Im currently trying to upload a comic pool called The Treacherous Pantry (explicit) from pastel_please/wildroxann but one of the images got tagged vore and immenent_vore because the bear looks like hes gonna eat the mouse. Should this post have the vore and immenent_vore tags? I feel like it shouldn't because the bear doesn't eat the mouse but i dont know for sure if the tags belong there because of how it appears.

https://e621.net/post/show/1983744/anthro-big_breasts-big_butt-breasts-butt-comic-dia

LSBLSB9595 said:
Im currently trying to upload a comic pool called The Treacherous Pantry (explicit) from pastel_please/wildroxann but one of the images got tagged vore and immenent_vore because the bear looks like hes gonna eat the mouse. Should this post have the vore and immenent_vore tags? I feel like it shouldn't because the bear doesn't eat the mouse but i dont know for sure if the tags belong there because of how it appears.

https://e621.net/post/show/1983744/anthro-big_breasts-big_butt-breasts-butt-comic-dia

It should be tagged with imminent_vore, yes. Regardless of what happens in other pages, each page is treated as its own separate thing. Similarly, in a comic, if a character is clearly female on one page, but no such characteristics are visible in another page, it will get tagged as ambiguous_gender.

Basically, this is all part of the Tag What You See (TWYS) policy.

Clawdragons said:
It should be tagged with imminent_vore, yes. Regardless of what happens in other pages, each page is treated as its own separate thing. Similarly, in a comic, if a character is clearly female on one page, but no such characteristics are visible in another page, it will get tagged as ambiguous_gender.

Basically, this is all part of the Tag What You See (TWYS) policy.

What about the vore tag?

LSBLSB9595 said:
What about the vore tag?

imminent_vore implies vore, so it'll always be present even if you try to remove it. Check the wiki pages for tags like this if you want to review aliases and implications related to that tag.

Lafcadio said:
imminent_vore implies vore, so it'll always be present even if you try to remove it. Check the wiki pages for tags like this if you want to review aliases and implications related to that tag.

Alright then. Thank you!

Lafcadio said:
imminent_vore implies vore, so it'll always be present even if you try to remove it.

That seems a bit weird. The "imminent" part of imminent_vore would mean vore is about to happen, but hasn't yet. imminent_sex and imminent_rape don't imply sex and rape respectively, so why does imminent_vore imply vore?

Watsit said:
That seems a bit weird. The "imminent" part of imminent_vore would mean vore is about to happen, but hasn't yet. imminent_sex and imminent_rape don't imply sex and rape respectively, so why does imminent_vore imply vore?

Probably because vore denotes a particular type of interest more than an actual action. By comparison, sex is more used for the actual set of actions than just that something sexual is going on. As for rape, you could probably make the argument that imminent_rape and rape could be clarified in usage and/or given certain implications. But generally speaking the broad set of interests in that case would probably be forced. I could see imminent_rape being implied to forced, for instance.

In short, though the tags appear parallel in construction, their actual usage differs slightly, which leads to them being treated differently.

Clawdragons said:
Probably because vore denotes a particular type of interest more than an actual action.

The wiki describes vore as an act:
"The consumption, insertion, absorption, or digestion of a living creature through any of a number of bodily orifices."
Which is also how I see people use the term.

And similarly, imminent_vore is described as the act of vore about to happen:
"When it is implied (either through dialogue or action) that a character is about to be swallowed, ingested, or inserted into the body of another."

It can't be both unless it's a sequential image or there's more than one character (one about to be vored, and one being vored). If people want to tag the type of interest or general fetish, vorarephilia would seem to be a more appropriate tag for that. Interestingly, vorarephilia already exists as a tag, but is aliased to vore despite not being quite the same. A similar issue exists for other tags, like zoophilia being aliased to bestiality despite the latter being just the sexual acts (zoophilia would include things like this where a feral and non-feral get married, or this where bestiality is not yet occurring), or somnophilia aliased to sleep_sex despite the latter only including sex acts on the character sleeping (not imminent sex, masturbating to someone sleeping, or other forms of fantasizing where sex acts aren't (yet) happening).

Clawdragons said:
I could see imminent_rape being implied to forced, for instance.

That wouldn't work for all cases, like this example the wiki page has. There's no forcing going on yet.