ITP I ship D69 and gripe about other people's griping.

[makeste]

1. I had a weird dream last night, all the weirder because it's possibly the first Reborn dream I've ever had. In the dream, Dino for some reason was talking to Mukuro, despite the fact that to the best of my knowledge they've never interacted in canon (and despite the fact that neither of them are among my top ten favorite characters or anything... I'M NOT SURE WHY THEY WERE IN MY HEAD TO BEGIN WITH). Furthermore, Mukuro was apparently agitated about something, in that "I'm totally not agitated about anything" smiley-bastard way of his (in fact, I'm not even sure how I could tell he was tense; I suppose because it was my dream and all). About what, I have no idea, so let's say he was on the run from the Vendicare or something, just for the sake of things.

So anyway, they were talking, and I can't remember any of the dialogue now, but basically Dino was being his usual charming Dino self, and Mukuro was being his usual polite semi-dickish self. But Mukuro seemed almost fond of Dino after a while, which I suppose is only natural in a way, since Dino is pretty much an older, more confident version of Tsuna, and Tsuna's the one who Jesused Mukuro way back when. And Mukuro was slowly becoming slightly less dickish and slightly more honest, and from my position sitting back and observing all of this as the dreamer, I was all, "Hey, not bad Dino, I think he's actually starting to trust you a little." And it was sort of sweet in a way.

Then like out of nowhere, Dino reached out a hand and grabbed Mukuro's neck. ...Yeah. I think he was trying to make a point about trust or vulnerability or something? Like, it made sense at the time, but now that dream-logic is no longer in effect I really can't explain why the fuck he did it. HE JUST RANDOMLY GOT HIM IN A CHOKEHOLD. XD And whatever the reason, Mukuro sure didn't like it. He got pissed--I don't even know if I've ever seen him that pissed in canon--and gave Dino this terrifying death glare, and then basically Tsukuyomied the shit out of him.

And then Dino got better, and like a winner, he went and found Mukuro again, who even knows why. AND MUKURO WAS STILL PISSED but as the conversation wore on, he sort of loosened up again like before, because, again, we're talking about a Mafiajesus here. And the conversation totally didn't even go anywhere; it was basically just them talking about this and that and this, and their behavior didn't ever really change; Dino was still Dino and Mukuro was still Mukuro. AND YET, in spite of all this, I totally got the vibe that Mukuro was really warming up to Dino in his own way, and considering how pissed he'd been at the attempted... strangling??... that was saying something. SO THEY ENDED UP BECOMING FRIENDS, I GUESS... I don't know, I woke up.

So TL;DR, I think I now ship D69, lololol. Considering I almost never remember my dreams, I am now forced to wonder how many other cracky ones I've had like this. WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE MY SUBCONSCIOUS IS SHIPPING. I BET THE WALL IS CHEATING ON YAMAMOTO.


2. You know, it's not like I've been thrilled with the GOP lately as it is (especially with all of the ongoing health care BS), but this is really sinking to a new level of ridiculousness. "OH MY GOD THE PRESIDENT'S TELLING CHILDREN TO STAY IN SCHOOL AND WORK HARD--SOMEBODY STOP HIM!!" Frankly, this is completely baffling to me. There is nothing insidious about telling kids to study hard and try their best in school. Yet inexplicably, pretty much the unanimous GOP response is "OMG SOCIALISM!!1" Some of the people in the comments section for that article are even talking about keeping their children home from school tomorrow. Good idea, keep your kid at home on the first day of school just so her impressionable young mind isn't warped by the evil President's agenda. BRILLIANT.

The text of the speech has been released (PDF is here), and it's actually pretty good as far as these things go. Anyway, sorry; I don't usually rant about political things in this journal, but that's really been eating away at my patience for the last couple of days. THIS IS WHY STEWART AND COLBERT NEED TO COME OFF OF HIATUS ALREADY. I need people to make fun of this stuff so that I don't go insane. XD


3. HAPPY LABOR DAY, ALL. I'M GOING TO GO TO THE PARK WITH MY BABY SIS AND PLAY ON THE SWINGS LIKE THE SIX-YEAR-OLD I AM.