Welcome to my Orientation Map!

I am a polyamorous oriented aroace ficto and objectum lesbian.

Huh?

Let me break it down.

I am aromantic and asexual. I do not feel any romantic or sexual attraction. I do not desire a romantic or sexual relationship.

I am an oriented aroace which means I feel another type of attraction strongly enough to factor it into my identity. This is a teritary form of attraction (teritary means third but there are many different types of attraction) that isn't sexual and isn't romantic but is important to me.

I feel alterous attraction toward women and nonbinary people, hence the lesbian part. Alterous attraction is an emotional attraction that isn't platonic and it isn't romantic. If attraction is colours, and romance is red and platonic is yellow, alterous isn't orange but it's blue. It is standalone and just feels fundamentally different.

When I imagine myself with an alterous partner, I am more happy when I imagine myself with more than one. I'm polyamorous (in theory lmao) because I desire a relationship with more than one partner. Polyamory isn't cheating. It's not sneaking around behind someone's back. Picture a happy couple, and picture three people in a loving committed relationship with one another. Those are the same thing, there's just more people in the second one.

Speaking of imagining myself in a relationship: I'm not so sure I want to be in one with real people. Because I'm aroace the relationship scene is messy and complicated, and I am much more comfortable imagining myself in a relationship with a character from my favourite movie or TV show (I'm looking at you, Doc Ock) is easier than imagining myself with a real person so I identify as ficto. I also feel attraction toward fictional characters a little differently than I do IRL people. For example, I've never had a crush on a guy IRL but about a third of my fictional crushes are men.

In the same veign as forming connections with fictional characters, I've always had connections with inanimate objects too. This is more of a platonic thing for me but I factor it into my identity because I'm aroace anyway and because it's a broad and loving community. I am objectum which means I feel emotional connections to objects and can form relationships with them. Personally, it's due to my belief in animism that I'm objectum, which is the idea that everything has a spirit/soul/energy/whatever you want to call it. I often call it conciousness or energy. Many people belive in animism for spiritual reasons, psychological reasons, or even just comfort reasons. I'm a pagan witch and animism is quite common in paganism.

Beyond these, I use some orientation microlabels:

  • NBLW/Orbisan
  • Homosensual
  • Homoalterous
  • Sapphic
  • Enbian/nblnb
  • Alterousflux
  • Fictopan
  • Terato
  • Botani
  • Anime
  • Gai
  • Mspec Lesbian
  • Nonbinary Lesbian

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