The amount of misinterpretation it takes to portray apls as sexual predators istg.. The assumption that platonic only means nonsexual to begin with, and the assumption that someone who doesn't want nonsexual interaction(again not even what plato averse means) is inherently predatory..

Aplatonic Swag Bracket!!

Currently accepting nominations, we will have 32 initial characters (Edit: Nominations are now closed!!)

Aplphobes and apl exclus (ppl who dont think apl is queer) etc. go away this isnt for you

main @entropy-sea-system

We accept headcanons (thats often all we have bc apl is not v visible in media). When submitting headcanons, please mention the media the character is from!

(we do not accept hcs from any media made by jkr. such as hp)

We may not be able to add all the nominations due to a limit on how many characters we want to start off with (32)

This page supports all apls and aplspecs, including plato averse, plato favorable, plato repulsed, nonfriending, loveless, blue stripe apls, etc.

[Blue text above as title says Aplatonic Swag Bracket!!]

Shoutout to nonfriending apls!!

Aplspec Yasmina Fadoula

Its just refreshing to remember that I don't have to associate with platonicism and friendship if I don't want to!! I don't have to have friends, I don't have to write friendships if I don't want to, I don't have to engage with media if the friendship or platonic content in it repulses me!!

A lot of ppl make it seem as if friendship is this universal, inescapable thing everyone must like and engage in, as if it can never harm people or cause repulsion, and thats not true.

This is your reminder that you are allowed to set boundaries about whether or not you want friendship, or what you are ok with in friendship, what people talk to you about, what content you view, etc. And that doesn't change just because people disallow opting out of friendship

[Aplphobes and exclus dni, Do not derail this post from the discussion of platonormativity. This post is not meant to demean friendship, only to state that I am repulsed by it and wish to not have it in my life.]

-Rift

[Also just a side note please remember that some aplatonics are allosexual and/or alloromantic! Some of us still want people in our life for other reasons even if plato averse and that should be acknowledged too. Don't jump to the conclusion that ALL plato averse aplatonics are also averse aroaces. Some are, but it very much erases the diversity of plato averse aplatonics to imply all of us are.]

As an apothiplatonic so pissed off about how society mandates friendships actually

(Aplphobes, exclus, etc. DNI dont fucking touch this post)

(This post is about nonfriending plato averse aplatonics DO NOT DERAIL)

Potential term for referring to the ways friendship is assumed to be universal and desired by everyone:

Platonormativity

(Someone who coined a term w similar meaning was being transphobic and thus suggesting a different term for it)

Essentially its the platonic/friendship version of amatonormativity, and includes stuff like expectations for friendship to be a certain way, societal expectations of how people 'should' go about friendship, and related things.

(-Rift)

(Aplphobes, exclus, etc. DNI, along w our general DNI in pinned post)

Part of why I'm aplatonic is because when I previously experienced friendships people would just, touch me without asking if its okay, and its normalised to not have boundaries about casual touch with friends and I despise how that kind of boundary negotiation is just absent in friendship so much of the time. I'm apl alloaro and boundary negotiation happens in my sexual involvements and is hardly ever seen by most people as unusual to do in a sexual relationship from my experiences. I don't like being touched with platonic intent. at. all. and I feel like this whole not-negotiating-boundaries in friendship thing comes from society deprioritising friendship while simultaneously portraying it as some cute innocent happy thing 'everyone wants'. Have since realised I'm apothiplatonic so no longer have to deal with this that much but also it would be so much better for everyone involved if negotiating boundaries were a normalised thing to do in any interpersonal/social relationships one may have. (-Rift)

[Aplphobes/exclus DNI]