About the Sparktion Assemblage Flag

Over the years, I've spent time pondering a more hard-scifi approach to how (alien) multi-mode robots with truly vast anatomical variation could develop language to put words to meaning for each other and themselves and on their own prior to contact with other species, especially in light of the fact that not so vastly different from each other in shape humanity has had quite a large vocabulary for noun gender terms in total sum prior to the late 20th century across many thousands of years, I used my knowledge of philosophy, aesthetics, technology, language, trans(gender) theory to create a parallel to a (xeno)gender system structured in homage to sapphism and transfemininity, using an infinite compound noun format embracing the multiple body forms, e.g. zoomdare (zoom in regards to euphoria both in doing and/or experiencing a graceful rush or velocity, a sense of acute focus or savvy, and dare in regards to sense of intrepidness or daring, to give one's all) or torqwhy (torque in regards to a rapid build-up or crashing of momentum or force of momentum, loosely overlapping with the human sapphic/lesbian (m-spec) term butch but not the same. The why in regards to seeking and asking the why of things and/or reveling in such depths) or chordflare and so on.

These terms are constructed in a body neutral way, and can thusly describe any variation of connection to having begun with or attained wheels, a telescopic form, or flying, running on claws, building, and so on. Assemblage on some level is poetry in that it is contextual and what we figure out of ourselves on our own and from worldly context. These terms can be used by humans and human-bodied people and alterhumans at large organic or otherwise! I use trans torquezoomdare myself alongside my own transfem aspects, and I am honored to as of this writing know a handful of people who resonate with this compound noun assemblage system.

As to the flag itself: The central orb is a stylization of the Matrix of Leadership overlaid one the middle of the hammer and of the Forge of Solus Prime. Each cyan vein/groove represents a different assemblage aspect- form, signifiers, singularity, expression, practices, and expansiveness, since there will always be more than we can ever account for. The stripes are blue, white, yellow, orange, and red or their equivalents depending on how you perceive color, as those are the emitted colors of stars in space interpreted visually by us, and we are all star stuff, from dust to dust. The pink and cyan aspects of the Forge hammer portion on each side of the orb represent either cyan/blue for the spark (and other forms of blood/or other lifeblood fluids that are not typical pink) and pink for blood, or if one prefers variations where the soul isn't material, they could be colors that are used in-conjunction/interchangeably for the concept of a soul or self (and not directly associated in this case with notions of guys and gals, but instead could be an interpretation of why bots of different genders with one or both of these colors have the color schemes they have). This really is a flag intended for an entire array of different assemblage systems mechanoids could have in the contexts I named above, it is not just a trans flag but secondarily a flag for gender (when gender is applicable) or an equivalent (like sparktion or hearth) itself.

I could not have come up with this were it not for stories in previous years in and beyond Transformers about women / fem-spectrum robots and particularly transfem ones, and thusly I think it is not only more than fair for this flag to be used in a gender spectrum context as well, but I would encourage it. I just ask that people keep in mind that it's meaning is also supposed to represent something far off from human gender systems (and no, I don't just mean the gender binary) that nonetheless puts words to mechanoid entities contextualizing and sometimes reforging themselves whether to be more curvy or boxy or both or spindly or to have rocket engines for shoulders, and that this flag came from someone who is in part a sapphic transfem, and a plural system, and that using cyan and pink at all in part has to do with inspiration from a particular trans flag from 1999. Thank you for reading and cheers if this resonates with you or is something you also enjoy in celebration of sapient mechanoid storytelling!