Nihiltabos: A gender related to the fear of nothingness, or there being nothing where there should be something. It may feel both too infinite, and yet too non-existent or cramped. A claustrophobic and agoraphobic experience culminating as one.
When one opens a door, there is never a full certainty that emptiness won’t await them on the other side. When a light is shut off for bed, our imaginations may conjure up the idea that the darkness has swallowed us whole. To be both in an infinite space, and yet be nowhere, is one of the most primal fears a living thing can have.
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
Intended to be a parallel to andemobos and andeceabos, creations of the blog @crescairis.
