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Baopu #133: Every Goodbye Is Temporary

A departure can feel like any other day, but it marks a new beginning. Soon, it’s time to meet again.

Yao Xiao

Mar 22, 2025

In a two panel comic, Baopu — an Asian person with red hair — sits at a desk and contemplates making a New Year's resolution.

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Baopu #107: Leave Room For Your Future Self

Don’t feel like making New Year’s resolutions? Your future self will probably appreciate you for giving them the free reign.

Yao Xiao

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Dec 31, 2022

In the colors of teal, light blue, and yellow, drawn with a pen, two friends are snuggled under a blanket. They are smiling together. One friend says to the other, "We'll try again tomorrow..."

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Reine #42: Midwinter Break

Lower your expectations and increase your coziness!

Ren Strapp

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Dec 24, 2022

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Alone Together

Nobody told me creating another human is the death of the creators’ relationship.

Rio Rodriguez

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Dec 10, 2022

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Baopu #106: A Cat Kind of Morning

Some lazy Saturday mornings belong to the cat.

Yao Xiao

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Dec 3, 2022

A yellow background with a queer person in a beanie playing with a whole bunch of cats. The queer person says, "PARTY TIME!"

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Reine #41: Holigay Traditions for 2022

End of the year togetherness and late stage capitalism and cats. And maybe a fire extinguisher.

Ren Strapp

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Nov 26, 2022

In a two panel comic with a watercolor pink background, there is a orange jack-o-latern head that says "I haven't cried for a long time" and the one next to it shows Baopu in close up, their hands are covering their face, and it reads "There's too much to process"

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Baopu #105: A Good Cry

As an act of healing together, a good cry allows for releasing of tensions in our bodies.

Yao Xiao

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Nov 5, 2022

In a three panel comic the colors of dark and light peach and also turquoise, it says "Geese" in bold letters. Beneath it are two Black people, one person asks the other what type of bird they are looking at. The answer is "Geese." The first person asks, how can you tell?

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Reine #40: Geese

When you move from the south to the north, you learn a lot about the changing of the seasons.

Ren Strapp

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Oct 29, 2022

Yao is a cartoon image of an Asian person with red hair who is writing thought bubbles on top of an abstract black and yellow background: "can anyone hear?" and "I'm here"

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Baopu #104: Diaspora Time

What is diaspora time? It is a third plane between here and there, where time and geographies meet when people say they don’t.

Yao Xiao

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Oct 8, 2022

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Baopu #133: Every Goodbye Is Temporary

Baopu #107: Leave Room For Your Future Self

Reine #42: Midwinter Break

Alone Together

Baopu #106: A Cat Kind of Morning

Reine #41: Holigay Traditions for 2022

Baopu #105: A Good Cry

Reine #40: Geese

Baopu #104: Diaspora Time

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