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[genderarryire]

Color and Word Resources For Flags: A Guide

Hello! People seem to struggle sometimes with what websites to use to make terms, so, I have discovered a few websites for colors, names for flags, etc. Here are the ones I use the most!

https://genderpusteblume.tumblr.com/post/619678935663411200/masons-guide-to-the-mogai-community My old pinned post and my guide to making a flag itself! https://convertingcolors.com/  This website catalogues all paint colors for several major brands like Behr, Sherwin-Williams, and Valspar, to name a few.

https://encycolorpedia.com/ This website can let you look at any color, compare it to paint shades, and find names for different paints and ideas for names.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ This is my go-to when I am looking for a term. Using the random word feature, you can be pointed in many different directions to a term word. My most common used languages are German, French, and Latin. A lot of terms in English have large translation resources compiled in hundreds of languages (look at water on there, that’s the longest page I’ve seen!)

https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/#:::hex This website is a handy little website for blending colors. You simply put two HEX codes into the empty boxes (and then make sure that’s the color you want) and have as many midpoints (i.e. how many colors between these two colors you want to have. For a five-lined or toned flag, put three midpoints, two for a four-lined flag, etc.)

https://coolors.co/ A wonderful website for color palette generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_colors Wikipedia’s lists of colors!

https://mogaiwiki.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page MOGAI wiki (including a lot of my older terms) by @ogligenders​.

More language-specific resources below the cut

Update (2/15/21): added a letter translation mechanism for other languages

Update (2/17/21): Request Guidelines below

Update (2/21/21): DNI below

DNI: https://ostereigender.tumblr.com/post/643766500425138176/do-you-have-a-dni-list

Update (3/3/21): Post schedule and style:

GIF at top and bottom, 3-6 flags in each post, GIF between each gender.

For requests, here is what I will and will not do: Will do: flag requests, coin terms (gender and orientation), make pronoun flags, etc. Will not do: musicagenders that I do not know, make flags for terms that already have a fine one, etc.

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[t4t-werewolf]

tw insects/unsanitary i wanna make a post about how the star wars fandom’s treatment of anakin eating bugs as “haha thats funny and disgusting” is racist but im not galaxy brained enough rn

[t4t-werewolf]

ok basic idea is:

in real life, who eats bugs?

people from places such as asia, africa, south america (i.e., non-white people)

who thinks eating bugs is gross?

white people

who wrote star wars?

white people

who is anakin?

a slave from a desert world, i.e. an incredibly poor person (who makes the most of what resources are around them) from a place where living and finding food is very difficult; also someone who is coded as a poc

in sum, white people find anakin’s consumption of bugs gross and funny bc theyre seeing it from their euro/usa-centric racist perspective

[jariten]

カボチャの冒険 (Kabocha no Bouken), Daisuke Igarashi

[zegalba]

Evisu: Knit Cowichan ゴジラ東京タワー Cardigan Sweater (1998)

[agentukelele]

Old Web Revival community

I’ve always had a mild fixation on the fact that when I was a child, there was this website I adored and went on almost every other day. Bored.com. It was amazing. Games, links to the most interesting things ever, jokes, puzzles, everything a child could ask for. Today its nothing but bullshit flash games with no replay value. Bored.com was my first experience with a web directory, a list of recommended links.

Did you know back when there were only a few thousand websites, search engines didn’t exist? You opened a web directory, multiple web directories, to search for websites you would find interesting or relevant. You’d make your own website with your own web directory. What do we have now? Praying that google’s bullshit SEO algorithms show you the interesting stuff from your keyword search? Themed social media accounts subject to the rules of companies trying to make money? 

I think most of us learned from Tumblr that when website rules suddenly change, you can lose thousands of posts that were adored. If your favorite artist owned their own website, no other person but them could ever delete that art. If YOU owned your own website, which can be absolutely free, none of your posts would ever be subject to any rules besides country laws.

Wouldn’t it be amazing to have websites dedicated to all of your interests, a page dedicated to every interest you’ve ever had to explain to people why they should watch your favorite obscure musical? Do you just think websites should be found because of relevance instead of how much a company paid to make you see their website? Do you agree that its kind of bullshit that theres hundreds of thousands of websites that haven’t been seen in years?

Come join the discord server and forum. We’d love to have you, and we accept all levels of experience. 

Discord Server                                    +                                 Forum

[cargocollection]

Glow Dog

[fatehbaz]

“The estuary is where the Neawanna, the Neacoxie and the Necanicum rivers all come together,” she said. “You can hear the ocean. …You can see the coastal range. … It’s an incredibly beautiful spot.” 

The former tribal village site is at a busy intersection culturally and ecologically, along a tidal marsh at the confluence of three rivers, sandwiched between the ocean and a steady stream of cars and RVs driving through Seaside on U.S. Highway 101.

This place was so important to the Clatsop Tribe that when it signed a treaty in 1851 ceding their land, this was where they were guaranteed the right to fish and hunt indefinitely. Ultimately, though, they were fenced out and forced to leave.

Growing up in this area was a challenge, Basch said, as she confronted misguided interpretations of her tribe’s history and it’s very existence. “I often was told that the Clatsop people are now extinct. They don’t exist anymore,” she said. “And I, obviously, knowing I am a Clatsop person, knew that was wrong.” […]

Their ancestors had longhouses here, in the place they called Ne-ah-coxie, or “place of little pines.” […]

The Clatsop Tribe’s treaty ensuring them the right to fish and hunt was never ratified by Congress, so tribal members never got what they were promised. And as white settlers moved in, the Clatsop weren’t able to return […]. “They put up fences and no trespassing signs […].”

“Our people weren’t able to go to the place they gathered, and they were arrested for trespassing. Can you imagine that? The horror that they had to endure.” It wasn’t until earlier this year [2020] when the owner of 18.6 acres of land at that site decided to deed it back to the Native American people who used to live there […].

Over the last two decades, the North Coast Land Conservancy has protected that 18.6 acres of property from development and restored its tidal marsh ecosystem. The land trust referred to the area as its Neawanna Point Habitat Preserve […]. Katie Voelke, the conservancy’s executive director, said after years of talking with tribal members about their desire to own some of their ancestral land, her organization made the historic decision to deed its portion of the former village site back to the tribes. […] “What we owned was one of the most important places to other people, and why would we own that when we know that those other people will care for it even more greatly than we would?” […] The North Coast Land Conservancy’s decision to return the land means Clatsop-Nehalem tribal members have a place to call home […], according to David Stowe, a council member with the Clatsop-Nehalem Confederated Tribes. […]

The tribes have been denied federal recognition, so they don’t have full sovereignty or the right to self-governance. When they were forced to leave their homeland on Oregon’s North Coast, they didn’t have a reservation to go to. […]

Standing on their newly transferred property with traffic on Highway 101 whizzing by, Stowe and Dick Basch talk with an architect about their plans to build a longhouse and museum at the site. […]

“So we’re like, ‘Okay, now what do we do?’ We’re dreaming again …”

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Headline, images, captions, and text published by: Cassandra Profita. “Clatsop-Nehalem tribes ‘dreaming again’ with return of ancestral land.” OPB. 15 December 2020.

[thehiatusproject]

“A few years ago, the women of Jonapur village narrated a story to me about the day a taxi appeared outside the house next door. At the time, the house was not as pakka or modern as it is now. It was old, crumbling, a pre-1947 construction. It had aging walls with alcoves, the original flooring, and had been witness to all kinds of history. From within a car, a gentleman emerged and walked straight up to the door, creating ripples of conversation amongst the women who were sitting outside. Where are you from, they asked him, who have you come to see? He said that he was from Pakistan, that this was once his makaan, and he had left something here in 1947 that he’d now come to retrieve. It had taken many decades, but he had returned for it. The inhabitants of the house were kind, they led him in and watched in wonderment as he knocked open something on a wall and extracted the belongings that he’d buried before leaving in 1947. I suppose he, like so many others, had hoped that any migration would be merely temporary. The permanence of it all took years to set in.“ . . This excerpt is from a series of conversations in an ongoing research project.

[local--honey]

[dantessword]

[guerrillatech]

[fluffmugger]

amazon’s entire schtick is to run other businesses into the ground by undercutting prices then ruling over their peasant customers. 

[solitarelee]

FedEx just refuses to deliver to my house. It’s too rural. They just won’t do it. The USPS is gutted. If I need supplies or food or any emergency anything, am I going to risk the package being destroyed or never getting to my house, or grit my teeth and go with the chaotic evil monsters who will nonetheless give me the food or medicine I need? 

And guess what? Amazon is directly and indirectly responsible for both the state of FedEx and the state of the USPS. They were allowed to create a monopoly and they were PREPARED for the further gutting of the USPS we’ve seen in late 2020. In my rural area, with a pandemic on? I think people don’t understand what I mean when I say I have no choice sometimes, the same as I have no choice but to buy Comcast internet even tho it’s overpriced and unreliable. 

It. Is. A. Monopoly. By. Design. We’re being given no choice. The solution isn’t to attack the consumers; it’s to force the government to undermine the company and to actually support its citizens with things like the USPS. 

[jay-works]

Ethical consumption is a luxury afforded to the rich.

[aveja]

[stonebutchcowboy]

Me and my mutuals meeting to assess knifes

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

Where’s the cat

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

BEHIND YOU

[t4t-werewolf]

i’m about to fill out my change of name & gender forms, is there like a checklist or something of Things to Update After? (i’m in australia, so US centric stuff is not what i’m looking for)

[t4t-werewolf]

someone linked me this (Australia specific but has general things as well)

33 votes and 13 comments so far on Reddit

[violetsandshrikes]

one of my favourite pieces of good news was that a population of new guinea singing dogs was found in the wild when they were previously thought extinct!

look at this best boy!!! i’m so happy they’re still out there!!

[tinyaibou]

*has a little gender that pisses you off*

[bullrunpicnicker]

*wears my gender inside out on purpose*

[tinyaibou]

*wears mismatching pairs of genders because i like them like that*

[ranboo-my-beloved]

*forgets to tie my genders so i trip and fall face first into the dirt*

[patroclusdefencesquad]

lmao just thought about jaskier rifling through geralt's bag and seeing a potion and being like "what does this one do" and geralt dead pan going "it makes you invisible. go on try it" and then jaskier drinking it and literally nothing happens bc it's just like. red bull. but anyway geralt starts yelling "oh my gods jaskier I can't see you!! shit jaskier it wasn't supposed to work on you!! fuck!! I can't reverse it!!" and he keeps it up for like 3 days

[thisishowyoushoplift]

How To Steal From Walmart (from a Walmart employee)

I used to work at Walmart. I’ve always stolen from them from before I worked there to after I quit. It’s just way too easy. This is how you steal from one of the richest retail companies in the world:

Bring a backpack. This is where you will be storing your goods. NOTE: put your wallet in a separate compartment. Do not store it where you will be storing the items!!

Take a cart/basket. When you find something you like, take two and put them in the cart. Try to hide the second item underneath the first one so that it looks like you’re only taking one product to the cameras above.

When you have everything you want, head to the changing rooms. In my experience, Walmart NEVER has employees standing around the change rooms and at least 1 room is already open. Take your stuff into the change room. NOTE: if you have non clothing items, discreetly hide them in the clothes as you carry them. If you dont have clothing, go pickup some random sweaters and such to complete this step.

Fill up your bag with one of each of the items. Be aware of the zipper sounds from your bag. Don’t move too quickly if there are people around. It sounds suspicious. NOTE: MAKE SURE TO EXAMINE EVERY PRODUCT FOR MAGNETIC TAGS/STICKERS AND REMOVE THEM BEFORE STEALING.

Leave the change room. Go put the second copy of everything back wherever you want (but not all in one place).

Go pickup something super small and cheap (like a chocolate bar) and go checkout at the cash. NOTE: it is EXTREMELY important that you ALEAYS buy something when you are stealing!! If you’re just walking in and out of the store empty handed with a backpack, its SUPER suspicious and you will most likely get caught eventually.

Take out your wallet from the compartment which has no other products in it to avoid showing the cashier your stolen goods.

Pay, and leave.

Go home and enjoy your new things!

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

I didn’t want to disrupt the post about hostile architecture I saw because it’s true that the main target is homeless people but I did want to mention that this architecture also hurts people who aren’t skinny. I want to preface this all by saying I am in no way trying to minimize how this impacts people experiencing homelessness I am just trying to add on to the discussion of how these are bad.

You think that someone who can’t fit into those weird little yellow seats is going to feel comfortable? No. It will only make them feel bad or excluded.

Look at this shit. It’s not good or nice.

It only adds to the ways fat people are made feel unwelcome and though we already needed to tear this shit down because it makes life a million times worse for people experiencing homelessness and so this isn’t saying this is why you should tear it down. It is saying that our society is fatphobic and that sucks.

[bread-and-roses-too]

It’s also not great for disabled people (or god forbid, disabled homeless people because they exist too) because if someone is having a crisis and needs to lay down they have to lay on the ground instead of on a bench.  A bench is a lot safer because you’re not as likely to lay on something hard or sharp or be tripped over/stepped on.  Someone might also see a bench like these and opt to try to find a better place to lie down and end up falling instead.  People who pass out or have CFS episodes might only have a few seconds warning before they should really be lying down, and benches like this make it much harder. 

I’ve seen some places say that benches like the first one are “wheelchair accessible”, which is fucking stupid because it’s already a chair??? the nature of a wheelchair is that it’s a chair, you don’t need a special space to park your wheelchair, you can just park in on one end of the bench. 

[queerautism]

When I’m on my wheelchair I’ve been annoyed by benches at the park not having paved space at either side, just under the bench and then immediately grass, because it means I can’t get off the path if I want to stop there. I wouldn’t ever think ‘oh I wish this bench was all fucked up and had an empty space in the middle to weirdly slot myself into’