora, a smiling young woman with auburn hair stares into the rising dawn; Ronan, a pale young man with dark straight hair, scowls under moonlight. The artist's handle, The Shiny Shrimp, is written on each portrait.
July 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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A fave from the days of #HOMwork on IG ⚓ Oh how I long for the days when I actually was the captain of the shipwreck 😂🙃

#DigitalIllustration #ProCreate #Handlettering #DigitalArt #Lettering #Art #TheShinyShrimp #DigitalArtist #Illustration
Illustrated underwater are the words "I am the captain of this shipwreck" in a combination of bold curvy sans serif and fat brush script. Below the text lies the wreckage of a ship and anchor, resting in the sand. The artist's handle, The Shiny Shrimp, is written along the broken mast of the ship, and in the curve of the anchor is the artist's signature.
July 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Not my art this time (I need to update their looks for the current draft), so this is my WIP cast done eons ago by the fabulous @wanderingkotka.com! From right to left, we have Arina, Aurora, Caine, and Ronan 💖

#BluePitHype #WritingCommunity #CharacterArt #AmWritingFantasy #WanderingKotka
July 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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For my dear art bro, @artbygemini.bsky.social! Your muted palettes kill me and challenge me to make them lively 😂 Also, I love this magical girl’s redesign ✨

#theshinyshrimp #digitalart #originalcharacter #ocsky #characterart #illustration
An illustrated young woman with white hair and a corset raises a finger to her dark lips, smiling coquettishly with a wink. The user’s handle, The Shiny Shrimp, is overlaid on the front arm.
July 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Another month, another wrap-up! Tbh most of my month was manhwa because I just couldn’t focus. And let me say: get yourself a copy of It Rhymes With Takei. So dang good. And Sounds Like Love brought the love and grief I adore from the author. June was a very good reading month! 📚💙

#shinyshrimpreads
A StoryGraph reading wrap up for the month of June for user, The Shiny Shrimp. She read 16 books, with the highest rated being It Rhymes With Takei by George Takei, Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston, and Violet Thistlewaite Is Not A Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz. Her top genres were Romance, Fantasy, Comics, Contemporary, and Graphic Novels. A StoryGraph collage of books read in June by user, The Shiny Shrimp. These include: Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston, Love in Focus by Lyla Lee, Lu and Ren’s Guide to Geozoology, volumes 1-9 of The Remarried Empress by Alphatart, volume 1 of Countdown to Countdown by Velinxi, It Rhymes With Takei by George Takei, volume 11 of A Sign of Affection by Suu Morishita, and Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz.
July 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Friendly reminder from my fave K-Pop book 🏳️‍🌈 If you want fat and bi rep wrapped up in pure joy, I highly recommend I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee. 💖💜💙

#theshinyshrimp #booksky #asianauthor #yabook #bisexualrep #fatrep #lgbtq+ #bookart #fanart #handlettering
Diagonally across a buttery yellow background, a quote from "I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee" is handwritten in monoline cursive in white against stripes of various colors. The quote reads: "I'm allowed to take up space just as much as anyone else." Hearts and twinkling stars are doodled around the words, and the artist's credit, The Shiny Shrimp, is overlaid gently on the background.
June 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Devoured this over the weekend. I already love Ashley Poston's Romances, but this my favorite yet. So much heart and it had the emotional gut punch that I personally didn't get from her last release. Absolutely a summer read too 🌦️

#shinyshrimpreads 🌶️📚 #booksky #summerreading
An uncorrected proof copy of Ashley Poston's upcoming Romance book, "Sounds Like Love" sits on top of a blanket next to a Cardcaptor Sakura mug full of coffee. Hearts and twinkles have been doodled around the photo.
June 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Not finishing anything else today, so May Reading Wrap-Up! The highlights:

✨Played catch up on some Ann Liang
✨Upcoming books from old faves
✨An entire Webtoon series because the anime didn’t give me enough of the story 😂

#shinyshrimpreads #booksky
A StoryGraph reading wrap up for the month of May for user, The Shiny Shrimp. She read 17 books, with the highest rated being I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang, A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim, and The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer. Her top genres were Fantasy, Romance, Comics, Young Adult, and Contemporary. A StoryGraph collage of books read in May by user, The Shiny Shrimp. These include: Wish Upon a K-Star by Kat Cho, If You Could See the Sun and I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang, Volume One of Tigress Queen by Allison Shaw, The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer, Volume One of manga Girl Crush, A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim, Volumes 1-9 of Why Raeliana Ended Up At the Duke’s Mansion, and Exquisite Ruin by AdriAnne May.
May 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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If you see this, post a flower 🌼

(I liek drawing flowers kthx)
#theshinyshrimp #bloomscrolling #digitalart #procreate
May 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Fanart illustration I did for The Heart Principle, now as an alt book cover! Doing romance cover work is something I've toyed with for a while now, so wanted to do a mock-up. 🌶️📚

#digitalart #freelance #booksky #romancebook #helenhoang #bookishart #bookfanart #asianbooks #bookart #theshinyshrimp
A single book mock-up for an alternate illustrated cover for the romance novel, "The Heart Principle" by Helen Hoang. Illustration is a pastel scene featuring a violin, butterflies, and milkweed. The title is written in a thick cursive with minimal embellishments, and byline is typed in a neat sans serif. The artist's handle, The Shiny Shrimp, is scribbled alongside the book. A small bookstack mock-up for an alternate illustrated cover for the romance novel, "The Heart Principle" by Helen Hoang. Illustration is a pastel scene featuring a violin, butterflies, and milkweed. The title is written in a thick cursive with minimal embellishments, and byline is typed in a neat sans serif. The artist's handle, The Shiny Shrimp, is scribbled alongside the books.
May 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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✨A shining hero
✨A hesitant heroine
✨A loyal friend
✨A stringent guard

One hero has gone missing. Two prophecies will trigger Fate. Three souls have set out to find the lost—but will all four make it home?

Sing to me, o Muse, the
HYMN TO THE CHOSEN

#WIPPIT #NA #F
A series of four character portraits are fitted into four squares within the square image, each depicting a different time of day. From top left to bottom right: Caine, a cocky, buff man with Mediterranean skin tones and curly black hair is flexing in broad daylight; Arina, a serious and slight young woman with similar features to Caine hugs her arms to herself at dusk; Aurora, a smiling young woman with auburn hair stares into the rising dawn; Ronan, a pale young man with dark straight hair, scowls under moonlight. The artist's handle, The Shiny Shrimp, is written on each portrait.
May 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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HEROES OF OLYMPUS x ATLA

Caine is Poseidon’s perfect hero. Arina is not. But when he goes missing, it’s up to her to find him and save his legacy.

HYMN TO THE CHOSEN has:
✨Abilities from Ancient Greek gods
✨Chosen Family
✨Romantic subplots
✨Entangled fates in gods’ games

#WIPPIT #NA #F
A sample of the story written by the user, The Shiny Shrimp. It is overlaid a watery shore and at the top is the title of the project, “Hymn to the Chosen”. Nine images are compiled in a three by three grid to convey the vibes. From top to bottom, left to right they are: a Greek temple overlooking the sea, a wave crashing on the shore, the corner of a tan woman’s jaw and all her long black curls, a pair of fair skinned hands holding out a laurel crown, a glistening wave with the text “Hymn to the Chosen” over it, an array of scrolls, a view of the sea between marble columns, a metal depiction of a hippocampus, and a hand holding a sword that has a trident on the hilt.
May 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Hello, all! I'm DJ (she/her), the Shiny Shrimp! Welcome to my page of art, reading, and writing. Come on in, stay a while, and let me know if we have anything in common! 💖

#theshinyshrimp #aboutme #illustration #digitalart #writingcommunity #booksky
Image is a handlettered and illustrated infographic about the user, The Shiny Shrimp. The About Me says she goes by DJ and she/her pronouns, is a millenial, and is just doing her best. Next is a Hobbies section that includes: illustration, figure skating, writing (specifically adventures and romances), reading, and TTRPGs. The Likes section includes: Dimension 20, K-Dramas, K-Pop (such as Shinee, BoA, Gfriend, Dreamcatcher, VIVIZ, Infinite, ATEEZ, and ONEUS), Pokemon, Manga, and Mac N Cheese. The Dislikes section includes: Heights, Dirty Dishes, Bugs, and Chickens. The bottom right corner features an illustrated doodle of a brunette young woman with flat eyes, a cheeky smile, and finger guns while wearing a pastel tie-dye t-shirt and surrounded by twinkling stars.
May 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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To a swell friend, @wanderingkotka.com! This is her JoJo OC, Marillion, who has fabulous style and hair that I can't help but love drawing. I know nothing of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but I love Marillion. 😂💖

#ocart #chibi #digitalart #illustration #jjba #originalcharacter #wanderingkotka
A fabulously dressed chibi woman is illustrated leaning against an art frame against a dark cityscape. She has lustrous red hair that is done up in three buns down the back of her head, with a few loose strands swirling around her face. She wears a marching band jacket over a lace bra, with black and white pants and heels. The background is a dark violet grid with her name, Marillion, typed down the left side of the image. The artist's handle, The Shiny Shrimp, is written along the underside of the art frame.
May 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The Poisons We Drink was one of my favorite books of 2024. I'd hoped against reality it wouldn't become any more "timely" than it already was. But it still sits with me. We shouldn't need love potions to make politicians less corrupt. But damn would it solve a lot of problems. 💙📚 #shinyshrimpreads
A series of books and journals lay flat up on light wood. The most prominent one features a Black young woman with pink hair, standing regally over her bubbling cauldron of pink and purple smoke, with Washington, D.C. in the background. The book is titled "The Poisons We Drink" by Bethany Baptiste and is a YA Contemporary Fantasy.
May 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Still super proud of this tiger 🐯 A bit of fanart for "Hamra and the Jungle of Memories" by @hannaalkaf.bsky.social , inspired by the cover! Loved that this Middle Grade was both a magical adventure and also acknowledged the affect of the pandemic on youth. 📚💙 #theshinyshrimp #bookart #digitalart
An illustrated tiger's eyes pierce through a dark jungle frame, framing a book quote. In the center, a combination of script and sans serif handwriting is written: "What good is power if you don't know who you are? And therefore what to use it for?" The byline says it's from the book "Hamra and the Jungle of Memories" by Hanna Alkaf. The artist's handle, The Shiny Shrimp, is written along one of the leaves in the frame.
May 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM