Relationships

This essay is about my relationship preferences. They guide my friendships, my partnerships, and everything in between. To help articulate my preferences, I define the following concepts:

wellbeing: The combination of happiness and purpose.
love: The desire to extend oneself for another's wellbeing.^[1]
family: People who love one another.

These definitions emphasize selflessness, that love is not transactional. Love is perpetuated through trust building, not contractual obligation.

Anarchism

This section talks about how anarchist principles come into play.

Commitment

Uniqueness

Insecurity

Pansexual Anarchist

For fun, I put together a flag design to represent pansexual anarchists which I think is visually pleasant, clearly inspired, and simple to draw:

Pansexual Anarchist Flag

It can be proven that the triangles have areas in a 1:1:1:3 ratio. It was important to me that each pansexual color receive similar visual prominence. The flag is rendered here in a 3:2 aspect ratio, but the 1:1:1:3 ratio of areas is independent of the flag's aspect ratio.

The flag can be described in prose thusly:

Start with a black rectangle. Draw a diagonal from bottom-left to top-right. Divide the diagonal into three equal segments. For each segment, create a triangle with the segment as its base and the top-left as its apex. From top to bottom, color the three triangles magenta, yellow, and cyan.

For ease of use, I also rendered the flag as

a PNG,
with magenta masked,
with yellow masked,
with cyan masked,
and with black masked.

Bodily Health

Jealousy

Furry

This is distinct from, but was inspired by, Scott Peck's definition. ↩︎

If you want to share constructive feedback or your appreciation, my email is michael@brooksb.dev.