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nexus-nebulae · 8 months
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petition to call wondering if you're aspec "a-speculation"
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theacewithmace · 7 months
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very tired of people referring to aspec as arospec and acespec only. aspec includes other identities like aplspec, afamspec, asenspec, anaspec, and more: they're all included under aspec. stop defining aspec as "aro and ace only" when there's more than just asexuality and aromanticism under the umbrella; of course, aces and aros are a part of aspec identities, but they aren't the only ones.
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fivetrench · 2 months
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Happy (early) Valentine’s Day to all aspec folks!
All aros & arospecs
All aces & acespecs
All aroaces, anywhere on the spectrum
All aroallos (you guys are magnificent btw)
All alloaces
All aphysical, aemotional, and atertiary folks
All anattractional folks
Whatever attraction you feel or don’t feel deserves to be acknowledged. Your identity does not make you lesser in any way.
Happy Valentine’s Day :) <3
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alien-ally · 4 months
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So much of gender is about attraction. of being 'attractive', 'desirable' and the 'want to be desired' that i feel estranged from my gender a lot. embodying oneself, feels somewhat like a performance. more about how appealing you are to others rather than you living the best life. Such it is, that when i think about my gender, i'm not confused about it for a second. but i still find it somewhat vague. not quite right or fitting to say out loud. recently i've come to realize that's because simple things like painting nails, doing a hairstyle, shaving, choosing outfits or shoes or accessories all have this unspoken metric of 'attractiveness' attached to them. whenever i look at the mirror and find myself prettier than usual, (especially while going out), amatonormativity bears it's fangs and gets me to feel a little uncomfortable. the need to 'tone it down' creeps up on me. cause i might want to look pretty but i dont want to be attractive. even if it's little things like wearing a fancier earring or that traditional party wear. i'd rather wear studs and minimal jewellery (that and personal preference, it's a fine line.) i wanna look nice, but i want to remain lowkey as well. you know, in that way. without attraction, i'm always left feeling murky about how to be. and people go on living full lives unperturbed by amatanormativity.
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acore-ballt · 1 year
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Current Aspec Acore pile!
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These are all the ones so far. Not everything has been posted yet, as there's still more in the queue.
If you have a flag/identity you want in the pile, send an ask with a link to it and I'll get to it when I can! Note that we do not do genders here. Only orientations.
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tothestarstothenight · 8 months
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we wish there was a popular term for aspecs that aren't arospec or acespec, cause if we search aspec 90% of everything is for arospecs & acespecs, including posts that are amisic to non aro/ace-specs
we should have a community term we can search by for us specifically.
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Anattractional Lesbian Pride Flag
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Anattractional lesbian: experiencing no attraction whatsoever, however still liking/loving women as a queer or woman (qlw/wlw) affectionally; being gay for woman-aligned folks while feeling no attraction; being oriented but not attracted as a nmlnm (nonman loving nonman); interacting intercorporeally or interpersonally (mating or dating) with homo affection towards fem folks.
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receivingtranny · 5 months
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i think it's important to recognize as a person on the anattractional spectrum (personally i'm aroaceflux, acoplatonic, greyfamilial, neurosensual, to name a few) that a huge part of breaking down amatonormativity is about designing your own meaning of love/attraction, deciding what *your* boundaries are, and what different relationships mean to you.
i think that people on the aspec are more susceptible to hyper-individualist propaganda that exists in our capitalist society. due to amatonormativity causing so much social ostracism for us, it's easy to become hyper-independent and feel like you don't need anyone, or any form of community more specifically.
it's easy to push yourself into a corner and isolate yourself. but we need people, to lean on, to have our back. not in a romantic, platonic, or even familial sense.
i'm talking about when a stranger holds the door open for you when your hands are full, when your mutuals reblog your art, or when the worker at the local sandwich shop remembers your name. humans are still social creatures, even when loveless. and it's important to recognize the validity of being loveless/anattractional without cutting yourself off from the world.
(obviously, it'd be a lot easier if amatanormative bullshit wasn't literally everywhere you look.)
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just wanna say that aspec (aspec ≠ acespec) and aroacespec don't mean the same!! aspec further than just aromantic and asexual identities. Aplatonic, afamilial, anaesthetic, asensual and anattractional identities are all part of aspec, so when you use that term please please keep in mind that it goes far beyond aroace!
stay groovy and cherish an aspec person today!
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belinhagamer999 · 4 months
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Compassic attraction flag
[PT: Compassic attraction flag /END PT]
Term originally coined by @catastrophe-coins
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aroace-staircase · 11 months
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I made a commonly mistaken attraction thing because this was a common thing I wanted to see while I was questioning my A-spec identities :D lemme know if any of them could be improved or changed entirely
The color is what it is and the red is what it might be mistaken for
Image Description:
Image is a dark background with colorful flowers on the sides. In the middle there is words saying the following
Title commonly mistaken attractions
Sexual "I want to fuck you" red text "you look nice"
Romantic "I want to date you" red text "I want to hang out with you"
Platonic "I want to be friends with you" red text "I want your attention"
Aesthetic "I like how you look" red text "I want to be you
Sensual "I want to hear/see/feel you" red text "I want to fuck you"
Intellectual "I like how you think" red text "I want to be as smart as you"
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Prefacing this by saying this doesn’t really have much to do with aplatonicism, but I wanted to do it anyway.
Okay, so there are, like, pages and pages of asexual and aromantic symbols, and there are a decent amount of aplatonic symbols (we could have more, but whatever), but there aren’t really symbols for other anattractional identities. You know,
Analterous
Aqueerplatonic
Anaesthetic
Asensual
Afamilial
Probably a whole bunch I’m forgetting
And there needs to be symbols. Because hey, isn’t half the fun of being aspec having a bunch of obscure stuff to represent yourself?/hj. I tried coming up with stuff by myself, but I quickly figured out that was going to be a lot of work. So I’m letting other people do it for me! Here’s a Google Forms where you can submit ideas. I’ll make a post with all the submissions I got after I get a decent amount of responses.
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degengxrl · 2 months
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saffigon · 2 years
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This is just a fun reminder that just because someone doesn't feel one form of attraction doesn't mean they have to compensate by feeling another. People can be anattractional or simply not feel attraction to someone.
And, with that same note, you don't have to feel attraction to someone to love them or be attached to them. Attraction isn't the end all, be all to relationships (of any form). Relationships (of any form) can exist without attraction.
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headbuds · 26 days
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Heartless Anattractional
[pt; Heartless Anattractional]
A person who is anattractional and is reclaiming the term "Heartless". They may or may not feel love in any sense. This can also apply to those who are anatspec or fall under the umbrella.
This may also apply to anattractional people who
- Are no/low empathy, sympathy, or compassion
-Have a stereotypically dangerous disorder
- Don't feel connection to people
- Are or are seen as cruel, mean, dangerous, angry, cold, etc
- Are nonpartnering / nonbefriending / etc
And more.
For fun, an emoji code would be 🔪♥️ or ♥️❌ or 🔪♥️❌.
This flag was mostly made because I hate the other anattractional flags and I also felt like the term "heartless" applied to me and I wanted to reclaim it.
More about the flag below the cut- stripe colors, color codes, and meanings.
The flag has seven stripes and an upside-down heart in the middle, with a black hole in it the center.
The first stripe has the hex code #4a4a4a, and has the RGB code rgba(74,74,74,255). It's approximately the color Tundora, and is a dark gray. It represents those who are on the anattractional spectrum or fall under the umbrella, and a "gray", foggy, blurry area that some may experience when trying to figure out attraction, or a lack thereof, and obscurity.
The second stripe is just pitch black. It represents those who are entirely anattractional. It also generally represents the lack of attraction and/or connection, as well as the lack of visibility to aspecs and anats.
The third stripe has the hex code #641421 and the RGB code rgba(100,20,33,255). It's approximately the color Cherrywood, and is a very deep, slightly rosey red. The color represents the perceived danger or heartlessness of aspecs, especially, in this case, anattractionals. It can represent blood that flows through a heart, and the blood that would supposedly spill in the absence of one.
The fourth stripe is approximately Rouge. It has the hex color #a7386d and the RGB code rgba(167,56,109,255). It's dark pink, with a small whiff of red if you squint. The stripe represents the anats who have not realized it, are in the closet, mask it, or do not fit the typical idea of an anat or a heartless anat.
From here, the flag is symmetrical; the fifth is the same as the third, the sixth to the second, and the seventh to the first.
In the second version of the flag, the upside-down heart's color is similar to Amaranth. Its hex code is #f13156 and the RGB code is rgba(241,49,86,255). It's a bright, rosey red. In the center of it is a pitch black hole. It represents heartlessness. Literally.
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neopronouns · 28 days
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flag id: a flag with 6 stripes, which are black, grey, white, soft orange, pinkish-red, and dark blue. end id.
banner id: a 1500x150 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting’ in large white text in the center. end id.
anattractional + straight flag for @nodireminombre!
i based it on the linked straight flag since using my usual straight flag combo formats (example) wouldn't be recognizable as anattractional combos, since that flag is greyscale.
tags: @radiomogai, @orientation-archive, @queerhet | dni link
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