It’s so crazy how being a trans woman is such a beautiful gift like despite the enormity of the forces arrayed against us it’s still such a miracle that we all get to find ourselves hand in hand with a community of sisters, that we all get to become ourselves together. Being a trans woman is a miracle
think i’m gonna make another bluesky account purely to have another place where i put my flags, and maybe like. nothing else. just an archive of any of the new stuff i make
The Magnus Archives fear-alignment flags, part two
These is the second part of my general flags for the different fears in The Magnus Archives and The Magnus Protocol. Made in the same format as each other so they can easily be spliced together! Free to use for whatever you’d like.
Top Row: The Dark [Stylized] - The Spiral [Stylized]
Mid Row: The Web - The Corruption - The Desolation
Bottom Row: The Extinction - The Slaughter - The Lonely
The Magnus Archives fear-alignment flags, part one
These are general flags for the different fears in The Magnus Archives and The Magnus Protocol. Made in the same format as each other so they can easily be spliced together! Free to use for whatever you’d like. I created these a few years ago on a deleted blog, so this is a repost!
i should repost my old tma alignment flags because even i have a hard time actually finding those for some reason. also i made some stylized versions of a couple of them that i never posted, sooooo….
saved them all as a draft but i am now realizing im gonna have to give 17 different unique images their own alt texts. oh man
MY LIFE IS SAVED, I ALREADY MADE ALT TEXT FOR THEM ON MY OLD DELETED POSTS I FOUND. I CAN JUST USE THOSE.
i should repost my old tma alignment flags because even i have a hard time actually finding those for some reason. also i made some stylized versions of a couple of them that i never posted, sooooo….
saved them all as a draft but i am now realizing im gonna have to give 17 different unique images their own alt texts. oh man
i should repost my old tma alignment flags because even i have a hard time actually finding those for some reason. also i made some stylized versions of a couple of them that i never posted, sooooo….
circular flags are so awesome and underused. they’re harder to use for icons and stuff so i understand why it’s not as common, but sometimes it makes literally the coolest designs ever
it wasnt supposed to be (i use 🗣️ like vevery other sentence i cannot lie) but im not opposed to it! ive never been a named anon before that sounds dope 🗣️
welcome to my pantheon, oh wise 🗣️ anon. it makes it look like you’re yelling out “anon,” which is really funny
cannot express how refreshing it is to have you and a mogeye-esque term on my dash again, nature is healing thank you boss. heres to hoping your mental health doesnt like fucking implode and we live joyously forever 🗣️
YAYYY THANK YOU!!!
god i hope not. buuuut i doubt it. i had a lot of problems with putting way too much work/pressure on myself and being a people-pleaser when i was younger, but after having time to mature i’ve recognized that as a problem, and i know when i’d be biting off more than i can chew or what kinds of things aren’t worth putting energy into. i’m here to have funnnnn i’m LITERALLY frolicking
also is that little emoji a sign-off? i can tag your anons if so :D
Sheepgirl flag, made for people who consider themselves sheepgirls. This can also include ramgirls, lambgirls, ewegirls, and other related stuff. This flag can be used in whatever way you want, from casual or in a silly way, to gender identity, to therianthropy / otherkind experiences, or anything like that!
The flag’s three middle colors represent the diversity of ways girls might identify or present themselves, while the top and bottom colors represent both light and dark colored sheep wool. The little sheep icon is an edit of the Android sheep emoji!
Sheepgirl flag, made for people who consider themselves sheepgirls. This can also include ramgirls, lambgirls, ewegirls, and other related stuff. This flag can be used in whatever way you want, from casual or in a silly way, to gender identity, to therianthropy / otherkind experiences, or anything like that!
The flag’s three middle colors represent the diversity of ways girls might identify or present themselves, while the top and bottom colors represent both light and dark colored sheep wool. The little sheep icon is an edit of the Android sheep emoji!
[ID: A set of three flags and a symbol. All the flags go from dark yellow, to light yellow, to light pink, to dark purple, to light teal. The top flag has a light pink symbol of a cat with heart eyes and a white outline, the bottom left flag has no symbol, and the one on the bottom right has more saturated colors. In the bottom middle, the pink cat symbol is on its own without the flag. End ID]
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Catgirl flag
A flag for people who call themselves / identify as catgirls, or for people or characters that simply are catgirls. The top yellow-y stripes are meant to represent cat fur, and the bottom three stripes are meant to represent various ways of being a girl, regardless of if you’re feminine, masculine, or whatever else.
Anyone can use this for any reason, I don’t really care. Might just be a fun flag, might be a gender flag, might be used for a fictional character, it’s all good. Not necessarily a queer thing and you don’t need to be LGBTQ+ to use this, but I’m going to tag it with LGBTQ+ / queer / MOGAI tags anyways because a lot of people in the community identify with “catgirl” stuff.
The symbol used in the flag is edit of an emoji that some phones have.
Seeing people try to defend the lack of racial/ethnic diversity on Tumblr is… wow. So let me share a reminder: It used to be better! Still dominantly white, but better than what it is now, at least. Then everyone got tired of the “blackouts” and other mostly Black-led conversations around racism because it was “ruining their fandom fun” or something idk and quite literally chased out so many bloggers of colour through harassment campaigns from the user-base and massive staff-led blog purges. This was not even that long ago, btw.
I can think of so many beloved mutuals who had to leave this site for their mental health because they just couldn’t take it anymore.
Tumblr deserves every shred of criticism it gets for being so white after all that.
*tap tap* Is this thing on??? I had to reset my password to get back on here after all these years. It’s me, the #BlackoutDay co-creator formerly known as blackoutqueen.
OP and the folks in the comments – I have to say I am honored that people still remember and hold #BlackoutDay dear to their hearts a whole ten years later. It makes me happy that those days are remembered fondly. When a dear friend of mine told me this post was going around, I figured I should pop back on and say a bit of my piece.
You’re right. This site deserves every bit of criticism it gets for how it centers and upholds whiteness.
For years, I tried to be strong and tried to be polite as I got bombarded from every side – slurs and threats of doxxing from racists, misdirected anger from Black bloggers who felt hurt they never went viral, snide remarks from people on Black Twitter who felt ownership over #BlackoutDay because apparently Black Twitter was the only subculture with any impact online, doxxing from misogynistic YouTubers like Tommy Sotomayer, whining fandoms, staff and Tumblr as a brand featuring us and then leaving us to the wolves whenever we got harrassed, and tbh, a co-creator of mine who almost always needed reminding to treat the younger women around him (including me) with respect. Between all that and people calling me selfish for wanting to be cited and credited correctly, I gave up.
I was only 20 when #BlackoutDay started, and when it all became too much, I decided to put myself first and give up on organizing it all together. I left Tumblr and don’t usually talk about #BlackoutDay anymore because for the incredible impact I made across the internet, I only earned suffering. To this day, the mention of it really breaks my heart because I saw so much potential for us that I literally changed my career to pursue that dream, and racism, fatphobia, and anti-Blackness shattered it to bits.
I’m doing okay these days, using the skills I crafted here as a young person to organize IRL, but have all but stopped mentioning my involvement in #BlackoutDay simply because remembering how that was the start of people treating me like garbage on Tumblr, a site I was giving my heart to and working on changing for free, still gives me chills in the worst way. The staff at the time knew how I was being hurt and did nothing, my mutuals were breaking their fingers trying to defend me, and it was too much.
I hope you all who still actively use Tumblr know that despite everything, you still have the power to change the culture of this site. Given all the things we are currently witnessing (Free Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, until we are all free), you can make little changes and stand for what is honest and true, and you don’t need special days to do it.
I thank everyone who ever participated and boosted #BlackoutDay from the bottom of my heart.
These terms were created back in December of last year, and were meant to broadly group together trans people who are feminine and/or women, and masculine and/or men, respectively. Some of the experiences and reasons for these terms were talked about, but I want to go into more detail.
Translunar and Transtidal are meant to describe broad groups of trans people, being umbrella terms for the wide variety of masculine, feminine, man, and woman related terms in the community, such as trans feminine, trans masculine, trans man, trans woman, and even adfeminine, admasculine, nonbinary people of many different specific labels, those who are transitioning towards these things, and much, much more. I kept realizing I was having a hard time describing all the groups I meant when talking sometimes because of how many variations there are; at times, I would say “transmascs” when I was actually talking about a much wider group than that. I also simply wanted terms for trans people who are in these groups without any other requirements or designations about them.
In the original posts, many examples of why someone may be these labels were put down. I’ll go over them again here:
Being a trans man or a trans woman, or being transmasculine or transfeminine.
Feeling only partly connected to transmasculinity or transfemininity, or trans manhood or trans womanhood.
Wanting a more broad label similar to transmasculine or transfeminine, but that explicitly includes manhood / womanhood specifically rather than just masculinity or femininity
Being cisgender, but wanting to transition in some way, have surgeries of some kind, etc. in a way that you consider moving towards masculinity / femininity or manhood / womanhood.
Being some form of masculine / man or woman / feminine that does not fit into transmasculinity / manhood or transfemininity / womanhood.
Someone whose femininity / womanhood or manhood / masculinity is distinctly trans, but do not identify with the terms trans man, trans woman, transfeminine, or trans woman.
A trans person who is admasculine, adfeminine, sensfeminine, sensmasculine, or similar labels to this.
People who do not want their AGAB, sex, etc. assumed; only that they are trans and in some way aligned to femininity / womanhood or masculinity / manhood. This can absolutely include transmascs and transfems who do not want to disclose that they are those identities, and those who simply do not want to use any more specific label for the sake of comfort, safety, or preference.
Identifying with your AGAB, but feeling as though you’re transitioning towards it or have an identity similar to it that is distinctly trans- such as experiencing a different form of womanhood / femininity or masculinity / manhood.
Nonhuman, genderqueer, etc. men, women, feminine, masculine, etc. people who want a blanket term for their identity, or who feel as though they’re transitioning in a way that doesn’t feel transmasculine or transfeminine.
Those who are reclaiming parts of themselves that may have formerly been traumatizing or painful to them, and thus feel as though they’re only now transitioning to or realizing that side to themselves.
Those in systems who have an incongruent or otherwise non-conformant experience between headspace and the body (also called “eclian” or “azlian”)
Those who do not want to use any kind of more specific label and want to use something completely broad, or those with a vague experience with any of these things and don’t know a better word for it.
Someone who is simply trans and masculine / feminine or a man / woman, and likes these terms to describe themselves.
Much more.
You might be wondering why I would combine womanhood and femininity, and masculinity and manhood, into single terms. After all, these things are different! The simple answer for that is I wanted to include people who were either one, or both, into it, not just people who were one or the other. You do not need to be both a woman and feminine, or masculine and a man, you only need to be one. It was for the sake of broadness; you know how sometimes people say “trans women and transfem”? It was meant to include both groups, and even more than just that, inside of it. This is for ease of communication as well as inclusivity. It’s also because terms already exist for one or the other, and I wanted to make something that could refer to both or either one.
I also wanted these terms to be inclusive of those who are simply transitioning, and those who are transsexual or some other flavor of “trans,” not necessarily transgender specifically. Cisgender women who desire transitioning towards masculinity, or even have top and/or bottom surgery, for example, can be Transtidal, and vice versa for Translunar.
So, in short: Translunar is for any trans person who is aligned or connected with femininity and/or womanhood, or is transitioning towards it, and Transtidal is for any trans person who is aligned or connected with masculinity and/or manhood, or is transitioning towards it. Nothing else. They are broad and malleable umbrella terms because I was tired of worrying about the different requirements, nuances, and specific details of other terms describing similar things, and because I wanted to have a catch-all group for a very broad stroke of many types of people.
Now that I’ve gone over what these terms are, I should go over a couple things that they are not. They are not replacements for transmasc or transfem, nor are they simply combining transmasc and trans man and transfem and trans woman. There are a wide variety of people who fit into neither of those, but could still be translunar or transtidal. They are not meant to be the new version of anything, instead being umbrella terms that can hold others underneath them, as well as being labels that are inherently broad and completely flexible depending on personal experience. They are not about your AGAB, your birth sex, your proximity to transmisogyny, or anything of that sort. Discard any biases or ideas of these terms you might have about them; they are strictly what they say on the tin. This isn’t an effort to say the other terms are bad for having requirements to them, only that translunar and transtidal do not have them.
Now for a bit of stuff about the words. Translunar can be shortened to transluna or translun, and transtidal can be shortened to transtide or transtid. Translunarity and transtidality are how you can use these terms as adjectives! I also wanted to specifically make the terms translunarine and transtidaline; these can be for people who align with qualities of translunarity or transtidality, and may be more comfortable for people who are specifically masculine or feminine, since it looks similar to those words- but, of course, you can use either one regardless.
Furthermore, -lunar and -tidal may be used with other prefixes. For instance, someone may be isolunar or isotidal (isogender being for someone who is neither cis nor trans.) You can use these suffixes for whatever you please, really, I don’t mind. Consider yourself adlunar, senslunar, or something like that? Go nuts!
Now, for a bit of a disclaimer: I did change the translunar symbol between the original post and this one.
The one on the left is the original, and the one on the right is new. This was because, at the time of making it, I did not know that this symbol actually represented Lilith, as I had made that symbol from scratch completely on accident in my art program. Lilith is a Jewish figure, and because of that, I don’t feel comfortable using a literal exact lookalike to the symbol that represents her. So, I changed it. It still looks similar to the old one, but it is clearly distinct from it. I also made it a bit sharper and cleaner in general. Please do not associate any form of the Lilith symbol with translunarity out of respect for Jewish people.
I also cleaned up and boldened the transtidal symbol just a bit, but other than that I changed very little.
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That’s all, for the time being! Feel free to ask me whatever you’d like about these labels.
i rly rly hate how this site chased so much of its poc userbase away. it feels like i’m hanging out in an ethnostate sometimes
in case u were wondering, this post is about a very well-evidenced culture of racist exclusion on tumblr but also specifically about salem and the weird ass stalker blogs that won’t let him exist in peace
these are the original tags from it. this all sucks so so bad
Mesopelic: A gender identity that’s connected to the mesopelagic zone of the ocean in some way. It can be a literal connection, but it might also be more symbolic, such as being partly obscured or hidden away.
The mesopelagic zone is also called the “twilight zone” in more casual contexts, and makes up around 60% of the ocean. Only a tiny bit of light from the surface reaches it, hence the relation to twilight.
Created to parallel hadalic, which is connected to the hadal zone.
Getting this on my dash just helped me with a science pretest. Just so every8ody knows LMFAOOOOOOOO
Exoversal: An identity that has pierced through the barrier of the ever-expanding universe. It is aimless, floating within the inky black void of the unknown. You are outside the bounds of anything that has ever been known, and you do not know what lies beyond.
You are surrounded, yet empty. Everywhere, yet nowhere. Incomprehensibly vast, yet smaller than the atoms that bind you together. You are not being pulled in any particular direction, or if you have a destination within the cosmic background you’ve found yourself in. You feel as though it is a part of you, and you a part of it- there is something about it that resonates deep inside you.
Are you afraid? Are you at peace? You are something tangible, yet forever unable to be grasped, let-alone understood. You are something theoretical, yet unable to ever be solved. You breathe in tandem with the blank slate surrounding you, expanding and contracting like the coils of a spring. You are a mere pinprick- one that appears like a star from far away enough.
Within the nothingness, your mere existence is its own universe.
if you ever do recreate mogeye you could do requests slots! like, you could say you’ll take 5 requests, then get all those done before you reopen slots again. makes things a lot less overwhelming for me personally
WHY DID I NEVER THINK OF THAT. <- has never understood how people survive doing requests. is now understanding that she does not understand a thing.
so if i told you i made a term that looks like it was taken right off of mogeye would you believe me
the pressing matter at hand is should i actually make mogeye a thing again or should i just post it here
hmmmm. see i’m really torn. because mogeye was extremely fucking fun to run. not only did i get to make really cool descriptive terms with really creative and almost kinda literary definitions, but i also got “"requests”“ using just about anything as inspiration that people throw at me, from a song to a word to a whooooole. thing. or even just a random fun fact. which is a fun way to do requests because they give me so much creative freedom
on the other hand i’m not so sure having requests simply be open is a good idea considering how overwhelming that’ll quickly get. i could have it just be open sometimes though
i think for the time being i should start small and keep everything to one blog. i don’t want to spread myself too thin. i’ll post it here for now
so if i told you i made a term that looks like it was taken right off of mogeye would you believe me
the pressing matter at hand is should i actually make mogeye a thing again or should i just post it here
hmmmm. see i’m really torn. because mogeye was extremely fucking fun to run. not only did i get to make really cool descriptive terms with really creative and almost kinda literary definitions, but i also got “"requests”“ using just about anything as inspiration that people throw at me, from a song to a word to a whooooole. thing. or even just a random fun fact. which is a fun way to do requests because they give me so much creative freedom
on the other hand i’m not so sure having requests simply be open is a good idea considering how overwhelming that’ll quickly get. i could have it just be open sometimes though
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nah. i mean, okay, kinda. some of the stuff i saw him doing and saying to people did make me permanently disillusioned, and i also became really disappointed in myself for following someone who, had i checked instead of blindly trusting him- who already intimidated me and who i knew could be really rude in disagreements- i would’ve seen was genuinely awful to whoever he thought deserved it. i know i can’t change the world and not everything’s my fault, but i absolutely did and still do to an extent partially blame myself for not having the willpower to confront him. considered apologizing directly to all those people he hurt with his shitty blocklist, but i decided against it cuz i’m sure they just wanted to be left the fuck alone after it all
i wouldn’t say it’s why i left, but i would say it fucked me up and only contributed to how bad my health eventually got. idk. all i can hope for now is that he ended up getting the support he clearly needed at the time, and that he’s getting better like i eventually did after leaving. i also just think it’s a lesson in how maybe communities shouldn’t have “leaders” or people who get a little too much influence and start having the capability to do some serious harm
the “full” reason why i left was just mental health issues and burnout. i was getting really bad, from the mix of juggling servers, to discourse, to the general stress of being Known, to big life changes all happening at the same time… but didn’t feel like i could honestly talk about it without people freaking out that they’d lose all my coining posts. which pissed me off ngl, like okay you care more about my terms than my depleting health i’m telling you about right now??? gee, thanks -_-
i also had a friend on the outside who kept confronting me and trying to talk me into leaving. she later said i was in a “constant dissociative state,” which i don’t remember but i mean, i guess that checks out for dissociation. it took months of convincing until i actually did it. i didn’t delete my blogs at first, until a couple people followed me to my new account and accidentally scared the shit out of me [not their faults, was just in a bad place and being “found” made my paranoia go crazy] and i thought that deleting them would fix the problem
and like. it somehow did. i got that peace i really needed. and now that i’m back i fully intend on doing it on my own terms and never letting myself get to that point again. i’m older and in a way better place in general, so i’m not worried about coming back
NGL I always thought you left the community because of ezgender
nah. i mean, okay, kinda. some of the stuff i saw him doing and saying to people did make me permanently disillusioned, and i also became really disappointed in myself for following someone who, had i checked instead of blindly trusting him- who already intimidated me and who i knew could be really rude in disagreements- i would’ve seen was genuinely awful to whoever he thought deserved it. i know i can’t change the world and not everything’s my fault, but i absolutely did and still do to an extent partially blame myself for not having the willpower to confront him. considered apologizing directly to all those people he hurt with his shitty blocklist, but i decided against it cuz i’m sure they just wanted to be left the fuck alone after it all
i wouldn’t say it’s why i left, but i would say it fucked me up and only contributed to how bad my health eventually got. idk. all i can hope for now is that he ended up getting the support he clearly needed at the time, and that he’s getting better like i eventually did after leaving. i also just think it’s a lesson in how maybe communities shouldn’t have “leaders” or people who get a little too much influence and start having the capability to do some serious harm
I talk about kenochoric and amatopunks flags a lot because I do think they’re two of my best [kenochoric is simple but very recognizable, amatopunk is just extremely pretty and also really distinct], but a sleeper hit of mine I think is the new constelic flag I made. The old one is fine, but the NEW one? Hello gorgeous
normally i’d be happy to, but i actually used a base code that’s linked on my homepage on neocities. i did edit it a fair bit, mostly for the buttons and removing a couple things i didn’t want, but it’d still feel really scummy to do that, even if i directly credited them for the base code wherever i uploaded it. i would be happy to show anyone the html/css i did to make the buttons themselves though :)
Okay so I went and checked out their Neocities again, and they said that their themes are “free to use and credit is greatly appreciated.” So I think if I put a named and linked credit within the code itself at the top, and in the title of the upload, it would maybe be okay to have my edited version uploaded. Still though, I think I’d rather contact them and ask them directly beforehand, if possible
i’ve been listening to the sonic mania soundtrack for 3 days straight like literally just nothing but hit after hit. i want to turn these soundbites into my entire being
Would you ever consider uploading the HTML of one of your Neocities pages so people can make their own?
normally i’d be happy to, but i actually used a base code that’s linked on my homepage on neocities. i did edit it a fair bit, mostly for the buttons and removing a couple things i didn’t want, but it’d still feel really scummy to do that, even if i directly credited them for the base code wherever i uploaded it. i would be happy to show anyone the html/css i did to make the buttons themselves though :)
being constelic is so funny. you might stel something for months or even years, and not entirely notice it eventually disappear because it might’ve slipped away slowly… until way later it COMES BACK AND JUMPSCARES YOU
on a scale of 1-10 how funny would it be if i made an “about” page for inviane on my neocities and had it just be a screenshot of the page, titled “gender connected to this screenshot of the page you’re on right now.” cuz i’m totally doing that as a bit
i am now also remembering where i learned so many fancy html things from, like the media element that’ll change things on a phone. it was from back when i had carrd pro. i made a post years ago clamoring about how you could download your site as html and just port all the code to a neocities, and someone got pretty mad at me for it. in retrospect, like, yeah, fair, neocities is supposed to be personal to you, and there’s a somewhat big difference between using a template and something to help convert plaintext to html and just straight up porting a whole finished site and all of its elements onto neocities with zero intention of ever editing it yourself, though i still don’t think i really care as much as other people would
but doing that with carrd actually helped me learn about the media element, since one of the things i always had trouble with and why i used to always go for carrd over neocities was because it was easier to make it mobile friendly. so when i downloaded my site and realized the port to neocities still looked good on phone, i combed through all of its html to get a peek at how exactly it managed to change everything depending on screen size. turns out its actually not that hard. the @/media thing with specifications on portrait/landscape and max-width etc. etc. basically just creates like, a clause that’ll change css to something else if those specifications are met. if i go on my site normally, the normal css shows up, but if my device meets the media parameters, it’ll run the new css i put inside of it instead. so i basically just change the width, font size, etc. etc. within the media element for all the little divs and things on the pages so it looks right on mobile, and boom. mobile friendly neocities
not sure if it’d work in every instance, i’m not super good at html, but it worked for me. i also added in a media element to where it won’t be sticky anymore if the screen width is too small, like on a phone or something:
@ media (orientation: portrait), (max-width: 480px) {
also remember when that rando sent me an anon that just said “aesthetics matter more than accessibility” and i was like no the fuck it doesn’t and it got like a bajillion notes outta nowhere. broke containment. do you know how weird it was hanging out on some completely different tumblr account away from mogai for like 2 years only to see that post being circulated by big blogs i follow. do you think that anon is having a good time rn
x/x/x/xself pronouns are so real i wish screen-readers didn’t hate them
the one i used would always pronounce the x like scks and it would blend into the next word so it’d be like “yeah sckssaid that sounds cool.” why do you forsake me
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