Family Ties [Part 39]

Title: Family Ties

Characters (in this chapter): Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, France, Northern Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, America, Canada, Mexico.

Rating: 15

Warnings: Russia is insane, nuclear weapons deployed, and the fact this was written once I had consumed a whole bottle of Smirnoff Ice.

Summary: Uh, I need to be banned from the kink meme or monsters like this happen? Essentially, Scotland leaves the UK, which gives Northern Ireland an excuse to up and out as well, which leaves England and Wales all alone. Oh yeah, and this somehow leads to World War Three.

( Maybe I should have used the 'boom' cut text for this one? )

Writer's Block: Pet central

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*clears throat*

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUULLSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT~ <3

Animals do not care what the hell you call the relationship between you and them. A dog or a cat will not give a name to it because they don't think in words.

I dunno, stuff like this just irritates me, my grandma being a dog trainer. Dogs are not meant to be equal with humans. They do not do the equality thing, if anything it makes them uncomfortable. They think in hierarchies. Whoever is "pack leader" is in charge, and then you have the scale all the way down to the bottom. And if you want an obedient dog, you have to make yourself "pack leader". And with the resposability of looking after the rest of the "pack" off their back, the dog will relax and let the leader take the... well, the lead. In both senses of the word.

Idk if it applies to cats; I've never owned one, but they seem kind of aloof anyway and couldn't give a toss what you called them as long as there was dinner and hugs involved in it.

/soapbox

In other news, I've done my knee in and it hurts like a bitch.

Thoughts on Durarara that few people will care about.

So I got into Durarara! recently, aka DRRR!, which was totally worth spending and entire afternoon getting up to date with watching. That said, I don't really understand the hype; it's not the best thing since sliced bread or anything. However, it is worth a watch, mainly because of Shizuo.

Nena, you're infecting me with your "instant-minor-character-love" syndrome.

Alright, he's not that minor. On the scale of things, he's more of a middle-ground character, with people like Celty (awesome), Kida (crazy awesome) or Mikado (SECRETLY EPIC AWESOME, only the effect is kind of ruined by the fact that Pocky in England has been renamed Mikado) in the fore ground and the main leads.

But holy shit does this guy rock.

Our introduction to him? He picks up and throws a vending machine at a guy.

Does he have genetic modification? No. Has he drunk a magic potion? No. Was he specially trained for this? Unless you count the fact he tends to do this a lot, no. The man is 100% epic win.

I think what's making this series all the more cool for me is that the places that show up in the anime (which is set in Ikebukuro, an area of Tokyo) actually exist. I kid you not. The artists went out and painstakingly photographed and recorded every backdrop for every scene they did in the anime. The vending machine that Shizuo picked up actually exists, the apartments where Mikado stays are really there (and have vacancies, which I doubt will last long once the otakus get hold of the info) and hell, even the trees and fountains and stores are real places.

But yeah, the interactions (read as: fights) between Shizuo and *clears throat* IIIIIIIIZAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! (/vending machine) are definitely worth watching the show for. For serious.

Also Issac and Miria show up for like, three seconds at one point, since this is by the same author and set in the same universe, and lo, it was epic.

Pidge: *sips tea while watching bemusedly*
Speakers:"NE, AI-ZA-KU~" "NANDAAAI MIIRIAAAA~?"
Pidge: *AJASKJFH CHOKES ON TEA*

So yeah, mini rant over. Go watch Baccano and Durarara, in that order.