Jul 30, 2025
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This pride month, I want to very briefly gush about how much I love Baker's original 8-stripe pride flag. These days, I see so many rehashes and do-overs of a flag that, in my humble opinion, needs no amendments at all.
A part of what moves me so much about this particular flag is the inclusion of sex and art/magic as stripes - sex in particular. Sex really is an important part to many people's queer identities. Sex isn't something to be ashamed of, and queer sex certainly isn't either. This flag proudly proclaims that yes, queer people do have sex! Queer sex is a beautiful thing! Queer sex is important to the discover and expression of many people's identities! And magic on a flag? Hell yeah! We're magical! We're artistic! We are beautiful! We create beauty! We are a creative, artistic, magical community, and that is worthy of celebration.
Another great aspect of this flag is it's historical importance to the queer community. It's one of the first symbols to identify the queer community beyond the pink triangle that gained use during the horrors of the Holocaust. Baker himself said as much:
"It was necessary to have the Rainbow Flag because up until that we had the pink triangle from the Nazis—it was the symbol that they would use [to denote gay people]. It came from such a horrible place of murder and holocaust and Hitler. We needed something beautiful, something from us."
https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/909
The fact that this was one of the first symbols of the queer community that wasn't a direct result of the Holocaust. I will not speak on whether or not the pink triangle should or shouldn't be used as a queer symbol - that is not the point of this post. But I will say that I think most people could agree that the pink triangle does carry with it some weight - sorrow from the past. But this flag was used to celebrate the queer community. It was one of if not the first symbol to say that queer people are worthy of celebration. That is incredibly special.
And isn't it beautiful? Isn't a simple spectrum of color so striking? From hot red to rich purple, this flag encompasses everyone without hitting you over the head with it's inclusivity. The inclusion of POC, trans, and intersex symbols are great... but ultimately not truly necessary. The rainbow covers everything. It covers trans people. It covers nonbinary people. It covers POC, and intersex people. It covers the disabled, the women, the drag queens, the butches, the bears.... It is for everyone. To exist is to live life full of color. To exist as a queer person is to take place in that beautiful rainbow. Honestly, the slapping on of other stripes and symbols almost makes it feel as if these groups were somehow never part of the queer community, which couldn't be further from the truth. For whatever rights they have, they were not won solely by cis white gay abled allo endosex men.
Of course, I want to note that I have no issue with the 6-stripe pride flag, or any other pride flag. But they all ultimately feel like downgrades, in my heart. I constantly see people trying to reimagine or "upgrade" the pride flag, when I truly believe we got it right the first time around. Baker created the perfect symbol of the queer community - something to encompass the wide and beautiful arrays of human experience we all share, united under one symbol. That very symbol celebrates our immense diversity, while still coming together to form one "tribe," as Baker would've described it. I think that is the most beautiful thing in the world.
And, an added little bonus, Baker didn't trademark his flag. The same cannot be said for other pride flags. He truly wanted this flag to be for everyone.
Also I just think it looks really pretty. I'm a simple person.
All this is to say that, if you see me at pride this year, it will be with a flag proudly sporting Baker's original design.
I'm so sorry for spamming political crap today. Life has been really trying as of late, and today's news has been the shitty cherry on the fuck-awful sundae. I just need a day to angst. I'll knock it off tomorrow.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Armored Core (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: C4-621/V.IV Rusty, V.IV Rusty/Raven | C4-621 Characters: Middle Flatwell (Armored Core), V.IV Rusty (Armored Core), C4-621, C4-621 Raven, V.IV Rusty, C4-621 (Armored Core), V.III O’Keeffe Additional Tags: Love Confessions, Liberator Ending, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fluff, Liberator of Rubicon Ending, Gender-Neutral Pronouns, Nonbinary Character, O'Keeffe is just mentioned... for now, implied V.III O'Keeffe/Middle Flatwell, no beta we die like Dafeng student pilot Summary:
The war has been won, but there is still much left to be done... for instance, figuring out exactly where Rusty and Raven stood. --- I’m starting a very fun little project with @soluna99! This is just a little bit of housekeeping - something to lay the groundwork for what will come.
love is an awful thing sometimes
love is an awful thing sometimes
Guys I'm crying at work feeling so fucked up on blorbo thoughts and feelings rn
Feeling some mighty powerful gender envy for mechs. Armored Core 6 has ruined me.