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The pool #1514 ("Sideways Mouth-Holes") is just a style of mouth. It's just a detail like any other, that can be drawn in any character. It's comparable to expressions like :3 or :o. A tag would be fine to represent it.
Oh, and the tag could be named sideways_mouth.
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I still don't think it's worth being tagged at all.
Just delete the pool please.
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I like the concept, and its definition is clear-cut, so it sounds like a good tag candidate to me.
Also, here's another example just for posterity:
post #844504
artist mizuki_hitoshi uses the sideways mouth thing often. (known for making their characters look like they have beards) and i've seen others do it as well. I support it as a tag. i'm surprised it wasn't already
Danielx21 said:
At the very least, the 7 people who actually used the pool (including you) would have used the tag; why not?
Taggers aren't necessarily the users. I tag stuff that I don't use and surely other taggers do the same, as long as it's at least of use to someone.
I put a few posts in pool #1514 in case someday that pool is deemed to be actually useful, and I'm still not convinced that this feature, beyond the simple acknowledgement of its existence, is something that anyone will use in a tag search.
Not everything you encounter and follows a stable pattern deserves being recorded. It's just a waste of efforts.
Cyberia-Mix said:
Not everything you encounter and follows a stable pattern deserves being recorded. It's just a waste of efforts.
I, personally, like to see many images organized by a small feature, so I can learn how different people draw it, and sometimes try to copy them.
The "sideways mouth" is particularly fun to me, as it is so weird and so common. But, anyway, frankly, I'm not particularly interested in drawing it today or in the near future; I just explained about a pattern of how I use Danbooru for certain tags.
If Danbooru really is not the right place to keep a list of "sideways mouths", then no prob, the tag/pool can just be deleted, and I can try to find other sources if/when I want to; still, that decision would be somewhat surprising to me, as that's not the only tag for a subtle detail I found here:
I don't think sideways_mouth would be less valuable, or noticeably less used, than tags of subtle variations of eyes (al bhed eyes, ringed eyes), or other artistic details like /\/\/\. (but anger vein could be more common than sideways mouth; I don't know for sure)
