"floppy ears" should not be the tag for any and all ears that are not perkily up and forward

• pinned ears becomes the new main tag for ears that are drawn tightly down and back; this is neutral to any intended emotion (unlike “angry ears”), avoids confusion with ear structure (unlike “flat ears”), and reflects the word order of “floppy ears” (unlike “ears back” and “ears pinned”)
• flat ears, angry ears, ears back, ears pinned are changed into “pinned ears” aliases
• floppy eras, ears lowered, droopy ears, ears down remain as “floppy ears” aliases
• “pinned ears” gains description: “ears pulled tightly down and back” or perhaps “ears flattened down and backwards”
• “floppy ears” gains description: “ears drooping from the perky upright position”
• folded ears idk? I think if they can be described as outright “folded” they’re more likely to have the stiff position that would point to “pinned ears”?
• ear flop becomes alias for one ear down (if we decide to keep the one-ear variant as its own separate tag, which I think we should _{because asymmetric ear flops are 20 % more adorable and that’s just a fact, a science fact})

“pinned ears” gains description: “ears pulled tightly down and back” or perhaps “ears flattened down and backwards”

folded ears idk? I think if they can be described as outright “folded” they’re more likely to have the stiff position that would point to “pinned ears”?

if we decide to keep the one-ear variant as its own separate tag

1. all the images which already have that tag don’t suddenly become mis-tagged, only incompletely-tagged (ie. “floppy ears” won’t need removal from any pictures)
2. if people already like looking for all kinds of altered ear positions, there’s still a way without knowing all the tags and doing an “or” search

• What about creatures whose ears are normally not upright? For example, Queen Chrysalis, or lop-eared rabbits?
• What about ears that aren’t upright due to external influence, such as from a hat >>2756831 or another pony’s interference >>2035699 >>803840?
• What about ears that are only a little bit tilted? Exactly how much of a deviation from “upright, facing forward” qualifies? >>2755158 >>2751005 >>2753471 >>2751838 >>2324787 >>1777075
• What about when the viewpoint makes it hard to tell if the ears are back or to the sides? >>2757380 >>1103901
• Does it matter if the ears are back and not swiveled down >>2755892 >>1792242 >>1802428? (vs. back and down >>2756849)
• Does it matter if the ears are to the sides and not swiveled down >>1612212 (Scootaloo and Fluttershy, not the OC)?
• What if it’s the artist’s style to draw ponies with ears that aren’t upright, meaning the state of being flopped is not signifying any particular emotion? eg. artist:mirtash (err…I’m sure I’ve noticed this with more artists, but I can’t find them at the moment. Or maybe I’m confusing the phenomenon with artists who always draw :3 mouths.)

• naturally non-upright ears: Lop-eared creatures should not be tagged with “floppy ears” but can be tagged with a “lop eared” equivalent if we have that. If lop-ears are clearly drawn back from the neutral position “ears back” is applicable. Creatures with usually-horizontal ears can be tagged “floppy ears” or “ears back” if the ears droop/draw back from the neutral position.
• ears pushed off normal position by accessories/bodyparts: should not be tagged “floppy ears”.
• just a bit tilted: each separate case shall be settled by duels to first blood, as is done for disagreements on “bipedal” vs “semi-anthro”.
• ambiguous orientation: would tag both examples “floppy ears” per the general expression/body language association. Pinned ears are associated with tenseness and unease.
• back but not quite down: would personally tag at least 2/3 of these as “ears back”, not “floppy”
• sides but not back/down: these look like upright, perky ears, just slid down more to the sides of the head compared to where they usually are placed and as such tilted in orientation
• artist’s habit is to draw non-upright ears: we’ll tag what’s in the image. We do tag stuff like “missing wing” when a character only has one wing from apparent artist goof just as well when they are explicitly one-winged. (as for the :3 mouth outside of a full simplified :3 face, maybe dog lip?)

• just a bit tilted: each separate case shall be settled by duels to first blood, as is done for disagreements on “bipedal” vs “semi-anthro”.

• ambiguous orientation: would tag both examples “floppy ears” per the general expression/body language association. Pinned ears are associated with tenseness and unease.
• back but not quite down: would personally tag at least 2/3 of these as “ears back”, not “floppy”

• artist’s habit is to draw non-upright ears: we’ll tag what’s in the image. We do tag stuff like “missing wing” when a character only has one wing from apparent artist goof just as well when they are explicitly one-winged. (as for the :3 mouth outside of a full simplified :3 face, maybe dog lip?)

Yeah, I figured it’d be “tag what’s in the image”, just wanted to throw it out there.

clarifying that something that looks shippy is in fact shippy, but not that something is shippy if the image depicts nothing even close to romantic.