massachusetts just released their three finalists for a new state flag, and boy howdy do i have some thoughts
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
side note, i was Shocked by how many AI submissions were allowed. there were like zero regulations for this contest. there’s a powerpoint online with all the submissions and it’s baffling how much AI got accepted. some of it even made it past the first round or two, which is wild. glad the finalists all seem to be human-made tho
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I’m back again with more state girls.You may think it took me ages to come up with something for them but no.The second part was created almost right after the first part which was in December.Anyway, here’s my interpretation
Oregon:My favorite out of these 3. Gave her clothing based on what people would’ve worn in the Oregon Trail.I didn’t include a bonnet thought since that would cover up her pig tails.I gave her this off color yellow which is probably my favorite about this design.I feel like she would be friends with Kansas.
California: Grey said California’s time as an independent union was a “rebellious phase” so I made sorta look like a rebel.She has a cool jacket with of course a C on it and has sunglasses as a rule of cool.And of course nothing is cooler than wearing her lies.I was actually debating if I should use green but thought it would be too many colors.I imagine California is a bully character that has a big ego but it’s also very fragile.Child neglect maybe because it’s a common TV trope and this design is based on Hollywood???
North Dakota:This design kind of stinks.My idea was desert and wasteland but the colors don’t really stick right.Bull horns replaces the bow because the state is famous for its buffalo and gave her glasses for something interesting about her.She is probably the serious one and wants to be on top of her grades.Really got nothing to say about this one.
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New flags have been added! Including the Gadsden flag and Come and Take It flag! Purchasable on my Etsy:Â https://www.etsy.com/listing/1044067719/buc-ees-vinyl-sticker-with-texas-state
Vexillology is a subject that, like many others, I have a passing interest in. Very passing. Look I occasionally browse r/vexillologycirclejerk, the One Good Subreddit, because they have some very fresh and funky memes.
One thing I do know about vexillology and flags in general is that nobody ever actually looks at state/provincial flags, and that as a result there’s a bunch of weird ones hanging about. I’m sure this is even more true of Australia, seeing as we have many less people to care about our many fewer state flags.
So for today, I’ve decided to shine a light on some state flags and see if they’re any good. Spoilers: they probably aren’t great? (Edit: they’re also largely very very similar, oops!)
New South Wales- in keeping with the name, New South Wales apparently has decided its flag should be fairly Welsh as well. Except not, because the image on that one is a cool dragon instead of this random lion, and the red cross is actually an English thing. This is extremely lame! The placement of the O R B is also pretty awkward and uneven, leaving a whole bunch of blank space that’s just. Blue. It’s centred if you just look at the right half, but it looks weird next to the Union Jack.
I don’t like the Union Jack. Get used to seeing the Union Jack a lot. 1/5.
Queensland- Okay, so, we took the NSW one, took the lion and the cross off it, and put a nice little crown on because, you know, Queen. While this is somewhat less ugly than the lion, it is also less cool, because fuck the royalty. Add in the cyan not contrasting well with the darker blue (imo) and you have a recipe for another not good flag. 1/5.
South Australia- Well now we’re getting somewhere. Take the previous two, get rid of the shit designs in the circles and replace them with an extremely good bird. Look at that plumage, that dramatic posing! What a good. That, and orange (its supposed to be gold I think, but come on) is a good colour to go next to navy. Unfortunately, it’s still sitting next to the fucking Union Jack, so it’s not going to be that good. Fuck colonialism, 3/5.
Tasmania- Wait ok so this is just a lion again, but if the lion was drawn by the same person that did the welsh dragon. It’s a lot less busy without some nonce cross in there (save Jack in the corner), which is great, but Bri’ish lion flag designs never look good to me. You want your iconography to be simple but striking, in my opinion, but whenever they put a lion on there it has to have too many details to communicate “lion” that it just looks super mid. 2/5.
Victoria- of the many, many places on this Earth named after Queen Victoria, this state sure is one of them. We’ve dropped the circle motif for this one, which is nice, but the crown is still fucking there. This is literally just, we took the country flag, and replaced that cool star with a lame crown. Somehow this is Dan Andrews’ fault. 2/5
Western Australia- I’m obviously biased, but it’s a very good little swan we have there. Black swans are iconic of Perth, there’s many, many of them on the Swan River (funnily enough), and they’re common enough that it’s not hard to spot one of them doing something gnarly and immediately ruin all majesty they ever had for you. In my case, it was when one of them looked like it was preening, or at least sleeping with its head tucked in its wing, for a few minutes before dropping a deuce and buggering off.
 But I digress. It’s also on a gold background, representative of the intense sunlight that we live with in WA. It would be great if just the right half of this flag was the whole of it, but unfortunately, lmao Union Jack. 3/5.
Australian Capital Territory- What you thought we were done? Come on now. There’s like, 2 internal territories and 3 external ones still to go.
 With the states behind us, we get to say goodbye to Jack as well. He shall not be missed. Uuuunfortunately, while we do get the classic Southern Cross, we also get this ridiculously busy design on the right. These swans are so mad, and why are they standing like that? Why is one of them white? Why is there a fucking castle here, we don’t have those? The mind boggles. 2/5.
Northern Territory- Oh, that’s much better. The southern cross ditches the bluey background for the much more accurate pitch black of space, which contrasts great against the ruddy brown of the desert the Territory largely is. The flower is simple, but elegant, and uses the same colours as the left third which I appreciate. This is just a good, solid flag. 4/5.
Christmas Island- For as much as Australia gets associated with the “green and gold”, I’m surprised it took this long for that colouration to actually show up on the livery. I’m not a huge fan of, just, the map of the place on the flag for the place, and Green/Gold and Blue/White aren’t a great colour combo. But there is a very good bird here. 3/5.
Cocos Islands- Yo that’s the crescent from the Malaysian flag, huh? Yeah so apparently the history of this place is kinda fucked (Australian history, bad? Nooooooo….), but the residents are largely Malay descendants, so fair enough. As far as the flag goes, it’s an interesting mix of iconography that is largely fine apart from the absolutely terrible looking palm tree on the left there. That’s some 2002 clip-art shit right there. I actually like the right 2/3rds of this, so just… remove the left third. Actually I think most of these flags would be significantly improved by the removal of the left bit. 3/5.
Norfolk Island- It’s just a tree, dude. 4/5.
 Well that’s all of them. Ultimately, most of these were bad, and none of them were actually, like, great. That’s kind of just state flags for you, though. I’m no expert vexillologist, but there are only a couple flags that have truly caught my eye, and none of these fit that bill.
 We have a lot of stinkers, and tragically, nothing nearly stands out like some other countries get their state flags to do. As a final note to leave this on, and to prove my point, I’m going to present the flag of the Isle of Man.
Fucking Brits actually have a good one. Can we get this instead of the Union Jack, please? Thanks.
