#samin

i don't talk a lot about this topic because its very personal to me, but i really love how hand jumper approaches gender.

firstly, gender is not used as a deciding factor in a character's role. female characters are not given extraordinary powers like many fantasy series (cough star wars) out of nowhere. they are treated like real people that have to work for their power. women in hand jumper have a different kind of narrative weight: agency. sayeon lee chooses to rewind. ryujin chooses not to lose her gift. sara chooses to leave for hongsan island. samin chooses to create the crimson society. but apart from that, women are also in positions of power. two out of three known aberrant corps heads were women. sara lee, the almost head of the sea wolves is a woman. heck, even the (arguably) main antagonist, officer ahn, is a woman.

so many impactful choices are made by women, which just goes to show how much the author respects them. secondly, gender is approached with much needed nuance. sayeon lee, the mc, is also an amazing representation of gender norms. pre-corps, she is more feminine. she visibly tries to take up as little space as possible. sayeon is a quiet rule follower who displays surface level kindness to everyone. when she joins the corps, she is presented with a new standard of success that prioritizes the most vicious, machiavellian outcomes. additionally, as an aberrant, she is freed from the societal expectations of a human woman. thus, she begins displaying masculine traits as a form of catharsis.

apart from sayeon being very traumatised, this narratively communicates the way that women are affected by structures and rules. women, and especially disadvantaged women, must often perform femininity to be perceived positively.

Whenever sleepacross makes art of the family with bits of red it makes me feral…I like when Sayeon has her red tie!!!

saminromantic: one who experiences romantic and queerplatonic attraction similarly or the same, leading them to categorize relationships as romantic or queerplatonic based on factors other than differing feelings of attraction

for anon! this term is similar to idemromantic, but with queerplatonic attraction rather than platonic. the flag has dark grey and white like the idem- flags, a shade of green to represent the arospec aspect of the term, and colors from the queerplatonic flag! ‘samin’ is scots for ‘same’, and ‘samin-’ can be used as a prefix for any similar terms (ex: saminsexual would refer to feeling sexual and queerplatonic attraction similarly).

flag id: a flag with 5 stripes. in order, they are dark grey, light pink, yellow, white, and soft green. end id.

banner id: a 1500x150 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting’ in large white text in the center. end id.

Double page spread. Sometimes I like just doodling out my characters and letting their expressions come naturally. Ignore the marker blob on the first page.