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Proper purpose for the hybrid tag

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Xovaryu

Currently the hybrid tag isn't really used, and it's wiki is just:

Ambiguous. Use instead one of the following:

To me this seems a little lacking in one simple regard. Humanoids with mixed species.

  • fusion is a tag specifically for character fusions (such as Nina Tucker and Alexander from Full Metal Alchemist)
  • chimera is a tag really more specifically for creatures/animals
  • crossover is a tag specifically for, well, crossovers between copyrights/etc

This kind of leaves a weird gap for stuff the likes of which I like to create and upload, such as demon/dragon girls post #54102 & post #54097 or dragon/fox girls post #53078 & post #52560, which I feel could use a specific tag to denote that kind of content. And the first term that comes to mind is hybrid. I'm fine either way, but this seems like a simple sane improvement. Thoughts?

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Xovaryu

Lyren said:

I agree, fusion could be used for characters and hybrid for stuff like animals, creatures and monsters.
I don't like that post #38010 and similar are in the same category as character fusions right now.

You mean chimera, right? Because as it stands that's already what it's used for both here and on Danbooru:

So post #9231 and post #38010 could already go into the chimera category as it is, though the wiki could be adjusted a little to actually make that clear.

My suggestion is to add:

  • hybrid = species+species (roughly humanoid)
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Lyren

Xovaryu said:

You mean chimera, right?

I guess this is a personal problem of mine, but I have never heard of chimera used outside of the Greek mythology and tagging random creatures as chimera feels odd to me.

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Xovaryu

Lyren said:

I guess this is a personal problem of mine, but I have never heard of chimera used outside of the Greek mythology and tagging random creatures as chimera feels odd to me.

You're not entirely wrong, but Danbooru handles it that way, though it does fail a little on consistency. The question is, do we have better options?
Hm, actually there is something I can think of. How about humanoid_hybrid and nonhumanoid_hybrid or something along those lines? They could implicate hybrid which can then be described as what it actually is in terminology, a crossbreed. This would then free up chimera for the actual greek chimeras.

Currently there are so few posts around here that manually going through the relevant ones wouldn't be an off-putting amount of work either.

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