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Galactian Alignments
Galactian alignments are terms for nonbinary people to express their alignment or affiliation with binary genders, without erasing their nonbinary status or reducing them to “basically ____”. Alignment is not indicative of what someone’s gender “really” is, their agab, or whether their gender has masculine or feminine qualities.
Coining history and overview:
The three root terms are solarian (male/man-aligned), lunarian (female/woman-aligned), and stellarian (unaligned). These were coined in August-September 2016 in a discord server by multiple tumblr users including @moonbian, and the resulting post is here. The three terms were combined to form solstellarian (stellarian and solarian), stellunarian (stellarian and lunarian), sollunarian (solarian and lunarian), and solstellunarian (all three). Distinct words were then coined as synonyms for the combination words: novarian (solstellarian), nebularian (stellunarian), eclipsian (sollunarian), and galaxian (solstellunarian). At some point all these terms started being called galactian alignments. Singularian was then coined for people who reject the alignment system completely, and by definition cannot be combined with any galactian alignment.
Terms and flags:
Stellarian: unaligned or rejecting binary alignment
[Image description: Five horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: light green, darker green, yellow, black, gray. In the center of the flag is a five-point star surrounded by three smaller stars]
Full size [Here]
Solarian: male/man-aligned
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Full size [Here]
Lunarian: female/fem/woman-aligned
[Image description: Five horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: light purple, darker purple, yellow, black, gray. In the center of the flag is an unfilled crescent moon]
Full size [Here]
Designed by: @temp-nb-blog
Color meanings:
Two shades of color in the top two stripes: the varying levels in which people can be/experience being that alignment
Yellow: the nonbinary nature of those represented by this flag
Black: everyone that has no gender
Gray: the varying degrees in which people can experience gender
Novarian/solstellarian: either simultaneously unaligned/rejecting binary alignment and male/man-aligned, or sometimes one or the other or both
[Image description: Five horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: bright yellow, yellowish green, yellow, black, gray. In the center of the flag is a sun icon consisting of a circle with eight rays, with a five-point star surrounded by three smaller stars inside the circle]
Full size [Here]
Nebularian/stellunarian: either simultaneously unaligned/rejecting binary alignment and female/woman-aligned, or sometimes one or the other or both
[Image description: Five horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: pale bluish purple, purplish blue, yellow, black, gray. In the center of the flag is an unfilled crescent moon, with a five-point star surrounded by three smaller stars in the hollow of the crescent]
Full size [Here]
Eclipsian/sollunarian: either simultaneously male/man-aligned and female/woman-aligned, or sometimes one or the other or both
[Image description: Five horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: pink, dark pink, yellow, black, gray. In the center of the flag is a sun icon consisting of a circle with eight rays, with the circle forming the outside of a crescent moon]
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Galaxian/solstellunarian: either simultaneously unaligned/rejecting binary alignment, male/man-aligned, and female/woman-aligned, or varying between the three
[Image description: Five horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: pale pink, pinkish brown, yellow, black, gray. In the center of the flag is a sun icon consisting of a circle with eight rays, with the circle forming the outside of a crescent moon, and a five-point star surrounded by three smaller stars in the other section of the circle]
Full size [Here]
Designed by: @temp-nb-blog
Two shades of color in the top two stripes: the varying levels in which people can be/experience being that alignment. The colors are a midpoint between those of the flags for the alignments being combined
Yellow: the nonbinary nature of those represented by this flag
Black: everyone that has no gender
Gray: the varying degrees in which people can experience gender
Singularian: rejecting any and all ties to binary genders without exception. Not really one of the galactian alignments and cannot be combined with any of the galactian alignments
[Image description: Five horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: black, dark purple, dark pink, orange, dark yellow. In the center is a black circle that overlaps the purple and orange stripes]
Full size [Here]
Designed by: Honorary Mod Loki
Color meanings:
Black: being without gender
Pink: xenogenders
Purple: genders that include male/female
Orange: genders that are neither male nor female
Yellow: being without reference to the binary
Black circle: a black hole where no gender alignment exists
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