How could you forget banners, tassels and flags? They're all apparently synonymous with 'tail'. Apparently. There's also orbs, spheres and optics- which are frequently used to describe eyes.
Even so, the thread's a good giggle (+floof'd)! Wolfspeak's one of the few things I completely
loathe in-game; I can understand it after a spot of scrutinizing, but I'd genuinely rather roleplay with a chat-speaker. It's just too much purple prose for my personal tastes. Good for you if that's your preferred method of roleplay, I'm just staying well away from you; the pretentious lanuage leaves me so confused and flustered. I've left so many groups because of it!
It reminds me of the roleplay I had the misfortune of reading a week or two ago in Ficho. Whilst I completely respect other's styles, this one person seemingly flung open a thesaurus, picked the longest word listed there and
crushed it into their roleplay, irrespective of its meaning. It was genuinely several paragraphs of something along the lines of:
"Her obsidian cinctures umbrageously scintillated as the fae's terrene vacillated towards the conterminous brute."
I believe I was blocked after politely attempting to correct them, initially pointing out that cinctures are
these, not eyelids. I'd honestly rather see people go for the more simplistic terms! I've an extensive biological vocabulary from the four years of my degree, yet I'll still refer to pieces of anatomy as their common names; it allows a wider variety of roleplayers to interact with you, as opposed to a select few who can scarcely understand what you're babbling on about.
Edit: WAIT I ZOOMED INTO THAT PICTURE. I CAN'T-... DEAD. AFHG-. Also screenshotted the roleplay I was talking about!