Topic: Which tag to use for someone being dressed up as a different species

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There is an artpiece that I have been putting off posting, because I cannot figure out how to tag it. In the artpiece, a dolphin dresses up as an anthro dinosaur; complete with bodypaint, fake claws and horns. If the the sequence of putting on the body paint was not there, the post would be tagged with dinosaur, since there is no way of knowing they are a dolphin.
Is there a tag for (very relistically) dressing up as a different species than their own?

the_derg said:
There is an artpiece that I have been putting off posting, because I cannot figure out how to tag it. In the artpiece, a dolphin dresses up as an anthro dinosaur; complete with bodypaint, fake claws and horns. If the the sequence of putting on the body paint was not there, the post would be tagged with dinosaur, since there is no way of knowing they are a dolphin.
Is there a tag for (very relistically) dressing up as a different species than their own?

The tags relating to dressing up could be cosplay, costume, and/or bodypaint, whenever appropriate according to TWYS.

In addition, you would tag both the actual species and the dressed up species if the dressing up is all shown in a single sequence within a single image (i.e., dolphin & dinosaur).

If the only the final product is shown with no discernible features of there ever being a dolphin, then you just tag dinosaur.
If the final product also shows no signs of it being a "fake costume" and that it is also visibly indistinguishable from another dinosaur, then you would just tag dinosaur without tagging cosplay, costume, or bodypaint.

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