"Onward, My Trusty Steed!" Pool Conversion

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Knowledge_Seeker said in forum #434520:

BUR #58092 has been rejected.

create alias "onward_my_trusty_steed!" -> unconventional_steed
create alias unconventional_riding -> unconventional_steed

Some utility aliases while at it, one of them being the pool name for maximum clarity. Must be approved after the OG BUR.

We don't use quotes for phrases, that alias would be fine without them.

Also not sure about the riding implication, a character could be shown in the process of getting onto its steed.

There's also things like post #7034942 in the pool, which reference the riding gesture. Are we fine with this being tagged with unconventional steed?

I put an implication request in mostly because the goal of the pool is to show a character actually riding the weird thing. As I haven't seen any posts that would contradict the implication going through, I assume the implication will be perfectly fine. A character climbing onto a steed sounds like a very niche thing in my opinion. Though if we don't want the implication, we don't want the implication.

nonamethanks said in forum #434951:

We don't use quotes for phrases, that alias would be fine without them.

Oops, forgot lol. Alas, we're past the threshold for a quick spelling correction...

There's also things like post #7034942 in the pool, which reference the riding gesture. Are we fine with this being tagged with unconventional steed?

I feel like post #7034942 and others like it ought to be removed, as they are not riding anything, and would be a mistag were this a tag.

Might as well ask here: how "unconventional" does the steed need to be? Because a lot of these pics feature people riding chocobos, yoshis, Gogoats, and griffins, which, while fantastical, are designed to be ridden. Wouldn't it make more sense to exclude them?

Yes, it needs to be cleaned up, like many of these pools, due to years of misuse. A horse-like animal from a famous copyright that's always shown as being ridden and has thousands of posts is just pollution. We should still have an onward gesture tag for the gesture.

Might be worth also making a tag for "dignified" riding, like characters riding something silly with more seriousness than it deserves.

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