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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 · 10h

peter thiel has only seen boss baby

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 11h

im screaming

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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ii glocks ii heaven @leatherette.bsky.social · 1d

From someone on the ground STOP USING AI

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 23h

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 23h

going to write my insufferable diaspora memoir about how im too westernized for the motherland bc of my love of beavis & butthead

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

im sorry to say i am truly an american in that i love beavis & butthead

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

i want to put a stake through the heart of this insufferable french hole vampire that's how you know it's going to be good

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

i have seen the trailer for the vampire lestat NOBODY FUCKING TALK TO ME

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

where was he on jan 6

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

needolin

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 2d

oh no!! 😂😂😭

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 2d

best to ever do it

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 2d

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

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 2d

tomorrow, chicago!

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

“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 · 2d

Fuck the AI cult

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ALKALI BLUE @alkaliblue.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 2d

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

toril @toril.bsky.social · 6d

#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 · 2d

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

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 2d

OOOOOOO!!!!

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 2d

needolin

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 3d

I H A T E D IT

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 3d

sally hawkins is a FREAK (complimentary)

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