Occunous
[PT: Occunous. End PT]
[Image ID: a flag with 6 equally sized horizontal stripes. from top to bottom the colors are an almost-black green, off-white, warm green, off-white, warm green, almost-black green. in that same color is a vertical stripe along the left edge. a horizontal stripe sticks out from its middle about halfway across the flag. sticking out from that is a long hexagon with an oval in the middle, creating an eye symbol. the line widths of the eye vary. end ID]
ID from @mogai-image-descriptions, thank you so much!!
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A neogender umbrella related to watching and being watched, paranoia, eyes, the need to know everything despite the risks, the need to collect and store information even to one's own detriment, and The Beholding from The Magnus Archives!
Additionally, occunous is connected to/related to eye imagery, surveillance & security cameras, the fear of being judged, the feeling of being watched even if one isn't, existing with fear for so long that it eventually becomes comforting, and a disconnect from humanity. It may also be related to psychosis & delusions of being watched, nonhumanity, academia, religious trauma, self-policing one's own actions, and anxiety.
This is not a xenogender. While genders may be under both xenogender and occunous, occunous is not inherently xenic. While occunous is typically used for genders, any sort of identity may fall under occunous.
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Some terminology:
the gender nature is EYEIN, or occunous-in-nature
the gender quality is occunity
the adjective form is occuine
the alignment is occunerine
the transitioning term is transoccunous
the demigender is demioccunous
an individual occuine gender is called an occuae. the plural form of occuae is occuael
an occuine adult may be called a horror
an occuine minor may be called a view
the juvelic term is birchnous, horror-loving-horror, or hrLhr
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Occu- comes from eye, and -nous comes from the etymology of paranoia, and means 'mind'. Overall, it's meant to be evocative of looking into someone's thoughts and selfhood.
We used the E flag template from @neopronouns as a base for this flag, as we're not very skilled at flagmaking.
this is a very personal term to me, drawing from both TMA as well as delusions and psychosis we've experienced for years. i'm very excited to see what people coin under it!!
if it's alright, tagging @revenant-coining @hypnosiacon @kenochoric @mogai-sunflowers @noxwithoutstars @cupidcoining
