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Today in a thrift shop I spotted a book called, The History of Prostitution. I was about to pick it up when I noticed that the cover was smeared with a sticky-looking white substance. Instantly flashing back to my conversation this morning with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
canandagirl over "venereal disease" vs. "sexually transmitted disease," I fled the store like a vice cop was after me.
On a less disgusting note, black sesame Pocky is now in stores. It is the best thing ever, unless you hate black sesame. COincidentally, the LA Times has an article on the booming popularity of desserts that use black sesame as a flavoring. Why can't I find any of those desserts? I also tried Montblanc (chestnut pastry) Pocky, but it was too sweet for my taste. Generally the "decorer" line, with two layers of icing, is too sweet for me.
In case you were wondering, This is Pocky. It's addictive. There are also many savory flavors, such as salad, tomato, fried, cheese and potato, and Hokkaido butter, which are not listed on that website.
I am sure everyone has seen this already who is interested, as it was all over my friendslist when the latest chapter of Saiyuki reload came out in Japan in "Zero Sum," but here it is, just in case you are interested and haven't seen it, or enjoy drawings of beautiful, not-quite-human men in general, and don't mind a mild sort-of spoiler for the face of Youkai Hakkai, oh my God. Hakkai is the guy in my icon. He has another form, whose face has been revealed for the first time after fifteen volumes offoreplay suspense. Amazingly, it is not a let-down.
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campfuckudie is seriously addictive, and I advise everyone to stay away unless they want to be sucked in for hours and hours. This goes double for all Saiyuki fans, as the ikkou are all there and their players are all really good, especially the one playing Hakkai.
canandagirl over "venereal disease" vs. "sexually transmitted disease," I fled the store like a vice cop was after me.On a less disgusting note, black sesame Pocky is now in stores. It is the best thing ever, unless you hate black sesame. COincidentally, the LA Times has an article on the booming popularity of desserts that use black sesame as a flavoring. Why can't I find any of those desserts? I also tried Montblanc (chestnut pastry) Pocky, but it was too sweet for my taste. Generally the "decorer" line, with two layers of icing, is too sweet for me.
In case you were wondering, This is Pocky. It's addictive. There are also many savory flavors, such as salad, tomato, fried, cheese and potato, and Hokkaido butter, which are not listed on that website.
I am sure everyone has seen this already who is interested, as it was all over my friendslist when the latest chapter of Saiyuki reload came out in Japan in "Zero Sum," but here it is, just in case you are interested and haven't seen it, or enjoy drawings of beautiful, not-quite-human men in general, and don't mind a mild sort-of spoiler for the face of Youkai Hakkai, oh my God. Hakkai is the guy in my icon. He has another form, whose face has been revealed for the first time after fifteen volumes of
campfuckudie is seriously addictive, and I advise everyone to stay away unless they want to be sucked in for hours and hours. This goes double for all Saiyuki fans, as the ikkou are all there and their players are all really good, especially the one playing Hakkai.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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The threads where Ishida became a Black Rose Duelist and pulls a sword from Ichigo. Oh my God.
And Tohru Honda getting the Death Note, which is pretty much THE classic CFUD post.
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A random sample from the few posts I've memoried/bookmarked:
- Read EVERY POST BY ICHIGO EVER I MEAN IT. Just go through the archives Find-ing
Ichigo's first post, Ichigo gives us the REAL story of Orihime.
- Ishida goes Black Rose
- Inui's worst nightmare (hilarious even if you don't know "Prince of Tennis", even better if you do know PoT, because it's ALL COMPLETELY CANON)
- Tohru gets the Death Note
- Mal Reynolds and Roy Mustang teach sex ed. (Why does the Mal+Robert-from-"Law of Ueki" relationship make me wibble so?)
Very very very outdated list of posts by character (some more in userinfo)
I'm digging through the archives for some of the Sanzo-ikkou posts I can remember--Gojyo's nightmare of youkai!Hakkai killing them made me bawl.
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RANDOM IKKOU POSTS
Sanzo freaks everyone out by being NICE and HELPFUL
Hakkai's first post wheee!
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(OTOH, the last round of new characters brought good characters of Mugen, Jin, and Agent Dale Cooper, so I shouldn't complain too much.)
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I'll just stick with Milliways, which I know (and which has had its share of Rose Bride duels. You can see why I'm planning to watch _Utena_ at some point.).
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but I can only have one game eat my life at a time dammitI have a friend who plays at Milliways that I compare notes with, and I think the differences are mostly stylistic: Milliways is much more into the long plotty serious threads than zombie crack (also I think people get to have sex). I tend to prefer "bunch of characters talking to each other through Livejournal comments" format of CFUD rather than the Milliways format of setting up each comment as a snippet of prose fiction ("He said, she said"), as you can do some glorious things with Livejournal icons as facial expressions.From:
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But like you, I only have time for one enormous game at a time--barely that, there are weeks when I just accumulate *dozens* of Milliways posts as open windows waiting to be read . . .
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I'll go through periods where I'll comment on every CFUD every day and then I'll ignore the game for weeks. The game has a rule that players must post once every 2 weeks or be dropped, though, so I'm trying to keep up with that. I dropped
So of course I've applied for another character in the latest round. Ahahaha. Aha. Hahahaha.)
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Yumichika/Gojyo/Ikkaku/Hakkai thread
3. Gojyo and Yumichika try making out with each other to try to break the bodyswitch and are enjoying it a little too much
4. IS CHO HAKKAI GONNA HAVE TO CHOKE A BITCH?
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And in a nifty confluence of the topics that Rachel mentioned above, you know what the new Youkai Hakkai pictures will mean: DEMON SEX AUS.
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Re: RANDOM IKKOU POSTS
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*tempts you, like a tempty thing*
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Also, if you dig into the archives at the beginning, there was a brilliant Gaara player under the name of Mr. Sandman. I'd say all of the Gaara posts were worth reading, but especially the one where he transformed into a giant badger made out of sand (which is actually Naruto canon, but you don't need to know Naroto to appreciate it.)
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And did you see the Gojyo breaking up with Hakkai one?! And the reconciliation!
And this awesome Sanzo and Goku thread!
(btw, I have spent four hours reading this, which is entirely your fault!)
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Oh, here we go, Gaara collected his threads. The badger ones begin with "Gaara fears Sauke turned him gay" and continue over the next two:
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=mamas_boy&keyword=Posts+by+Gaara&filter=all
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Hey, did you see
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And you've probably seen this by now, but for rachelmanjia/anyone else interested: another memories listing of camp posts (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=cfud_scrapbook), organized by canon and by character. It's still several months behind, but it's a lot more up to date than
(Pee Ess your Yaone is completely and totally awesome, have I mentioned that?)
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Although this was probably someone's inept attempt to effect repairs using library paste, I think you have probably been spared a really bad book, because I don't think I know of any reputable studies on the subject with that title. Because the underlying, unexamined assumption will be that it is the 'oldest profession', an 'unfortunate necessity', and a completely unchanging and transhistorical phenomenon.
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Paula Bartley, Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in Britain, 1860-1914, Routledge, 1999
Laurie Bernstein, Sonia's Daughters:Prostitutes and their Regulation in Imperial Russia (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 1995)
Edward Bristow, Prostitution and Prejudice: the Jewish fight against white slavery, 1870-1939 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982)
Alain Corbin, Time Desire and Horror:Towards a History of the Senses (London: Polity Press 1995)
Alain Corbin, Women for Hire: Prostitution and sexuality in France after 1850 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990)
Frances Finnegan, Poverty and Prostitution: A study of Victorian prostitutes in York (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979)
Mary Gibson, Prostitution and the State in Italy, 1860-1915 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986)
Jill Harsin, Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Paris (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985)
Philippa Levine, Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (London; Routledge, 2004)
Linda Mahood, The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the nineteenth century (London: Routledge, 1990)
Judith R. Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society: women, class and the state (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
On China, I haven't read all of this: Christian Henriot, Prostitution and sexuality in Shanghai : a social history 1849-1949 (Cambridge University Press, 2001), but I did read an interesting article by him about the shift from traditional forms to more 'modern' practices in early C20th. I have also heard good things about Gail Hershatter Dangerous pleasures : prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai (University of California Press, 1997)
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Eewwww!!! With any other non-sex topic, I'd probably wouldn't have even noticed it.
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How was Robin Hood? Did you drink cider? Did you play darts?
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Also hi, I
stalkwatch your journal because we have a bunch of the same people friended. ... Although, come to think of it, I'm going to just go ahead and friend you. Hi! Hee.From:
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Much like Saiyuki.
Hi there! Come on in, the water's fine.
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Heh, thanks.