ALSO: Categorize me in the 30-40%. I get mocked quite a lot for my preference towards yuri manga and lesbian fiction in general. It's become more of an obsession or an affinity (probably due to my nature and my Autism Spectrum Disorder) than anything else. People can't seem to realize that not all yuri is porn! No one judges a girl for reading 50 Shades of Grey or other smutty het stories, but the moment I'm caught reading Octave or Girl Friends... PERV ALERT, PERV ALERT!
Surely you all must understand my troubles.
Apparently Tumblr blocks stuff tagged lesbian as sexual explicit even though, say, heterosexual isn't, as though any romantic affiliation between two girls is inherently overtly sexual, as a friend on Twitter pointed out.
Japanese is one of those languages that make sense when you know what it means, but if you try to explain it, it sounds really damn weird, lol. I did my best. >_<
Ah the joys of a language structured to be low-context.
Japanese: Because we've been doing centuries of subtext
If you need to open images at native resolution for editing, typesetting, etc. you might also be interested in GIMP which has a Windows version, though its interface for making edits is, well, decent at best.
Always wondered why Japanese cartoon octopi always look bright red and curled up. It's kind of funny how that's become the recognisable visual shorthand for even living octopus characters, if that's just what happens when they're boiled.
Perhaps it's because a lot of my extended family is from the New England area, but I also notice the same thing gets done a lot for lobster. It's only ever red after it's been boiled, and is otherwise pretty brownish (and even a single look into a lobster tank will demonstrate it) but rarely do you see a lobster in art that isn't red.