How should we tag QPR(queerplatonic relationships) on AO3?
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PLS REBLOG SO PEOPLE ACTUALLY SEE THIS 🙏 (even if you don't vote)
For those who don't know what a QPR is: It's everything outside of social norms, a relationship that is neither strictly platonic nor romantic. A lot of time you'll see it described as platonic partnership, a kind of platonic commitment and devotion that is supposedly not present in normal friendship(by this definition, a lot of the biggest ships would fall into this category if we look strictly at how they're depicted in canon—think spirk, johnlock, merthur, stucky, etc.), but it can look like anything: two best friends living together, or raising a kid together, friendship with a lot of physical affection, platonic kissing, a friends with benefits type of thing, anything goes. While anyone can be in a QPR, they are commonly associated with people on the asexual and/or aromantic spectrum.
I prefer the tilde, personally! Plus sign is too close to & in my opinion, too much space for confusion. I think it's the most distinct option available. The ~ is also squiggly, which is thematically very good.
