Donmai

Elves and their (sometimes not) pointy ears

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BUR #22883 has been rejected.

remove implication elf -> pointy_ears

Years ago, we decided that elf was a necessary canon tag for finding what the general zeitgeist decided was an elf. However, these past few months have brought about something of an elf waifu renaissance and there are cracks (that were already known about) starting to widen. "Stereotypical" elves are rarely even uploaded nowadays. Instead, we have people mass updating Frieren with elf every day or so (though not Marcille, oddly), Shadowheart not getting the elf tag due to her ears not being shown, and similar things. There are even some shows out there where the elves don't have ears.

For the tag to function properly, it cannot implicate pointy ears lest it cause mistags (which was brought up two years ago but impossible to fix), especially given that some of the major elves premiering have costumes later on that hide their ears.

Alright, then.

Is it preferable to tag images like the recently popular frog costume on Marcille as elf even without being able to see the pointy ears and letting that slide, or should we not tag such images elf?

Veraducks said:

Alright, then.

Is it preferable to tag images like the recently popular frog costume on Marcille as elf even without being able to see the pointy ears and letting that slide, or should we not tag such images elf?

i think those cases don't need to be tagged elf

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