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I know I haven’t been posting much of my own content here. Most of what I’ve been doing is reblogging, and even that has slowed. I think you all deserve to know why.

I’ve been thinking, and I might be slightly uncomfortable with the aplatonic label. I don’t know how many people following me know this, but I am POSIC+ and objectum. POSIC+ means that I experience objects as sentient beings with thoughts and feelings. Objectum means that I feel attracted to objects.

I think my attraction to objects is platonic. I feel comfortable calling them friends and befriending them, and I feel drawn to them in a friendship-ish way. I still experience zero platonic attraction to humans. But I feel uncomfortable using a label that implies no platonic attraction to anyone. I feel like that implies that my attraction to objects is worth less just because they aren’t humans. I don’t want to imply that. I see my object attraction as just as important if not more than my human attraction.

I might continue to look into labels that describe what I feel. I might look into the grayplatonic spectrum. I have no intention of shutting down this blog. I know it is a resource for many aplatonics, and I will not take that away. Whatever label I end up choosing, I will stand by the aplatonic and atertiary communities. You are all amazing people and I thank you for giving me a space to belong.

Whether or not I will continue to post, I still don’t know. My askbox will remain open for questions about aplatonic identities. Again, I have no intention of taking away resources from the aplatonic community.

I just wanted to explain what was happening. Thank you all.

#aplatonic #aplspec #grayplatonic #atertiary #atertiaryspec #objectum #posic #once again thank you for giving me a space in the aplatonic community

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shoutout to aplatonic people with npd.

shoutout to aplatonic people with aspd.

shoutout to aplatonic people with a dissociative disorder (not just didosdd)

shoutout to aplatonic people with psychosis or a schizospec disorder.

shoutout to aplatonic people who are low empathy/no empathy

shoutout to aplatonic people with avpd

shoutout to aplatonic people with ppd

shoutout to aplatonic people who are alloaro or alloace

shoutout to all aplatonic people, we're really cool ^_^

#aplatonic pride #aplatonic positivity

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Maybe I am just a hater (/lh) but like. I personally like the original (purple blue green and cream) apl flag more than all these redesigns ppl are making of it recently! And I prefer my recolor of that flag anyways because I feel the colors in that go together better. I like that it is distinct from the aromantic and asexual flag designs ! Even if I am aplatonic arospec I don't want anyone whos alloromantic to feel like they can't id as apl, and Im allosexual myself. And seeing as how people prioritise aromantics and asexuals over aplatonics all the time Im frankly sick of people trying to make aplatonicism seem inherently related to aromanticism and asexuality.

#this #seriously this #it doesn’t look like the aro or ace flags because it’s NOT SUPPOSED TO #original apl flag forever

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hmm... thinking about apl Twilight thoughts with your profile picture. What do you think about an platlo-neutral Twilight AU where she's in on Celestia's plan and chooses to go to Ponyville to use the elements against Nightmare Moon? Afterwards, she just stays with the Mane Six because she wants to be knowledgeable about as many types of magic as possible, including those activated by the Elements or by friendship. So basically she makes friends but really they're her magic/psychology experiment haha

This is great. She would absolutely make friends as an experiment. I’ve seen Twilight headcanoned all over the plato favorability spectrum, and I love all of them. I think this would make a great fanfiction.

#aplatonic #aplspec #aplatonic headcanons

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Confused about that post you reblogged where it defined aplatonic as not experiencing queerplatonic attraction? I though it was not experiencing platonic attraction? Am I not aplatonic then? What would be the label for me?

I should probably go delete that post. Yes, aplatonicism is not experiencing platonic attraction. Not experiencing queer platonic attraction is aqueerplatonic, a totally different thing. This is a common misconception, so I don't fault the original maker of the post. They were just trying to make an aplatonic positivity post. The positivity was why I reblogged it. But yeah, I see that it does spread misinformation. I apologize to everyone.

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Friending and Nonfriending Platonic flags

In order, the first row is Friending Aplatonic, Friending Aplatonic ( alternate flag ), and Friending Alloplatonic / Allopl / Alloplatonic spectrum / Alloplspec ( inclusive of Orchid-specs who wish to be included. )

The second row, in order, is Nonfriending Aplatonic, Nonfriending Aplatonic ( alternate flag ), and Nonfriending Alloplatonic / Allopl / Alloplatonic spectrum / Alloplspec ( inclusive of Orchid-specs who wish to be included. )

Made by combining these Friending and Nonfriending flags by @revenant-coining with these Aplatonic flags, and this Alloplatonic / Allopl / Alloplatonic spectrum / Alloplspec flag by @ryanyflags!

Requested by anon but free for everyone to use anywhere! I'm open to making more of these with more specific flags under each umbrella but these are general and intentionally broad / inclusive.

Taglist - @revenant-coining, @radiomogai

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♡ fuck friendship ♡

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I know someone that calls people their best friend upon a day of meeting them. Do people not get tired of faking? Pretending you love and care for someone? Are you really so desperate for friendships and connections that you will believe such an obvious lie, enjoy it, or even tell such lies of “you’re my best friend” to someone you met 1-2 days ago?

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Shoutout to all the a-specs who don't want or need friends (or contacts in general) 💚💜

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We have blue rings. There’s currently no consensus on what finger they go on. Thumbs were suggested because the thumb represents friendship, but friendship-averse and friendship-repulsed apls explained that they wouldn’t be comfortable with that.

Our microlabels use the same prefixes as the aro and ace communities. Here’s an incomplete list of some of our microlabels. https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Category:Aplatonic_Spectrum

hello aplatonic people

I'm new here

I usually get all my information from doing research but there ain't a lot of info on aplatonicism (idk if that's a real word but I'm sticking with it everything's made up anyway)

so what's the deal, do we have a ring like the ace and aro rings? what are the micro labels and identities? gimme all the deets

#aplatonic #aplspec

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Do it do it do it! We need more aplatonic rep out there! I’m not an expert on plato favorability or plato indifference, but I think your concept sounds really cool! This reminds me that I should go back to writing my aplatonicism story. I put it on the back burner and pretty much ignored it. Sorry story!

Wondering if maybe I should make my aroace intersex OC aplatonic as well. Like, maybe either plato-favorable or plato-indifferent. I have several OC’s that make up a friend group, but I’ve been wondering for a bit if I should make one of them aplatonic, since I’m on that spectrum myself (grayplatonic) and since aplspec people are horribly underrepresented. Kind of weird that I would make several OC’s when I’m not really capable of fleshing out even one of them (I really only know basic things about all of them). But anyway, I was thinking that maybe the character I’m referring to first joined the friend group a long time ago because of shared interests with one or more of the members of the friend group. She knows she cares about those who call themselves her friends, but she comes to realize that she doesn’t love them like someone who’s alloplatonic would; that she wouldn’t mind if she stopped seeing them altogether. Sure, she likes having people to talk to about her interests and to vent to, and is mostly fine with the give-and-take that friendship demands, but when it really comes down to it, she likes being alone most of the time. She eventually kind of leaves the friend group as they go their separate ways. Maybe one or more of them check in on her from time-to-time, which she doesn’t mind, but she goes on to live on her own with her cat Nimbus (or Bus for short), pursuing her career and interests.

Idk, how does that sound? I’m not entirely aplatonic, so I’m not sure if this is really good or not. I don’t really plan to do anything with my characters as of now (I probably never will tbh, lmao) but I still want to make sure that they don’t misrepresent any of the lgbt+ groups that my characters fit into (or any of the racial groups they are a part of, but that’s not what I’m talking about in this post). For instance, I’m perisex, so I have many things to learn about intersex people. I guess this is one of the reasons I don’t try to flesh out my OC’s that much; because I’m afraid of inserting my own ignorance and biases into their characters (if that makes sense?). But anyway, thoughts?

(Sorry about this post. It’s just that, if I didn’t make it, I would probably spend hours awake thinking about this idea)

(Also, should I make a post about my OC’s…?)

#aplatonic #aplspec #plato favorable #friendship favorable #plato indifferent #friendship indifferent

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So I just found out about the term aplatonic....

It's totally cool and valid, if you think any different fuck off.

It's so cool and unique, as an oriented aroace I never even imagined that people could like romance and not platonic relationships, but that's totally cool and valid!! Damn, I love learning more about people's labels and experiences, I swear I'm way more excited about this discovery than is probably normal, but idc I'll be unashamedly excited if I want >:)

So REBLOG IF YOU THINK APLATONIC PEOPLE ARE VALIDDDDD!!!!

Also you guys have a BADASS flag

#reblog bait #heck yeah we valid #aplatonic #aplspec

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Asexual people can write about sex. Asexual people can sing about sex. Asexual people can talk, joke, read, watch, know, enjoy sex. It makes them no less asexual for it.

Aromantic people can write about romance. They can sing, joke, read, watch, know, enjoy romance. It makes them no less aromantic.

Aplatonic people can write, sing, joke, read, watch, know, enjoy platonic relationships. It makes them no less aplatonic.

Agender people can present as a certain gender, use "gendered" pronouns, not make effort to look androgynous/agender, use the name they were given at birth, enjoy typically gendered experiences. Agender people can refer to themselves by gendered terms. It does not make them any less agender.

#asexual #acespec #aromantic #arospec #aplatonic #aplspec #agender #aspec positivity

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A stimboard

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"We need more weird queer people!"

Yall can't accept lesboys and turigirls

Yall can't accept mspec gays and lesbians

Yall can't accept cistrans people

Yall can't accept FtMtF trans women and MtFtM trans men

Yall can't accept intersex people who aren't cis or trans

Yall can't accept transfemmascs

Yall can't accept gaybians

Yall can't accept neurogender people

Yall can't accept loveless aros

Yall can't accept aplatonics

Yall can't accept xenogenders

Yall can't accept cis non-binary people

Yall can't even accept straight trans folks.

#preach #I stand by my fellow queers

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No option for allopls because I don't want junk data. (And because every time I see a poll for the apls, the overwhelming majority of votes are from allopls clicking the "not apl" button.)

#I don’t really like accepting friend requests #but I do it anyway to be nice #aplatonic #aplspec #aplatonic polls

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I am glad that there's legit community in platonic labels. I have jokingly been labeling myself lithoplatonic but now there's suddenly some merit haha

That’s so cool! Welcome to our community!