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The original was posted on /r/polandball by /u/polandballmod on 2026-06-04 20:24:43+00:00.

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Hello glamorous gays, lovable lesbians, transcendent trans peeps, and everyone who's all bi themselves!

It's June, and you know what that means!

...wait, actually, what does that mean? It doesn't seem to mean every corporation on the platform formerly known as Twitter changing their profile pics into rainbows like it used to, so I think it's a good idea to delve a bit deeper to rediscover the True Meaning of Pride. Stick with me for a second, since it has been a somewhat confused mess over the years, but we'll get there in the end. The concept of something other than the straight and narrow was invented in 2014 1969 1924 1776 time immemorial, and has since that point been way too controversial for what it is. It shouldn't be a crime to express who you yourself are and who you hold most closely, and yet, people across history have liked to make a really big deal out of how much of a seeming travesty it is to them. Ah well, that's all in the past now, and now that we're at the End of History where all the issues have been resolved, we can all live happily ever after... right?

Make a comic about LGBTQ+ values!

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Specific Contest Rules

• No balls that specifically represent GSM identities - this is still /r/polandball at the end of the day.
• No jokes just about the name of a country/place being similar to a GSM identity (e.g. lesbian Lebanon, transgender Transnistria).
• While jokes here are all in good fun, genuine gay bashing, transphobia, and the like are grounds for a ban.

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General Contest Rules

• The comic must have a minimum of 3 panels and a maximum of 8 panels.
• The comic must have been written and drawn entirely by yourself.
• No animated GIFs accepted.
• No photorealism.
• You must follow the rules in the Official Polandball Tutorial.
• The deadline for submitting your entry is Thu June 18 at 15:00 GMT

In order to participate in the contest, submit your art piece to the subreddit and then flair it as contest entry. Anyone is free to submit how many entries they like, however, only one of your entries will be eligible to award you with hussar wings. That is, a single user cannot have more than one entry be in the top three.

If you wish to participate in the contest but are not yet an approved submitter, you can send in your comic to us as if it were a normal approval comic, and once approved you may post your entry to the subreddit.

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Choosing the winner

After all of the entries have been submitted and the deadline has passed, the moderators will take a private vote to decide the first, second and third places. All entries will be ranked from 1 to 10, with the final score being the average of all votes. The winner of last month's contest will also be allowed to vote on this month's entries.

Once all of our votes are tallied, the full list of results will be posted in an Awards Ceremony thread. The artist who receives the highest score will be awarded the Hussar Wings, which they will keep around their username indefinitely, as well as a pair of Golden Wings next to their flair until the end of the next contest. The Hussar Wing recipient will also be able to vote with the mods on the entries for the next contest.

The artists with the second and third highest scores will receive the Silver and Bronze Wings, respectively, which will act in a similar manner. Fourth place will receive the old Mod's Choice Participation Ribbon.TM

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Important

Before you submit, please check your comic against each point of the rules. Every contest we have multiple disqualifications (sometimes of fantastic comics) because some entrants don't read the rules properly before they start drawing.

As always, if you are not sure whether something you intend to do in your entry is compliant with the rules, you can message the mods and ask.

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Any questions about the contest may be directed here.

Good luck and happy drawing!