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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm sure some of you have heard that Tapas is shutting down by now. I want to say something about that. When I was 15, I uploaded the first pages of CTC on Tapas. When I dropped out at 19, I was picked up by Tapas to make DPS Only. Now at 26, I wake up to see headlines that Tapas will be no more.

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

CTC update!🌟 2 pages🌟 [Save file 16.6] ------------------------------- ✨Read at: ctccomic.com 🖌️Read on Webtoon: webtoons.com/en/canvas/co... 📖Early updates: www.patreon.com/countdown 🌹Discord: discord.gg/hnhvzDbXKy #ctccomic

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm not going to say much about this but it is definitely baffling to find out from manhwa fans online raising an uproar that tapas is getting shut down of all places and not like. my editors. I don't know what to do but laugh

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I sent in my files for the 🔞 Dvattra zine and the printer paused my order to tell me that the alignment on the SMUT PAGES were incorrect but it's okay because THEY WENT IN AND ADJUSTED THE SMUT DRAWING PLACEMENTS FOR ME !!! and would I please check over the SMUT to see if it's too my liking 😭

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CTC update!🌟 2 pages🌟 [Save file 16.5] ------------------------------- ✨Read at: ctccomic.com 🖌️Read on Webtoon: webtoons.com/en/canvas/co... 📖Early updates: www.patreon.com/countdown 🌹Discord: discord.gg/hnhvzDbXKy #ctccomic

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My dream came true at Transformers land Beijing 💖💖💖 My mother waited with me to meet Windblade since that was the only meet and greet at the time, but right before it was our turn, Windblade left and Optimus Prime walked out!! And my mother kept screaming “It’s your husband!! It’s fate!!” 😂

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lilith @lillustrate.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A little fanart for Daughter of a Thousand Faces by @velinxi.bsky.social ! I just caught up to the end of season two. Emotional damage 😭 #shenyuhua #kaikai #daughterofathousandfaces #fanart

Digital fanart of the character Shen Yuhua from the comic Daughter of a Thousand Faces. Her right side is shadowed and in the form of a huli jing and the background shows a burning village in silhouette; the other half is her human form against a cool-toned background approximating traditional Chinese buildings

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Kiss in the rain #ctccomic #ocs

Iris kissing a stabbed and bleeding out Lillium in the rain. Guns and weapons are pointed at them

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

CTC update!🌟 2 pages🌟 [Save file 16.3] ------------------------------- ✨Read at: ctccomic.com 🖌️Read on Webtoon: webtoons.com/en/canvas/co... 📖Early updates: www.patreon.com/countdown 🌹Discord: discord.gg/hnhvzDbXKy #ctccomic

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Daughter of a Thousand Faces has hit USA Today’s bestselling booklist! Thank you my Chu Tian apologists 🥹💖💖

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The best way I can describe Dungeon Crawler Carl is that Matt Dinnamin is spinning ten plates. Just when you think you figured out how he’s spinning ten plates, he grows a third arm and shoots a gun, and you really shouldve seen it coming because he told you he had a third arm with a gun 2 books ago

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Kettlesnpetals @kettlesnpetals.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Finally got to meet the wonderful @velinxi.bsky.social at ANYC! Thank you so much for your amazing art and awesome story, I can’t wait to see where it goes! Everyone go read Daughter of a Thousand Faces rn it’s so good I promise ❤️

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guillotine 🍉 @sasaboba.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

AAAAAAH!! my @bookshop.org preorder of @velinxi.bsky.social's "daughter of a thousand faces" arrived and it's so vibrant and beautiful! that gold foiling is everything 😍 a lot of things are going wrong rn but this lifted my spirits a bit. thank you for your art—writing, illustrated, and otherwise 😭

front hardcover of "daughter of a thousand faces" by velinxi.

back of the hardcover of "daughter of a thousand faces"

vibrant and colorfully-printed spread of characters from "daughter of a thousand faces" interacting near a pond

spread of characters talking in the dark (still beautifully printed) in "daughter of a thousand faces"

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

CTC update!🌟 2 pages🌟 [Save file 16.2] ------------------------------- ✨Read at: ctccomic.com 🖌️Read on Webtoon: webtoons.com/en/canvas/co... 📖Early updates: www.patreon.com/countdown 🌹Discord: discord.gg/hnhvzDbXKy #ctccomic

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Rest in peace Peter Cullen, and I hope more and more of the world grows strong enough to be gentle like you

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

They did not deem you worthy enough to hold a weapon, so I made you into one. Happy DOTF release day ⚔️

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you keep doodling those OCs and post them online there is a non zero chance they will end up #1 for fantasy comics on Amazon Thank you all, truly!! I hope you guys enjoy DOTF! 💖🥹

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

They did not deem you worthy enough to hold a weapon, so I made you into one. Happy DOTF release day ⚔️

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

At a panel for my own book’s release at animenyc and still I was asked about Dvattra. Its my legacy (I have no one else to blame) But to be fair we also talked about transformers yaoi and dragon yuri! It’s somewhat comforting to be able to meet your readers face to face and see a kindred soul.

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Thank you to everyone that came by at AnimeNYC!! I had such a blast at my first solo panel and signings because of you 🥳 Daughter of a Thousand Faces releases tomorrow! I hope you guys enjoy

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

CTC update!🌟 2 pages🌟 [Save file 16.1] ------------------------------- ✨Read at: ctccomic.com 🖌️Read on Webtoon: webtoons.com/en/canvas/co... 📖Early updates: www.patreon.com/countdown 🌹Discord: discord.gg/hnhvzDbXKy #ctccomic

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S ∆ R E N ✦ 杰敏 @sarenstone.com · 18/08/2026

There's not been too much to share lately because I've been locked in drawing a completely new comic for the new 18+ book. I didn't PLAN on drawing a whole ass comic but one image was not quite enough, so it became two images, and then that also wasn't enough and now I'm on page 8...

panel 1: a view of overgrown ruins at night, illuminated by floating wisps

panel 2: side fiew of Adra (they/them) and Criticality (he/him), kneeling in the grass. You cannot see their faces, but Crit has one claw on their chin, and their hand glides over his crotchplate.

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

HELLO I'll be at AnimeNYC this weekend with a Live Drawing and Q/A panel! We'll be raffling off my live drawings at the end along with a copy of DOTF book 1! I'll also be singing Daughter of a Thousand Faces copies with Inklore 💕 I hope to see you guys there!

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Congratulations to my beautiful sister and best friend on her marriage to my new brother!! 🥹💖 Their DnD love story is real and will live on in legend forever ✨ (I caught the single ladies bouquet so I think a wedding with Megatron is in the near future)

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Happy 7 years of Countdown to Countdown! ✨ Thank you to everyone that’s been reading along on Iris and Lillium’s journey. I can’t believe these characters have been with me since I was 14 and are still growing. Here’s to more years of CTC! #ctccomic

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 13/08/2026

Hey everybody. I’ve seen the statement by Matt Karch, the CEO of Saber Entertainment, and all of the truly horrendous things he said about me. I think it should be obvious to anyone who reads that statement that he’s lashing out because he did not want people to know there was AI use in the game.

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“Ramattra will have a Le Sserafim skin,” I say knowing that he will not, but the jester must continue to perform or she will cease to have meaning or a purpose.

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Had the wonderful opportunity to draw the new D.Mon comic! 💖 I’ve loved her since she was first shown in the Dva cinematic and I’m so honored to be able to draw her 8 years later! (Don’t ask me about the angsty MEKA Fanfics I used to write in high school) 📖 overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/media/...

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I haven’t been able to stop giggling about this for a day now

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We saw a really cool yellow car on the road and my mom immediately got my attention and yelled “TRANSFORMER!!! It’s your husband!!” 😭😭😭

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✨🪻Hunter 🪻✨ @deerlordhunter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My first solo comic— completely written, drawn and conceptualized by me. I’m stoked to announce this and share the first four pages over on my patreon. Updates will be biweekly and I’ll be offering lots of behind the scenes concept art and goodies, so check it out 💖 www.patreon.com/cw/deerlordh...

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Sometimes I like going onto videos criticizing booktok women because the comments are full of people like this who most definitely do not read nearly as much as the people they're criticizing. "nobody will read dune". You know. Dune? the very niche book no one has ever read or wants to read?

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My complaint about The Odyssey (2026) is that all 3 hour films should legally be required to include a pee break intermission

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Countdown to Countdown will be back on 8/19! 🥀 ctccomic.com

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Countdown to Countdown will be back on 8/19! 🥀 ctccomic.com

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

DMing for a player thats been stuck as a DM for 20 years is crazy. Just had a character sacrifice himself by exploding his helicopter into a building, reject a revive, and rolled up a new guy with a sheet and fleshed out backstory within the hour. I think I was more shocked at his death than he was😭

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Kat Tsai @chuwenjie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

These are the very first paintings I made for Avatar Aang. I designed the art style for the ancient Sonam and Tagah scenes throughout the film!

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We had a feast again for The Two Towers + DND! 🧙‍♂️✨ I made a log cake for the Ents, don’t mind that it’s a bit melted…

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

CTC update! A short story of Irid. ------------------------------- ✨Read at: ctccomic.com 🖌️Read on Webtoon: webtoons.com/en/canvas/co... 📖Early updates: www.patreon.com/countdown 🌹Discord: discord.gg/hnhvzDbXKy #ctccomic

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My Dungeon Crawler Carl fanart! I finished Book 8 and felt the urge to pick up the pen 🏃‍♂️🐈🦖 #DCC #DungeonCrawlerCarl

Fan art of Dungeon Crawler Carl. In the foreground, Carl and Donut are jumping to the right, ready for battle. In the background, many of the main crawlers are looking in the same direction as Carl

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My big flex this year is Charlet Chung having my artwork for her signed prints and sending me a copy 💖 And YES that is indeed the catty Dva + Ramattra voiceline she wrote 🥹 #overwatch

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Countdown to Countdown has guest art today! By the very lovely Breikka 💜❤️ 🖼️: ctccomic.com

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Xiao 🦋 NYCC B36 @velinxi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hello so we recently uncovered 5 more boxes of CTC books, because I'm a near-sighted fool 💔 The good news is that the last of book 1 is back in stock! (for real this time) Grab 'em if you missed them! Store: Velinxi.art UK/EU store: www.etsy.com/shop/Velinxi

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