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Background Pony #938C
I feel like who needs organs? could use an alias without the question mark.
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PinkSkyCandy
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hi! I’m new here and I wanted to know why some people remove the tags I put.
Some I understand, but I put the “grimdark” tag and someone takes it away… but I wanted that post as grimdark or semi-grimdark because it’s content that some people don’t feel good about.
I know the rule for using the grimdark tag, for me my work goes under this tag, but people take it away.
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Ciaran
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@PinkSkyCandy
If the image is rape, or non-consensual, then it would definitely be grimdark.
But it appears to be consensual and what is sometimes called ‘rough sex’, which may be a form of “pain play” or extreme dom/sub (although on an image with feral as the penetrator, I’m not sure that there is a way to attribute “play” or dom/sub to the image).
So, grimdark definitely doesn’t apply, because there’s no death, etc.
However, if you feel the image includes themes of “Minor physical/sexual abuse, including very dubious consent”, then semi-grimdark would be fine, I think. But grimdark is really more for rape, murder, etc.
Also, please note that the image absolutely is explicit on this site. I see you removed that tag, but it is really the right rating tag for images that show outright sex or genitals.
PinkSkyCandy
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Comic artist
@Ciaran
Thanks! I believed there was a hierarchical relationship (which grimdark was already considered explicit)
This clear me a lot, I prefer to stick with semi-grimdark for now
But it appears to be consensual and what is sometimes called ‘rough sex’, which may be a form of “pain play” or extreme dom/sub (although on an image with feral as the penetrator, I’m not sure that there is a way to attribute “play” or dom/sub to the image).
This is why I decided not to do scenes like this anymore hahahahahah
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Background Pony #F906
What’s the difference between sexsomnia and reverse sleep molestation?
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Background Pony #DC87
The tags engrish and broken english seem to mean the same thing as well.
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platinumdrop
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Immortal spirit
hello, I need someone who knows pony life. Someone who really likes pony life says the grey pony in pony life called Blossomforth.
Then someone changed the tag to Noctula and says on my deviantart that she is Noctula not Blossomforth. I don’t know pony life, how they call the grey pony in the show? Is noctula some new fan given name? What is for her the good tag?

Never mind, I found that this name is voted by 5 (five!) people so on derpibooru we can use this name.
Dogman15
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I'm not famous.
@JP
I think the latter is specifically meant for the 2D-only “game” on DeviantArt that was built in Flash. I’m not sure, but I think the former was meant to be for a 3D-based online creator. Someone else should weigh in.
Background Pony #7C7A
@Kincyr
“Donut steel” is 100% a meme.
Looking more closely through “original character do not steal”, it seems you are right that most of it is serious, though it’s still mixed with ironic usage.
Background Pony #52BA
@Blissful690
From the tagger themself, which BTW I found using a handy feature called searching:
Wiimeiser
Added “spurple” (Spur + curple) to >>2420426 for no reason.
Noun
curple
  1. The hindquarters or the rump of a horse, a strap under the girth of a horse’s saddle to stop the saddle from kicking forward
  2. (transferred) The buttocks, the posterior.
TexasUberAlles
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I was surprised the last time this came up to find that “Elizabethan Collar” is in fact the proper technical term for it; I’ve still never met a veterinarian who called it anything other than “a cone” or “a cone of shame”, but it’s in their manuals and supply ordering books as “elizabethan collar”.
Jewellier
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*Gigachad theme plays*
Ok, I think a lot of people have heard of the smile virus, My little worms comic, and infection AUs of all kinds by now. It’s a tiktok trend that grew so large it’s impossible to comprehend what it even is right now, but generally speaking, it’s all AUs about a gruesome disease spreading around Equestria and ponies dealing with it.
TW for anyone curious: lots of horror and grotesque zombies
No matter how you feel about it, the thing is big, and it’s everywhere, and it gets slowly uploaded here. How do we properly tag it? I feel like there needs to be an umbrella tag for all this madness, something like “infection AU
The biggest tags I found so far are smile virus and mlp infection. Pony virus is how we call it here in Russian-speaking part of the Internet
Has there been a discussion on it? If not, is it sensible to have it right here or to create a separate thread?
I went to the artist name aliases thread to check the syntax of clickable tags, and accidentally posted this text there, now I’m embarrassed
Princess_Fluttershy
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Princess of Kindness
Because Wings and Horn are artificial Constructs, should Sunny Starscout not be tagged as Artificial Alicorn?
Every Alicorn included Queen Chrysalis (yes, she is canon described as Alicorn Type by Pinkie Pie) has Horn and Wings as attached, real Part of the Body, but Sunny is an Earth Pony as long she not Power up.
Similar you can’t call SciTwi an Alicorn, because she get Ears and Wings when powering up and she not even has a Horn then (but she is no Pegasus too).
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