#pan oriented aro ace

[jodians]

jodie foster is for those girls who grew up as awkward, tomboyish queers with braces and weirdly deep voices for a preteen who were painfully far in the closet

[saffigon]

Happy Pan Visibility Day to aromantic pansexuals, panromantic asexuals, pan-oriented aroaces, and any other pan aspec!

[bats-the-idiotic]

Update to me finding out I’m aro ace thing. Ok, I may have been a little wrong. Come to find out im both. I am Pan Oriented Aro Ace. Last update hopefully.

[super-ace]

I’ve been toying with the idea that I’m bi or pan oriented aroace. I’ve always known I experience aesthetic attraction - it’s how it took me so long to realise I’m asexual because I was confusing it with sexual attraction. I know it’s to multiple genders but also I don’t think gender really matters because I don’t want anything to come of this attraction, I just appreciate that people are pretty. It doesn’t really seem to be people I know in my life though, usually just celebrities. I’ve been reading the definition online and it always says ‘significant tertiary attraction’ and the word ‘significant’ is confusing to me because that is a subjective word. Any oriented aroaces relate?

[lawofcollage]

This is probably my largest pride flag piece at three feat by three feat, featuring nearly eighty pride flags with Baker’s 2017 pride flag in the middle. The 2017 flag has an extra stripe of lavender to signify the diversity of our community as well as the eight original stripes Gilbert Baker put together in the first place.

Looking for a collection of pride flags year round? Check out my Coffee Table Book of Pride Flags full of fun queer art here!

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

venti from genshin impact is a pan-oriented aroace (headcanon) and agender (implied)

submitted by anonymous

[pride-flag-planets]

Pan + Oriented Aroace

[lust-for-ultraviolence]

Okay, if this isn’t good, tell me what to fix and I’ll redo it.

[wof-pride]

Blue, Pan Oriented Aroace!

Requested by anon

[v-tired-queer]

BRO I wanna be REALLY FIT and STRONG so I can lift GIRLS and go SPINNY with them in my arms and make them LAUGH

[nag-mamahal]

As a romantic asexual I headcanon just about every single character (and ship) I like as asexual/on the ace spectrum. I just feel there's not enough representation of non-sexual beings engaged in romantic love in popular media. I'd really love it if more stories explored good and fulfilling partnerships that thrive even without sexual intimacy. I'm not against characters being sexy or having sex I think it's just really neat when figures can exist and fall in love without a big part of the relationship revolving around fucking. I love when people, ace or not, can explore their sexuality on their own terms and set boundaries that are accepted and respected by their partners. I love when they realize they're more than their body and what their body is able to provide in terms of sexual fulfillment. I love emotional intimacy independent of the pressure of sex.

[totally-italy]

Happy Pride Month, y'all!

Since it is now just past midnight, let me take this opportunity to wish you all a very queer month! And remember:

We're here, we're queer and we will never disappear!

[aroaceconfessions]

I'm aroace, but I wouldn't mind being in a relationship. I don't think think I'm romance repulsed, but I've never been in a relationship. That being said I wouldn't mind dating people regardless of gender. I've just recently come to terms with being aroace, and still learning, so correct me if I'm wrong, but could I identify as pan aroace? Or am I thinking about this wrong? I'm sex neutral (?) as well, I don't really want sex, but if my partner wanted it I could try. While reading up on aroace related things I found placiosexual and I feel that might be something I relate to as well? I'm still figuring things out, but others povs and inputs are greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Submitted February 11, 2023

[veinsfullofstars]

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

(ID: Kirby series fanart sketches of various Kirby characters, each with scribbled backsplashes of pride flag colors based off of my headcanons**. Clockwise from the top - Meta Knight (Bi, Demi) & Dedede (Bi), the former wrapped in his cape and perched on the latter’s arm, smiling at each other contentedly, little pink hearts over their heads. Gryll (NB) & Keke (Lesbian), holding hands and cozily sitting side-by-side on Gryll’s broomstick, along with the former’s familiars Salt, Pepper, and Sugar. Daroach (Pan, Aro) & Dark Meta Knight (Gay), the latter looming over the former and wrapping him in his tattered wings, the rat gazing up with a sharp grin and reaching up to run his claws down the side of the knight’s mask, a burning heart over their heads. Magolor (Aro, Trans) & Marx (Ace), the latter running in to wrap the former in a one-armed… one-hatted? hug, nuzzling against his cheek as the giddy wizard hugs him back, a yellow heart set against queerplatonic colors over their heads. Susie (Lesbian) & Zan Partizanne (Lesbian), the two holding hands and carrying many shopping bags, the latter looking about in curiosity as the former smiles fondly at her. In the center of them all, Kirby (Agender) leaps up with a big, joyful smile, holding up a heart filled with all the colors of the Pride flag. END ID.)

**Note that these are just my personal interpretations of these characters’ orientations/identities and may not reflect yours or even those implied in canon (they may also be subject to change given my own ever-evolving perspective). If these do not perfectly match your own takes on the characters, then that’s totally fine. I hope they bring you just as much joy and creativity as mine do for me. Part of the fun of this series it how open it is to interpretation, how so many people can see different things in the same piece of art and inspire each other thanks to those differing perspectives. Additionally, all ships shown are of consenting, non-related adult characters.

Sketch start 06/01/24, sketch finished 06/02/24.

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

akaoni from smile pretty cure! is an angled aroace and pansexual (headcanon)

submitted by anonymous

[ilovedthestars]

A thought I’ve been having: While it's important to recognize the long history of many current queer identities (and the even longer history of people who lived outside of the straight, cis, allo “norm”) I think it's also important to remember that a label or identity doesn't have to be old to be, for lack of a better word, real.

This post that i reblogged a little while ago about asexuality and its history in the LGBTQ+ rights movement and before is really good and really important. As i've thought about it more, though, it makes me wonder why we need to prove that our labels have "always existed." In the case of asexuality, that post is pushing back against exclusionists who say that asexuality was “made up on the internet” and is therefore invalid. The post proves that untrue, which is important, because it takes away a tool for exclusionists.

But aromanticism, a label & community with a lot of overlap & solidarity with asexuality, was not a label that existed during Stonewall and the subsequent movement. It was coined a couple decades ago, on internet forums. While the phrasing is dismissive, it would be technically accurate to say that it was “made up on the internet.” To be very clear, I’m not agreeing with the exclusionists here—I’m aromantic myself. What I’m asking is, why does being a relatively recently coined label make it any less real or valid for people to identify with?

I think this emphasis on historical precedent is what leads to some of the attempts to label historical figures with modern terminology. If we can say someone who lived 100 or 1000 years ago was gay, or nonbinary, or asexual, or whatever, then that grants the identity legitimacy. but that's not the terminology they would have used then, and we have no way of knowing how, or if, any historical person's experiences would fit into modern terminology.

There's an element of "the map is not the territory" here, you know? Like this really good post says, labels are social technologies. There's a tendency in the modern Western queer community to act like in the last few decades the "truth" about how genders and orientations work has become more widespread and accepted. But that leaves out all the cultures, both historical and modern, that use a model of gender and sexuality that doesn't map neatly to LGBTQ+ identities but is nonetheless far more nuanced than "there are two genders, man and woman, and everyone is allo and straight." Those systems aren’t any more or less “true” than the system of gay/bi/pan/etc and straight, cis and trans, aro/ace and allo.

I guess what I’m saying is, and please bear with me here, “gay” people have not always existed. “Nonbinary” people have not always existed. “Asexual” people have not always existed. But people who fell in love with and had sex with others of the same gender have always existed. People who would not have identified themselves as either men or women have always existed. People who didn’t prioritize sex (and/or romance) as important parts of their lives have always existed. In the grand scheme of human existence, all our labels are new, and that’s okay. In another hundred or thousand years we’ll have completely different ways of thinking about gender and sexuality, and that’ll be okay too. Our labels can still be meaningful to us and our experiences right now, and that makes them real and important no matter how new they are.

We have a history, and we should not let it be erased. But we don’t need a history for our experiences and ways of describing ourselves to be real, right now.