#Binary

[your-bigender-big-brother]

I came up with a flag for luxbinary. And I'll reword the definition to be more clear.

Luxbinary: An attempt to align one's binary gender with bright lights, being aligned with a neobinary identity that is related to light, or having a xenobinary gender related to light. - 💙💚

There's an idea I had for some interesting neobinary terms but I wanted to put the idea here for other people to take and do what they want with, because I don't think I'll ever get around to it.

Basically, these are neobinary identities that describe how the individual is changing the binary to fit themselves. Example: Luxbinary would be an attempt to align the binary with bright lights, being aligned with a neobinary identity that is related to light, or having a xenobinary gender related to light. There can be other concepts like animality, space, voidness, flora, fauna, and many others. Feralbinary, voidbinary, rosebinary, stagbinary, etc. etc.

I would love to see someone come up with a system for neobinary, which is something I had coined a while back.

[chongoblog]

HOW TO READ BINARY MESSAGES

Hey there all you gamers out there! Have you ever seen a bunch of ones and zeroes in a television show and wondered "Huh. I wonder if this binary here is some sort of Secret Code?" and instead of googling it, you wanted to try to figure it out yourself? Well I know how to do that, and people always go "WHOA" when I tell them that, and I figured I would teach you all as well!

Now just a warning ahead of time, translating binary yourself will take some time and require a little bit of math, so don't say I didn't warn you.

So let's take a binary string like this frame from the Gravity Falls episode "Soos and The Real Girl" (which, spoilers, IS a secret message)

So the first thing you're gonna want to do is divide the binary into groups of 8. If it is a secret message, then each group of 8 bits will represent as ASCII value (or, for the sake of this explanation, letters). So let's divide them up.

That gives us: 01010011, 01010000, 01000001, 01000011, 01000101, 01001010, 01000001, 01001101, 01010100, 01010111, and 01001111. Now, you might have noticed that all of these binary strings have something in common. They all start with "010"! That's gonna be your first tell that you've got a secret message on your hands. Every letter in ASCII starts with either 010 or 011 for lowercase letters. So if you see the groups don't start with either of those, then it's just random gibberish binary that someone just keysmashed 1 and 0 for. So now we know we have a message, so we can begin translating. And to show off how that works, we're going to translate the first set together!

The way binary works is that each digit from the right to the left represents a power of 2. The farthest right digit represents 1. The second to last digit represents 2. The third to last digit is 4. Then 8. Then 16. When reading more complex binary stuff, you go further than that, but for reading ASCII letters, we only use 5 digits. For each of those digits, if the digit is 1, then you add the value that the digit represents. If it's 0, then you don't. From there, you add up the numbers you've got, and then run the sum through the handy dandy a1z26 cipher (A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, and so on)

So again, let's have a look at that first string: 01010011

And there you go! Now you just need to repeat this for every letter! It sounds harrowing at first, but over time you get the hang of it to the point where you can do it in your head. Feel free to give is a shot yourself and decode the rest of the message from the Gravity Falls episode

Now obviously there are a few exceptions. For example if you have a number or punctuation it will start with "001", and from there translating a number from 0 to 9 is easy since it's the same thing but without the A1Z26 cipher, but with punctuation you have to remember specific values, which is a pain in the ass, but if you're translating a decoded message, you don't really need to know the punctuation.

And that should do it! Hope you enjoyed this little explanation.

[thisisrealy2kok]

Corpo Rave: 2007

[unicornspwnall]

THE MARVELS (2023) dir. Nia DaCosta Lashana Lynch as Binary

[thenerdsupply-co]

“IDK” in binary— wear this and wait for someone to ask you what it means and you can say, “I don’t know, it’s in binary.” We suggest you follow this up by walking off while laughing uproariously.

[lunaxio]

don't binarize gender, binarize counting.

[aleksmaximoff]

Teyonah Parris trying on her suit for the first time🥺

[pet-shop-of-horror-fan]

I am not saying that the transmasculine, transfeminine, and transneutral trinary was a good thing, but at least it was something of an attempt at inclusion.

But everybody made such a fuss about it that its common use went away as quickly as it came.

And now we are at transmasculine and transfeminine. By which people always mean trans men and trans women. If they didn't, then these would not be used as synonyms. And most of them clearly mean binary trans men and binary trans women at that.

But people don't complain about this binary nearly as much as they did a trinary.

It says a lot that when faced with the issues that came from a gender trinary, people just went back to a binary!

[same-pic-rick-roll]

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Well played anon, well played.

I will not translate for y’all, but protip, get a morse to text decoder, and then a binary to text decoder.

Figure it out for yourself.

It’ll be more impactful that way.

[ryanyflags]

Some multigender/polygender flags ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝

[here] ✦ [part 2]

multinonbinary (1) ✦ multinonbinary (2) ✦ multiabinary [pt: multinonbinary (1), multinonbinary (2), multiabinary.]

✦ multinonbinary can also be called multienban / multienby / polynonbinary / polyenban / polyenby / etc. ✦ multiabinary can also be called multiaban / multiaby / polyabinary / polyaban / polyaby / etc.

multimidbinary ✦ multibinary ✦ multiatrinary [pt: multimidbinary, multibinary, multiatrinary.]

✦ multimidbinary can also be called multimban / multimby / polymidbinary / polymban / polymby / etc. ✦ multibinary can also be called multibian / multibinby / polybinary / polybian / polybinby / etc. ✦ multiatrinary can also be called multiatran / multiatry / polyatrinary / polyatran / polyatry / etc.

multimidtrinary ✦ multitrinary ✦ multiandrogyne [pt: multimidtrinary, multitrinary, multiandrogyne.]

✦ multimidtrinary can also be called multimidtran / multimidty / polymidtrinary / polymidtran / polymidty / etc. ✦ multitrinary can also be called multitrian / multitriary / polytrinary / polytrian / polytriary / etc. ✦ multiandrogyne can also be called multiangan / multiangi / polyandrogyne / polyangan / polyangi / etc.

multiagender ✦ multilyagender ✦ multiaporagender [pt: multiagender, multilyagender, multiaporagender.]

✦ multiagender can also be called multiagan / multiagie / polyagender / polyagan / polyagie / etc. ✦ multilyagender can also be called multilyaen / multienfil / polyilyagender / polyilyaen / polyenfil / etc. ✦ multiaporagender can also be called multiaporan / multiapory / polyaporagender / polyaporan / polyapory / etc.

multioutherine ✦ multikenochoric ✦ multixenogender [pt: multioutherine, multikenochoric, multixenogender.]

✦ multioutherine can also be called multiouman / multioune / polyoutherine / polyouman / polyoune / etc. ✦ multikenochoric can also be called multiomen / multihex / polykenochoric / polyomen / polyhex / etc. ✦ multixenogender can also be called multixenan / multixip / polyxenogender / polyxenan / polyxip / etc.

I listed some examples, but other terms can be used too, as long as they have the same / similar meaning (e.g. multiaphorian instead of multiabinary).

Though I wrote them all as single terms, I suppose they can called multigender [term] and polygender [term] too (e.g. multigender enban instead of multienban). The short forms are just what I thought of first, but upon thinking about it more, I don't see why the longer names wouldn't work too.

You could also shorten them if you want (e.g. multixeno instead of multixenogender).

-✦

Also, I think these terms can include a lot of different experiences (any combination of multigender/polygender and the specific gender label listed), so I won't be listing specific definitions.

For the flags, I followed a format of having multigender stripes on top (dark blue, lighter blue, and orange), with the respective gender's stripes on the bottom. Specifically, I used this multigender flag edit (by @isobug) for the colours (same main colours as the original, just with nicer contrast).

The other flags referenced as just the most common ones (mainly). I did make a second version using an alt nonbinary flag (second flag in the post). I also used my (alt) midbinary, abinary, atrinary, midtrinary, trinary, and aporagender flags.

Depending on the original flag, I combined the top colour with the bottom multigender orange stripe, if they're similar enough visually (like the orange in nonbinary (second flag)). The multigender blue colours were edited a bit, to fit better with the other colours. And for some of them, I simplified the colours, they have as many stripes as in the original flag.

Special mention multitrinary and multiandrogyne, I went with a different style mimicking the original flags. Trinary used diagonal stripes, so I used diagonal stripes on the side here too. Same with androgyne, but with vertical stripes. For the trinary/androgyne colours that are already similar to the multigender colours (so blue and grey), I combined them into the 3 horizontal multigender stripes, and put the rest off to the side. It's a lot like what I did in my butch/futch/femme/+ flags (not that these are butch/futch/femme flags). I just think it's a unique format, and I like how it flows.

↓ Others (not made by me):

✦ multibinary flag (by @autodeicide) ✦ alternative multibinary flag (by @revenant-coining) ✦ polyandrogyne, polyagender, and polyxenogender flags (by @kalliepride) ✦ polyagender / multiagender / panagender coining and flag (by @moone-just-existing) ✦ polyagender flag ✦ polyxenogender / polyxenic coining(?) and flag

↓ If you're looking for neutrois and maverique versions:

✦ multineutrois coining(?) and flag (by @beyond-mogai-pride-flags) ✦ multineutrois redesigned flag (by @your-bigender-big-brother) ✦ multimaverique coining(?) and flag (by @beyond-mogai-pride-flags)

[themarvelproject]

Carol Danvers as Binary by Paul Smith (1982) from the cover of the Heroes Convention Program Guide (2024)

[all-spare-parts]

The Magnus Archives 065: Binary

Have you tried switching it off and on again?

[hoeheaven]

Will never not be bitter about them btw x

I’m in your walls @kevinfeige

[whlskeydanger]

thing for a 'draw4 the person above you' game :) oc belongs to PurpleYeen on discord