♕ fanfiction recs
➀ inception: arthur/eames：
○ time is the mind (the hand that makes) by riotguns»
»in which arthur has cancer and a cat, and eames does not go to venice.
○ the measure of a man by kirstenlouise»
»They’ve infiltrated people’s minds, stolen and lied and cheated, broken laws and rules and commandments. Arthur has killed people with that glock of his, when they were desperate enough. Eames has forgiven the blood on his hands and Arthur the blood on his and he’s always told himself that, no matter what was blown at them by the winds of chance, he’d have Arthur’s back.
○ two steps towards make believe by suchdisguise»
»Sleep has never come easily to Arthur. That's why he's so surprised that it comes easily when he's got his head on Eames's shoulder.
○ portrait of the artist, not of the sitter by reliablemachine»
»Arthur is a (former?) model who did a lot of catalog work as a teenager to earn money for college. Now he's studying at a university in London. Eames used to jack off to catalogs featuring Arthur! They have a class together.
○ chav!verse by delires»
»Eames is a total chav but Arthur/Cobb loves it.
○ incipit by thehoyden»
»Arthur has been his editor from the beginning. Eames says he won't work with anyone else, and what Arthur will never tell him is that he would cut anyone who tried.
○ not necessarily the best policy by five_ht»
»Arthur has a lot of feelings, mostly about Eames' penis. Yusuf's accidental truth drug helpfully illuminates them.
○ wait and know the coming of a little love by maybe77»
»A high school bullying AU, written for this kinkmeme prompt. As Eames’ mother’s alcoholism worsens, he takes it out on his next-door neighbor, Arthur.
○ you take the myth, I'll take the blood by oncetherewasnot»
»AU in which Eames is the MMA fighter no one messes with, and Arthur is his lover, plain and simple.
○ inception_kink: Prompt Post No. 5 by amsuhl»
»After being stuck in limbo too long, Arthur becomes mentally challenged. Eames is very protective of Arthur and hates it when people look at him weird.
○ ne me quitte pas by black_betty_26»
»It’s difficult to remember, sometimes, that a world away living nightmares are manifest. In the warmth of the Iowa sunshine, the heat, the tall green grass, the waving haze of golden corn, sometimes it’s easy to forget that men are dying in the cold, in the dirt, in an explosion or a sickening trickle of blood. Dying alone. It is Arthur’s biggest fear. He sees him in his mind’s eye, blood smeared across that beautiful face, cherished life flickering out of eyes like oceans, in a dark place, in a cold place, dying alone. Arthur doesn’t forget. Arthur doesn’t feel the warmth of the sunshine, doesn’t see the green and gold of the fields. Arthur lives everyday over there in the nightmare. With him.
○ conspirators in living by smallacts»
»After his mother "retires," Arthur finds himself in need of a new business partner. He gets a bit more than he bargained for with Eames.
○ disconnected by ester_inc»
»Mental Hospital AU
○ when I was a child by aimlesstravels»
»Phillipa Marjorie Cobb is only five minutes old the first time she sees her Uncle Arthur. She's eleven the first time she sees him shoot a man. But it doesn't scare her. Not one little bit.
○ untitled body hair fill by sometimesalways»
»Eames is nothing like the guys Arthur usually goes for. He’s used to perfectly put together men who exfoliate and use expensive moisturizer on their skin. He’s used to skinny twinks who wax their arms, chests and, most importantly, their groin. Eames is different.
○ as it comes by epistolic»
»Arthur falls into a coma after a job gone wrong. When he wakes up from it four and a half years later, Eames is waiting for him, but things aren't as simple as that.
○ disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage by 1001cranes»
»......
○ don't fall in love with a dreamer by eleveninches»
»Arthur joins the mile high club, Cobb joins the broken hearts club, Eames joins the smug extractors' club, and Yusuf just wants to club everyone. Or, Eames steals Cobb's point man.
○ good to the last drop by jibrailis»
»In which Arthur's ass is magic and Eames likes sticking his tongue into small, tight holes.
○ having let go forever the fallacy of ever being alone by gyzym»
»This time there are shitty dogeared paperbacks Arthur wouldn't be caught dead reading piled on the coffee table, and half-finished crosswords tucked into the bookshelves, and the far wall is hung with that tapestry they'd bought in a shit part of London on a whim. This time they've spent all day fixing their sink and there's a mug of yesterday's tea sitting on top of the television and it's not just
Arthur's living room at all.
○ i’d forget to smile (then I met you) by ajokercard»
»In the age of bootleggers and speakeasies, this is the story of a gangster and the detective assigned to break him. What ends up broken is entirely different.
○ i've got nothing to do today but smile by gyzym»
»Arthur's a corporate lawyer, Eames owns the coffee shop across the street, and all good love stories start with a quadruple shot latte.
○ kiss trick by the_ragnarok»
»They've been worried about this job from the beginning. With good reason, it turns out. Sequel to Allowed.
○ late night phone call by sparkle_fic»
»Arthur usually finds blatant fishing for compliments extremely irritating, but in Eames’ case he is reluctantly charmed. In fact, he writes the phrase “reluctantly charmed” into the Eames notebook the moment the words occur to him because they so perfectly encapsulate his entire situation.
○ life long local foreigner, i by gyzym»
»Arthur grins, lazy and relaxed, and Eames thinks that maybe this is how people get through these things, tethered to one another when they can't hold on anywhere else.
○ lights will guide you home, and ignite your bones by iri_descent»
»Eames loves Arthur. Arthur is terminally ill. Eames stays with him through all the treatments, supports him and cares for him through the nausea and the weight loss and the muscle atrophy, and, eventually, the doctors telling them it's no use. Eames takes care of Arthur at home until he has to take him to the hospital to die.
Arthur goes in the spring. Eames buries him on a cool, crisp day.
○ one for the money by whiskyrunner»
»Eames runs a porn studio, and has a very inconvenient crush on their newest bottom.
○ patience, a steady hand by Helenish»
»821 A.D. Arthur is in the nightmare business. Eames is a thief, a liar, and versatile with a pen.
○ simple math by foxxcub»
»“So,” Eames says slowly, leaning back against the school wall as he idly taps his cigarette. “We’ve got a problem here.”
○ stranger things than known by man by cthonical»
»If Eames had never told, Arthur never would have guessed. But now he knows what's really under Eames's skin, he can't stop thinking about it.
○ the gates of horn and ivory by jibrailis»
»......
○ this is why we don't like black widow by forpetrichor»
»After being coerced by his roommate Dominick Cobb to take a class on the art and history of comic books, Arthur meets Eames, a cocky, British smartass, who after kicking the back of Arthur's chair in class one day to keep him awake has yet to break the habit. Arthur wants nothing to do with him, but upon discovering that Eames is good friends with Ariadne, (a girl he's been crushing on since meeting her last year in his physics class), decides to put up with his antics in order to get closer to her. Complications ensue when Arthur and Eames are paired up for the class project-creating their very own comic book. Herein lies a tale of deceit, misunderstandings, love lost, love found, and really, really bad comic books.
○ till death do us part by coconabanana»
»When Arthur, an assassin, and Eames, who incidentally is also an assassin, met with each other, they felt sparks of explosion that had little to do with firearms. They fell in lust, they fell in love, and they got married- the complete set. They even got the house with the white picket fence. But marriage is not an easy thing to do. Especially when the people involved have the kind of career that seems to taunt death to do them part. Oh, and the fact that they keep some little things (like, well, the fact that they take people’s lives for a living) secret only puts another strain to their marriage. So amidst the secrets, missions, betrayals, and the pot of gloxinia (yes, the gloxinia is an important plot point), Arthur and Eames try to keep their marriage life… not really normal but as-far-away-from-extraordinariness-as-possible.
○ trigger discipline by frackin_sweet»
»AU in which Eames is an art dealer in Manhattan, and Arthur is making a living robbing people. When they meet, they find they have some things in common.
○ trouble with dreams by sparkledark»
»College AU in which Arthur is a cranky senior and Eames is a professor of Dream Psychology.
○ what's the time, mr. wolff by kiyala »
»Eames is a master thief, and Arthur is the jaded son of a rich businessman, stuck in a life he doesn't want. On a heist to steal artwork from Arthur's family home, Eames steals Arthur instead, and leads him into the world of shared dreaming. Finding their places in the world as mind criminals is easy. Figuring out how they fit together-and understanding themselves along the way-is not.
○ where are you going with my heart by kyrene»
»The stepbrother AU.
○and now you know by dialectical»
»A leaked D/s sex tape of Arthur and Eames turns up in Dom's email inbox.
○glitch by tabi_essentially»
»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.
○ darling boy by dreadly»
»"Why darling," he says slowly, like he's talking to an incompetent child, "we're doing body shots."
○ personal eternity by veritas_nescio»
»"Each man is given, in dreams, a little personal eternity which allows him to see the recent past and the near future." Jorges Luis Borges, Nightmares.
○take arms against a sea of troubles by usingmyoxygen»
»"I need to tell you something," you say, and he says, "All right, shoot," while chewing.
"I have cancer," you say, and put your sandwich down.
○ the greedy hearts by anon»
»Eames is a high-end thief. Arthur is a private investigator hired to catch him. Ridiculous events ensue; something like love happens somewhere along the way.
○show me the way home by laceymcbain»
»“Let me guess,” Eames says, no longer surprised when Arthur appears unannounced at his door. “You couldn't bear to stay away from my sofa for one more day.”
In which Arthur develops a relationship with Eames' sofa and eventually with Eames himself.
○judas, i knew him well by ofalexandra»
»The key to being Eames's lover, Arthur knows, is not to love him.
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