#shadowturian

shadowgay , shadowlesbian , shadowstraight , shadowturian , and shadowenbian !

shadowlesboy | shadowveldigirl

shadowlesboy: a shadowlesbian boy/guy/man; a boy/guy/man who feels a semi-connection to the lesbian label, whose identification with the term 'lesbian' is affected by another part of their identity (gender, orientation, etc.), or who simply feels as though they both are and are not a lesbian

shadowveldigirl/shadowturigirl: a shadowveldian/shadowturian girl/gal/woman; a girl/gal/woman who feels a semi-connection to the veldian/turian/gay man label, whose identification with the term 'veldian/turian/gay man' is affected by another part of their identity (gender, orientation, etc.), or who simply feels as though they both are and are not a veldian/turian/gay man

[pt: shadowlesboy: a shadowlesbian boy/guy/man; a boy/guy/man who feels a semi-connection to the lesbian label, whose identification with the term 'lesbian' is affected by another part of their identity (gender, orientation, etc.), or who simply feels as though they both are and are not a lesbian

shadowveldigirl/shadowturigirl: a shadowveldian/shadowturian girl/gal/woman; a girl/gal/woman who feels a semi-connection to the veldian/turian/gay man label, whose identification with the term 'veldian/turian/gay man' is affected by another part of their identity (gender, orientation, etc.), or who simply feels as though they both are and are not a veldian/turian/gay man. end pt.

wanted shadowlesboy for myself and figured i'd also coin shadoveldigirl! the top three stripes of the flags are from the shadowlesbian and shadowveldian flags and the bottom stripes are from the lesboy and veldigirl flags. i recommend checking the shadow- posts for more info on the terms, since i condensed the definitions pretty heavily!

flag id: two flags with 6 stripes. the left flag's stripes, in order, are black, very dark purple, pink-red, very light blue, soft indigo, and dark blue. the right flag's stripes, in order, are black, very dark cyan, green, very light red, light orangish-red, and bright pinkish-red. end id.

banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.

Official Flag (left), Original Flag (right)

An orientation term where your turian/veldian identity is affected by the fact:

One is transfeminine, a trans woman, transneutral, nonbinary, or just not a man (includes multigender and genderfluid/genderflux/fluidflux individuals), as one is either too dysphoric about being called a man, experience a disconnection from traditional manhood, and/or simply doesn’t identify as a man or with manhood. They may describe their attraction as any of the following: WLM; WLNB; WLX; NBLM; NBLNB; NBLX, etc – but they don’t identify their labels as MLM; MLNB; or MLX due to reasons listed above. With a multigender and/or genderfluid/genderflux/fluidflux identity, one feels not straight when with a man and/or has a fluctuating level of dysphoria when they sometimes view their attraction as veldian/achillean in nature, or as MLM; MLNB; MLX. To express that disconnection, the prefix shadow- is used.

This term also includes those whose orientation is fluid and/or flux, who may not 100% identify with the label of turian; due to barely ever experiencing attraction to men (or attraction period), having an attraction to men that feels turian but also not, having an attraction to men that’s fluid between being queer and queern’t, and/or experiencing attractions under a turian/achillean lens.

In simpler terms, a shadowturian may be defined as the following:

Being multigender and/or genderfluid/genderflux/fluidflux but never MLM, yet feeling like their attraction to men is gai/queer.

Being m-spec and not MLM, yet feeling a connection to the label.

Being too dysphoric about being called a man/boy/being thought of as one, yet being either NBLM, MLM or XLM with a connection to the turian label.

Having a fluid/flux orientation where one’s not 100% a veldian due to any reason, but retaining a connection to the veldian label.

Simply feeling as if one’s veldian, but also not.

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This term was originally reposted on June 27th, 2022.

So years (July 19th 2020) ago I coined the Shadow- terms on my original mogai blog. Since then I’ve deleted that blog and one-half of the Shadow- terms do not have rebloggable posts out there, so I decided I’d repost the terms.

A while after (February 27th 2021) another tumblr user (@/thepokedexisgay) decided to make simpler alternate flags to these terms. I’ll be posting a link to their flags at the bottom of these posts.

I made the original flags based off of my original all inclusive lesbian/gay/vincian/etc. flags, and since I’ve remade those and posted them, I figured I’d remake the Shadow- flags as well, simplifying them and following the color schemes of my new flags. So yeah, some “official” flags for these terms.

That being said, I made the new Shadowturian flag based off of my March Vincian flag, so along with that if you ID as Shadowachillean/ShadowQ4M or whoever else I mentioned could use the Marsh Vincian flag, you can also use this flag if you feel your orientation is Shadow-.

(I’d prefer people use these flags as the official versions versus the originals, however if u personally like the other flags whether it’s Alois’s (thepokedexisgay) or the original ones, or feel like making your own based on an alternate lesbian/veldian/enbian/etc. flag, feel free to go on ahead.)

Yes, most of the definition in this post is ripped directly from the LGBTA wiki, with some changes to it due to my current knowledge of labels.

Here is the link to the Shadowturian flag made by @/thepokedexisgay, and here is the [link] to the Shadowturian page on the LGBTA wiki.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the existing shadow- flags due to the number of stripes and the black to white gradient. I also didn’t think some of the colors really... fit the identities (at least not with my synesthesia), so I thought I’d make some newer ones.

From left to right: Shadowenbian, shadowfloric/shadowturian, shadowlesbian

flag id: two flags with 7 stripes. the left flag's stripes are blue, near-black, red, orange, off-white, medium dark teal, and dark blue. the right flag's stripes are blue, near-black, red, orange, off-white, soft bluish-green, and very dark pink. end id.

banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.

sportyaesishadrianvir | sportyaesivelabupan

sportyaesishadrianvir: a gender related to the sporty aesthetic in a gendervir shadowturian way; a gendervir shadowturian sportyaesic gender

sportyaesivelabupan: a gender related to the sporty aesthetic in a butch pan gaybian way; a butch pan gaybian sportyaesic gender

[pt: sportyaesishadrianvir: a gender related to the sporty aesthetic in a gendervir shadowturian way; a gendervir shadowturian sportyaesic gender

sportyaesivelabupan: a gender related to the sporty aesthetic in a butch pan gaybian way; a butch pan gaybian sportyaesic gender. end pt]

for anon! the flags use colors from the sportyaesic, gendervir shadowturian, and butch pan gaybian flags. the terms are 'sportyaesi' from 'sportyaesic', 'shad' from 'shadow', 'rian' from 'turian', + 'vir' from 'gendervir' and 'sportyaesi', 'vela' from 'velaurian' (since it looked better than part of 'gaybian'), 'bu' from 'butch', + 'pan'!

genderera shadowturian | gendervir shadowlesbian gendervir shadowturian | genderera shadowlesbian

genderera and gendervir shadowturian/shadowfloric and shadowlesbian flags!

I’ve done this particular Fallen Leaves request already, so I did everything else