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Pt: Loveful Terms, Part 1 /End Pt

So some time ago, we stumbled across the term Loveful Aro, and eventually Loveful and Loveful Alloro. All of which are terms we/I really enjoy, and find helpful. And I had some times on my hand, so I figured I'd make some more terms related to other attractions, as well as redesign the flags that already exist just to be a little easier on the eyes for us at least.

(General) Loveful v1, v2

ID: Two Flags, both with nine stripes. The first flag's colours from top to bottom are a medium brownish red, medium light orange, light yellow, extra light yellow, medium desaturated seafoam, light lilac, light medium lilac, medium pink-purple, and dark medium pink-purple. The second flag's colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, extra light yellow, medium desaturated seafoam, light lilac, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. /End ID

Loveful was originally coined by @daybringersol on march 21st, 2024 here (link). It was coined to mean "a term for people who feel non-romantic love too intensely and/or express it in ways too intimate for amatonormative standards.", and was made as a counterpart to the Loveless terms.

However, for the use of this post, it covers both romantic, and non-romantic. It is meant to be a general term that doesn't specify, it is purposefully vague. This is because later terms focus on having "too much/intense" love in ways that aren't non-romantic, such as non-familial, non-sensual, and non-emotional. Furthermore for the uses of this post, when referring to Loveful, we mean "experiencing love too intensely and/or expressing it in ways too intimate for amatonormative standards." If it has a prefix relating to a type of attraction, or specifically denoting a lack of love in an attractional sphere, the definition would look something like the following: "experiencing non-sensual love too intensely and/or expressing it in ways too intimate for amatonormative standards."

Overall our flags here are meant to give space for people who feel their love is "too much". Whether that be because of the type of relationship they're in, because of a disordered connection, trauma telling them their expression is wrong, or simply just how someone expresses their affection. "Non-" can be replaced with "A/An" (ex: Non-Romantic with Aromantic, Non-Alterous with Analterous). However we chose "Non-" to be more inclusive of both allospecs and aspecs at once, since the line is often messy.

Loveful Non-Attractional | Loveful Attractional

ID: Two flags, both with nine strips. The first flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, black, grey, black, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. The second flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, medium pink, light pink, medium pink, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. /End ID

Loveful Non-Emotional | Loveful Non-Tertiary | Loveful Non-Physical

ID: Three flags, both with nine strips. The first flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, navy blue, pale light green, pale medium jean blue, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. The second flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, bright orange red, light orange red, bright orange red, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. The third flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, bright cyan, bright light cyan, bright cyan, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. /End ID

Loveful Non-Romantic | Loveful Non-Sexual | Loveful Non-Familial

ID: Three flags, both with nine strips. The first flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, medium green, pale light green, medium green, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. The second flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, medium purple, light purple, medium purple, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. The third flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, dark red, medium red, dark red, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. /End ID

Loveful Non-Aesthetic | Loveful Non-Sensual | Loveful Non-Alterous

ID: Three flags, both with nine strips. The first flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, pale medium pink, pale light pink, pale medium pink, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. The second flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, pale medium orange, pale light orange, pale medium orange, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. The third flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, pale medium blue, pale light blue, pale medium blue, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. /End ID

Loveful Non-Platonic v1, v2

ID: Two flags, both with nine strips. The first flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, medium purple, medium green, medium blue, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. The second flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, medium golden yellow, light golden yellow, medium golden yellow, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. /End ID

Loveful Non-Queerplatonic v1, v2

ID: Two flags, both with nine strips. The first flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, light pink, light yellow, light pink, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. The second flags colours from top to bottom are a dark maroon, medium maroon, light maroon, medium aqua, light aqua, medium aqua, light maroon, medium maroon, and dark maroon. /End ID

There's something so special, so calming, about archival work. Something so exciting about finding the history of terms (for example, did you know the earliest record I can find of speciesless is from 2011? Aspecies as a term from 2020), that get so buried and lost. Knowing that no matter how much time has past, those experiences remain.

The alterhuman community doesn't get the same rich background as a lot of other communities do. We don't have poems about wanting to be a bird flying gracefully in the wind dating back to the 1600s. We don't have diary entries of those who saw themselves in the character from Shakespeare's play, in more than a metaphorical sense. Most of our early recorded history, as it stands today, is the late 1900s. The earliest date for *anything* I can find is *potentially* the late 1960s, and confirmed somewhere between 1972 and 1974 (that being the The Elf Queen’s Daughters (EQD), the early part of the otherkin community). Therianthropy's history starts in 1992, though the term didn't come around until 1994 at the latest point. Transspecies dates back to 1994 as well. And that's most of our early history. That's as far back as we can trace most of it, to my knowledge anyways (I could totally be unaware of things).

Still, there's something special about being able to discover where a term started. Making sure a piece of history for a community that lacks so much isn't lost to time. And maybe we don't risk the lost of the history of things like therianthropy and otherkin. But what about aspecies/speciesless? Altervexo/Altervex/Alterspite? Hell even such a wide use term like Endel doesn't have the original coining post saved anywhere from our research (again, it *might* exist somewhere still, but we sure as hell can't find it). These are things that describe folks existence, their experience. In a way that's been put to words to try and describe in the most basic form something that is often near impossible to fully explain the depth of.

I do plan on making the document available to the public at some point. It's still in very early stages so I'm not comfortable sharing it anywhere beyond close friends currently. But my point is, archival is important. We don't get to choose what terms were made. And whether we agree with them or not, they matter. They describe something someone somewhere experiences. And in communities that so often have so much of their history looked over, lost, *erased*. We should strive to save as much of it as we can.

Terms I mentioned, and the origin I referenced. All links have been archived on the wayback machine as of June 2nd, 2025 or earlier, should they break in the future.

Therianthropy, and its history dating back to 1992 is taken from this pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jDmjl78hQ2BiQtzQMTV3yRQkrIgB9eUZ/view

Otherkin, The Elf Queen’s Daughters (EQD), and its history dating back to potentially the late 1960s is from this pdf: https://frameacloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Scribner_Timeline2p0.pdf

Alterhuman's coining post can be found here: https://phasmovore.tumblr.com/post/98482696958/this-will-probably-be-my-last-post-on-semantics

Otherchain's history, and recoining on tumblr can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20241210230712/https://www.tumblr.com/shadowbandshub/763884852524302336/idk-if-ive-ever-made-a-coining-post-with and here: https://alterhumanity.fandom.com/wiki/Otherchain

Circukin's original coining post appears to have been deleted, as the coiner wishes to be removed from the community. However a reupload of what was on the coining post, as well as history on the original coining post can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/nyctohyloph0bia/755458471273627648/circukin?source=share

Fractic's coining post can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/empyrangel/704274200484003840/fractic

The first use of copinglink can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/who-is-page/127897905604/demonicprinceofsin-no-idea-what-term-id-use?source=share while it's official coining can be found here: https://who-is-page.tumblr.com/post/139871297049/clinkers-and-copinglink

The first recorded usage of speciesless I can find dating back to 2011 can be found here: https://www.tumblr.com/solipsistful/11133858784/speciesless, while aspecies I can only find records dating back to 2020 found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/otherkin/comments/ent6pk/aspeciesspeciesless/

The original coining post of Altervexo/Altervex/Alterspite appears to have been deleted and lost, however there is an archive of the first page of the carrd found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220606042844/https://altervexo.carrd.co/ and the full definition along with record of original coining date and coiner found here: https://alterhuman.miraheze.org/wiki/Altervexo#cite_note-:0-1

PT: Opsumipronominal

ID: A three stripe flag, with the middle stripe being half the size of the other two. The colors from top to bottom are light denim blue, white, warm desaturated magenta. /End ID

Opsumipronominal: refers to an individual who identifies with the opposite of whichever pronouns the individual speaking to/about them would assume or guess their pronouns would be. Someone who is assumipronominal has different pronoun sets depending on who is talking to them. For example is person A is opsumipronominal, and person B would assume A's pronouns are he/him. A might identify with/B would use she/her, eh/mih, or something else seen as the opposite when B talks about A.

What the opposite of a set is may changed based on the person. For example C may feel the opposite of he/him is she/her, while D feels the opposite of he/him is eh/mih (he/him written in reverse).

This can be considered the opposite of assumipronominal [where one uses the pronouns someone assumes they would]. And is based off of Refracted Pronouns [where one uses the opposite of whoever is speaking to/about them's pronouns].

As a disclaimer, this will mostly be talking about queer microlabels. That's where we see the most discourse, and I have the most familiarity. But this can definitely apply to other communities, and I will touch on that later.

First off the statement that microlabels don't serve a purpose has always been beyond wild to be. To start there is the most obvious part of them giving names to experiences people live. Feelings people have. That is more then enough purpose. But importantly, tied into that, they give people the right and ability to define *themself*. Which is so important in a world that is constantly trying to decide what we can and cannot be. Being able to take that power into our own hands, not just with common labels (which is also important) but to fully create something and say "this is me" is so important. It is a way to gain back power people have been trying to strip from us for so long.

Beyond that we have several whole communities built around microlabels. And that community is so important. Not only do so many people find a home there, because they find others who are like them. Who also have a very unique experience and need an equally unique term. But there's an important solidarity there. Because so many people use labels that only a couple others use, you have a community that is so diverse. One that does look to learn about others experiences a lot of the time. One that supports, *celebrates*, those differences. I'm not blind to the discourse in the community, of course I'm not. But there is so much solidarity that doesn't get talked about. Having a space where you can exist around people with identities that are wildly different from yours, is important. And the overarching fact that both of yours are really unique, even if the details are wildly different, still creates a sense of community. And that's so important, especially to baby queers who are starting to find themselves.

This doesn't even mention the fact that it builds that sense of resistance against being "the right type of queer". Microlabels are one of the most fought about things, one that gets thrown under the bus so much. So so many of us learn to be "the weird queer". We learn we don't have to be acceptable to the mainstream. That's so important. Learning not to live by others standards of what's allowed and what's not is a huge thing that needs to happen if we want to see major change. Having a community that does that naturally is impressive to say the least. We learn not to give into what they want us to be. Because what they want us to be is not queer in the end.

Going even deeper into parts of the community, archivist and archving is a huge (though often overlooked) part of the community. Their work is so important. Preserving queer history, no matter how mundane, is important. It shows we have been here. We have always been here. And there have been several times where there have been what people expect to be "minor" terms that became big. You never know what will be a cornerstone of the community one day. I know we have found several major/common terms that don't have that history any more. Furthermore it does promote just looking into queer history in general. Looking at the historical use of a lot of terms, especially ones like fag, dyke, tranny. How they have been used in our community as identities for so long. How they have been taken from us as identities, terms we're no longer allowed to use to define ourself because they're "bad". Looking into that history, is important. Preserving that history is important. It allows us to not lose important parts of our journey. To not allow that to be taken from us. And that's just terms. There's so many every day parts of history we never would've known without the microlabel and especially archiving community. So many events that have nearly gotten lost to time.

Other things we see especially in the microlabel community is the promotion of exploring yourself. Allowing yourself to be wrong. Which is such an important part of self discovery that isn't talked about enough. The idea that you don't have to be right. That you don't have to put that pressure on yourself to find the perfect label. That's so important. As well as allowing yourself to decide how what terms, if any, you use. So many people think that just because there's so many terms in the community everyone has to have a million and that's all we ever want. When in reality, we see so much talk about the freedom to choose. Yes the freedom to choose what terms fit you best, to choose how you define the terms instead of the terms defining you, but also the freedom to choose none. To choose that labels don't work. To choose that maybe they do, but it's no ones business. To choose that you just don't care enough to bother. And that's equally as important as being able to create a label that is hyper specific to you. The freedom to identify how we want is so so important. To not let others decide what we are. That's what we want in the future.

This doesn't even address the fact we see people complain the microlabel community is having "too much fun"? Which is, a wild thing to say.

People should be allowed to have fun in their identity. To not have to take everything seriously. So what if those terms are just something they enjoy. Having fun in your identity does not hurt anyone. In fact that's important. It allows people to explore more parts of themselves, without fear of judgement or exile.

It also leads to people being able to decide how important their identity is for them. Maybe it's super important and they want it to be treated as such. Or maybe they just want to bring home a partner one day, or casually mention they want to go by a different name at breakfast and everyone will be cool with it. If we only treat our identity as something serious and strict, we'll never reach that.

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he sees you. he squints his eyes at you. he is judgemental at you.

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