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

[kate_nepveu]

Yeah, I started reading LJ RPGs with nocturne_alley and, as a fan of rigorous narrative devices, really liked what it did with LJs _as_ public journals. It took me a while to get used to Milliways' style, and it was the River-Roland-Desire Rose Bride duel/gunslinger trial linked to above that really hooked me; while the resulting attack on the Blue Sun's Academy is still some kind of pinnacle of crossover plotting for me.

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 . . .

[sheep-gotohell.livejournal.com]

My friend agonistes that I mentioned plays Roland the gunslinger! :D I've read the gunslinger trial through links and comments on her journal, and it's marvelous. I remember she worked so hard on plotting the Blue Sun Academy attack! I'll get her into anime yet, since she borrowed my Utena DVDs. Mwahaha!

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 sheep_gotohell for two months last semester for school and I missed playing him terribly, and I'm afraid I'm too attached now to drop him again so easily. The game's often been a welcome/unwelcome distraction for me from college--when I'm struggling with writer's block for school papers, playing a sheepboy doesn't really help me focus; but it's something of a relief nonetheless to feel that I can still do some kind of writing, even if it's ultimately quite useless. For that reason I'm a little wary of getting too involved in the game even as I love it wholeheartedly.

So of course I've applied for another character in the latest round. Ahahaha. Aha. Hahahaha.)