Taboords

Lexicon

A–Z index of everything Taboords publishes: slang, acronyms, dynamics, traits, scenes.

113 entries

Slang Ratio When a reply wins more uptake than the original post, read as a public loss. Slang Rizz Flirting charm, usually improvised and visible to an internet audience. Psychology RSD Acronym for rejection sensitive dysphoria: a disproportionate pain at a rejection signal, common in ADHD speech. Psychology Rumination Looping the same episode in thought without reaching an exit. Sexuality Safeword An agreed word that stops the scene for real, above the theatre of no. Japanese culture Senpai The one who arrived earlier at school, in the club, at work: senior in the path, not necessarily in civil age. Psychology Sensory overload When light, sound, smell or touch pass the limit and the system jams or blows. Slang Sigma A stereotype of the man who refuses pack hierarchy and performs independence. Slang Simp Someone who over-defers or overspends for romantic attention, usually unreturned. Relationship Situationship A bond that has the routine of a couple and refuses the name of a couple. Relationship Slow fade Disappearance on a ramp: colder replies, longer delays, until the thread dies without a slammed door. Acronym SMH Shaking my head: disbelief reduced to three letters. Psychology Special interest The topic that organises attention, speech and time, especially for autistic people. Sexuality SSC Acronym for safe, sane, consensual: the classic ethical triad of the BDSM scene. Slang Stan An intense fan who defends, tracks, and sometimes attacks in the name of an idol or work. Psychology Stimming A repeated movement or sound that regulates the system: rocking, clicking, repeating a phrase. Relationship Talking stage A phase of messages and dates with no exclusivity agreement and no name. Acronym TBH To be honest: a warning that candour is coming, often already priced in. Subculture Therian A person who describes a non-human animal identity as part of who they are, not only as a fandom mascot. Psychology Time blindness Difficulty sensing time passing: five minutes and two hours weigh the same until lateness arrives. Acronym TL;DR Too long; didn't read: the summary for whoever refused the whole text. Slang Touch grass An order to leave the screen and touch the physical world, usually as mockery. Psychology Trauma bonding Attachment that strengthens in the cycle of harm and reconciliation, not despite it. Japanese culture Truck-kun The personified truck that hits the protagonist and opens the isekai. Japanese culture Tsundere A character who treats the other with roughness and, in layers, with affection: ice that cracks. Slang Unalive A platform euphemism: to kill or to die said in a way the filter might let through. Subculture Visual kei A Japanese scene in which the band's look — makeup, hair, costume — is as central as the sound. Sexuality Voyeurism Arousal from looking; in the clinic, a pattern that invades someone who did not agree to be seen. Japanese culture Waifu A character (almost always female) treated as a fandom wife: poster, figure, ironic vow. Subculture Weeb A Western slur for someone nested too deep in anime-Japan: the pejorative cousin of otaku. Subculture Yami kawaii Sick cute: a bow, a pill, plastic blood and a smile that does not hide unease. Japanese culture Yandere A character whose affection turns into possession: the dere that slips into yan (sick, warped). Relationship Zombieing Coming back from ghosting as if the death had not happened: a hi after the silence.