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K ([personal profile] karanguni) wrote2009-03-18 11:51 am

zomg this is so weird that I swear it counts as fic

MY DREAMSCAPE IS FANFICTION LAND, I swear. Okay, let's recap some basic facts about my life here:

  1. I'm not American
  2. I've been away from serious [livejournal.com profile] rahmbamarama stuff for a good long time


SO, BRAIN, DO TELL ME WHY I dreamt last night that - no lie - of the following:

The year is some-time-after-the-Election. For reasons that are already slipping my memory, people are being silly. I head down to a junkyard to see pre-November-4th newspaper spreads of Palin getting blown up by some pretty crazy people.



Suddenly (and I shit you not) the White House Van draws up. Not the "bus". My mind was very clear on "van". It was a sort of canary cream colour type thing. Barack Obama comes out, to my relief, and he takes one look at the disgraceful state of Blowing Palin Newspapers to Bits going on before he turns and heads back into the bus, calling, "Rahm, where's Rahm? I need Rahm here."

And thus Rahm doth come forward, in his snazzy jacket and looking very mature and not at all watchdog like. My mind mentally appends that this is what working on Pennsylvania Avenue and age does to someone. But Obama goes, 'There's Rahm. There's people burning newspapers outside. I see this as a perfect combination.'

And Rahm grins, an I-will-fuck-you smile, and clambers out of the van. He walks past me, I catch up with him, and obviously the next part of the dream is so violent that I fail to remember it at all right now.

Law, order and Rahmdom thus maintained, we end up going to lunch with David Axelrod (YES, I KNOW, I DON'T KNOW). The White House Van's gone off without us, so here we are in the middle of Junkyard Land nowhere. We walk. Rahm's gone back to being Serious, and Axelrod doesn't talk much. I mention that the Obama administration is very cool indeed and that I should like to work more with them, in a way that makes me out to having known them all from before.

Rahm says, vaguely coldly, "You decided not to join the administration."

I feel guilty, like I've passed over something. Axelrod hums from behind. I say, "Well, in four years, when I'm out of college -- if you have space for me, I'll come back."

WHICH IS RIDICULOUS CONSIDERING MY LIFE.

Rahm nods, and shrugs. Time passes in a haze.

We end up at a mall. Axelrod, very creepily in tune with his far-more-genial-than-Rahm real life self, produces... a bunch of coupons for food/beverage outlets. Bizarrely, all of them are located 9 (long) escalator levels down. We start riding down, Rahm and Axelrod talk to me about current politics and stuff in the White House while I sort of sit on escalators and act like a 5 year old child.

Eventually we get to the basement. Rahm heads for the food/bev place (Long John Silvers?!?!?!) that offered a "$9 meal" in the coupon, and is confounded by the sign there that says their set meals are, in fact, $18. He is ready to bust ass - Axelrod pipes in, "You have to use the coupon," and Rahm goes "Oh." There is a terrible moment when everyone realises that Rahm's never used coupons before, and then Axelrod and I crack up and make fun of Rahm and grab a table.

Then I am evidently too poor to afford even couponed out LJS, so I head into the departmental store next door to buy onigiri???? Almost buying 80,000 YEN ones before finding the it's-almost-10pm-so-we're-clearing-stock cheapass onigiris at the back. All this time I am (dream) thinking to myself, no one will believe I'm talking to them, WHICH IS RETARDED, since apparently we are all BFF.

And then I wake up, and decide that this dream is probably better than fic, if you just search-replace the word "I" in this entry with "Jon" or "Stephen" or "Anderson" or any other persona of choice. Now the question is - to inflict this on [livejournal.com profile] rahmbamarama (I'm looking at you, [livejournal.com profile] evercourant, [livejournal.com profile] two_if_by_sea, [livejournal.com profile] charlie_d_blue, LOOK WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE TO ME. I can't even WITHDRAW from fandom, it sort of follows me home and asks me to look after it!11!) and accuse them of my ills, or to go book myself a spot in a mental institution, hm...

[identity profile] regicidaldwarf.livejournal.com 2009-03-18 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
HA! That is pretty epic right there. xD

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-18 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
IT'S HAUNTING ME. NOW I WONDER IF MY FATE IS IN POLITICS.
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-03-18 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
AHAHAHA.

Okay, yes. Except with the whole junkyard burnings/food voucher/mysterious van situation I was picturing the whole thing as some sort of post-war-on-terror-Apocalyptic Nightmare á la Mad Max wherein Barack still runs the country but it is falling to pieces and the White House is this fully hands-on governing operation with their vans and Rahm-as-watchdog-but-far-too-serious-from-devastating-loss, AND HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, LOOK WHAT YOU DO TO ME! THIS IS WHAT YOU DO TO THE LANDSCAPE OF MY TWISTED, TWISTED BRAIN. GAH.

*shakes fist* MANILOOOOOOWRBRRRRRRRRRR!

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-18 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
AHAHAHA. I almost kind of want to write that - The Best Intentions Go Astray: Barack Obama and the Failure of the American People (TM) or something.

PIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMP.
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-03-18 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
The Best Intentions Go Astray: Barack Obama and the Failure of the American People (TM)

I can't decide if this is the most horrifying idea I've ever heard ... OR THE MOST GODDAMN CRACK-TASTICALLY DOOM-FILLED BRILLIANT ONE.

What to do, what to do?
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-18 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
The best part is that I can totally see how to write it. 8DDDD
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-03-18 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
\o/ I envisage a brilliantly surreal fic somewhere on the horizon. :D

On a side note, excerpts from a fictional Vanity Fair article on Mafia!Emanuels; what would you most like to see therein?

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-18 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm, Vanity Fair. I haven't caught up with most of Mafia!AU, so if my random thought bubbles are weird, just ignore them:

1. Style in the Emanuel family: did the younger brothers grow up copying the older ones?

2. Relationships in the Emanuel family: do any SOs have to pass any tests?
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
SOs being?? But hah! Love the style idea, thanks hon. :)

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
Significant others. 8D 8D
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, of course. I like that even more. :D

And so of course a Supernatural apocalypse drabble would just happen to eat my brain, so when I finally felt like writing once more, I didn't even get to mafia. Urgh. ;) You working on anything interesting, ho?

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
I'm thinking more and more and more about writing this entry into a crazy fic now, with Anger and Rage and Rahm resigning and Andy saving the day while Barack weeps, or something.
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
o.O

...

I'd totally read that. Just sayin'.

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
8D And I really want to read that Vanity Fair article now. *g* *g* Zomg so tired. Had sleepover last night, v. dead nowwwwwwwwwww.
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
You crazy kid, you. *hugs* Go sleep.

Vanity Fair article will never see the light of day. Zeke pulled the plug and Ari put pressure on the Board of directors at Condé Nast. All we're gonna get are the unfinished extracts from the kid's rough draft. Which will, naturally, mean more dirty details. :D

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
MMMMMMMMM. Little Ari slinking to Rahm's suits when he's not around; Brother's Got Your Gun --

I am going to stop now before my sleepless delirium generates tentacle monsters. :D
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[identity profile] charlie-d-blue.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Ahahahaha. Oh Ari.

Sweet dreams. :)

[identity profile] evercourant.livejournal.com 2009-03-18 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
K I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF THIS, WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH THE REACTION THAT YOU HAD, EXCEPT YOU HAVE HAD SLIGHTLY MORE TIME TO ACCLIMATIZE YOURSELF TO HAVING HAD A DREAM ABOUT HANGING OUT WITH SOCIALLY AWKWARD RAHM EMANUEL AND GENIAL AX AT A MALL AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE WHITE HOUSE VAN.

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
I AM JUST HOME FROM BEING OUT AND ABOUT AND I AM TIRED, SO I WILL TYPE IN CAPSLOCK TO EXPRESS MY EEHEHEHEHEH. YES, WEIRD, ISN'T IT. I THINK I SHALL TURN IT INTO FIC - NOT RAHM BEING AWKWARD, BUT RAHM BEING DISAPPOINTED~ AND BARACK BEING I TRIED BUT SOMETIMES THINGS HAVE TO FAIL~ AMPERSAND C PERIOD &C.

[identity profile] two-if-by-sea.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
and obviously the next part of the dream is so violent that I fail to remember it at all right now.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

[identity profile] karanguni.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
YOU MOCK BUT YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE.

HE'S COMING FOR YOU TONIGHT.

WITH A KNIFE.