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alias pillow_hug -> hugging_pillow

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Lyren

BUR #21780 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create alias book_hug -> hugging_book

This one should be included as well for consistency, it's part of the hugging object implications similar to pillow hug.

Few other notes about hug tags (sorry if too off-topic):
- Body part hugs are in the *_hug form, except hugging ass.
- Animal hug is its own thing
- Blanket hug is used for two different scenarios, otherwise I'd add it to the BUR as well as an implication to hugging object.

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Red Terror ion288 avidbookreader John Reality Laudividni baconmeh2 Lyren Vasi1
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GreyOmega4K said:

This may introduce the potential risk of people accidentally tagging body pillows as hugging pillows, especially since a common purpose of them is for hugging/embracing them.

It's still a pillow though.

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GreyOmega

mmtr said:

It's still a pillow though.

They may tag the pillow itself even if it's not being hugged, as "hugging pillow" could just as well mean a pillow used for hugging as it is someone performing the action of hugging a pillow.

Going by Wikipedia, dakimakura (抱き枕; from daki 抱き "embrace" and makura 枕 "pillow"). Google translator also suggests alternative translations "hugging pillow and "hug pillow." So there is the potential using hugging pillow for the action also opens the door for people to mistag it for the object.

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user 885514

GreyOmega4K said:

Google translator also suggests alternative translations "hugging pillow and "hug pillow." So there is the potential using hugging pillow for the action also opens the door for people to mistag it for the object.

We already have dakimakura_(object) as a separate tag, but I could make an alias for hugging a dakimakura, as hugging_dakimakura along with hugging_pillow for normal pillows, I don't think it'd lead to big problems with mistaking these two since Danbooru already calls all hugging pillows dakimakuras by default.

Funnily enough, dakimakura never had hugging pillow as it's alias, lol

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Vasi1

pillow_hug leaves no space for ambiguity, because the main word is hug here. It is obvious and falls in line with other tags where nouns are preferred over verbs. hugging_pillow could be both name for a pillow with the purpose of hugging, and an act of hugging a pillow. It's ambiguous and the only pro for this change is stylistic preference.

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nonamethanks

Vasi1 said:

It is obvious and falls in line with other tags where nouns are preferred over verbs.

We've actually been moving away from noun_verb in favor of verbing_noun, precisely because they're incredibly ambiguous: for example leg hug or tail hug say nothing about who's doing what. The doll hug example from the OP is a similar case: is the doll hugging someone, or someone hugging a doll?

In this, case, however, I agree that trying to standardize the tag would actually bring us more problems than benefits. There's no ambiguity here because a pillow can't (normally) hug someone, so it makes sense to leave pillow hug as it is.
The alternative is calling the tag hugging a pillow, but it's really ugly and forced for no reason, and it'd still be an outlier in format, so there's no point in doing that.

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