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Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has struck down the state’s stay-at-home order as inherently unconstitutional.
 
Speaking as a Wisconsin resident myself, this is a pretty concerning decision, let’s put it that way.

@TexasUberAlles  

 
I’d be in favor of this, regardless of which tag gets aliased into which.

I’m not entirely certain what the trinity: rebirth tag is referencing precisely. It seems to cover artwork pertaining to a specific fan universe, but I can’t seem to find anything concrete or any one specific story.
 
I definitely think it should be colored, but I’m not certain if it should also get a specific prefix (i.e. “fanfic:”, for example).

 
Verdigris

@icey wicey 1517  
And then have the merged tag imply Slenderman, I would think.

@Melisareb  
Hmm… let’s toss in Sungold and Noonlight as well.

@cybermurph04  
@TexasUberAlles
 
Given that this seems to be about what to name this character rather than asking for a tag color to be changed, the background character naming thread may be a more appropriate place to bring this up.

 
Stargazer, Skysearch, Deep Night
 
 
Streetsheart, City Love

@TheHappySpaceman  
It’s a really mystifying decision – I genuinely cannot understand what the DA staff was hoping to accomplish with it. It doesn’t look good, and it’s hard and awkward to navigate. It’s just a change for the sake of it, and makes the site so much harder to use.
 
The worst part of it, I think, is the way the staff has just been going full steam ahead despite the months of negative responses from nearly the entire site user base. That’s… not going to engender a whole lot of trust or make people anxious to stay, I’m afraid.

@The Smiling Pony  
Oh boy.

We’re watching a video about cat rescues, so there’s a lot of meowing and cat footage, and our cat’s spent the last ten minutes sitting right in the middle of the room and staring at the tv.

@Mildgyth  
#396  
Petal Smiles
 
#397  
Summermint

@Background Pony #E285  

 
Speaking of.  

 
Failing that, they could make for terrifyingly rapacious corporate magnates.

@Ardashir  
Heh, I hadn’t thought of dragons being naturally suited to putting fires out, but you do have a good point. I mean, a dragon could just walk in and out of a burning building to pitch tubfuls of water in the middle of the blaze, and they’d hardly be any worse for the wear for it.

So, to breathe a bit of life back into this thread. One thing I like to think of sometimes is what fantasy worlds would consider mythic and fantastical, especially given the tendency for all of a work’s in-universe myths and legends to turn. out to be true in some capacity. MLP generally seems to use what we would consider pulp and soft science fiction (although, given Daring Do, the fictionality of even that can be called into question) so I like to think that what we would consider trappings of science and realistic fiction is what a fantasy world would consider fantastical.
 
For example, I like to think that the residents of the MLP world would think of dinosaurs the way we think of dragons.
 
Suppose, let’s say, that a very early pony culture is beginning to feel out the world beyond its immediate homeland. Traders and explorers come back with stories of the strange things that live in distant lands and, as they must even in a land based on our own myths, things get a bit garbled and confused.
 
Perhaps early explorers get rocs and dragons – perfectly normal creatures, really – a tad mixed up. Perhaps they give one the characteristics of the other – a dragon with a roc’s beak, or a flightless roc with a dragon’s jaws and tail. The myths catch on, and get embellished over time – perhaps roc heads get swapped out with those of other birds, like parrots or ducks, and perhaps regular draconic thagomizers serve as inspiration for clubs and whips and even more outlandish natural weapons.
 
Of course, by the time dragons and rocs enter the growing corpus of scientific knowledge, they’re entirely unlike the now well-established dinosaur myths, and no longer associated beyond a certain point. Most ponies continue to believe that dinosaurs, as separate from your commonplace giant birds and fire-breathing sapient reptiles, exist just beyond the current borders, right over beyond those hills there, surely, same as explorers and historians were always dead certain that dragons and other monsters were commonplace just beyond the known world’s current edges.
 
Anyway. The theropods and the four-legged herbivore groups serve as a rough analog for Western and Eastern dragon traditions – nominal connection, but clearly different appearances and attitudes that are nonetheless consistent within each group. The profusions of crests, horns and tail weapons can serve as a parallel to dragons’ breath weapons in our fiction – instead of inventing exotic exhalations for a work’s varieties of dragons you’d make up some ornate or offensive implement to attach to the creature’s face or tail.
 
Relatedly, I could see robots as a rough analog for golems and other constructs, and science and supertechnology as a parallel for magic in a world where magic is a known quantity and likely a lot less mystified than it is for use.

@Professor Genki  

 
If you mean whether you can add tags for Fallout: Equestria stories that don’t have specific tags yet on fanart of them, then yes, certainly. If you find an image made for a specific story you can absolutely feel free to tag it with the story’s title.

@UnnamedPonies  
If you want an image to show up as a thumbnail in a comment, you need to format it like so:
 
>>1836588t or >>1836588s
 
The second will make a small image thumbnail.
 
In this case, I don’t think that this pony has a name yet, no. Neither does the blue stallion:  

 
For reference’s sake, the other two members of the royal legion currently go by Albus and Iron Eagle.  

@UnnamedPonies  
Hence why this thread should be linked to in comment sections when and where relevant.
 
@UnnamedPonies  
Do you see the bar up at the top of the site? There’s an icon shaped like a bar with an arrow pointing up, right next to the site logo. Click on it and you’ll go to the uploading interface. You can either paste an url in the topmost bar or upload an image from you computer – it can be finicky and not all urls work, so if one doesn’t you can just download the relevant image and upload it that way. An image needs a minimum of three tags, one of which needs to be a rating tag (for a screencap, the rating is always “safe”) before the site will let you upload it, but try to include more than the minimum – things like the character’s species and gender, the episode the image is from, any specific action they’re taking, and so on are all things that you should think about tagging.
 
When all of that’s done, click on the “upload” button at the bottom and there you go.

@UnnamedPonies  
The images aren’t showing up. I think you’re trying to link directly to wiki images? In that case, you might be better off uploading the images here and linking to that.

@Background Pony #D889  
Well, we always knew this could infect animals. It originated in pangolins before it passed to humans – diseases move between animal hosts all the time.

@UnnamedPonies  
That’s fine. Just try to keep your temper in the future, and I think most people will be happy to let bygones be bygones.
 
If you want to participate in naming background ponies in the future, you’re more than welcome to propose and debate names here. Any official tagging will probably have to wait until polls come back online, though.

@Background Pony #C68B  
I think you probably need to calm down about this thing you have. There’s a time and a place for discussing one’s opinions of other people’s headcanons, but the main tagging forum is absolutely not it.
 
If you could avoid stirring up discussions that have been dead and buried for years, that would also be helpful.

@Wizaro679
 
What @Background Pony #95DD and @The Equestrian Zodiac said – the name color is reserved for canon characters. Further, since Lycanroc’s midnight form exists as a species of Pokémon that people could conceivably use for unrelated images, it shouldn’t be tagged as a canon or oc name anyway – I’d suggest adding an “oc:midnight lycanroc” tag in addition to the ones already present, personally.
 
Regardless, if we’re discussing a shipping tag, its relevant implications should be brought up here.

@Archonix  
I think I see what you mean. Stuff like assets, concept art and storyboards, which is never actually released under normal conditions, should certainly keep the leak tag – after all, there aren’t going to be any non-leak sources for that sort of material.
 
My original thought was more narrow – I was thinking of material like screencaps or gifs taken from leaked episodes, or fan art inspired by leaked material – like these two screencaps, or this piece here, just to have some specific examples. Should those keep the leak tag?
 
@Derpy Whooves  
That’s also a very valid concern.

@TexasUberAlles  
Hmm. Removing the leak tag from G4 material may be worth looking into – at the least I’d assume that if something has been out for, let’s say, a year already, it probably doesn’t need to be tagged as a leak, but more generally my instinct would be to cut the tag from anything that has been officially released already.