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I broke up with my GF over a redesign of the spanish republican flag
r/vexillology - I broke up with my GF over a redesign of the spanish republican flag
I, 17M, have been for the past few weeks dating this girl, 19F, I really liked. I'm a huge flag nerd and love the history, symbolism and politics that can be found in evry. That is why when I met a girl with similar interests I just knew I had to shoot my shot. Supeisingly things went well at first, we hanged out a few times untill I gathered the courage to alk her on a date.

We had similar interests and she was really knowlegable so we had plenty to talk about. One thing that stood out to me though is how she always tried to avoid politics, and seemed uncomfortable when i brought up any related topic. I didn't give it much importance back then but now I realised I should have read between the lines.

Regardless I kept enjoying vexillology in my free time and things kept going on as usual. I personaly think the spanish republican flag is kinda lame, and as a spanish anti-monarchist i felt like it was my duty to make a cool redesign. So one day I spent a few hours working on it and after some editing I came up with this design. First I tried experimenting with the republican tricolour until finding that blue really fit well, also blue can represent liberty and justice, but can be given other interpretations so I stuck with it. I ended up making it this shape to diferenciate it from independentist movements like the catalan separatists. Then I pasted a variant of the republican emblem and finished the flag (it is not to be confused with the spanish CoA, this one represents spain without the monarchs). Any questions or feedback please comment.

I was super happy on how it turned out and was really proud. So the next day I showed her my my design, but to my surprise she seemed unimpressed. She shook it off and we continued chating but I sensed some tension and wanted to discuss it with her. We subsecuently got into an hour long argument that ended up with us breaking up. I don't want to give any specific details as this is the internet and sometimes redit can be a bit judgemental, but what she seemed most angry about was my politicsl beliefs (specificaly on the republicanism and leftism). I must admit I also got a bit taken away by the heat of the moment and said some mean things.

Now I'm sad as fuck and just lost my GF, but at least I got a cool spanish flag redesign.

Note: babe if you are reading this I'm sorry please let's talk

Edit: Many have asked in the comments about her politics. I don't want to get too specific but i'll just say it was not some PP fake centrism shit, she was a fan of paquito. This flag is totaly free to use as long as you credit me somehow and don't pass it off as your own.

Edit 2: why do people keep confusing this altered version of the republican CoA with the monarchist one? No, the thing on top is not a crown, but a symbol used by the spanish republic and shared in other non - monarchist flags like paris. This design is a variation of the republican emblem seen in the flag of the second republic.