#non-sam aplatonic

[non-sam-aplatonicism]

Are we ever going to talk about how most friendships would be considered a situationship if the term situationship wasnt restricted to romantic and/or sexual relationships

Are we ever going to talk about how the fact that situationship is restricted to romantic and/or sexual relationships has an inherent and obvious implication that friendships are worth so little that setting clear boundaries for them is not important enough to worry about it

Or are we just going to sit here in the "friendship is at the bottom of the mythical relationship hierarchy so it doesnt matter!!!!" boat in content without questioning the things society has taught us like little sheep

#hi its me nonsam aplatonicism i finally thought of another post to put here #i dont actually think ofmy aplatonicism alot but i still wanted a seperate blog for it.... #mainly to have a picture of platonic the phantom thief as a..pun #i guess it's a pun #i think it;sf unny. anyway #aplatonic #apl #apl safe #aplspec #non-sam aplatonic #amatonormativity #relationship anarchy #situationships #aspec #meow #<-- im a cat #purrrrr meow meow mrrrrpr mrororomeroemromrrwom

[st-ivangeline]

i saw a post awhile back saying people don’t want queer representation they want queer romance, and that really put words to how i feeling about shipping culture

like wednesday and enid stood in the same room together, didn’t even like each other , and people were screaming at the top of their lungs “MARRIAGE!!”

i think that’s fundamentally why we get so little representation of the trans community and the aro and ace spectrums, i still have yet to hear the word Aromantic on film or tv (i know there’s a tv show rn in i think japan that features a aroace lead i haven’t watched it yet) i’ve seen clips of shows here and there that use the word asexual so that’s good but from what i understand they’re alloace representation which still allows the characters to participate in romance (someone correct me if there’s aroace rep)

idk it’s all just exhausting

i really wish there was a stronger push for like queer people just existing in tv and film instead of the only option being romantic relationships

#aromantic #alloaro #aro #just aro #arospec #non sam aro #aroace #lgbtq #aplatonic #aroallo #my post

[manyminded]

hey this pride month

shout out to..

aroaces aroallos non-sam aros loveless aros lovequeer aros loveloose aros lovepunk aros aplatonic aros questioning aros auto aros objectum aros aros in qprs aros in romantic relationships

and every other aro out there!!!!

#aro #aromantic #arospec #aroace #aroallo #alloaro #non sam aro #loveless #loveless aro #lovequeer #lovequeer aro #loveloose #loveloose aro #lovepunk #lovepunk aro #aplatonic #acearo #autosexual #autoromantic #objectum #qpr #queerplatonic #aromantism #aromance

[gay-otlc]

I adore you aroallos I adore you loveless aros and lovequeer aros I adore you non-sam aros I adore you aplatonics I adore you friends with benefits I adore you queerplatonic relationships I adore you "adore" as a replacement for "love" I adore you aromantics outside of the norm

#am i doing the format right #aro #aromantic #aroallo #loveless aro #lovequeer aro #aplatonic #non sam aro #adore is a much better word than love. dying on this hill

[thebrokenabyss]

Being aspec automatically makes you 10x cooler btw

I don’t make the rules

#aspec pride #aspec #aro pride #ace pride #aplatonic #aro #ace #arospec #acespec #aplspec #afamilial #loveless #non sam aro #partnering aspec #non partnering aspec

[shinekittenace]

i love a-specs who experience sexual attraction or like sexual things

i love aroallos i love non-sam aros i love aromids i love allosexual apls i love sex-favorable aces i love gray aces i love aegos i love demisexuals i love orchidsexuals i love every a-spec who is interested in sexual things you are all so cool

#lise talks #aspec #sex positivity #aroallo #non sam aro #aromid #apl #aplatonic #sex favorable #sex favorable ace #acespec #gray ace #grey ace #aegosexual #demisexual #orchidsexual #actually aro #actually aromantic #safeforaro #actually ace #actually asexual #safeforace #aspec positivity #aro positivity #ace positivity #arospec

[saffigon]

Happy Polyamory Day to:

aromantic polyamorous folks aroallo polyamorous folks non-sam aromantic polyamorous folks loveless polyamorous folks heartless polyamorous folks aplatonic polyamorous folks aqueerplatonic polyamorous folks analterous polyamorous folks

Yall are great and deserve so much positivity <2

#aromantic #aro #arospec #aroallo #alloaro #non sam aro #loveless #loveless aro #loveless aromantic #heartless #heartless aro #heartless aromantic #aplatonic #apl #aplspec #aqueerplatonic #aqp #aqpspec #analterous #analt #analtspec #polyamorous #polyam #polyamory

[ryanyflags]

Aplatonic (apl for short) flags part 1 :3 ⭐️ (This set uses yellow, there's another set that uses green+blue+purple for apl instead.) (Due to the image limit, this is split into 4 posts.)

I noticed some a-spec flags were missing tertiary counterparts, so I made some. Some of these flags have already been made before, so they're not all original (I still wanted to have all the flags together in a set, and all in the same res).

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greyplatonic | demiplatonic | aegoplatonic

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non sam apl (1) | non sam apl (2) | neu apl

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aplvoid | aplflux | aplspike (1)

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aplspike (2) | apljump | dark greyplatonic

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light greyplatonic | atomoplatonic | delloplatonic

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fictoplatonic | cupioplatonic | bellusplatonic

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reciproplatonic | lithoplatonic (1) | lithoplatonic (2)

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frayplatonic (1) | frayplatonic (2) | apothiplatonic

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orchidplatonic | myrplatonic | aplflexible

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I'll also note that some of these terms can have multiple names, with the "platonic", "aplatonic", & "apl" part being interchangeable. This isn't applicable to every term though. I also chose not to list everything to try to keep it brief. So for example, greyplatonic can also be called greyaplatonic and greyapl.

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[A-spec flag sets masterpost]

#aplatonic #apl #greyplatonic #demiplatonic #aegoplatonic #non sam apl #neu apl #aplvoid #aplflux #aplspike #apljump #dark greyplatonic #light greyplatonic #atomoplatonic #delloplatonic #fictoplatonic #cupioplatonic #bellusplatonic #reciproplatonic #lithoplatonic #frayplatonic #apothiplatonic #orchidplatonic #myrplatonic #aplflexible #new term #pride flag #new flag #alt flag #high res

[xxstrawberrybunxx]

Aromanticism can encompass so many wide ranges of experiences, like, so many.

There's loveless and heartless aros and loving aros, aplatonic aros and aros who really value platonic love. Alloaros, aroaces, non-sam aros.

I'm a non-sam aro as in I don't consider the split-attraction model to be very important in my identity. I don't feel the need to put boundaries on romantic, sexual, and platonic love and attraction.

Someone else might also be a non-sam aro and have completely different experiences and definitions then me and that's like, totally fine!

There's no one way to define aromantic experiences and there's no one way to define aromantic love or lack-there-of. All of us reserve the right to have our own spaces and be left-the-fuck-alone tbh.

#aromantic #loveless aro #loving aro #aplatonic #non sam aro #heartless aro #aroace #alloaro #greyaromantic #greyaro #lithoromantic #litho-aro??? #object-loving that's also cool I'm that #other aros #all the aros #arrows

[aroreanimator]

i like seeing aros who have totally different experiences with attraction and relationships <3 rejoice in a diversity of perspectives and a collaborative and respectful community

#aros who love their friends and aros in relationships and aplatonic aros #and loveless aros and lovequeer aros and nonpartnering aros #and aroallos and aroaces and non-sam aros and (???) aros like me #<3 we are so cool #aromantic #aroposting

[mlp-friendship-isnt-magic]

[Image ID: A drawing of a lime green unicorn in the MLP style. He has short hair in purple, blue, and cream. His cutie mark is a green apple with a bite out of it. He has purple eyes and green hooves. In the top left corner is the words, “Pippin Apple, he/him”, and in the top right corner are the apothiplatonic and non-SAM apl flags. End ID.] This is the first of my aplspec MLP OCs based on symbols of the aplatonic community. This pony is Pippin Apple, a unicorn who is a distant relative of the Apple family. His pronouns are he/him. He is apothiplatonic and non-SAM apl (both flags from ryanyflags). His coat and mane are the aplatonic flag colors.

I might do a whole fanfic about him and the other MLP OCs I make, to be honest.

#aplatonic #aplspec #mlp fim #mlp oc #mogai oc #apothiplatonic #non sam apl

[non-sam-aplatonicism]

In a society where friendship is a stepping stone to a 'next stage' of romance and sex, and romance/sex is not only viewed as a combo package yet also held superior and as the end-goal to all other forms of relationships, it is only natural that 'friendship' becomes a deeply unvalued form of interaction.

Ask any allorose person in your life how they view friendship. I did - it's defined by most as a very casual "i want to hang out more with them; i like them; they click with me" sort of thing. The only people in my former friend group who responded that friendship was about the actual attraction to one another felt were a-spec some way themselves.

Most people view 'friend' as a label that needs no consent to use, to the point where children are mocked for asking if another kid wants to be friends. All throughout my life I've been forced into friendships without ever being asked if I WANTED to be there in the first place. And then once they perceive that "we're" close, they bring on social and emotional obligations I never asked to be burdened with, and then get mad when I don't comply with them, when they never asked how I felt about them in the first place.

I think the focus on friendship in the aromantic community is a double-edged sword. Yes, it is important to value friendship as much as romantic relations are valued! However, the movement from aromantics largely revolves around people not discrediting and throwing out friendships in favour of romance.

I think an addendum is long needed: friendship should be treated as consensual as romantic relationships are. It should be verbally acknowledged and agreed upon by both parties. One of the consequences of amatonormativity is that confessing romantic feelings is seen as this huge important thing, and I honestly don't think it should be that way, but if asking someone to be your romantic partner is a world-shattering all-or-nothing thing like some alloromantics treat it, so should asking someone to be your friend.

And if I didn't make it clear enough, asking someone to be friends before treating them as such should be viewed as mandatory.

TL;DR "friendship and romance should be viewed as equally important" and "friendships should be treated with the same amount of seriousness and consensuality as romance" are statements that can and should co-exist

also this post is explicitely about aplatonicism and the aromantic community. don't derail kthx

#non sam aplatonic #non sam apl #aplatonic #apl #aplspec #aro #aromantic #arospec

[st-ivangeline]

i wish being aro was more well known, like i could say i’m aro and people could ask like “oh what’s your attitude forwards romance?” or “are you partnering or non partnering ?” it’d be so much easier than having to do a whole vocab lesson plus and history lesson etc

#aromantic #alloaro #aro #just aro #lovequeer aro #arospec #non sam aro #loveless aro #aplatonic #my post

[redysetdare]

just because someone doesn't label an attraction on the split attraction doesn't make them allo in that attraction.

I don't label my other attractions because to me the only important ones to label are my romantic and sexual attractions as those effect me first and foremost. That doesn't mean I'm just allo in every other form of attraction. I'm not alloplatonic or alloaesthetic or allofamilial or whatever other ones (not in a dismissive way but in a 'there's so many i cannot name them all way'). I don't feel ANY attraction at all. I don't see a reason to label my other a-attractions because my lack of any attraction at all makes it feel a bit unnecessary for me personally.

#text #idk i dont have a point here #just that a lot of ppl seem to assume that not labeling must mean your allo in that attraction when that is...not the case #like ppl will assume non-sam aces much be alloace #if you don't label other split attractions then obviously you must be allo because ig allo is the default for most of these #i mostly see it with platonic and aesthetic attractions tbh #ppl assume every aspec who doesn't label platonic or aesthetic attraction must just feel it #but some of us dont and that can play into why we don't label it!!! #aspec #aro #aromantic #asexual #ace #aroace #aplatonic #aplspec #split attraction #split attraction model #i seriously need a list of other split attractions and their a- labels because idk how to write some of these correctly and im so sorry #btw none of this is to say there isn't times where people assume the opposite #like when ppl assume non-sam aros are aroace. or assume all aplatonics must be on the arospec and acespec

[rjalker]

[ID: Ten phone backgrounds showing a crescent moon surrounded by smaller stars, with a small circle inside the curve of the moon with a pride flag in it. Each design has a gradient background, with the background, stars, and moon, each reflecting colors from the pride flag.

The flags are, in order:

Ace, with stripes of black, grey, white, and purple. The background is black with a light grey glow around the smaller circle. The moon is purple, and the stars are white.

Ace-flux, with stripes of red, pink, off-white, purple, and dark purple. The background is red to purple, with the stars pink and light purple, almost blending in. The moon is off-white.

Achillean, with stripes of pale blue, yellow-white, and pale blue, with a green rose with darker green leaves in the center. The background is mottled blue and darker blue, like clouds in a galaxy. The stars and moon are yellow-white.

Aegoromantic, with stripes of dark green white, and dark green, with triangle in the center that turns the white to grey, and the green to black. The background is green and black, and the stars are grey and green. The moon is grey.

Aegosexual, with stripes of dark green white, and dark green, with triangle in the center that turns the white to grey, and the green to black. The background is purple and black, and the stars are grey and purple. The moon is grey.

Allo-aro, with stripes of dark green, light green, white, gold, and dark gold. The background is green to gold, with the stars yellow and white, and the moon light green.

Allo-ace, with stripes of dark red, light red, white, and purple. The background is red to purple, with white stars and a light red moon.

Aplatonic, with stripes of navy purple, blue, green, and cream. The background is purple to blue, with cream stars and a green moon.

Aro non-SAM, with stripes of teal, blue, white, light green, and dark green. The background is blue, white, and green, with the stars white and the moon in a gradient from light green to blue.

Aro, with stripes of dark green, light green, white, grey, and black. The background is green to black, with white stars on the top, light green on the bottom, and a dark green moon.

End ID.]

You are encouraged to save to use as phone backgrounds, that's what I made them for! You can also use them for icons or anything else you'd like!

I'm going through the flags saved to my computer in alphabetical order, minus the ones I made yesterday.

Please feel free to make requests, especially including xenogender flags!

All the posts I make of these will be reblogged to @rjalkers-pride-phone-backgrounds so they're easy to find! :)

I have tipping enabled because I'm disabled and no longer working. You can also leave a tip through cashapp or venmo, where my username is also Rjalker :)

#long post #described images #described art #pride art #pride phone backgrounds #free phone backgrounds #ace #aceflux #ace-flux #achillean #aegoromantic #aegosexual #allo-aro #alloaro #aro #aro non-SAM #aplatonic #aplspec #alloace #allo-ace #aromantic #asexual #gradients #eyestrain #eye-strain #eye strain

[pride-hearts]

Non-Sam Aplatonic

#non sam apl #non sam aplatonic #pride hearts