#nine stripe loveless aro flag

[aroworlds]

On the fourth day of Aro Week, I’m here for my fellow loveless aros: a collection post of my short stories with either loveless aromantic protagonists or protagonists whose experiences of attraction, closeness or connection aren’t contextualised with that overly-used four-letter word.

Because I am a loveless allo-aro, many stories contain allo-aro protagonists. Likewise, as a loveless allo-aro who generally considers myself non-partnering, many stories depict the experiences of non-partnering aromantics.

(“Non-partnering” and “loveless” are, of course, no more synonymous than “loveless” and “never experiences any shape of attraction”. I’ve just been writing the stories I want to read!)

Please check the content info section for more information about advisories, references and language use.

I have more themed fiction collection posts, including:

Aromantic-focused

Allo-aro protagonists

Autistic aromantic protagonists

Transgender and non-binary aromantic protagonists

Banner description beneath keep reading:

[Image description: a handdrawn illustration of a green meadow foreground with green and yellow pine trees growing against a mint-hued sky. Scene is overlaid with the grey gradient/green/light green/green/grey gradient stripes of the loveless aromantic pride flag. The text Aro Worlds Fiction sits across the image in a black, antique handdrawn type, separated by two ornate Victorian-style black dividers.]

[mlp-friendship-isnt-magic]

Coining post!

So before I say the new terms I coined, I want to bring attention to a previously coined term, loveless apl.

[Image description: A flag with nine horizontal stripes. Towards the center, the stripes are dark blue-gray, medium blue-gray, light blue-gray, grass green, and cream.]

Look at it. It’s amazing. It’s beautiful. It’s so awesome. But just like not all aros are represented by the term loveless aro, this term doesn’t represent all apls. Which brings me to the new terms I coined.

Loving Apl/Apllovic

[Image description: A flag with nine horizontal stripes. Towards the center, the stripes are pinkish-purple, purple, lavender, grass green, and cream.] This term represents aplatonics who identify as experiencing love and find love to be important to their identity. I based this flag off the loving aro/arolovic flag, but I hue-shifted the pinks towards blue because the grays in the loveless apl flag are hue-shifted blue from the grays in the loveless aro flag. The shift in color also represents how aplatonics view love differently than alloplatonics, and our love may or may not include other’s love.

Paradox Apl/Apllovedox

[Image description: A flag with nine horizontal stripes. The stripes are pinkish-purple, purple, lavender, grass green, cream, light blue-gray, medium blue-gray, and dark blue-gray.]

This term represents those who identify as both a loveless apl and a loving apl. This can include experiencing love but feeling disconnected from it, having fluctuating feelings about love, only experiencing certain kinds of love, or not fully understanding love. To create the flag I just merged the loveless apl and loving apl flags.

[crowdsourcedgender]

[Image ID: Two nine stripe flags, the first with the symbol of a hazard triangle with a figure falling off a ledge, the second blank. The colors go form a gradient from slightly dark green to black, then reverse colors. /End ID]

Name: Falling (in) loveless

A flag for falling loveless beings: loveless beings who are connected to falling, beings who are loveless in a falling way, etc. A play on the saying "falling in love".

Colors from the loveless aro flag + black from the concept of a pit/void, but not necessarily aro, it looks like the flag by accident. Hazard sign is Drop/Fall Hazard (IS5079-).

[Image ID: A light yellow divider reading "Team Heroes" with two stylised wings on either end. /End ID]

A @coinfight revenge on @noxwithoutstars for 13 points (5 + 6th revenge + 2 nongender term).

[noxwithoutstars]

✧｡:*▹ Loveless Amor Aro

PT/ Loveless Amor Aro /PT end

ID/ A flag with nine equal stripes. Colors middle-out are light green, green, dull red-pink, red-grey, and darker grey. /ID end

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✧ Loveless Amor Aro is a term for being a loveless aro who experiences attraction that is entirely removed from the notion of love.

✧ Requested by anon // @mogai-sunflowers

✧ let me nerd out about the name now lol. Amor refers to Venus' son and the god of desire etc. Roman poets (and Cato minor) talked about Amor and Eros as different personifications, the former being associated with more affectionate feelings and the latter with desire and lust (and even greed).

ID/ a white DNI with a panel of the manga Oyasumi Punpun with 5 kids doing a joint pose. Words are black on the right side: “DNI: anti- ‘contradictory’ labels, anti-mogai, terf, gatekeeper, anti-decolonization, believes ‘narc abuze’ is real, demonizes ‘scary/evil’ disorders + labels.” /ID end

[aetherive]

[Image ID: a rectangular flag with nine horizontal stripes in the following colors, from top to bottom, all in muted tones: medium reddish-magenta, rosy brown, heathered gray, beryl green, pale olive, beryl green, heathered gray, rosy brown, and medium reddish-magenta. /end ID]

Lovequeer + Loveless Combo Flag.

plain text: Lovequeer + Loveless Combo Flag.

— A combination flag of the loveless aro flag and this lovequeer flag. We haven't seen any combination flags of the two yet and want to try our hands at one so here you go.

— The colors here are more muted to match the gray tones in the loveless flag, while still remaining colored in the lovequeer flag we used. The greens in the middle are inspired off of the loveless flag as well.

[theaceandaroadvocacyproject]

Today we’re highlighting the Loveless identity - this is less of an orientation label and more of general identity signifier, like voidpunk or sex favorable. “Loveless” is an insult or value judgement sometimes aimed at aromantics, and some people have reclaimed it. 

[ID: “Loveless. Someone who does not feel love, doesn't understand or feels disconnected from love as a concept or descriptor, or rejects love or the social construct of it. This identity originated in the aromantic community. Some loveless people feel hatred towards the social construct of love or are repulsed by the idea of love, while others simply feel disconnected from it personally.” Pictured is the Loveless Aro flag, which is nine stripes of varying shades of gray and green. End ID.]

[oceancoins]

LOVELESS ROMANTIC FLAG!

(Plaintext: Loveless Romantic Flag)

This is an alternative flag for the term Loveless Romantic, meant to match flags such as the Loveless Aro flag [link], the Arolovic/Loving Aro flag [link], and the Heartless Aro flag [link].

Definition: A loveless romantic is ‘someone who cannot feel love/feels disconnected from love in any way, but can feel (romantic) attraction/doesn't feel disconnected from the concept of romance.’

Loveless Romantic Coining [link] by @loveless-romo

Image ID: A rectangle flag of nine even horizontal stripes. The colors in order of top to bottom are light blue, lighter blue, near-white blue, green, light green, green, near-white blue, lighter blue and light blue. End ID

[purplespaceacedraws]

[short image ID; nine cute drawings of manta rays, all identical except for the colors, which are colorpicked from pride flags. The flags are loveless aromantic, lovequeer, aromantic allosexual, sapphic, polysexual, aromantic spectrum, angled aromantic asexual, demiboy, and cupio. End short image ID]

flags from left to right;

Loveless Aro | Lovequeer | Aroallo

Sapphic | Polysexual | Arospec

Angled Aroace | Demiboy | 4-Color Cupio

long image ID under the cut!

[long image ID; nine cute drawings of manta rays, all identical except for the colors, which are colorpicked from pride flags. The first manta ray is colorpicked from the loveless aromantic flag. The body is dark gray, the underside is gray, and the back is light gray with a dark green stripe, and the tail is pale green. The second manta ray is colorpicked from the lovequeer flag. The body is pink, the underside is golden, the back is yellow and gray, and the tail is light gray. The third manta ray is colorpicked from the aromantic allosexual flag. The body is green, the underside is light green, the back is white, there is a yellow L-shaped mark above each eye, and the tail is dark gold. The fourth manta ray is colorpicked from the sapphic flag. The body is pink, the tail is pale pink, there is a thick pale pink stripe down its back, and an enlarged sapphic flower symbol on its back. The symbol is five purple petals surrounding a yellow dot with a pink outline. The fifth manta ray is colorpicked from the polysexual flag. The body is pink, the tail is blue, and the back has green spots. The sixth manta ray is colorpicked from the aromantic spectrum flag. The body is green, the underside and tail are light green, the back has a large cream spotted stripe and dark green spots with a slightly lighter outline. The seventh manta ray is colorpicked from the angled aromantic asexual flag. The body is gold, the underside is yellow, the tail is a slightly lighter yellow, it has three pale dust colored stripes on its back, and brown spots. The eighth manta ray is colorpicked from the demiboy flag. The body is gray, the underside is light gray, the tail is white, and it has a light blue triangle on its back. The last manta ray is colorpicked from the 4-color cupio flag. The body is light gray, the underside is white, the tail is pale pink, and there is a pale purple crescent/L-shaped mark on its forehead and triangles between the body and fins. End long Image ID].

[mogai-sunflowers]

🌻loveless aro lesbian flag!🌻

idk if anyone’s alr made one of these (i’m sure they have) but here’s my take on a flag for loveless aro lesbians!

[Image ID: A flag with nine equally-sized horizontal stripes. From top to bottom, the colors are deep grey, grey, light grey, green, pastel mint green, green, orange, pink, and mid purple. End ID.]

term and flag by me :3

op loves and supports mspec lesbians and lesboys and this flag is open to y’all and if you have a problem with that then meet the block button she’s your friend :)

[aspecpridecalendar]

Happy Pride to loveless aros!

(ID: The loveless aro flag. Nine stripes, top to bottom: dark gray, medium gray, light gray, dark green, light green, light gray, medium gray, and dark gray.)

Loveless aro - A person on the aromantic spectrum who is disconnected from the idea of love, does not feel love, doubts they feel love, or rejects the idea of experiencing love. They may feel uncomfortable with the concept of love or may not feel any form of love is personally relevant or important to them

[rjalker]

anyway continuing the TARDIS/Charley solidarity theme:

[ID: The loveless aro flag next to an unnamed pride flag, split evenly down the middle, with fancy white font in the center that reads, "Solidarity".

The loveless aro flag has nine symmetrical stripes of dark grey, grey, light grey, green, light green, green, light grey, grey, and dark grey.

The second flag has matching numbers of stripes, but in yellow, orange, dark grey, pink, gold, pink, dark grey, orange, and yellow.

End ID.]

(the second flag yet doesn't have a name yet or even a description since I haven't figured out how to describe it)

[aroworlds]

[image description: eight rectangular banners with chevron-shaped edges in an assortment of flags with five, nine or ten stripes. From top to bottom: ace-spec aromantic (green/light green/off-white/pink/purple), alicoromantic (dark green/green/white/light grey/pink), aro-ace spectrum (indigo/purple/pink/pink-white/green/light green/lemon/teal/dark teal), aroflux aceflux (green-to-red gradient/red-to-purple gradient), greyromantic (purple to light green gradient/white-grey), light greyromantic (dark green/green/grey/light grey/white/light grey/grey/green/dark green), loveless aro-ace (dark to light grey gradient/orange/yellow/light blue/navy/light to dark grey gradient), lovequeer aromantic (pink/yellow/lemon/green/light green/green/lemon/yellow/pink).]

Banner Bases - Aromantic Spectrum

Flags: Ace-Spec Aromantic, Alicoromantic, Aro-Ace Spectrum, Aroflux Aceflux, Greyromantic, Light Greyromantic, Loveless Aro-Ace, Lovequeer Aromantic.

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​​​​.

[aroworlds]

[image description: eight rectangular banners with chevron-shaped edges in an assortment of flags with five, six, seven or nine stripes. From top to bottom: aconiromantic (dark indigo/indigo/light lavender/white/light green/green), aegoromantic (black/green/white/green/black), aro-spec asexual (teal/green/lemon/fuchsia/dark fuchsia), loveless ay (dark to light grey gradient/blue/light blue/blue/light to dark grey gradient), pomoromantic pomosexual (pink/light pink/white/dark blue/white/light pink/pink), romo aro (green to light green gradient/white/pink/white/light to dark purple gradient), sporadic aro (grey/yellow/dark green/black/dark green/yellow/grey), sporadic aro-ace (grey/yellow/dark green/black/maroon/coral/grey).]

Banner Bases - Aromantic Spectrum

Flags: Aconiromantic, Aegoromantic, Aro-Spec Asexual, Loveless Ay, Pomoromantic Pomosexual, Romo Aro, Sporadic Aro, Sporadic 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​​​​.

[aroworlds]

[image description: eight rectangular banners with chevron-shaped edges in an assortment of flags with five, six, seven or nine stripes. From top to bottom: alterous (mint/cream/peach/tan), angled aro-ace (yellow/lemon/cream/brown), aro-ace agender (dark green/white/lime/white/violet), a-spectrum (light green/light lime/white/light purple/purple), cupioromantic (grey/lavender/white/mint), frayromantic (blue/cyan/white/mint/dark grey), greyromantic (dark grey/light grey/white/green) and varioriented aro-ace (navy/white/yellow/red).]

Banner Bases - Aromantic Spectrum (and Alterous)

Flags: Acriromantic, Aro-Ace / Aromantic and Asexual, Bellusromantic, Cassromantic Cassexual, Loveless Aromantic, Nexus Aro-Ace, Nebularomantic, Romo Aro.

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​​​.

[aroworlds]

[image description: eight rectangular banners with chevron-shaped edges in an assortment of flags with four, five, six or nine stripes. From top to bottom: amatopunk (purple/pink/orange/pastel yellow/green), askepsiromantic (black/grey/pink/white/green), cupioromantic-flux (peach/orange/red-orange/red/maroon), cupioromantic cupiosexual (grey/lavender/white/light steel-blue), frayromantic fraysexual (blue/light blue/cyan/white/light grey/grey), heartless aromantic dark to light coral gradient/light green/grass green/light green/light to dark coral gradient), loveless allo-aro (dark to light grey gradient/grass green/yellow/gold/light to dark grey gradient), nebularomantic nebulasexual (maroon/pink/white/light grey/grey-pink).]

Banner Bases - Aromantic Spectrum (and Amatopunk)

Flags: Amatopunk, Askepsiromantic, Cupioromantic-Flux, Cupioromantic Cupiosexual, Frayromantic Fraysexual, Heartless Aromantic, Loveless Allo-Aro, Nebularomantic Nebulasexual.

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​​​​.

[aroworlds]

Aro Arrow Cross Stitch Patterns - Part One

A couple of years ago, I posted a tutorial for making pride-themed arrow cross-stitch patches. Unfortunately, the template I used back then made it difficult for me to post patterns covering flag style and stripe variants. This isn't the case with my current template, so for Aro Week I thought I'd update my arrow patterns to cover a greater selection of aromantic flags ... starting with designs for flags with three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten horizontal stripes! Plus modifications for depicting two or three different flags on the same arrow!

Image descriptions beneath keep reading:

[Photo one: four cross stitch patches sitting on a blue microfibre blanket. Two of them are arrows stitched on a single-colour rectangular background, edged with buttonhole stitch; two of them are arrows with the buttonhole edging shaped around the arrow itself. All arrows have a tan and light tan shaft, grey arrowhead and fletching in the colours of various horizontal-striped pride flags. From top to bottom: rectangle allo-aro arrow on light green background with green edging, shaped allo-aro arrow with white edging, loveless aromantic arrow on dark green background with yellow/green multicoloured edging, and shaped quoiromantic arrow with mint edging.

Pattern one: A cross stitch pattern for an arrow design with an elongated triangle arrowhead in grey, a tan shaft, idemromantic pride flag fletching, idemromantic binding where shaft meets arrowhead, and a pale green background. Outline stitching in a dark grey frames the arrowhead, with lighter grey lines of back stitching running down the head; the tan shaft is framed in a darker tan; and green stitches outline the fletching and binding.

Pattern two: A cross stitch pattern for an arrow design with an elongated triangle arrowhead in grey, a tan shaft, loveless aromantic pride flag fletching, and a dark pine green background. Outline stitching in a dark grey frames the arrowhead, with lighter grey lines of back stitching running down the head; the tan shaft is framed in a darker tan; and green stitches outline the fletching and binding.]