5 things. :)

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okay,
a) WHAT IS GOING ON WITH YOUR HAIR TOM.
b) dfjkfafjdkljdfklajdklajdalkjkl shirt. i do not even know what to do with that shirt.
c) MISCREANT. DDDDDDDDD

2. Last week we had snow. On Thursday, my back yard — technically the open courtyard below my apartment — looked like this:

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A fic rec. (or ok maybe a slew of fic recs but really just one)

Hi, el jay. I should have all kinds of updates and recs and flail here, but instead I just have this one thing, and that is:

In Certain Light, Arthur/Eames, WIP, currently up to 23 parts

In my head I compare this fic to calligraphy — slow, finely wrought, so smooth and painstaking and gentle, with a long slow build to the finish. This fic. Oh, this fic. It’s so cleanly written, so perfectly in-character and painful without ever losing faith; and the picture it gives you of Arthur and Eames and how well they both know and (yes, love) each other is breathtaking and confident and so beautiful. I love this fic so much. Currently it’s one of my favorites in the fandom.

I know it’s a WIP but there is a strong trend of people finishing their WIPs in this fandom, and this author has been updating pretty regularly. So, yeah. If you aren’t reading it, then why on earth not? And, I mean, in terms of amazing WIPs, I love Table Stakes, and the Military AU, and of course the newspaper AU, but so far this fic is my new standard for Inception fandom WIPs.

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Oh, and since I’m reccing WIPs (shut up, i’m kind of in over my head with WIPs at the moment), I might as well go ahead and tell you that amazingly_me‘s WIP where Arthur is the son of Santa Claus is the most wonderful thing ever to exist as a fandom holiday fic. Omg. *_* And Try To Keep It All the Year, Arthur/Eames.
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It is snowing today in Norfolk. Omg snow. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

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Recs!

I‘ve been posting my Inception recs on Sundays, or trying to–so I apologize for messing up my own schedule. I especially was eager to post all last week because oh my goodness I loved every last fic I read last week, Inception fandom, all of you artists and authors are getting better and better all the time and you all make me so happy to be here watching it happen. <3

I’m not sure how handy these recs are, because really they’re just repeats from my Delicious account, but I guess I’ll keep doing it (for lack of anything better to do) until I get bored or no one reads them, whichever comes first. Be that as it may, EVERYTHING I READ THIS WEEK WAS AWESOME. EVERYTHING. So, although you’ve probably all read everything here by now, here’s the straight-up list of shit I loved, in no particular order:

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WOW!

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skldfskfj;jfjdkj;sdadjd ahhh this fic is amazing, NEVER HAS FASHION RESEARCH BEEN PUT TO BETTER USE

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So here is like, 8 weeks worth of joy wrt Inception fandom crammed into one post.

Disclaimer #1: I already know I am going to miss including some things that have made me super-happy lately, because there’s just so much. I am trying to round up a lot of things, but I pre-emptively apologize for all the things I am leaving out. Fandom, you are so vast and amazing and you renew yourself daily, and I do pretty good but I just can’t keep up with you!!!!! <3

Disclaimer #2: I’ve had a lot of conversations about recs lately, so I just want to reiterate that reccing something means that I read/saw this and it made me really happy. My recs are about sharing joy with each of you, not claiming any kind of aesthetic value. (i mean, i have a “bestficever” tag on delicious, but to give you an idea of what you’re dealing with, that tag includes a fic where david cook buys david archuleta a giant stuffed teddy bear, okay. THIS IS NOT ABOUT HAVING GOOD TASTE.) In short, I hope this list makes you guys as delighted as it makes me. <3

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I thought that each expensive gift you’d arranged was a totem of your esteem ;)

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~ it all seems a horrible dream! ~

THIS LIVEJOURNAL POST IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY:

Here are 3 fabulous Guys & Dolls-related Inception things, fandom! And 1 that is just a thing, but still Guys & Dolls-related.

1. bossymarmalade‘s FANTASTIC YUSUF/EAMES FIC, “Mine I’ll Leave To Chance.” omfg omfg Yusuf/Eames like I always want to read about them, hot and intimate and friendly and GUH. and YUSUF HERE, omfg, so insightful and casual and sardonic. I love him so much. YEAH, CHEMISTRY. : D: D:D

2. a few weeks ago i filled a prompt for the kink meme! and now i will repost it. the prompt was: DICE-SWALLOWING. YES. YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT.

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REC.

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dybji wrote this amazing short fill on the kink meme for the “5 random objects Arthur has hit Eames with.” And it was SO GOOD that I begged her for more, for an expansion of that fic/universe.

Specifically, I threw out the prompt “5 times Eames saw through Arthur, and one time Eames let him look.”

And OH. MY. GOD.

The result is so smart and layered and nuanced and complex and real, and I am so fucking beside myself there are not enough delicious tags in the entire world and HOLY CRAP IT’S SO LONG AND FABULOUS AND THERE IS HANG-GLIDING AND COBB SQUINTING AND NASH SAYS “PERSPICACITY” AND IT’S AMAZING, YOU GUYS.

GO. READ.

Lay Them Down. by dybji.

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Thursday Night Inception Recs + meta + a technical question. D:

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Yesterday I read 4 amazing Arthur/Eames fics, and they were the same fic from different angles, and the fic was this.

• I thought of you and where you’d gone. by .

  And what Arthur has let himself remember is the wrong things, the panic in his eyes because he’d never done this, the way he’d been apologizing from the start. And what Arthur has let himself forget is the right things, Eames pressing his fingertips too hard into Arthur’s collarbone, the way he had imagined the prints lingering there, rough and yellowed and tasting of terrible curry, long after he was gone.

• protect this house. by .
  

  Eames always remembers first meetings. The ones that stand out in his memory, like they’re made of light, are those pertaining to the people he keeps close.

  The memory of first time he met Arthur has become so surreal that sometimes, when it ends up curling around in his memory late at night, he assumes it’s embellished or just flat out fake. Arthur to him is the long hair, easy little grins, crisp clothes, quiet energy that will lay you flat out on your back.

• En haut et en bas. by .
  

  “You’ll remember that,” says Eames, promises, “you’ll remember the important things. Don’t worry. Like the way you put your hand on her stomach and first felt the baby kick against the touch– or the way she balanced her papers on her knee as she made notes in the margins– the important things, you’ll never forget. What you do forget, you can always invent.”

• A Permanent Condition. by .
  

  They don’t talk about their feelings, but they learn to talk about the important things. Whose turn it is to take out the trash and what they’ll have for take-out, which job they want to take next and what to get Cobb’s kids for Christmas.

  They don’t have to talk about the future, because it’s theirs and they’ll fuck it up and fix it together.

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What I love about Inception fandom is that it is a hivemind. no fic can be written in a vacuum. No fic can be written without engaging and assimilating and absorbing these general movements of ideas and dynamics and thoughts about pain and loss and love. What I love about Inception fandom is the fact that I read all of these fics on the same day, and they were all amazing, and they all spoke to me about time, and memory, and loss, and building something out of pain and mistakes and time and maturity and the mutual understanding that what you are both choosing, above all else, is love. What I love about Inception fandom is that all of us are writing the same story, advancing it thread by thread, weaving it together, even when we think we’re just sitting on the sidelines. It’s so incredible. It’s one of the most incredible fannish experiences I’ve ever been a part of. <3

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