#touch-repulsed

[rjalker]

A new pride flag:

TAIN - The Answer is No.

There's two versions since I couldn't decide which one I liked better.

This flag is for people who are any flavor/level of all of the following:

agender*

aromantic

asexual

aplatonic

touch-repulsed

sex-repulsed

romance-repulsed

use it/its pronouns (you don't have to exclusively use it/its)

don't want a QPR (I'm not sure if there's a specific term to describe this, platonic-repulsed feels too broad)

(*if you identify with xenogenders, but find that agender is the best way for you to communicate your gender to most (usually cis, lol) people, you can use this)

Pretty much as long as you use it/its pronouns and just do not experience any attraction and do not want to be in any comitted/long-term/special relationship, this flag is for you.

It pretty much encapsulates what I mean when I say "I'm a fucking hermit, just leave me alone".

TAIN - The Answer is No.

And I guess people who identify with this term can call themselves tainic. It doesn't always have to be capitalized.

[ID: Two versions of a pride flag. The first has five stripes, the second has six. The stripes are in order from top to bottom: black, dark grey, light grey, white, and pale orange. The second flag is the same as the first, but with an extra dark orange stripe under the pale orange one. End ID.]

I designed this after taking sleeping medicine so I really cant' remember what the colors mean, though I do remember that they definitely mean something...

This flag can be used for whatever you'd use a pride flag for. Art, icons, headers, moodboards, redbubble designs, whatever.

If you like this concept but don't check all the boxes for this flag, you're welcome to create less specific versions. I would recommend changing the orange stripes to other colors, and keeping the black grey and white, but you can do whatever you want, it's not a requirement.

#Rjalker makes pride flags #TAIN flag #The Answer Is No flag #Tainic #aroace #agender #touch-repulsed #actuallytouchrepulsed #sex-repulsed #romance-repulsed #ititspronouns #it/its pronouns #it/its #aplatonic #asexual #aromantic #QPR-repulsed #???? #IDK I feel like there's a word for not wanting a QPR but IDK what it is #MOGAI #Queer #aspec #hyper-specific pride flags #because I want one #TAIN #solitaremit #actuallysolitaremit #actually solitaremit #solitaremitiy

[ayspec]

shoutout to those of us who are touch-repulsed and happy that way. constantly we’re told we need to be “fixed” and learn to enjoy hugging and cuddling and holding hands and what have you, but i’m happy i’m the way that i am. so many folks have tried to force me to enjoy cuddling and on multiple occasions just grab me and force me to hug them, and if i tell them no then i’m in the wrong for not consenting

all touch should be consensual, and if you’re touch-repulsed and/or asen, you are not broken. we are valid and deserve respect 🍁⭐️

#asensual #asenspec #apothisensual #touch-repulsed #✨

[redysetdare]

Accept and support repulsed people or die by my blade

#text #aspec #aro #ace #aromantic #asexual #aplatonic #aroace #sex repulsed #romance repulsed #platorepulsed #touch repulsed #any other a-attractions and repulsed ppl are included too #i just don't know them all im sorry

[australet789]

Look, i dont want to start fights because of shipping

But don't erase the fact that Alastor is AROACE

We have so little representation, let us have him.

#hazbin hotel #alastor #and he seems to be touch repulsed as well #RESPECT THAT FUCKERS

[theotherhappyplace]

Me: how could we inspire hate in a cosmic horror god if we are so small and insignificant?

Brain: how do people react to a spider in their bed. Or maggots in their fridge?

Me: oh

Me: OH NO

#cosmic horror #cosmic horror thoughts #the revulsion and absurd terror people feel #the fear i myself have felt #illogical repulsions #the bug can't even understand what i am what i do. how strong i am how long lived #if anything what am i to a creature so small? a form of terrible weather? a cataclysm? #a god looking at you and in terror shrieking DONT TOUCH ME GET OUT OF MY HOUSE

[dlartistanon]

I miss BlazeThroat...

#arknights #blaze #greythroat #dlarts #big cat and little swallow #this is after GT grows a lot more comfortable with herself #and works through her issues to hug her big dumb reckless cat #and blaze accepts her feather (for luck) #GT slowly going from being touch-repulsed to somewhat starving yes please

[chupapijules14]

DAY 2 LET'S no touch tuesday, Vox gtfo of here

#fanart #digital art #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #vox #hazbin vox #hazbin alastor #alastor #acealastorweek2024 #ace alastor #touch repulsed #radiostatic #staticradio #vox x alastor #kinda atleast #asexuality #ace #radiosilence

[pasteilian]

Honestly, I feel like a good majority of this fandom needs to remove the thinking that physical touch instantly means, romantic intent.

Love doesn’t end at romance, physical touch is a lot of people’s love language how people show care without voicing it because some people truly have a hard time voicing their feelings.

What I’m saying is just cuz I draw the turtle bros being touchy/cuddly/clingy with each other doesn’t suddenly mean I ship them together

I will draw more Raph being loving with Donnie cuz brains and brawn make me insane but like chill dudes 💀🙏

#pastries babbles💌 #also the HC that Donnie is touch repulsed #is silly the guy is Touch selective at best

[whatwouldmickeydo]

Do you think anyone has ever mistaken Lip for the brother Mickey is married to and seen the twin looks of disgust they both would have at the sheer audacity that someone would think that?

#‘you think I’d fuck that ugly asshole? fuck outta here’ #both of them shuddering at random times throughout the day just at the thought #idk I just like the idea that they’re both repulsed that anyone would think they would ever touch each other #gallavich #shameless

[canisalbus]

If Machete and Vasco were roommates before they became a couple, there had to have been moments of innocent touching/body contact, followed by deep gay panic.

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#I think the transition from platonic friends to a couple was very gradual the line was blurry #even if they weren't a proper serious item yet their relationship was definitely romantically tinted #by the time they rented that tiny attic room together #Vasco had figured out his orientation early on he was well past the identity crisis phase #Machete had mountains of religious trauma to work through so his road to self acceptance was rocky but he did reach it eventually #he guilt and shame and doubt kept resurfacing every now and then but the need for love and companionship was stronger #Vasco is naturally tactile and affectionate it doesn't take much to get an occasional hug or back pat or hand holding from him #and Machete had grown in a touch deprived bubble so as soon as he managed to overcome the initial fear and repulsion #he began to metamorphose into the lap dog he probably should've been all along #casual physical closeness was present even before things got lovey-dovey but that doesn't mean there weren't moments of gay panic #answered #skunkbomb

[rjalker]

Some important additions to this post because people in this fandom fucking suck.

[ID: Six pictures of Murderbot from the cover of All Systems Red, in front of different pride flags. Murderbot is shown from the chest upward, wearing grey armour, with a helmet that hides its face behind a dark visor like a spacesuit. Each has the word "Oh," in the top left corner, and "Fuck you" at the bottom, with text in the right upper corner completing the sentence. The first has Murderbot in front of the it/its pride flag and reads, "Oh, you insist on misgendering me 'to be respectful'? Fuck you.".

The second has the touch-repulsed flag, with stripes of orange, red, black, red, and orange, and says, "Oh, you erase the fact that I'm touch-repulsed? Fuck you.".

The third is a combination of the sex-repulsed and romance-repulsed flags, with a very dark grey center, a vertical purple stripe on the left, a vertical green stripe on the right, and inside each stripe a dark grey circle with a white minus symbol inside it. Each stripe is separated from the grey by a white line. It reads, "Oh, you erase my repulsion towards sex, romance, and any other form of relationship? Fuck you.".

The fourth is the aroace flag, with stripes of orange, yellow, white, light blue, and navy blue, and reads, "Oh, you erase the fact that I feel neither romantic nor sexual attraction? Fuck you.".

The fifth is the "you are looking away" flag, with stripes of dark purple, black, grey, and desaturated green, and reads, "Oh, you ship me with other characters? Fuck you.".

End ID.]

Free fucking memes for everyone to use as reactions when they come across assholes erasing Murderbot's identity for the sake of fucking shipping.

If you haven't seen anyone doing these things, I hope for your sake it stays that way.

Here's a blank one so you can make your own as long as you aren't doing any of this fucking shit.

[ID: The same style of image as above, now with a plan pink background. End ID.]

#described images #long post #Murderbot #SecUnit #Rjalker reads The Murderbot Diaries #Murderbot deserves a better fandom #actuallytouchrepulsed #actually touch-repulsed #touch-repulsed #aroace #sex-repulsed #romance-repulsed #youarelookingaway #you are looking away #athiktomisia #discussion of athiktomisia #solitaremit #actuallysolitaremit #actually solitaremit #solitaremitiy #canonically solitaremit characters #solitaremit characters #Murderbot is solitaremit

[theinsomniacindian]

New dynamic idea: Touch-starved living weapon x haphephobic human experiment

#person a was trained to be a living weapon from a young age and lived a life devoid of kindness and affection #person b used to be a human experiment and became touch-repulsed thanks to the torture and the abuse they've faced while in captivity #not me describing my ocs that are secretly based off myself and my own haphephobia #the dynamic can be romantic or platonic #character tropes #character dynamics #imagine your otp #otp #otp prompts #prompts #writing prompts #character inspiration #writing #writing inspiration #writers on tumblr #writeblr #writers community #living weapon #living weapon whumpee #haphephobia #touch repulsed #experiment whumpee #tw haphephobia #moonlight and blazing stars

[redysetdare]

Do not reply to my repulsed posts with "as long as you're not shaming ppl" "just don't be sex/romance negative" like shut up shut up you're missing the point! You aren't being supportive by putting down qualifiers for what makes a repulsed person's identity acceptable to you!! Idc if you have good intentions, your words are hurting repulsed people and honestly there's a billion " positivity" posts out there saying the exact shit you are and I'm sick of it!!! I'm just blocking you if you respond to my posts like that!!! Shut up repulsed people don't need to conform to your idea of a "good repulsed person" we deserve to have a voice as much as anyone else! so shut up and listen for once!!!

#text #aro #ace #aroace #aromantic #asexual #sex repulsed #romance repulsed #aspec #acespec #arospec #im only tagging all of these so ppl see it and know not to fucking do that. #do not touch my posts. if you need to put up qualifications to be supportive #then you are not actually supportive of repulsed ppl

[cleric4vampire]

Finally revisited my Durge playthrough again, which means confession time! And wow, despite the fact that I've watched this scene a thousand times, it still hits so hard.

I know people have spoken about this scene at length, but look, I have freecam now and being able to study Astarion's expression beyond the standard angle has made his feelings and behavior here feel particularly more poignant for me.

Especially here, because the camera is typically focused on the hands at this part, and you can only see his profile right at the end. Even then, a lot of the significance is lost in the moment; it all plays out in seconds, after all.

He wordlessly asks for your hand, initiating an emotionally tender act. Not only is that something he hasn't had the luxury of doing in a very long time, but also something that he hasn't been the recipient of in just as many years. He's expressed that physical closeness can bring up feelings of disgust and loathing, and yet - he wants this, and he's showing you just how much.

But look at his expression here. It's vulnerable, crestfallen. To me, it looks as though he doesn't believe for a moment that you will take it. His sense of self-worth is meager. When you tell him you care about him, he asks for reassurance. He doesn't believe that he has value beyond what his body can provide — sexual pleasure — and this is decidely not that. This kind of touch serves no purpose but connection. And how much of that can he even offer, confused and broken as he is?

But then you take his hand.

His eyes are bright with recognition. Shining with emotion. He doesn't understand yet, not truly, why you are the way you are. But you have a tendency of casting aside the doubt that always threatens to engulf him. He doesn't know what's in store for the two of you, but there's something sprouting in his chest that feels an awful lot like hope.

Ending this with a bit of writing that by Seán O'Casey that I feel is especially fitting for this relationship (going both ways!):

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

#astarion meta #astarion #using durge tags because that's the character and relationship depicted here though ofc it's fitting for tav as well #durgestarion #astarion x durge #durge #bg3 #astarion x durge!aune #oc: durge!aune #I have SO much more I want to say about this relationship. specifically between astarion and aune as people who are #both touch-averse and sex-repulsed to *varying* degrees. I've made 'touch' - especially that of the hands - into a huge symbol of their #relationship to each other and with themselves #aaAARRGghhhh thoughts thoughts thoughts

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Spider And Her Demons

YA Australian urban fantasy/horror

about a Malaysian-Chinese girl who’s half spider-demon, just trying to keep her head down and survive high school

when she accidentally kills and eats a man in front of the most popular girl at school, they strike up a strange friendship and she starts to learn more about herself and the supernatural world

aroacespec/sapphic ish

#The Spider And Her Demons #Sydney Khoo #loveozya #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #you give me a teenage girl with giant hair spider legs who scuttles across her bedroom wall on page 3 #and then eats a man and i am already sold. #also aus books are always so familiar compared to US books :) #and yes sexuality stuff is ambiguous but basically: a bunch of discussion on relationship hierachies (ie friendship equally/more important) #themes of feeling unlovable bc you're different and different forms of love #multiple times the MC says she has no interest in dating or relationships and also is touch (and maybe sex) repulsed #- but of course that Also has to do with the whole Being A Monster thing #and it definitely shows some kind of attraction to dior - ie looking at her lips/bare skin; blushing; etc #and ends on sort of hand kiss / 'is this something??' vibes #I asked the author and they said they see them as QPR / platonic soulmates but are not at the point where they would know what to call it #which makes total sense to me! #the part of me who wants more obvious aroace YA wishes it was a little more specific #but also I DO love ambiguity and I think it wouldn't be true to the characters #who are clearly not even ready to start figuring that stuff out. #and also. aroacespec sapphics is like. also something i want #also like. I think it's reductive to assume just because 'looks at lips' is a common allo attraction trope....doesn't necessarily mean #it has to be that. yknow. #anyway. i loved it a lot. #gross spidergirl (affectionate)...... #also dior is such an interesting and complex character. like another book could have made her nicer or less fucked up

[awomen]

cotton ceiling rhetoric is particularly vile when you consider how short the history of women's right to refuse is. up until the 70s marital rape was legal in all states and in many places in the world it still is. we have had the right to say No for a very small part of history. and now this group of men comes along, wearing our skins and pretending to be us, and says that wlw should accept dickhavers into our beds? they are no different than their forefathers in the desire to invade and violate women's bodies. patriarchy in a dress is still patriarchy

#cotton ceiling #radfem safe #radfems do touch #lgb #awomen.txt #lesbian #febfem #rape culture #I'm a penis repulsed febfem and sooo many people have a problem with that