Xiran Jay Zhao

@xiranjayzhao.bsky.social

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#1 New-York-Times-Disqualified & Hugo-Award-disqualified author of IRON WIDOW and ZACHARY YING AND THE DRAGON EMPEROR (They/Them)

A quote tweet of another tweet. The original tweet says: "Canada losing in the Round of 16 vs. Brazil losing in the Round of 16". Below is a two-panel Gordon Ramsay meme. The Canada panel shows him warmly hugging a girl with the caption "Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous.". The Brazil panel shows him looking furious with the caption "You fucking donkey.". The quote tweet reads: "True. Canadians are throwing little parties because it was really a good run, and Brazilians in my comments are like 'we start executions of our team at midnight'".
Cover of Bonbon Robespierre: La Terreur À Visage Humain by Sergio Luzzatto
A photo of Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life by Peter McPhee next to Napoleon: The Path to Power by Philip Dwyer
Maradona showing Fidel Castro a tattoo he got on his leg of Fidel's face
Screenshot of an email from xiranjayzhaoauthor@gmail.com claiming to be me reaching out to a new author
It has come to my attention that some very troubling allegations have been made against me. It is my intention for this statement to bring some clarity to the situation. My whereabouts from 9:30AM to 9:37AM CET on October 19th, 2025 are perfectly accounted for. I was with my friend Lune at the Musée de la Révolution française in Vizille, Southern France. It is a 3-hour train ride away from Paris, which is in Northern France. It is not physically possible for me to have crossed the country and back within the span of minutes. I would provide time-stamped photographic evidence of this, but I was so overcome with emotion that I neglected to take any. Sometimes what matters most in life is living in the moment. Some have pointed out that my bookcase in my previous Reel looks different from my usual bookcase. There is a perfectly reasonable explanation for this that I am declining to reveal for privacy reasons. I am not in hiding. I am not in possession of priceless jewels I am now struggling to think of how to sell without alerting French authorities. My actions online are not an attempt to distract from any crimes. My personal animosity for Mr. Napoleon Bonaparte aside, I would never think to partake in any act of blatant, brilliantly planned and expertly executed theft of his family jewels. I would not know what to do with them. I would be hoping someone in the comments would tell me what to do with them. But I am not asking that because I do not have them. - XJZ 💔
Macron hugging Zelensky
Qin Zheng's face (illustrated by Ashley Mackenzie) edited over a meme of a person captioned as saying "my wife's boyfriend gifted me with 2 gifts today!" while holding a PS5 and a series of ultrasound photos of a baby
Cover of "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar El Akkad
Picture of my cat's mouth showing she has double canines
A poll I did on Tumblr asking "Which was the more definitive Gay on Girlboss Violence?" "Joe Exotic vs Carole Baskin" received 25.8% of 1598 votes. "Frederick the Great vs Empress Maria Theresa" received 74.2%.
Marie Antoinette looking at her shadow, where her neck is being crossed by a sword
Tumblr user j-nor reblogging my trans Pitbull dream story with the tags #I cannot for the life of me remember that word he says. The one thats like. His catchphrase #all I can think of is fucking cowabunga
On 2 December 1804, when Napoleon was crowned Emperor, Letizia did not attend the coronation ceremony, though she appears in Jacques-Louis David’s famous painting, The Coronation of Napoleon. When congratulated on her son's success, she is said to have replied, « Pourvu que ça dure ! » ("Let’s hope it lasts!").
A card named Anteatereatingant
My gray cat Kokochin eating my calico cat Temujin's ass
A meme of me dressed as Robespierre holding three Yugioh cards in blue, white, and red sleeves respectively that I then turn to reveal as a set of Tragedy with the original OCG guillotine artwork
A photo of Zetian in the rubble of Gaza
Screenshot of a video of the person on the ground, holding his head. Two terracotta soldiers can be seen knocked over nearby
Photo of a billboard saying "the White Sox proudly congratulate the south side's very own Pope Leo XIV, named the 268th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church"
Screenshot of the Milton East-Halton Hills South riding showing the Liberal candidate Kristina Tesser Derksen getting 32,130 votes and the Conservative candidate Parm Gill getting 32,101 votes
A redraw of the "why dis [insert emoji] look so mad" meme but it's Qin Zheng and Zetian from Iron Widow as kids
Larry David caught between a pro-Palestine protest and a pro-Israel protest
Tweet saying "Moved my office into my hyperbaric oxygen chamber"
Reaction image of a screenshot of a dinosaur from Jurassic Park with the caption "prehistoric planet theme stops"
Photo of a sign saying "Fresh Pork Butts for $3.59 per pound)
Photo of figurines of the Chinese zodiac depicted as humanoids in Tang dynasty robes
Series of panels featuring Bruce Wayne eating a burger with a fork and knife while the Robins clown on him
My one cat rising on her hind legs to eat my other cat's ass as the other is perched on a scratch post
"I will not give lectures in any ethics class, I only give lectures in serious science conference."
Screenshot of Jiankui He's Twitter profile where his bio reads "Gene Editing Pioneer. Ph.D, Rice University, Texas 3 years in prison Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2019"
Cover of Iron Widow by me
Me laughing at a screenshot of a YouTube comment saying "Do we know when the Peggy Hill version will be coming out? I want to make sure I get the clearer one"
Me: People from the US full-on crashing out in my replies over me not mentioning the "good" about it and acting as if me criticizing it means I must think no other countries are bad are so funny Twitter user "onlyoneknowsit": You were literally patronizing people who came to you saying they were ashamed of their countries actions. Do you really think this is going to encourage people who care about atrocities when even when they came to you and all you did mock them and call them baddies? Would you rather us not care? Should we just give up? Because I have no idea what exactly would make you happy. Me: Why are you trying to make me happy I told you what I want, for you guys to just be more aware of what the US has done to the Global South And nobody "came to" me I was reacting to a general trend I saw Them: What you expect us to do? When Americans express emotion over horrible atrocities we get this response. I'm telling you what you are doing is going to have the opposite effect. You are making regular people feel even worse for caring and saying this who we are.
Photo of Theresa Malkiel
Picture of a black leather jacket from Taobao with a red pattern going down the back
Screenshot of YouTube Music recommendations showing "You're in the Last Romanov Royal Ball" right next to "10 hours of communist music"
xiran I usually just download ebooks when the author is gringo cause i don't respect gringos however you are a great gringa So i'm actually going to buy your book
Me uploading a video on Tumblr with the caption "Some truths about the publishing industry because I certainly got blindsided when going in. Now l'm so broken by this industry I struggle to encourage aspiring writers lmao" Another author (name redacted) responds with "This is ragebait guys. This is a content creator first and an author second and she's ragebaiting for clicks and trying to discourage other writers to thin her competition. Ignore everything she says. Traditional publishing involves writing your manuscript and shopping around and sending query letters to a fuckshit of agents until one takes you on. It's like an easier form of job-hunting because all you're submitting is a cover letter for your book. The AGENT then does the work of fnding a publisher FOR YOU and the PUBLISHER then does the work of promotion, design, layout, and assigns you an editor to help you. Editors are much nicer and more politer than reviewers on fanfiction! f you have written fanfic for any amount of time or even gotten a mean comment online once (1). you have a thick enough skin to deal with an editor. Traditional publishing is much easiet than self-publishing and it is vitally important as many young and diverse people find agents and get hemselves out there as possible because THAT is how we up the diversity of books. Don't listen to ANYONE discouraging you from entering the professional world, ESPECIALLY ANOTHER AUTHOR.
Screenshot of a TikTok of mine responding to a comment saying "Can you convince me to read your books using only 3 words?" with the answer "He gets pegged" while holding a copy of Heavenly Tyrant. Then a comment on the TikTok says "Reading the blurb sounds so cool, and the mech illustrations are so awesome, then I hear that and it puts me off"