Be they from kids shows or adult cartoons. From half-animated half-live action media. From comics books, strips, and webcomics. From the most well known Disney or Pixar names, to the most obscure and almost never heard of before animation studios, your FOs are amazing and so are you! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise! You rule!!
The adults who adore characters from kid-oriented media, and the kids who find comfort in someone from an adult focused franchise; You're SO COOL, no matter how many people might say the content you're interested in isn't "age appropriate"!! Don't let miserable people ruin your fun!! You're so awesome and cool!! Your FOs, whether they're romantic, platonic, familial, or QPPs, love you!!
[Pr*shippers, c*mshippers, d*rkshippers, and neutrals don't fucking interact. Don't steal this, either. If you steal this post you're openly admitting to being gross, predatory weirdos :3]
Kaita- (kaitasexual, kaitaromantic, etc.): describing the attraction to those who are real and/or fictional. It can be an umbrella term for those who are ficto-, anthro-, or both.
[ * So I just realized I'm fictoromantic fictosexual and I don't really like any of the flags out there so I decided to take matters into my own paws (this is my first time making flags, spare me) ]
Fictoromantic ✦ Fictosexual
[ * Two variants for a fictorose (fictoromantic + fictosexual) flag, interchangeable ]
Arospec Fictoromantic ✦ Acespec Fictosexual
[ * For folks who are ficto but don't necessarily lack attraction to real people/are questioning or unsure of their place in the aroace spectrum. Still incorporates said spectrum colors due to the atypical nature of being attracted to fictional characters ]
Fictoromantic + fictosexual combined into one flag via the ‘rose suffix.
I love the (blank)rose way of combining romantic and sexual so much, it’s so cute and is so much easier than saying “demiromantic and demisexual” or “fictoromantic/sexual” etc. So simple, sweet, and straight to the point
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 :)
Fictorose flag made by combining the fictosexual and fictoromantic flags. For those who are both fictoromantic and fictosexual at the same time, being fictorose
I feel like self-shipping , the term at least, isn't a strong and serious term for me to use. Cause shipping ain't it supposed to be a joke or something like "ahahah it would be funny if these 2 characters are together". Cause if that's what it is then I'm not self-shipping. I'm in an actual real serious relationship with my f/os. That's why FICTOROSE is more appropriate for me.
Cause fictosexuality/fictoromantic is more my thing. Fictorose is just a hybrid of that. I feel for my f/os like any normal person would with their actual serious significant other. I take this shit seriously. It's not a joke for me. I am really in a relationship with them.
So please don't call me a self-shipper anymore call me a Fictorose cause that's what I really am.
I am dead serious about my relationships with my f/os. They are my everything. That's why I'm possessive over them, cause imagine hearing someone thirst after your real life spouse in front of you. A stranger at that! And imagine someone drawing art of your real life spouse and your real life sibling. That's how it feels for me seeing this shit.
It's not shipping for me, it's A REAL RELATIONSHIP!!! There's nothing fictional about my feelings for them, this ain't some silly playing with dolls fantasy imaginary play LARPing for me.
i wonder if this means i'm somewhat fictosexual/fictoromantic or just that i'm a hopeless aroacespec romantic who daydreams too much but i find myself daydreaming a lot about fictional characters in romantic situations but i'm never involved, it's just the fictional characters. I'm unsure if being fictorose means You are attracted to the characters, or if it would include a situation like this. It sounds silly but thinking about the fictional characters can evoke really intense emotions? Almost as if i was feeling love through them, if it makes any sense. In a way i kind of want what the characters have for myself but also it's hard to imagine myself in an actual relationship... I don't know, I'm confused.