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... )
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 balance between slightly insecure/hesitant/unsure/afraid and being so into Eames anyway, and it translates so well and I keep coming back to her fic so often, I think because I can actually see Arthur's love for Eames through his irritation and confusion better than anywhere else.
4. Ariadne in wldnst's "life among islands." Ariadne's pov made me cry a dozen times while i read this. I love how much love wldnst has for her, and how real and relatable she is, and how much presence she has in this fic (and in all wldnst's fics).
5. OH MY GOD i just reread like 6 different fics to try and figure out my final answer to this, hahahaha. Is it Nash in Deja Fucking deja vu? Philippa in the Delphini Trials? Is it Eames in all Erin's fics? Yusuf in Bossymarmelade's Mine I'll Leave to Chance? Arthur in Lurrel's When We Swam?
Ahhhh, I think I have to go with starlingthefool's Lions & Tigers, because, just, what is this fic even, how does it exist, let alone segue perfectly into canon, and slot so beautifully into what we know about both Eames and Calvin? HOW IS IT NOT EVEN AN AU? oh my god, I can't even, this fandom is the most brain-breakingly brilliant thing I've ever encountered in my life. NEVER LEAVING.
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ok 5 FAVORITE WRITERS (optional: & 5 FAVORITE FICS BY THEM.)
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gsjsagshdhjs ok i am totes going to bed but THIS IS THE EASIEST QUESTION so:
top 5 favorite writers and fics by them:
1. Courant - it's automatic. favorite fic in the fandom :((( followed by en route to transylvania :((( ilu courant i miss you lots hurry back :((( and i feel bad now bc i said something ABOUT all the other fics but not these. i don't even know where to begin. they are inscribed on my heart and they both speak to me of the collective wonder and hivemindedness of early inception fandom, and (speaking of pining), i like to think that 'it's automatic' was written for me in a way--it was written in response to this post i made talking about how difficult i found arthur's side of things; and i feel like the whole fic is saying, no, Aja, see, it's like *this*--and because it's *them*, and because it's by someone i love, it means so much. i think of both of these fics every single day, pretty much. i am pretty hardcore in love with them :(
2. cmonkatie - takes an ocean not to break is just so staggeringly wonderfullll i couldn't even review it for like six months i just READ IT AND FLOPPED OVER :(( but also her first fic, the one that ends with eames proposing that they "sit here and see how we like it" and arthur's like, shit. i kind of want to kiss him. and Eames LEANS OVER. i have read and reread that fic so often that i apparently have everything but the title ingrained in my head. I LOVE THAT FIC.
2. INDYSAUR. god her writing is so amazing, and i choose Plate Tectonics not because any of her other fics aren't as good (because they are all transcendent) but because i remember exactly where i was when i finished it and exactly how it made me feel.
3. Starlingthefool because oh my god her brain and her writing and her AUs that turn out to NOT BE AUs hshjdjdjfjhd!!!! and it is four am so i suck at titles but THE TATTOO PARLOR AU OWNS MY HEART.
4. Eleveninches - Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer is pretty much my perfect quintessential Arthur/Eames fic. it's hot, it's charming, it's both complex and ridiculous like them, it features SMART EAMES :D, and Arthur being like "THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS YES" is like. my headcanon, haha.
5. Amazingly_me. I had serious issues with the second half of the fic but the first half of her lawyer AU was one of the most amazing reading experiences i've ever had, it was like reading DRP for the first time and feeling so caught up in the experience you had trouble physically detaching from it. And i think what she did in "And Try To Keep It All the Year" was ambitious and amazing and unique.
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KATIE IS THE BEST OMG ): especially with Kiss with a Fist & A Series of One Night Stands where they are just MEANT to be together, even if they don't know it (YET)
omg plate tectonics. <333 SO MUCH LOVE FOR THAT FIC. )))): does it ever get better than "hey I'm going to move in and then maybe let's be boyfriends."? (the answer is yes, as in YES IT GETS BETTER BECAUSE THEN THEY GET MARRIED.)
Starling is so amazing and the tattoo au is so good for me and all of her fics are just so good for me ))):
Oh goddddd eleveninches. IS THERE ANYTHING I DON'T LOVE ABOUT ELEVENINCHES )8 no, ffsfhhdjhfgfs no of course there isn't. Always so clever and funny and sexy and badass. SHE IS EVERYTHING I COULD EVER ASK FOR.
And amazingly_me's daycare!AU!!! bb!Eames pursuing bb!Arthur through lunchtime dates fsfshfdhgdfgs HEARTS FOREVER <33333
Thank you Aja, your answers are always stellar :D
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OH GOD I FORGOT VINYLROAD BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT WRITE ARTHUR/EAMES, AND I FORGOT ATOMICSKULL BECAUSE SHE DELETED ALL HER FIC, BUT THEY ARE BOTH ON HERE IN SPIRIT
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