Implicating tailmouth_(species) → whatever_it_is_that_it's_from
Link to implication

Reason:

I've found a lot of good art where the character has mouth in their tail

post #849404 post #790805 post #823317

and these all are tagged with Tailmouth_(species)

As far as I know, tailmouths are not a real species, which means they must have been created by someone. These works come from tons of different artists as well, so it's hard to pin down where it originated.

It's got to be part of SOMEONE's canon out there, so if anyone knows who started it and what they put it in, it would be nice to have the correct copyright tag implicated to it.

I've tried to hunt it down myself, but I can't get into Furaffinity due to password shenanigans and the other sources I have clicked are members-only.

its not part of any specific canon. this is simply someone's original open species and thats it. its not part of any story or setting.
https://tailmouth.deviantart.com/

I really don't know who made them, but at the same time I don't think it matters. There's probably some dude out there who made up sergals too, but it's not like we tag him on every single sergal image.

Eggplant said:
its not part of any specific canon. this is simply someone's original open species and thats it. its not part of any story or setting.
https://tailmouth.deviantart.com/

perhaps they should be implied to that person, then, who seems to be Capri or Capribebe.

I just want it to be easy for people to find out more about it if they want.

p.s. thanks for the info

Sparkmane said:
I just want it to be easy for people to find out more about it if they want.

That's what the wiki is for...tags should not be used in that way.

Eggplant said:
its not part of any specific canon. this is simply someone's original open species and thats it. its not part of any story or setting.
https://tailmouth.deviantart.com/

Not entirely sure they are the original creator.

Okay so only four images in the tailmouth_(species) tag are of the dA species. The rest are random species with a mouth on the tail. The dA species itself is just a humanoid with a mouth on the tail. On top of that, there's probably multiple species called 'tailmouth'. Maybe it'd be worth aliasing it to tail_mouth unless someone wants to dig through the tag and figure out which originally belong to a 'tailmouth'-named species and which just happen to have tail mouths.

regsmutt said:
Okay so only four images in the tailmouth_(species) tag are of the dA species. The rest are random species with a mouth on the tail. The dA species itself is just a humanoid with a mouth on the tail.

The tailmouth_(species) tag refers to the the parasite, not the host. The host can be anything, as far as I know. Here's one attached to a feral, for instance.

The standard appearances are shown here, though since it is an open species, some artists have taken liberties with the look. Such as by added eyes, which does make them annoying to tag accurately.

Genjar said:
The tailmouth_(species) tag refers to the the parasite, not the host. The host can be anything, as far as I know.

Eh, I'm going off the linked dA species. According to them anything with a mouth on the tail can be a tailmouth, 'tailmouth' is what the body is called and 'mouthtail' is what the tail itself is called, but other interpretations are also acceptable. https://tailmouth.deviantart.com/journal/How-does-a-tailmouth-work-259645420 https://tailmouth.deviantart.com/journal/OFFICIAL-RULES-FOR-TAILMOUTH-ADOPTABLES-219202737 At least in this species called a tailmouth the rules and features are vague enough to be functionally identical to tail_mouth.

There are probably other species named tailmouth but there isn't any indication that the tag is being used for any of them. Even if you use tailmouth_(species) to refer to the tail only how is this different from tagging tail_mouth?

regsmutt said:
There are probably other species named tailmouth but there isn't any indication that the tag is being used for any of them. Even if you use tailmouth_(species) to refer to the tail only how is this different from tagging tail_mouth?

It's currently mostly tagged for ones that can be easily identified as that species. For instance, the spiral smile is typical, and that combined with the mouth shape and teeth/tongue shape (if visible) makes them distinct enough to be tagged. Whereas trying to include all variations would make it too broad, since that'd end up including pretty much any 'mouth on a tail'.

And yeah, the name should probably be mouthtail_(species) instead. But since tailmouth_(species) was in use, that's the one that seems to have stuck.

I realized after laying down for the night that this is probably a better job for the wiki than an alias, so I am just gonna put the links there

Dyrone said:
I really don't know who made them, but at the same time I don't think it matters. There's probably some dude out there who made up sergals too, but it's not like we tag him on every single sergal image.

There is some dude out there who made up sergals! It's mick39 on FA :)

But I agree with the rest of what you have here. That stuff would go in the wiki.