Pitch Orientation and Attraction
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Pitch or Kismesic Attraction is an attraction founded on a simultaneous hatred and respect for another person. You could think of a Pitch relationship as a committed rivalry that takes on characteristics of a romantic relationship. Like Matespritic attraction, there can (but doesn’t necessarily have to) be a sexual component to Kismesic attraction. This is specifically not for harmful or abusive relationships or the desire for them.
History
The quadrant system was first introduced in famous webcomic Homestuck by Andrew Hussie on August 10 2010. In the comic, the quadrant system refers to the types of romance experienced by trolls. While humans only have one form of romance, trolls experience four; matespiritship (the flushed quadrant), moirallegience (the pale quadrant), kismesissitude (the pitch quadrant), and auspisticism (the ashen quadrant).
Although people have used quadrant romance to describe relationships since Homestuck introduced it, mx-princey on Tumblr formalized the terminology on 25 May 2020 for ease of use. [1] In this post, they also coined flags for the four quadrants, and in a post shared details on kismesic attraction and bonus flags. [2]
Related Terms
| Label | Relationship | Description | Difference |
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| Flushed Attraction | Counterpart | An attraction founded on feelings of romantic love and/or sexual attraction | |
| Ashen Attraction | Counterpart | An attraction founded on a desire to help two others maintain a healthy relationship | |
| Pale Attraction | Counterpart | An attraction founded on a desire to support or protect another individual | |
| Kismesigender | Counterpart | A gender that changes based on who one's kismesic partner (kismesitude) is | |
| Amodian Attraction | Similar | An attraction that is both romantic love and hate tightly woven together. | Pitch attraction is explicitly about hatred and respect, rather than requiring romantic love |
Sub-Terms
| Label | Description | Flag | Creator |
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| Anobscuric | the a-spec equivalent of kismesic attraction | 
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Spica Naos |
Orientations
| Label | Flag | Creator(s) |
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| homokismesic/pitch gay |  [2]
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mx-princey |
| homokismesic/pitch lesbian |  [2]
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mx-princey |
| bikismesic/pitch bi |  [2]
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mx-princey |
| pankismesic/pitch pan |  [2]
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mx-princey |
| heterokismesic/pitch straight |  [2]
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mx-princey |
| akismesic/pitch aro |  [2]
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mx-princey |
| pitch polyamory |  [2]
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mx-princey |
| demikismesic/pitch demi |  [3]
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mogai-trender-sideblog |
| alloacekismesic |  [4]
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lolliepops-rox |
| alloarokismesic |  [4]
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lolliepops-rox |
| acefluxkismesic |  [4]
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lolliepops-rox |
| arofluxkismesic |  [4]
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lolliepops-rox |
| aegokismesic |  [5]
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neopronouns |
| multikismesic/pitch mspec |  [6]
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neopronouns |
| pitch toric |  [7]
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mx-princey |
Flags and Symbols
the pitch attraction flag, with no symbol
the pitch polyamory flag, with no symbol
The pitch attraction flag, as well as the flags for gay, lesbian, bi, pan, straight, aro, and polyamorous pitch orientations were created alongside the term by mx-princey on May 25, 2020.[2] On March 10, 2021, Tumblr user mogai-trender-sideblog created demi- flags for the four quadrant system attractions.[3] On November 3, 2022, Tumblr user lolliepops-rox created flags for alloaro-, aceflux-, alloace-, and aroflux- kismesic orientations.[4] Sometime in 2022, Tumblr user neopronouns created a flag for the aegokismesic orientation. [5]
Resources
- ↑ https://mx-princey.tumblr.com/post/619013685120270336/the-quadrant-system-is-the-structure-for-romance
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 https://mx-princey.tumblr.com/post/619014551234592768/my-intention-with-this-post-is-to-provide
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20240505192251/https://www.tumblr.com/mogai-trender-sideblog/645309830595297280/i-made-some-demi-versions-of-the-quadrant-system
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 https://at.tumblr.com/lolliepops-rox/aroflux-quadrant-flags-reposted/imvmvtqmfqlk
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://neopronouns.tumblr.com/post/682356492609994752/aegomatespritic-aegomoirallegic-aegokismesic
- ↑ https://neopronouns.tumblr.com/post/687427132541042688/multikismesicpitch-mspecpitch-multi-someone
- ↑ https://at.tumblr.com/mx-princey/pitch-attraction-my-intention-with-this-post-is-to/q716rw1tc7uu
