Danbooru

akimbo tag

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Why is the akimbo tag so named? The bizarre usage of this term currently practiced on danbooru supposedly originated in a third-party mod for Quake II, according to Wikipedia, but I hardly think it's common parlance. Can we just merge this into dual wield (or dual_wield gun) and reserve akimbo for its dictionary definition, i.e. a body position in which one's hands are on one's hips with one's elbows facing outwards?

Updated by jxh2154

That didn't stop us from changing 3d to photo back in the day, for example. If a tag make no sense, would that it be changed, say I.

Also, I assume you mean dual wield and not dual-wielding, right? That's the established tag, anyway. Actually, even that could probably be changed to dual wielding for better grammatical agreement with other tags... but dual wield somehow sounds better to me, I'm not sure why. Google test seems to support dual wield over dual wielding, anyway.

I'd first go over akimbo adding gun to everything that needed it and removing akimbo from others (or switching the tag to arms akimbo). Then I'd mass-edit akimbo to dual wield, and mass-edit arms akimbo to akimbo.

Yeah, I meant dual wield, I corrected it via edit, but I guess you saw the version before I fixed it. I'd do the editing myself (pending consensus), but I'm gone for the weekend and only have access to a dial-up connection, which would make it more or less impossible ATM.

Also we need to do something either by editing or aliasing to integrate hands_on_hips into this, because it's the same action as arms_akimbo.

0xCCBA696 said:
Why is the akimbo tag so named? The bizarre usage of this term currently practiced on danbooru supposedly originated in a third-party mod for Quake II, according to Wikipedia, but I hardly think it's common parlance. Can we just merge this into dual wield (or dual_wield gun) and reserve akimbo for its dictionary definition, i.e. a body position in which one's hands are on one's hips with one's elbows facing outwards?

I agree with this.

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