#SUPERPOSE

[saint-vagrant]

ERUPTING EARTH 🌈 EXPLODING SKY

one of the gouache paintings i made in residency (process has been shared with supporters) ✶ characters & concepts from my comic, SUPERPOSE

[superposeblog]

SUPERPOSE UPDATE!

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⭑✶ Arc III Chapter XII | 20-21 ✶⭑

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▮ New readers start here

content warnings always in effect; this is a long-form story. please see the home site for more information!

▮ SUPERPOSE is a dark and sweeping trans + queer sci-fi comic from 198X about glitches, black holes, and love. In seaside Port City, three desperate and struggling young trans adults stake everything on a physics-breaking machine, altering their future forever ✶

a prism-winning, ignatz-nominated 🔞 comic by Seosamh & Anka

[cartoonistcoop]

On the Atlantic coast, in a town called PORT CITY— “a place out of time”. While a tourist destination boasting a popular beach and boardwalk, Port City is also home to ROMAN LABS, an aerospace-turned-tech company now floundering in the tech boom. Rafael and Royal are each listless in their own lives as longtime locals with little mobility, whose orbits have only occasionally overlapped, until now.

This is an ongoing t4t sci-fi series about black holes and belonging (with an optional transmedia component.) Recommended for mature readers. READ MORE!

[ghostmoor]

Painting practice/study with Rafael from SUPERPOSE. i rarely do full paintings like this bc i struggle a lot with wet media style stuff but i am really happy with this!!! and if u aren’t already reading superpose... why the hell not

[hardpacker]

i did an interview yday and i sort of touched on this but not all of it, so i'm sharing these notes

i draw and write what i do because i want my work to look like me and i want to see me in it.

i'm not good at letting gender be a "vibe" or a "moodboard", intangible like that. in fact "my gender is __ even though i don't look like it, yeah it's my ‘aesthetic’" is pretty distressing for me. lack of embodiment and living exclusively thru projection/formless reflection is distressing. the queerness and queer sex i was formatively exposed to and gravitated toward was... classic, hard, hairy, leathery and even difficult to pin down with titles but still highly physical, or elicited that response/impulse in me. a lot of memories are lost to me and i don't know how to recover them— and so much time spent without another soul to reflect on it. i remember the first internet porno spam i saw. leafing thru erotic coffee table erotica. European comics about bears and twinks hooking up on the Mediterranean. Blixa Bargeld's strap-on harness. wet messy yaoi. but little for me to Be, in a real way.

it's so fucked and also only a teeny tiny example of a far bigger thing but i'll always remember when i first posted a picture of myself on deviantart, i think i was like 15 or 16, and people were like "oh i expected someone skinnier." this clearly really stayed with me, and it isn't an outlier. although it didn't shift anything then, things like this built up over time and my relationship to/presence in my work very slowly evolved. socially and in school, from the top down or among peers, there was no incentive or encouragement to draw trans people, fat people, anyone outside of stock shit, at all. you could work and labour and be rewarded for breaking yourself in half, all the while it's happening in a viciously transphobic environment. 

over the years things have changed for better and worse as we pursue "representation" and "visibility," but i was really burnt by fluctuations in online culture that lead to trans men having to Be One Thing with either proper scars and muscle, or a textureless circle, and the sex they have is supposed to be smooth and tearful and deferential in service to the man or woman— or image of masculinity/femininity— they're with. and you still get fucking harasses for venturing outside of this, both in the work and as a real living person. i'd rather just be called a woman or a slur because at least that's an honest reaction, and not this cruelty, pity, disguised as care.

however, i also want to say that i was never given the benefit of the doubt that i was sweet and small and shy. there are the benefits of whiteness, certainly. but not transness. i've never been treated that way or protected by it. not with friends or family or police or the court. i don't think "sweetness" is neutral or that it's the most pressing issue that trans men face. being ill is its own strange degendering or forcibly gendered experience. being fat and ugly is its own degendering experience in which i have more in common with fat people of all genders. being seen as violent, visibility of transition only increasing this baseless expectation, that you can turn on a dime, that it's all harm or just plain difficulty waiting to happen and that's justification for being treated as an unreliable narrator of your own needs, your own life, that you need to rein it in or someone needs to control you to set you right. and that most of this is not seen, is a bigger problem than this strange idea of sweetness, this strange idea of being protected by your transness. protected by your assigned birth. do not remind me of my assigned birth. i'm trans because i'm not that. the people who DO benefit from protection in life, their visibility is like, completely disproportionate versus the reality.

if it is as big an issue as they say, then i think about like... if children are the most vulnerable people then being seen as a permanent and incapable child— especially at the intersection of things like fatness and neurodivergence, for example, where you're seen as untrustworthy, clearly can't take care of yourself— as property, but also as a womb, as a body for taking, facing domestic, sexual, medical abuse and neglect, homelessness and forced hospitalisation... death. revulsion, abuse and murder aren't the results of supposed smol beanification. it feels so mythological to me. so yeah i wasn't aware this was the way other people characterised us til mid-2010s tumblr— in which i learned in past tense that there was some pervasive way of handling us. i admit there are times i certainly would've liked to have been protected. but this idea of meek non-threatening sweetness (and, perhaps, wielding that like a threat when convenient) fell completely flat to me and many of my friends, especially ones working-class and nonwhite, or mentally ill in socially unacceptable ways, or with bodies seen as too sexual or built too big... so, aggressive, ha ha.

so i don't show this in my art either, not currently. it's alien. it is a concept i'm aware of only thru a game of telephone.

i show trans men being misgendered and deadnamed and pushed and pulled, the dressage, touched and beaten and abandoned. i've been told that portraying the real things we go through is tantamount to me committing those very same hate crimes and i've been told my work just has a “bad vibe” on sight. yes i do show trans men being punished from all sides despite every effort to ping pong between everyone's preferences. the exhaustion of trying over and over only to fail to please and suffer the consequences of abstaining, or giving themselves over to the performance forever until they burn out. art is play the way leather is play. and in my work trans men can be found both suffering from and playing with roles and expectations, the violence, reenacting these sources of trauma among each other.

[unknownbirds]

[hayrulvarisin]

Diyelim Uçmak Tek Olasılık ise , Uçmanın teknikleri bu tekin sonsuz olasılıklarıdır. #fly #flytechnology #superposition #superpose #uçmak #uçmavakti #possibilities (Uskumruköy, Istanbul, Turkey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckdohcwo-fR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[shredsandpatches]

This is a really good article (I have mentioned it a few times before) but also, the final sentence of this abstract simultaneously gives me feelings AND makes me giggle at the author for giving the impression that he was definitely thinking of Doctor Who when he wrote it. Look, I know what that kind of person is like.

(it's me, hi, I'm that kind of person, it's me)

[saint-vagrant]

THE FEVER

for @kingfisher-cove 🖤 featuring our guys from the comic SUPERPOSE

[superposeblog]

SUPERPOSE UPDATE! 2 pages

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⭑✶ Arc III Chapter XII | 14-15 ✶⭑

HOME | TAPAS

▮ New readers start here

content warnings always in effect; this is a long-form story. please see the home site for more information!

▮ SUPERPOSE is a dark and sweeping trans + queer sci-fi comic from 198X about glitches, black holes, and love. In seaside Port City, three desperate and struggling young trans adults stake everything on a physics-breaking machine, altering their future forever ✶

a prism-winning, ignatz-nominated 🔞 comic by Seosamh & Anka

[eusuchia]

hello! this is from one of your posts a while back but i saw you mentioned a lot of "baby trans comics" and as a trans person currently drawing something like that, are there any pitfalls or advice you could share to avoid falling into cliches etc?

omg. no. not at all. in this fucking political climate? make whatever comics you want to make about the trans experience and the joys and despairs of transness and about pronouns and sex and haircuts and trauma and your journey of transness among peers and family. it's great and a lot of people will find it relatable and encouraging to know they're not alone. (ETA: some people will also find it incredibly novel and come away from it having learned something! yours could be the trans diary comic that cracks someone's egg, even.)

I have long since 'transitioned' to my own satisfaction, and have found a happily agender existence among community. I am in an extreme place of privilege to basically not be forced to think about the trans 101 type stuff all the time. don't mind me. I made a passing gripe about baby trans comics only because I HAVE read a lot of them over the years and found nuggets of beautiful, mutually shared experience among them, but find myself wanting more of the complex, messy stories we have in us. that's not to say that the former is unwanted or unneeded. write what compels you!

[cestmoiquand]

Jai fait un vision board de 2024. Il est tellement chaotique, que ça me soule.

[deescontinuity]

I bought this t-shirt from @saint-vagrant and @kingfisher-cove's store, and i love it so so much 💖⛓️

[silly-rai]

" If I move then I move, so I die."

-Lillie Aether, 16/05

[psy-ay-ay]

i thought my 'TyPe' was bAd bOyS (lololololol) like Jess Mariano, fanon Draco Malfoy, Zuko, etc etc

however, me remembering that i also like people like Ash Ketchum, Phillip Fry, Simba, Harry Potter, Loid Forger, Ron Weasley, Sokka makes me feel like I just be desperate

[iwtvdramacd18]

B T V for the fanfic ask game!

B:  What was the first fandom you read fic in?  Which was the first you wrote fic for?

Ugh I think it was either H*rry P*tter or Death Note reading wise, and then writing wise pretty sure the first stuff I uploaded was for Superpose?

T: Any fanfic tropes you can’t stand?

I do not like highschool fics or kidfics at all...

V: Are there certain comments you’ve received on your stories that have stuck with you?

Comments that like are specific about a certain part of something I wrote and also those that like tell me their feelings about how they interpret certain actions are my favorites