I'm not sure, but Ashaa might have been the shortest lizzer there? lolidk 😂

Thank you so much for offering. I'm in discussion with someone right now so I think I might be ok, but if that falls through, I'll be sure to reach out! ;w;

Over-simplify people's identities and gender. Bakla just is the more modern word that has inherited aspects of the pre-colonial identity that went by other names.

But yes, it is 100% correct to say historical Filipino gender identities were much more fluid than the binary that was forced on us.

Totally! Which was what I was hoping to co-sign when I said I fully support the sentiment.

I just wanted to bring this up because it is a very real contention in various spaces (from academic to grassroots communities) to have bakla be conflated with trans and how that can flatten and sometimes>

> Gender the Philippines was not as binary as we understand today from Western influences, and while bakla originally could be seen as a third gender, if going by modern conceptions, it would be inaccurate to say bakla is always 'Trans'. Many bakla fully identify as fem cis men.

I'm totally down with the sentiment here, and I didn't wanna be a downer, but while that is a theory that sounds like it makes sense, there are other more substantive etymologies of the word.

It also isn't explicitly trans. Effeminate cis men absolutely fall under bakla.

Historically & culturally>

A history of conflict and war, not that it's a good excuse lol

They did it with the demi flag too :3

What people typically do for ace spec flags with specific romantic orientations are to put the romantic flag in a heart

Decided to include uncle cuz why not lmao

He'd also be a boomer and use the old poly flag.

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The true wild card. Achi'a's abrosexuality is largely out of his control, but i haven't determined how much it fluctuates by.

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Grandpa is largely beyond all sexuality.

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Just getting all of the gay fellas over and done with

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So, so many gay men.

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I have a lot of gay men, soz.

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The NB part of Alf's identity is the main thing, but it's also very hard to zero in on Alf's sexuality, so I settled for using the og pride flag to to sort of communicate a certain queerness that might not be as easily deliniated.

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Alda is also very easy tbh lol

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I'm honestly still flippety floppity on the extent of Auth's intersex-ness, more than the amount of intersex I already headcanon for all viera.

But I do very much strongly vibe with his having had some vaguely afab upbringing.

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There doesn't quite exist a flag for 'high libido, sex positive asexual', so I kept it to Aro and Pan.

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