#platonic spectrum

[chuchayucca]

The platonic relationships flag

[ID: The Platonic Relationship flag. In the middle of the picture is a pair of light blue hands with a black outline holding each other in the shape of a heart. There are four horizontal stripes behind the hands. In order from top to bottom the first stripe is a dull shade of yellow, the second stripe is a dull shade of orange, the third stripe is a dull shade of salmon pink, and the last stripe is a dull shade of pink. END ID]

What is the purpose of this flag?

This flag is supposed to represent the different types of platonic relationships

Design choices behind the flag

The handholding in a shape of a heart represents the acts of affections from platonic love. It's blue because it's the opposite color of red which is typically associated with sex and romance. The blue also represents the other types of platonic relationships that don’t fall under the four labels below. The colors behind the hands represents the different types of platonic relationships

Yellow - Queerplatonic

Orange - Friendship

Salmon Pink - Platonic

Pink - Alloplatonic

If anyone has criticism for this flag or know other types of platonic relationships I didn’t add, let me know!

[genderqueerdykes]

I've discovered I'm grayplatonic!!!! :]

hey, congratulations! i'm really glad to hear you figured that out! good for you! i hope figuring that out helps you navigate your interpersonal relationships a bit easier!

[stiffyck]

Good luck during pride month to all the aroaces who are gonna be blasted with "love is love" everywhere

Edit:

This post includes aplatonic people, loveless aros and any other people who fall anywhere on the aro and ace spectrum.

Stop saying "but theres platonic love and familial love-"

[gregorovitch-adler]

Translation: Junior, I have told you several times that Lily prefers to be single, remember?

Lily is the new aroace icon. That's all.

[stabbydragon]

What I really want as an alloplatonic aro is to have a friendship that is treated like a romantic relationship without anyone questioning it. Like I want someone’s family to know me so well that we’re both invited to each other’s family events the same way a spouse would be invited. I want to be the plus one to every event. I just need a platonic relationship that holds the same weight as a monogamous marriage

[lobularia-maritimum]

normalize intimate sex between friends. not as a gateway to a grand romance and not as an overly casual one-night-stand-oopsie-experiment but as an intentional manifestation of platonic affection.

also because my friends are hot as shit and sex is fun

edit: removed my request to not tag as ace/aroace. i originally wrote it from a specifically alloaro perspective and still mean it that way but i don’t want to exclude ace people who might relate

[ossiethegreat]

sighs dreamily….

last image is inspired by one of @howlsofbloodhounds’s posts.. abt Color keeping killer’s soul in his ribcage 😭😭 they make me ILL!!!!!!!

anyway I love soul stuff it’s my favorite thing ever

Color belongs to superyoumna

Killer belongs to rahafwabas

[p1xel-1mp]

“hey google can you hyperfixate on a person?“

“google is it gay to want to spend the rest of your life with someone?“

“google can you be gay for someone but like, without all the lovey-dovey stuff?“

“Yes google I know there are hot singles in my area, I’m right here.”

“no google, I don’t want to see titties.”

[normystical]

VITAL REMINDER THAT "PLATONIC" IS NOT THE SAME AS "NONSEXUAL"!!!

Friends can have sex platonically!

Some asexuals are also aplatonic!

PLEASE stop using these terms interchangeably! PLEASE!

[aroacearchangel]

i’m going to say something that might be controversial and i’m sorry if this is cringe or whatever but i can’t sleep:

dan and phil are like. the perfect example of my ideal qpr. have they kissed. maybe. irrelevant. did they form an almost instantaneous soul binding connection within days of meeting in person. yes . are they literally soulmates, as proclaimed by mr howell himself. also yes.

did they design a house to live in together and still have separate closets. also yes . when they’re apart for even a few weeks they are soooooooo sad. i’m just. hooollyyy shitt.

in response to the age old question “are they dating or are they friends?”: does it actually change anything? they’re dan and phil :]

[aspec-helpless-romantic]

I wish there was a dating app/site that focused on people on the aroace spectrum.

Like, not a full-on dating app.

Just somewhere where it'd be normal for me to come on and say "Hey, I'm demi-aroace, so I don't like you like that right away, but I'd love to meet new friends, and have a chance to develop deeper feelings while the other side is aware that it's a possibility and something I'm looking for!"

Somewhere for other aspec people to come to look for platonic/queer-platonic life partners.

Somewhere where it wouldn't be weird to look for purely platonic relationships with sex and relationships that are romantic but without the sexual aspect.

Somewhere where being open about being queer (with a focus on the aroace spectrum), being disabled, or any other thing that isn't "normal" and accepted in the typical dating pool, y'know?

Maybe we should all go back to making and being active in forums so it wouldn't be tied to someone having to work for hours to create a functional and marketable app :/

[sernhuh]

Something must have possessed me last night my art syle upgraded

His stupid fucking face. Best Arthur I've ever drawn really

[sunnysam-my]

I'm still not over the fact that South Park just casually has the best canonical QPR represention I ever seen. By total accident.

I mean seriously, what the fuck. Tweek and Craig were basically forced to pretend to be together, despite not even being into men, but then they just… continued? Into their adulthood? And it's confirmed to be a platonic relationship. And they act like regular couple, but just not love eachother in romantic or sexual way. They were said by creators to not love eachother in the same way a regular couple would, but still closer than friends or brothers.

I fucking love this. They're the only reason I started watching South Park.

[toffeesbabbles]

I did it.... cause I kinda... want to overwhelm him with love or something cringe like that

(Color by @/superyoumna Killer by @/Rahafwabas if they ever saw this though i would shoot myself in the foot out of embarrassment)

[merely-a-caricature]

Who needs a lover when platonic soulmates exist?

[signanothername]

friend dynamic

they’re both aromantic but they’re platonically married and give eachother platonic kisses and that’s pretty much it aside from the fact that both friends are touch starved and extremely codependent on eachother for comfort, cuddles, and to be comfortable Romance is indeed overrated.

You just described how I see Color spectrum duo…. It’s them goddammit sob i love them so much they make my heart so warm and full of joy 😭❤️🌷✨