It occurred to me a while ago that, given the proliferation of certain ships and characters’ popularity, a tag for changeling-dragon hybrids – a draconic equivalent to changepony, essentially – might be useful.Now, it appears that one such tag already exists, dragonling. I have my concerns about it, however, because while phonetically pleasing it seems easy to misuse. My worry is that it seems too similar to a term for infant dragons – the “-ling” suffix, by itself, typically denotes infant versions of something (hatchling, fledgeling, seedling, sapling, stripling, duckling, gosling, even changeling originally referred to infants who had been exchanged by the fairies for human babies). In point of fact, the only image to which this tag was added after the original mass tagging two months ago uses it to indicate an infant dragon.My other thought was something like changedragon. It… doesn’t really roll off the tongue, but there seem to be fewer opportunities for misuse, and consequently less need for constant monitoring and upkeep.Thoughts?
changepony
. However, it’s somewhat clunkier and doesn’t roll of the tongue as well. parents:*
tags, which can be sorted out later.changeling-dragon hybrid
won. Only fourteen people pitched in, though, so I’d like to get some more opinions in here before asking the mods to make any hard changes.Help fund the $15 daily operational cost of Derpibooru - support us financially!