#quoiro

Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week!

We are continuing our Aspec Voices series this ASAW, and starting it off with perspectives from aros of color. See the images for some highlighted quotes, and read the full article here: https://taaap.org/2022/02/20/asaw-22-bipoc-aros/

Thank you to all who contributed! Description below. 

[ID: “It’s pretty lonely. I don’t particularly enjoy interacting with white queers at this point because white people in general suck at being sensitive about racial topics, and there is a big racism issue in general within the overarching community.” - Kione. “I wish aro people knew that BIPOC aros, such as myself, should also be given a space in the community and to take our race into consideration, because not only do we face discrimination for our romantic orientation, but also for the color of our skin.” - Ally Ravago. “I wish other aros knew that we exist, but we’re often unseen because of language barriers. That we come from cultures that may be amatonormative in different ways.” - Jules.

These are the designs I have so far - I would love to hear your suggestions of an identity and a dragon to go with it! So far I have:

Demi identities (gender + sexuality) - drake

Ace/Aro - Amphiptere

Bi - Basilisk

Lesbian - Leviathan/Lung(?)

Trans - Tatsu

Gay - Guivre

Set 2: Leviathans

I saw the a-spec symbol created by rouge-the-bat and wanted to create some more variations!! Here's the post with the symbols! These aro-spec flags are the ones I use, but I wouldn't mind making more if anyone wanted. These are alt described as well.

[ID: Thirteen transparent images of an a-spec symbol combining a spade, heart, diamond, and club from card suits. The top is an upside down spade or heart with a diamond inside the tip, and the clover part of the club attached to the bottom.

row 1: Three aro-spec colored symbols. The first has a green stem, light green heart, teal diamond, and dark teal club with a black outline. The second has a green and light green stem, pale yellow heart, teal diamond, and dark teal club with a black outline. The third has a green stem, light green heart, teal diamond, and dark teal club with a pale yellow outline.

row 2: Two aro colored symbols. The first has a green stem, light green heart, white diamond, and black club with a gray outline. The second has a green stem, light green heart, gray diamond, and black club with a white outline.

row 3: Two alloaro colored symbols. Both have a green stem, light green heart, light yellow diamond, and yellow club. The left one has a black outline and the right one has a white outline.

row 4: Two aroace colored symbols. Both have an orange stem, yellow heart, light blue diamond, and dark blue club. The left one has a black outline and the right one has a white outline.

row 5: Two neu aro colored symbols. Both have a green stem, light green heart, light brown diamond, and brown club. The left one has a black outline and the right one has a white outline.

row 6: On the left is an idemromantic symbol. It has a gray stem, mint green heart, white diamond, and peach pink club with a black outline. The right image is a quoiromantic colored symbol. It has a black stem, light green heart, light blue diamond, and light gray club with a black outline. End ID]

So yeah. Some “memes” I made.

With how unknown quoiromantic is and how the shades chosen for the flag colors didn’t necessarily work well together, me and some friends decided to make a very slightly updated flag and post explaining the definition of the term!

Quoiromantic : also known as WTFromantic or Whatromantic, is a romantic orientation that most commonly fits under the aromantic-spectrum. People whom identify with the quoiromantic label most often fit into one of two categories; those who are unsure whether they experience romantic attraction or not, and those who have difficulty differentiating between platonic and romantic attraction. There are many other experiences a quoiro may face so I’d highly suggest looking into the term more on the wiki page since this is just a basic definition.

This is the Quoiromantic flag!

It was originally designed by @/chaotic-evil-gender (deactivated) on tumblr, who said

“Black represents aroness/aceness, as it does in most flags.

Green represents harmony; the harmony of platonic and romantic attraction.

Turquoise represents emotion; all the different feelings that come with attraction merged.

Gray represents the confusion or fuzziness for different types of attraction that quoi people experience.”

The newest and most up to date flag shown above has a dark greenish black, a more aqua turquoise rather than the original light blue, and a slightly lighter gray (in addition to the original lime green color), to provide a nice balance between the contrasting nature of all the colors.

And that’s the basics! I hope you learned a little something new today! Oh and fellow quoiros feel free to use the updated flag! (no credit needed)

- Your Quoiro Pal, Piper o/