Spiralline

Spiralline (SPEAR-ah-lean) is an identity and umbrella term for identities in which one's gender has themes of madness, distrusting one's senses, unreality, deception, and paradoxes. It has ties to fractals, impossible geometry, mazes, and spiral imagery. This gender may be either terrifying or comforting to the user, but always has an element of fear. It may be associated with one’s psychotic symptoms (in which case it could be considered a neurogender), but doesn’t have to be.

It feels as though one is losing their mind, unable to tell what’s real, but knowing something isn’t right. Reality has no meaning, as one can’t tell where their perceptions end and the “true” world begins. It may feel like one is a paradox of infinite possibility, each one no more real than the last. One feels like a fractal, spiraling out into endless forms that make one lose themself in their complexity.

Spiralline was inspired by the Spiral from The Magnus Archives, but isn't inherently related to it.

History

Both spiralline flags were designed by Tumblr user cherrymogai on March 20, 2023.

See Also

• Hypnoceras
• Spiralbodiment