VARIETUM
WHAT IS VARIETUM?
Varietum is an umbrella term for having multiple attraction types that fall under many labels; E.G. objectum, conceptum, human people, fictoromantic, fictosexual, therian4therian, and so on.
Essentially, varietum-identifying individuals hold attraction to regular people, other therians, objects (can be a specific type of object or panjectumism), concepts, fictional characters, and/or more tertiary attraction types.
This is NOT a paraphilic label, and does not allow for pedophilia, zoophilia, or other dangerous paraphilias. In the case of paraphilia's like objectophilia or fictophilia, this label does not intentionally represent them but the coiner understands the apparent overlap and accepts cross-identifying.
WHO CAN BE VARIETUM?
To identify as varietum you need to identify with at least the leading four attraction types; real people, fictional characters, therian4therian's and objectum. It is also a ND-exclusive label with a heavy bias to autistic experiences, though its open to any and all neurodivergent people.
Varietum encompasses tertiary attraction, panjectumism (plus other specific objectum attractions), and is an inherently queer, autistic, and aromantic/asexual label.
HOW DOES VARIETUM FEEL?
Varietum is like having the experiences of multiple communities, but not feeling like youre 'enough' into the community to actually commit to the label; having objectum attraction but not as frequent as ficto attraction, having ficto attraction but not as frequent as therian4therian. Its a label that encompasses all of these microattractions under one umbrella, and it feels nice to be able to express this without having a shopping list of attraction labels!
EXPLAIN THE VARIETUM FLAG!!
It's a 10-stripe hue-blend of the queer flag (for people attraction), the therian flag (for therian4therian attraction), the objectum flag (for objectums) and the fictosexual flag (for fictorose's)!!! the three icons on the flag front are a human bust, the otherkinity/therianthropy symbol, and a teddy bear silhouette, representing people/characters, therian relationships, and objectum relationships respectively. There is also a double-stripe white plus sign across the flag colours for everything unlisted :)
