you can like reading and still think there's a time and place for shorter tags.

frankly, if our characters are having ice cream and talking about their pets, i'm really not interested in reading three paragraphs of meta text about how your character's cat ran away when they were a child and how it traumatized them for life and they still wonder what happened to fluffy because it's irrelevant to the subject at hand. my character can't see or hear any of that. they can't respond to it. it contributes exactly nothing to what is otherwise a lighthearted smalltalk thread.