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@Zeb
@Yoshimon1
Personally, I only tag “twilight sparkle (alicorn)” and “unicorn twilight” if it can be reasonably determined from the image which kind of pony she’s meant to be – just going by the upload date doesn’t seem like a good method in my mind, because there can sometimes be a significant temporal gap between the image being
made and the image being
uploaded. A lot of images are posted wherever the artist wants to post them and are uploaded here hours, days, weeks, months or years later when someone finds them and decides to upload them.
I mean, for instance, both these images I uploaded (
1690928,
1611358) were made during Season 1 but only uploaded a few months ago. Neither features Twilight, granted, but they prove my point – there’s nothing stopping a pre~~”MMM” picture from being uploaded after 2013.
Moreover, AUs exist -~~ Silfoe’s Nightmare Moon and Nomad AUs, for instance, but have Twilight quite explicitly as a unicorn, but don’t always show her full body: we only know that Twilight’s a unicorn there because she’s such in other pictures from those ‘verses. Take
1750673 and
1566976, where most of Twilight is off-panel, or
1716557, where most of her body is hidden. Tagging “twilight sparkle (alicorn)” in those cases because they’re post-“MMM” busts without the back and sides visible would be mistagging. Without knowing what the artist had in mind, I would not tag busts or pictures where’s she’s mostly obscured or hidden as either pony race.
Basically, I’d say only tag what’s there or can be inferred from a) context, and/or b) other related pictures.