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The difference between romance and friendship is subjective so pls don't treat this as the way to differentiate between a crush and a squish

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QUEERPLATONIC

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Queerplatonic is a type of relationship and a type of attraction.

Queerplatonic attraction is typically defined as the attraction based on desiring a queerplatonic relationship (also known as QPR, quasiplatonic relationship, or quirkyplatonic relationship) with someone.

A QPR is often based on queerplatonic attraction between the people in the relationship but it is not necessary, QPRs can stem from other kinds of attraction too. Similarly, queerplatonic attraction may lead to other forms of relationships as well.

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A QPR is a kind of relationship that is beyond the strict boundaries of platonic and romantic, which may have elements of either, both or neither.

What constitutes and defines a QPR depends on the people involved in it. Some QPRs resemble platonic or romantic relationships and some people even define QPRs as a type of platonic (or romantic) relationship, though this is not necessarily true for all QPRs. A QPR may or may not be sexual. It can be both monoam and polyam.

QPRs often aim to blur the rigid line between platonic/romantic relationships

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A QPR looking like a platonic or a romantic relationship from outside does not make it "just a friendship/romantic relationship"

While this kind of relationship is typically seen and talked about within the aspec community, one does not need to be aspec to be in a QPR.

A QPR is not more than friendship" and/or "less than a romantic relationship" since objectively none of the three are "more" or "less" than the others in terms of intensity, commitment or intimacy.

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There are two main queerplatonic flags:

Yellow: platonic attraction (yellow heart represents platonic love)

Pink: a lighter version of red, which often represents romantic attraction

White, grey and black: likely represent the grey-aro spectrum 

This image also contains two flags. One has five stripes, pink, yellow, white, grey and black from top to bottom. The other has a yellow heart on 7 stripes: pink, black, grey, white, grey, black and pink.

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A queerplatonic crush is known as a "plush"

A popular term for queerplatonic partners (QPPs) is zucchini. There are also other terms such as marshmallow or mallowfriend. Some people also simply call their QPPs "partner"

These are not the only things one can call their QPP. Any kind of term can be used for partners in a QPR, there are no rules

QPR Day is on the third Saturday of July. It was first observed in 2020 as "the platonic version of St. Valentine's Day"

A similar term is "alterous," which refers to a kind of emotional attraction. It can be defined as a desire for emotional closeness which can't wholly be described by either platonic or romantic attraction.

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A userbox with the queerplatonic flag and text that reads: this user wants a QPR

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A userbox with the queerplatonic flag and text that reads: this user is in a QPR

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A userbox with the queerplatonic flag and text that reads: this user experiences queerplatonic attraction

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• Bengali

• queer (aromantic (bellusromantic), genderless, brownitian, demisexual, aromid)

• voidpunk

• an irregular poster

• in a QPR <3