20 Works by hardscrabble
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outfitting of the budget-conscious dream thief by hardscrabble
Fandoms: Inception (2010)
25 Sep 2020
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“Look, I mean. It’s been slim pickings, and you go and buy a flat and get that charity off the ground and you’re still wearing new suits every day. Do you have a money tree?”
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Arthur needs a wedding date if he wants to avoid the meddling of Mal's aunts. Mal makes a suggestion.
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The one where the Dream Team plays rec-league ice hockey.
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Ariadne took a deep breath and let it out slowly, her first actual sign of anything like uncertainty, and twisted the key in the ignition.
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Immediate sequel to earthbound; coming down. Post-Limbo fic.
Memory as the breaking of a dam, continuously.
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Arthur is here to kill him, obviously. Well, too bad for him.
[Limbo fic.]
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“Nope,” says Yusuf, out of nowhere. “Cease. We’re not discussing the exam, not the rest of today. Mention the exam, mention anything to do with bloody statistical mechanics or thermodynamics, and you get a vodka shot. So that’s one for you, Arthur.”
Arthur starts to protest, then seems to think better of it.
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“You’re a bloody mess,” Eames sighs. “Well, metaphorically.”
(Arthur's a vampire. Not much else is different, until it is.)
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“I am contractually obligated,” Ariadne said crisply, “as your luck fairy, to tell you that you have an eighty-three-per-cent chance of meeting your true love if you go to the ball. You were at eighty-seven, but then you interrupted me. It drops to zero after midnight.”
Eames blinked.
He had a job to do, of course, and he hated a bloody ball—but—well, true love.
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Almost absently, Ari says, “Hey, Eames? Shut up,” because she’s thinking, reverse-engineering the problem. How can a forger get stuck on dreamshare when they're awake?
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- Part 5 of little bird [ariadne who?-verse]
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luck, talent, curiosity, mistake by hardscrabble for bitnotgood
Fandoms: Inception (2010)
05 May 2019
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“Well, haven’t bled out yet,” says Eames. His tone is light, cheerful, and brittle as porcelain.
Eames does not like Arthur.
(At least, Arthur is pretty sure he doesn't.)
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When he’s not on the job, Arthur is ruthless and tyrannical in commandeering however many acres of furniture he deems it necessary to occupy. And, well, someone has to pour the scotch, so Eames does.
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- Part 4 of little bird [ariadne who?-verse]
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The carjacking goes as smoothly as he could have hoped.
It’s the last thing that does.
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- Part 3 of little bird [ariadne who?-verse]
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They have this thing, when they're talking through things, working the problem. They don't say the obvious, they don't show their work, and they don't repeat what they already know.
Most of the time.
(Arthur and Eames, working the problem of Ariadne-who-isn't.)
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- Part 2 of little bird [ariadne who?-verse]
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One simple idea that changes everything: Ariadne, as Cobb sees her - the red-wearing maze designer and Cobb-unraveler - is almost too good to be true. That's because she isn't. True, that is; she's definitely, DEFINITELY good. When her thesis adviser Dr. Stephen Miles puts her in the way of a VERY interesting opportunity (for the low, low price of just one fake ID), Ari decides to go for it and winds up neck-deep in stuff she never knew existed.
When this is finished, she’s going to learn to wear a suit like Arthur, tell a lie like Eames, network like Yusuf, and pull perhaps two per cent of Saito’s annual income over her first five years post-doctorate. She's hung the rest of her life on this job, so she may as well get some off-resume skills out of it.
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- Part 1 of little bird [ariadne who?-verse]
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The 2015-16 skating season starts with Yuri agreeing to be one of Viktor Nikiforov's groomsmen, meeting Otabek's younger sister Feruza, admitting he's actually okay with sharing a rink with the Katsudon, and cleaning a new quad. Then everything gets all jacked up, but he's Yuri Plisetsky: if the universe wants a fight, he'll give it one.
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- Part 4 of and my glance turns to a stare
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Yuri spends the rest of his first season all but choking on all of the stuff he's not going to allow himself to say if it kills him, and it nearly does, but he still wins Russian nationals, the MNNT Cup, the European Championships, and the Coupe du Printemps. So of course it’s Worlds where he finishes fourth.
This is how he spends his first sixteen-ish hours as a skater not ranked among the top three on the planet.
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- Part 3 of and my glance turns to a stare
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Otabek's sister exacts a promise from him before the Grand Prix series begins: he's going to make a friend, at least one full-time competitive skating friend, this season. How hard could it be?
Or: The Altin siblings shred Otabek's competitors and Otabek overthinks his way through his GP series.
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- Part 2 of and my glance turns to a stare
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Yuri might be new to this friendship thing, so he might be overreacting to eight hours of radio silence, but he is getting the off-balance oh-crap feeling just like the ice falling out from under him on an element he’d had down since baby skating.
Or: Yuri can throw together an exhibition skate in 14 hours, but maintaining a friendship for more than three days? Might be dicey.
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- Part 1 of and my glance turns to a stare
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After making the Citadel their own, the once-Wives begin to figure out how to live in this place.