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Body fur is a tag for characters that possess primarily human skin, but have sections on their body with fur growing out of them. Common in monster girls. What's also common are feathers and scales.
Solution: body feathers and body scales or similar. Maybe even mixed integuments.
I'd also like to propose special tags for things like stomach fur, breast feathers, facial scales, etc.
baconmeh2 said in forum #449791:
Body fur is a tag for characters that possess primarily human skin, but have sections on their body with fur growing out of them.
First off, no it isn't. While those kinds of posts do fall under body_fur, they are far from the tag's main purview. Search it and you'll see it's 99% furries.
Secondly, a large number of bird characters are not drawn with rendered feathers, but rather generic fluff that is identical to body_fur (post #7380698, post #7673618, post #9291096 etc). I'm afraid that a body_feathers tag would just fracture the ability to search for this, with users adding the tag simply because the character is a bird character rather than them actually having rendered feathers. Maybe body_feathers would work if it implied body_fur.
As for scales, I think body_scales sounds weird. To me, scaly_skin is a lot more natural since the scales actually are the skin, as opposed to body_fur where there's still skin under the fur.
Lastly, mixed_integuments is a good idea for a tag with a terrible idea for its name. Nobody knows what an integument is; not even e621 uses this. However, partial_body_fur and partially_scaly_skin could definitely work as tags, maybe with a parent tag if we can figure out a better name.
