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Wendy Xu

@wendyxu.bsky.social
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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 linktr.ee/artofwendyxu

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1h
worked all day on making a digital colored pencil brush
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 6h
funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.
Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 10h
happy book birthday to the long lived king! go pick it up for the kid or teen in your life !
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 10h
my 50 yr old lesbian therapist is the most offline person ever (enviable) i had to explain the bar story to her & how it made me feel (confidential)
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12h
NSFW religious art: John the Baptist cuddling with his horned ram, 1602. No lamb of God for this boy! By Caravaggio, natch, & it's his day.
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
listen i know we gotta take the happy with the sad in souls games... but why did they make jar bairn cry!!! that's too much!!!
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bizarro behavior: i sent a dm to an old writing acquaintance i dated in hs last year just saying hi, hope you're well, hope you're proud of me etc. he took 18 months to respond (w/e) . he told me he saw a kid selling homemade comics at a book fest & told him abt me, that his kid bought one, v sweet
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
drawing a bunch of lotus ponds lately while trying to figure out mixed media and yk. the dharma etc
lotus pond in colored pencillotus pond in colored pencil and paint marker
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
drawing a bunch of lotus ponds lately while trying to figure out mixed media and yk. the dharma etc
lotus pond in colored pencillotus pond in colored pencil and paint marker
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"it's for men who are scared of approaching women" wow i wish i had a gun
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
these dudes make beavis & butthead look like fred astaire and dick van dyke
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
love the creativity of sino djs but the remixes of blue & white porcelain to edm beats are so confusing like should i be throwing ass on the dance floor or sobbing in the corner composing poetry & thinking about a lost love???
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"just one more run" i told myself then i lost 40000 runes :))))))) permanently :))))))))
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
immediately finding and killing the dung eater so my bud blackguard can live
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
[beavis & butthead voice] huh huh huh huh huh. dectus
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
remembering the time the malding (mad, balding) ceo had a public crashout that led to a bunch of comics ppl mass deleting their accts (including me)
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
s/o @benkahncomics.bsky.social + sonia liao fjfjjdjdhfhdhdhd
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i would hunt the new meta ai mascot with a crossbow
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
hayao miyazaki should also have the right to fire 2400 rounds into mark zuckerberg & everyone else who reduced his work into empty kawaii aesthetics as a means of promoting their toothless work
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
I don't know if it's just me but it feels like even the people who don't use LLMs to plagiarise are becoming more transactional, more extractivist (particularly of POC, young people, women), perhaps just as a reflexive instinct in the PLAGARISM-IS-FINE era We gotta do an opposite force to that all
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
I feel like one of the most radical, best and most rebelliously good things you can do right now in the informational online space is just....give people credit, love, support and shoutouts. Even if they just inspired you or prodded a thought you built on, name them and thank them loudly.
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Diversity in Horror (they/them) @diversityhorror.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A photo of a gray cat in front of a pink pie chart. On the top it says “Things that bring me joy.” The pie chart is divided into five sections that say: Going home to my cat, thinking about my cat, watching my cat enjoy a treat, rotting in bed with my cat, and talking about my cat.
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
a thousand year voyage under the wisdom of the moon happy midautumn
digital watercolor of ranni the witch
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
happy mid autumn i'm sharing some snacks & tea with my ancestors
snacks & tea & incense
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the dream our forefathers fought for.
A person sitting at a desk in an office, smiling at the camera. A computer monitor displays characters Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps from Disney's Zootopia. Text on the image humorously references Claude doing their job, allowing time to look at art involving Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps.
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
back to my favorite 🍂🍁 cozy 🍁🍂 game ☕️ elden ring
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ok they didn't. they just got added to a sitewide blocklist for ai shills. well they know what to do if they wanna get taken off 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
badly done and very brief little guide about contrast when thinking about composition! this is really just the tip of the iceberg, but it is something i think about a lot! if you take one thing from this, its that composition is ALL about relationships between the elements. (1/2)
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
PW BLOCKED ME???? LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
well well well i really wanted to make something new for the only show I'm officially tabling at this year (BEC the weekend of Nov 14) so here we are. it'll be about 28 pages of collected comics + art. you really can just make a little book if you want to!
downstream: collected little daoist and friends. bubble text set on a pond paintingbug or rabbit, who 
can say--
they drift downstream,
to seek the Way

in flowers and sun,
in rain or tree
perhaps those smallest
are the ones most
free

little daoist drifts downstream among willow leaves and minnows
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
genuinely on the verge of calling for a boycott of publishers weekly from my fellow cartoonists sending books for their review if they are going to continue shilling for every ai company that pays for a placement. there needs to be consequences.
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"telling a faceless company on social media to kys isn't cool" i would stuff your head in a toilet and slam my foot on the flush if i could. genuinely what the fuck is ppl's problem
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
kys
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
happy mid autumn 🍂🌕 thanks for all the love you guys have given MOONCAKES over the years. i truly appreciate how many people have made my debut comic part of their hearts & lives. it has a very special place in mine too
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i tried a new snack shop in chinatown today, asked for the freeze dried white peach bc peach season's over & bro goes "did you see the insta reel" bc they had almost sold out of the peach (in the reel) yes i did see it & come bc it piqued my interest & yes i did want to kill myself admitting it
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i would hunt the new meta ai mascot with a crossbow
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
most romantasy preorder art is bad bc those authors see art as something you order on demand as a consumer product first & foremost like fries at mcdonald's, an accessory to the REAL work-- their book. not as another person's interpretation of an emotional or aesthetic experience.
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
she's mad bc i keep taking away pieces of laundry to fold and she can't smash herself onto a pile ):
a gray cat peers into the camera
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
whenever i see someone pity marketing i think ok sucks to be you & scroll past. i have no patience anymore for anything
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Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i'm uhh not really feeling this decor at the radahn festival
three dudes being burned at the stake as tarnished and blaidd watch

"general radahn, greatest demigod of the shattering, awaits you!"
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
walking onto mt gelmir
static.klipy.com
Troy Community
Alt: Troy Community pizza fire
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
spending thousands of runes on arrows bc i decided to play archer someone who is good at the economy please help
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
beavis and butthead do volcano manor
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
well well well i really wanted to make something new for the only show I'm officially tabling at this year (BEC the weekend of Nov 14) so here we are. it'll be about 28 pages of collected comics + art. you really can just make a little book if you want to!
downstream: collected little daoist and friends. bubble text set on a pond paintingbug or rabbit, who 
can say--
they drift downstream,
to seek the Way

in flowers and sun,
in rain or tree
perhaps those smallest
are the ones most
free

little daoist drifts downstream among willow leaves and minnows
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
told my therapist (also a buddhist) about this she goes "i like that. even tho it's a gun" i know that's right
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is the sort of thing you'd pitch as the premise for a series of YA thrillers with cyberpunk vibes. The sequel would involve a school trip that's just openly called the Lord of the Flies tour.
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
oughhh i miss paris & how extremely walkable it is, w the metro that goes literally everywhere... even smaller french cities are super walkable & have public transit options. looking forward to going back next year 😭
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
updated my classroom code of conduct
While we have a lot of fun in Create Now making our comics, we not only adhere just the eS code of conduct regarding respect towards our fellow students and teachers, but also Wendy's specific policy:
- absolutely zero generative Al in my classroom. No exceptions. Not for reference images, research, writing,
NOTHING.
- I (Wendy) am not interested in policing my students. If you want to be the kind of person who outsources thinking and creativity to a plagiarism machine that is taking up all the water, polluting the environment, and rotting people's brains, that is on you. But if you are caught breaking this rule, your fellow students have the right to clown you.
I have read, understood, and agree to this policy
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