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Spaghetti's straight until you heat it up. Or, how Arthur learned not to use pasta as a pickup line and Eames learned to enjoy long walks on the Kinsey scale.
Written for i-reversebang as a companion piece to this lovely artwork by heavenly_rain.
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04 Oct 2018
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It’s not that it’s not dangerous down there, but at least when you're down there, there are rules to keep you safe. Watch your depth. Check your air. Safety stop: five meters, three minutes, just in case. Don’t taunt the wildlife. Stay with your buddy. And above all else, don’t ever hold your fucking breath. If you follow the rules, you live.
On the surface, there are so many more variables. There are so many unforeseen circumstances. Drunk drivers, carbon monoxide leaks, Russian aerospace conglomerates and incompetent coworkers, Arthur standing there on the resort’s dock glaring at you as you climb out of the water.
Eames moves to a tropical island. Arthur is afraid of the ocean.
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23 Sep 2018
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E: Is an aquarium a museum?
A: Is a hamburger a sandwich?
E: I suppose I don’t know.
A: It is. And an aquarium is a fish museum.This is gorgeous.
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Recovery is a slow process, but a road trip to Las Vegas can solve a lot of problems. Almost as many as it causes.
In which, Arthur's a throwback to a different era (and still nineteen!), Eames is a gorgeous idiot in tight pants, Fitz is still over-protective, and Davidson's like catnip at a gay bar.
This story follows immediately after Training Days. It's fourth in the Origins 'verse.
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18 Sep 2018
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Special bookmark for this because: "“I guess we know what the mating dance of the emotionally-repressed idiots is." -FITZ WHO IS PERFECT
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Exploring Arthur and Eames' backstory in the military where they each lead an elite unit in the dream-sharing trials. The Powers That Be would prefer to keep the participants in the dark, but Arthur and Eames find each other, fall in love, and change dream-sharing forever.
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18 Sep 2018
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fandom classic for a reason? for many reasons. blessings upon fitzgibbon
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After the Fischer inception, Eames goes back to work as an extractor, and Arthur joins his team. Due to circumstances involving a guy who may or may not be from Greenland, pop astrology, someone's broken limb, hormones, and convenience, they end up learning that love is what starts down below (and makes its way up your spine).
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30 Aug 2018
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Higher Emotions Are Out to Get Us (and we soldier on, together) by Ciircee
Fandoms: Inception (2010)
03 Jun 2012
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A typical 'boy meets boy' story about building a relationship, making it work, and having it last. Only it's Arthur and Eames so…yeah.
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29 Aug 2018
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Eames seems to have stolen something from a gentleman with much more powerful associates than he’d anticipated, and out of all of his friends, he knows that Arthur (who, no matter what everyone thinks, is absolutely not retired) has the most comfortable sofa.
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Bookmarked by hardscrabble
28 Aug 2018
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“I have a lot of credit cards, and I’m quite charming,” Eames replies with a slight wave of his hand, as though those are solutions rather than problems.
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And you know, there's something really liberating about putting your thoughts down and sending them out and not being able to take them back. I think you're probably reading this and thinking that I'm significantly weirder deep down inside than you'd thought, and that's all right because it's the truth. But maybe you don't care and you've already thrown this away and you'll toss any other ones I send out with the junk mail, unopened. And that'd be okay too. It's not the reading that counts; it’s the writing.
There are two boxes full of letters in Eames's desk drawer. The ones he receives from Arthur, and the ones he wishes he could send in reply.
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28 Aug 2018
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There was a time when Eames thought he knew what to make of Arthur, but that was a time when they were both young and stupid. Or at least younger and somewhat more stupid. Now Eames knows better than to think he knows anyone at all, but especially Arthur, and most of the time he wishes that he also knew better than to let Arthur do the things that he does.
The things that Arthur does go something like this.
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24 Aug 2018
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Okay this is really beyond lovely but also:
Inside is a single sheet of paper upon which is written, Saved Saito from limbo, and, under that, Types at 110 wpm. The contact info at the top is Ariadne’s name, her phone number, and an address of, Wherever you want me to be.
“Ah, yes, very serious,” Eames says.
“I put what I thought was relevant,” Ariadne says. “I dare you to find someone else who’s equally qualified.”
and I love Ariadne SO MUCH
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Arthur wakes in a hospital with no memory of who he is or how he got there. All he knows is that someone messed him up pretty badly, and his dreams are violent and terrible. After weeks of wondering why no one has bothered to look for him, he just about gives up. Eames is the one who finds him. They have to discover what a mysterious group of people did to Arthur and his former team to make dreaming so dangerous for them. And they need to find the "Glitch Machine" that is the cause of mass dreaming hysteria, and undo its effects on Arthur and the dreaming community.
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- Part 7 of Wartime verse
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18 Aug 2018
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"I'll make sure you get nominated for the Bullshit award."
"The award for Quickest Asspull goes to you," Cobb said. "As usual."
I think this is the first time I've come across a fic Cobb I like, and I like this one a GREAT DEAL.
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Threatened by someone whose job offer they turned down on principle--to incept a gangster's son into heterosexuality--Arthur and Eames travel up the Eastern seaboard, in stolen cars, trains, and various hotels, to find out who is tracking them, and break some deserving teeth.
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- Part 4 of Wartime verse
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15 Aug 2018
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Ariadne moves out of Arthur's apartment. Eames moves in.
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12 Aug 2018
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It’s not that he trusts Eames completely or anything that ridiculous. It’s just that they’ve worked together before, know each other more than peripherally, and it’s sometimes good to have a familiar face around while Cobb goes even more off the rails and off the grid.
Written as part of dream_holiday for eternalsojourn, who asked for something rated NC-17 with lots of kissing and making out and possibly a massage.
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02 Aug 2018
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This line is why I love this fandom: “You’re uncultured and the Mountain Goats don’t deserve you,” says Arthur, double-checking the sidearm secured under his hoodie.
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There's a job in Antarctica, during which Ariadne slowly ropes Arthur into being her point man and Eames and Arthur make literary references.
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30 Jul 2018
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GOOD heist plot and beautiful team dynamics after Inception fustercluck.
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In which Eames isn't actually a connoisseur of aquariums.
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29 Jul 2018
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World-class toothrotting fluff. 5/5 dentists agree.
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28 Jul 2018
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"It’s creepy and effective, which is about par for the course for Arthur, who clearly thinks of himself as a precise, steady, reliable and moderate person but comes off like a cyborg raised by feral cats: disquieting, dangerous, occasionally stupidly loyal."
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Arthur figures if Eames just finally gets what he wants--Arthur's undivided attention--he'll get bored and go away. He's proven spectacularly wrong.
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"Perhaps not the textbook definition of a healthy relationship, especially considering what they’ve just been through. But it’s right. It’s fucked up and glorious. It’s them." ~Promises Whispered Like Prayers
Eames and Arthur aren't what you would call typical, and neither is their love story. Before they can enjoy their happily ever after, they must weather years of blood, pain, tears -- at times their own, but mostly that of others. Here's how it all happens. Series will hop and skip around, from the time they first meet to life after inception, including all kinds of moments between and beyond. Canon-compliant, in case that matters to you.
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25262731! stories total planned for this series. (holy shitnuggets, I addedanother onemore, someone stop me)Look for the Psycho Heroes Soundtrack on Spotify!
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When it comes to finding Eames, Arthur is the first person to talk to.
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“This isn’t a hotel.” Eames tried to sit up and gave up before even getting his head off the pillows; he pouted, as though that were a thing for grown men to do, and Arthur merely watched as he then braced his right arm—the one that wasn’t black and blue from wrist to bicep and in a splint on top of that—on the bed and hauled himself into a very slightly more upright position slowly, grimacing as he did.
“No, it’s not a hotel,” Arthur said at last, holding out the mug. Eames took it, looked into it, and frowned deeply at it before dumping the small cocktail of pills it held straight into his mouth. Arthur took the mug back to pour some of the actual tea. “What the hell makes you think I’d take you to an AirBnB?”
“Well, I seem to have awoken in a very twee cabin.”
“Fuck you,” Arthur said, and he set the mug and the pot down a little roughly on the table at the head of the bed and went off to see if the cold snap had hung around long enough for the front steps to need salting.