candleprism:

the interesting/good thing about tumblr tags is how they’re used for extra information

stuff that, for example, you want your followers to see, but don’t want to get passed all down the reblog chain

secondary use is categorization on someone’s blog, so you can look through all the posts they or you made on a topic. this one is kind of buggy but it’s there and useful

the use i care least for is for following, and it kind of feels like that’s the one is was designed for most?

I follow the #gabriele d'annunzio tag, (my personal icon, who was a short, eccentric Italian celebrity poet/Renaissance man who basically invented romantic interwar post-democracy by being flamboyantly awesome in public) and the experience is being shown the occasional post

(that’s half the time a poem in Italian, though I’ve realized I can read that reasonably well by reverse-engineering Latin and other Romance languages; a realization I first made re: the “zentropista” account on here affiliated with CasaPound; I suddenly realize that like Michael Ledeen my sense of Italy is weirdly focused on fascist continuity; the other leg of that stool is I took a Japanese studies minor through an effective arm of the American empire and by comparison learned how we rigged their system to lock out the communists even when they had popular mandate too)

and I see that same post like 30 times