Original species

I read the following in the rules:

A furry-focused site is bound to have fictional species that are user-made, so I think any such species should be tagged simply “fictional species” and not by their own names which… could be seen as falling into that description? Do you only allow names for well-known species, e.g. protogens and dutch angel dragons (I had to look up the others, though some felt familiar)? I will clean up my own uploads if needed!

I think stuff like protogen (sergals, chakats, synths, aeromorphs…) is fairly okay (not clear if aeromorphs are okay for this site though) as they are relatively well-known within the fandom.

If someone has a unique species of their own that other people are not actually using though? We’d just tag that as whatever broader tag works, like canine/mammal/alien etc. plus original species. I’d include in the latter category most of the original species from Rick Griffin’s sci-fi work, for example. I’m personally undecided about Cobalt’s Foozles, I’d probably ask Pup for a final decision one way or another if we had more than, like, one pic of them XD.

In this case, I think the e621 approach of not tagging original species in particular way (though there’s several nonstandard tags floating about over there) is sensible, though pup may eventually decide otherwise.