Sorry to everyone for my silence, by the way. I have been busy with a project outside of this blog and probably will continue to be for a while. But rest assured that I have not forgotten about you all <3
I have more flags tucked away that I simply haven't posted here yet. It might be a while before they are, as I am busy with other things. However, I would like to show you all these three!
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I'm showing these to you all before properly posting them because I am struggling to name these terms. So, I think it would be nice to get some feedback and ideas from the community! More information about the flags is below the cut.
The first flag [PT: The first flag] is a flag for nonbinary solarians who experience attraction to other nonbinary solarians, exclusively or not.
Blue represents nonbinary manhood and/or masculinity. The white stripe with a flower in the center was chosen to fit the format of similar flags, e.g. sapphic, achillean, diamoric, etc.
The bird of paradise flower was chosen because it is sometimes used as a masculine flower (see here and here as examples), and because it resembles birds of paradise—hence the name—which are typically male if colorful. They also represent things like love, boldness, freedom, creativity, and joy.
These flowers can also be a metaphor for nonbinary masculinity falling outside of dominant Eurocentric cultural perceptions of masculinity, which often expect men and masculine people to be plain and colorless. Birds and flowers don't exist to conform to these made up "standards" of masculinity; they just exist.
The second flag [PT: The second flag] is a flag for nonbinary lunarians who experience attraction to other nonbinary lunarians, exclusively or not.
Pink represents nonbinary womanhood and/or femininity. The white stripe with a flower in the center was chosen to fit the format of similar flags (e.g. sapphic, achillean, diamoric, etc.) as well.
The pink spider lily was chosen because it is sometimes used as a symbol of feminine love, beauty, and passion. This is the flower's primary meaning in this flag.
This flower can also represent other things when a different color. For example, when the flower is red, it is commonly referred to as the Flower of Death, and symbolizes things like loss, separation, and the cycle of rebirth. A white spider lily can represent positivity and new beginnings. A yellow spider lily can represent joy, wisdom, gratitude, hope, and everlasting friendship.
The spider lily's plethora of meanings can be a metaphor for the diversity among nonbinary women and feminine people. The red spider lily—the Flower of Death—can also be used as a metaphor for transitioning, shedding past expectations, and rebirthing oneself. Pink is a lighter form of red, so they could be seen as two sides of the same coin.
The third flag [PT: The third flag] is a flag for abinary people attracted to other abinary people, exclusively or not.
Yellow represents existence completely outside the binary. The white stripe with a flower in the center was chosen to fit the format of similar flags (e.g. sapphic, achillean, diamoric, etc.) as well.
The sugarbush flower was chosen because it is sometimes used as a symbol of courage, transformation, resourcefulness, and diversity, and is also partially yellow. I just think it fits perfectly.
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The words nonbinary, abinary, solarian, and lunarian are used in an umbrella sense; identification with these specific labels is not necessarily. For example, nonbinary could be substituted for any label under the nonbinary umbrella, and solarian could be substituted with things like masculine, man-aligned, phoebian, helian, miaspec, mingender, etc.
Additionally, the word abinary does not necessarily refer to strictly abinary people. A person could be abinary in one way, but not another (e.g. through being multigender) and still be included. For example, this could include a trigender person who is male, female, and neutrois, as neutrois is an abinary gender, even though the other two are not.
