Topic: How to Use Egg and Oviposition Tags

Posted under Tag/Wiki Projects and Questions

I'm making this topic from scratch because I want there to be a clear and easily searchable Forum post for everyone's point of reference for all of the egg related tags gathered in one place. Especially since there was a lot of talk and changes about them in other BUR's and threads that span multiple years and dozens of people.

1 * Which tag is for a penis or tentacle that ejaculates eggs during the orgasm? (possibly two answers, one for penis the other for tentacle)

2 * Which tag is used for the above scenario being injected into someone else's insides? (oral, anal, vaginal, you name it)

3 * Which tag is used for the above scenario during the depositing of the eggs back into the open air? (birthing, laying, etc)

4 * Which tag is used for the above scenario but, instead of the open air, the eggs are being transferred to someone else? (either the original injector or a third party, possibly two answers for those scenarios)

5 * Which tag is used for the pseudo-penis looking ovipositors? (I mean they are organs designed to look like, but are not completely, a penis. Balls may be excluded)

6 * Does the above tag have a different tag than the second question when depositing the eggs in another?

7 * Which tag is used if the egg hatches inside the host and they give live birth following that?

8 * Is there a different tag if the injecting organ deposits one large egg versus a cluster of smaller ones?

9 * If the injecting organ simultaneously ejaculates a liquid with the egg(s), is that to be tagged as semen? If not, then what? (may have different answers depending on the organ)

dba_afish said:
this is more about the, like, "genderyness" of ovipositors in general more than what tags are used to describe what actions/things.

nah i know but i feel like it fits in line with at least #1

manitka said:
related forum for ovipositor vs twys: https://e621.net/forum_topics/57028

Yeah that long winded team-built essay is explicitly why I made this forum. To have short and condensed answers to questions a tagger would want to know without being overwhelmed with wall after wall of debate, so that's definitely not helpful :P

From what I can garner after using this site for a while:

Ovipositors

1 * Which tag is for a penis or tentacle that ejaculates eggs during the orgasm? (possibly two answers, one for penis the other for tentacle)

ovipositor_penis and tentacle_ovipositor respectively

2 * Which tag is used for the above scenario being injected into someone else's insides? (oral, anal, vaginal, you name it)

egg_insertion and its variants, though that tag is vague and messy.

3 * Which tag is used for the above scenario during the depositing of the eggs back into the open air? (birthing, laying, etc)

As of right now, just oviposition. Open-air egg laying does not have its own tag. Do not ever tag egg laying as birth. Eggs are not born.

4 * Which tag is used for the above scenario but, instead of the open air, the eggs are being transferred to someone else? (either the original injector or a third party, possibly two answers for those scenarios)

egg_transfer and egg_insertion

5 * Which tag is used for the pseudo-penis looking ovipositors? (I mean they are organs designed to look like, but are not completely, a penis. Balls may be excluded)

As of right now we use ovipositor_penis for this.

6 * Does the above tag have a different tag than the second question when depositing the eggs in another?

No.

7 * Which tag is used if the egg hatches inside the host and they give live birth following that?

hatching and birth. Fun fact, this is called ovoviviparity and is present in animals like sharks and some frogs. I'd be down to start an ovoviviparity tag for this niche scenario.

8 * Is there a different tag if the injecting organ deposits one large egg versus a cluster of smaller ones?

Currently seems to be multiple_oviposits for multiple eggs. Extremely underused tag. No real singular tag for a large cluster of small eggs or one big one.

9 * If the injecting organ simultaneously ejaculates a liquid with the egg(s), is that to be tagged as semen? If not, then what? (may have different answers depending on the organ)

Depends on the appearance of the liquid. If it looks like semen, tag it cum. If it doesn't, perhaps ambiguous_fluids or just genital_fluids. It could very much be natural lubricant instead of semen.

Egg tagging sure is a mess and it's going to be hard to organize it into a reasonable hierarchy. I do enjoy categorizing things, though.

nin10dope said:
I'm making this topic from scratch because I want there to be a clear and easily searchable Forum post for everyone's point of reference for all of the egg related tags gathered in one place. Especially since there was a lot of talk and changes about them in other BUR's and threads that span multiple years and dozens of people.
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If there ever was to be a how-to guide, it should be in the oviposition/ovipositor wiki itself. For example, the draft wiki page posted by @Moonlit-Comet (pending consensus).
Creating a thread like this, while useful, may not be quite as visible as you had hoped for.
In all likelihood, people would be looking in the wikis for how-to guides and this thread would be neglected.

Also, if this was to be in the wiki, it should only contain information relevant to the tag itself and point to alternative tags (such as "Not to be confused with:") which may be more relevant.
That is, whatever you have written now should not be copy-pasted in its entirety and should be split up and inserted into their respective tag wikis wherever relevant.

thegreatwolfgang said:
If there ever was to be a how-to guide, it should be in the oviposition/ovipositor wiki itself. For example, the draft wiki page posted by @Moonlit-Comet (pending consensus).
Creating a thread like this, while useful, may not be quite as visible as you had hoped for.
In all likelihood, people would be looking in the wikis for how-to guides and this thread would be neglected.

Also, if this was to be in the wiki, it should only contain information relevant to the tag itself and point to alternative tags (such as "Not to be confused with:") which may be more relevant.
That is, whatever you have written now should not be copy-pasted in its entirety and should be split up and inserted into their respective tag wikis wherever relevant.

It's true that the average user would probably just search in the Tags and Wikis pages before all else, but I'm for semi redundant fallbacks just in case they couldn't find what they wanted and are unsure of where to look. That's 100% why I made the title what it is and why I phrased the questions, so that common searches in the Forums page are more likely to see this and the title would immediately grab their attention. The topic doesn't have to stay active as long as the answers have been provided, like Moonlit-Comet so generously has done.

And also I personally would be pleased to find an all-in-one starting point to get a general grasp of the basics. So I really appreciate the cooperation this has got already! ^^
Hopefully this will provide hints and assistance for others like it does for me whenever I'm unsure. (: