Stellate Orientation System

The stellate orientation system is a group of terms that may be used to describe the genders one is attracted to. All terms in this system are non-exclusive (meaning that one may or may not experience attraction to genders other than the ones they refer to). They do not inherently indicate that one's orientation is static or involves any form of preference, and they do not describe any information about one's own gender - simply that one experiences an attraction to a certain gender or group of genders in some form.

The -stellic suffix is taken from the word "stellate", which refers to something that resembles a star in shape (derived from the Latin word "stellatus", meaning "star"). This theme is used simply as a naming device, to distinguish the terms from others (similarly to the terms in the galactian alignment system), though the multiple points of a star shape may be seen to represent the many aspects of one's identity.

Usage

These terms may be used to refer to any type of attraction. This includes (but is not limited to): any split attractions, angled or oriented a-spec identities, and fluid or fluctuating attractions. They may be used as adjectives to describe aspects of one's attraction, or as identities - whether combined with other identities or used on their own. They may also be used general terms, encompassing anyone who experiences, or any identities that involve attraction to a certain gender or group of genders. These terms may be combined with other identities in any way one feels is accurate.

Identifying with a term/ terms in the stellate orientation system does not inherently make one queer, since the terms may be used by anyone including heterosexual people who will likely identify with at least one -stellic term. It is possible that a heterosexual person may not feel that any -stellic term or combination of terms describe their orientation sufficiently, due to the broader nature of the terms (e.g., binary men who are attracted exclusively to binary women rather than to fiaspec people in general - though such people could still identify more generally with the fiastellic label, and would be included when one refers to fiastellic attraction in general, since binary women are fiaspec).

Stellate Orientation System Terminology

A list of terms from this system, alongside the genders they indicate an attraction to.

Main Terminology

• Trixstellic: Fiaspec (female, partially female or female-aligned) and/or fingender (feminine in nature).
• Torstellic: Miaspec (male, partially male or male-aligned) and/or mingender (masculine in nature).
• Mestellic: Liaspec (androgyne, partially androgyne or androgyne-aligned) and/or lingender (androgynous in nature).
• Enstellic: Non-binary, including feminine, masculine, androgynous, aporine and/or xenine aligned non-binary genders.
• Exstellic: Abinary, including aiaspec or xiaspec (aporine, xenic, partially aporine, partially xenic, aporine-aligned or xenic-aligned) and/or aingender or xingender (aporine or xenine in nature).

Sub-labels

More specific sub-labels for the main terminology.

• Fiastellic: Fiaspec (female, partially female or female-aligned).
• Finstellic: Fingender (feminine in nature).
• Miastellic: Miaspec (male, partially male or male-aligned).
• Minstellic: Mingender (masculine in nature).
• Liastellic: Liaspec (androgyne, partially androgyne or androgyne-aligned genders).
• Linstellic: Lingender (androgynous in nature).
• Apstellic: Aiaspec (aporine, partially aporine or aporine-aligned), and/or aingender (aporine in nature).
• Ninstellic: Neutral (neutral, neutral-aligned and/or neutral in nature).
• Oustellic: Outherine (outherine, outherine-aligned and/or outherine in nature)
• Xenstellic: Xiaspec (xeno, partially xeno or xeno-aligned) and/or xingender (xenine in nature).
• Xiastellic: Xiaspec (xeno, partially xeno or xeno-aligned).
• Xinstellic: Xingender (xenine in nature).

History

These terms were created by FANDOM user Contie, 21st June 2021 - 24th June 2021, and first posted publicly, 25th June 2021.

They were created to provide non-exclusive forms for a range of orientations, that do not imply exclusive or static attraction and do not indicate one's own gender.