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likearumchocolatesouffle replied to your post:…ahahahahahaha. one of the reasons i keep not…
I’m not trying to give you a hard time, I’m genuinely curious: Can you explain what’s wrong with tagging it “ferguson”? Is it because it sounds generic and could get mixed up with other places and people called Ferguson?
This is going to sound super-weird, because it totally is, but I sort of mentally divide my tumblr tags into one of two categories:
1) editorial commentary and asides - not commonly used as they’re me talking in the tags. this generally includes warnings even though those are somewhat canonical because I often include extra info about the warning
2) categorical tags that get used again and again
The categorical tags really bother me if they don’t “sound” right / feel right in my mouth. Like, they have to kind of roll off the tongue, or it’s trips me up every time I read them, like a mental stumbling block. It’s why I’m so picky about my tags.
I guess also in addition to that it sort of seems weird and wrong to be tagging it “ferguson” when it’s really about so much more than that - politics and anti-blackness and human rights. like. IDK. I also don’t like it when people tag posts things like “kittens” or “poetry” even though I know it’s for search purposes and even though I actually actively use generic tags like that to find content.
It just. feels weird.
wow it sounds even more ridiculous and petty when i actually put it into words.
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likearumchocolatesouffle replied to your post:…ahahahahahaha. one of the reasons i keep not…
I’m not trying to give you a hard time, I’m genuinely curious: Can you explain what’s wrong with tagging it “ferguson”? Is it because it sounds generic and could get mixed up with other places and people called Ferguson?
This is going to sound super-weird, because it totally is, but I sort of mentally divide my tumblr tags into one of two categories:
1) editorial commentary and asides - not commonly used as they’re me talking in the tags. this generally includes warnings even though those are somewhat canonical because I often include extra info about the warning
2) categorical tags that get used again and again
The categorical tags really bother me if they don’t “sound” right / feel right in my mouth. Like, they have to kind of roll off the tongue, or it’s trips me up every time I read them, like a mental stumbling block. It’s why I’m so picky about my tags.
I guess also in addition to that it sort of seems weird and wrong to be tagging it “ferguson” when it’s really about so much more than that - politics and anti-blackness and human rights. like. IDK. I also don’t like it when people tag posts things like “kittens” or “poetry” even though I know it’s for search purposes and even though I actually actively use generic tags like that to find content.
It just. feels weird.
wow it sounds even more ridiculous and petty when i actually put it into words.
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