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Yao

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Baopu #133: Every Goodbye Is Temporary

Yao Xiao March 22, 2025

Baopu #132: How To Look at This World

Yao Xiao February 22, 2025
a bear, a monkey, a deer

Baopu #131: What Are You Looking For?

Yao Xiao January 25, 2025
someone daydreaming about possibilities

Baopu #130: Flying Past Local Stops

Yao Xiao December 28, 2024
Will I get to do everything I set out to do, without a routine that includes getting up early every morning?

Baopu #129: An Impressive Routine

Yao Xiao November 30, 2024
going to the gym

Baopu #128: Workout Day

Yao Xiao October 5, 2024

Baopu #127: I’ll Sink or Float

Yao Xiao September 14, 2024

Baopu #126: Unexpected

Yao Xiao July 13, 2024

Baopu #125: Our Place

Yao Xiao June 15, 2024
Baopu, an Asian person with red hair, making a a blank thought bubble in a two panel comic

Baopu #124: That One Thing I Said

Yao Xiao May 18, 2024
A two panel comic reads "Once in a while I need to refill these two magical things: Time and Space"

Baopu #123: Time and Space

Yao Xiao April 20, 2024
A two panel comic of a poem reads "who instead of staying in one place / kept leaving." The comic depicts Baopu, an Asian person with red hair, getting on and off an airplane.

Baopu #122: Traveling Grounds

Yao Xiao March 23, 2024
In an illustration, Baopu, a queer Asian with red hair, is holding a stuffed animal shaped like a shark and listening to music in yellow headphones.

Baopu #121: 6 Things To Do Today to Relax and Feel Happy

Yao Xiao February 24, 2024
Yao, an illustration of an Asian person in a black sweatshirt and hat, hangs off of a plant leaf with the following word bubble attached: "what's left are just memories"

Baopu #120: How to Remember What’s Hard To Forget

Yao Xiao January 27, 2024

Baopu #119: Be Brave But Not Alone

Yao Xiao December 30, 2023
A hand drawn colorful grid in the style of a Bingo board. Spaces include: fanfiction, nature, coffee, noise cancelling headphones, cats, introspection, sharing, making art, and learning. There is also a free space in the center.

Baopu #118: What Brings You Joy? An Interactive Game of Bingo

Yao Xiao December 2, 2023
An illustration of Baopu, an Asian person with red hair, on a Tarot card. The text reads: "Tarot suggests that I cut the bullshit... and that I overthink"

Baopu #117: You Are Overthinking This

Yao Xiao November 4, 2023
Baopu, a red-haired Asian person, is drawn sitting at a desk in a two panel comic. They are working on a piece of writing and thinking to themself, "So annoyed!"

Baopu #116: An Essay With No Thesis

Yao Xiao October 7, 2023
A drawing of Baopu, an Asian queer person with short red hair, in a purple t-shirt looking at a white flower that they've picked in their hand.

Baopu #115: Creating, Towards Utopia

Yao Xiao August 12, 2023
The words "be free" over a drawn photos of hands hold water glasses, all in colors of pink and green.

Baopu #114: Like Colorful Bubbles

Yao Xiao July 15, 2023
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