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shadaras ([personal profile] shadaras) wrote in [personal profile] dolorosa_12 2020-09-13 10:35 pm (UTC)

On a Sunbeam is a queer space fantasy webcomic about a girl who joins a spaceship crew doing restoration jobs on weird old ruins. She's doing this because she wants to find the mysterious girl she dated once during high school (I think?), and the story is a lovely combination of found family, queer romance, and beautiful art and worldbuilding.

I love it because it's completely unapologetic about being space fantasy (all the spaceships look like fish! there are weird spirit foxes!), has a lot of unexplored bits of mentioned worldbuilding (sci-fi school sports! VR tabletop games! those foxes!), and the characters are generally all positive and kind to each other.

Tillie Walden says, in the 'About', "My initial goal with Sunbeam was to create a version of outer space that I would want to live in. So of course that includes tons of queer people, no men (did you notice?), trees, old buildings, and endless constellations.", and honestly all of this is very fair and a lot of what I love about it myself. (Walden also makes an effort to have characters who are clearly diverse as far as racial background goes, which also makes me like it.)

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