Hopelessromantic831 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 We have black rings for asexuality. What if we had colored rings for our romantic orientations? Like red for heteroromantic, rainbow or like green for homoromantic, gray for biromantic, and so forth. What do you guys think? UPDATE: Alright, so we've had some suggestions for various colors for different orientations, but it all seemed a little confusing, because of different people not liking different colors and the same colors being suggested for different orientations. I also tried very very hard to find colored plain rings (basically plain wedding bands) in colors like red and purple, and I could not find anything that I thought was satisfactory. So my suggestions is that we use these colors: Hetero-silver Homo-gold Bi-rose gold (An alternative would be wearing both a gold ring and a silver ring) Aro-white Any objections? (I think it would be best for the rings to be worn stacked next to the black one on the right middle finger.) Once I feel that what few people who see this are satisfied, I am going to try to promote it on tumblr. I would greatly appreciate it if all who approve would also promote it. Link to post Share on other sites
a-happyhippie Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I love this so much. I'm gonna get a gray ring for biromance ^-^ Link to post Share on other sites
Hopelessromantic831 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 I love this so much. I'm gonna get a gray ring for biromance ^-^ OMG YAYYYYY! Someone liked the idea! Link to post Share on other sites
AprilStorms Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 We could base it off the flags! Androromantic is... green, I think? I could get a black and green ring :) Link to post Share on other sites
Sleepy Skeleton Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I think that's a great idea! I'd wear a green ring for aromantic. It's the color on one of our flags (because no one can agree on a flag). Green is for aromantic because green is the opposite of red, which is the color of love. ^_^ Link to post Share on other sites
Zapstileon Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I think I'd have to wear my rings around my neck on a string because I struggle to remember one. Never mind two! :P Although, why not? I'm pretty sure the rainbow ring already exists though. Only for sexuality, right? I most definitely have friends who represent gay pride by wearing rings, anyway. A bit more discreet than bracelets. Don't think the homoromantic one should be rainbow, because that's so obvious. What I like about the black ace ring is that nobody knows what it means unless they're part of the community or I tell them (which I don't, because why would I?). It's kind of nice to have a thing that not everyone gets, you know? Link to post Share on other sites
Hopelessromantic831 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 We could base it off the flags! Androromantic is... green, I think? I could get a black and green ring :) Oh! I just looked up androromantic and found this androromantic: someone who prefers romance with the male gender gynoromantic: someone who prefers romance with the female gender panromantic: someone who can become romantically attracted to any gender I still would like red as heteroromantic though Link to post Share on other sites
Hopelessromantic831 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 I think I'd have to wear my rings around my neck on a string because I struggle to remember one. Never mind two! :P Although, why not? I'm pretty sure the rainbow ring already exists though. Only for sexuality, right? I most definitely have friends who represent gay pride by wearing rings, anyway. A bit more discreet than bracelets. Don't think the homoromantic one should be rainbow, because that's so obvious. What I like about the black ace ring is that nobody knows what it means unless they're part of the community or I tell them (which I don't, because why would I?). It's kind of nice to have a thing that not everyone gets, you know? Yes, I think that makes sense. Do we have any homoromantic opinions here? What color would you like your ring to be? Link to post Share on other sites
Hopelessromantic831 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 So if green is aromantic gray is biromantic and red is heteroromantic what should be homoromantic? Link to post Share on other sites
a-happyhippie Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 But wait - wouldn't pink be biromantic?? Since that's part of the flag?? Link to post Share on other sites
Hopelessromantic831 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 But wait - wouldn't pink be biromantic?? Since that's part of the flag?? Yes, that would make sense :) Link to post Share on other sites
ohmless Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 great idea. I would think grey might just mean you are grey ace for simplicity. Link to post Share on other sites
5_♦♣ Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Why red for hetero-romantic? Link to post Share on other sites
Hopelessromantic831 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 Why red for hetero-romantic? Red is (kinda) the color of romance. But I am trying to find a plain red band and it is impossible! What if we had more common/neutral color rings, so that it would fit with any/most outfits? (like gold, and silver, and maybe white?) Link to post Share on other sites
Hopelessromantic831 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 What if we had like rose gold for bi, gold for homo, silver for hetero? Any ideas for aro? (I know there are other orientations, anyone who wants to speak up for the other ones can give ideas) Link to post Share on other sites
Sleepy Skeleton Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Why red for hetero-romantic?Red is (kinda) the color of romance. But I am trying to find a plain red band and it is impossible! What if we had more common/neutral color rings, so that it would fit with any/most outfits? (like gold, and silver, and maybe white?) Wait, what? I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure you can have romance in same-sex/gender relationships, too. It would make more sense for red to be for romantics in general. But wear whatever color you like. ^_^ Link to post Share on other sites
Hopelessromantic831 Posted January 15, 2015 Author Share Posted January 15, 2015 I stand corrected. Of course homo and hetero relationships can both be romantic. Sorry about that. Link to post Share on other sites
AprilStorms Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Yeah, we should probably agree on something :P How did the black ones come about? I just said green for andro because I was thinking that's what that flag looked like? Green for aro would probably make more sense though, now that you mention it Let me see if I can find a pic of the flag... Edit: this one seem pretty accurate, for reference: http://lovemystarfire.deviantart.com/art/LGBT-Community-Flag-Gradients-448353249 What would the colors be for polyamorous folks? Or lith/akioromantic? Since black and gray are taken, would androromantic just be a lighter green than aro? I really like the idea of metallic rings but I don't know that there's enough variety there. You have whitish metals and blackish metals and yellowish metals and that's about it in the jewelry department. Copper, I guess. But I think a lot of those type rings would be mistaken as engagement or wedding. Link to post Share on other sites
whitesphere Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I would say base the color on the genders one can be romantically attracted to. That covers homo and heterosexual romantics equally. But I agree the rings should be some color that is, well, fashion neutral. Or we could use semiprecious stones in the rings, since those aren't too expensive and come in a huge variety of colors: So it would be something like: Geode = aromantic (i.e. other worldly) Moonstone/rose quartz = romantically attracted to women Petrified wood = romantically attracted to men Agate = romantically attracted to men or women (it looks multi-colored) Link to post Share on other sites
Cimmerian Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Interesting idea and all... but is anyone outside of this thread/asexuality going to know what these mean? xD We're going to end up with the same problem as the ace-rings. (On a side note: as a biromantic I have an aversion to pink... It's disappointing that all of the decorations and jewelry have the color with it... >.>) Link to post Share on other sites
AprilStorms Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 But how difficult is it to find moonstone/petrified wood rings? Link to post Share on other sites
Sci Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 But wait - wouldn't pink be biromantic?? Since that's part of the flag?? Yes, that would make sense :) But shouldn't it be purple as in that's the mix of the two flag colors combined. Link to post Share on other sites
a-happyhippie Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 But wait - wouldn't pink be biromantic?? Since that's part of the flag?? Yes, that would make sense :) But shouldn't it be purple as in that's the mix of the two flag colors combined. Purple would be aromantic, wouldn't it? Because purple is the main color for the ace flag, I would assume pink would be biromantic to separate it. Link to post Share on other sites
warrigan Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 But wait - wouldn't pink be biromantic?? Since that's part of the flag?? Yes, that would make sense :) But shouldn't it be purple as in that's the mix of the two flag colors combined. Purple would be aromantic, wouldn't it? Because purple is the main color for the ace flag, I would assume pink would be biromantic to separate it. aro is usually represented by green because, as explained above, it's the opposite of red (which is a romantic color). fun fact: from what i read online a while ago, the purple in the flag stands for community. black is for sexuals, white is for aces, grey is for greys/demis. :) my understanding is that the bisexual (/-romantic) flag included purple, since it was pink (girls) and blue (boys) combined. pansexual (/-romantic) includes yellow in addition to pink and blue, to make it less binary (yellow being the color for the genderqueer/non-binary umbrella). Link to post Share on other sites
Sci Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 But wait - wouldn't pink be biromantic?? Since that's part of the flag?? Yes, that would make sense :) But shouldn't it be purple as in that's the mix of the two flag colors combined. Purple would be aromantic, wouldn't it? Because purple is the main color for the ace flag, I would assume pink would be biromantic to separate it. Well the biromantic flag is the colors pink and blue representing two or more genders. The large purple in the middle represents how bi's like two or more genders. Link to post Share on other sites
a-happyhippie Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Ohhhhhhhh. That makes sense! So I would get a purple ring to represent biromance? Link to post Share on other sites
Hopelessromantic831 Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 I literally spent an hour and a half just now trying to find a plain red band (ring) and I could not find anything. This is discouraging. Link to post Share on other sites
Dodecahedron314 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 I've seen something flying around on the aro side of Tumblr about white rings being a possibility for aromanticism. I'm not sure how widespread that is, though. A green ring was also proposed, but a few people pointed out that it can be pretty hard to find plain green rings. Link to post Share on other sites
Agent Shade Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 This is a good idea. Hopeless, I think you should update the first post with what colors were decided for each ring. Link to post Share on other sites
Flyaway4me Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I think it would be a cool idea to use the sexuality's flag colors ^_^ Link to post Share on other sites
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