#you know the ones - here lived so n' so the famous thingit

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@aikainkauna replied to your post:

I guess it's one of those aesthetics vs. history things. To be honest, sometimes I retain the border just for the caption because then people will know that hey, it's that guy. And thus more goths will reblog those for coolness.

Mmm, I’m not so much bothered about reblogs (it kind of doesn’t make sense to care too much about that when you’re in the Connie fandom, as he gets so little attention, relatively speaking, anyway. You better than anyone will know just what I mean - that kind of thing where you can get hundreds, even thousands of notes for something slightly more 'in’ with the crowds, but then because you love this dead bisexual transvestite magnificent piece of awesome german actor, you post about him instead, and talkie Connies scarcely enjoy more than thirty notes *at best*). And I also do want to point out here that I’m not bothered about making sure people know that ah, yes, she must have the actual card if she’d scanning and it’s the entire thing so it’s legit. Which seems to be a thing with some people? I guess as you said, for historic purposes or something. But anyway. What bugs me is just the way the photo looks. And the quality of the photo. Because what’s better than getting a high res photo of your favourite in as good a quality as you can find? And the ross cards tend to remain in pretty good nick, it’s just that they’re tiny so the only way to do them justice is by scanning them, IMHO. But so often I just... don’t want the border there because all I want is Connie. And I’m totally with you when it comes to shying away from putting in captions, because yeah, I feel like even that takes away from the piece. I, too, just put faith in the fact that people read the tags and will thus know who it is/what it is (or indeed if they don’t, just come over and ask the OP).