#this user is in a queerplatonic relationship

[lgbtq-userboxes]

[januscorner]

Made these cus I was pissed, feel free to use with credit

[incognitopolls]

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[ink-stains-and-constellations]

Happy pride month! Featuring my new sona. I'm still looking for a new drawing program, so I had to do this in my sketchbook.

Bonus:

GARLIC BREAD

[flyttadigs]

NEVER LEAVE ME OUT / LET THE RAIN COME DOWN : AN ANAWEATHER/ WEATHERSUI FST

originally published on january 23, 2017.

♪ listen // cover art edited by myself

♫ track guide ::

"Brown Eyes" - illoquence

"Unsteady" - X Ambassadors

"Do You Feel It?" - Chaos Chaos

"The Sorrow" - NxxxxxS

"This Will Make You Love Again" - IAMX

"Love Will Save You" - Swans

"Weird Fishes / Arpeggi" - Radiohead

"Into the Ocean" - Blue October

"Florida" - Modest Mouse

"Record of Love" - Pretend

"Plenty of Girls in the Sea" - MGMT

“if weather report wasn’t here to keep him calm, there’s no knowing what anasui would do.”

[vm-sys]

have told my partner abt tts. that am going to use it for long speeches (like more than 1 or 2 sentences). he accepted.

feel so reassured by him. he is really good n supportive. he cares abt me, i have all my current life because of him.

am so happy to have him in my life. am so happy to be able to accommodate. am so happy to not feel rejection because of my disabilities.

love him so much.

[kanameows]

hmm

[lapdogchase]

people love weird queer people they see as sexually attractive and not "cringe" (though people have stopped using the word out loud and just let the implication go unspoken), and the second it's not about crazy gay sex or whatever people start acting like high school bullies.

sorry but "weird queer people" has to include 14 year old asexual demiboys on tiktok & aro cishet men who want to have platonic sex with women & polycules with multiple people you aren't attracted to & people (aromantic or alloromantic) in queerplatonic relationships (& queerplatonic polycules) & yes this includes the most annoying most 14-year old twitter user you know. you don't have to like people personally and you don't have to interact with them, obviously, and if someone's causing harm you do not have to tolerate that. obviously.

but like. i'm 21, and 17-18 year olds make up a good half of the student body at my college, so i've met and befriended several 17/18 year olds who clearly and self-admittedly have spent most of their formative developmental years on tiktok and twitter. and frankly i would much, much rather hang out with them and have to explain bi lesbians and have to ask them not to call me slurs, than i would hang out with a 24 year old tumblr user whose only joke is making fun of asexuals/aromantics/polyamorous people/neopronouns/xenogenders/queerplatonic relationships/nondysphoric trans people/transmascs/label hoarders/et cetera and acting like having sex is the most important part of being queer.

if you say you love "weird queer people" but can't extend even basic kindness towards the type of weird queer person who gets no bitches (whether on purpose or not) & wishes there were more queer cafes because they don't drink. i don't think you really love weird queer people.

[lgbtq-userboxes]

Requested by sylvayex

[heartaches-remastered]

DUKE4DUDE / DUDE4DUKE

-> Dude4Duke describes an individual who finds comfort or enjoyment in the ship of Duke Nukem x POSTAL Dude, or are alterhumans / fictionkin / alters of the two characters and are in a platonic, queerplatonic or romantic relationship.

id: a rectangular flag with 8 horizontal stripes. from top to bottom the stripes are coloured dark yellow, yellow, pastel yellow, grey, dark brown, brown, red and dark red. there is a slim black line below the grey line, separating the yellow and red colours. in the foreground, at the very centre, is yellow and black nuclear waste symbol /end id

(Inspired by Tumblr users @yummycrummy & @dudexdukeweklyy !!)

[deityoftherain]

how to post a work on ao3: a thorough step-by-step guide

Firstly, log in to your archiveofourown.org account. If you don't already have one, sign up for one as soon as possible for it takes about a week to verify you and give you access to an account.

Once logged in, look at the top left corner of your screen. Click the "Post" button and then "New Work" after that.

Note: I am using a site skin so the colors will look different than the default site.

After you open a New Work, your screen should look something like this:

You will fill out all the fields and then post. If you want to be guided through that step by step, continue reading under the cut. This step-by-step guide is separated by Tags, Preface, Associations, Privacy, and Work Text (+ Post).

Tags Section

The first selection you will be making is the Rating. I have attached the guide AO3 has below when you click on the question mark, but here is how I would describe them in movie/TV rating terms based on how I've seen them used throughout my experience using AO3.

General Audiences is sort of like Rated E for Everyone or PG or TV-Y7. Basically anyone could read it and be okay, even children.

Teen and Up Audiences is like TV-14 or PG-13. If there is cursing or topics people would be scandalized to hear about out of a child's mouth, it should probably go here instead of General Audiences.

Mature, to me, is a more extreme TV-14, which I suppose is like TV-MA or Rated R. The content is more detailed and graphic compared to Teen and Up Audiences. While Teen may have flirting and kissing in it, Mature would have that flirting and kissing lean more sexual and/or descriptive. While Teen may have violence, Mature would have it be more brutal or more graphic. The line can be hard to discern, but just try your best to tag correctly both here and in the Additional Tags section, and you’ll be okay!

Explicit is NC-17 or includes porn/smut. Mature or even Teen may allude to sexual activity, but Explicit will actually show these actions in the writing or art or whatever work is being posted to the archive.

Once your work is rated appropriately, we move to the Archive Warnings. These are fairly straightforward. If your work includes Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, or Underage Sex, mark it as such. If you don't want to tag it with one of those even when it applies for whatever reason, mark it as Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings. If none of these apply, select No Archive Warnings Apply.

You can tag a work with multiple Fandoms, which would make it a crossover. It is good AO3 ettiequte to not mark a work with a lot of fandoms, like having a multi-fandom one shot book. It's usually a good idea to break it up or post the one shots independently.

Either way, you would type the fandom(s) you want, and when it pops up, you select it. Two important tags here to note are Original Work and No Fandom. These are tags you can use as a "Fandom" tag, even if it isn't based off of a specific sort of media.

Categories are simply the type of relationship featured in your work. You can select multiple if more than one are shown in what you are posting.

The relationships section let other achieve users know what relationships are featured in a work. Slashes (/) between names are used for romantic and/or sexual relationships, and ampersands (&) between names are used for platonic and/or familial relationships. Queerplatonic relationships are often tagged with both along with "Queerplatonic Relationship" in the additional tag section, but that choice is up to you.

Much like the relationships section, the characters section allows other archive users to know who is featured in the work. Any characters that show up and/or have a main/major-ish role in the story can be tagged here. You can put "POV Character" or "Character-centric" in the additional tags section to clarify further if desired. If they are background or simply referenced, you may prefer to tag “Minor Character(s)” and/or tag “Mentioned Character” and/or not tag them at all.

Usually, the characters and relationships with the most impact in the work are listed first, and the ones with the least presence in the work are listed last. This isn’t always the case, but it is good practice, and it makes the most sense.

After all that is filled out, you will move on to the additional tags! You can only have 75 tags in all, including character, fandom, and relationship tags, and those tags can only have 100 character max.

I suggesting approaching the additional tags like they’re a place for content warnings and a place to give the reader/viewer a sort of second summary about the content inside. These tags are also things an archive user can filter out or filter for. (I might write up a guide on how to use AO3's filtering system later so be on the look out for that!)

^ the link above and after this text takes you to a Tumblr post with a short guide on how to tag your works on AO3: https://www.tumblr.com/deityoftherain/760205106609291264/i-dont-know-how-to-tag-my-fics-on-ao3-you-say

Here's the summarized version without examples (and here it is with examples): roles, setting, character traits, relationships, genre, tropes/situations, feel, trigger warnings, and extra stuff you want to add!

Congratulations, you've completed the Tags section!

Preface Section

Welcome to the preface section! This is the section where you will put your work's title, summary, and any author's notes!

Work Title is what your work is called! I have a short guide below that you can follow if you need help or ideas on how to title your fics: https://www.tumblr.com/deityoftherain/762257968328835072/tips-on-how-to-title-your-ao3-fic

Add co-creators? is what you would mark if you are posting a collaborative work with another archive user.

Summary is a short-ish description of your work, informing the person viewing it of what they should expect from the story slash work inside if they are to click on your creation.

Notes are author's notes marked at the beginning and at the end of the work! Be careful, because if you deselect the boxes, it does not save. All the text you have written in them will disappear and you cannot get it back.

If you are posting multiple chapters, please remember that these "Notes" specifically are attached to the work itself, so the text marked "at the end" will be at the end with every new addition slash chapter to the work.

Congratulations, you've completed the Preface section!

Associations Section

Welcome to the associations section! This box is under the preface one and should look something sort of like below, but probably different colors due to the creator of this guide using a site skin.

Does this fulfill a challenge assignment: Open Assignments only exists if you have joined an AO3 based exchange. Click here if you want an example of what this can look like using the Traffic Team Support Exchange 2025 as reference. Selecting the open assignment will link your work to the collection and gift your giftee, but this isn't the only way you can do those things.

Post to Collections/Challenges aren't something I am familiar with myself, so I am going to let AO3 explain itself below. It isn't marked with an asterisk (*) so it is not required to be filled out to post like some other things are.

Gift work to is what you fill out if you want to acknowledge a user the work is for or in honor of. If you want people to be able to gift things to you, look at your AO3 settings under the Preferences tab and make sure you allow people to gift you works. When a user is marked to have a work gifted to them, it will be linked to their profile under Gifts and also sent to their email inbox.

This work is a remix, a translation, a podfic, or was inspired by another work is what you would mark if it is one of those things. When you select it, a section like below will open and you are to fill it out accordingly. I edited the image to go more into detail

This work is part of a series is what you would select if you want this work to be linked to other works you have written before. Creations set in the same universe are often connected this way.

This work has multiple chapters should be selected if what you are posting isn't a one shot or to stay self contained into once chapter. When both number signs are the same in #/#, then your work will be marked as complete instead of in progress.

Set a different publication date is what you would do if you're back posting. You would do this if you originally posted on another site and are now crossposting onto AO3 as well. AO3 organizes its fics in fandom categories by publication/update date, so the newest fics will be on the first pages.

Choose a language is just where you select the language you are posting in. If you're reading this, it is most likely that you are posting in English, but that may not be true. Either way, you will mark it here.

Select a work skin is if you want the work you are posting to look a specific sort of way. I've never used this myself, so I am just going to post AO3's explanation. I suggest looking at other tutorials for work skins and site skins if you are curious for other people would know how these work better to explain in-depth far better than I.

Congratulations! You completed the Associations section!

Privacy Section

The screenshot below shows what this section looks like by default.

Only show your work to registered users means that, if you select this, your work will only show up to other people who have an account. A blue lock will go beside the work, and no one outside of the site itself and/or without an account can see what you have posted. This includes preventing discord bots like Archivist and ao3-linker from collecting the information for their posts, instead scoring an error message.

Enable comment moderation is something some creators prefer to select when they want to be choosey on what comments show under their works. Most don't choose to do this unless they have been a victim of users commenting who don't understand "Don't like, don't read.” If you select this option, you will have to manually approve every comment before it is displayed under your work.

Who can comment on this work allows the creator to choose how picky they want to be. It used to default to the first option, but with an increase need for protection against spam bots and those who don't care to understand fandom culture invading fandom spaces semi-recently, the default changed to the second option. Evaluate your preferences and choose which is best for you and your work, but I, personally, switch it to allow both guests and registered users (aka those with an account) to comment.

Congratulations! You completed the Privacy section!

Work Text (+ Post) Section

Last but not least, we are ready to post our work! Text entered in the posting form is not automatically saved, so make sure to always keep a backup copy of your work so you do not lose progress.

You can post with Rich Text or HTML commands.

I personally use google docs to write my works, so what I would do is ctrl+a/cmnd+a to select all the text and then ctrl+c/cmnd+c to copy it all. Next, I would move over to the Rich Text screen as shown above, and then paste it in using ctrl+v/cmnd+v.

Rich Text allows most formatting to transfer over from google docs to AO3 when on the computer. The only issue I have had is with the strikethrough text, which I have to re-add manually. I then go through the text and remove the extra space there sometimes is between paragraphs and make sure all the formatting is correct.

If you are wanting to post an embedded link or an image slash art piece on AO3, I have created this guide for you to follow if you need help: https://www.tumblr.com/deityoftherain/773134727392739328/how-to-embed-images-and-links-on-ao3

Once you fill everything out and think you have it as you want, I recommend pressing the Preview button to see how it will display once it is posted.

Scroll through your work to check that everything is how you want it. Once you scroll to the bottom, you should see something like this:

From here, you can go ahead and Post the work, Save As Draft if you don't want to post just yet, or Edit the work for any mistakes.

Congratulations! You have completed the Work Text and Post sections, as well as learned to post a work on AO3! Wooo :D

[bogkeep]

when i was a teen, i was in love with my best friend. to this day i cannot tell you with any certainty whether or not i was in love romantically or platonically. i don't know and i don't care. it's very possible there is a difference, but i never found it. i've asked many people about it and everyone has their own definition of where that line goes, none that ever applied to my own experiences. there is no satisfying, universal and objective line. i think that's good, actually. the idea that there is some shining abstract concept that's specialer than all the other concepts that can only be achieved like nirvana by some people and not others is not a comfortable idea. this is not to say that everyone has the same feelings and experiences, absolutely not - but we categorize our experiences within the contexts we exist in. or maybe that's just word salad.

i know that - at the time, i knew i was deeply connected to this other person and kept thinking about her all the time and we talked about wanting to be close friends for our whole lives and wrote poetry together about our soulmateness and we made mutual friends feel like a third wheel. i knew i had no desire to kiss her or take her on dates, and she crushed on some boy at summer camp, but the connection between us was mutual and explicit. if the concept of a queerplatonic relationship had been available to us at the time, maybe we would've recognized it as such. i just knew that what i was feeling didn't match up at all with what i've been told 'being in love' was supposed to be like - especially because, at the time, Being In Love also included sexual attraction. we had just cracked open the 2010's and asexuality was a punchline and a joke.

i know that - during the time i was made to feel ashamed of my aroace identity and the narrative was that i'm actually just repressing my TRUE queer identity, i reframed my memories - i had obviously been in love with my friend Romantically. i was a Real Gay. i was Valid. I Was Sapphic Actually. you can't kick me out of the parade if i had pined for my best friend as a teen!!!!

i know that - once i reclaimed the pride in myself, i reframed the memories again: i had obviously been in love with my friend Platonically, because otherwise i would've been a traitor to the good name of aromanticism. if i knew what it was like to have a crush i would contradict myself. who am i to write about romantic love as if i know? what was i doing at the devil's sacrament?

maybe it is a mystery. maybe i don't know shit. it's hard, actually, to know anything at all when the way my strange brain filters emotions through my body reads so different to the user manual. how can anyone stand to pine for another when it's all anxiety, all day? "butterflies"???? really????? how am i supposed to know anything for sure when my brain's favourite hobby is to pick thoughts apart and run them through the distortion machine on repeat, on repeat, on repeat? i don't know if i've ever loved anyone at all, now that i think about it. maybe i'm an empty shell of a human and everything i do is an act of puppetry and wishful thinking.

i just gotta trust that the love is there, in some form or another. even when i can't reach for it and confirm its existence - let alone deduce a detailed taxonomy. what do you even need that for.

[gaylactic-fire]

Tumblr user 1: Zelink is blatantly textual and canon LITERALLY just look at the Yiddish translation of TOTK. This fandom would rather eat bricks than admit the boy elf and the girl elf are in love. I hope those yaoi pornbrained Sidlink faggots all die today

Tumblr user 2: Guys don't kill me but like... I kind of think I prefer queerplatonic Zelink. I just don't really see their romantic chemistry. I mean their relationship is more interesting that way, anyway. Honestly I'm not even sure if I would call them queerplatonic they're more like.. friendcore, yk? They're kind of just coworkers. I'm not even sure they're friends now that I think about it.

Tumblr user 3: hey guys do you like my art?

[tsbs-shipfessions]

I sort of like eaps moon x eclipse

But in a queerplatonic manner, is that a thing?

When I first saw how they both acted with each other, I instantly knew I'm attached and there's no way I'm letting go unless I leave the fandom.

Though they did get into an argument, because of Eclipse's trauma (my man needs a therapy session with Earth even though she stopped doing those) which lead one mistake to another..

.. In recent episodes, they're interacting again.

I'd honestly love to see them bloom together, in whatever manner. I just like them alot.

Them playing a game together? Lit!

Both of them teaming up to find the missing children? More please!

I would confess with my user but knowing that the fandom is currently a dumpster fire regards relationships which aren't familial, I'd rather not risk it.

I absolutely see the vision, they could be adorable together.

And I hope once the fandom calms down a bit you feel safe to confess your user. I know there are people out there who love this pairing just as you do.

[aieclover]

Hi !! I'm Clover or Nashatra !! this is my little corner of the yumeshipping community dedicated to me and my lovely f/os !

I love mutuals and encourage you to ask or dm!! i genuinely love moots a lot

My only available socials are twitter, though abandoned since i fully migrated here! same user as on here if u wanna follow me.

ghostdoll.straw.page 𖹭 my strawpage for sending in little silly drawings!

My main f/o is Null from Regretevator. Im completely non-sharing with him, it is highly uncomfortable for me to see ships with him. Me and him are fully in love ♡ We have been together since 14/10/2024 ♡

we are in a queerplatonic relationship !! we both feel uncomfortable with traditional forms of love.

proshippers and comshippers— do not interact!! i can't really stop you from looking, but please, do not interact. I will block you if i find out you are one of the two.

[our-alterous-experience]

if you dont mind explaining, what is alterous? (I hope I spelled that right)

Alterous! Aka Alterous Attraction is a type of attraction that does not fit within the boundaries of strictly romantic or platonic labels. For some it may be completely non romantic and non platonic but a separate kind of love within the larger spectrum. It’s kinda like the nonbinary/agender spectrum of attraction.

Sometimes alterous attraction can be very platonic/friendship based where they may never want to partner with whoever the user feels the feelings towards. They may also not want to be physically affectionate, or they may want to very physically affectionate. (I.e. someone may be aro allosexual and grow a strong bond with someone that is more than friends but definitely not romantic). That being said there are definitely QPR’s that are alterous and that’s apart of their queerplatonic attraction.

Sometimes alterous attraction can be very “romantic” or partnering based. Wanting to go on dates, being very physically affectionate (preferring hugs, kisses, cuddles, sex), investing in a home together, possibly having kids together, getting tax benefits off of each other.

Of course this is a veryyyyyyy like. rigid way to view relationships. Like platonic is just One Thing and romantic is just One Thing. you could do either of these things in whatever relationship you are in. The main defining feature is that the feelings are not as simple as being able to be prescribed to “platonic” or “romantic” labels. It may have bits and pieces of one of those things, it may have a bit of everything and more. it may have no platonic or romance involved. And this is without even including polyamorous alterous experiences. But those are just as vast as well!!

Coined in 2015 on tumblr it’s one of those terms that I’m glad stuck around until my lil aro egg ass found once i had cracked and I was like holy shit. This is what I’ve been feeling. Thankfully this also helped me come out as aplatonic bc i…. i don’t go there sisters im so sorry. It’s all just alterous love to me.