#varioriented

"you can't be straight and gay!"

"you can't be allo and aspec!"

"you can't be a lesbian man!"

"you can't be a vincian woman!"

"you can't be cis and trans!"

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i'm coining emophy and emosic as an alternative terms for sam. they're combos of emotional and physical since all attractions fall under those 2 categories. the sam prefix always felt too clinical for me, so i made these to be more appealing and useful

flag id: a flag with 7 stripes, which are dull brown, green, light teal, cream, light teal, green, and dull brown. end id.

banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.

thornspec: an umbrella term for identities that are varioriented, neutral, unit, ayspec, amative, fluid, obscured, absent, subtliden, amatopunk, or otherwise nonconformant/variant in a way related to being non-sam

[pt: thornspec: an umbrella term for identities that are varioriented, neutral, unit, ayspec, amative, fluid, obscured, absent, subtliden, amatopunk, or otherwise nonconformant/variant in a way related to being non-sam. end pt]

coined by anon, flag by me!

this is essentially an alternative to the term 'non-sam' that specifies one identifies as non-sam/does not identify within the split attraction model, separating the identity of non-sam from those who just don't use the split attraction model. for example, a perioriented person doesn't use the sam and is therefore, by definition, non-sam, but if they don't actively identify with that, they would not be thornspec.

anon provided a few examples of thornspec identities: someone who calls themselves 'gay', but is actually homosexual with an unlabeled romantic orientation; identifying as 'demi' without specifying in what attraction type; and identities that reference romantic and sexual attraction in nontraditional ways, such as arosexual and aceromantic. thornspec also includes semi-sam identities!

'thorn' is intended to be an opposite of 'rose', a common shortening of 'romantic and sexual' in orientation terms, and carries the same floral theme as '-rose' and 'orchidspec'. for the flag, i took inspiration from the non-sam flag, using the same cream and teal, and added green and brown to represent thorns!

tags: @radiomogai, @liom-archive, @macchiane, @genderstarbucks, @sugar-and-vice-mogai

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