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Someone recently made the trance_tina_branford tag and applied it to all of the tags where her Esper form is shown. It's not a huge deal to me, I just bring it up because it doesn't seem like the first thing a person would think of to search for when searching for her. Could this be made better, or is it a case where we should just go with it because it's probably the best we could get it?
Updated by NeverGonnaGive
Wasn't trance being used for that? I could've sworn...
I think this is better, personally. It's a bit harder to search for, but search tina_branford and you're bound to run into her trance pictures in no time. Plus it's not ambiguous, although I don't know what else we'd ever use something like trance for.
Updated by Kayako
Kayako said:
Wasn't trance being used for that? I could've sworn...I think this is better, personally. It's a bit harder to search for, but search tina_branford and you're bound to run into her trance pictures in no time. Plus it's not ambiguous, although I don't know what else we'd ever use something like trance for.
Yeah, it used to be trance. I didn't find out someone made the change until I uploaded with the trance tag only to see it say only one image had that tag.
You can add both of them like the case with alice_margatroid and alice_margatroid_(young). The "child" tag is still there (in most pics).
"Trance" could be used for other characters from FF in this form (Zidane, Vivi, etc) if someone upload pics from them in the future.
Plus I don't like the idea of someone removing tags just because he feels like doing so.
See forum #9623.
I removed the trance tag. It was only being used for pink Terra posts so there was no point in having them separate instead of just trance_tina_branford, which has 25 posts and so I believe deserves a tag. It's practically the same situation has black_saber and saber except they look totally different than each other.
As for trance characters of FF9, I checked and there aren't any yet, though I'd love to see some. When there are, we can use trance then, it'd make no sense to lump them with a character of an unrelated game.
This is a minor quibble, but I think it would better if the tag were called tina_branford_(trance). That's more consistent with the naming convention used for most other tags.
It looks like the changes were done without warning yesterday. There was discussion on it, as shown a few posts above, but nothing solid came out of it, and the original discussion was two months ago. I really think that in cases like this one, at least a little "is everyone okay with this before I do it?" or a heads-up would've been good, since it seems like something uncertain enough that someone could have wanted to get a word or two in at least before setting in the changes.
With that out of the way, my thoughts.
I'm not devoted 100% to any tag, if you guys think this is good enough then I'll go along with it. I feel like if someone wanted to search for it, it wouldn't be very helpful unless they already knew the term we use here. Aliases might need to be invoked; esper_terra , for instance, since some people think 'esper' and not 'trance'.
Something more important to consider is trance itself. Some characters (Kuja for example) have forms you can only describe as trance. What is the likelihood we'll get tons of pictures of Kuja in his trance form? Low. That doesn't change that trance isn't always going to be something only shown on danbooru with Terra.
Another thought I ran across was trance as a mental state. Judging by the use of trance recently, that might not matter too much, and it's likely covered under hypnosis.
In checking up on FF uploads, this new tag struck out at me; a couple other pics where applicable were missing it (there's one where her body looks normal, but from her back and ears seemed monstrous; also, there's a Japanesey name that I assume is the artist, but there's nothing else to casually verify it with), so I went ahead and added them. Personally, I kinda like it (does it have an implication yet?). Fits with how Kuja's Trance form has been handled ("Trance Kuja", as in (at least) FFIX and FF:SoC (not sure about PSP version...)).
