I am snagging this like a very snaggy thing. It looks so very awesome. ♥
It kind of makes me want to write an AU where they're these amoral, debauched thieves who just take and take and take from people, and then have filthy white-hot sex on tainted sheets.
... But you could write this, and they could still be CRAZY IN LOVE with each other! Admittedly, it would be that crazy, too-consuming, burns-so-bright-it'll-leave-them-ashes sort of love. But it would be awesome, and they would be happy while it lasted. Until they got caught by the Feds and had to flee to different countries. Until they met up with each other years down the road, and Arthur was working a job as like, an investment banker, but he was skimming money on the side because things don't always change, and Eames is doing the same shit, because it's what he's good at and it's what he knows. And it sort of takes their breath away, because it's a really fucking stupid small world, and Eames smokes his cigarette and asks about Arthur's life and they never say they miss each other, or the people they used to be. They just end up tangled in the stained sheets of cheap hotel room, until they aren't anymore. Because you may become a brand new person every seven years, but there are things you're just never going to get over, or change, or leave behind.
....Why you gotta be so brilliant. FUCK, NO, I AM GOING TO WRITE THIS OTHER THING FIRST.
But then, I mean, uh.
Christ, I make no promises. I would collab on that shit with you in a HEARTBEAT, though, should you ever find yourself so inclined. Or, let's be honest, on anything you felt like collab-ing on. I'm just saying. So that you know and stuff.
I JUST THINK IT COULD BE A BRILLIANT LOVE STORY, OKAY. WHERE THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE THEY HURT, UNLESS THEY'RE HURTING EACH OTHER. AND MAYBE THEY'LL NEVER GROW UP, BUT IN ALL THE WAYS THAT MATTER, THEY'LL GROW OLD TOGETHER.
Plus, plus, there's all the room for glorious things, like taunting homophobes, and Eames wearing a mark on his neck from Arthur's mouth with pride, and the easy way they'll sprawl together in clubs, like powerful animals napping, like something you want to get close to, even though you know you shouldn't.
I... have never really done a collab thing. How does this work? Is there a protocol? What would be required of me? Are you aware of the fact that I am apparently incapable of writing anything that isn't stupidly ridiculous? QUESTIONS: I has them.
OH MY GOD I WANT TO WRITE THIS BUT I HAVE TO FINISH THE OTHER THING. I HAVE TOOOOOO.
Collabs work however you want them to. You pick an idea and then you spend an obscene amount of time squabbling about things via gdocs and AIM; generally when I've done it one person does character A's voice and one person takes character B. AND I AM FULLY AWARE OF THE FACT THAT YOU WRITE THINGS THAT ARE AMAZING, BB, NO NEED TO WARN ME.
I WANT YOU TO WRITE, TOO. WIN/WIN! WOULD YOU LIKE FOR ME TO TALK SOME MORE ABOUT IT? WOULD THAT HELP? I CAN DO THAT.
Though I guess I can let you finish the other story first. While I work on my next ridiculous story (professional ballroom dancers, what? What even is that?) and, you know, possibly study for the exam I have tomorrow. I'll let you guess which of those things is most likely to get my attention.
I would certainly be willing to try this collab thing out! Though I tend to, you know, make a lot of faces at the idea of switching POVs? Hm. However, I am sure that we can reach a compromise! We seem perfectly capable of such things! Also, I just really, really like flailing about fic ideas until they, you know, form into actual stories. It's so much more fun than actually writing.
RIDICULOUS, RIDICULOUS THINGS I WRITE. You may be charged with pulling me away from making inappropriate dick jokes and just having them beat each other up a lot. You know, lovingly. Lovingly beat each other up. In ways that are less abusive and more, like, pigtail pulling.
(I may still have to write a story just so I can have Ariadne be all, "Wow, Arthur, I always knew if you had pigtails Eames would pull them, but I never guessed that you'd like it so much." And Arthur would totally argue, except Eames is massaging his scalp, and it's difficult to be upset with that going on.)
OH MY GOD PIGTAILS. OH MY GOD THINK OF ALL THE THINGS YOU COULD DO WITH THAT. OH MY GODDDDD HOW ADORABLE WOULD THAT BE, THEY JUST *APPEAR* WHILE THEY'RE IN SOME LITTLE GIRL'S SUBCONSCIOUS AND ARTHUR IS SO FULL OF RAGE THAT HE CANNOT EVEN, AND EAMES HAS THIS IMPOSSIBLE URGE JUST TO SWAT AT THEM. AND THEN SOMEHOW THE HEAD RUBBING OCCURS. TO CALM ARTHUR'S RAGE OR SOMETHING.
I MEAN, THINK OF IT. THERE. COULD. BE. SCRUNCHIES.
I am up for a collab at any time, and I am equally up for being mutual LET-US-DISCUSS-IDEAS-GLEEFULLY-UNTIL-ONE-OF-US-PRODUCES-THEM flail buddies, as that is so often the end result of collabs and equally made of win :D
HAHAHA I wasn't thinking literal pigtails, BUT OH HOW I AM NOW. Actually, actually now I want the story where Arthur joined the military because that was the only way to rebel against his ultra liberal hippie parents. He spent his formative years being mistaken for a girl! He wasn't allowed to play with G.I. Joes because of guns (um. true story of JGL's life, what?) or Barbies because of the unrealistic expectation of women's bodies and the obsession with shoes! He tried the usual ways of rebelling, okay. He stumbled in drunk, only to catch his parents getting stoned on the back porch. He skipped school and they just said that structured education wasn't for everyone. He got his ears pierced and his mom asked why he didn't just let her do it, and his dad pointed out that she was totally the one to pierce his nipple. He brought a guy home, but his parents just informed him that his dad had the same taste in guys when he was that age, too. THE MILITARY WAS HIS ONLY OPTION.
Though, I also wanted to write the one where Cobb decides to use Arthur as practice for parenting a teenager, and Arthur is just like, "I'm 29, you asshole!" And eventually he just starts acting like a sullen teen to show Cobb how it could be, complete with loud music, and only answering in monosyllables and grunts, and storming off, and always wanting to know why he has to take Ariadne everywhere because he's not a babysitter, god, and seeing how many times he can get caught making out with Eames. Cobb nearly has a nervous breakdown, and it's the greatest two weeks of Eames' life. I wonder if it would be possible to combine the two...
You should totally hit me up via e-mail or AIM whenever you want to attempt the collab thing or to flail! My email is this username @ gmail, and AIM is in my profile. IT'LL BE SO MUCH FUN! :DDD
It kind of makes me want to write an AU where they're these amoral, debauched thieves who just take and take and take from people, and then have filthy white-hot sex on tainted sheets.
... But you could write this, and they could still be CRAZY IN LOVE with each other! Admittedly, it would be that crazy, too-consuming, burns-so-bright-it'll-leave-them-ashes sort of love. But it would be awesome, and they would be happy while it lasted. Until they got caught by the Feds and had to flee to different countries. Until they met up with each other years down the road, and Arthur was working a job as like, an investment banker, but he was skimming money on the side because things don't always change, and Eames is doing the same shit, because it's what he's good at and it's what he knows. And it sort of takes their breath away, because it's a really fucking stupid small world, and Eames smokes his cigarette and asks about Arthur's life and they never say they miss each other, or the people they used to be. They just end up tangled in the stained sheets of cheap hotel room, until they aren't anymore. Because you may become a brand new person every seven years, but there are things you're just never going to get over, or change, or leave behind.
Um. I'll just... leave you alone now. Sorry.
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But then, I mean, uh.
Christ, I make no promises. I would collab on that shit with you in a HEARTBEAT, though, should you ever find yourself so inclined. Or, let's be honest, on anything you felt like collab-ing on. I'm just saying. So that you know and stuff.
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Plus, plus, there's all the room for glorious things, like taunting homophobes, and Eames wearing a mark on his neck from Arthur's mouth with pride, and the easy way they'll sprawl together in clubs, like powerful animals napping, like something you want to get close to, even though you know you shouldn't.
I... have never really done a collab thing. How does this work? Is there a protocol? What would be required of me? Are you aware of the fact that I am apparently incapable of writing anything that isn't stupidly ridiculous? QUESTIONS: I has them.
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Collabs work however you want them to. You pick an idea and then you spend an obscene amount of time squabbling about things via gdocs and AIM; generally when I've done it one person does character A's voice and one person takes character B. AND I AM FULLY AWARE OF THE FACT THAT YOU WRITE THINGS THAT ARE AMAZING, BB, NO NEED TO WARN ME.
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Though I guess I can let you finish the other story first. While I work on my next ridiculous story (professional ballroom dancers, what? What even is that?) and, you know, possibly study for the exam I have tomorrow. I'll let you guess which of those things is most likely to get my attention.
I would certainly be willing to try this collab thing out! Though I tend to, you know, make a lot of faces at the idea of switching POVs? Hm. However, I am sure that we can reach a compromise! We seem perfectly capable of such things! Also, I just really, really like flailing about fic ideas until they, you know, form into actual stories. It's so much more fun than actually writing.
RIDICULOUS, RIDICULOUS THINGS I WRITE. You may be charged with pulling me away from making inappropriate dick jokes and just having them beat each other up a lot. You know, lovingly. Lovingly beat each other up. In ways that are less abusive and more, like, pigtail pulling.
(I may still have to write a story just so I can have Ariadne be all, "Wow, Arthur, I always knew if you had pigtails Eames would pull them, but I never guessed that you'd like it so much." And Arthur would totally argue, except Eames is massaging his scalp, and it's difficult to be upset with that going on.)
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I MEAN, THINK OF IT. THERE. COULD. BE. SCRUNCHIES.
I am up for a collab at any time, and I am equally up for being mutual LET-US-DISCUSS-IDEAS-GLEEFULLY-UNTIL-ONE-OF-US-PRODUCES-THEM flail buddies, as that is so often the end result of collabs and equally made of win :D
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Though, I also wanted to write the one where Cobb decides to use Arthur as practice for parenting a teenager, and Arthur is just like, "I'm 29, you asshole!" And eventually he just starts acting like a sullen teen to show Cobb how it could be, complete with loud music, and only answering in monosyllables and grunts, and storming off, and always wanting to know why he has to take Ariadne everywhere because he's not a babysitter, god, and seeing how many times he can get caught making out with Eames. Cobb nearly has a nervous breakdown, and it's the greatest two weeks of Eames' life. I wonder if it would be possible to combine the two...
You should totally hit me up via e-mail or AIM whenever you want to attempt the collab thing or to flail! My email is this username @ gmail, and AIM is in my profile. IT'LL BE SO MUCH FUN! :DDD
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