diff --git a/frontend/src/components/modal/ProvenancePanel.vue b/frontend/src/components/modal/ProvenancePanel.vue
index 507a9e6..b4d641e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/modal/ProvenancePanel.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/modal/ProvenancePanel.vue
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
           <span v-if="postDate(e)" class="fc-prov__date">{{ postDate(e) }}</span>
         </div>
         <div class="fc-prov__post">
-          {{ e.post.title || `Post ${e.post.external_post_id}` }}
+          {{ postTitle(e) }}
         </div>
         <div class="fc-prov__meta">
           <RouterLink :to="`/artist/${e.artist.slug}`">
@@ -30,12 +30,8 @@
           </span>
         </div>
         <div class="fc-prov__actions">
-          <a
-            v-if="e.post.url" :href="e.post.url"
-            target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
-          >↗ View original post</a>
           <a href="#" @click.prevent="openPost(e.post.id)">
-            View images from this post
+            View post
           </a>
           <a
             v-if="e.post.description_html"
@@ -83,6 +79,7 @@ import { useRouter } from 'vue-router'
 import { useModalStore } from '../../stores/modal.js'
 import { useProvenanceStore } from '../../stores/provenance.js'
 import { formatPostDate } from '../../utils/date.js'
+import { toPlainText } from '../../utils/htmlSanitize.js'
 
 const modal = useModalStore()
 const prov = useProvenanceStore()
@@ -134,9 +131,16 @@ const show = computed(() => {
 const attachments = computed(() => state.value?.attachments || [])
 
 function postDate(e) { return formatPostDate(e.post.date) }
+function postTitle(e) {
+  // Titles can arrive as stored HTML (e.g. "<strong>…</strong>"); render
+  // as plain text (the CSS makes it bold).
+  return toPlainText(e.post.title) || `Post ${e.post.external_post_id}`
+}
 
 function openPost(postId) {
-  router.push({ path: '/gallery', query: { post_id: postId } })
+  // Land on the post in the posts feed (in context), not the gallery
+  // image grid. Operator-flagged 2026-05-28.
+  router.push({ path: '/posts', query: { post_id: postId } })
   modal.close()
 }
 </script>
@@ -159,7 +163,7 @@ function openPost(postId) {
   text-transform: lowercase;
 }
 .fc-prov__post {
-  font-weight: 600; margin: 4px 0;
+  font-weight: 700; margin: 4px 0;
   color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface));
 }
 .fc-prov__meta {
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/posts/PostCard.vue b/frontend/src/components/posts/PostCard.vue
index 65194a0..de62df4 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/posts/PostCard.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/posts/PostCard.vue
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
       </div>
 
       <div class="fc-post-card__text">
-        <h3 v-if="post.post_title" class="fc-post-card__title">
-          {{ post.post_title }}
+        <h3 v-if="plainTitle" class="fc-post-card__title">
+          {{ plainTitle }}
         </h3>
         <h3 v-else class="fc-post-card__title fc-post-card__title--missing">
           Post {{ post.external_post_id }}
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@
     <!-- Expanded body: title, full mosaic, full sanitized HTML description,
          attachments. Lazy-loaded detail via getPostFull. -->
     <div v-else class="fc-post-card__expanded">
-      <h2 v-if="post.post_title" class="fc-post-card__title-full">
-        {{ post.post_title }}
+      <h2 v-if="plainTitle" class="fc-post-card__title-full">
+        {{ plainTitle }}
       </h2>
       <h2 v-else class="fc-post-card__title-full fc-post-card__title--missing">
         Post {{ post.external_post_id }}
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ import { computed, ref } from 'vue'
 import { RouterLink } from 'vue-router'
 
 import { usePostsStore } from '../../stores/posts.js'
-import { sanitizeHtml } from '../../utils/htmlSanitize.js'
+import { sanitizeHtml, toPlainText } from '../../utils/htmlSanitize.js'
 import PostEmptyThumbs from './PostEmptyThumbs.vue'
 import PostImageGrid from './PostImageGrid.vue'
 
@@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ const merged = computed(() => detail.value || props.post)
 const images = computed(() => merged.value.thumbnails || [])
 const attachments = computed(() => merged.value.attachments || [])
 
+// Titles can arrive as stored HTML (e.g. "<strong>…</strong>"); render as
+// plain text — the CSS makes the title bold.
+const plainTitle = computed(() => toPlainText(props.post.post_title))
+
 // Compact-view hero+rail derived from the feed-shape (capped 6).
 const hero = computed(() => props.post.thumbnails?.[0])
 const rail = computed(() => (props.post.thumbnails || []).slice(1, 4))
@@ -312,7 +316,7 @@ function formatBytes (n) {
 
 .fc-post-card__title {
   font-family: 'Fraunces', Georgia, serif;
-  font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500;
+  font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700;
   margin: 0 0 8px 0;
   color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface));
   display: -webkit-box;
@@ -369,7 +373,7 @@ function formatBytes (n) {
 .fc-post-card__title-full {
   font-family: 'Fraunces', Georgia, serif;
   font-size: 22px;
-  font-weight: 500;
+  font-weight: 700;
   margin: 0;
   color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface));
 }
diff --git a/frontend/src/utils/htmlSanitize.js b/frontend/src/utils/htmlSanitize.js
index 7978fca..5733c52 100644
--- a/frontend/src/utils/htmlSanitize.js
+++ b/frontend/src/utils/htmlSanitize.js
@@ -29,6 +29,17 @@ export function sanitizeHtml (html) {
   return doc.body.innerHTML
 }
 
+// Strip all tags + decode entities to plain text. Used for titles that
+// arrive as stored HTML (e.g. "<strong>Edelgard at the Sex-Arcade</strong>")
+// which must render as text, not literal markup. DOMParser yields an inert
+// document (no script execution, no resource loads), so reading textContent
+// is safe.
+export function toPlainText (html) {
+  if (typeof html !== 'string' || !html) return ''
+  const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, 'text/html')
+  return (doc.body.textContent || '').trim()
+}
+
 function _scrubNode (node) {
   const children = Array.from(node.children)
   for (const child of children) {