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Succulent: Trans-inclusive Sapphic Erotic Comics
From the PRISM and Lambda Award nominated publisher of Nectar & Ambrosia: Trans Femme & Masc & Non Binary Erotic Comics, comes Succulent: Trans-Inclusive Sapphic Comics.
Succulent is a lush collection of sapphic erotic comics. Twelve tales which are hot, humid, and above all, dirty.
A Garden of Sapphic Delights: inspired by the world in bloom and celebrating the diversity of sapphic gender expression. Femme flowers, sappy butches, genderqueer lesbians, trans femme wives, fleshy dykes and thorny switches intertwine in a glorious hothouse of lust.
Trans and nonbinary exploration and acceptance has always been deeply rooted in sapphic communities and expression, and this is reflected in this anthology.
With content tags before each story to help the reader decide if it’s to their taste, this collection is sweet, sexy, smutty and Succulent.
Succulent is a lush collection of sapphic erotic comics. Twelve tales which are hot, humid, and above all, dirty.
A Garden of Sapphic Delights: inspired by the world in bloom and celebrating the diversity of sapphic gender expression. Femme flowers, sappy butches, genderqueer lesbians, trans femme wives, fleshy dykes and thorny switches intertwine in a glorious hothouse of lust.
Trans and nonbinary exploration and acceptance has always been deeply rooted in sapphic communities and expression, and this is reflected in this anthology.
With content tags before each story to help the reader decide if it’s to their taste, this collection is sweet, sexy, smutty and Succulent.
196 pages, Paperback
Published September 20, 2024
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Niki Smith
37 books219 followersArtist, writer, lover of fine comics (and some pretty trashy ones too). Niki Smith now calls Germany home and is dedicated to filling the world with queer and diverse stories.
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October 15, 2024
I'm a huge fan of these trans-inclusive and focused erotic comics that Tab Kimpton's been publishing and editing. They always feature great stories with diverse types of stories and people represented. Also, most are a whole bunch of fun, even if that individual story's sexiness isn't to your specific tastes. They were all at least four stars.
The succulent theme was employed differently in each story. Some were literal plant monsters/creatures, and others were around gardens or with plants as metaphors.
My favorites:
"The Mehndiwali" by Alina Wahab — This is a sweet second-chance romance set at a wedding where extra care is needed since one character has transitioned.
"The Plant Sitter" by Ollie Hicks and Amelia Board — I cannot help but love a chaotic trans masculine person who is a terrible plant sitter but then has some fun wringing the extra water out of the cactus goddess.
"An Unfurling of Petals" by Dominique Duong and Glass Giant — On the level of sexiness, this one was my favorite. I loved the brat dragon and the way water was used.
"Gettin' Yir Hold" by august (in the wake of) dawn and Levi j. Richards — Who doesn't love a celebration of trans bodies in every way that we choose them in sexy orgy. One thing so many cis people don't get is how joyous the different ways that our bodies can be, what they can do, and what we can do to them. Ava making her own choices for herself is the sexiest part.
The succulent theme was employed differently in each story. Some were literal plant monsters/creatures, and others were around gardens or with plants as metaphors.
My favorites:
"The Mehndiwali" by Alina Wahab — This is a sweet second-chance romance set at a wedding where extra care is needed since one character has transitioned.
"The Plant Sitter" by Ollie Hicks and Amelia Board — I cannot help but love a chaotic trans masculine person who is a terrible plant sitter but then has some fun wringing the extra water out of the cactus goddess.
"An Unfurling of Petals" by Dominique Duong and Glass Giant — On the level of sexiness, this one was my favorite. I loved the brat dragon and the way water was used.
"Gettin' Yir Hold" by august (in the wake of) dawn and Levi j. Richards — Who doesn't love a celebration of trans bodies in every way that we choose them in sexy orgy. One thing so many cis people don't get is how joyous the different ways that our bodies can be, what they can do, and what we can do to them. Ava making her own choices for herself is the sexiest part.
May 11, 2025
So many good stories I couldn’t pick a favourite, but special mention to the garlic mustard one for being extremely funny.
If you’re open to 18+ romance, these anthologies show off some of the most creative fun stuff in indie comics from creators all over the world, with messy characters and steamy (and sometimes very silly) stories the creators are clearly passionate about. A great antidote to feeling depressed by genAI slop art and boring cookie-cutter romance trends - the varied vibrance, weirdness and playfulness of the queer and trans indie scene really shines through this whole series.
If you’re open to 18+ romance, these anthologies show off some of the most creative fun stuff in indie comics from creators all over the world, with messy characters and steamy (and sometimes very silly) stories the creators are clearly passionate about. A great antidote to feeling depressed by genAI slop art and boring cookie-cutter romance trends - the varied vibrance, weirdness and playfulness of the queer and trans indie scene really shines through this whole series.
February 23, 2025
I ate this short comic collection UP and if the following gets that lil heart of yours racing, you must pick THIS UP. The contributors ate (no pun intended), showcasing a world budding to life. A garden in bloom. Colorful. Sweaty. Wet. This is a literal aphrodisiac. Thank you to @queerthology for putting this on my radar with their February book pick. Succulent is beautifully hot and dirty, explores queer sensuality, nudity, and getting off in such a light and carefree manner. I was blushing. Gawt damn. I have a huge appreciation for trans femme, sapphic, masc, non-binary erotic explorations in any format. We need more of this and I’m glad this collection is accessible to the world.
December 13, 2024
Ah yes, I forgot what my favorite part of any good graphic novel erotica anthology is: comedy. Timing your lover's [REDACTED] to the explosion of a bomb you planted in an isolationist compound because the owners of said compound are
1. snobby pricks hoarding life-giving spores needed in a desert so really your ecoterrorism is only doing everyone a favor, but really you did it more because these afore-mentioned pricks
2. fat-shamed your lover, for example is. Hilarious.
Other than being very enjoyable on a sultry level, this anthology is a veritable feast of eye candy; there's a lot of top notch artists in this anthology, many of whom who have written other works I've read and enjoyed with great enthusiasm. Their one-off stuff here likewise doesn't disappoint, it's got all their wit and charm. I only recently discovered Discord Comics and their work, but with any luck, hopefully I'll be able to catch up and collect their other anthologies. I already have 2 more of their anthologies en route.
... Also the comic with the two Edwardian butches posing as men so they can pursue their university interests (and, as one butch points out, court women freely) finding each other after some subtle, orchid-enriched flirting was ... inspired. Helped me figure out why I love the trope, I think (women masquerading as men.) It's just so ... DEEPLY queer on multiple levels. Think it through with me.
You're a woman dressed as a man so society can accept your intelligence and competency (because it can only accept such skills under a singular lens (masculinity), therefore it must be lied to.) You can never leave your origin point or true home (womanhood), but you also are suddenly thrust into a world of men who treat you under completely different rules--humane ones, even--so long as they view you as Like Them. If these men take an interest in you, that's gay because they think you're a dude. If these men take an interest in you, that's also straight because what they're in love with isn't a man, it's a woman. When you are a woman dressed as a man courting another woman, you are finally able to have in the public eye the relationship and devotion you so desire with another woman, and you'll be accepted and allowed to do it. (Something not at all possible while you are a woman who looks like a woman.) When a woman loves you, that's straight, because she thinks you're a man. But it's also actually gay, because you're not a man, you're a woman. If you're a woman dressed as a man, ARE you a man, then, by the definition of some social technicality? Not because of however you might feel, but because you are perceived as a man, you are treated as a man, therefore as long as the ruse continues, you get to function socially as a man? In societies where you can only reach true freedom and agency by donning a ruse of masculinity, are you only ever your "true self" when you're a man, because it's when you play this dance that you *finally* get to act as yourself with full social power? Tip of the iceberg questions. It doesn't even get into, you know, how the delusion of a man's superiority completely neuters him in turn. (Read: You can never be truly the "best" or most skilled and intelligent if you go out of your way to keep your competition out of the arena (enforcing patriarchy); you are untested, untried. A cheat and a fraud. A pauper king clinging to a crown with trembling fingers.)
I COULD go on! But I won't! Just had to put this down somewhere while I had the revelation fresh in my brain.
1. snobby pricks hoarding life-giving spores needed in a desert so really your ecoterrorism is only doing everyone a favor, but really you did it more because these afore-mentioned pricks
2. fat-shamed your lover, for example is. Hilarious.
Other than being very enjoyable on a sultry level, this anthology is a veritable feast of eye candy; there's a lot of top notch artists in this anthology, many of whom who have written other works I've read and enjoyed with great enthusiasm. Their one-off stuff here likewise doesn't disappoint, it's got all their wit and charm. I only recently discovered Discord Comics and their work, but with any luck, hopefully I'll be able to catch up and collect their other anthologies. I already have 2 more of their anthologies en route.
... Also the comic with the two Edwardian butches posing as men so they can pursue their university interests (and, as one butch points out, court women freely) finding each other after some subtle, orchid-enriched flirting was ... inspired. Helped me figure out why I love the trope, I think (women masquerading as men.) It's just so ... DEEPLY queer on multiple levels. Think it through with me.
You're a woman dressed as a man so society can accept your intelligence and competency (because it can only accept such skills under a singular lens (masculinity), therefore it must be lied to.) You can never leave your origin point or true home (womanhood), but you also are suddenly thrust into a world of men who treat you under completely different rules--humane ones, even--so long as they view you as Like Them. If these men take an interest in you, that's gay because they think you're a dude. If these men take an interest in you, that's also straight because what they're in love with isn't a man, it's a woman. When you are a woman dressed as a man courting another woman, you are finally able to have in the public eye the relationship and devotion you so desire with another woman, and you'll be accepted and allowed to do it. (Something not at all possible while you are a woman who looks like a woman.) When a woman loves you, that's straight, because she thinks you're a man. But it's also actually gay, because you're not a man, you're a woman. If you're a woman dressed as a man, ARE you a man, then, by the definition of some social technicality? Not because of however you might feel, but because you are perceived as a man, you are treated as a man, therefore as long as the ruse continues, you get to function socially as a man? In societies where you can only reach true freedom and agency by donning a ruse of masculinity, are you only ever your "true self" when you're a man, because it's when you play this dance that you *finally* get to act as yourself with full social power? Tip of the iceberg questions. It doesn't even get into, you know, how the delusion of a man's superiority completely neuters him in turn. (Read: You can never be truly the "best" or most skilled and intelligent if you go out of your way to keep your competition out of the arena (enforcing patriarchy); you are untested, untried. A cheat and a fraud. A pauper king clinging to a crown with trembling fingers.)
I COULD go on! But I won't! Just had to put this down somewhere while I had the revelation fresh in my brain.
November 10, 2024
This was overall quite good, though as it was an anthology some chapters were better than others! Although it says it on the cover I was not prepared for just how trans this was. If you are not attracted to pre-op trans women I would say to look elsewhere though (over half of the stories had a penis of one sort or another)
November 2, 2024
A Single Petal: 4/5
The Mehndiwali: 5/5
Wasteland Garden: 69XX: 5/5
Invasive Species: 5/5
Old Growth Picnic: 4/5
Growing Season: 5/5
The Plant Sitter: 5/5
Prickly Pair: 5/5
An Unfurling of Petals: 4/5
Garden. Of. Delights.: 2/5
Specimens of Science: 3/5
Gettin’ Yir Hole: 5/5
The Mehndiwali: 5/5
Wasteland Garden: 69XX: 5/5
Invasive Species: 5/5
Old Growth Picnic: 4/5
Growing Season: 5/5
The Plant Sitter: 5/5
Prickly Pair: 5/5
An Unfurling of Petals: 4/5
Garden. Of. Delights.: 2/5
Specimens of Science: 3/5
Gettin’ Yir Hole: 5/5
February 16, 2025
Another fun and imaginative volume from Tab and team. Some great stories and really beautiful art in here. My personal faves are The Menhdiwali, Wasteland Garden, The Plant Sitter and Specimen of Science. Really wonderful stuff!
October 17, 2024
Another fun, horny collection of sapphic queer art. May have awakened a new kink OHP
December 6, 2024
Great series of books I now own them all each has a great story
December 16, 2025
Absolutely fantastic.
December 22, 2025
I rather liked this anthology. Like most, some stories hit better than others but the art was lovely and I thought the stories were on the whole quite worth reading!
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