Co-rumination
Engaging in repetitive, emotionally intense conversations that dwell on problems without moving toward resolution. While it can feel bonding at first, co-rumination can intensify distress, blur boundaries, and reinforce victim identity. Often mistaken for intimacy, but rooted in emotional looping.
Emotional looping A cycle where negative thoughts and feelings reinforce each other, creating a repetitive and often overwhelming emotional state. It can be triggered by stressors and leads to a cycle of rumination, anxiety, and a feeling of being stuck.
Words like Sisyphean make me wish we had more words named directly after mythological figures in our common parlance.
A Enkidian Task - A seemingly impossible task given to you the moment you enter the room without a lick of context, but for which you are supernaturally well prepared, as if it was fate that you walked into the room at the right time.
A Grendellian Task - An ugly, hideous task that nobody else has been willing or able to complete despite countless attempting it.
An Icharian Task - A seemingly simple task for which all necessary tools are provided. So simple that it's easy to approach the task and think 'there is probably a faster way to do this' before you fail miserably.
There's just so many cool options from folklore and mythology across the lore that we're just letting sit by the wayside, unspoken in our daily conversations. How can I get my morning coffee without comparing it to a Parisian Task where a simple choice has drastically disproportionate consequences? (The milk upsets my tummy.)
Remake of this post. Huge shout out to @arco-pluris for help with examples, sources, and definitions. More about gender arity here.
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Nonbinary
Identifying as neither wholly and exclusively male 100% of the time, nor wholly and exclusively female 100% of the time; not adhering to the strict Western, male-female gender binary.
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Abinary
Any genders which are unrelated to/not influenced by either binary gender.
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Nontrinary
A rejection of the idea that gender is ternary/nonbinarity is a separate "third" category, as opposed to gender being a multifaceted, multidimensional experience influenced by sociocultural constructs and personal identity.
OR any nonbinary gender identity which does not fit, fully or solely, within the trinary of male, female, & “third” gender (genders which are “like male and female, but distinct from both”) all the time.
This definition also excludes certain multigenders which are only comprised of strictly ternary genders.
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Atrinary
Any gender which is unrelated to/not influenced by either binary gender, but never defined by being a "third" alternative to these.
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Anonbinary
A more specific term for those who are so removed from the gender binary, that they do not define their gender in relation to it. (Not either/or/neither/both, but something else entirely and completely unrelated; mostly other-aligned enbies, including xenic alignments, neurogenders, and some ethnogenders.)
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Examples of terms that would fall under each category (and some that would be excluded by its usage):
Nonbinary
Anyone who does not identify wholly and exclusively as either binary gender all the time
Excludes: Binary men & women
Abinary
Quoigender, maverique, pera, mercuriuan, plutoian, stellarian, genderfree, gendervoid/genderless/nongendered, some aingenders, many xenogenders, some ethnogenders, many neurogenders, many orientationgenders
What's the origin of the term nugoth? The first time I remember seeing it was back in the mid-2000s to describe the music of She Wants Revenge (anyone remember them?)and other mid-noughties dark 80s revival bands, now I see it to describe that flowy hood and pagan symbols-infused "Instagram goth" style. Is there any actual, cohesive definition?
Is there a difference between gender-queer and nonbinary?
Yes.Genderqueer: Gender that is queer (i.e. non-normative gender identity)Nonbinary: Not one of the two binary genders. Neither male nor female. Nonbinary is more of a specific term than genderqueer though both can be used as umbrella terms and are sometimes used more interchangeably. -Bion
Nature has a language. It’s just not spoken. It is only felt and thought. Therefore terms and definitions are meaningless to nature. Humans use labels and concepts in their experience because they think nature has nothing to do with them. Like they’re some alien race from the Earth, and yet believe they own it.
Humans also believe animals aren’t as intelligent as them because they have no sense of “time” and cannot “speak”. But actually in some ways, animals are much more intelligent than humans.
It all depends on what you consider “intelligence” to be. Do you see how attached we are to the reality that we have created?
