Tree trunks and amber

Mangaka: Honjou Rie
Genre: Yaoi
Length: 3 chapters + extra
Scanlated by: Attractive Fascinante

In the Heavenly Jade Pavillion there are many beautiful hustlers and their protectors, each with their own talents and mysterious lives. The lovely S&M hustler, Yagarasu, who hides his eye behind a patch, is visited by a man from his past. Why is Yagarasu's past appearing now? Will he be given a reason to put aside his whips and chains and only give pain to one man?

I almost didn't quote this summary because it describes the extra, rather than the main story, but I wanted to mention it in case S&M isn't your thing and it would put you off of the series once you went to download it. The main storyline is not about Yagarasu.

The first three chapters are about the premier prostitute in the pavilion and his new "protector," who insists that he's straight but finds working in an all-male whorehouse more tempting than he expected. What I like about this story the prostitute's personality, which is confident and unapologetic.

The artwork is also pretty nice, especially if you have a thing for guys in kimono who are pretty, but not uke waifs x 1000.

The extra about Yagarasu is much darker. It contains implied child molestation (not shown but perfectly clear). I didn't like it at all, but it's very short and if you don't read it, you're not missing out on anything.

Sample Pages
Cover + + +

You can download this page from this post in Attractive Fascinante's community.

Once upon a time, there was a BSG fan named starpollo who ran a Kara/Lee themed icon contest, karalee_ic. At some point she got burnt out on running the contest and announced that there would be no more rounds.

Then some time between then and now, starpollo decided to go and delete the comm, a fact which was discovered by anastashial. Alarmed by the loss of all those K/L icons, anastashial sent a message to starpollo urging her to undelete the comm.

However she also felt the need to announce this to the entire battlestar_blog community in a post that included a copypasta of her message to starpollo, a message I might add that smacks a little of fannish entitlement and self-importance.

This goes over about as well as you'd expect.

Small for the moment, but hopefully will grow.

Edit: Good grief, the OP also posted the same post, complete with copypasta, to the sasa_hq comm. Somebody's awfully determined.

Edit 2: And on beyond_insane as well. And that last link is likely to get especially wanky since starpollo herself has gotten involved.

Jack loves my laptop. I'd been meaning to post this for ages and kept forgetting.

( Not actually a kitten, but he doesn't know that )

Last month, Dr. Pepper promised to give out free Dr. Pepper after Guns N Roses finally put out their Chinese Democracy Album. It was discussed in the lounge here.

Well, the band is not happy about it and have lawyered up looking for an apology.

Will start airing in 2010. Link

Also, break open your wallets. The catalog for the BSG auction is up.

NEW FTP ADDRESS YOU GUYS. IF THE WIKI MODS COULD KINDLY UPDATE THE INFO IN THE WIKI?
ftp://lolmeme.sock-wha.com

ALL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FTP NOW GO TO sock.wha@gmail.com. MAKE SURE TO THANK HER FOR BUYING US HOSTING.

THE OLD FTP IS SLOWLY BEING UPLOADED THERE. SO YES, YOU WILL STILL BE ABLE TO GET TO THAT STUFF. EVENTUALLY.

ETA: IDK WHAT THE PASSWORD FOR THE FTP IS, SRY. :(

ETA2: ...PASSWORD AND USERNAME ARE THE SAME AS THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN. I'M UPLOADING THE OLD FTP NOW WITH THEM.

ETA3: \o/

E4: THE USER NAME OF THE FTP HAS NO UNDERSCORE AND YOU JUST LOST THE GAME

ETA5: THE USER NAME OF THE FTP HAD AN UNDERSCORE?

ETA6:

Tonight's review: Twilight.

Hooray!

Quick question, since I am having fail at finding what I'm looking for.

I seem to recall a post where it was mentioned that SMeyer had compared Edward to a number of earlier male characters, including Heathcliff and Gilbert Blythe.  I can't seem to find either the post or the article it mentioned, and I need to share it with some folks elsenet.

Thanks.

There was this one thing on secondlife (at least I'm pretty sure) where this guy pretended to be a female purple bunny(?) and got into an online relationship. There was a very fun fallout after they found out 'she' was a 'he' and I was trying to find this. Does anyone know where to find it?

Los Angeles Times: 'Twilight': 10 reasons 'Breaking Dawn' should not be made into a movie

There is wank in the comments - mostly flaming of the article and bashing of Jacob and his fans. The thread on lion_lamb is full of lulz.

WAIT, KILLER CROC IS WHAT WE CALL A CROCODILE WHO KILLS PEOPLE?

I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A TERM FOR DANGEROUS UGLY SHOES.

OH GOD.

Boston Legal, you guys. BOSTON LEGAL.

♥.

And Jon Stewart just made my night by referencing Star Wars. Oh yes.

The squirrels got one santa hat, two cardboard boxes, and bag full of what would have been kindling if I ever got around to lighting fires. Could have been much worse.

Took this opportunity to clean out the closet, which should have been done ages and ages ago. Have acquired three new plastic tubs.

Also, Christmas decorations are up.

Bah, humbug.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this bit of awesome: Genndy Tartakovsky joins crew of Iron Man 2 as a storyboarder.

Literature's Most Wanted

Remember Anna Mae?

Ugh, I just find this turn of events depressing. That poor girl sounds so sad and lonely.

For people who haven't heard about the case before: here is a summary.

STUPID UNHELPFUL AD!MICE >:(

December is a time for giving, a time for sharing, a time for making dreams come true, and it is in this spirit that we would like to give the gift of another chance to some of our previous poll contestants, who would've originally had a hell of a lot more votes if frigging Karl hadn't been skewing all our polls for months on end. Let's go!

Poll #428 December Picspam Poll!
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

CHOOSE WISELY!

Okay, yeah, maybe Karl didn't take all that many votes away from People Who Look Vaguely Like Ducks, but still! It's my poll, I'll make fun of Jensen Ackles if I want to. MAKE YOUR CHOICE! CLICKY CLICKY CLICKY! <3