The tag alias #75492 confinement -> confined is pending approval.

Reason: Separate tags with identical meaning. It would be nice to have one single tag, as works are inconsistently tagged across both. (Retry from https://e621.net/forum_topics/55525. Sorry for mixing up.)

I'll restate what I put in the other thread

snpthecat said:
Hmm on closer inspection, what's the difference between it and trapped
I guess you could say one is a stronger subset of the other, but the distinction might be easily missed by those not reading the wiki

Also, did you know you can put aliases and implications in an existing thread using BURs
Just leave off the title and include the thread number

snpthecat said:
Also, did you know you can put aliases and implications in an existing thread using BURs
Just leave off the title and include the thread number

I didn't. :o

It feels like trapped has a layer of unwillingness, and is something that happens to a character; whereas confined feels more like a voluntary action. If one's a subset, it could be made into an implication, but I'm not sure which term would imply the other.

sandentwinks said:
I didn't. :o

It feels like trapped has a layer of unwillingness, and is something that happens to a character; whereas confined feels more like a voluntary action. If one's a subset, it could be made into an implication, but I'm not sure which term would imply the other.

While trapped has a more forceful connotation, being confined still has implications that it may not be entirely voluntary. And I would assume confined would be (physically) enclosed in on all sides whilst trapped doesn't necessarily have to be