#shadowgays

[selves-indulgent-coining]

4 new-ish shadow- terms

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We've been using these for ourselves for a few weeks, but never formally made coining posts for them.

Introducing:

Shadowgai!

Shadowgai, also called shadowunstrayt, is an orientation where one experiences gay attraction in a uniquely non-binary way. However, while one technically is non-binary, one does not identify as non-binary for any reason.

This flag is inspired by Tumblr user opalescentorbisian's gai flag.

[alt text: a rectangular flag with six equal-width horizontal stripes—from top to bottom, the stripe colors are black, periwinkle blue, bright mint green, sandy yellow, white, and dark lilac end alt text]

Shadowstrayt!

Shadowstrayt, also called shadowgain’t, is an orientation where one experiences straight attraction in a uniquely non-binary way. However, while one technically is non-binary, one does not identify as non-binary for any reason.

This flag is inspired by Tumblr user nblw-nonsense's strayt flag.

[alt text: a rectangular flag with six equal-width horizontal stripes—from top to bottom, the stripe colors are black, dark-ish cerulean blue, medium blue-violet, pinkish-purple, white, and bordeaux red end alt text]

Shadowgaistrayt!

Shadowgaistrayt is an orientation where one experiences both gay and straight attraction in a uniquely non-binary way. This can be simultaneous or not. However, while one technically is non-binary, one does not identify as non-binary for any reason. This flag is inspired by (what we think is) Tumblr user a1ly's gai-strayt flag. Unfortunately, that flag's coining post no longer exists. It was not archived.

[alt text: a rectangular flag with six equal-width horizontal stripes—from top to bottom, the stripe colors are black, solid plum, mountbatten pink, daffodil yellow, white, and sunglow yellow end alt text]

Shadowsgait!

Shadowsgait is an orientation where one simultaneously experiences both gay and straight attraction in a uniquely non-binary way. However, while one technically is non-binary, one does not identify as non-binary for any reason.

This flag inspired by Tumblr user Beyond-MOGAI-Pride-Flags's sgait flag.

[alt text: a rectangular flag with six equal-width horizontal stripes—from top to bottom, the stripe colors are black, indigo blue, periwinkle blue, candle flame yellow, white, and brimstone yellow end alt text]

Possible reasons why someone might use these terms:

being multigender, where one or more of the genders one experiences is/are binary

being genderfluid, genderflux, or genderfluix and sometimes being a binary gender

one’s gender is almost binary to the point where one does not feel non-binary

one feels dysphoric about being called non-binary

having a binary gender, but having a non-binary gender alignment (e.g. being male and xingender)

being mid-binary

being cassgender or gender apathetic

feeling partially or fully disconnected from one’s gender

fluid/fluctuating label preferences

(this is a non-exhaustive list)

[losergendered]

ID: a set of 31 images in 9 groups of three and two pairs. each has three flag splices of the listed identities. the images on the left have the listed erased characters from 1988, the images on the right have the characters in 2006, and the images in the middle are blank splices. the exceptions are the two pairs, airi and jun, who only have one version. END ID

Satoru Fujinuma from Erased is an autistic, persodivergent, schizoid, antisocial, hypoempathetic, bi, aromantic, acespec, synchronoless, mobichronal man!

Gaku Yashiro is a schizospec, persodivergent, antisocial, borderline, hypoempathetic, shadowgay, aroace, carinamoe, coeurery, caedrose, aemoflux man!

Kayo Hinazuki is an autistic, avoidant, schizoid, hypoempathetic straight, anattractional cisgenderless woman!

Kenya Kobayashi is an autistic, persodivergent, cistrans, bi gay, transfem man!

Hiromi Sugita is an intersex, cistrans, transmascfem, lesdarcian, bi straight sophboy!

Osamu is gay and Kazu is bisexual!

Aya Nakanishi is an autistic narcissistic bihet bennetian!

Misato Yanagihara is a narcissistic hypoempathetic straight sapphic acespec woman!

Airi Katagiri is a bigender queerplatonic bi sapphic!

Jun Shiratori is an autistic disabled schizotypal biromantic aceflux man!

For me cause i just rewatched the anime for the fourth time and read the manga for the first time! :]

[eldorr]

Shadowgay

Official Flag (left), Original Flag (right)

Shadowgay is the umbrella term for shadowlesbian, shadowfloric, shadowenbian, and other shadow- labels that are queer.

Includes trans/nonbinary people who feels semi-connection to a certain label despite dysphoria or not being the gender the label usually pertains to. Being _LW; _LM; _LNB and/or _LX, etc, and feeling attraction to the same/similar gender as oneself but not necessarily being that gender or being dysphoric about being considered that gender.

It also includes those with fluid and/or flux orientations, who may not 100% identify with certain label due to either not being those labels often, or simply due to a disconnect. This could also include labels where your attraction feels both queer and non-queer, or fluid between the two.

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 28th 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 Shadowgay flag based off of my Prairie Gay flag, so along with that if you ID as Shadowqueer/ShadowQ4G or whoever else I mentioned could use the Prairie Gay 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 was ripped directly from the LGBTA wiki, with some changes to it due to my current knowledge of labels. Here is a link to the alternative flag made by @/thepokedexisgay, and here is the [link] to the Shadowgay page on the LGBTA wiki.

[demonic-shadowlucifer]

I hope you don't mind, but do you have any sort of reblog for your "transplural" reclaimation coining? I really vibed with it, and now I can't find it

I do! The sideblog I coined it on is password protected (Since I don't use it anymore) which is why you weren't able to find it.

[beccapaintmore]

Hello all! I’ve been doing this project over on Twitter (https://twitter.com/BeccaPaintmore/status/1444700310262456333?s=20    please click through for full size images)  - Pride flags colour   picked  from Star Trek costumes! Suggestions of costumes/flags welcome! I   am  aiming to do every flag, so watch this space :3     19/?

[mogai-headcanons]

Chell from Portal is a non-speaking disabled gender apathetic objectum technoum robosexual lesbian with a shortened Achilles tendon and chronic migraines who was born deaf and received a cochlear implant later in life and uses she/her or any pronouns!

She's in a relationship with GLaDOS, an agender creatifemale electromantic cupiosexual lesbian who uses she/her and it/its pronouns!

Wheatley is a shadowgay bi gay man who uses he/him and it/its pronouns!

Chell is platonically attached to the Companion Cube, which is agender and unlabeled and uses any pronouns!

The Adventure Sphere is a bisexual FTM man who uses he/him pronouns!

The Fact Sphere is a bigender trans aroace gay man who uses he/him and it/its pronouns!

Wheatley is dating the Space Sphere, an aroace gai cupio stargender panspacegender pangender sphere who uses xe/xem and it/its pronouns!

The Anger Core is an agender genderfuck hatebeing who uses it/its pronouns!

The Curiosity Core is a genderfluid core that uses all pronouns!

The Intelligence Core is a genderfluix transfeminine pangender core who uses she/her, he/him, and it/its pronouns!

The Morality Core is bigender and uses they/them pronouns!

dni link

[antirq-blocklist]

I don't really use the "anti" label (due to my own discomfort with most self-identified 'antis'), but I'm gonna go ahead and submit myself and my other blogs because I'm just... not really comfortable with radqueer folks interacting with me or my posts lol My other blogs are shadowgai, thatonedemonnamedlucifer, blusical and thecringepunkarchives (Which I don't use anymore and is password protected but better safe than sorry).

Is the last one a Magnus Archives reference? Either way those are banger urls /gen

[aria-bridgerton]

[castleoffandoms]

I made a thing

[hoohoobeanie]

they did it for the gays 2k19

[mortalbri]

malec through the years

malec, season 1: practically a high school romance with “i like like you” and “will you go out with me?” alec is like a teenage boy istg

malec, season 2: the ‘we are dating but have trust issues’ and the ‘there’s a war distracting me from kissing you’ and the ‘damn i always forget how hot my boyfriend is until we make out without jace walking in’

malec, season 3: practically married by now. domestic!malec “honey can you get that?” and soft shower kisses

lorenzo: “i see you brought a friend”

malec: “what’s a friend?”

[guccidirector]

WHAT!!! A!!! HOT!!! BITCH!!

[losergendered]

ID: a set of 8 images in 4 pairs. each pair has one image of the listed character from murder drones with a white outline in front of their corresponding flags, and a second image which is a blank flag splice. END ID

N from Murder Drones is an autistic, pupgender, agenderflux, libramasculine, cannibalcoric, genderslasher, gendermurderer, fleshcoric, bisexual drone that uses murder/he/it! He also has PTSD!

N is romantic partners with Uzi Doorman, a nonbinary, paragirl, genderguro, girlguro, femguro, neutralguro, AFAB, futch, horrorcoric, 00scoric, neoncoric, snowcoric, robotgender, demiromantic, asexual, bennetian drone that uses neutral-like feminine pronouns! Zi has autism, BPD, PTSD, and bipolar disorder!

Uzi's dad, Khan Doorman, is a neurodivergent, abro straight man! His sexuality changes to polysexual and omnisexual, so he usually uses the labels ply straight and omni straight! Khan uses he/they or any pronouns that are similar!

Uzi's friend/mutual is Thad, a 90scoric, shadowveldigirl/shadowturigirl, vincirl, cistrans, mascguro, AMAB, trisveldigirl/tristurigirl, a dawn gay, mingender, miaspec, veldigirlvesil/vesiveldigirl, turigirlallion/veldigirlallion, transmasc, shadowgay drone that uses masculine, feminine and neutral pronouns!

For @tranny-dyke-autist !

[eldorr]

Some more Shadow flags and terms

Shadowsapphic (left), Shadowdiamoric (middle), Shadowachillean (right)

In a similar vein to my other shadow terms, these terms are to denote identifying as Sapphic, Diamoric, or Achillean under certain circumstances or conditions. For reference one can look at the other Shadow terms such as Shadowgay [link] or Shadowenbian [link].

These terms have already been coined by @/thepokedexisgay via this post [link] however I wanted to make it in the general Shadow format that's kinda only in my head. First stripe black, second to last white. Never really mentioned that lol.

[demonic-shadowlucifer]

In light of recent events, I probably won't be very active on this blog much longer and I probably will start archiving my "Let's Talk About Stuff" posts. I'll still be active on my other blogs (except for @shadowgai, which will serve as an archive blog) and I won't be leaving entirely, but it's become clear that I'm not welcome here. I'll also be more active on threads (shadow.cringepunk) and if you want to stay in contact with me I am on Discord (demonic.shadow), however odds are I probably won't use this blog very much anymore.

[soarm88]

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If this isn’t how you reacted to the 3x06 promo we cannot speak

Video by: http://abnormallyadam.tumblr.com/

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XAhp7mkifo