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[queer-buccaneers]

on that note, i guess i should say... this blog is basically retired lmao. none of the mods use this site any more! maybe one day one of us will come up with a term and think its worth sharing here to introduce it to more people, but we’ve pretty much all moved on from tumblr. im personally pretty happy with what we did here while it lasted. i guess you could say we made some... waves?

~ mod kitty (^･ω･^)

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Hi, I just want to thank you for coining the term Qupha, I used it for almost a year and I have the flag painted on my wall. This experience was important to discover my alterhumanity.

wow! its so wild to imagine something i made like... physically being in someones house lmao

im so glad its had a positive impact on your life!! this made me happy to read :3

~ mod kitty (^･ω･^)

[queer-buccaneers]

with peach | without

peach femme: an aesthetic term for femmes who highlight and accentuate their body and facial hair as part of their femme presentation. examples include, but are not limited to, color their body/facial hair, using makeup to make it more noticeable or fancy, and dressing specifically to show off or accentuate body/facial hair

my take on a peach femme flag, since i’ve wanted one for a while! the term was coined here. the top three stripes are inspired by this femme flag and the bottom three are a few natural body/facial hair colors!

flag id: two flags with 6 stripes. in order, they are dark pink-purple, bright red-pink, light red-orange, light brown, brown, and brown-black. the flag on the left has the peach emoji from twemoji (used on twitter and discord) in the center. the emoji is a soft pink-orange color, has a red curved line just off-center, and has two bright green leaves, and the whole emoji is outlined in light yellow-orange. end id.

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[queer-buccaneers]

question about qupha! does it have to be described as woman? im agender but relate to the rest of it heavily besides the woman part

honestly, as the person who helped coin it / it was coined for, ive found since then that the amount i relate to the woman part fluctuates a lot. so id say its ok!

(ive been meaning to write more about how i experience it and what it means to me outside of the definition but im not as good at writing big essays as the rest of the folks here >w>)

~ mod kitty (^･ω･^)

[queer-buccaneers]

Does the adgenders have an etymological root? Where does the ad- prefix come from?

it just means towards! its the same prefix as in stuff like advance and adapt, and its where we get the word at from!

~ mod kitty (^･ω･^)

[queer-buccaneers]

Alterhuman Pride Flag

alterhuman (from alt+h’s home page) A subjective identity which is beyond the scope of what is traditionally considered ‘being human’. (adj) A person with such an identity. (noun)

symbolism: black represents a lack of/absence of light. this represents being “without” humanity, to any degree and in any manner. purple represents ultraviolet, as in the medusan and transspecies flags; it’s a colour beyond what can be seen by humans and represents existing “beyond” humanity. magenta represents a colour that’s entirely removed from the visible light spectrum - the “something else than” human. the white alt-key (⎇) is the symbol representing alterhumanity, in white which represents all colours of visible light combined into one. this stands for the many experiences united under the alterhuman umbrella.

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[queer-buccaneers]

we're a little unsure of if we're allowed to use draoidhe. in your post about it, you said people only from the celtic nations? what about celtics in other countries and people with celtic families in other countries? we were raised in a mixed culture family (celtic and native). and feel strongly connected to our celtic background and our native background because both of these cultures are important to us because that's who we are.

bopping this over to @vagabond-sun, since it's the one who coined the term ✨🌳

[queer-buccaneers]

ahoy there sailors ☠️❤️

you might have noticed that this blog hasn’t updated in a while. or maybe u didn’t?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ anyway, we should talk about that

we’re not closing the blog, but you should know that it’s been difficult to update for some reasons:

we don’t like to coin words or make flags without a good reason! if u follow us u probably know this is something we advocate for in general. that means we’re not putting out content very regularly at all

tumblr’s fuckin exhausting! a lot of us have moved to mainly using other social medias (i didn’t start here, and it never really grabbed me). even our big coining words good posts were mostly fueled by reacting to bad practises, and when we’re not getting mad at discourse that spark kinda dies

at the very least, we still want to stick around to answer questions about terms n flags we’ve made (and make sure the original posts aren’t lost to time 😵) and maaaaybe, just maybe we’ll have more stuff to say in future. but you probably shouldn’t expect us to post regularly 💔

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Hi. Thank you for coining medusan! I'm an alterhuman attracted to nonhumans, alterhumans, and (full) humans. Is medusan appropriate? Or is it intended for low/no attraction to humans and I should use a broader term (like omni)? I'm currently guessing it's ok (similarly to how bi people can use sapphic) but wanted to hear your thoughts. thanks!

sure is! i coined it as a person w low/no attraction to humans myself and have talked abt how i don’t want medusan to come to imply there are always other kinds of attraction going on bc of that but! ur ok to use it like that to describe urself.

i think the sapphic comparison is a pretty good one actually :o u can qualify it if u want, or not 🌺❤️

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Hi! You gave some advice to anon about making flags and recommended using a CBLIS to make the flags more accessible. Could you give suggestions as to how you would do that? Is it to make the flag appear less strained or not have gradients when seen under through the various types of colorblindness?

Basically, you want to avoid situations like this! On the standard rainbow gay flag, in the strongest forms of blue colorblindness, the green and blue striped flags are basically only separated by their light-dark value, and just barely. If the colors were any closer, it’d appear just like a single, very wide stripe.

Or here, where the bigender flag’s pinks turn the same desaturated blue in the red blind filter. If you were to just show me this, and not tell me what flag it was, or what was done to it, I’d genuinely believe it was an agender or libragender flag I just hadn’t seen yet.

Basically, you want to find some way to separate or differentiate your colors, even if it’s just a change in shade or tint. Chuck your prototype flag in and check the three x-blind options, and if something looks super, super off, just tweak it a bit and check again! Flag making in general is a value game, especilly when you’re trying to make something acessible!

I am not color blind, so I’m just going off my natural thought here, as well as based on some offhanded comments from some colorblind youtubers I happen to watch. Just make sure it can be recognized and used!

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Hey, since so many people have been reblogging and taking interest in this post, I’ve wanted to say for a while that while I originally wrote this to apply to femme lesbians, I now want to open this word to *all* femmes who find facial/body hair is explicitly part of their femme presentation. You don’t have to be a lesbian, or a woman, or anything other than femme. 

I’ll probably make another post about this for the Tags(tm) but I wanted to update this one since it’s getting all the notes.  Peach femme is for all femmes! (Excluding radfems of all kinds, TERFs, TIRFs, SWERFs, etc) ~Mod Mangle

peach femme: an aesthetic term for femme lesbians who highlight and accentuate their body and facial hair as part of their femme presentation. Examples include (but are not limited to!) coloring your body/facial hair, using makeup to make it more noticeable or fancy, or dressing specifically to show off or accentuate body/facial hair.  comes from a friend making a play on ‘peach fuzz’ and it really vibed with me as a femme who sports sideburns and body fuzz all over, so i thought id share it! and absolutely this is open to trans lesbians (including NB trans lesbians) and intersex lesbians

[queer-buccaneers]

Hey everyone, I’m starting up a serious MOGAI survey to see what the community consists of! Please fill this out! And for the love of fuck, please no trolls, it really fucks with the survey and I’m trying to legitimately see who’s in the MOGAI community!

@xeno-aligned @the-gender-collector-emself @mogaicore @genderqueer-dream @whimsy-flags @mogai-moth @goodpositivitylgbt @ask-pride-color-schemes @cubeflag @marvelousmultigenders @multigendering @perfectcringecharacteroftheday @transgalaxies

[queer-buccaneers]

friendly reminder <3

[queer-buccaneers]

that’s a good point, thank you for bringing it up. rereading it back, i think it’s mostly just a case of thoughtless wording leading to generalizations of trans women’s experiences, but if you think there’s a deeper issue that we’re not seeing and you’d be willing to talk about that more we’d really appreciate that!

some of our mods are trans women or otherwise transfeminine, and they were the people that pitched these terms and worked the most on this post. but, we know that a few people don’t represent the experience of every trans woman/transfeminine person ever, so if anyone else - butch trans women, or any other trans woman or transfeminine person who feels misrepresented by this - would like to chime in on this, we’d appreciate hearing from you too ✨

~ vonnie

admasculine: transitioning towards masculinity

adfeminine: transitioning towards femininity

these are meant to be slightly more inclusive than ‘transmasculine’ and ‘transfeminine’. who wouldn’t feel included by trans-? why do we need ad-? i’m glad you ask! here are some examples:

an AFAB bigender person who has been on T for a long time and now needs to do the same things as transfeminine people to pass on girl days would be transmasculine but adfeminine

a man in a system who has to dress up the body of his cis woman host when he fronts to feel himself would be admasculine

a trans woman would be adfeminine, because it’s an umbrella term that transfeminine falls under

a cis man with kallman’s syndrome who chooses to take T might be admasculine

an AFAB nonbinary femme might call themselves adfeminine because they feel like they’re transitioning into a different kind of femininity than the heteronormative role they were assigned at birth

a butch woman who transitions but wants to avoid the connotations of transmasculine might feel more comfortable calling herself admasculine

a woman in a system who’s transfeminine inworld but fronts into an AFAB body would be adfeminine

an intersex person who has undergone medical intervention but doesn’t consider themselves trans might talk about their experiences instead as an adgender person

[queer-buccaneers]

maybe an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think anyone should be making flags for whole existing groups of people (as opposed to individuals sharing personal labels with others who might relate) without consulting with or presenting it for discussion to others in that group, and especially if they don’t belong to that group themselves. 

Doing things like that will materially have an impact on the entire group because one person decides to speak over everyone else and just go ahead and make a flag for everyone. And then others will think “this is the flag for this group!” and circulate it.  And yes, this is about that disgusting IGM “pride flag” and some concerns I have with the blog that made it (and has since deleted it.) But it’s also a general issue I think a lot of people on Tumblr and especially in MOGAI spaces have a serious problem with. There’s a LOT of flags, especially intersex ones, that are highly suspect that anyone the flag applies to was ever consulted in the making of. I once saw an intersex flag where the description literally admitted there’s only ever been ONE documented case of the variation – so I REALLY doubt they were in contact and decided they needed a pride flag. 

Idk folks, people need to seriously wake up to what flags are used for and take them more seriously than art requests for anons. Because it really feels like a lot of people are just looking for low-effort artistic outlets and this … is not how you do it. And I say that as someone who makes harmless joke flags for fun. There’s art flags, and then there’s Pride Flags, and I think people get them confused.  Idk. Just. Please consider for two seconds  + Does this group need a pride flag? + Am I a person who can represent this group? + Where should I get feedback on the idea?  + What impact will this have on others? 

[queer-buccaneers]

Re: your post on echidiaen, and various other things: you're mistaken to continually assume that everyone is (or should be) coining things for the sake of other people, rather than just to make themselves happy, and then criticizing them because their actions don't correspond to your expectations for them. People make up words to validate themself, they post them online as a way of self-expression, and that's okay. Not everything needs to gain popularity for it to be worth creating.

(cont.) Just to clarify, I think a lot of what you write on this blog is insightful and useful, but in this particular case I think you’re treating people too harshly for the sake of your own standards, which shouldn’t be treated as universal goals.

ok so like… up top, my response was rude. i’ll own up to that. that was uncool of me.

at the same time, i think youre misunderstanding why i was unhappy kinda? i dont inherently have a problem with people coining words just for themselves. but we try to coin words for the sake of other people, and sometimes, the way people treat terminology hurts our ability to do that.

someone making a word that they vibe with more than the established term with the same meaning: sure, ok, why not.

someone making a whole info/announcement post, with a pride flag, definition and meaning breakdown that is 99% identical to another term in a format that encourages people to reblog it because of how its presented: divides people with the same experiences between two terms and makes it harder for either to gain traction or form community around them.

and maybe they don’t care about that, but we do. thats really all i was trying to say. when you release terms out into the public like that, it will have an impact on other peoples stuff. especially when you format your posts like that.

i was still too harsh in the post, youre right. i’ll do my best not to be so aggro in future, and i hope this makes it clearer why i felt like i had to say something?

~ vonnie