#aplspike

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Some more Pride Emojis!

Grayplatonic | Iculaplatonic | Desinoplatonic

Cupioplatonic | Aplspike | Koinikoplatonic

Enjoy~

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This is a repost of the lost post for aplatonic flags made by ryanyflags

Aplatonic (apl for short) flags part 3 🍏🟩🟦🟪 (This set uses green+blue+purple, there’s another set that uses yellow for apl instead.) (Due to the image limit, this is split into 4 posts.)

greyplatonic | demiplatonic | aegoplatonic (1)

aegoplatonic (2) | non sam apl (1) | non sam apl (2)

neu apl | aplvoid | aplflux

aplspike (1) | aplspike (2) | apljump

dark greyplatonic | light greyplatonic | atomoplatonic

delloplatonic | fictoplatonic | cupioplatonic

bellusplatonic | reciproplatonic | lithoplatonic

frayplatonic (1) | frayplatonic (2) | apothiplatonic

orchidplatonic | myrplatonic | aplflexible

I’ll also note that some of these terms can have multiple names, with the “platonic”, “aplatonic”, & “apl” part being interchangeable. This isn’t applicable to every term though. I also chose not to list everything to try to keep it brief. So for example, greyplatonic can also be called greyaplatonic and greyapl.

[Part 1]

[Part 2]

This is part 3

[Part 4]

[your-fav-is-apl]

Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus is aplspike/aplatonicspike :-)

Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus is Aplatonicspike!

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bro pride month is approaching 🤑🤑

[squidfreak]

Aplspike

An aplatonic label defined as someone who usually feels little to no platonic attraction, but occasionally has rare, sudden, and intense spikes of platonic attraction for a short amount of time, before returning, just as suddenly, to one's normal amounts of aplatonicness.

Apljump

An aplatonic label defined as someone who usually feels platonic attraction, but occasionally has rare, sudden, and intense spikes of total or near total aplatonic feelings for a short amount of time, before returning, just as suddenly, to one's normal amounts of platonic attraction.

[queer-as-he11]

I think I'm slowly teasing apart my platonic feelings. From what I've got so far, I'd say it goes something like this (be warned, long post ahead!):

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I do experience platonic attraction, but it's circumstantial/incidental, it's such an ambiguous feeling (more akin to a general desire for social interaction that happens to be heightened because of something like a shared interest, for example) that I often don't register it as platonic attraction anyway, and when I do recognize it, I don't automatically want to label that bond a friendship and cultivate the friendship more.

It's circumstantial in that I experience that sort of ambiguous liking only when the person is regularly, physically around me. Examples include my lab partner, people I sit next to in classes, etc. Sort of like a forced proximity trope but for friendship, lol. I don't see this as a particularly bad thing, as it means I get someone to socialize with. Not bad, until the semester ends and that ambiguous liking is gone and someone who I considered little more than a fun (but temporary) acquaintance is STILL asking to catch up. It's not like I ghost them or anything, I might hold some remaining fondness or appreciation towards them, but it's almost in like a nostalgic way? "The good 'ole days" kind of vibe. I'm not against seeing old acquaintances again, but it's exhausting for them to expect me to maintain the same platonic feelings as when I was around them on a consistent basis.

When I do occasionally recognize that I am experiencing platonic attraction, I still (usually) don't want to go beyond that temporary acquaintance level of bonding. There is exactly one exception to this, someone who I truly consider a close friend. And even then, I'm graduating soon so we'll see how long that lasts! I thought there was another exception, but I realized recently that I actually have alterous feelings towards her.

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All in all, I like understanding my feelings more, but it's a lot to put under a label. So I'm probably going to adopt multiple labels that contradict a little. Honestly I'm really just posting this so I can look back and have a properly thought out explanation for those labels, which (at the moment) include:

Myrplatonic

Greyplatonic

Desinoplatonic (describes how my platonic attraction is more like "wow, you're cool. I like you. 👍" instead of "WOWIE, you're SO cool, I'm DYING to be friends with you! 🤩")

Orchidplatonic

a mix of Aplspike and Sallaplatonic (mostly to specify that the spike lasts so long as I interact with the person frequently enough)

Daisy AplAroAcespec (cool term that I saw literally while drafting this post)

Friending Aplatonic (I do like having friends and want them in general, I just consider them more temporary than the average alloplatonic 🤷)

Friendship-Ambivalent

The desinoplatonic part is hard to describe. I don't know. Instead of full-on platonic attraction, my feelings usually align somewhere in between impersonal attraction, mental attraction, and platonic attraction that places it somewhere lower on the scale, so to speak. Like impersonal + mental attraction -> my feeling -> platonic attraction. Kinda like alterous but not nearly as strong.

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So yeah. That's where we're at right now. Might coin the aplspike + sallaplatonic combo sometime in the future, but idk. Might as well write everything out in case I decide that coin isn't worth the effort.

[tokyoghoulaspecs]

Hide + Aplspike

Aplatonicspike: An aplatonic who usually feels little to no platonic attraction, but occasionally has rare, sudden, and intense spikes of platonic attraction for a short amount of time, before returning, just as suddenly, to one's normal amounts of aplatonicness.

[allegoriesandepithets]

Large Pixel Size -Spike Flags

[PT: Large Pixel Size -Spike Flags]

Acespike ~ Arospike

Aplspike ~ Aqpspike

Analtspike ~ Asenspike ~ Anaespike

Definition: One who usually feels no [attraction type] attraction, but occasionally has sudden spikes of [attraction type] attraction for a short amount of time, before returning to one’s normal amounts of a- [attraction type].

I slightly altered the original colors of the atertiary flags to better match the aro and ace flags.

All flags are 3000x2000 pixels.

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