MEMECEPTION!
Our movie night was fabulous last night. Everyone loved Bride & Prejudice and a bunch of people stuck around for Bend it Like Beckham. And then after that we all just kept hanging out and talking, and we wound up discussing, among a host of other things:
- Inception fandom, and why Arthur/Eames is the monstrous phenomenon that it is
- why the fandom ( Read more... )
ALSO P.S. THAT IS NOT MATH THAT IS COUNTING [-(
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1. I like when my boys are badass, so either Arthur kicking ass in zero g, or Eames kicking ass on skis.
2. BECAUSE IT RILES ARTHUR UP :D But seriously, I think that a lot of what Eames does is calculated so that he comes across as slightly incompetent - the spelling, saying he's not good at math, dressing like he doesn't know how to match. Arthur's first reaction upon hearing his name is to refer to him as a thief, and if that's his main occupation, it makes sense that he doesn't want to seem too competent or smooth. Since he's the one who basically does everything and doesn't fuck up, he's obviously extremely competent, but coming across that way all the time is probably not good for job security.
3. I don't necessarily think Arthur is as meticulous as he is often portrayed in fic (though I adore that trope, and have written him that way myself) but I think that meticulousness is an important trait to have as point man. Even if he's not that way by nature, it makes sense that he'd try to be as organized as possible for a job. I ( ... )
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WAIT WAIT.
1.14 so how much imagination does Arthur have, really, and was Eames just baiting him when he said that knowing cobb would totally tell arthur eames said he had no imagination or do you think he meant it?
2.14 SO do you think it's significant, then, that Cobb is the one who recognizes/sees Eames as a forger first and foremost?
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1.14. OKAY. So I mentioned that I don't think Arthur is a super perfectionist, but I do think he's a much more by-the-book kind of a guy than Eames. Yeah, he comes up with ideas on the spot when things get fucked up, but I just feel like he's less of an outside-of-the-box thinker (HOW MUCH CORPORATE SPEAK CAN I JAM INTO THIS COMMENT I WONDER) than Eames. So like, Arthur came up with the idea to use the elevator to drop them when he lost gravity, but that was because there was a change to the original plan. Arthur makes a plan, follows the plan, and when something goes wrong, he figures out what to do from there. But I think Eames is just a completely different kind of a thinker, in that he looks at a situation and doesn't like to make a linear plan at all ( ... )
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I LOVE THIS WHOLE ANSWER I REALLY REALLY DO, I HAVE NO FOLLOW-UPS, ONLY MORE LOVE
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1. When did you know that this fandom was going to own your heart and soul?
2. What would Arthur and Eames do for a living if they weren't career criminals?
3. Is Cobb really the most skilled extractor?
3.14 Who says I love you first, Arthur or Eames?
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OOH IT IS MY TURN :D
1. oh my god best questionnnnn. I said the other day on the friending meme that my favorite fandom thing was the Smart!Eames thread because it was the first time i realized what a phenomenon this fandom was.
but it may be a tossup between that and the moment I read Greedyhearts. I was sitting in the food court of a mall in Norfolk reading it on my phone, and then I got to the bottom of the IK meme and not only was there the AMAZING FANART, but someone had actually created http://arthurandeamesstealthings.com, and I remember just sitting there, grinning and tearing up from happiness. And that was before I even knew that there was a Superanon, or that she would turn out to be one of my closest fandom friends. I was just happy to see so much collective energy and joy and excitement, and I STILL AM so overwhelmed by it all, oh my god.
anyway, i think both of those things happened around the same time, so. yeah. <3 ( ... )
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TOP FIVE FANON CHARACTER TROPES1. EAMES = BEST BOYFRIEND EVER. i do not even care whether there is any canon basis for it whatsoever, Eames as the one steady, watchful, attentive, ever-ready and concerned force in Arthur's life will never not send me into a flailing mass of want ( ... )
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1. What is your favorite Eames-is-the-best-boyfriend-ever fic?
2. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COOB FIC
3. ugh god i love Ariadne/Yusuf so much <33 they are so cute an perfect for each other. that being said, What is/are your favorite Ariadne/Yusuf fic(s)?
4. how do I make you write more Mal fic
5. what is your favorite PINING fic!!
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and PINING. poor tragic perfect boyfriend eames pining for arthur while arthur secretly pines for him.... oh dear god i disgust myself. SO AMAZING. trope trope trope forever unto ever, please, Inception fandom.
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aaaaaaaaand Part 2!
top 5 favorite fanfic characterizations!
1. Mal in electrumqueen's 'i am the hero of this story,' because in addition to the writing and the plot and everything that makes this the best story i have ever read in any fandom, Mal is so raw and alive and flawed and real, and she makes Cobb's version seem so abysmal inferior in comparison.
2. Mal in Courant's 'Daughters of Eve'. i don't think anyone but ifrit could have pulled off what she did in this fic, honestly. the way she allowed Mal to be unhinged and slightly deranged but also fierce and feminist and powerful and no one's puppet. I love these two fics together specifically because the first one is about letting Mal be what canon couldn't allow her to be, and the second one is about allowing her to be everything canon said that she was, while still erasing all the problematic awfulness of her character. and they're both so fucking brilliant, i can't even.
3. Arthur in all of cmonkatiekatie's writing, i think especially takes an ocean not to break, because he hits that ( ... )
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ok 5 FAVORITE WRITERS (optional: & 5 FAVORITE FICS BY THEM.)
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