#oriented anattractional

[isobug]

Anattractional Abro / Anatt Abro / Absolnian Abro / Absolni Abro

One who experiences no attraction whatsoever ( Anattractional / Absolnian ) but is still Abro Oriented / Orientated in some way ( referring to relationships and affection, not attraction )

Made by combining the most common Abro flag with the general layout of my Oriented / Orientated Anattractional flags ( tweaked slightly to avoid too much similarity to my Anattractional Diamoric flag. )

Free for anyone to use anywhere as always! I made this for myself because I'm definitely Oriented Absolnian but the Orientated identity tends to shift in an Abro manner, and I couldn't find an existing flag or term for that.

Taglist - @radiomogai, @daybreakthing

[lifea16]

Sexuality Update :-

Sapphic Oriented Angled Anattractional Lovequeer

[drachen-auge]

Alternate a*spec / anattractional spectrum pride flag

I wanted to create an a*spec / anattractional spectrum pride flag that visually includes at least all the most common a*- spectrums (asexual, aromantic, aplatonic, asensual, aqueerplatonic, analterous, anaethetic, asocial) but.... it's hard. Like there are so many colours and either you skip some or the flag seems like a wild mix of colours that hurts the eyes. So in the end I thought, why not go for one colour and work with shades. And put an "A" on top of it :D So here's a flag with four blue stripes in different shades representing the different a*spec labels and identities and spectrums plus symbolising that we all exist in spectrums. And to still kinda visually fit to the a*spec flags (plus it just looks nice) there's a grey and a black stripe. The grey representing all the grey areas on and between the spectrums. Black standing for the absence of attraction. And the A is pretty obvious I guess - a*-spec.

[jebcc]

Actually going to post something here, woah. Fobea- (aspec orientation)

A term for those who have never experienced a form of attraction due to childhood trauma. For example, fobeasexual describes someone who doesn't experience sexual attraction, and never has, due to childhood trauma. Fobea- is an abbreviation of the phrase "forever been a(spec)" / fo-be-a. It's also a pun on phobia, where fear is a common aspect to trauma. Flags in order of appearance (left to right, top to bottom):

Fobeasexual, fobearomantic, fobearoace, fobeaplatonic, fobeaqueerplatonic, fobeanaesthetic, fobeasocial, fobeasensual, fobeanalterous, fobeanattractional. Similar terms + differences:

Caed- | Where one used to experience attraction but lost that ability due to trauma. Unlike caed-, fobea- individuals have never experienced attraction. Byuma- | Those who have experienced some kind of trauma during the “awakening” of their orientation. Due to this trauma, attraction is confusing to them. Unlike byuma-, fobea- individuals are inherently aspec. Flag meaning:

The black vertical bar on the left represents the "start" of one's orientation and how it was always aspec in the beginning.

The horizontal black line represents the ongoing nature of being indefinitely aspec.

The dark grey represents the varying degrees of being aspec.

The diagonal slants represent time and its forward movement.

The colour represents the corresponding orientation (i.e. purple = asexual, green = aromantic, etc.).

"How can you tell that you've never experienced attraction due to trauma? What if you're just aspec regardless of trauma?"

That is of course always a possibility, but my experiences with my afamilial orientation + trauma are so deeply intertwined that I feel they cannot be separated. I wanted a short and easy way of conveying the depth of my afamilialness because for some reason people tend to doubt me when I tell them I don't experience familial attraction. Tacking on trauma to the end of it usually helps to shut them up though. :D Feedback always welcome.

[identity-coining]

Mascanattractional

An anattractional identity where an individual feels no form of attraction to masculine individuals. However, this does not necessarily mean the individual is mascrepulsed, simply does not feel attraction.

(Learn more about the spectrum!)

Originally coined by us on Pinterest.

[receivingtranny]

Oriented Anattractional

sources - Asexual Wiki, LGBTQIA Wiki

Similar to oriented aroace, however rather than just being on the aroace spectrum, an oriented anattractional person is attractionless (aphysical, aemotional, ateritary) but still feel aligned with another queer label enough that it factors into their experience of attraction. They would be considered to be lovepunk and often identify as loveless.

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

Pluralian Anattractional Pride Flag

Multiaffectional or pluriaffectional (multiaffective or pluriaffective): affectionally/affectively pluralian; experiencing affection towards or relationship(s), or partnership(s), with multiple genders.

Anattractional: experiencing no attraction whatsoever.

Pluralian flag colors from this version.

[something-lemonade]

It's not pride month anymore, but since posting this I've experienced a lot of things, good and bad, but the idea that maybe someone saw this and thought "hey that's me!" Or "what are those? Let me look them up, oh, that's me!" Or "hey maybe I should appreciate these people too" makes me feel good, nothing has quite the same effect as the idea that your little words made someone else's day

Sorry for the ramble, I just want you all to know that you are still important after pride month. You are still important now. You're still important forever. You have a strange little label no one knows about? It's ok! You aren't sure so you have 5-700,000 labels? It's ok! You aren't sure so you're unlabeled? It. Is. Ok.

Let me grab you by the shoulders and shake you till you understand you're not perfect but I'll be damned if you don't understand you're beautiful. Be queer! Everything is queer! If you aren't cishetallo you. Are. Queer.!!! be queer recklessly, be queer beautifully, be queer messily, be queer strangely, be queer loudly, be queer quietly, be ✨️yourself✨️, make yourself happy first <3

I think afamilial, asensual, aplatonic, and other overlooked a-specs are very cool, I value you guys and am holding hands with you [metaphorically] as aroace who shares our a-spec space <333

I think any one who is more represented than others should use that platform to lift the others up

So yeah

You guys are great in case you needed to hear that today

[isobug]

Anattractional Allo-oriented / Anattractional Allo

One who experiences no attraction whatsoever ( Anattractional ) but is still Allo Oriented / Orientated in some way.

This is intentionally vague as it could refer to ANY Allo Oriented / Orientation label ( such as Achillean, Pan, Cenelian, etc. ) and can be used as a non-specific / non-specifying label for Oriented Anattractional individuals who are unsure of exactly how they are Oriented outside of "Allo".

It could also be useful to Anattractional individuals who enjoy or even prefer to partner with Allo / Allospec individuals! ( I would personally fit this as a Partnering Anattractional, and as one who is Aro4Allo! )

This is intentionally broad and vague per Anon's request! "Allo" here can refer to affection, partnership, or anything else. Any Oriented Anattractional individual is welcome to use this if you find it useful! It can also be shortened to "Anattractional Allo" if you'd like.

Using the general layout of my other Oriented Anattractional flags along with my alt. Alloro and alt. Allosex flags. Free to use anywhere as always!

Taglist - @radiomogai, @revenant-coining

[the-genderflux-experience]

Master list of all the "our __ experience" lgbtq+ blogs

These are all the active and inclusive/friendly queer blogs I could find. If I listed any that are exclusionist or otherwise bad or are just inactive, please let me know so I can remove them. This list is intended to help queer people find active and inviting communities to participate in and feel safe in. If you know more feel free to add them in the reblogs and/or tell me them so I can add them. Please spread this around, I worked very hard on compiling this list, and this may help people find the community for them here on Tumblr.

🏳️‍🌈 Overall community

@our-queer-experience

@our-lgbtq-brazilian-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Aromantic and/or asexual

@aroacesafeplaceforall

@our-arospec-experience

@our-asexual-experience

@our-oriented-aroace-experience

@our-aroace-experience

@unionize-aromantically

@our-demiromantic-experience

@our-demian-experience

@our-amicus-experience

@our-grey-experience

@our-aspec-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Gay/lesbian

@our-lesbian-experience

@our-gay-experience

@our-lesboy-experience

@our-gaybian-experience

@our-mlm-experience

@our-sapphic-experience

@our-achillean-experience

@our-butch-experience

@our-sapphillean-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Transgender

@our-transgender-experiences

@transsexual-experiences

@our-transfeminine-experience

@our-transmasculine-experience

@our-trans-youth-experience

@our-trans-punk-experience

@our-transhet-experience

@our-afab-transfem-experience

@our-amab-transmasc-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Genderfluid (and related)

@our-genderfluid-experience

@the-genderflux-experience

@our-boyflux-experience

@our-genderfawn-experience

@our-genderfae-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Demigender

@our-demigirl-experience

@our-demiboy-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Agender

@our-agender-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Multigender

@our-multigender-experience

@your-bigender-big-brother

@yourbigendergremlet

🏳️‍🌈 Nonbinary

@our-nonbinary-experience

@our-genderqueer-experience

@our-androgyne-experience

@our-abinary-experience

@our-maverique-experience

🏳️‍🌈 More sexualities

@our-pansexual-experience

@our-bisexual-experience

@our-mspec-experience

🏳️‍🌈Polyamory (and related)

@our-polyamorous-experience

@our-ambiamorous-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Neurodivergence

@our-neuroqueer-experience

🏳️‍🌈 Other/random

@our-queerplatonic-experience

@gender-envy-is

@our-unlabelled-experience

@our-xenogender-experience

@our-questioning-experience

@our-outherly-experience

@our-neopronoun-experience

@anattractional-safe-space

[pokimoko]

Hello! I just started noticing your art and I really love the way that you make animals. It's really cute and especially love your art style. Not sure if you're doing requests, just asking of course.

I was wondering since both of these flags with orientations don't really get that much representation. I was wondering, could you do owls with Anattractional and Electio-Aroace flags? I would really appreciate it. ヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ

Two tickets to Barbenheimer please.

[drachen-auge]

Orientated / Oriented

alternate flag design for orientated / oriented (https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Orientated & https://www.tumblr.com/libragender/637626115086843904/orientatedoriented) light green: The complementory colour to #B80F0A red, and red symbolises romantic attraction, is a light blue #47f0f5. The complementory colour to #0000ff blue, which apparently stands for sexual attraction, is #ffff00 yellos. The middle of the two is the #a3f87b light green. (super intuitive /s) light teal: A lighter shade of the darker teal, same as the oriented aroace flags teal. Together with the teal stripe it symbolises the attraction spectrums. teal: Represents tertiary attraction. It's the orientated flags teal. dark grey: Representing the grey areas on and between spectrums as well as the nebulousness some experience when trying to determine which kind of attraction they feel. black: Representing the abscene of attraction.

[lu-loves-symbrock]

intro or whatever🫶🏽🫶🏽

this is my side blog dedicated to symbrock stuff. note that I haven't read the comics unfortunately so this is mostly based on the recent movies. btw im a minor

🖤preferred terms ; Mx, Ser, king, princex, bro, sib, transmasc, he/him, de/dew, it/its, mist/mists. Names ? you can call me Lu.

🩶romantic and sexual orientations ; black stripe asexual, fateestherromantic (arospec), uranicromantic, unfathomable levels of monogamy

🤍romance and sex stances ; sex averse, sex repulsed, romance favorable

💜tertiary attraction ; friendless aplatonic, apothiaesthetic, afamilial, analterous, aqueerplatonic, unisensual... just anattractional tbh

🍵genders: ....let's just say "nonbinary guyfailure/boyloser lurking in a dark misty forest."

DNI

My dni isn't gonna be as long as on my main blog since this one is less personal, but just don't be a bigot or an asshole. 🤷🏽 this blog is completely safe for xenogenders and neopronouns, etc. and will have lots of queer stuff because i aspire to be in an asexual uranic queer relationship with my SP and eddie and venoms relationship inspires me

[identity-coining]

Finanattractional

An anattractional identity where an individual feels no form of attraction to feminine individuals. However, this does not necessarily mean the individual is femrepulsed, simply does not feel attraction.

(Learn more about the spectrum!)

Originally coined by us on Pinterest.

[ryanyflags]

anspec / anattspec / absolspec / absolnispec : anattractional/absolnian spectrum.

[ explanation ]

So I use non-sam ace mainly, but anattractional fits me too. The problem that holds (or used to) me back from using it is the language, or lack thereof.

Like say, what is the -spec version of anattractional? I think most would just answer aspec (that's what I would say before too), but aspec isn't an anattractional specific label, it's for all a- orientations. That's like saying the spectrum version of aromantic is aspec, instead of arospec. It's correct in a way, as those identities would be included under aspec, but you could get more specific.

I don't think aspec should be redefined, it should stay a broad umbrella term, and I also don't think anattractional should just be a second definition for aspec, it should get it's own specific spectrum label too, like all the other a- orientations. I don't like the lack of clarity with using aspec for both definitions, I feel like it pushes anattractional to the side, and I still like aspec more as a general, non specific term.

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(First) I came up with anspec. Based off of aspec, as that's what typically thought of as the spec version of anattractional. But with an- in front, like how anattractional is prefixed with an-.

(Later) I asked @isobug for a short version of anattractional, Isopod came up with anatt (and also anat, though I prefer the double T version because anat has other unrelated meanings).

Isopod later also came up with absolnian, an alt term to anattractional (similar idea to terms like anodiean), and the shortening absol/absolni.

-✦

I both terms, anspec for it's simplicity, and absol-spec/absolni-spec for how it matches with other aspec terms (like ace-spec, aro-spec, apl-spec, etc.), so I'm posting this with both names.

[ flag explanation ]

There are no specific stripe meanings for the flag. I just followed the general gradient style of other a-spec flags, and the way they're more colourful than their base flags (instead of using plain white, they use pastel coloured white, or dark colours instead of black/grey, for example).

Here's why I chose dark, almost purplish, blue: For main a-spec flag colours, like aromantic and aplatonic (purple blue green cream apl flag), the colours chosen are the "opposite" of their a-attraction (aromantic green is the opposite of red, which is associated with romance, and aplatonic uses the inverse of multiple colours associated with platonic). From there, I generally have this idea in my head that a- colours are cool/cold colours, the opposite of the warm colours colours associated with attractions. Of all the colours, all with the same value+saturation, the dark blue in between regular blue and purple is visually the darkest/coldest colour. So I felt that would fit as a colour to add to the -spec version of anattractional. (Colour wheel for reference)

Though I still think black is the best colour for representing anattractional. You could think of it like, black = no light, like how it's no attraction. Or subtractive colouring, where if you mixed all the main aspec flag colours (which is the probably the full rainbow at this point) together, then you get black (or at least a very dark colour). It's also just kind of iconic, like the more I look at it, the more I think the use of pitch black as the main colour is really unique/distinct/cool.

[orange-orchard-system]

I've found psychology to be very plato-normative as well, not as a student but just in general. So much of mental health is based on how well you can socialise, make friends and MAINTAIN friends and/or other platonic relationships. Or things like, "you must have a support network!" which then keeps a focus on family or friends regarding that. Psychology just hates aspecs/anspecs(anattractionals)/absolnians in general I think.

That's a fair assessment. It's very frustrating to see symptoms of disorders (especially when they're The Main Symptom) that are literally just aspec orientations, for instance. And I have a drafted post somewhere that discusses the difficulty of having a support network when you don't want friends, which only gets reinforced by stuff like this... It's such a shame to me personally, because I love psychology as a field of study, but it's such a flawed and biased field so, so often. And in this case, I strongly feel like the platonormativity (and other forms of aphobia and -normativity) present in it is/are just a hindrance to actually helping and understanding people, ex. how socialization is so much more than just making friends, and so is meeting one's needs for socialization and attention.