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hey, i don't use tumblr much right now, but i feel like if i'm posting a pride flag i should crosspost it here to share more?

been working on a pride flag for agápē (using the greek definition rather than the christian one, but i mean, not excluding christians lol)

enemy-art.bsky.social helped a lot with ideas and confirming/explaining greek symbolism, huge thanks <:

i'm going to be posting a couple edits of this but i don't think it'll be done during june, so i wanted this to just be up and ready while it was exceptionally thematic. haha. if you do anything cool with it yourself, PLEASE feel free to ping me i want to see, if you have a bluesky i'm more active there than here under anarchie.nskanetis.net

okay, explanation as follows under the cut, it's very long, sorry!

first off, this was technically made due to an alter in our system looking for an agápē flag for a while and not being able to find one. (i mean if you have made one and i haven't seen it i'd be happy to draw him using all the flags...) a lot of the interpretations are influenced in part from him. nii identifies as grey-aroace with agápē and just wanted something for that. anyways!

the initial idea of having a main color for agápē with additional colors for the other forms of love was from elos, and sort of handed off to nii to pick the color symbolism from there! the idea was that all forms of love can be found in agápē, they're all there in the ring in the center.

the orange for the backdrop was genuinely because when nii was describing how he feels about it personally he described it as "orange, i guess!", and when looking up color symbolism, agápē is described as orange in the color wheel theory of love. we don't love color wheel theory because it gets very pop psych, but the coincidence was a bit much to pass up. spreading out into other analogous and complimentary colors is meant to symbolize community.

for the ring, copying from chat when i posted the almost finished version with minor edits to explain better!

philautía as purple due to it being a complimentary color, specifically due to elos bringing up it working as a contrast to agápē. also, yes, due to some interpretations treating it as a form of vanity (intended as ribbing to this because honestly self-respect and self-preservation is something i need more of so like props to people who have that down). leans pinkish due to love connotations and because that was easier with violet.

érōs as red because passion as red is really common. leans pink for the obvious reasons but also due to some sources mentioning sense memory as a window to spiritual beauty and i just really loved that? closest thing i could apply for that was pink, and also my appreciation.

philía and storgē are A CHALLENGE because they share a lot of basic color language. philía is blue and storgē is green. i was looking for associations for loyalty and trust due to these being the easiest to find in color language, and both show up in blue and green, with green having things like "growth" and rarely "family" so it got storgē.

xenía i put as a lightly coppery brown, like a home cooked meal. i know some people really dont care for brown so i'm a bit worried that it might not be liked on a flag, but i... do like warm brown. i have bias. whoops.

also some extra notes that aren't really all that necessary to know but are just kind of interesting

nii has described agápē as "feeling like the acceptance stage of grief" before finding that it was also used as a word for showing affection towards the deceased.

he's also described it as feeling like a dog waiting for someone and the pop psych meaning of agápē called him out on that too by saying that people who feel agápē typically just wait for people.

being absolutely called out by ancient greeks and pop psych books going "i know what you are" while you're just going I JUST LIKE PEOPLE. I JUST. CARE ABOUT PEOPLE. WHAT???

genuinely hilarious. please help. the system is in shambles.

anyways enjoy this, please feel free to use it if it has meaning to you too, enjoy looking into things, happy pride (:

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bluesky link updated if you were looking for me

i'm not here right now because i wasn't enjoying it

hiatus might not be permanent.

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Black Menswear modelled by Black Men

Creative Director Rock Mitchell

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hey americans there is a recall on testosterone gel because they found benzene in it! please check the lot numbers on your batches, benzene is really not something you want to be rubbing into your skin, also you might be eligible for compensation because this is just insane what the fuck

more on this page:

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anon and submissions are on on here and idealteeth

bienvenue à la fin du monde, ou je suis content pour toi???

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We here at Sylph Co. are proud to announce the opening of an official tumblr account. By manufacturing and distributing Pokéballs and Trainer Acessories, we're not just selling supplies, we're selling connections between people and pokémon

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anon and submissions are on on here and idealteeth

bienvenue à la fin du monde, ou je suis content pour toi???

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For anyone who hasn't already, in lieu of the Great Pixilating, go to your Settings> Account Settings> Content You See and make sure you're shit is set so that mature content isn't blurred, like this:

Mine apparently got re-set at some point, so I had to go in and switch things on and off again, myself.

(Unless, of course, you purposely have things set up to block/blur mature content, obviously then this message isn't for you)

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FUCK IT THIS GOES ON MAIN (:

i dont have much of a place to directly talk about tumblr censoring feedism content because ive mostly saved some posts for the future, due to surgical fatphobia being an issue at the moment, and also posting some art in the tag.

i've just been thinking a lot about how people have been going to saying that they can't look at me as an insult in the last few months.

and that it's an interesting insult to use on someone who has been pretty open about feeling like shit about their chest stretchmarks, and decreased elastin in the chest that's wicked obvious even with top surgery. and working towards being more accepting of them. and being treated like body horror for not having a perfect body even in fatty circles.

and that i've been warned against drawing my old body type pre-surgery when i specifically stated that i wanted to give that body type more representation for others with it and was told it's unattractive. except i've seen plenty of people find it attractive when it's not on me. could be the stretchmarks again or could be someone who needs to read the room.

and while this one is unrelated to this exact topic it's been on my mind, the scar on my leg that Upsets Children In Public, that i've started drawing magsona with now. yeah. that too.

i'm pretty open that i care about all this. i had an extremely shit body image as a teen and it's only remnants now when people say things like how they can't look at me. but like. i would also like other people to be able to look at themselves and feel good. damn

like this is a fetish blog don't get me wrong, most of my regular body positive stuff is on main.

listen, what i'm saying is, my GP literally wrote me a doctors' note to give to another practice to stop telling me i need an obesity intervention because it's deeply offensive and not a term anyone uses (which, when clicked on, says there's no actual medical basis for this, and I need to consult my GP, who actually researched shit and looked at my numbers and spoke to me as a human being and went "lmao. lol.")

is tumblr staff wrapped so hard around its own caduceus that it needs a doctor's note. i can get her to underline the part where calling body fat and overeating but only when fat "self-harming" is offensive maybe 3, 4 times if you need. does my doctor's note cover everyone else, or...?

*caduceus used in place of asclepius very intentionally.

since you have machines running this now: doctor's note is a metaphor in the second paragraph about it, and you just fired most of the safety staff so your AI could do... this. instead of thinking human thoughts about things.

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oh! wowww

im not. dealing with this site while tumblr is doing an android "mature content" (read: literally fucking nothing) purge that has really nasty rulings towards peoples' body image, and fired almost all of the security staff

find me on bsky, i'll be back if theres still a site later.

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this is incredibly silly but so true

i keep almost saying 'larice is my favorite non-gieeg in cogdis' but its by like 1% lol. the applechasers is my favorite applechasers

(intended to be valid as platonic, shipping, Everyone Is Some Mix Of Poly And QPP On The UFO We Dont Know Anymore, etc. just silly.)

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updated pokesona for jill which... uh... i apparently havent actually drawn jill since 2016 so idk, pretending more than 5 people maximum know what im talking about

needed to update jill from a liepard to a chien-pao / liepard fusion, it was important. way more fitting for sure.

(jill is nae/nox/noxself or she/her)

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I thought we knew gender-segregated spaces were bad. And that if people aren't even safe in their own homes, then we probably shouldn't approach all our problems with "let's just put this group of people in a place where the bad ones aren't allowed."

— Speaking as a south asian woman who was forced to stay at home because her parents wanted her to be "safe" from the "bad men" (this plan didn't age well) (i was SA'd at home) (but this is unfortunately the same argument used to defend and uphold the need for gender-segregated spaces)

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This is probably my favourite tweet ever hello we are your bank