Unfortunately Not a Real Pony

[makes a flag for one of my identities]

"Hmmm, it's really good but still missing something."

[types up five sentences of fakedeep symbolism]

"Perfect!"

Yeah.

I understand that "a bunch of horizontal stripes" is actually pretty boring flag designs, that more than four colors means it's difficult to source things when crafting, and that everything being so bright and color-based makes it inaccessible to people who have colorblindness or sensory issues.

But damn do I love the original, eight-color rainbow flag so much, and I am slowly covering the house in it.

You know what I have literally never seen in any discussion of pride flags?

A discussion on whether colorblind people can tell anything apart from anything.

Even the stuffy white dude who taught me HTML talked about the importance of accommodating colorblind people!

You think the queer community has a problem with all the flags looking kind of the same? Look up the flag of Indonesia, then the flag of Monaco.