u/Linguinimamamia

This scenario might seem unrealistic, but i tried to make a scenario as realistic as posible parting from the POD.

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.

Hi reddit (oh hell naw 💔🥀🙏😭)

So I bought a few weeks ago this book for like 30 bucks in an old store, cause i wanted some old books for my colection.

One that caught my eye was a 1807 book called “Easy Introduction to Arts and Sciences”, 12th edition, and now I think a man who has been dead for two centuries is ruining my mental wellbeing.

Here’s the situation:

The book is in good conditions, being readable and totaly intact after more than 200 years.

It somehow ended up in Valencia, Spain, and my simple curiosity brought me down a rabit hole that has me going crazy.

Inside, I found a stamp saying "Juan Gay Biblioteca” with the word “Voluntad” in the center. I tried searching in the internet and found nothing, but i am planing on searching public archives to discover who "juan gay" is.

There are also random math calculations inside that look like someone started doing homework, but i guess that won't get me any closer to uncoveri g the mistery.

My current theories, in order of increasing delusion are:

It arrived via sea trade in the 19th century after regular use in a british school (mostly because it has not been afected by humidity and the "juan gay" stamp looks really old so it is probably from the 19th cemtury too).

Juan Gay was most probably a private collector I asume, but i am dying to find out who the guy is and why did he have a random english school book.

I started off thinking it was some funny history research, but now i'm seriously running out of both cofee and pacience because of googling this dead guy fir weeks and read the book like 7 times and english is not even my furst language.

If anyone can give me any help or ideas on how to solve this I would be soooo thankfull. Reddit does not allow me to post photos but i am happy to give anyone photos in private or by message

Edit 1:I think i found who juan gay was(actually was called Joan Gay so that made my life a hell lot more complicated, it took a while untill I figured that one out). He was a late 19th century composer. He lived in madrid but being a musician he probably traveled a lot and might have been into book collecting. By the late 19th or early 20th century this was already a very old book with some significance, so he probably collected it in his personal library. Thanks for all the help in the comments by the way, if anyone finds were the stamp is from that could help in finding what was the library and from there find its journey

Edit 2: Another option is that juan gay is "Juan Mariano Gay Blazquez". He was a landowner who lived in the early 19th century, he did not have any titles but he clearly had money. Pherhaps he is our guy as he was wealthy and probably involved in trade. He most likeley knew many languages (english amongst them) and french as there is a french book about botanics with the same seal. Thanks to that one guy in the comments for that one.