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Actor appreciation:

-Ariana Grande, who ships Glinda and Elphaba (Wicked)

-Angelina Jolie and Sam Riley, who ship Maleficent and Diaval (Maleficent)

-Gaten Matarazzo, who ships Eddie and Steve (Stranger Things)

-Jenna Ortega, who didn't want a love interest for Wednesday in season 2

-Natalia Dyer and Maya Hawke, who ship Nancy and Robin (Stranger Things)

-Tom Felton, who ships Draco and Harry (Harry Potter)

-Val Kilmer, who said his first gay role was in Top Gun

#Wicked #Gelphie #Maleficent #Maleval #Stranger Things #Steddie #Ronance #Harry Pottter #Drarry #Top Gun #Icemav #Wednesday netflix #Wednesday Addams #aroace #aro #aromantic #ace #asexual #Romantic Orientations

#romantic orientations #aromantic #biromantic #heteroromantic #homoromantic #panromantic #polyromantic #greyromantic #demiromantic

Pride icon anon again, would you mind making a (no/minimal spoilers) list of the identities? I'll definitely do the suggested characters, but I'd love to do more than them. That even included the bad characters (including the likes of Thistlestar himself)

Here you go! This is ripped straight from our spreadsheet of the characters. No spoiler characters though!:

Firestar Bisexual

#lolling response #lgbtq+#anon ask #burning thistles #gender identities #sexualities #romantic orientations #pride #pride flags #pride anon #asked and answered

Warning: Rant Ahead

OK.

I'm aceflux (meaning I jump around on the asexual spectrum) so it is time that I give my own TedTalk to y'all.

I really, really, really (infinetly) hate having to explain asexuality, demisexuality, greysexuality, and being aceflux to virtually everyone but my IRL friends.

But you have all probably read a Tumblr rant on this already.

So I'll rant about the underappreciation of people who are homoromantic, biromantic, panromantic, omniromantic, aromantic, and just about all the other romance-oriented sexualities under the sun.

Lots of people don't know they exist. Hell, I didn't know these orientations existed until I did an art challenge last June for Pride. I did a little digging after the fact and discovered that there were all these romantic orientations that existed.

I was shell-shocked. At the time, I identified as strictly asexual, but within a few weeks (and a buttload of self-discovery) I felt that the labels of aromantic and asexual applied to me.

Over time, I realized that this was a midway point for me, and I am aceflux and omniromantic.

(If you already know what Omniromantic means, you can skip the bit in purple)

Omniromantic meaning I am romantically attracted to all genders, but gender plays a role in attraction, wheras with panromanticism, you are attracted to all genders without gender playing a role in your attraction to them.

This was still a very important period of my life and self-discovery journey in general because I was very new to the LGBTQIA+ community, and wasn't half as aware of other orientations as I am now. However, this is an example of how underappreciated and underrepresented these romantic orientations are.

You can chalk it up to my seemingly one-track mind, but it's also due to the apparent static-ness that I was aware of. I thought that if you were asexual, you were either aromantic or heteroromantic. (I think that's the term)

I wasn't aware of the aceflux orientation until about two-three months ago. I was only made aware of it when I saw it on a social media account, I googled it, and I had a big-brain idea moment. Aside from that euphoria you get when you identify with an orientation, I also wondered, "If aceflux exists, then there has to be more romantic-specific orientation as well, right?"

Obviously, I was successful, but I also want to raise awareness of the existence of these orientations in case it helps anyone else :>

If you read this all the way through, you deserve this:

Dang. Ron Swanson's proud. Noice.

This has been my TedTalk.

nebularomantic

nebularomantic: being unable to or having a hard time distinguishing romantic attraction from platonic attraction due to neurodivergency. a neurodivergent-exclusive orientation.

term coined by: tumblr user space-revolutionary

flag designed by: tumblr user can-i-hide-in-you on august 5, 2014

#nebularomantic #arospec #romantic orientations #neurodivergency #pride flags #explanation #orientations #microlabel #arospec microlabel

Feruniromantic and Ferunisexual (terms coined by me)

Feruniromantic: someone who only feels strong romantic attraction to one person and feels romantic attraction to one or more other people, but the romantic attraction felt for them is so weak it may as well be nonexistent.

Ferunisexual: someone who only feels strong sexual attraction to one person and feels sexual attraction to one or more other people, but the sexual attraction felt for them is so weak it may as well be nonexistent.

These are similar to uniromantic, which means someone who only feels romantic attraction to one person, and unisexual, which means someone who only feels sexual attraction to one person.

"Fer-" comes from the Latin word "fere" which means almost, nearly, about, generally, usually, or quite.