#arcromantic

(ID: Left: the ARCromantic flag. Five stripes, top to bottom: green, black, gray, white, and pink. Right: the ARCsexual flag. Diagonal stripes of red, black, dark blue, black, gray, black, red, black, gray, black, dark blue, black, and red. The central red stripe is widest.)

ARCromantic - Someone with averse, repulsed, or complicated feelings toward romance and romantic attraction. Used by but not exclusive to the aromantic community. May be used as its own identity or as an umbrella for those such as romance-averse, romance-repulsed, and so on.

so! um! i wanted to coin terms similar to the ARCsexual umbrella...

introducing: ARCromantic (or ARC-R). basically the same thing as ARCsexual, but for romantic instead

proamoural = romance-favorable (symbol is eros)

anamoural (or nullamoural) = romance-indifferent

disamoural = romance-averse (you're opposed to participating in romance but don’t mind romantic activity that doesn’t involve you)

antiamoural (or revulamoural) = romance-repulsed (you are opposed to/repulsed by romance in general)

erisamoural (or chaoamoural) = romance-conflicted or romance-ambivalent

requisamoural = a feeling of aversion and/or repulsion due to trauma and/or emotional/mental exhaustion. as of now it is disabled and ND exclusive

ARC-Rflux (or amouralflux, archerflux (ehehe get it archer-arrow)) = fluctuating ARC-R feelings

ARCsexual the general term for a person who feels averse, repulsed, or conflicted towards sex. (Could possibly have ARCromantic, etc)

Here’s some more terms that go with ARC

ARCresources: tumblr blog focusing on sex aversion/repulsion/confliction.

ARCsexuality: the general term for a person who feels averse, repulsed, or conflicted towards sex.

ARCflux: your arc feelings fluctuate for whatever reason.

-carnal: the suffix to describe your arc feelings.

Acarnal: indifference to sex.

Anticarnal: sex repulsed; a strong visceral reaction of disgust, negativity, etc.procarnal: “all in” for sex.

Discarnal: sex averse, opposed to the idea; “not at the dinner table and not while I’m around”.

Eriscarnal: sex conflicted. Comes from the Greek goddess of discord, Eris.

More info here.

Term coined by: Kisten Sadi 

[image description: a flag with a red background. The upper right and bottom left corners have five stripes each. From bottom-left to upper right they are: black, dark blue, black, grey, black, then the red background, then black, grey, black, dark blue, black]

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[image description: a flag with thirteen stripes. The outer stripes are the same width. The second through sixth and eighth through twelfth stripes are also the same, narrow, width as each other. The outer stripes are twice as wide as one of the ten narrow stripes. The center stripe is three times as wide as one of the ten narrow stripes. From top to bottom they are: red, black, dark blue, black, grey, black, red, black, grey, black, dark blue, black, red]

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Designed by: trans-boy-bubbles

Color meanings: 

Black: represents lack of interest in sex.

Red: represents repulsion/aversion

Blue: unknown, (probably just to be aesthetically pleasing?)