It occurred to me a while ago that, given the proliferation of certain ships and characters’ popularity, a tag for changeling-dragon hybrids – a draconic equivalent to
changepony, essentially – might be useful.
Now, it appears that one such tag already exists,
dragonling. I have my concerns about it, however, because while phonetically pleasing it seems easy to misuse. My worry is that it seems too similar to a term for infant dragons – the “-ling” suffix, by itself, typically denotes infant versions of something (hatchling, fledgeling, seedling, sapling, stripling, duckling, gosling, even changeling originally referred to infants who had been exchanged by the fairies for human babies). In point of fact, the only image to which this tag was added after the original mass tagging two months ago uses it to indicate an infant dragon.
My other thought was something like
changedragon. It… doesn’t really roll off the tongue, but there seem to be fewer opportunities for misuse, and consequently less need for constant monitoring and upkeep.
Thoughts?