G5 Shipping Names Restructure

LoreJuniper
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#1 Misty Stan
At this point we should really use the combined part names like g4. Ik we started with “firstname1firstname2” bc we didn’t know all the characters full names but at this point we do. The actually interesting names are aliases of the basic fnamefname (Such as Stormblazer being an alias of hitchzipp).
Part of the appeal of MLP shipping was the fun ship names so it’s kinda aggravating to go from Appledash to HitchZipp naming structure wise.
Newer character g5 ship names (such as Mistypetals, Mistyclover, Mistymoonlight, Mistyline, Mistybeats) already use the better g4 naming style. The simple names should be aliases for when someone doesn’t remember the actual ship name.
Fandom wise we have been using the popular names for awhile now and I’ll list them for ease of reference:
MoonScout / Sizzy - Sunny x Izzy
SunnyTrail - Sunny x Hitch
PetalScout - Sunny x Pipp
SunnyStorm - Sunny x Zipp
BrightSun - Sunny x Misty
StormBlazer / Zitch - Hitch x Zipp
Pitch - Hitch x Pipp
MoonTrail - Hitch x Izzy
MistyTrail - Hitch x Misty
CloverTrail - Hitch x Sprout
StormBow - Izzy x Zipp
MoonPetals - Izzy x Pipp
MistyMoon - Izzy x Misty
MistyStorm - Zipp x Misty
MistyPetals - Pipp x Misty
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I was the site staffer who originally set at least many of the tag names in the pre-movie days. To be honest, I’ve sorely regretted not being more patient and letting the best names win out instead of just using the first tags to be made. That batch of tag names sucks. I’m very much in favor of renaming them.
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LoreJuniper
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#1 Misty Stan
@Litrojia
Glad you agree! I suppose we could put it to vote again if needed, although the ones I’ve listed are tye commonly used ones. Sizzy and zitch being the only first letter combo names to stick
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Litrojia
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@LoreJuniper
There never was a vote, at least not for those early ones (I can’t speak to anything post-movie; I left staff by then). In those cases, people made those tags on their own, and I tweaked the tags’ metadata to make them official. A vote similar to what the site does now for background pony names would be nice.
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Background Pony #8BDE
@LoreJuniper
I’d like to strongly encourage that the names strive to be unambiguous (eg. using “Moon” as the portion to refer to Izzy is not great because a lot of pre-existing ship names use “Moon” to identify Nightmare Moon) and also strongly encourage that ship names aren’t also real words (eg. “pitch”) unless accompanied by some prefix (ship: has been proposed before) or suffix (ie. X (shipping)) to avoid accidental tag misapplication.

For convenience of comparison, here are the ship tags already set up with implications vs. the proposals, in table form:
Current Proposed A B
izzyscout (310) moonscout / sizzy Sunny Izzy
sunnyhitch (140) sunnytrail Sunny Hitch
sunnypipp (29) petalscout Sunny Pipp
sunnyzipp (19) sunnystorm Sunny Zipp
_ brightsun Sunny Misty
hitchzipp (168) stormblazer / zitch Hitch Zipp
hitchpipp (138) pitch Hitch Pipp
izzyhitch (65) moontrail Hitch Izzy
mistyhitch (1) mistytrail Hitch Misty
hitchsprout (170) clovertrail Hitch Sprout
izzyzipp (22) stormbow Izzy Zipp
izzypipp (20) moonpetals Izzy Pipp
mizzy (6) mistymoon Izzy Misty
_ mistystorm Zipp Misty
mistypetals (1) mistypetals Pipp Misty
pippzipp (54) _ Pipp Zipp
zippsprout (46) _ Sprout Zipp
izzysprout (39) _ Sprout Izzy
sunnysprout (38) _ Sprout Sunny
pippsprout (15) _ Sprout Pipp
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LoreJuniper
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).

#1 Misty Stan
@Background Pony #8BDE
Id say for things like moonscout its very obvious its izzy, altho i see the case for some other ones. also yeah for actual words i agree, but pitch isnt exactly something you can tag? I do think we should make it a vote and have people discuss it
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LoreJuniper
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#1 Misty Stan
@LoreJuniper
Ok i seem to be mistaken, pitch as in throwing a baseball is a tag. Altho i could see that being retagged to baseball pitch like how misty was retagged to Misty (Pokemon)
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While you’re at it, please prefix them all with “ship:”. Let’s kickstart the new namespace.
(I didn’t read the whole thread, I don’t know if this has been suggested already.)
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LoreJuniper
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).

#1 Misty Stan
@JP
I agree, while I prefer the cleaness of “appledash”, consistency is far more important for such a wide thing like this, especially since art tags are how most people find out about ship names
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NicoThePinkUnicorn
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@LoreJuniper
Those are all WAY better suggestions! Though, for Sunny x Hitch, I see shippers usually refer to them as Starblazer. Also, I think Hunny would be ingenious for them too.
@Background Pony #8BDE
PLEASE let’s keep Pitch for Hitch x Pipp as either “ship: pitch” or retagging the existing pitch tag. Pleaaase. It’s too ingenious of a ship name not to!!
As for the Sprout ship names, here’s some suggestions:
Zipp x Sprout = Cloverstorm
Sprout x Izzy = Clovermoon / Cloverbow for a non-Moon equivalent
Sunny x Sprout = Cloverstar / Starsprout
Pipp x Sprout = Cloverpetal
Not interested in naming Pippzipp because ew–
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