Topic: Tag Implication: egg_inflation -> inflation

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

When you've got a handful of suggestions, it may be easier to just make one, then edit it to include related suggestions.

These all seem straightforward, so it's got my support.

Updated by anonymous

The other implications seem fine, but inflation has been implicitly separated from abdominal_bulge according to the solidity of the skin-expanding substance. In other words, abdominal_bulge has been getting tagged for solid, "hard bodies", like insertions, vore, and parasitic gestations (chestbursters are referenced in abdominal_bulge) whereas inflation has been tagged for liquids and gases (and the wiki says food?). Thus, egg_inflation is a contradiction of a tag name that shouldn't exist.

I do suppose, however, we don't seem to have a between phase for egg_insertion and oviposition where eggs are already inside and none are going in or out (i.e., the "pregnant" bulge of a host from presumably parasitic eggs). Dumping all those under abdominal_bulge is unsatisfactory. Pregnant is a poor fit for foreign eggs too. Ugh, egg_insertion lumps itself in with male_pregnancy. That use of "pregnant" is too crude. Foreign bodies, especially parasitic ones, should not be thought of as pregnancy.

Something like egg_bulge would better describe what egg_inflation wants. Sad will be the day when a bulging egg gets tagged with that.

Updated by anonymous

Genjar

Former Staff

abadbird said:
Pregnant is a poor fit for foreign eggs too. Ugh, egg_insertion lumps itself in with male_pregnancy. That use of "pregnant" is too crude. Foreign bodies, especially parasitic ones, should not be thought of as pregnancy.

Seconded. The main reason why the egg_insertion tag got created in the first place was to separate those from impregnation. On the basis that parasitic insertion has nothing to do with pregnancy.

So it shouldn't be linked to male_pregnancy either. I'm voting for removing that bit from the wiki.

Updated by anonymous

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