September 2025

made a flag for a term i’m going to call nilautive, for system members who are nilauto. on its own it might seem contradictory or hard to understand, but i think there’s multiple ways it could work.

once again, nilauto is a very personal term for me and my system, and it’s heavily based on a different term so we don’t feel very comfortable promoting it. if you wanna use it, you can.

this also isn’t a term to describe an entire system, instead being for specific members. i might make that later, though.

I “made” a term- sort of- called nilauto, but because it’s so heavily based on another term (autnil) I don’t really feel comfortable saying I coined something, and I worry that spreading it at all in some kind of “official Tumblr post” capacity would cause that, even if I put a disclaimer. For me, autnil didn’t quite fit, and I wanted nilauto to be a sort of spectrum in the same way plurality is… but it is still broadly very similar in concept and etymology. So, I just threw it onto a Rentry for the time being? You can look at it, if you want