Wen Wen
muteddragon.bsky.social
Wen Wen
@muteddragon.bsky.social
Chinese American short fiction writer in Fantasy, Cast of Wonders, Apex, Small Wonders & more
WenWenWrites.com
She/her. Codex, SFWA Flight Crew, Viable Paradise 2025. Fast talker from the Bronx.
Picture of Snow White from Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!

The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!

www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Here is the beautiful front cover for SUFFERING THE OTHER, art and design by RewX. See the loaded TOC here: bit.ly/4i03e3h (TOC is also in the alt-text here). Coming February 2026, pre-order open in December. Reminder, this is a benefit for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center!
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
For your consideration this year, I have eight originals! Most are free to read!
In order of publication: "Martian Wallpaper" at The Daily Tomorrow dailytomorrow.substack.com/p/martian-wa... It's Yellow Wallpaper on Mars!
Martian Wallpaper — Full Story
By Wen Wen Yang
dailytomorrow.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I have said this before in various contexts, and often include it when I teach classes & workshops:

Submission Grinder is one of the best tools for writers out there.

If you run a spec fic/fantasy (etc) mag make sure they know about you.

thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
The Submission Grinder
thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I love a folkloric protector of children.
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
My Submission Grinder Dashboard numbers are very aesthetically pleasing right now:
- Submissions: 500
- Rejections: 365
- Acceptances: 45
- Pending Submissions: 30
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It’s freezing out! ❄️ Bundle up with a new story NOW LIVE on our site!

“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent” by @muteddragon.bsky.social is a hauntingly tender tale of the afterlife, family, and cultural reconnection. ✨

Read it NOW for free! 🔗 Link in bio.
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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It’s freezing out! ❄️ Bundle up with a new story NOW LIVE on our site!

“The Purpose of a Pyromaniac Descendent” by @muteddragon.bsky.social is a hauntingly tender tale of the afterlife, family, and cultural reconnection. ✨

Read it NOW for free! 🔗 Link in bio.
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I'm looking to speak to people who rely on SNAP about what this past week has been like. If that's you, please reach out, or pass along to others. Can be anonymous.

Signal: marisakabas.04
Email: mkwrites4000@proton.me
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I wish ppl at the airport would get in their relative's car like they just stole something from the Louvre.
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
On a plane. AMA?
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It's not a visit home unless I read the mail. Done. Great timing, grandma got a mail-in request for blood and urine sample (we are ignoring bc she goes to the doc for that). At least it was not the stool colon cancer check!
October 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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“All the words are new, every time!” is so relatable. 😂
Juntos vamos a construir la ciudad que merecemos!

Y con tu ayuda, voy a seguir aprendiendo español 😉
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Only wear dark clothes when peeling pomegranates. Follow me for more life hacks.
October 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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If one of the appliances in your home, say your cooker or fridge, ran using ten times the power of a normal one, you‘d replace it as fast as possible and never go near that manufacturer again, because you’d think they were catastrophically bad at making stuff.

But it’d be cool if it talked, right?
"Goldman Sachs has estimated that the average ChatGPT query uses nearly 10 times as much energy as a Google search."

"A midsized data center uses as much water in a day as 1,000 American households, about 300,000 gallons, one research scientist told NPR."

More: share.google/BOXHTwok4Ltr...
Researchers issue warning on harmful side effect of using ChatGPT: 'It's a concern'
Tech executives have been frustratingly opaque.
share.google
October 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Me: what is this delicious thing?
Cousin: geoduck, very phallic looking.
October 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I'm in the quiet before I leave Viable Paradise and Martha's Vineyard. I completed all dawn walks and made 24+ friends, critiqued and been critiqued, completed the Horror that is Thursday (tm). Taken so many pages of illegible notes. I can't wait to see what our cohort does next.
October 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”
October 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Delta playing Bridgerton?
October 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM