Everything that happens between these 2 sections is pure fluff.
So I'm going to ignore the big elephant floating in the room and summarize the actual content.
We have :
a play-by-play reaction by people to what's going on.
Vista tries to be serious.
Clockblocker is not.
Vista gets mad,
Glory Girl calls for aid.
Glory Girl gets shutdown.
Kitsune vs gumiho debate
Clockblocker Leaking her power growth.
1-4 add nothing that we haven't seen before in terms of action or character, 5&6 are kind of pointless and SoD breaking(more on that later), 7 gets covered just as much earlier in the chapter and in the next PHO post(and IMHO Is better as a one line joke and then the reoccurring references we keep getting). And 8? 8 is useful, it is potentially relevant to the story but could be just as easily folded into the next PHO segment.
5, 6 & the elephant in the room are related to timeline. It just boggles my mind that in the roughly 5? minutes the fight lasted someone put a thread up on PHO, All these major characters had time to see it, comment on it and in the case of Glory Girl ping someone on a third party site rather than contact them directly. No seriously, she should have her mother and her aunt's phone number WTF is she doing? Same with Vista? Why is serious, mature Vista not busy making sure that someone knows that Taylor is fighting Squealer and the E88?
And I bring this up because so much of the modern new writers culture is "Word count. Word count. Word Count!" because a lot of it is actually being able to get the words out on paper.
I feel like the difference between a good writer and a great writer is how effectively they use their word count. (And yes this does mean that I think
@Grounders10 could be a great writer)
So here's the thing, Out of those 50 Fox mess that I mentioned none of them Japanese Chinese or even the Koreans mention foxes preying on humanity (and there are some really scandalous and creepy myths in those books). In general foxes are portrayed as tricksters they may be malicious they may be benevolent But outside of a few specific Korean myths and Tamamo No Mae myth chain they are not actively bloodthirsty.
Which goes back to my original point, our perspectives of what myths are well known are a result of modern pop culture, modern writers wanting to use a Korean flavor of mythology emphasize the bloodthirsty legends of a gumiho to make their tale more distinct from the Chinese and Japanese fox mythology.
But if you didn't have that pop culture emphasis, like Earth Bet does not, and someone gave you a book of a hundred myths you would have to take the most common portrayals as the most well known.
Odd but funny fact the Kitsune in Mercedes Lackey's Serrated Edge (1993) series predates every pop culture Kitsune portrayal I could find except for Tails from sonic the hedgehog.
