#revulamour

revulamour for anon!

The swoops are to represent embracement and repulsion respectively. It's intended to partially invoke a heart, the side representing adoration being upright while the revulsion is upside down, as the inverse of embracement, while still making up two parts of a whole. The ends are hidden to indicate this as deep-rooted and partially instinctual. It extends to the edges of the flag for replication sake as well as just looking better aesthetically, in my opinion. It also has quite a wormy shape. The inner green ring gives the illusion of being it embraced by the swoops. The yellow circle in addition to the inner green ring can give a silhouette adjacent to a black hole, albeit in light colors as opposed to dark ones. (The swoops clutter it a little.) I find that holds a very potent metaphor for ultimate transformation. An all-consuming density that overwhelms everything within and around it, produced by massive and incomprehensible titans upon death, that transform themselves into something of endless destruction that decays everything around it before eventually becoming apart of it. I digress. The outer green ring is to represent the physical symptoms of certain types of disease and its accompanying rot. Showing on the outside. It also wraps around the other elements, further indicating at a embracing feeling, of smothering, even. I feel that the smothering feeling could also be shown via 3/5 of the colors of being green. An excess of anything can feel smothering, and green makes up about 75% of the flag.

Green was chosen for its common meaning of disgust, rot, and illness, all of which are ideas that revulamour encapsulates. It is definitely one of the most commonly associated colors with these themes, which is why it makes up most of the flag. All three being different shades, a lighter green inside, a duller green outside, and dark green root, lends itself to each of the meanings respectively. Light green indicating disgust, dull green indicating illness, and dark green indicating rot. Yellow was chosen for association with swarms (via bees and wasps), a similar meaning of illness, and its association with energy. Energy specifically, due to how adoration can induce feelings of excitement and energization, as well as how decay often indicates a lack of energy. This can be further indicated through the softness of the yellow, with how its energy, or saturation, is mostly absent. It is also a complementary color to green. Brown is a color that often indicates warmth, which plays nicely to the embracement and comfort theming. It can also represent stability, which allows its role as a backdrop in the flag to work as well as it can. It is also a color that is a complementary to green and analogous to yellow. I do want my flags to look nice... The warm tint was honestly mostly an aesthetic choice. However, it does amplify some of the meanings; as feeling of disgust is typically more induced with warm greens as opposed to cooler or neutral greens, and warmth is typically well... associated with warm colors.

[PT: Revulamour /end PT]

Revulamour is an identity umbrella centered around simultaneous love and disgust. It is characterized by fondness for the wretched, repulsive, and vile, and emphasizes embracing that which you instinctively recoil and shy away from.

Themes and concepts it may be connected to are: swarms and hives of insects; vermin; rot, decay, and putrefaction; overwhelming, smothering love; comfort in illness; decay as a form of transformation; and similar topics.

Flag is by @ensnarement!

Revulamour comes from 'revulsion' and 'amour'. Inspired from the Corruption from the Magnus Archives and Namira from the Elder Scrolls.

Some revulamour terminology:

revouric - gender alignment

revam - a revouric gender

revourity / revourine - gender quality

RVLIN - revulamour-in-nature

transrevamour / transrevourine - transitioning to revulamour / revourity

malady - a revouric person, equiv. of man / woman

pest - equiv. of boy / girl

symbiont - equiv. of partner

yersinic - juvelic term, or malady-loving-malady / rvlLrvl (after Yersinia)

malady | pest

[IMAGE ID: a rectangular flag with seventeen horizontal stripes. from outside to inside, the stripes' sizes (and colors) are as follows: medium (dull red), medium (orange-brown), small (light green), large (dull green), large (dull brown), small (warm grey), medium (warm brown), very small (light brown), and small (cream). the top light green stripe, and the bottom dull green stripe, are wavy. the top dull green stripe and the bottom light green stripe are dripping, like an oozing liquid. both warm grey are jagged, pointing vertically towards the outside of the flag. END ID.]

scavexilamour: a gender that is both scavexider and revulamour; being both a carcass/cackle/wake and a malady/pest; a scavedermist and revouric gender.

colors inspired by @floretspell's malady/pest flags!

carrirevam - a revam (revulamour gender) connected to carrion; the smell of decomposition, the presence of scavengers and maggots, and the idea that rot and decay is sustaining life.

parashorevam - a revam connected to being the host of a parasite.

infeparevam - a revam connected to being a parasite infesting a host.

revamsitoid - a revam connected to being a parasitoid that will one day kill your host.

metaparevam - a revam connected to being a metaparasite / hyperparasite; being a parasite that feeds on other parasites.

sociparevam - a revam connected to being a social parasite; being a parasite that takes advantage of social dynamics of eusocial species.

broodparevam - a revam connected to being a brood parasite; being a parasite that relies on other species to raise your young, or being a parasite raised by another species.

zellerous - revulamour-loving-extinclypse (after zellerite)

hydroxyapatic - revulamour-loving-nikutcheral (after hydroxyapatite)

erionic - revulamour-loving-ignidesolin (after erionite)

crocoic - revulamour-loving-imosril (after crocoite)

phenacic - revulamour-loving-infivast (after phenacite)