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it is my hope and dream that everyone on tumblr can go outside and visit a gay bar or go to a queer event and see that our community is very beautiful and very diverse and that half the internet discourse isn’t real
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Hihii, i plan on using your achillean flag redesign to make some stickers i drew myself (besides the flag, obviously). currently i put any earnings i get from art commissions/orders towards medical and other bills, and i was wondering if you would accept credit wherever i sell them, and a small cut after i pay my bills. if not i would completely understand, i just ask i may distribute them for free instead. please let me know as soon as you can, thank you :).
Of course! No payment needed if it's for medical bills but credit is nice!
-Hermy
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I still think it's really funny that the "toothpaste"/"listerine" flag I (partially?) made back in 2016 based off an anon's suggestion took off and had so much discourse over it. Because I literally had NO idea about it until years later when I stumbled upon it randomly (iirc) because nobody said anything to my face about it ever. Even now I don't think anyone has said anything to me outside of direct responses of posts I made about it.
Like there's literally everyone across every spectrum of everything either loving or hating the flag for completely different reasons, some of which aren't even remotely true. But somehow it almost never reached me.
I'm just here playing in my mud pit trying to help people make and find flags and terms that make them happy while there's a whole war raging over (at least) one of them around the corner.
Anyway, I got burned out a while ago from making flags because people kept making like 100000 a day with photos and copyrighted images on them and I couldn't keep up so I don't know all the flags the youth are using anymore.
Anyway I just wanted to reiterate that I'm NOT a truscum. One of them took the flag and reuploaded it stating it was the "official" gay man flag and I guess that's when it exploded and people just assumed they made it?
I also still 100% support non-dysphoric/transitioning trans people, bi/pan lesbians/gay men, anyone with "weird" or "contradictory" labels, people with 500 genders or 0 genders or -62 genders, you can detransition, retransition, LMNOP-transition, you can change your sex but not your gender, you can reclaim your slurs, you can do whatever you want forever, just don't be an ass and for the love of cats stop making overly complex flags, they're supposed to be simple for a reason!
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I still think it's really funny that the "toothpaste"/"listerine" flag I (partially?) made back in 2016 based off an anon's suggestion took off and had so much discourse over it. Because I literally had NO idea about it until years later when I stumbled upon it randomly (iirc) because nobody said anything to my face about it ever. Even now I don't think anyone has said anything to me outside of direct responses of posts I made about it.
Like there's literally everyone across every spectrum of everything either loving or hating the flag for completely different reasons, some of which aren't even remotely true. But somehow it almost never reached me.
I'm just here playing in my mud pit trying to help people make and find flags and terms that make them happy while there's a whole war raging over (at least) one of them around the corner.
Anyway, I got burned out a while ago from making flags because people kept making like 100000 a day with photos and copyrighted images on them and I couldn't keep up so I don't know all the flags the youth are using anymore.
Anyway I just wanted to reiterate that I'm NOT a truscum. One of them took the flag and reuploaded it stating it was the "official" gay man flag and I guess that's when it exploded and people just assumed they made it?
I also still 100% support non-dysphoric/transitioning trans people, bi/pan lesbians/gay men, anyone with "weird" or "contradictory" labels, people with 500 genders or 0 genders or -62 genders, you can detransition, retransition, LMNOP-transition, you can change your sex but not your gender, you can reclaim your slurs, you can do whatever you want forever, just don't be an ass and for the love of cats stop making overly complex flags, they're supposed to be simple for a reason!
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[5 images: The 5 striped red, light red, white, pink, light pink lesbian flag with a simplified lipstick image with the trans flag on it. 2nd image is the same but the two pink stripes are switched. 3rd and 4th are the first 2 without the lipstick. 5th is just the lipstick image]
Hiii, I’m a trans lesbian femme who came out when the lipstick lesbian flag was popular, it was the first meaningful symbol I had and it honestly still means a lot to me. I don’t like how it and it’s colors (pink red and white) are now basically synonymous with bigots and I seriously think our community shouldn’t let them have symbols which were meaningful to so many of us and which I still many (including me) lamenting the loss of. So here are my redesigns and MY lipstick lesbian symbol! The first design totally reworks the order of the colors and makes it really distinct from it’s original version. I’m also just a huge fan of red pink and white gradients (valentines day vibes) but I did make a version with a white middle stripe for people like me who wanna use it next to the trans flag! the symbol is optional and you can move it around or resize it wherever you want! I really hope this can comfort other trans people. I know I was hurt by finding out the original creator was both transphobic, butchphobic, and racist (I’m mixed asian so it was a real “oof” moment) but I’m also honestly kinda hurt by how I’ve never seen anyone try to reclaim it or remix it in spite of the creator and the bigots who are now given free-reign with it. Anyways I waive my rights to this design and I would love if other lesbians, trans people, and femmes who aren’t bigoted would adopt it or at least consider boosting it! Going anon b/c I’m sure this will piss off bigots who think they somehow own the term and the colors. https://imgur.com/a/uVtqWV8 (hi mods, i’m sorry i had to send these in an imgur link but tumblr won’t let me send you everything in one post. could you pretty please put them into the post for me? I’m so sorry >>)
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Hiii, I'm a trans lesbian femme who came out when the lipstick lesbian flag was popular, it was the first meaningful symbol I had and it honestly still means a lot to me. I don't like how it and it's colors (pink red and white) are now basically synonymous with bigots and I seriously think our community shouldn't let them have symbols which were meaningful to so many of us and which I still many (including me) lamenting the loss of. So here are my redesigns and MY lipstick lesbian symbol! The first design totally reworks the order of the colors and makes it really distinct from it's original version. I'm also just a huge fan of red pink and white gradients (valentines day vibes) but I did make a version with a white middle stripe for people like me who wanna use it next to the trans flag! the symbol is optional and you can move it around or resize it wherever you want! I really hope this can comfort other trans people. I know I was hurt by finding out the original creator was both transphobic, butchphobic, and racist (I'm mixed asian so it was a real "oof" moment) but I'm also honestly kinda hurt by how I've never seen anyone try to reclaim it or remix it in spite of the creator and the bigots who are now given free-reign with it. Anyways I waive my rights to this design and I would love if other lesbians, trans people, and femmes who aren't bigoted would adopt it or at least consider boosting it! Going anon b/c I'm sure this will piss off bigots who think they somehow own the term and the colors. https://imgur.com/a/uVtqWV8 (hi mods, i'm sorry i had to send these in an imgur link but tumblr won't let me send you everything in one post. could you pretty please put them into the post for me? I'm so sorry >>)
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Hiiiiiii?
Hello.
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Hi, I just submitted a post on Icragender, but additional notes: 
the color scheme(yellowish oranges), something not used as commonly in the community, is because many labels Icragender people use are also uncommon. Same can be said for the diagonal orientation. The stripes getting more narrow toward the middle represents the increasing detail, the pin in the center represents the precise label, and the color lightening represents the labels becoming less and less well known. As well, Icragender doesn’t have to do with gender, so if you would like to change it to something along the lines of Icric.
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 Hi! This is a flag for a term I coined, Icragender, which is a Xenogender which relates to, and/or uses many microlabels, and can also be used for someone who is very specific in things/ has a lot of labels! Would you be willing to clean it up and add this to your pride-color-schemes list? If so, I also can’t find anyone who’s made a flag for Alexigenderflux, when a genderfluid person shifts between knowing and not knowing their gender, but it’s always fluid. (Basically a mix of just genderfluid and Alexigender) Would you be willing to design that/add it to your to do list?
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How would YOU create a colour-picked pride flag? Like, a colour-picked pride flag is a pride flag that is AN EXISITING ONE but it's colours were picked from a picture. How would you do it? Sorta curious lmao
I wouldn't.
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achillean flag question anon here! Tysm for clarifying! I did want to say sorry i mistyped the url “achilleanking” as “achilleanmlm” in my last paragraph. I was researching flag stuff super late at night so i got all mixed up. Thank you again and I love your blog and flags!
:)
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Can I ask a question?
So I think I'm a non binary girl.
Not a demigirl, because I don't feel partially a girl and partially non binary.
I feel, for example, as if two smoothies (one labeled "girl" and another labeled "non binary") were mixed together, making a new smoothie (labeled "non binary girl").
And to be honest I feel "non binary girl" fits me well, I like the vibes it gives.
But the question is…
Is that enough to call myself that?
You can do whatever you want forever.
It's your life. You find the term that suits you best, and you use it.
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Hi! Bit of a random question but I have a question about the simplified Achillean flag on the Deviantart and the Original Achillean flag! (I'm doing a research project)
The description of the simplified flag on Deviantart says "Design based on pridenpositivity's design. Simplification is a collaborative effort between me, mod Face (on ask-pride-color-schemes) and me." (/pride-flags/art/Achillean-638170749)
But the post on pride-color-schemes attributes the original flag to "achilleanking" instead of pridenpositivity (/pride-color-schemes/162216050275/achillean)
I was wondering if the pride-color-schemes post was a mis-attribution?
I can't find anywhere else that says achilleanking made the flag, but I did find a posts from pridenpositivity with the original flag (/pridenpositivity-blog/146340602624/) and one thanking achilleanmlm for making larger versions (pridenpositivity-blog/146534766699/)
Thank you for any help! (Also if it is a misattribution, could it possibly be changed on the pride-color-schemes post so I can cite it? ty!)
I dug around a bit and I think you're right pridenpositivity-blog made the original and achilleanmlm made the larger ones. I probably got them mixed up and will fix!
-Hermy
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Would you be ok with all of the MEGA folder flags being uploaded to the LBGTA wiki? Just so there's a backup archive.
I added most of them already but go see what I missed!
-Hermy
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Homeless Family Needs Help!
My mother and I are both very overdrawn on our accounts, with more overdraft fees being added each day. We need to raise $700 by Sunday, May 7th, to avoid any more overdraft fees on our account. We're also going to need gas money and food money soon because we have to drive from Encinitas to Vista every day because of the safe parking program kicking us out of the lot at 7 AM and not letting us back on until 6 PM.
I also have things we need on our Amazon Wish List, which we need as well. It's linked below.
Thank you for helping and for reblogs!
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PolyamoryProud vote winner for a new pride flag and Infinity Heart Variant by Reddit user W4t3rf1r3.
I found them both here at the blog Poly in the Media. There's way more information at the PolyamoryProud page about the flag. [Sorry this is formatted this way. The moment I insert the photos, the text box glitches and everything above the photos disappears.]
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Are you going to include the polyamory flag redesign by the PolyamProud org? [It was apparently voted on by 30,000+ people so it's got community support.]
Feel free to submit it. :)
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