Scepulative 

Speculatively sceptical.

Lars was scepulative about the onset of the 2030 Arctic Blast apocalyptic climate event.

Scepulative by thePorous'tSegue September 5, 2015

Hetero-Speculative 

Someone who seems straight, but is actually gay.

Tyson turned out to be hetero-speculative, as I heard he was in the pride parade yesterday.

Hetero-Speculative by El ritardo June 25, 2018

Speculative Fiction

A genre of fiction that encompasses works with supernatural or futuristic elements.

The most notable genres of speculative fiction include fantasy, science fiction, horror, utopian, dystopian, alternate history, apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, superhero and supernatural

The word "speculative fiction" was coined by American sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein

Speculative Fiction by Nordicdragon June 27, 2018

Speculative Grenade

When playing a game shooting game, like like the call of duty series, and throwing a grenade as far as you can in the general direction of where the enemy might be in the hope of it being especially lucky and killing someone. Ccan also be done with a tomahawk on call of duty black ops, know as a speculative tomahawk. either can be shortened to spec tommy or spec genade.

i threw a speculative grenade and got a triple kill.

Speculative Grenade by Mac1zero May 30, 2011

Steplative 

A step relative. i.e. stepbrother, stepfather etc.

"Hey Mom, are you picking me up from the airport tonight?"
"No sorry, your stepbrother Phil is"
"Fuckin Steplatives..."

Steplative by Collo January 4, 2008

Speculative margin

noun

A physics engine setting that forces developers to speculate for weeks about mysterious collision bugs, when the solution was literally just setting it to 0.0 the whole time.

The amount of time you'll spend debugging phantom collisions before discovering this setting.

"Dude, I spent a month debugging microbumps in my voxel game. Turns out it was just Speculative margin. I'm never trusting physics engines again."

"My player kept bouncing on flat surfaces and I thought I was losing my mind. Classic case of Speculative margin syndrome."

Speculative margin by lewade April 12, 2026

Speculative Survival Theology

The core worldbuilding methodology and counterfactual framework in the Abzuverse used to re-engineer historically monocentric, state-dependent ancient religions so they can logically survive and thrive within a global, multi-polar cross-pantheon multicosm.
In mainstream pop culture, ancient faiths like those of Kemet (Egypt) or Cemanāhuac (Mesoamerica) are treated as fragile museum pieces that instantly dissolve into a dead aesthetic the moment their historical empires fall. Speculative Survival Theology actively rejects this narrative decolonization-wise. It operates on a brilliant "what-if" blueprint modeled after the real-world, decentralized historical resiliency of stateless Near Eastern ethno-religious minorities (such as the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Mandaeans, and Yazidis) who outlasted empires through pure philosophical and communal adaptation.

When applied to a hyper-centralized, isolationist pantheon—most prominently seen in Nun & Nutgeb Expanded—this theology enforces three strict metaphysical conversions:
1. The Universalization of Cosmic Law: Core moral architectures like Mꜣꜥt (Ma'at) are stripped of their royal state monopolies. They are re-engineered into universal mathematical constants of relational balance that can be actively practiced and upheld by anyone, anywhere, even on foreign soil under occupying empires.

2. The De-Centering of Sacred Geography: The physical cradle of the religion (the Nile Valley, Tenochtitlan, etc.) is demoted from being the literal center of the universe. It becomes a localized anchor of a much larger, globalized cosmic network. If territorial temples are leveled, the gods do not bleed out; they simply distribute their operations across parallel dimensions.
3. The Horizontalization of Responsibility: With the physical axis point of the state broken (such as the fall of the Pharaoh), the metaphysical duty of preventing cosmic chaos (Isfet) is democratized. The survival of the cosmos shifts to the horizontal collective—maintained entirely through the individual moral choices, diaspora community networks, and the preservation of ancestral names by the scattered population.
“Deploying Speculative Survival Theology to the Egyptian lore was brilliant because it allowed the Netjeru to look at Roman or Persian conquerors and simply outlast them through decentralized, mobile communities.”
“Instead of treating the fall of Kemet as an existential death sentence, Speculative Survival Theology gives the entire pantheon a compelling, universalist survival arc.”

Speculative Survival Theology by Abzu & Anki October 15, 2026