The bulk update request #9520 is active.

create implication hickey (245) -> bruised (5985)
create alias hickeys (8) -> hickey (245)
create alias hickie (3) -> hickey (245)
create alias hickies (7) -> hickey (245)

post #4335835 post #1619976 post #2567349

A hickey is a small bruise from a kiss/suck/bite usually found around the neck or chest area. This BUR consolidates the various spellings into one tag and implies it to bruised.

'Love bite' is a synonym of hickey. The love bite tag is currently defined as: When the act of a character's bite on another character is visibly done out of passion and intimacy. Usually done as (but not limited to) a neck bite.This is rather nebulous when it comes to TWYS and is basically just a combination of bite and love (also nebulous but that's a whole 'nother issue). The tag is currently a mix of biting in various contexts (usually on the neck or shoulder), sometimes gentle, sometimes hard, as well as hickeys and bite marks. I don't think the current definition of the tag is very useful and I think a disambiguation would serve it well.

EDIT: The bulk update request #9520 (forum #422408) has been approved by @spe.

pleaseletmein said:
The bulk update request #9520 is active.

create implication hickey (245) -> bruised (5985)
create alias hickeys (8) -> hickey (245)
create alias hickie (3) -> hickey (245)
create alias hickies (7) -> hickey (245)

post #4335835 post #1619976 post #2567349

A hickey is a small bruise from a kiss/suck/bite usually found around the neck or chest area. This BUR consolidates the various spellings into one tag and implies it to bruised.

'Love bite' is a synonym of hickey. The love bite tag is currently defined as: This is rather nebulous when it comes to TWYS and is basically just a combination of bite and love (also nebulous but that's a whole 'nother issue). The tag is currently a mix of biting in various contexts (usually on the neck or shoulder), sometimes gentle, sometimes hard, as well as hickeys and bite marks. I don't think the current definition of the tag is very useful and I think a disambiguation would serve it well.

What do you propose in regard to disambiguating love_bite? Besides hickey and bite marks, the general sense of "gently biting a partner in a romantic context" seems specific enough for a tag, and biting itself is a far broader category that isn’t necessarily useful for that.

I agree with spe that this BUR is a little broad for comfort. I would give a clear thumbs-up if you removed the love bites aliases and category charge from the BUR and created a separate BUR with only those, repeating your relevant motivations there. All of the other aliases and the implication from hickey to bruised are completely clear-cut approval material.

song said:
I agree with spe that this BUR is a little broad for comfort. I would give a clear thumbs-up if you removed the love bites aliases and category charge from the BUR and created a separate BUR with only those, repeating your relevant motivations there. All of the other aliases and the implication from hickey to bruised are completely clear-cut approval material.

yeeted them, I'll make a new BUR for those later

The bulk update request #9520 (forum #422408) has been approved by @spe.