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Wendy Xu

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bestselling, award nominated comics person. teaching artist via AAWW. MOONCAKES, TIDESONG, INFINITY PARTICLE. more tk. agent: Linda Camacho. opinions my own. she/they no crypto, no nfts, no ai https://linktr.ee/artofwendyxu

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · Dec 5

the pw announcement is out! my next two books are for the girlies who choose violence 😌 i can't wait for you to meet all of these troublemakers in due time.

pw announcement: Alexandra Cooper at Quill Tree Books has acquired North American rights to two graphic novels by Wendy Xu, one middle grade and one YA. Yarrow and the Burning Mountain, due out in 2027, is about a young goblin who, to protect her way of life, takes on her evil estranged cousin who is attempting to mass produce her village's special pottery. A Ghost Is a Wish, due in 2028, features a teen who sees the ghost of a classmate's sister and starts to hang out with an annoying boy and his ghost-hunting friends to escape life with her controlling mother. Linda Camacho at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency did the deal.

panels are sample art from both books

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 51m

if you didn't come to me and bianca's talk today in chicago u missed out 😎😎 photo by sage

me in the bookstore
"... I want this boy to be so pretty, it's like, this boy is so pretty I want to destroy him."

@ RESTORIED BOOKSHOP

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

needolin

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oh no!! 😂😂😭

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best to ever do it

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 1d

in this hour of peril that we struggle through, I find my thoughts drifting again to LeGuin, may her spirit be at rest, and may her words give us guidance:

Science Fiction Conversations: Ursula K. Le Guin

YouTube video by vondanmcintyre

youtu.be

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

tomorrow, chicago!

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 3d

surprise chicago!! come hang out with me and Bianca THIS WEEKEND!!

ig: restoriedbookshop

WENDY XU & BIANCA XUNISE LET'S TALK COMICS!
BOOK TALK & COMMUNITY EVENT
SATURDAY
OCTOBER 11, 2025 12PM - 2PM

Restoried BOOKSHOP
4613 N KEDZIE AVE
CHICAGO, IL 60625

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

shit like this is why people are going into psychosis. no it did not. this is a propaganda piece that's playing right into the hands of ppl who want to keep all the money and power

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

“In September, scientists at Stanford reported they had used A.I. to design a virus for the first time.”

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 1d

Fuck the AI cult

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ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 2d

Toril Orlesky's cult classic webcomic HOTBLOOD! is back with a revised print serialization. It's been a blast collaborating with her to bring the new art to life! 🐎💨

🐴Full PV >> youtu.be/AzioM_FIyEY

#hotblood #yaoi #centaur #comic #indiecomic #indieanimation #animation #trailer

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

it's one of my faves & toril is a genius

toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 5d

#mybook HOTBLOOD! is a neo-noir Fantasy/Western about bestiality and the Transcontinental Railroad, Publishers Weekly said it was "good," and I'm drawing Vol. 2 for September 2026

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

she plays a freak (great & sexy) in shape of water!!

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

OOOOOOO!!!!

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

needolin

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

I H A T E D IT

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

sally hawkins is a FREAK (complimentary)

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

just saw bring her back... screamed several times but holy shit what a great movie

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Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

www.theguardian.com

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 3d

surprise chicago!! come hang out with me and Bianca THIS WEEKEND!!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

sorry man i am not going to take you seriously if your name is Billy Peebles

Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app hit 1M downloads less than five days after its launch on September 30, which is even faster than ChatGPT did — OpenAI's short-form artificial intelligence video app Sora hit 1 million downloads less than five days after its launch in late September, according to an executive.

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 3d

There's fucking yaoi art on a train by my house I'm fucking losing my mind, this rules so much

Anime styled graffiti art on a train car depicting a male demon looking seductively at another man while saying "That's a good boy", with the phrase "kiss yr homies goodnight" in the bottom left corner.
Artist seems to be "Akira BPD"

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 3d

WAIT DO U LIVE AROUND HERE!!!

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 3d

surprise chicago!! come hang out with me and Bianca THIS WEEKEND!!

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI I'm pivoting to video

ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 3d

We've got something exciting coming soon 🐎

#hotblood #yaoi #centaur #indiecomic #indieanimation

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 3d

i was gagged on every single page

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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · 3d

Miyazaki survived the bombing of Utsunomiya as a child. His family escaped in a car, but left a neighbor and her daughter behind to save themselves. Miyazaki regrets this, and said this has stayed with him and shaped his film making. He hopes his audience will learn the courage he lacked in 1945.

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