Flags et al
Mar. 11th, 2007 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfanficsI can't believe I managed to get through all that and not post about the flags. About time I remedied that. Cos I had that spiffy banner everywhere and somehow, I forgot to talk about said flag. XD
I is clever, I swear.
I came up with two flags, one for my new tyrannical Australian Fascist state, and I finally made one for my rebels. I haven't been able to think of a decent name for them that doesn't sound stupid though. Ah well. They'll get a name at some point, I'm sure.
We'll start with the New Australia flag.
Pretty no?
The Union Jack was removed when the country declared independence from the Commonwealth early on in their reign. The Southern Cross was deemed the best representative of the country from then on, instead of some relic of English colonialism. The Federation Star was kept to symbolise the unified country under the one new Government. The arrow is like rising from the ashes of the old nation into the bright future of the new nation. Because every tyrannical Government needs a symbol and all the good ones were taken. XD The red and white that it sits on are guiding the arrow. The only way is up. Something like that. I'm not sure the blue has any meaning. I just liked it.
Now, the rebels' flag I really like.
The fancy tribal winged heart thing, naturally, represents the winged humans. The heart represents their humanity, that, in spite of the wings, they're still human. (Excuse the fact it looks 3D, I couldn't be bothered fixing it.) The white base of the flag represents the freedom they're seeking. The red stripe down the middle represents the blood of all those who have already died and those who are yet to die in the fight for freedom. The swords partly represent Sepulchre, partly represent their willingness to fight and die for their cause. The winged heart and the swords touch the red stripe to represent that they carry the blood of those who went before them on their hands, and that they have a duty to fight in their names, to win what they fought and died for.
I have far too much time on my hands, don't I?
Also, I've begun formalising said novel into a proper one, so I've taken out the random scenes and put them into a separate document, and I've got chapters now. :D Sixteen of them so far. And a table of contents. :D It has structure now! I want to start editing, but it's not finished, and I feel it'd be pointless to bother until I've finished, so I might just leave it, even if I desperately want to change the first part. Hmm. Must stop making graphics and actually write something. That might help. XD
I is clever, I swear.
I came up with two flags, one for my new tyrannical Australian Fascist state, and I finally made one for my rebels. I haven't been able to think of a decent name for them that doesn't sound stupid though. Ah well. They'll get a name at some point, I'm sure.
We'll start with the New Australia flag.
Pretty no?
The Union Jack was removed when the country declared independence from the Commonwealth early on in their reign. The Southern Cross was deemed the best representative of the country from then on, instead of some relic of English colonialism. The Federation Star was kept to symbolise the unified country under the one new Government. The arrow is like rising from the ashes of the old nation into the bright future of the new nation. Because every tyrannical Government needs a symbol and all the good ones were taken. XD The red and white that it sits on are guiding the arrow. The only way is up. Something like that. I'm not sure the blue has any meaning. I just liked it.
Now, the rebels' flag I really like.
The fancy tribal winged heart thing, naturally, represents the winged humans. The heart represents their humanity, that, in spite of the wings, they're still human. (Excuse the fact it looks 3D, I couldn't be bothered fixing it.) The white base of the flag represents the freedom they're seeking. The red stripe down the middle represents the blood of all those who have already died and those who are yet to die in the fight for freedom. The swords partly represent Sepulchre, partly represent their willingness to fight and die for their cause. The winged heart and the swords touch the red stripe to represent that they carry the blood of those who went before them on their hands, and that they have a duty to fight in their names, to win what they fought and died for.
I have far too much time on my hands, don't I?
Also, I've begun formalising said novel into a proper one, so I've taken out the random scenes and put them into a separate document, and I've got chapters now. :D Sixteen of them so far. And a table of contents. :D It has structure now! I want to start editing, but it's not finished, and I feel it'd be pointless to bother until I've finished, so I might just leave it, even if I desperately want to change the first part. Hmm. Must stop making graphics and actually write something. That might help. XD