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If you happen to be aro and ace, you may have seen a new ace flag floating around:

This was made by Instagram Black ace activist _aceingrace_ (see their profile here). The yellow stripe specifically stands for intersectionality and multiculturalism (plus joy), something that I think would be a nice addition to the aromantic flag (or any flag that doesn't have that, for that matter).

If you're wondering what was wrong with the original flag, it's the white stripe, which stood for "allosexual partners and allies", something that didn't sit right with many aces for obvious reasons.

Something similar is going on with the white stripe in the aro flag: it's defined as such:

the ‘platonic’ stripe - friendship/platonic and aesthetic attraction/queerplatonic relationships/family, the importance and validity of all non-romantic relationships and feelings and non-romantic forms of love etc.

That doesn't sit right with me as, without any shoutout specifying it's not a universal aro value and experience, it leaves aplatonic and loveless aroa estranged from their own flag.

So I've made an attempt at a new aro flag. Here it is:

I wanted it to match the new ace flag so we finally have the same amount of stripes!

It is not meant to replace the original aro flag, but rather be displayed alongside it for those who find it meaningful.

I just need the community's feedback on what meanings to assign to each stripe! Please, if you're aro-spec, take a couple minutes to fill in the form.

If you're an ally please please please spread this around!

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For those who saw in mystman’s newest status update, a big new change coming in 0.14.3 is optimization/nerf/improvement of Student Shuffle, as it’s become a highly criticized aspect of BB+ for it’s rather unfair gameplay changes. (I myself don’t have too much of an issue with it personally, but it’s definitely ended quite a few runs of mine so I think this’ll be a great change)

Anyways he posted a teaser on Twitter that looks really cool so hopefully the embed works :p

Ring around the Rosie!!

Do not allow people to downplay racism and speak over the voices of those impacted by it. Ensure you are extending care where you can, and if you are not in community with POC... Examine why!!! When times are rough, everyone deserves a safe place and something to lean on.

Based on the design made by @googoogaga733!

You can now purchase the vector file for this drawing on my ko-fi!