#varioriented

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I wanted to create a term for something I've seen multiple people describe experiencing, because it doesn't have a specific term of it's own. Presenting, Fractu-, or Fractoriented

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Fractoriented describes individuals who experience multiple simultaneous orientations in the same form of attraction. Specific form of attraction is denoted with the Fractu- prefix and a given suffix (Fractusexual, fracturomantic, fractuplatonic, fractusensual, fractuaesthetic, etc.) Fractoriented people have different experiences with their attraction for different genders, and are usually aspec in regards to at least one of them, potentially all. It is as if their orientation is fractured, which is where the term gets its name. Fractoriented people may use contradictory labels, if they choose to label their individual fractal orientations instead of choosing only a collective label.

Examples of Fractoriented:

- Being allosexual when it comes to women, but requiring a deeper emotional bond with men before any attraction is formed (demisexual)

- Recipromantic (attraction only forms after someone expresses attraction to you first) when it comes to nonbinary people, and frayromantic (romantic attraction fades after an emotional bond is formed) when it comes to binary people

- Abro people who are constantly attracted to 1 or more gender(s) and feel like they have a static orientation alongside their abrosexuality for other gender(s)

Examples of things that are NOT fractoriented

- Abro-orientation itself (not all abro experiences would be quite what I'm trying to describe here)

- A multigender person who conceptualizes their gendered attractions as separate orientations

- Using multiple orientation labels because they all fit you

- Split attraction

All of the above are valid experiences and I have no issues with them, they are just not what fractoriented is meant to describe.

The fractoriented flag also functions as the fractusexual flag, fractoromantic flag, and so on.

I'm gonna tag @contradictory-label-culture-is cause the community may enjoy this one. Perchance. (you can't just say perchance! /ref)

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The Green Pippins from Deltarune is omniromantic homosexual!

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VARIORIENTED

refers to someone whose sexual orientation and romantic orientation are "mismatched", split, incongruous, or mixed. (ex. pansexual aromantic, bisexual lesromantic, homosexual biromantic)

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"you can't be bi and lesbian!"

"you can't be straight and gay!"

"you can't be allo and aspec!"

"you can't be a lesbian man!"

"you can't be a vincian woman!"

"you can't be cis and trans!"

multigender, abrosexual, and varioriented people have left the chat

In all reality, "contradictory" labels and the people who use them are wonderful/gen

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i'm coining emophy and emosic as an alternative terms for sam. they're combos of emotional and physical since all attractions fall under those 2 categories. the sam prefix always felt too clinical for me, so i made these to be more appealing and useful

flag credit: @isobug

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varioriented

[contradictory-label-culture-is]

homo/het varioriented straightbian/straightgay culture is being told "So you're basically bisexual."

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thornspec: an umbrella term for identities that are varioriented, neutral, unit, ayspec, amative, fluid, obscured, absent, subtliden, amatopunk, or otherwise nonconformant/variant in a way related to being non-sam

[pt: thornspec: an umbrella term for identities that are varioriented, neutral, unit, ayspec, amative, fluid, obscured, absent, subtliden, amatopunk, or otherwise nonconformant/variant in a way related to being non-sam. end pt]

coined by anon, flag by me!

this is essentially an alternative to the term 'non-sam' that specifies one identifies as non-sam/does not identify within the split attraction model, separating the identity of non-sam from those who just don't use the split attraction model. for example, a perioriented person doesn't use the sam and is therefore, by definition, non-sam, but if they don't actively identify with that, they would not be thornspec.

anon provided a few examples of thornspec identities: someone who calls themselves 'gay', but is actually homosexual with an unlabeled romantic orientation; identifying as 'demi' without specifying in what attraction type; and identities that reference romantic and sexual attraction in nontraditional ways, such as arosexual and aceromantic. thornspec also includes semi-sam identities!

'thorn' is intended to be an opposite of 'rose', a common shortening of 'romantic and sexual' in orientation terms, and carries the same floral theme as '-rose' and 'orchidspec'. for the flag, i took inspiration from the non-sam flag, using the same cream and teal, and added green and brown to represent thorns!

tags: @radiomogai, @liom-archive, @macchiane, @genderstarbucks, @sugar-and-vice-mogai

tags cont: @p-rtyboy, @pawsibell, @dragonpride17

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