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this one pisses me off. this is the most boring flag i’ve ever seen. like i know it’s a mayflower and the six pointed star is for mass being the sixth state and it’s got the state colours and by every metric it WORKS but frankly? i don’t care. it’s just so boring and basic and i feel like very little thought went into it. massachusetts deserves better

strictly speaking this one is also fine? like there’s nothing wrong with it. i personally don’t like flags that are straight up just a drawing of a landscape, and something about the squiggly lines pisses me off, but that’s just me. objectively speaking, this is an okay design.

this is my favorite out of the bunch. the turkey feathers are an important symbol to the indigenous peoples of the region, and there are six of them because massachusetts is the sixth state. i just really like the way this one looks. i kind of wish it had the state colours (blue and yellow), but it has the harvard colours which is the next best thing. honestly no complaints about this one

so yeah, these are all Okay but i would prefer the red one by a mile

Why do people in those communities insist using Japanese names are perfectly fine when 9/10 times they just use it because of anime/manga or trends. Not even bothering to pronounce it right or use the proper spelling like removing ō's ū's etc for convenience. So many times I see an anime or asian game blow up then suddenly a ton of non asians are using the names. When the next thing blows up they use new names or use both. They put our language in typing quirks, they put our language in fonts, they make fun of our language by shouting phrases they don't even know the meaning of.

That's not even mentioning how many non asians fetishize us. Don't see us as human. I'm mixed, I have 2 asian backgrounds and a native american background but my japanese one is the focus of this. I've had so many people go "you must look so pretty/hot" the moment they learn I'm japanese. I've had people start saying random japanese words or anime references at me as if I'm just an anime boy to gock at. God forbid a japanese person happens to share a name with a character that gets popular cause that's all they hear. "Omg like from that anime/game!! You must be a huge fan! You're like anime irl!!" Even if the person hasn't even seen the media. I've been called irl yaoi and yuri, I've been called irl futanari (Japanese word for the intersex slur) by both strangers and FELLOW mogaiblr and editblr people. I've had people refuse to use the kanji versions of my names cause they're too lazy to ask how to say it. I've had people get mad when telling them they aren't pronouncing a name right. Especially when it's a name they're using. They don't even bother to say it right. I've had people become my friend just to ask me to "gift" them asian names both irl and in the communities.

It's so obvious the communities just see us as an accessory. Especially when it's mainly the "pretty pale" asian cultures being used. I rarely see people doing this with cultures where people aren't seen as pale. Why? Are you scared to touch people with darker skin tones? Only the pastel soft ones fit what you want? Is a name from those other places dirty or not pretty enough for you? Also this isn't to say people don't steal from those cultures too. They do and it's an issue but the people who take from Japanese culture often ignore the others as if it's the plague.

I also feel the need to point out that there ARE contexts in my culture where non asians take on asian names. That's when they move to the country and are actually participating in the culture + learning the language to use there. Not just using as a pretty aesthetic. But most people in these communities aren't doing that. So.

Mint Chocolate Bisexual / MintBi Flag!

Created for fun & based on the Lesbian Neapolitan flag I saw on Pinterest… Enjoy! Will be making more IceCream Flags soon❤️ 🐛 @radiomogai for archiving purposes

Cotards Autism flag!

For anyone with cotards and autism.

Colours mean nothing & are inspired by the autism and the cotards flag!

Inspired by my "zombie autism" (which is different from regular autism as I am not human and my mind is decaying, of course.), but it can be for anyone with cotards!

No dni or who can use it because it's a flag.

yellowmaxxed : a gender for when your gender is yellow pilled and yellowmaxxed; you are yellowmaxxing

orangemaxxed : a gender for when your gender is orangepilled and orangemaxxed; you are orangemaxxing

redmaxxed : a gender for when your gender is red pilled and red maxxed; you are redmaxxing

Even odds the top one is Ireland, which was resolutely neutral during the Emergency (as they called WWII). Because fuck England and have ya seen those bombs they're dropping on London? Wouldn't want any of that. Thousands of Irishmen and women volunteered to serve in various Allied armies during the war. Yeah, Dev did send regrets to the German ambassador in Dublin when Hitler died, but, again, I think that was mostly to fuck with England.

And yes, even if that is an Italian flag, both it and the German flag are different than they were during the war. But Japan's Rising Sun flag had all of those rays coming out of it during the war, you say.

Yes, but...

That was the war flag of Imperial Japanese military forces. The national flag was still the same.

Don't worry though, once America gave them back their ability to use flags (we did the same thing to Germany, because if you are convicted of war crimes and some of your leaders do a rope dance and also you're occupied, your flag tends to go away along with your right to self-governance), they picked totally different flags for the Japanese Maritime Self Defense and Self Defense Forces.

Totally different flags than they used during the war. Don't worry, it's not like the Bundeswehr and Luftwaffe used the same emblems they used during the war...

Definitely different than, ah, this...

Definitely didn't just switch it to the WWI variant.

And the less we talk about the Bundeswehr, the better off we are. Because, again, not a great track record of not just dusting off things they had lying around from ja a vhile ago but wer wirkliche remembers anyvhey?It's not like anyvon will notiz. Oh, und vhat if we give ze lads a little treat when they retire, you know, something zu machen them zink of happier times, keine angst, we'll be subtle about it..."

Or, wheeew boy, the West German intelligence service, Bundesnachrichtendienst, which was just everyone in the Abwehr rehired because they were pretty good at their jobs. Which made sense, because they'd already had twenty years experience.

And maybe the Gehlen Org (precursor to the BND) hired some folks who were looking for work and having trouble finding it...

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