ed io che sono?

Yes yes we've all made the connection "Hail Mary, full of Grace" but did anyone stop and think that Eva Stratt is literally named...Eva.

I think the queer microlabel-ist fixation on creating increasingly elaborate flags to the point they could probably be graphed taxonomically, as a niche continuation of the creation of the "standard" pride flags in the last third of the last century is a parallel movement to and perhaps related to the alternate history internet subculture where every imaginary nation* must also get its own flag as the cultural sediment of the complete internalization of the nation-building projects of the last 200 years. I'd even say that both of these extremely niche flag-making activities are motivated by the broadly the same identity-based individualist impulse, and of course generally downstream of the establishment of the flag as one of the indispensable symbols of the nations constructed by the bourgeois ascension of the 19th century, along with the anthem, the capital, the language, and the map. More particularly, the USamerican flag obsession has saturated both of these subcultures, queer microlabel-ism especially; the USamerican individual is built by a series of identities, and each identity merits its own flag.

visual representation to clarify what i mean