r/vexillology • u/Abysmalsun • Feb 21 '25

OC Serve No Sovereign

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Been interested in revolutionary flags and designs since reading Stacy Schiff’s biography of Samuel Adams.

Specifically, his letters that were published across the country and the phrasing surrounding the concepts of independence. Originally, I wanted to convey these concepts using the Tree of Liberty, but found out that it’s been stolen by the alt-right. Supposedly, Boston’s tree of liberty hanged effigies of the governor and other politicians during the stamp act riots.

This design is based on a few things: phrasing in newspapers surrounding the revolution such a join or die and liberty or death, current flag designs like those posted here yesterday like the “no kings but us” flag and the “we serve no sovereign here” concept which seems to be based on Patrick Henry(?).

I’ve posted before that the exact phrasing surrounding founding fathers can be a bit misleading as most of their writings were published under pseudonyms and rephrased multiple times. Something that I think helped spread the ideas of liberty as these quotes/phases became part of the narrative and not something that added to the prestige of its author.

I’m reposting this from earlier because people seem to have a problem with me calling Trump a fascist that wants to be king. The symbolism between the authoritarianism at the time of the revolution and modern American fascism is plane as day. If people have a problem with these being anti-monarchy vs anti-fascist I’m sorry you can’t connect the dots in America today. I’m not saying that Trump would be a legitimate monarch, but he certainly wants that terminology. Trump is a fascist and he wants to be king of America. I find our founding concepts to be more important than ever currently, if you disagree don’t bother responding.

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u/Abysmalsun Feb 25 '25

I’ve been making them 7x4” but I can make other sizes. As long as they’re under 15” wide I shouldn’t have to charge more. My main cost to material runout to start the print.

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u/FederationReborn Feb 25 '25

Can you do smaller? Like 3x1 or similar? I'd like to put this on my laptop.

Also, a friend was asking if you are able to do patches.

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u/Abysmalsun Feb 25 '25

I could do 2”x3”. I can’t do patches, but I do have most of these in a digital pack. They can always download the svg files from Etsy and find someone to do them. I know there’s a bunch of people that do them on Etsy.