#inactromantic

[aroworlds]

[image description: eight rectangular banners with chevron-shaped edges in an assortment of flags with three, four, five and seven stripes. From top to bottom: aegoromantic (black/grey/white/green with inverse downwards-pointing triangle), angled aro-ace (gold/yellow/white/teal), aro-ace agender (black/orange/white/light green/white/navy/black), (alt) aromantic (green/light green/white/grey), arovague (green/light green/light grey/light green/green), demiromantic (white/green/light grey with black inwards-facing triangle), initiaromantic / inactromantic (black/light grey/lime green/pink/dark grey), mesi aro-ace (blue/light grey/dark grey/light blue/dark grey/light grey/blue).]

Banner Bases - Aromantic Spectrum

Flags: Aegoromantic, Angled Aro-Ace, Aro-Ace Agender, (alt) Aromantic, Arovague, Demiromantic, Initiaromantic / Inactromantic, Mesi Aro-Ace.

Original files available for download from my Aro Arrows website or Patreon (links in description). Free for personal or commercial use; credit to one of my accounts is appreciated but not required.

For flag creator posts, please see @aroflagarchive​​​​​.

[acore-ballt]

Inactromantic

[io-archival]

[PT: (inact-/inacto-/initia-)romantic: someone who experiences romantic attraction and wants a romantic relationship, but doesn’t want or is repulsed by actions associated with romantic attraction

(inact-/inacto-/initia-)sexual: someone who experiences sexual attraction and wants a sexual relationship, but doesn’t want or is repulsed by actions associated with sexual attraction /end PT]

inactoromantic | inactosexual

(inact-/inacto-/initia-)romantic: someone who experiences romantic attraction and wants a romantic relationship, but doesn’t want or is repulsed by actions associated with romantic attraction

(inact-/inacto-/initia-)sexual: someone who experiences sexual attraction and wants a sexual relationship, but doesn’t want or is repulsed by actions associated with sexual attraction

alternate inactoromantic and inactosexual flags for anon! they use black, dark grey, and light grey to represent varying levels of repulsion and attraction/desire, green/purple to represent aspec identity, and pink/red to represent attraction!

flag id: the flag on the left has 5 stripes. in order, they are black, light grey, light green, pink, and dark grey. the flag on the right has 5 stripes. in order, they are black, light grey, bright purple, red, and dark grey. end id.

dni transcript here

[my-melody-stims]

Inactromantic Glitter

x x x | x [x] x | x x x 

[cubeflag]

Inactromantic flag

(When someone experiences romantic attraction and wants a relationship but doesn’t want or is repulsed by actions associated with romantic attraction.)

[ace-and-aro-wlw-positivity]

I'm sorry if this is a silly question but I couldn't find a concrete answer.. is Inactromantic/Initiaromantic an aromantic identity? I know the definition, but what confuses me is because it can refer to people who do still experience romantic attraction? See, I've identified as Inactromantic for awhile but don't want to claim being Aromantic if I'm not! I still experience primary+secondary romantic attraction if that helps any, I just find a lot of romantic stuff to be repulsive..

From what I could find, it does seem to be considered on the aromantic spectrum and thus an aromantic identity.

Not all people on the aromantic spectrum experience zero romantic attraction, like grey aros and demi aros. So inactromantics/intiaromantics fit right in!

Hope this helps and I’m not inactromantic/intiaromantic myself so if anyone is and wants to share please feel free!

-mod Andi

[mickeys-malarkey]

I know you added them in the tags but I feel the need to include them in text just because we get excluded from stuff WAY too often: demiromantics and frayromantics exist, too.

Anyways, we definitely need to just go ahead and start explaining a-spec labels side-by-side with their opposites.

Litho/akoisexuals and akoi/lithromantics who lose their attraction if they find out it's reciprocated? Meet reciprosexuals and recipromantics who can only feel attraction if they know the person is attracted to them first.

Bellussexuals and bellusromantics who like sexual/romantic-coded things but feel no attraction and don't desire such relationships? Meet inactsexuals and inactromantics who feel attraction and desire those kinds of relationships despite being sex/romance-repulsed.

Acespikes and arospikes who are usually ace/aro but occasionally experience random spikes of allosexuality/alloromanticism? Meet ace-jumps and aro-jumps who are usually allo but occasionally experience random spikes of asexuality/aromanticism.

You know what’s weird?

How demisexual is the most well-known acespec identity, but fraysexual is practically unheard of.

A demisexual, as many reading this may already know, is someone who doesn’t experience sexual attraction until they have an emotional bond with the person. Basically, they need to get to know the person first before sexual attraction kicks in.

Fraysexual, meanwhile, is the opposite of demisexual. Someone who is fraysexual experiences sexual attraction to someone they don’t know, but once they get to know the person, the sexual attraction goes away.

It makes sense for fraysexual and demisexual to be mentioned side by side. The problem is, fraysexuality just isn’t known. So people making educational posts and articles about demisexuality don’t even realize there’s an opposite of it to mention. Meaning more people are learning about demisexuals while fraysexuals remain unknown.

It makes me wonder. How many people have come across the word “demisexual,” thought “that sounds like me but in reverse,” and moved on, not even realizing there’s a term for that? 

And how did demisexual end up as well known as it is? My guess is the term existed before fraysexual but I’m surprised fraysexual didn’t jump up in popularity once it was coined. Or maybe there’s just more demis in the world than frays. Regardless, there needs to be more fraysexual awareness. Fraysexuals deserve love, validation, and awareness too.

So here’s to everyone coming across this term for the first time, happy to have discovered that there is an “opposite to demisexual.” Fraysexuals are just as valid as demisexuals, and vice versa.

(As an additional side note: If you ever find yourself wondering, “is there a term for ___ but reversed?,” there probably is. Sometimes you just gotta dig for it.)

[alloaroworlds]

[image description: six cartoon-style bunting graphics, featuring six pride flags hanging from a brown rope. The flags are rectangular, finishing in a chevron shape, and have rows of brown stitching across the top of the flag and along the bottom of the chevron. The first three flags in each image have the topmost stripes facing the left; the second three flags are flipped, so all topmost edges face away from the centre of the bunting.

Each banner starts with the yellow/gold allo-aro flag on the left and alternates with an aromantic spectrum identity flag. From top to bottom, the banners include: the black/grey/dark pink/white/green askepsiromantic flag, the grey/white/green/black with black diamond demiromantic flag, the blue/cyan/white/mint green/grey frayromantic flag, the black/grey/lime/pink/dark grey inactromantic/initiaromantic flag, the purple/blue/cyan/white/peach/pink-red/maroon nebularomantic flag and the pink/light pink/white/mint green/white/light pink/pink pomoromantic flag.]

Allo-Aro Bunting - Aromantic Spectrum Edition

I wanted to make banners that celebrate the many possible identities encompassed by the “aro” in “allo-aro”!

Flags: Askepsiromantic, Demiromantic, Frayromantic, Inactromantic/Initiaromantic, Nebularomantic, Pomoromantic.

Flag creator posts can be found, tagged by identity, at @aroflagarchive​​​.

[mogai-headcanons]

Shimotsuki Shun from Tsukiuta is a uniromantic unisexual gay daegender crispgender schrodiboy trans boy who’s in a wavership with Mutsuki Hajime, an inactromantic apothisexual ceteroboy snowgender transmasculine nonbinary boy; and Kisaragi Koi is an omniromantic demisexual transmasculine demibigender snowgender person who’s in relationships with Shiwasu Kakeru, a multiromantic aceflux hemiboy quiverboy snowgender trans boy, and Minaduki Rui, an idemromantic asexual demiboy staticboy sunnygender trans boy!

Nagatsuki Yoru is an aroflux asexual genderfaun nanoboy crispgender trans boy who’s in a polyamorous relationship with Satsuki Aoi, a sansromantic mollsexual genderfaun paraboy raingender trans boy, Uduki Arata, a polyfluxromantic demisexual amiboy raingender agender boy, and Haduki You, a panromantic aspectsexual magiboy sunygender entroboy; Yayoi Haru is an abrosexual genderfluid systemfluid raingender person; Fuduki Kai is a bisexual sunnygender boyflux person; and Kannaduki Iku is a crispgender straight ally!

dni transcript here  

[thewolfofthestars]

Very happy and excited to announce that I made a new picrew! This picrew will allow you to create personalized pride flags!

This picrew is free for everyone to use and edit as they so desire. You don’t have to credit me for it. My one rule is that this is not to be used for any commercial purpose whatsoever.

Here’s how it works:

The top row is for sexuality flags. The left side has flags for many different identities, and the right side is for asexual spectrum identities in particular. If you don’t identify as being on the ace spectrum, you don’t have to include a flag on the right–the flag you select on the left will cover the entire top row. This is true for all of the flags in this picrew.

The heart in the middle is for romantic orientations. The left side has lots of different flags for romantic orientations, and the right side has flags for aromantic spectrum identities. If you don’t experience split attraction, you don’t have to include this heart.

The bottom row is for gender identity flags. The left side has flags for many different genders, and the right has more obscure or specific genders, as well as a few other miscellaneously queer options.

The semicircle at the top is for pronouns. This part is also optional.

I’ve tried to include many different flags, but of course there’s lots out there that I don’t know and haven’t included. If you have a flag you’d like added to the picrew, feel free to let me know!

However, do be aware that picrew has an upper limit on how many options I can include, so if I don’t have any more space then I may not be able to add it in, unfortunately :( currently there is still space for flags for all of the parts; if that changes at any point, I will edit this post to let y'all know. Also, it will take be a little while to get a new flag added in, so please do be patient.

These are the currently available options, in order of appearance:

Top Left–rainbow pride, alternate rainbow (black and brown stripes), another alternate rainbow (pink and turquoise stripes), lesbian, gay male, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, omnisexual, asexual, quoisexual, abrosexual, ceterosexual, heterosexual, queer, questioning, trixic, toric

[MORE!] sapphic, achillean, diamoric, Sappho lesbian, demisexual, gray asexual, enbian, jaspian, gynesexual, androsexual, multispec, oriented aroace, angled aroace, aroace, iridian, opalian, unlabeled, homoflexible, heteroflexible, mspec lesbian

[MORE+] mspec gay, bi lesbian, bi gay, pan lesbian, pan gay, polysexual lesbian, polysexual gay, omni lesbian, omni gay

Top Right–asexual, gray ace, demisexual, aceflux, abrosexual, quoisexual, reciprosexual, lithosexual, apothisexual, nebulasexual, acespec questioning, inactsexual, cupiosexual, fraysexual, aegosexual/autochorissexual, placiosexual, lamvanosexual, oriented aroace

[MORE!] angled aroace, aroace, malasexual, acevague

Heart Left–rainbow pride, alternate rainbow (black and brown stripes), another alternate rainbow (pink and turquoise stripes), lesbian, gay male, biromantic, panromantic, polyromantic, omniromantic, aromantic, quoiromantic, abroromantic, ceteroromantic, heteroromantic, queer, questioning, trixic, toric

[MORE] queerplatonic, sapphic, achillean, diamoric, Sappho lesbian, gray aromantic, enbian, jaspian, gyneromantic, androromantic, multispec, oriented aroace, angled aroace, aroace, iridian, opalian, unlabeled, homoflexible, heteroflexible

[MORE+] mspec lesbian, mspec gay, bi lesbian, bi gay, pan lesbian, pan gay, polyromantic lesbian, polyromantic gay, omni lesbian, omni gay

Heart Right–aromantic, gray aro, demiromantic, aroflux, abroromantic, quoiromantic, recipromantic, lithromantic/lithoromantic, apothiromantic, nebularomantic, arospec questioning, queerplatonic, polyamorous, inactromantic, idemromantic, cupioromantic, frayromantic, aegoromantic/autochorisromantic

[MORE!] placioromantic, lamvanoromantic, oriented aroace, angled aroace, aroace, malaromantic, arovague

Bottom Left–cisgender, transgender, transfeminine, transmasculine, nonbinary, genderqueer, agender, neutrois, genderflux, genderfluid, demigirl, demiboy, deminonbinary, bigender, quoigender, aporagender, gender questioning, fluidflux

[MORE!] girlflux, boyflux, rainbow pride, multiflux, abinary, greygender, gendervague, pangender, unlabeled, butch, femme, futch

Bottom Right–nonbinary, trigender, polygender, maverique, genderfae, genderfaun, xirl, xoy, xenogender, neurogender, egogender/charagender, systemgender, intersex, polyamorous, drag pride, kink pride, queer chevron, alternate polyamorous (infinity heart)

[MORE!] androgyne, gender non-conforming, lunarian, solarian, stellarian, singularian, aurorian, autigender, parsgender, genderfaer, genderfaunet, genderflor, genderqueer, genderfluid, nebulagender, leather pride, catgender, snarlgender

[MORE+] dragongender, pupgender, demifluid/demigenderfluid, agenderfluix, aesthetigender, ambiamorous, vaguegirl, vagueboy, vaguefluid, vagueflux, foggender, foggirl, fogboy, fogfluid, gendernimius, paramegender, butch, femme

[MORE 2+] futch, spacalian, novarian, nebularian, cometian, phoenixian, pistolian, galaxian, meteorian, penumbrian, siderealian, universian, celestian, constellian, dawnian, duskian, daenixian

[MORE 3+] duenixian, equinoxian, hafian, solstian, twilightian, umbrian, wanian, waxian, atmospherian

Pronouns–she/her, he/him, they/them, she/they, he/they, he/she, ey/em, fae/faer, ze/zir, xe/xir, ze/hir, xe/hir, nounself, any/all, he/she/they, it/its, none, ???, she/it, he/it, they/it, kit/kits, xe/xer, xe/xim, xey/xem, dei/deim, ask for pronouns, nya/nyan, she/he, xe/xem, ae/aer, co/cos, cy/cyp, cy/cym, voi/vil, lyx/lyx, ro/ros, ri/rin, cy/cyber, ce/cir, bug/bugs, they/bug, ne/nym, she/neos, he/neos, they/neos, ne/nem, e/em, ve/vers

*brackets indicate that the flags in that section have overflowed into the next item in the list–they’ll be found in the options labeled “MORE”.

Plans for the Future:

-fun patterns! The patterns I have planned so far are bubbles, triangles, stars, paw prints, honeycomb, and bowling alley carpet. If any of you are particularly interested in seeing one of these patterns, feel free to let me know–I’ll move it to the top of the list. And I’m open to more suggestions about patterns, as well!

-of course, I’m always open to more flags and pronouns being added, too. At the moment all panels have open slots for new additions. Shoot me a message if you have a suggestion!

[aroworlds]

[image description: three pixel art text banners of the word "aroace" in a blockish, pixel-style text, coloured in three different three or five stripe aromantic and asexual pride flags. Identities: aroflux (pink to green gradient) and aceflux (red to purple gradient), initia/inactromantic (black/light grey/lime green/dark pink/dark grey) and initia/inactsexual (black/light grey/purple/red/dark grey), partfictoromantic (dark grey/dark green/grey/green/dark grey with grey-outlined pink circle) and partfictosexual (dark grey/dark purple/grey/purple/dark grey with grey-outlined pink circle).

For each banner set,  “aro” is coloured in the corresponding aromantic spectrum flag and “ace” in the corresponding asexual spectrum flag. Banners are shown in two versions: one on a black background with a white frame, the other with a transparent background.]

Aro and Ace Pixel Art Text Banners

Flags: Aroflux and Aceflux, Initia/Inactromantic and Initia/Inactsexual, Partfictoromantic and Partfictosexual.

All banners/stickers are available for free personal or non-commercial use with credit to one of my accounts. They are not available for commercial use.

For flag creator posts, please see @aroflagarchive.

[acore-ballt]

If I could may I get the Loquisexual / Loquiromantic / Loquiattractional / Inactsexual / Inactromantic flags for the acore pile ? ^_^ Of course you don’t have to all of them if it’s too much trouble, I don’t mind ! :D

Loquisexual - ( https://www.lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Loquisexual )

Loquiromantic - ( https://www.lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Loquiromantic )

Loquiattractional - ( https://www.reddit.com/r/XenogendersAndMore/comments/155bgax/loquiattractional/?rdt=53965 )

Inactsexual - ( https://www.lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Inactsexual )

Inactromantic - ( https://www.lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Inactromantic )

[emilylaj]

Aro Spectrum Halloween 2020 Pride Icons!

I’ve made these to pay homage to this rare Halloween full moon! Feel free to use them! All I ask is to be credited! Have any requests? Send them to me!

LGBTQIA+; Ace Spectrum; Aroace

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[ID: Icon consists of a moon where 3/4th of it is white, while the rest (on the right side) is colored in a gradient. Craters line where the two sections meet and spread out on both sides, getting smaller until there are none. The color of the craters and right side depend on the colors of the pride flag used. Any additional shapes included in the pride flags are placed behind the moon in their respective place, color, and size. There are nine bats flying over the moon in a slight S curve on the left side and share the same colors of the moon. First eight photos each contain four icons, while the ninth and tenth contain one and below each icon is the name of the pride flag. In order, the names are: Aromantic, Acoromantic, Acriromantic, Apothiromantic, Aroflux, Aro-Jump, Aro Allosexual, Aromid, Arospike, Arovague, Bellusromantic, Caedromantic, Cupioromantic, Demialterous, Demiplatonic, Demiromantic, Fictoromantic, Frayromantic, Greyromantic, Iamvanoromantic, Idemromantic, Inactromantic, Lithromantic/Akoiromantic, Nebularomantic, Omniaplatonic, Omniaromantic, Platoniromantic, Proculsexual, Quoiromantic, Recipromantic, Requisrmantic, Sensualarian, and Aro Spectrum. End Description]

[aro-and-ace-memes-thoughts]

Hey I identify myself as an aroace but i m confused that whether i am Apothiromantic or Cupioromantic? like i am repulsed by any romantic thing even like holding hands kissing on cheek hugging anything but i desire a romantic relationship in which we r emotionally connected like u get what i wnat??? Like i m so confused i dont want any romantic gesture but i desire a romantic relationship .. Could u help me or suggest what am i so i could look into it n label myself? thank u <3

Hello @aashiqziam! You can be both cupioromantic and apothiromantic/romance repulsed if that makes sense to you.

I've also seen a microlabel, inactromantic, that seems to fit what you're describing, but from what I've seen, it's for who feels romantic attraction (although the wiki definition is quite confusing, it's good to say it exists, if you want to check it out).

As long as you communicate with your partner(s) about what you want with the relationship, it seems fine that you want that kind of relationship without the typical romantic gestures (as a romantic repulsed aroace who never was in a relationship, I can't say much more about the relationship stuff).

I hope this helps you figuring out your identity. If you have more questions, feel free to ask, my inbox is open!

All the best!

[my-melody-stims]

could you please do a glitter inactromantic, if that isn't too difficult to ask for? the flag version with black, grey, purple, and green specifically. thank you either way!!

Queued!

[fuckyeahasexual]

I decided I would like to share my coming out story. For almost all my life I thought I was allosexual. But there were times when I thought that maybe I was ace. I do have a libido but sex was never really important to be. I did have a lot of crushes but I seldom wanted sex with them. I always thought naked bodies were really not attractive. Sex scenes made me uncomfortable and male strippers did nothing for me. 1/3

Sometimes I thought I was sexually attracted to women and romantically attracted to men. But that didn’t feel right either. A few years ago my sister came out as demi bi and since then I talked about the possibility of me being a-spec a couple of times. Only since a couple of months I started identifying as grey-ace. I came out to my sister first. She was very accepting of course. We discussed if we considered ourselves as part of the LGBTQA community but decided we didn’t. 2/3

A few days later I came out to my parents and they too were accepting for the most part. My mom did ask if I was sure. She thought that maybe because I was bullied in my teens that maybe because of that I wasn’t as occupied with having sex as my peers. She also told me that it maybe was something that I needed to develop. I think it’s because of the way she views sex herself. Weeks later I came out to my younger sister. She said she can understand asexuality but not grey sexuallity. 3/4

She doesn’t like labels to begin with. But these are the only people who know. I sort of dropped a hint at work but they didn’t really pick up on it. I’m probably on the aro spectrum as well but I’m not sure yet. It may just be that I feel uncomfortable dating and being in a relationship because of being an loner, having low self esteem and just getting used to dating. For now I ID as Aego-greysexual hetero Inactromantic but I call myself grey-ace. 4/5

I forgot to mention that my sister finds it hard to wrap her head around grey sexuality because doesn’t it just means you don’t like the person you’re not sexually attracted to as much as the one you do feel sexually attracted to. She was also confused in which other way you would know who you’re attracted to if you don’t want to have sex with them. I gave her some examples like cuddling, aesthetic attraction, wanting to build a future together. She still didn’t understand. 5/6Only when I talked about butterflies did she understand. Sorry for the long ask but I just wanted to share this.