Could you coin a umbine gender that relates to the term female.
fits under the outherine or more specifically umbine umbrella of being proximal or relating to female hood or women hood.
Eraenine (left): An umbine femalehood.
Viraenine (right): An umbine malehood.
I borrowed the red and the hazy blue from the umbine flag for these, and also used colors from my gynine and andrine flags with some adjustment to the saturation. I feel like they're unique and the colors turned out nicely.
some additions to the color palette presentation system by @daybreakthing
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I also included a bit of my thought process for each term and its flag below the cut!
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•~ sun-bleached wildflowers ~•
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a presentation that blurs the lines between soporine (link), autonine, maverine, aporine, and eraenine (link)! this could be a mix of the five, not being able to tell the difference between them, etc.
icon credit (link)
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•~ smoky moonshine ~•
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a presentation that blurs the lines between soporine (link), autonine, maverine, aporine, and viraenine (link)! this could be a mix of the five, not being able to tell the difference between them, etc.
icon credits: bottle (link), moon (link)
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tagging: @radiomogai, @io-archival, @obscurian, @liom-archive, @seekerstock, @color-palette-presentations, @accessibilitea (image IDs would be lovely, thank you!)
To tell the truth, I originally thought these up with faenine (link) and maenine (link) in mind. I realized I was actually thinking of eraenine and viraenine when I was getting the links, haha
With those two gender qualities in mind, I wanted to intentionally subvert some expectations regarding femalehood and malehood. The sun often carries a masculine connotation while the moon carries a feminine one, so I switched those themes first. At the same time, I wanted something that is often compared to femalehood/malehood without actually being related to it in the slightest. For example, flowers being considered "girly" when they're literally just flowers, or alcohol being considered "manly."
To capture the autonine and maverine components, I wanted to have something a little bit untamable about both the labels. Wildflowers often self-seed entirely on their own, and they grow even without careful cultivation. Moonshine (at least in the historical sense that I understand it) was illegally distilled, unregulated, and crafted in the dead of night (to put it dramatically 😄).
I recently found out about soporinity, and I related to its dreamlike qualities more than I thought I would! For "sun-bleached wildflowers," I included it mostly by association, thinking of those dreamcore photos with endless flower fields. For "smoky moonshine," I mean. "Moon" is literally in the name, it's perfect!
Wish I could give a cool reason behind aporine but tbh that one's there because these are very self-indulgent terms and I wanted it to be there 🤷
Now for the flags themselves! For sun-bleached wildflowers, I included shades of orange for autonomy and maverinity, purple for eraenine, yellow for aporinity, and a blueish shade for soporinity. For smoky moonshine, my choices were admittedly less specific, as I just came up with a palette that reminded me of moonshine. But they turned out looking cool so I'm happy!
what's the difference between gynine, eraenine, and faenine as gender qualities? I feel like I can't wrap my head around the distinction
Gynine is simply the gender quality of womanhood. So, woman would be a gynine gender. It's like calling it a "woman-ish" gender. It's not automatically feminine, which is a quality that genders and people can have even when not related to womahood.
Faenine is specifically abinary femininity. It's a feminine quality, but in a way that feels entirely removed from binary concepts. It likely isn't comparable to conventional femininity.
Eraenine is a little more complex. It's outherine and is a way to describe womanhood (not femininity) that can be compared to binary womanhood. It's like saying "My womanhood is similar to or exists near binary womanhood, but is entirely it's own distinct experience."
