General Tag Discussion

@Damaged  
My post before mentioned Big Jim headcanoned it, I’m not really saying that he sees it as being in the show.

>>2174362t (deleted)  
I don’t know if it should be considered to be tagged as explicit or questionable as the vg is almost close to being shown even if the wing is covering it, which is not much.

@DR35  
There’s a specific thread for Ratings Tags.

It seems like ultimate twilight and princess twilight 2.0 have similar idea as a larger form of Twilight Sparkle. I’d like to distinguish the two tags where 2.0 is the show version where her mane and tail tips are like her original but flowing while ultimate has the same body and mane like Celestia but in Twi color.

@Zeb  

 
Considered both the script and Gameloft contradicts him on this, I’m pretty sure Lemon Crumble/Hyper Sonic is a filly.
 
(Sorry if I’m being a little stubborn about this, but it is really just bugging me.)

@DR35  
Also I think princess Twilight 2.0 should imply older and older Twilight too, because it’s after timeskip.

@The Equestrian Zodiac  
Gameloft ain’t shit, dude. They’re a licensed game company with a fetish for microtransactions, and you are seriously trying to claim that what they put in a phone app caries more weight than the say-so of the guy whose actual literal job was being in charge of making the episode you’re arguing about.
 
…What is with people on this? For crying out loud, get over it already.

@TexasUberAlles  

 
But what about the script?

@Blissful690  
More than one of the staff said they just put random genders of small characters into the script for simplicity’s sake without caring what it needs to be until the final product.

@Zeb  
If that’s the case, then that does make things a little complicated in regards to both Li’l Cheese and Lemon Crumble (Hyper Sonic), since I’m not too sure as to whether we should follow what the script says or not.
 

@The Equestrian Zodiac  
 
I just go by the tweets or whatever else we got.  
If the episode itself contradicted the staff then I’d say go with the episode.

@Zeb  
Yeah, at the same time, I remember the episode never brought up the character’s gender, so it could be similar to Li’l Cheese and that Lemon doesn’t have a set in stone gender.

Maybe I missed it somewhere on the last few pages, but did anyone link Michael Vogel’s Twitter thread about Lemon Crumble/Hyper Sonic already? https://twitter.com/mktoon/status/1185236545743118337
 
TL;DR  
He and Nicole Dubuc were starting a new book series (that later got axed), picked some BG ponies as characters and made Lemon a filly. He later reused her for the finale (as filly), but her foal design ended up being cast with a boy voice.  
“SO even though Hyper Sonic (in my head and the never written books) was a filly, since what ultimately happened in SHOW was a foal, i think Hyper Sonic is a boy now. At least to me.”

@Yoshimon1  
I don’t think this was posted at all in the previous pages.

Alright, so I had this issue for a while now, but I’ve never bothered to ask.  
Regarding the technicolor nipples and genitals tags, how are we supposed to use them? I tended to go with them if the aforementioned body parts aren’t the normal shade of orange-ish pink, but I had other users delete the tags, which makes me think they’re meant to be used when they have really outlandish or multiple colors.

So, what’s the verdict on Li’l Cheese so far?

@Meanlucario  
Right now we are going with them being a Colt, as stated by the show staff.

@Zeb  
I thought that was for another OC that came out before the series final.

@The Equestrian Zodiac  
so it could be similar to Li’l Cheese and that Lemon doesn’t have a set in stone gender  
Well, no, they both most certainly do, it’s just that some people apparently get super offended when their headcanon isn’t universally accepted as authoritative.

@Meanlucario  
Its been for a couple of ponies.

@TexasUberAlles  
There’s also the gender-fluid route, though I don’t think the tags like that one too much.

@Zeb  
May I see these tweets?

@Meanlucario  
You can find them floating around the site. But for lil’cheese specifically here’s three:  

@Zeb  
So I’m guessing that it’s a case of the animators and writers not being on the same wavelength, a little like when Tabitha voiced Derpy when she thought she was a he. That would explain male characters having female bodies and the reverse.

@Meanlucario  
I was involved in some of the stuff Toonami did in the long ago, and during one of the recording sessions for an ad I remember the voice talent asking: “Is this character male or female?” and the director said; “Surprise us.”