@Background Pony #DED3
Look, I don’t totally disagree with you about Twilight, but you could do a little more work on making people
want to agree with you. You’re coming off as kind of absolutist and negative, and that doesn’t really win friends. Anyway, I’d agree that Twilight’s race was swapped, but the thing is, if people do a search on the
race swap
tag are they really going to be hoping to see generic pictures of Twilight Sparkle? Especially if they’re just season 4 screencaps? I don’t think so, though you’re certainly welcome to disagree. I’d more want to see Twilight as an earth pony, or a pegasus, and think “hmmm how did this happen and what would the ramifications be?”
As for EQG, well, they’re not really the same characters, are they? I don’t think I’d want to say that EQG Rainbow Dash, the girl who was born a human and grew up a human and plays soccer and guitar, should be tagged as
humanized
or
equestria girls-ified
. If pony Rainbow Dash, who wants to join the Wonderbolts and handles Ponyville’s weather, were to pass through the magic portal and start attending Canterlot High for some reason, that’d be different, but in most pictures that’s not the case. So I think the (majority of cases of) tagging is correct.
Should
equestria girls-ified
imply
humanized
? Eh probably not. They’ve got pastel skin colors, they can sprout ears and wings under somewhat unclear circumstances, their culture has an inexplicable fascination with horses. Their fashion sense is rather different than ours. They’re somewhere between human and anthro, and there’s a difference in intention between converting a normally-pony character to human vs. EQG. Heck, if you wanted to take one of the EQG background characters and give them some human flesh colors and more realistic proportions and maybe fewer miniskirts, that might even be a case of
equestria girls, humanized
. But people might disagree there.
Anyway. I’m sorry, this post was much longer than I meant it to be. I think what people are saying about “derailing” is that this thread is mostly a submission box for implication suggestions, and the fact that other people can see them and discuss them is partially–not entirely–a side effect. Certainly if someone suggests that
hugging
should imply
shipping
, you’re welcome to say hey no that doesn’t sound right, I hug my friends all the time. But if something’s particularly contentious, it just makes sense to take it to the tag discussion thread, because people
who want to discuss tags are going to be hanging out there. And if you can talk to them and maybe convince them or just generally come to a consensus, that’ll probably give you better chances in
this thread.