#ply-oriented

[gendergasm]

POLYSEXUAL (REDESIGN)

polysexual — someone who is attracted to multiple but not necessarily all genders

[loveletterliom]

CLOSETED / COVERT MSPEC GAY

— aka daisy achillean or poppy gay if u want a code name

meant to represent anyone under the mspec gay/turian/etc umbrella who doesn't openly identify as such. colored based on a variety of daisies and poppys to represent the history of gay men and gay love; a broader definition of gay.

also inherently reclaiming the pansy craze shit bc i wanted to use flowers and 90% of historical gay flowers are slurs (but i love them so im using them) (not the slurs the flowers)

[redtail-coins]

New microlabels for lunian but they're broader than my tidal terms!

[Image ID: 3 5-striped flags. The first's colors, in descending order, are: dark purple; violet purple; periwinkle; sky blue; very pale blue. The second's colors, in descending order, are: dark blue; blue; desaturated turquoise; sea green; very pale sea green. The third's, in descending order, are: dark blue; blue; dusty blue; sky blue; very pale blue. End ID.]

Sea Lunian - Moon Lunian - Moon and Sea Lunian

Sea Lunian: Any mspec lesbian who experiences exclusive lesbianism, in any form of attraction. This includes, but is not limited to:

- Lesbians who use the split attraction model

- Lesbians who are attracted to multiple genders that would fit under nmlnm

- Abro lesbians

Moon Lunian: Any mspec lesbian who experiences nonexclusive lesbianism, in any form of attraction. This means that, though they do experience attraction to men, they consider themselves lesbian in that form of attraction. This includes, but is not limited to:

- Lesbians who use the split attraction model, but consider themselves lesbian even in their mspec form of attraction

- Lesbians who are attracted to multiple genders, including men, but are more strongly attracted to women (and potentially elsegender people)

- Lesbians who reclaim historical usage of lesbian

- Abro lesbians who consider themselves lesbians even when attracted to men

Moon and Sea Lunian: Any mspec lesbian who experiences both exclusive and nonexclusive lesbianism. This includes, but is not limited to:

- Lesbians who use the split attraction model, but consider themselves lesbian even in their mspec form of attraction

- Abro lesbians

[ix-c-999]

mspec aroace blinkies

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[rammgender]

[ID: A set of three flags with three stripes; the first flag has a thinner middle stripe. The first flag is orange, pale yellow, and blue. The second is orange, pale yellow, and light blue. The third is orange, light blue, and blue. /End ID.]

ankylosing spondylitis flags

[PT: ankylosing spondylitis flags /End PT.]

bi | pan | ply (alt flags)

these flags are color picked from my AS pride flag (link). they are, obviously, exclusive to those who have AS. this is part 3 of this set.

part 2 (link) part 4 (link)

[scr-ppup]

More Mspec combo flags, Mspec Omni time. Omni flag's used as a base here.

Pan omni / ply omni

Bi omni / abro omni

Flag ID. Pan Omni; a rectangular flag of 5 even horizontal stripes, the colors go from top to bottom as pale orange, greyish hot pink, greyish dark blue, greyish blue, and greyish violet.

Ply Omni; a rectangular flag of 5 even horizontal stripes, the colors go from top to bottom as pale pink, pale reddish purple, dark blueish purple, greyish violet purple, and greyish teal.

Bi Omni; a rectangular flag of 5 even horizontal stripes, the colors go from top to bottom as pale magenta, greyish lilac purple, eggplant, lilacish marine blue, and deep blue.

Abro Omni; a rectangular flag of 5 even horizontal stripes, the colors go from top to bottom as light pink, pink, dark plum purple, light lilacish grey, and grey slate. End ID

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[shk0lstun-flagz]

Ply-Juvelic Flags

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Ply-Achillean

For any ply oriented achilleans that want to emphasize their achillean attraction : mlm (or nbymlm)

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Ply-Sapphic

For any ply oriented sapphics that wan to emphasize their sapphic attraction : wlw (or nbywlw)

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Ply-Romeric

For any ply oriented romerics that want to emphasize their romeric attraction : mlw (or nbymlw)

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Ply-Julietian

For any ply oriented julietians that want to emphasize their julietian attraction : wlm (or nbywlm)

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[loveletterliom]

CLOSETED / COVERT MSPEC LESBIAN

— aka violet sapphic ,, if you wanna give it a codename or smth

meant to represent anyone under the mspec lesbian umbrella who doesn't openly identify as such. emphasis on purple and violets to represent lesbian history and an earlier broader definition of lesbian.

originally posted on our flagtwt acc frenreyflags ftr

straight stripes (hate this /lh) && middle violet

[redtail-coins]

Novian Bi | Novian Pan | Novian Poly

Novian Omni | Novian Abro

[Image ID: 5 flags with 5 stripes each. The first 3 are on the upper line, and the last 2 are on the bottom line. Colors on the first, in descending order, are: very dark dusty purple; magenta; light orange; light yellow; denim blue. Colors on the second, in descending order, are: dark desaturated cool brown; dusty rust red; light orange-brown; bright light lime yellow; cerulean. Colors on the third, in descending order, are: dark very desaturated purple; desaturated fuchsia; desaturated salmon; light green; sky blue. Colors on the fourth, in descending order, are: desaturated sky blue; very dark dusty purple; desaturated fuchsia; desaturated salmon; light pale yellow. Colors on the fifth, in descending order, are: dark magenta; dark rust orange; orange; light green; spring green. End ID.]

Specific orientation versions of Novian, an alternative to "mspec mono" intended for people who identify with the astral alignments and/or don't identify with "mono"

Novian bi: A novian who is bi; a bi person who also identifies as gay, veldian, a lesbian, cenelian, or straight

Novian pan: A novian who is pan; a pan person who also identifies as gay, veldian, a lesbian, cenelian, or straight

Novian poly/ply: A novian who is poly; a poly person who also identifies as gay, veldian, a lesbian, cenelian, or straight

Novian omni: A novian who is omni; an omni person who also identifies as gay, veldian, a lesbian, cenelian, or straight

Novian abro: A novian who is abro; an abro person who also identifies as gay, veldian, a lesbian, cenelian, or straight

[rammgender]

[ID: A set of three flags with three stripes; the first flag has a thinner middle stripe. The first flag is orange, pale yellow, and muted blue. The second is orange, pale yellow, and bright blue. The third is orange, bright blue, and muted blue. /End ID.]

ankylosing spondylitis flags

[PT: ankylosing spondylitis flags /End PT.]

bi | pan | ply

these flags are color picked from my AS pride flag (link). they are, obviously, exclusive to those who have AS. this is part 2 of this set.

part 1 (link) part 3 (link)

[novalunosiscollective]

Literally everything on this list I have also been argued with BY OTHER QUEER PEOPLE. We really need to understand a lot of things in the queer community at large, one of the most obvious of this being: Queer people, stop pandering to cis/straight people, you have nothing to gain from hating your own community to get on their good side. You are never going to be exempt from the hate that comes our way because you were "one of the good ones". Another thing: Trans people exist, have always existed, and will always exist no matter how hard people try to silence, torture, and get rid of us. I don't care if sexually you have an aversion to certain genitalia, that is never going to be a constant with trans people. Stop looking at trans people like they are defined by their genitalia, it is disgusting. People are not a monolith in ANY regard. cis people are not all the same, straight people are not all the same, trans people are not all the same, gay people are not all the same.

Stop treating people like they are ONLY a single facet of themselves.

As a trans person with a public life and job, every time it's mentioned and I'm outed to someone, I am legitimately scared for my life. It should not be this way.

“LGBTQA+ is one of the most accepting communities, you’re not being targeted by other queer people!! 😤​😡​”

Aight, time for the list of things related to my queer identity I’ve been yelled at for by other LGBTQA+ people (for context: I am an oriented aroace, trans, queer, and polyamorous dude):

・Being a trans man.

・Identifying as queer/calling myself queer.

・Saying that gay And mlm are two different things, just like wlw and lesbian are two different things

・Saying that trans women are women.

・Being attracted to men.

・Not being attracted to women and people on the genderqueer/nonbinary spectrum.

・Being oriented aroace.

・Not being monogamous.

・Talking about genuinely loving men.

・Being aspec and having npd (quote the girl who yelled at me for that: “your npd made you aroace, you’re just to selfish to commit to genuine love lol.”).

・Not being lesbian.

・Not being pan.

・Saying that I support mspec gays/lesbians because it’s not my place to judge other people’s identities just because I may not fully understand them.

・Saying mspec, the multi spectrum, or multiromantic/multisexual (to include ply, pan, omni, bi, neptunic, uranic, and every other pluralian sexuality) instead of just bi.

・Saying that nonbinary people can present themselves as masculine, androgynous, neutral, or feminine as they want, and still be nonbinary.

・Literally just. wearing green eyeshadow????? (quote the person who yelled at me for that: “t hat’s a lesbian color, bro, you’re literally appropriating lesbian culture by that.“)

・Presenting masculine.

・Using he/him pronouns.

・Referring to the D-Slur as tThe D-Slur (y'all want me to say a slur I can’t reclaim?????).

・Saying that the og polyamory flag (the blue-red-black one with the yellow pi symbol in the middle) looks neat.

・Not using any of the new polyamory flags because I prefer the blue-red-black + pi symbol one.

・Asking if there’s a word for nonbinary people who are exclusively/only attracted to other nonbinary people.

・Hating non-men who fetishize achillean relationships.

・Being specifically Half-Asian and queer.

・Writing books about exclusively queer men/non-women, mostly to cope with trauma stuff (apparently if your writing doesn’t consist of a trillion sapphics, two gay fathers that get three seconds of screentime, and the occasionally non-human nonbinary person, it’s automatically bad writing???? Okay damn. Sorry for focusing on my own experiences, I guess?).

・Not necessarily wanting to get married or have a romantic/sexual relationship.

・Shipping two characters in a queerplatonic way instead of a sexual/romantic one.

・Headcanoning a popular fandom character as aroace.

・Mentioning aroallo people.

・Saying that straight asexuals and straights aromantics are LGBTQA+ since that’s what the A stands for.

・Not being T4T (I just wanna love men in peace fuck off with your "but cis men are horrible!! 🥺🤢😱 Limit yourself to trans men because I said so!! 😤🤬🤬”-Bullshit).

・Using someone’s neopronouns.

・Supporting xenogender people.

・Headcanoning a canonically lesbian character as trans female.

・Saying that I want more representation of achillean, aroace, trans, and asexual men in media.

・Asking asking someone who knew I used he/him pronouns to not refer to me with they/them (like, girlie, that’s called misgendering).

・Mentioning that women can be aroallo.

・Saying that people who don’t label their genders/sexualities can be LGBTQA+ too.

・Saying that two pan women I know in reallife dating each other aren’t lesbians because… they’re both pan?

・Mentioning that queer men should always be welcome in queer spaces.

・Saying that amab nonbinary folks can be lesbian.

・Wanting to go on T.

・Jokingly referring to my tiddies and my pussy as boys.

And last but not least,

・Saying “people”, “y'all”, “esteemed guests”, or “everyone present” instead of “ladies and gentlemen”.

I dunno, homie, I actually do feel a little targeted here.

[scr-ppup]

Mspec abro combo flags

Going backwards in time and indulging into combo flag making by blending and playing around with both flag colors lol

Bi abro / ply abro

pan abro / Omni abro

Flag ID. Bi abro; A flag with 5 even horizontal stripes, the colors go from top to bottom as dark teal, pale seafoam, white, dusty light pink, and dark pale magenta.

Ply abro; A flag with 5 even horizontal stripes, the colors go from top to bottom as pale teal, pale pinkish light grey, white, blueish pale violet, and clay pink.

Pan abro; A flag with 5 even horizontal stripes, the colors go from top to bottom as clay orange, pale greenish yellow, white, pale greyish purple, and clay magenta.

Omni abro; A flag with 5 even horizontal stripes, the colors go from top to bottom as greyish seafoam, light grey, white, greyish magenta-purple, and greyish magenta. End ID

Tags; @radiomogai, @orientation-archive

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[loveletterliom]

bipoly flag?

(both bisexual and poly)

i can’t find anything so i don’t think it’s been coined </3

BIPOLY / POLYBI

im assuming you meant polysexual :'3 here's a combo of the bi & ply flag ! and a color adjusted version thats less eyestrainy imo

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Boeing’s deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage

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Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" is manufactured far from the company's Seattle facility, in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy.

Hundreds of parts from that Material Review Segregation Area (MRSA) were secretly pulled from that cage and installed on aircraft that are currently plying the world's skies. Among them, sections 47/48 of a 787 – the last four rows of the plane, along with its galley and rear toilets. As Moe Tkacik writes in her excellent piece on Boeing's lethally corrupt culture of financialization and whistleblower intimidation, this is a big ass chunk of an airplane, and there's no way it could go missing from the MRSA cage without a lot of people knowing about it:

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-04-30-whistleblower-laws-protect-lawbreakers/

More: MRSA parts are prominently emblazoned with red marks denoting them as defective and unsafe. For a plane to escape Boeing's production line and find its way to a civilian airport near you with these defective parts installed, many people will have to see and ignore this literal red flag.

The MRSA cage was a special concern of John "Swampy" Barnett, the Boeing whistleblower who is alleged to have killed himself in March. Tkacik's earlier profile of Swampy paints a picture of a fearless, stubborn engineer who refused to go along to get along, refused to allow himself to become inured to Boeing's growing culture of profits over safety:

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/

Boeing is America's last aviation company and its single largest exporter. After the company was allowed to merge with its rival McDonnell-Douglas in 1997, the combined company came under MDD's notoriously financially oriented management culture. MDD CEO Harry Stonecipher became Boeing's CEO in the early 2000s. Stonecipher was a protege of Jack Welch, the man who destroyed General Electric with cuts to quality and workforce and aggressive union-busting, a classic Mafia-style "bust-out" that devoured the company's seed corn and left it a barren wasteland:

https://qz.com/1776080/how-the-mcdonnell-douglas-boeing-merger-led-to-the-737-max-crisis

Post-merger, Boeing became increasingly infected with MDD's culture. The company chased cheap, less-skilled labor to other countries and to America's great onshore-offshore sacrifice zone, the "right-to-work" American south, where bosses can fire uppity workers who balked at criminal orders, without the hassle of a union grievance.

Stonecipher was succeeded by Jim "Prince Jim" McNerney, ex-3M CEO, another Jack Welch protege (Welch spawned a botnet of sociopath looters who seized control of the country's largest, most successful firms, and drove them into the ground). McNerney had a cute name for the company's senior engineers: "phenomenally talented assholes." He created a program to help his managers force these skilled workers – everyone a Boeing who knew how to build a plane – out of the company.

McNerney's big idea was to get rid of "phenomenally talented assholes" and outsource the Dreamliner's design to Boeing's suppliers, who were utterly dependent on the company and could easily be pushed around (McNerney didn't care that most of these companies lacked engineering departments). This resulted in a $80b cost overrun, and a last-minute scramble to save the 787 by shipping a "cleanup crew" from Seattle to South Carolina, in the hopes that those "phenomenally talented assholes" could save McNerney's ass.

Swampy was part of the cleanup crew. He was terrified by what he saw there. Boeing had convinced the FAA to let them company perform its own inspections, replacing independent government inspectors with Boeing employees. The company would mark its own homework, and it swore that it wouldn't cheat.

Boeing cheated. Swampy dutifully reported the legion of safety violations he witnessed and was banished to babysit the MRSA, an assignment his managers viewed as a punishment that would isolate Swampy from the criminality he refused to stop reporting. Instead, Swampy audited the MRSA, and discovered that at least 420 defective aviation components had gone missing from the cage, presumably to be installed in planes that were behind schedule. Swampy then audited the keys to the MRSA and learned that hundreds of keys were "floating around" the Charleston facility. Virtually anyone could liberate a defective part and install it into an airplane without any paper trail.

Swampy's bosses had a plan for dealing with this. They ordered Swampy to "pencil whip" the investigations of 420 missing defective components and close the cases without actually figuring out what happened to them. Swampy refused.

Instead, Swampy took his concerns to a departmental meeting where 12 managers were present and announced that "if we can’t find them, any that we can’t find, we need to report it to the FAA." The only response came from a supervisor, who said, "We’re not going to report anything to the FAA."

The thing is, Swampy wasn't just protecting the lives of the passengers in those defective aircraft – he was also protecting Boeing employees. Under Sec 38 of the US Criminal Code, it's a 15-year felony to make any "materially false writing, entry, certification, document, record, data plate, label, or electronic communication concerning any aircraft or space vehicle part."

(When Swampy told a meeting that he took this seriously because "the paperwork is just as important as the aircraft" the room erupted in laughter.)

Swampy sent his own inspectors to the factory floor, and they discovered "dozens of red-painted defective parts installed on planes."

Swampy blew the whistle. How did the 787 – and the rest of Boeing's defective flying turkeys – escape the hangar and find their way into commercial airlines' fleets? Tkacik blames a 2000 whistleblower law called AIR21 that:

creates such byzantine procedures, locates adjudication power in such an outgunned federal agency, and gives whistleblowers such a narrow chance of success that it effectively immunizes airplane manufacturers, of which there is one in the United States, from suffering any legal repercussions from the testimony of their own workers.

By his own estimation, Swampy was ordered to commit two felonies per week for six years. Tkacik explains that this kind of operation relies on a culture of ignorance – managers must not document their orders, and workers must not be made aware of the law. Whistleblowers like Swampy, who spoke the unspeakable, were sidelined (an assessment by one of Swampy's managers called him "one of the best" and finished that "leadership would give hugs and high fives all around at his departure").

Multiple whistleblowers were singled out for retaliation and forced departure. William Hobek, a quality manager who refused to "pencil whip" the missing, massive 47-48 assembly that had wandered away from the MRSA cage, was given a "weak" performance review and fired despite an HR manager admitting that it was bogus.

Another quality manager, Cynthia Kitchens, filed an ethics complaint against manager Elton Wright who responded to her persistent reporting of defects on the line by shoving her against a wall and shouting that Boeing was "a good ol’ boys’ club and you need to get on board." Kitchens was fired in 2016. She had cancer at the time.

John Woods, yet another quality engineer, was fired after he refused to sign off on a corner-cutting process to repair a fuselage – the FAA later backed up his judgment.

Then there's Sam Salehpour, the 787 quality engineer whose tearful Congressional testimony described more corner-cutting on fuselage repairs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP0xhIe1LFE

Salehpour's boss followed the Boeing playbook to the letter: Salehpour was constantly harangued and bullied, and he was isolated from colleagues who might concur with his assessment. When Salehpour announced that he would give Congressional testimony, his car was sabotaged under mysterious circumstances.

It's a playbook. Salehpour's experience isn't unusual at Boeing. Two other engineers, working on the 787 Organization Designation Authorization, held up production by insisting that the company fix the planes' onboard navigation computers. Their boss gave them a terrible performance review, admitting that top management was furious at the delays and had ordered him to punish the engineers. The engineers' union grievance failed, with Boeing concluding that this conduct – which they admitted to – didn't rise to the level of retaliation.

As Tkacik points out, these engineers and managers that Boeing targeted for intimidation and retaliation are the very same staff who are supposed to be performing inspections of behalf of the FAA. In other words, Boeing has spent years attacking its own regulator, with total impunity.

But it's not just the FAA who've failed to take action – it's also the DOJ, who have consistently declined to bring prosecutions in most cases, and who settled the rare case they did bring with "deferred prosecution agreements." This pattern was true under Trump's DOJ and continued under Biden's tenure. Biden's prosecutors have been so lackluster that a federal judge "publicly rebuked the DOJ for failing to take seriously the reputational damage its conduct throughout the Boeing case was inflicting on the agency."

Meanwhile, there's the AIR21 rule, a "whistleblower" rule that actually protects Boeing from whistleblowers. Under AIR21, an aviation whistleblower who is retaliated against by their employer must first try to resolve their problem internally. If that fails, the whistleblower has only one course of action: file an OSHA complaint within 90 days (if HR takes more than 90 days to resolve your internal complaint, you can no have no further recourse). If you manage to raise a complaint with OSHA, it is heard by a secret tribunal that has no subpoena power and routinely takes five years to rule on cases, and rules against whistleblowers 97% of the time.

Boeing whistleblowers who missed the 90-day cutoff have filled the South Carolina courts with last-ditch attempts to hold the company to account. When they lose these cases – as is routine, given Boeing's enormous legal muscle and AIR21's legal handcuffs – they are often ordered to pay Boeing's legal costs.

Tkacik cites Swampy's lawyer, Rob Turkewitz, who says Swampy was the only one of Boeing's whistleblowers who was "savvy, meticulous, and fast-moving enough to bring an AIR 21 case capable of jumping through all the hoops" to file an AIR21 case, which then took seven years. Turkewitz calls Boeing South Carolina "a criminal enterprise."

That's a conclusion that's hard to argue with. Take Boeing's excuse for not producing the documentation of its slapdash reinstallation of the Alaska Air door plug that fell off its plane in flight: the company says it's not criminally liable for failing to provide the paperwork, because it never documented the repair. Not documenting the repair is also a crime.

You might have heard that there's some accountability coming to the Boeing boardroom, with the ouster of CEO David Calhoun. Calhoun's likely successor is Patrick Shanahan, whom Tkacik describes as "the architect of the ethos that governed the 787 program" and whom her source called "a classic schoolyard bully."

If Shanahan's name rings a bell, it might be because he was almost Trump's Secretary of Defense, but that was derailed by the news that he had "emphatically defended" his 17 year old son after the boy nearly beat his mother to death with a baseball bat. Shanahan is presently CEO of Spirit Aerospace, who made the door-plug that fell out of the Alaska Airlines 737 Max.

Boeing is a company where senior managers only fail up and where whistleblowers are terrorized in and out of the workplace. One of Tkacik's sources noticed his car shimmying. The source, an ex-787 worker who'd been fired after raising safety complaints, had tried to bring an AIR21 complaint, but withdrew it out of fear of being bankrupted if he was ordered to pay Boeing's legal costs. When the whistleblower pulled over, he discovered that two of the lug-nuts had been removed from one of his wheels.

The whistleblower texted Tkcacik to say (not for the first time): "If anything happens, I'm not suicidal."

Boeing is a primary aerospace contractor to the US government. It's clear that its management – and investors – consider it too big to jail. It's also clear that they know it's too big to fail – after all, the company did a $43b stock buyback, then got billions in a publicly funded buyback.

Boeing is, effectively, a government agency that is run for the benefit of its investors. It performs its own safety inspections. It investigates its own criminal violations of safety rules. It loots its own coffers and then refills them at public expense.

Meanwhile, the company has filled our skies with at least 420 airplanes with defective, red-painted parts that were locked up in the MRSA cage, then snuck out and fitted to an airplane that you or someone you love could fly on the next time you take your family on vacation or fly somewhere for work.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/#mrsa

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[radiomogai]

[PT: M-spec Flexible Labels!! End PT]

M-spec Flexible Labels!!

Yes ik biflexible and panflexible already exist but I remade them to match the others

Biflexible - a term describing someone who's bisexual identity fluctuates (ex. sometimes being homosexual or heterosexual but being primarily bisexual.)

Poly/Plyflexible - a term describing someone who's poly/plysexual identity fluctuates (ex. sometimes being homosexual or heterosexual but being primarily poly/plysexual.)

Panflexible - a term describing someone who's pansexual identity fluctuates (ex. sometimes being homosexual or heterosexual but being primarily pansexual.)

Omniflexible - a term describing someone who's omnisexual identity fluctuates (ex. sometimes being homosexual or heterosexual but being primarily omnisexual.)

[galluslonging]

OC Tag Game

Thanks for the tag @biowaredisasterbisexual!

Tagging: @uchidachi, @future-ghoost, @shadowcrow, @fernweald, @hellomehlo, @caughtnyact, and anyone else who wants to join in!

General

Name: Rahim Laidir

Alias: Rook, Trouble, Reemo (familial)

Gender: Cis Male

Age: 31

Place of Birth: Dairsmuid, Rivain

Spoken Languages: Common, Qunlat, some Tevene, very basic Antivan

Sexual Orientation: Pansexual Himbo

Occupation: Lord of Fortune. Before joining Varric, he was one of the best treasure hunters in the Lords and made a decent amount of coin plying his trade. Most of it he sent back to his family in Afsaana.

Favorites

Color: Deep reds and blues, also a crisp white (for his button downs)

Entertainment: Name a drinking game (or make one up) and he will join in. Reading, he'll read anything he can get his hands on.

Past time: Fishing, beach combing, and swimming (he maintains the few times he's nearly drowned have been because of the heavy axe and shield he carries).

Drink: Tea, Spiced Rum

Books: Serials, history books, and recipe books (he's still trying to copy down all his auntie's old recipes because she refuses to part with her book)

Have they…

Passed University: He did not attend university, during the time he might've he was enslaved in Tevinter. He did receive a good education in Rivain until he was about 16.

Had Sex: Yes. He used it as a coping mechanism for some time but has since found a healthier relationship with it. Fun fact: in my headcanon he and Davrin were casually hooking up before things became serious with Neve

Had Sex in Public: Technically...(he will not elaborate)

Gotten Tattoos: He loves them and grew up seeing them on other Rivaini. He now has them in several places. His favorite is the one on his right leg but each of them commemorate his adventures.

Gotten Piercings: Much like tattoos, piercings are incredibly common in Rivain. He got all of his during his tenure with the Lords.

Gotten Scars: Absolutely. Though not all of his scars are associated with good memories- some represent dark times- he views his body as a reminder of the life he has lived and appreciates each mark.

Had a Broken Heart: Of course. Somehow, he remains soft and open.

Been in Love: His first love was an older Lord named Cade. Isabela did not approve of their courtship given their age gap and Cade's own history but a young Rook refused heed her warnings. It took him years to recover from their relationship.

Are they…

A cuddler: He loves cuddling with Neve (cause of course) and enjoys hugs, gentle touches, and other forms of physical connection with those he cares for.

Scared easily: He's always been an inquisitive person and approaches most things with a sense of wonder rather than fear. Seeing those he cares for hurt hasn't gotten any easier though.

Jealous easily: Not at all, he doesn't believe any person can truly 'belong' to anyone and as such has never minded his lovers or friends spending time with others, provided they love him as they always have. This is as much due to his upbringing in Rivain as it is to his time with the Lords.

Trustworthy: He is dependable and in the instances he falls short, he is honest.

Family

Siblings: No actual siblings but he does have an older cousin he considers to be his sister.

Parents: Joan & Sami Laidir (adoptive, biological aunt and uncle). His bio mother was a Seer in Dairsmuid who was murdered during the Annulment of the Circle there. His bio father was purported to be a Grey Warden condemned for deserting.

Children: None that he is aware of. He never saw himself as a father but would consider the idea if it was something Neve might want. He'd consider just about anything for her though...

Pets: He has an orange Tabby named Porridge who lives with his aunt and uncle while he travels. It was nearly impossible to stay away from him during their fight against the gods.