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happy new year to all the romance-repulsed aromantics who will not be sharing a midnight kiss, happy new year to all the afamilials who would rather spend time alone than with their family, and happy new year to all the aplatonics who will be enjoying the night with no friends! your existence as a person on the aspec is incredibly valuable. i truly hope all aspecs enjoy their night and arent forced to push their boundaries for the comfort of other people :)
Shout out to:
polyamorous folks
ambiamorous
queerplatonic folks
loveless folks
atertiary aroace folks
demispec folks
quasi-spec folks
relationship anarchists
You're all fantastic! I'm gay, aplatonic, and ambiamorous myself.
- Your Bigender Big Brother 💙💚
Being against atertiary identities while also being aromantic or asexual is so strange because literally every argument against them is just a recycled arophobic or acephobic argument
happy pride month to anattractional folks btw!!!! like me!!!! im anattractional!!!! its very important to me that you all know that im anattractional!!!!!!!!!
Introducing: The Aspec Glossary!
*Note: Please make sure to check the original post for the latest version before reblogging. This post will be updated frquently!*
There are a lot of aspec terms, some more common than others. With this series, I'm hoping to spotlight a bunch of different aspec identities, terms, etc.
If you have any suggestions for terms to post about, you can comment on or reblog this post, or send in an ask or dm!
A lot of these topics will be aro/ace centered, but I'm happy to shine some light on anything on the aspec, including afamilial, aplatonic, asensual, atertiary, aqueerplatonic, etc. Just know that I will have less to say personally about things that don't apply to me, and I will be more heavily relying on the words of others in those cases.
Note: when a term is a modifier than can apply to multiple things (eg. repulsed, aego, demi, etc.), I typically default to using sex/sexuality/asexuality as the example (eg sex-repulsed, aegosexual, demisexual), because those are more clear-cut for me to define. Determining if an action is sexual is easier for me than determining if an action is romantic or platonic or anything else, and sometimes I just need an example. There's not really a deeper meaning to it.
Navigation links
Terms
Microlabels
A-Spectrums
Further reading
AUREA (Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy)
Aplatonic Information
LGBTQIA+ Mirahaze Wiki - link to the aspec category directly
LGBTQIA+ Fandom Wiki - link to the aspec category directly
Orientation Fandom Wiki - link to the aspec category directly
Anattraction Spectrum Flag
My redesign of the aspec flag that includes other types of anattraction besides just aro and ace
(anaesthetic, aplatonic, analterous, asensual, +)
Original Aspec Flag:
Allofamilial aplatonics 🤝 Alloplatonic afamilials
Eternal frustration at people using "platonic" to mean "not romantic or sexual" and thus constantly calling familial relationships platonic
Like. No! Actually they aren't! And that matters a lot actually because I'm only allo about one of these things and so I feel very differently about familial relationships than I do about platonic ones!
So yeah, allofam apls and allopl afams are in fact god's strongest soliders
Hot take, but the aspec community needs to get some pride.
Everything is watered down to be as inoffensive as possible. Every statement sounds like it's been revised to prove themselves to an imaginary hate mob, when there is an actual hate mob, who doesn't care how palatable you make yourself.
I think that if you were to see someone from another community acting this way about their community and using language and phrasing the way a lot of aspec people do, then you would probably assume that they were either insecure about their identity or seeking external validation from whoever they consider "normal".
