Topic: Ferals on hind legs

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

snpthecat said:
what about bipedal feral? Alias them too?

that's seems to be for ferals that are naturally bipedal.

"Feral characters standing on two legs, including but not limited to birds, raptors and kangaroos."

snpthecat said:
Then would standing feral be better off aliased to it instead of on hind legs

While technically true, it would be mixing concepts. Standing is an action, and being on hind legs is an action. However, bipedal_feral (which should be aliased to biped_feral for consistency with other biped* tags) is describing the anatomy. If a biped feral is standing, then technically they are a standing feral, but it would make more sense to just call that "standing" without ascribing any special type of standing. A biped feral standing is just regular standing like an anthro standing is regular standing. While I would assume standing_feral is better used for describing a special type of standing unique to most ferals that walk on four legs, the concept which is less ambiguously described by on_hind_legs.

aaronfranke said:
While technically true, it would be mixing concepts. Standing is an action, and being on hind legs is an action. However, bipedal_feral (which should be aliased to biped_feral for consistency with other biped* tags) is describing the anatomy. If a biped feral is standing, then technically they are a standing feral, but it would make more sense to just call that "standing" without ascribing any special type of standing. A biped feral standing is just regular standing like an anthro standing is regular standing. While I would assume standing_feral is better used for describing a special type of standing unique to most ferals that walk on four legs, the concept which is less ambiguously described by on_hind_legs.

Didn't bother to check initially, but it's been used 0 times so I'm not sure if the tag should even be touched, especially when it could have two different interpretations (though I can see how one interpretation would be used less than the other)

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