#nonsam

[nyans-eyebleach-and-mogai]

(Non-SAM cygnian/mspec cenelian | SAM cygnian/mspec cenelian)

(Non-SAM/SAM cygnian/mspec cenelian)

I made some SAM cygnian (shorthand for mspec cenelian, named after the black hole Cygnus X1) flags!

[soong-type-notinuse]

when someone calls me a "non-SAM ace" (which has happened before), i literally don't know what they mean.

do they mean that i experience my sexual and romantic orientation as one, referring to both as "asexual"? because that ain't it.

do they mean that experience *all* my orientations, even the ones beyond romantic and sexual as one single unit, calling it "asexual"? because that ain't it either.

do they mean that i'm "just ace" and nothing else? because that's not it either. i'm gay.

do they mean that i'm an ace without a romantic orientation? now that's me.

besides the fact that this term doesn't even come from aspec communities but from our enemies, the terms "SAM" and "non-SAM" really don't communicate much at all.

i'm not "non-SAM". i'm bi and ace. i'm varioriented. i'm quoiromantic. i'm a varioriented bi ace without a romantic orientation. i'm a quoiromantic bi ace. i'm many things but don't you dare call me "non-SAM". my attraction is neither "split" nor "non-split". my aceness and my pan-ness aren't "split off" from anything. they're not part of a whole. they are whole on their own.

there are many other useful terms that don't use this horrible term created by our oppressors. "varioriented" and "perioriented" are both older than the term "split attraction model". recently, people came up with the term "unit".

[saffigon]

since pride month is coming up or whatever:

include aspecs in your pride. include aces and aros and those that are aspec in other ways; include those that are somewhere on the spectrum; include aros that aren't ace; include aroaces; include aces that aren't aro; include aspecs in relationships; include aspecs that never want relationships; include cishet aspecs; include aspec identities you don't hear about often; include our flags and include our voices

we are as much a part of this community as any other queer person

[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

[ryanyflags]

Non-SAM-aroace / ay alt flags :)

These all use colors from @neopronouns' ay flags [link], and @arokill's general non-SAM flag [link].

The 5 stripe flags follow the format of these non-SAM-ace [link] and non-SAM-aro [link] flags. 1st one is just blue, while the 2nd one uses grey / is darker.

The 7 stripe flags are based on my non-SAM-ace / non-SAM-aro alt flags [link]. The 1st one uses grey / is lighter, while the 2nd one is more blue/darker.

Basically, I just wanted non-SAM-aroace (aka ay) flags that matched the non-SAM-ace/aro flags that I listed. I like the original ay flags too.

[shmaroace]

aspec identities are literally the footnote of the lgbtqia+ community. like if you're lucky, you might encounter information about asexuals, and if you're really lucky, you might learn something completely wrong about aros!

[samtheturret]

ahem.

[aro-acethetic]

Non-SAM aro + ocean + naturecore for @ok-orchestra !

Sources:

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[nerdyenby]

The aspec club at my school is 80% trans/nonbinary so I’m curious

[strawberrymeriadoc]

I know this sounds weird but I think I’m a non-SAM aroace. Like, the two identities feel like one and the same to me, but I don’t prefer one over the other in order to be seen as either “non-Sam aro” or “non-Sam ace”. It’s just one thing to me and I end up using ace, aro, and aroace in different spaces depending on which is most relevant. But there is no split to me and I only use aroace so others can know that I’m both. But it sounds as weird to me as having to say I’m Bibi if I was bisexual and biromantic...

[aroapl]

Shoutout to ALL aromantics! To aroaces, aroallos, neu aros, nonsam aros. To loveless aros and heartless aros. To lovequeer aros, lovelustic aros, arolovic aros. To aplatonic aros, afamilial aros, analterous aros. To nonaesthetic aros, asensual aros, anattractional aros. To aroqueers, unit aros, primaros. To romo aros, partnering aros, polyamorous aros. To nonpartnering aros and nonamorous aros. To polyplatonic and polyerosis aros. To romance favorable, romance indifference, romance averse, romance repulsed, and romance ambivalent aros. To arospecs of all kinds and questioning aros. To aros who love being aro and aros who still have a hard time with it. To aros that are out, loud, and proud, and aros that are closeted. To gay aros, straight aros, bi aros, and aros of every identity under the sun! To aros all over the world! Shoutout to aros!! You're all so wonderful!

[soong-type-notinuse]

in today's episode i talk about why i don't like the split attraction model even though i'm bi-ace.

[a-romantic--aromantic]

Hey i want to send a big shout out to everyone who uses older aspec terminology. shoutout to people who use zed instead of allo, who still primarily describe themselves as partnering or non partnering or favorable. shoutout to using nonsam and not making the jump to the newer similar terms. shout out to people who dont keep up with all the latest identities and labels. shoutout to they people who are still using greyspec and who are helping keep where we came from alive. its super cool that you keep doing that and i cant wait for younger people to find out about their options because those terms and phrases are still being used.

[saffigon]

Reminder to aspecs, our solidarity is our strength.

Non-SAM Aro and AroAllo solidarity Loving & Lovequeer and Loveless & Heartless solidarity AroAllo and AlloAce solidarity Romance Favorable and Romance Repulsed solidarity Sex Favorable and Sex Repulsed solidarity AroAce and AroAllo solidarity Romance Indifferent and Sex Indifferent solidarity Aplatonic and Alloplatonic Aspec solidarity Romo Aro and Heartless solidarity Partnering Polyamorous and Nonparterning / Nonamorous solidarity Amid and AroAce solidarity Cupio and Apothi solidarity Fray & Lith and Demi solidarity

Any and all aspec solidarity. We are not each other's enemy. Support each other, no matter how "opposite" your aspec identities may be.

[michaelarson]

this is a michael afton blog for the sillies because i got too hyperfixated. admin is a minor uses any pronouns

asks are great, please feel free to send them and i will probably reply in character

rules

1. no nsfw

2. no bigotry of any kind

3. this is set during/after fnaf 3, but i can do any part of the timeline. just clarify if you're asking younger/older michael when you send the ask, otherwise i will assume you mean post-fnaf 3 mike

4. this version of michael is nonsam aromantic, transfem and uses he/her pronouns

5. i can do both joke interactions and proper roleplays, and they'll be tagged accordingly. for the sake of coherency, the memes and actual roleplays will be in separate timelines