#Aspec Flags Don’t Have to Be Ugly

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Caedplatonic Flag Redesigns

1st (My Favorite) Redesign

2nd Redesign

3rd Redesign

[Image Descriptions: All three flags have the same 8 stripes. The top stripe is a bold yellow. The stripes that follow slowly darken, decrease in saturation, and slowly progress towards the color orange. However, because the stripes darken as they move down, the stripes appear to be the same colors as a variety of brown and black skin tones. To simplify, the 8 stripes can be viewed as a gradient from a bold yellow to a very dark brown bottom stripe. On the first two flags, a faint yellow half circle is in the center of the flag. The diameter of the circle is one third of the length of the flag. The half circle is face down with the flat side being closer to and parallel to the bottom of the flag. The half circle in the first flag is a gradient, with the upper part of the circle being more solid and the base part being more transparent. For the second flag, the half circle is solid. There is no half circle symbol on the third flag.]

Color Meanings of the Stripes: The top stripe, a bold yellow, represents platonic attraction.

The second stripe, which is a bit too yellow to be a realistic skin tone, and a bit too dark to comfortably be considered a “yellow,” can be viewed as gold; to remind caedplatonics that we are precious and valuable.

The following stripes become darker as they go down, and can be viewed as a variety of brown and black skin tones. The transition of the top bold yellow stripe to darker colors represents the transition of the abstract, internal, and intangible experience of platonic attraction to actual people and individuality. In other words, instead of experiencing platonic attraction to start new friendships and maintain old friendships, caedplatonic people can now more objectively see people, without the influence of platonic attraction.

Color Meaning of the Symbol: The color of the symbol was colorpicked from the faint yellow in the aplatonic flag, and represents the aplaspec community.

Meaning of the Symbol: The half circle was chosen as a symbol due to the creator [me😜💅] being inspired from the following children’s rhyme: “A circle is round, it has no end, that’s how long I want to be your friend.” The idea specifically for the gradient half circle was applied due to the symbolization of alloplatonic attraction existing at some point and then vanishing over time due to trauma. The gradient half circle (which fades from the faint yellow to transparent) exaggerates its incompleteness, since the gradient half circle lacks an edge along its base. Both symbols being incomplete circles, or half circles, cannot live up to the reputation of the circle [regarding friendship] in the children’s rhyme, due to not being whole, able to connect, or able to “loop”. Essentially, the half circle is not “continuous” the way a circle’s shape is “continuous”.

In the same way a complete circle can represent alloplatonic attraction, the half circle can represent a caedplatonic person’s platonic attraction; specifically, how the platonic attraction was able to be experienced when one was younger (such as childhood), and now that caedplatonic person’s platonic attraction is no longer the same, or what it used to be. A full, solid circle could represent alloplatonic attraction, whereas the half circle could emphasize how the platonic attraction has been “cut away”, lost, and/or no longer experienced by the caedplatonic person.

Finally, the half circle can be seen as a faint yellow silhouette of a rainbow (an iconic queer symbol) to remind caedplatonics that we are queer and part of the LGBTIAPQ+ community.

[aroacesafeplaceforall]

I'm going to ramble about arospec shit now because. Flags.

I still don't know why the aro flag has an extra stripe

Also I feel like the recipromantic flag is just so ugly even for a flag that very rarely gets used (<- recipromantic)

We really need better flags for aspec identities. Do I have design? No

Also flags with purple 🔥🔥🔥

Go wild!!

The aro flags stripes mean as follows: (according to the flag library ( here )

Dark green -> Aromanticism

Light green -> the whole aro spectrum

White -> platonic love and relationships

Grey -> the grey area/asexuality spec

Black -> the asexuality spectrum

I don’t agree with all of it, as in my eyes aromantic and asexual are opposite. They don’t need to be featured with each other as you don’t need to be one to be another!

For the recipromantic:

I was bored so I redesigned the flag 🤷 I can do more but maybe

I’m not recipromantic so…

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38 and 42!

38. Do you enjoy being asexual or on the aspec? 

I do like being on a spectrum because i feel like it gives more freedom to the label and is more personal! and I really love being ace because a lot of the time you can see straight through straight people’s bullshit ljflsjdskfk like example: in stranger things billy is a complete abusive bitch that people are willing to ‘look past’ bc he’s considered attractive and im like *kill bill sirens* I have to laugh

42. If you were to make your own personal pride flag, what would it look like? 

I don’t know actually?? maybe something less ugly lmao I’m not a big fan of purple and black but I know that they stand for something important so I’m happy!

[dailydoseofteahehe]

lost two followers

im a transmed, anti-terf, bisexual, hate onision, doesnt think ace is lgbt on its own, there’s only two genders, mogai terms are dumb, demi is a useless label, a lot of aspec identities are useless and don’t need to exist, nb is a thing (sort of) but its not a third gender, trans isnt a third gender, u need dysphoria to be trans, LGBT is just that, Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans, anything else fits under those umbrellas and if it doesnt then it isnt LGBT, the wage gap doesnt exist, trump needs to leave, the black and brown stripe on the flag is ugly, race should be separate from lgbt.

if you have a problem then discuss with me, or debate with LOGIC or unfollow me.

[thegeminisage]

Why do you tag aro posts with asexuality? I don't want to seem rude but Aros deal with a lot of erasure already from alloromantic aces :/

hi anon

asexuality/aromanticism as we know it rn is still a really new deal. back when i began blogging about all this (and even longer ago when i first began learning about asexuality) “aromantic” wasn’t a thing - or if it was, it wasn’t a thing i knew about. for a long time, the split attraction model wasn’t like a Big Deal to the ace community - you had your aces who didn’t like romance (and they were “all the way” ace) and your aces who did (and they were in the gray area lumped in with demisexual people, and gray aces were also not a thing people were really into? ironically we got called fakers and broken and the like, gatekeeping on AVEN was really ugly back then). that is totally different to how we do it now! which i think is good! the way we do it now is better probably! stuff changes!

but. i’ve had this blog for 8 or 9 years. i think i opened it up in 2010. the ace flag itself is only officially like 8? i think? years old. like just impress upon you how NEW stuff is and how OLD i am and how i was existing being my beautiful asexual self on tumblr before we even had a FLAG

so yeah, in my mind, aro & ace were just two variations of the same thing. i IDed primarily as asexual (and still do) and that’s how people referred to aspec folks as a whole so that’s the tag i used

changing tags on this hellsite is impossible. there’s a couple of extensions and websites that will give it a try BUT i have had very little luck with them when it came to tags with lots of posts and tags that are common words. one time i tried to replace my tag for a single word - i don’t remember what it was - and every time that word appeared in any tag whether it was with words or not it got replaced with the entire long phrase, which was a NIGHTMARE to clean up manually. another time i tried to change my personal tag, but the site kept running out of steam before it got to the end. it’s a big blog. something like 97k posts. i think my asexuality tag is like 50 or 60 pages long. i’m sure as fuck not changing those manually, and i’m too leery of automated tag changers not working and forcing me to clean up messes to do it in an automated way, so i’m stuck with this one if i want everything in one place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

fwiw, i would love for my tag to be “aro & ace” or something like that. on posts with a lot of aro content i try to say in my tags “sorry thats my default tag it would be aro & ace if this site didn’t suck” but uh sometimes typing a disclaimer on every single post gets exhausting and so then i Dont! sorry. i am only one mortal imperfect human being who gets tired of typing shit sometimes