this was highly inspired by these NPD flags and symbol! my motivation behind was simply that I was yet to find a BPD symbol I liked (aesthetically), and I really loved the NPD symbol, so I wanted a similar design! I also made the flags just to match :3
the flower in the symbol is a moon flower / tropical white morning glory / ipomoea alba. I chose this as it was the most popular flower voted on @bpdflag's poll for flowers that could represent / be a symbol for BPD. I also personally really liked the meaning behind this flower and how it could be a symbol for BPD!
the flowers only open up at night-time / under moonlight, which could be symbolic to pwBPD opening up under attention, love, care, and reassurance (especially from one's FP). when they close up, it can symbolise a pwBPD closing up without the attention and love. they typically open up within a few minutes, which can symbolise rapid BPD mood swings. moonflowers seeds are poisonous to humans, but not life-threatening. when closed up, they resemble a spiral, which can symbolise the spirals of emotions a pwBPD may go through, or spiralling when they don't have support. many articles state that the morning glory flowers can symbolise love, affection, deep relationships, unrequited love, love that is in vain, mortality, renewal, and new beginnings. (1, 2, 3)
I edited multiple (free to use) icons together to make this, here are the credits for those: morning glory icon from Icogenix on thenounproject, leaves icons from Isaac haq on thenounproject, swirl from freepik on flaticon
plain symbol PNG, as well as a black and white version for recolouring (lmk if you want me to post the individual parts as pngs)
🌑 — a term for those who are always a little unsure of their identity due to anxiety. even if it is the most comfortable thing and they know there is no better way to describe it, there’s always that lingering doubt.
made for 🔒 / notes: none / links: none
prompt 22 for @rwuffles' pride month promptlist (question)
tagging @radiomogai
★ already coined ? consider this the ranqai version (not an alt flag)!
pt: tensidentian. a term for those who are always a little unsure of their identity due to anxiety. even if it is the most comfortable thing and they know there is no better way to describe it, there’s always that lingering doubt. made for 🔒. notes: none. links: none. prompt 22 for rwuffles' pride month promptlist [link] (question). tagging radiomogai. already coined? consider this the ranqai version, not an alt flag. /end pt
[ID: Three images of a pride flag consisting of 5 horizontal stripes. From top to bottom, they are cyan, light blue, purple, light orange, and orange. The second image has a purple impossible triangle in the middle of the flag, while the first and third ones have no symbol. /End ID]
Paradox queer - aka, I made a flag for when your queer identity makes no sense
Specifically, it's for when the history or timeline of your identity is nonsensical, contradictory, paradoxical or otherwise impossible. The way you conceptualize your identity journey doesn't make sense, but it's the only way that feels right.
Examples:
a trans man who, simultaneously, has always been a man, and used to be a girl before puberty.
A genderfluid person whose gender started changing after they learned about trans people, but who has memories of being genderfluid from before that moment.
Both of these examples are about gender because it's what I had in mind when I made the flag, but it can be used for any queer identity!
Under the cut is my own experience!
I'm non-binary, specifically gender neutral. I've always been non-binary, and I've never been a girl. I remember being a child and showing signs of being trans. I started having dysphoria when I hit puberty.
I also used to be a girl. When I started experimenting with gender I always gravitated towards girl related genders. I was confident in telling people I was a girl and I used she/her pronouns.
As I kid, I was also genderless, because I didn't really understand gender.
I had a phase of genuinely being a cis girl, during which I was also an egg, and after that I went back to identifying with female aligned genders. My gender slowly morphed into being a non-binary woman, and then into being just non-binary, which ended up as the neutral non-binary gender I have now.
So basically. I thought about this too hard and made a flag about it.
a gender where the user is a boy, identifies as presents themselves as masculine yet is a girl in some way. but the 'girl' part is not actually connected to being a girl but another concept that can not be identified as anything but girl.
note : i hope this makes sense, because i had no other way to word it LMAO
IMAGE ID. 3 rectangular flags with 6 stripes that are, in order: dark magenta, magenta, light magenta, light dull violet, turquoise, dark turquoise. END OF ID.
୨୧ • homoflexible bisexual
︵︵︵︵︵︵★ ꒱ explanations :
Flag for homoflexible bisexuals! Can be for whatever reasons, ones bisexuality causing them to be homoflexible or ones homoflexibility causing them to be bisexual.
PT. homoflexible bisexual. explanations. Flag for homoflexible bisexuals! Can be for whatever reasons, ones bisexuality causing them to be homoflexible or ones homoflexibility causing them to be bisexual. END OF PT.
[ID: Two Intersex Butch flags, both with a large white ring in the center.
The first has seven symmetrical, horizontal stripes of: Red, gold, peach, white, peach, gold, and red.
The second has nine symmetrical horizontal stripes of: Burnt orange, orange, gold, peach, white, peach, gold, orange, and burnt orange.
End ID.]
This is for funsies, I made it bc I haven't seen any butch intersex flags out there so I just made my own. It's low effort bc I'm really sleepy, may come back to this and remake it and make it cooler but y'know.
Any intersex or mesosex butches can use this, perisex or "transintersex" please do not use this (I can't stop you but just know this flag is not for you at all)
i wanted a femme fag flag for myself and figured i’d make a set! the top three stripes are from this fag(got) flag and the bottom three stripes are the same as my femme/futch/butch man flags!
flag id: three flags with 6 stripes. the left flag’s stripes, in order, are indigo, light pink, cream, peach, pink-purple, and dark purple. the middle flag’s stripes, in order, are indigo, light pink, cream, light blue, bright pink, and dark purple. the right flag’s stripes, in order, are indigo light pink, cream, light green, blue, and dark indigo. end id.
a general flag for anyone who identifies as both a butch & a boy, for any reason. this can be self-described however the identifier pleases, and represents queerness in masculinity and self-love.
alternate versions are placed below the readmore
TRANNYBOY: a flag for the term trannyboy, those who reclaim the word tranny and are boys
TRANNYLOSER: a flag for the term trannyloser, those who reclaim the word tranny and are losers (loser = monachoric individual, equivalent of man/woman)
TAGGING: @radiomogai @losergendered (I feel like you’d mess w trannyloser)
(sidenote: I made a matching girl version when I was making these but was uncertain about posting but if enough tfems ask for it I will post it for you ❤️)