#Alterous

[alterouslyinlove]

daydreaming isn’t enough i need it to happen to me in real life

[dreaming-like-a-girl]

For me being in a qpr lately is like. No we're not dating. Yes this is my boyfriend isn't he great and lovely and handsome aren't I lucky. No I don't want anyone to mistake us for romantic partners. Yes I want to marry him. No we're not "just friends". Yes I don't want people to think our friendship matters less than our love. No I don't care what people think. Yes I want you to know that we're each other's and each other's alone. No I've never had a crush on him. Yes, I love him with all my heart and soul.

[finns-gay-thoughts]

i just want to cuddle. i want our limbs to be so tangled you can’t tell where one of us ends and the other begins. i want our fingers to be interlocked. i want to feel your warmth. i want to stare into your pretty eyes and tell you things that make you blush. i want to be with you.

[isapun]

queerplatonic attraction is so weird. i wanna friend this man so bad. i wanna put him in my pocket. heck, I wanna play DND with him.

[klavierpanda]

"QPRs and other non-romantic committed relationships are not inherently amatonormative because there existence challenges amatonormativity" and "the way that some people frame QPRs as inherently more than friends is recycling amatonormative rhetoric like 'they must be in a romantic relationship or at least a QPR because friends don't do that' and is no more helpful" are statements that can co-exist.

There are phrases like "romantic relationships for aros" that completely miss the point of QPRs and frames it like aros need to make up for not experiencing romantic attraction (at the same level as allos). Ignoring the way that some people treat QPRs and other non-romantic committed relationships as a stand in or a substitute for romantic relationships is ignoring the hurt this causes non-partnering people.

Notice the nuance in what I'm saying. I'm not saying that QPRs are amatonormative. I am saying that the way some people talk about them is. Also notice I'm not talking on an individual level, this isn't about people who feels their qpps are more important than their friends. I firmly believe everyone has the right to choose what relationships are important to them and how important they are. I am talking about people who make generalising statements that do a disservice to the point of QPRs and other non-romantic committed relationships and harms non-partnering people

[t-christmas-n]

UNIVERSE MADE US ONLINE FRIENDS BECAUSE IT KNEW WE’D BE TOO POWERFUL IF WE COULD HOLD HANDS IRL !!!!!

[our-alterous-experience]

Delighted to have the privilege of finding this animation piece.

[alterousuggestion]

two trees growing side by side, with tangled roots under the earth. this too, is alterous.

[themostfangtastic]

my chemical queerplatonic relationship. my chemical alterous. are you seeing my vision.

[flagautismguy]

romterous / alterom

any attraction that is both romantic and alterous in some sort of way

some examples

attraction that fluctuates between alterous and romantic

not being able to tell if and / or not caring if the attraction you're experiencing is alterous or romantic

attraction that is simultaneously alterous and romantic

attraction that is a mix of / in between alterous and romantic

alterous attraction that is in between of platonic and romantic but is closer to romantic

alterous attraction that feels similar to romantic attraction / vice versa

and more

might be synonymous with alterousromantic? (link)

[alterouslyinlove]

what if we cuddled for so long we were both warm and we smelled like each other. what then.

[dreaming-like-a-girl]

head over heels (queerplatonically)

[finns-gay-thoughts]

someday i’ll go grocery shopping with you. someday we’ll do laundry together. someday i’ll make you breakfast and pack you a lunch for the work day. someday instead of texting you goodnight i will kiss your forehead and whisper it to you instead

[imighthaveadumbcrush]

It's okay if you don't have the words to describe what you're feeling. I don't have them either. But maybe we can search for the perfect words together

[gengernoway]

˗ˏˋ cannilterous ´ˎ˗ [pt: cannilterous end of pt] — A type of alterous attraction that's connected to cannibalistic urges. Like wanting to eat the one you feel alterous attraction to, or be eaten by them. —

— COINED BY ROACH —REQUESTED BY: ME —TAG : @gengernoway @webby-mogai

[pt: coined by roach end of pt] [pt: requested by: me] [pt: tag : @gengernoway @webby-mogai]

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attraction template by @webby-mogai !!! also helped us with the simplified ver. :3