#green and grey loveless aro pride flag

[aroworlds]

[image description: eight rectangular banners with chevron-shaped edges in an assortment of flags with five, six, seven or nine stripes. From top to bottom: alterous (mint/cream/peach/tan), angled aro-ace (yellow/lemon/cream/brown), aro-ace agender (dark green/white/lime/white/violet), a-spectrum (light green/light lime/white/light purple/purple), cupioromantic (grey/lavender/white/mint), frayromantic (blue/cyan/white/mint/dark grey), greyromantic (dark grey/light grey/white/green) and varioriented aro-ace (navy/white/yellow/red).]

Banner Bases - Aromantic Spectrum (and Alterous)

Flags: Acriromantic, Aro-Ace / Aromantic and Asexual, Bellusromantic, Cassromantic Cassexual, Loveless Aromantic, Nexus Aro-Ace, Nebularomantic, Romo Aro.

Original files available for download from my Aro Arrows website or Patreon (links in description). Free for personal or commercial use; credit to one of my accounts is appreciated but not required.

For flag creator posts, please see @aroflagarchive​​​.

[eyobis-andthe-bunnycats]

Hey I love you! Since my buns were so well received last year, I’m rereleasing them at a larger size. Show off your Aromantic Spectrum Pride with a rabbit, convenient for this year of the rabbit too!

[ID Start: Four icons of various aromantic spectrum identities’ flags all with “aro-spec as heck” curving around a binkying dark brown dutch rabbit. First is the Aro-spec flag: green, light green, off-white, light navy, navy. Second is Aro Ace; orange, yellow, white, light blue, blue. Third is Allo Aro; green, light green, white, light yellow, yellow. Fourth is the Aromantic flag: dark green, light green, white, grey, black. /End ID.]

Free to use! No need to credit but you can if you want. This link will take you to the Non-SAM, Loveless, Demi, and Grey Aro flags. This one is for Aro-flux, fray, orchid, and cupio! And this one for akio/lith, aego, abro, and angled aro ace.  More to come throughout ASAW 2023. DM or send an Ask for an aro flag request!

[alloaroworlds]

[image description: six cartoon-style bunting graphics, featuring six pride flags hanging from a brown rope. The flags are rectangular, finishing in a chevron shape, and have rows of brown stitching across the top of the flag and along the bottom of the chevron. The first three flags in each image have the topmost stripes facing the left; the second three flags are flipped, so all topmost edges face away from the centre of the bunting.

Each banner starts with the yellow/gold allo-aro flag on the left and alternates with an aromantic spectrum identity flag. From top to bottom, the banners include: asensual (black/grey/white/periwinkle blue), aroflux (red-pink/coral/light olive/bright lime/green), arospecgender (green/light green/teal/dark teal/white), demi-recipromantic (dark pink/light pink/white/mint green/green/mint green/white/light grey/black), loveless arogender (green/dark grey/grey/light green/white), sequenceromantic (red/lighter red/pink/green).]

Allo-Aro Bunting - Aromantic (and A-Spec) Edition

I wanted to make banners that celebrate the many possible identities encompassed by the “aro” in “allo-aro”!

Flags: Asensual, Aroflux, Arospecgender, Demi-Recipromantic, Loveless Arogender, Sequenceromantic.

Flag creator posts can be found, tagged by identity, at @aroflagarchive​​​.

[bathroomchained]

LOVELESS & LOVEQUEER SOLIDARITY

click for better quality!

i am not loveless myself but i am lovequeer, and i think both communities play a major role inside the aro community of defying amatonormativity and resignify what love (or lack of it) means to us.

because of that i really wanted to create a piece that portrayed the solidarity we have. i used arrows, since they are the main symbol of aromanticism, and the background is a gradient of the loveless and lovequeer flags, uniting in the middle with the green.

reminder that loveless and lovequeer are not polar opposites! one can totally identify as both if they want to.

[ID: A graphic showing a symbol of two arrows crossing and the text "Loveless and Lovequeer Solidarity". The top text reads "Loveless and Lovequeer", while the bottom text reads "Solidarity". "Loveless" is in grey text, "and" in green, "Lovequeer" in pink, and "Solidarity" in green. The middle symbol is a pair of arrow silhouettes crossing each other in an x shape. One arrow is colored as the loveless flag, while the other is the lovequeer flag. The loveless pride flag's colors are as follows: dark grey, medium grey, light grey, medium green, pale green, medium green, light grey, medium grey, dark grey. The lovequeer pride flag's colors are as follows: pink, yellow, pale yellow, dark green, light green, dark green, pale yellow, yellow, pink. The background is a gradient of both flags' colors and there is a grey border around the image. End ID] thank you @cavesystemtumble for the id!

[jellyfishjampie]

[ID: Two images of a five striped pride flag. They are coloured, from top to bottom, green, light green, white, yellow, and brown. On the second image, the stripes are labeled, top to bottom, lack of romantic attraction, aro community/radical acceptance, loveless aros and the aromantic spectrum, platonic/aesthetic attraction and QPRs, and rejection of amatonormativity. End ID]

Redesign of the aromantic flag!

My reasons for changing the flag:

- I don't like how most of the current flag is grey/white/black. It feels so lifeless and dull and I hate how those are the colours associated with aromanticism.

- The flag is almost identical in design to the asexual flag, and in being so perpetuates the idea that aromanticism and asexuality are intrinsically linked.

- The colours of the aromantic flag are almost the exact same as the agender and demiromantic flags which causes confusion, especially in contexts where only the colours are being used to convey sexually.

(EDIT: Modified stripe meanings and adjusted colours to reduce eye strain)

(EDIT 2: Explicitly included loveless aros)

[aromagni]

Aplatonic Masterpost

(I use italics in this post for stuff that is more my commentary/analysis/etc, as opposed to more “factual” summary)

Aplatonic Definitions & Overview:

“Aplatonic” was coined on AVEN in 2012 in a thread here by a homoromantic Ace who expressed being unable to apply the word “love” to their friendships.

The original coining doesn’t come with a particularly precise definition, and there’s been many discussions regarding differing definitions for it.  The following are two definitions which are often considered accurate for the term:

Definition 1: Aplatonic is an identity for people who experience little to no platonic attraction such that they rarely experience squishes, or desire to form a friendship with specific people.

Definition 2: Aplatonic is an identity for people who struggle to form platonic relationships of any kind, often due to neurodivergency and/or traumatic experiences.

Another definition which has been attributed with aplatonic, but also disputed as a definition, is this:

Definition 3: an identity for people who do not experience attraction such that they would want a queerplatonic relationship.

This third definition would be more accurate for the term “aqueerplatonic”, but was misattributed to the term aplatonic in the past.  However, while this is not an accurate definition for aplatonic, the lines between platonic and queerplatonic attraction can be extremely blurry such that this may be relevant to some aplatonic experiences.

Other notes on Aplatonicism:

Aplatonicism also has an Aplatonic spectrum which includes identities such as demiplatonic and greyplatonic.

Aplatonic is a term generally used by people who are a-spec(Ace or Aro) and/or neurodivergent.

Aplatonic is NOT simply “not having/wanting friends” (it has historically been dismissed as such by exclusionists who mock the term, unfortunately).

Aplatonic can be shortened to “apl”, and thus apples are considered an aplatonic symbol.

(More information and links regarding definitions of aplatonic are below under “Aplatonic Discussions”)

Aplatonic Pride Flags:

[Image Description: aplatonic flag with 4 horizontal stripes which are purple, blue, green, and light yellow/cream from top to bottom]

This was the original aplatonic flag, the oldest surviving link of it is found here, from 2015.

[Image Description: aplatonic flag with 4 horizontal stripes which are black, grey, white, and yellow from top to bottom]

This was an alternate aplatonic flag proposed in 2016 (link here).

(More information on these flags can be found at this link from lgbtq wiki)

Aplatonic Spectrum & Demiplatonic:

Aplatonic Spectrum, or apl-spec, is an umbrella term for people who experience little to no platonic attraction. (AUREA’s definition here)

Aplatonic Spectrum Flags: a masterpost with many aplatonic spectrum identities, their definitions, and their flags.

Demiplatonic Overview: a post I made about my involvement with the term demiplatonic and demiplatonic flags

Experiences Feeling Demiplatonic: a post I did for carnival of aros about why I feel demiplatonic

Aplatonic Discussions:

Over the years, there’s been a lot of misinformation and general lack of clear accurate information regarding this term, such that there’s been many discussions regarding the definition.  As someone who is somewhat younger to the community I probably also contributed to misinformation at times due to the sources I was looking at being themselves inaccurate.  

The above definitions are what I can best summarize from the posts I have seen discussing it but might be influenced by my own experiences and I don’t want to claim expertise and argue those as objective fact, considering how much differing discussion there has been.So, here’s links to various discussions regarding the definitions & misinformation around this term, such that you can assess other sources for yourself.

Links regarding aplatonic definitions & History:

Link 1: “Definitions of Aplatonic” thread on Arocalypse Forums 

Link 2: Tumblr thread refuting “not wanting qpr” definition, with many people adding to discussion.

Link 3: Tumblr thread refuting the “not wanting/having friends” definition that originated by exclusionists, and other misinformation on the term.

Link 4: an older Tumblr post with an infographic of aplatonic, with more recent comments by the OP about inaccuracies.

Link 5: another tumblr thread about the definition of aplatonic and ways people originally used it, and touches on why some people are uncomfortable with non a-spec people using it due to misuse by exclusionists.

Link 6: tumblr thread about aplatonic definitions and it’s usage relating to the a-spec community along with neurodivergency and traumatic experiences.

Link 7: tumblr post discussing who can “use” the term aplatonic and discusses history of how meaning has warped over time.

Link 8: Tumblr short masterpost regarding aplatonic as a descriptor term used by aro community.

Related Terminology:

There are various terms that have similar but different meanings to aplatonic (which also come up in the linked discussion posts.  The word being defined has hyperlink to a source.)

Nonamorous:  a lifestyle choice or relationship style that does not include intimate, long-term partnerships, whether romantic or platonic.

Nonpartnering: not wanting partnered relationships; this is similar to nonamorous but coined in response to some people being uncomfortable with the implied opposite of nonamorous because of romance repulsion.

Aqueerplatonic: not experiencing queerplatonic attraction.

Loveless (aro): a recent term for aros who do not use “love” to describe their experiences, often due to it’s associations with romance and enforcement of amatonormativity. (Sources don’t show a particularly precise definition for this one)

(Additional reading regarding these terms:

-This is one of posts linked before, but I had added onto it with distinctions I perceive between these words and aplatonic

-This is another post discussing nonamory and queerplatonic, and pressures within the community to feel certain ways)

Aplatonic Tags:

(the links are from searching tag & filtering for most recent)

#Aplatonic (general aplatonic tag)

#Actually Aplatonic (aplatonic tag that’s more specific to prevent random & troll posts, so is more of the good quality posts)

#aplatonic spectrum (more specific to aplatonic spectrum stuff)

#apl spec (alternate tag with more specific to aplatonic spectrum stuff though doesn’t have many posts)

#apl positivity (tag for aplatonic positivity stuff or other positivity that is relevant for aplatonic people, I encourage people to use this more)

#demiplatonic (tag for more specifically demiplatonic stuff.... I use this a lot on my blog.  Tag does have some more troll/mocking posts unfortunately though, so bewarned)

#nonamorous (not aplatonic specific but generally tends to have more positivity and other discussions of adjacent topics regarding not having platonic partnerships and stuff)

#loveless aro (another aplatonic-adjacent topic regarding kind of opting out of the concept of love as an obligation/universal human concept)

Aplatonic Blog recs:

These are a mix of blogs I see actively involved in discussions on aplatonic and who I’ve taken notice of from following the aplatonic tag.

@aplatonicsafespace​​ (aplatonic specific blog which answered asks a lot but seems currently inactive)

@aroarolibrary​ (Is a general aro blog which has talked about aplatonic for a long time and has more historical information on the term. I went through eir aplatonic tag and found many of the posts I linked under aplatonic discussions)

@apl-h​​ (aplatonic focused blog)

@aromagni​ (my aro blog, I am demiplatonic so I talk more about apl-spec stuff and have organized tags for things you can search)

@askanaroace​​ (an aroace ask blog ran by an aplatonic person who’s answered asks about aplatonic stuff before)

@kyanitedragon​ (is a general blog that has posted apl headcanons & aesthetics/pride stuff fairly often)

[Feel free to add on to this post with more aplatonic blog recs or other resources!]

[raph-stims]

i have to do it after work, but i'm making a loveless aro pride uh! stimboard! is this the right flag, i got it from the wiki

[ID: A 9 striped flag. the 3 outer stripes on each sude is a dark grey to light grey gradient and the middle 3 stripes are 2 different shdes of light green. this is the loveless aromantic flag according to the wiki /end ID]

mod jester ♤

[rjalker]

anyway continuing the TARDIS/Charley solidarity theme:

[ID: The loveless aro flag next to an unnamed pride flag, split evenly down the middle, with fancy white font in the center that reads, "Solidarity".

The loveless aro flag has nine symmetrical stripes of dark grey, grey, light grey, green, light green, green, light grey, grey, and dark grey.

The second flag has matching numbers of stripes, but in yellow, orange, dark grey, pink, gold, pink, dark grey, orange, and yellow.

End ID.]

(the second flag yet doesn't have a name yet or even a description since I haven't figured out how to describe it)

[alloaroworlds]

[image description: five sets of two lockscreens featuring a design of repeated arrows banded in the colours of various allosexual aromantic spectrum pride flags. The left lockscreen features the arrows set against a gradient background matching its respective flag colours; the right features the arrows set against a plain white background. Flags included are: allo-aro (green/light green/white/yellow/gold), allo-aro spectrum (green/aqua/bright pink/light blue/white/yellow/gold), loveless allo-aro (dark to light grey gradient/light green/yellow/gold/light to dark grey gradient), allo-aro agender (green/light green/white/light green/white/yellow/gold) and allo-aro aplatonic (gold/yellow/white/light green/blue).]

Allo-Aro Arrow Lockscreens, Part One

Flags: Allo-Aro, Allo-Aro Spectrum, Loveless Allo-Aro, Allo-Aro Agender, Allo-Aro Aplatonic.

I’m gathering my allo-aro lockscreens (mostly because I can never remember if I’ve reblogged them here!) for easy viewing in the one post.

All backgrounds/wallpapers are available for free personal or non-commercial use. For flag creator credits, please see @aroflagarchive​.

[aroworlds]

[image description: four block text banners of the word "aro" in a blockish text, coloured in four different five or ten-stripe aromantic spectrum pride flags. Identities: aegoromantic (very dark green/green/white/green/very dark green), arospike (grey/bright pink/mint green/bright pink/grey), loveless aro-ace (dark, medium and light grey/orange/yellow/light blue/navy/light medium and dark grey), partfictoromantic (dark grey/dark green/grey/green/dark grey with grey-outlined pink circle). Banners are shown in two versions: one on a black background with a white frame, the other with a transparent background.]

Aro Block Text Banners

Flags: Aegoromantic, Arospike, Loveless Aro-Ace, Partfictoromantic.

All banners/stickers are available for free personal or non-commercial use with credit to one of my accounts. They are not available for commercial use.

For flag creator posts, please see @aroflagarchive.

[alloaroworlds]

[image description: ten digital, simple images of long arrows with grey triangular heads, brown wood shafts and green fletching. Repeated bands sit along the shaft, alternating between the green/light green/white/yellow/gold allosexual-aromantic flag and other aromantic spectrum and related pride flags. From top down, the other flags are: acoromantic, aegoromantic, allagiromantic, arospike, asensual, demiromantic, loveless aplatonic, lusiromantic, partfictoromantic, proculromantic .]

Aro Spectrum and Other A-Spec Allo-Aro Arrows

Flags: Acoromantic, Aegoromantic, Allagiromantic, Arospike, Asensual, Demiromantic, Loveless Aplatonic, Lusiromantic, Partfictoromantic, Proculromantic.

Here’s to my fellow allo-aros, wherever we are under this green and gold umbrella, and the pride we have in all our a-spec identities.

All arrows are available for free use with credit to one of my accounts.

For (aro) flag creator posts, please see @aroflagarchive​.

[alloaroworlds]

[image description: six cartoon-style bunting graphics, featuring six pride flags hanging from a brown rope. The flags are rectangular, finishing in a chevron shape, and have rows of brown stitching across the top of the flag and along the bottom of the chevron. The first three flags in each image have the topmost stripes facing the left; the second three flags are flipped, so all topmost edges face away from the centre of the bunting.

Each banner starts with the yellow/gold allo-aro flag on the left and alternates with an aromantic or aplatonic spectrum identity flag. From top to bottom, the banners include: aego-fictoromantic (dark green/green/grey/black/grey/green/dark green with black-outlined pink circle), aspectusromantic (green/pink/off-white/black/off-white/pink/green), cassromantic (black/olive/peach/pink), frayromantic (blue/cyan/green/white/grey), loveless aplatonic (dark to light indigo/lime/lemon/lime/light to dark indigo), penthoromantic (light grey/grey/light teal/teal/mint green/teal/light teal/grey/light grey).]

Allo-Aro Bunting - Aromantic (and Aplatonic) Spectrum Edition

I wanted to make banners that celebrate the many possible identities encompassed by the “aro” in “allo-aro”!

Flags: Aego-Fictoromantic, Aspectusromantic, Cassromantic, Frayromantic, Loveless Aplatonic, Penthoromantic.

Flag creator posts can be found, tagged by identity, at @aroflagarchive​​​.

[aroworlds]

[image description: three sets of two lockscreens featuring a design of repeated arrows banded in the colours of various aromantic spectrum pride flags. The left lockscreen features the arrows set against a gradient background matching its respective flag colours; the right features the arrows set against a plain white background. Flags included are: amatopunk (purple/pink/orange/yellow/green), caedromantic caedsexual (white to black gradient/dark blue to white gradient), loveless aro-ace (grey gradient/orange/yellow/blue/navy).]

Aro Arrow Lockscreens

Flags: Amatopunk, Caedromantic Caedsexual, Loveless Aro-Ace.

I’ve turned my aro arrows into lockscreens! All backgrounds/wallpapers are available for free personal or non-commercial use. For flag creator credits, please see @aroflagarchive​.

[aroworlds]

[image description: six different cartoon-style bunting graphics, featuring six pride flags hanging from a brown rope. The flags are rectangular, finishing in a chevron shape, and have rows of brown stitching across the top of the flag and along the bottom of the chevron. First image in each set shows the flags with the topmost stripes facing the left; second image shows the three right-hand flags flipped, so all topmost edges face away from the centre of the bunting. First set of banners shows the dark grey/dark green/grey/green/dark grey with pink circle partfictoromantic flag; second shows the pink/yellow/lemon/grass green/light green/green/light grey/grey/dark grey loveless and lovequeer aro flag; third shows the green gradient/white/pink/white/purple romo aro flag.]

Aro-Ace Bunting, No Text

Flags: Partfictoromantic, Loveless and Lovequeer Aro, Romo Aro.

Free to use with credit to one of my accounts. Original files are available to download from my Aro Worlds Patreon or my Aro Arrows WordPress site.

For flag creator posts, please see @aroflagarchive​​.

[alloaroworlds]

[image description: ten digital, simple images of long arrows with grey triangular heads, brown wood shafts and green fletching. Repeated bands sit along the shaft, alternating between the green/light green/white/yellow/gold allosexual-aromantic flag and other aromantic spectrum and related pride flags. From top down, the other flags are: aego-fictoromantic, alterous, arospike, arovague, caedromantic, demi-recipromantic, duraromantic, loveless arogender, lovequeer aromantic, sequenceromantic .]

Aro Spectrum and Alterous Allo-Aro Arrows

Flags: Aego-Fictoromantic, Alterous, Arospike, Arovague, Caedromantic, Demi-Recipromantic, Duraromantic, Loveless Arogender, Lovequeer Aromantic, Sequenceromantic.

Here’s to my fellow allo-aros, wherever we are under this green and gold umbrella, and the pride we have in all our aromantic identities.

All arrows are available for free use with credit to one of my accounts.

For (aro) flag creator posts, please see @aroflagarchive​.

[alloaroworlds]

[image description: six cartoon-style bunting graphics, featuring six pride flags hanging from a brown rope. The flags are rectangular, finishing in a chevron shape, and have rows of brown stitching across the top of the flag and along the bottom of the chevron. The first three flags in each image have the topmost stripes facing the left; the second three flags are flipped, so all topmost edges face away from the centre of the bunting.

Each banner starts with the yellow/gold allo-aro flag on the left and alternates with an aromantic spectrum identity flag. From top to bottom, the banners include: aegoromantic (very dark green/dark green/white/dark green/very dark green), arospike (black/white/grey/green/grey/white/black), asensual (black/grey/white/peach), demiromantic (black/green/white/grey/black), loveless aplatonic (dark to light grey gradient/purple/blue/lime/light to dark grey gradient), partfictoromantic (dark grey/dark green/grey/green/dark grey with grey-outlined pink circle).]

Allo-Aro Bunting - Aromantic (and A-Spec) Edition

I wanted to make banners that celebrate the many possible identities encompassed by the “aro” in “allo-aro”!

Flags: Aegoromantic, Arospike, Asensual, Demiromantic, Loveless Aplatonic, Partfictoromantic.

Flag creator posts can be found, tagged by identity, at @aroflagarchive​​​.