Random weekend notes and links

[rachelmanija]

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 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 foreplay suspense. Amazingly, it is not a let-down.

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.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Ishida Uryuu is awesome too. And there was a thread that I loved a little while back, in which Wednesday Adams (I think) suddenly turned into Death from Sandman and a number of pretty intense conversations got going.

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

Ishida and the old Ichigo, who was also excellent, got me into Bleach. I'm also terribly fond of the KKM cast, though I still am slacking on their canon. And yes, that was Wednesday. She never wants to change back, hee.

[octopedingenue]

The Kyou Kara Maou cast is love and I was a Wolfram/Yuuri shipper before I ever watched an episode, oh Wolfram oh Yuuri oh. They are so in character it is painful because you want to hug them as you whack them in the head for emotional stupidity as often as their canon counterparts.

[octopedingenue]

If you don't mind the game completely eating your life, go back to about May through August to track down the old Bleach cast threads--Ichigo, Rukia, Orihime, Hitsugaya, and Isshin all used to be there (and left about the same time), and they were the best thing ever. (We will never get another Ichigo, the first one was so good.)

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.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Tohru Honda gets the Death Note! Ishida pulls a sword out of Ichigo! It will take me forever to find at least those two posts-- do you have links or vague memories of approximately where they were?

[octopedingenue]

The sad part about CFUD being so large and cracky is that it's so disorganized. Some players use cfud_daily but most don't (ahaha including me) and much of the interesting action between characters takes place. CURSE YOU LIFE-EATING RP.

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 speakingisnot and settle in for DAYS OF JOY. Sample:
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.

[octopedingenue]

L and Raito trying to get the Death Note AWAY from Tohru

RANDOM IKKOU POSTS

[octopedingenue]

Goku and Gojyo have terrible no good very bad dreams
Sanzo freaks everyone out by being NICE and HELPFUL
Hakkai's first post wheee!