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Baopu #132: How To Look at This World

maybe i'm learning now how to look at the world

Baopu #131: What Are You Looking For?

From city to nature, from one country to another, is there something universal that we search for?

Baopu #130: Flying Past Local Stops

someone daydreaming on the train about possibilities

Baopu #129: An Impressive Routine

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

Baopu #128: Workout Day

I'm gonna work out today / struggling / jelly arms

Baopu #127: I’ll Sink or Float

It may seem counterintuitive at first, but letting your feet off the ground can lead to more freedom.

Baopu #126: Unexpected

a person in a comic finds a flower and imagines a whole new world

Baopu #125: Our Place

friends making art together in playful shapes

Baopu #124: That One Thing I Said

A nine-panel comic of Baopu, an Asian person with red hair, being crushed by the memory of that one thing they said one time (it's a blank thought bubble)

Baopu #123: Time and Space

A nine panel comic is illustrating a poem. The poem reads: "Once in a while I need to refill those two magical things / Time and Space / For telling stories / Finding unexpected things / Running / Searching fo rthe right words / Dancing / Under the Moon / And stars.

Baopu #122: Traveling Grounds

Baopu, an Asian person with red hair, is reflecting on life as an immigrant in constant motion. The poem reads: " / It's nothing to apologize for. / It's very relatable. / Where to next? / Only the world knows."

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

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

Yao, an illustration of an Asian person in a black sweatshirt and hat, slides down a flower, with various word bubbles all around them that read: "sometimes you're caught off guard. Pulled into the most unusual experience. There, you have a long and beautiful dream. Long as it was, you still leave when it's time. What's left are just memories."

Baopu #119: Be Brave But Not Alone

First cartoon panel: person in purple in a bubble with the caption "Sometimes, I find myself in a bubble." Panel Two: Person pawing at the bubble walls while people walk outside "How did it happen?" Panel Three: Person speaking to a room, saying "see me as a human, respect my community." Narration caption - "I focused a lot of energy on people I unconsciously centered." Panel Four: "But I also want to create, build and explore...." Last panel: group of people sitting around a room, looking happy to be in community. "... aa future where we can all be free. Being brave isn't doing it alone."

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

An hand drawn, brightly colored, bingo board. The title reads "What Brings you Joy? A Bingo!" and the spaces include: fanfiction, nature, coffee, noise cancelling headphones, cats, introspection, sharing, making art, and learning, among others. There is also a free space in the center. In a note at the end of the illustration the author encourages using the free space to add your own magic.

Baopu #117: You Are Overthinking This

An illustration of Baopu, an Asian person with red hair, looking at vegetables in a grocery store, looking at Tarot cards, lost in their own thoughts. Around the illustration is the following text: "It's hard to make choices, worried I might be doing this wrong. Tarot suggests I cut the bullshit... and that I overthink. How much are we supposed to think? Who's supposed to think? I don't feel like I'm thinking anything, I'm just floating in my consciousness. (You are overthinking this)

Baopu #116: An Essay With No Thesis

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!" They go on to think more, "When people see I'm an immigrant they assume two things: that I must LoVE living here and that must STRUGGLE with it... It's not that I don't STRUGGLE. But I also live life according to my other emotions like curiosity, which propells me more than anything, which is so over looked, like being queer, which goes so hand in hand with the fluidity, of space, place and time, so in truth why does it always have to —" And then the thoughts run out. An essay with no thesis.

Baopu #115: Creating, Towards Utopia

A six-panel comic that shows Baopu, an queer Asian person, as a teenager with a long Black bob in China and later as an adult with short red hair. The cartoon depicts their immigration to America. Throughout the image, there is poem: When I was a teenager, I dreamed of leaving. Not anywhere in particular... Just somewhere far, far away. a Utopia. I don't regret leaving. Even though the place I went to was no utopia. I remembered. I didn't run away. I'm not just looking for the perfect place. I'm making it into being. Creating, towards utopia.

Baopu #114: Like Colorful Bubbles

A collage of images showing a hot day (people sweating, sun reflecting off of city buildings, etc) and then two friends find solace over some flavored seltzer water. Over these images, is the following poem: When we meet again. We'll always be free like colorful bubbles."

Baopu #113: Visiting Home

A six panel comic of Baopu, an Asian queer person with red hair. In the first two panels, Baopu recognizes that it's June 1st officially kicking off Pride, which is marked with rainbow merchandise in stores. In the third panel Baopu is buying a plane ticket home and asking, "I wonder who I am when I am 'back home.'" In the fourth, they are on the plane and still wondering, "Will I maintain a sense of self or regress really hard?" In the fifth panel, there is a close up of Baopu sitting in the plane in black and white as they wonder "Is 'home' still my reality? Is 'home' a dream?" And in the final panel, a plane flies in the clouds as we see their last thought bubble, "It's always going to be part of my life." Underneath the plan is a small pride flag and three pink hearts, along with the words "doing it!"

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