why do you put slashes after your tags sometimes?
oh, i usually do it so a post can be blocked by someone’s tumblr savior if they have certain words blacklisted so they don’t have to see content with those things (ie #blood / for people who have a phobia of it). at the same time, the slashes keep it from showing up in the official tag if someone searches the term. (like hypothetically, if i drew a personal picture of batman and wanted it seen by just my followers and not in the general tumblr tag for batman, and i also wanted to make sure that someone who might not like batman for personal reasons ( or has personally asked me to tag it ) can have it blocked by tumblr savior, i would tag it “batman //”.
it also helps to separate things i am keeping for myself and things i am just tagging for trigger warnings. for instance, looking at clear blue water helps me relax sometimes, so even though it’s a phobia for a lot of people, i tag it without the slash so while it can block the post for those who have #water blacklisted, i can still search it in my blog (/tagged/water) when i want to look at pictures of water. i hope that wasn’t too confusing!! i’m awful at explainin stuff ahaha