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Is she meant to be speaking English here?

NANI?! (Fixed it)

Dang it, I was trying to make the joke that I couldn’t understand it, with open and close angled brackets around it. I think it broke the comment.

Angled brackets are parts of HTML — the markup language that underpins all of the web — and many post platforms can interpret seeing them as an attempt at the poster trying to get the web page do something it was not intended to, and strip them out completely.
A more smart webpage would try to encode them in a way to make them safe, but developers often choose the simpler/cheaper way of doing things.

Yeah, I’m a backend webdev. It seems like the code is using something (probably regex) to remove XML from comments, and it’s too permissive and removed my comments contents before storing it.

Could be worse, it could just let any old XML through—then I could live up to my nickname: Damaged”); DROP TABLE bots;–

From the angles of those images, it =does= look like they were originally made by peeping Toms.
Dammit. It’s getting so a kitsune can’t relax anymore without some perv lewding her. =_=

“It was a different time- no, seriously, it was a thousand years ago!”

I somehow doubt anyone ever thought it was okay for someone to take (or make) their picture without their consent. Especially not someone who was looking at them during a private moment.

Back in mythological times, you could get turned into a stag and ripped apart by your own hunting dogs for that kind of nonsense.

For me it’s like…
None of them ever found the courage to approach, to ask her or anything. Assuming each picture was their own unique event, it strikes me as a legacy of the sort of admiration and lack of self-confidence that breeds Yanderes, devoted to their subject, but never willing to try and approach her, despite what amounts to centuries of an open invitation to do so.
All of them stuck drawing her back instead of the…*ahem* treasures *cough cough* of getting her atention and getting to draw her face to face, to actually look her in the eye.

How is this a surprise to her? It’s not like we don’t have ancient woodcuts of what would be tentacle porn and fart jokes today. As merely two examples. Japan being the world’s leading exporter of weird may only be a recent thing, but archeological evidence proves it’s ALWAYS been the leading creator of weird.

I’m actually surprised, mostly because they drew her naked (and always from behind). We know that Japan has long had an… obsessive fandom mentality. And we have colour woodblock paintings from the 1800’s of a teahouse waitress that effectively had an idol fanbase.

Here’s a Youtube short by kyotako1372 called “The Japanese history of simping/fangirling – 18th century” where I got all of my information from: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_BJLwYFLwD8

That was very informative! The Japanese sometime emotional and VOCAL[!!!] world became somewhat less mysterious for this foreigner.

The Japanese weird has a fairly recent and diminutive history, at least regarding the thread example of tentacle porn. It started when the population started to convert from feudalism to a state that could handle the rise in external interaction, then met early censorship that made it an (often ridiculed) minor pathway of avoiding it. [Wikipedia]

Another of kyotako1372’s video’s I watched actually covered a part of what that Wikipedia article could have been talking about.

Subtle Self Expression was a direct result of the Samurai Class losing their position of power as the value of rice fell, and a law being made that limited commoner’s to wearing only three non-specific colours (from memory I think it was navy, brown & grey) & no easily recognisable elaborate patterns. In response, the non-samurai made clothing hundreds of variations on those three colours, clothing that was dull from a distance and elaborate up cloth and clothing with elaborate patterns on the interior that they couldn’t be punished for.

Ah, all those hapless forefathers who would approach the Kitsune to beg for her help, then to chicken out when first they found her, in her pure natural state, to return home and immortalize the brief glimpse they had experienced, treasuring the memory for the rest of their life

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