After one comment by Eames in the movie, Arthur really is a stick in the mud in fanon. He has no imagination and seems to only love his guns and/or suits. Of course! It's not like this was the character calling others asshole in the movie, or who got them out of the jam by thinking outside the box... Oh no....
YES! Dear god, did I watch a different movie or something? Arthur's not some anally retentive prim-as-an-old-maid scientist obsessed with tailored clothing. He's quietly badass, which just makes it so much cooler. He doesn't need to bluster and wave his big guns around, he just strikes neatly and fatally. (Clearly he's had ninja training. Is it wrong of me to want Saito/Arthur fic based on that premise now? Or just Saito/Arthur set in the room with all the lanterns? Because omg, that lacquered table is just asking for people to shag on it.) As for no imagination: WTF was the zero-gravity drop about, then? Or the unexpected Penrose stairs?
Eames is the cliched hero of all Brits who Sound Like Spike, with all the 'love', 'pet'
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The weirdest part of this fandom is that the fanon seems so restrictive. I'm used to weird stuff, from wingfics to mpregs to those terrible terrible high school AUs, but while there's some of that going on here as well, the characters are virtually carbon copies from fic to fic without having any real basis on canon
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The weirdest part of this fandom is that the fanon seems so restrictive. I'm used to weird stuff, from wingfics to mpregs to those terrible terrible high school AUs, but while there's some of that going on here as well, the characters are virtually carbon copies from fic to fic without having any real basis on canon.
You're not the only one who is freaked out! I've been slowly working my way through one of the Inception kink meme posts, and fuck me, there's not a lot of kink there. Just reams of "fluffy kyoooot Arthur/Ariadne" and "Eames/Arthur where Arthur is a broken woobie and Eames has to fix him - ultra-schmoopy, plz" or "Arthur's a virgin and Eames introduces him to the wonders of buttsex and cocksucking". And when I read fic, it's just like you said: all the fics start sounding alike. The bases are the same, and they're so not drawing on the movie. Wtf? Is the fandom lazy or afraid of variety, or what? Just once, I'd like to see fic where Eames is the one getting fucked silly by Arthur.
YES! Dear god, did I watch a different movie or something? Arthur's not some anally retentive prim-as-an-old-maid scientist obsessed with tailored clothing. He's quietly badass, which just makes it so much cooler. He doesn't need to bluster and wave his big guns around, he just strikes neatly and fatally. (Clearly he's had ninja training. Is it wrong of me to want Saito/Arthur fic based on that premise now? Or just Saito/Arthur set in the room with all the lanterns? Because omg, that lacquered table is just asking for people to shag on it.) As for no imagination: WTF was the zero-gravity drop about, then? Or the unexpected Penrose stairs?
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You're not the only one who is freaked out! I've been slowly working my way through one of the Inception kink meme posts, and fuck me, there's not a lot of kink there. Just reams of "fluffy kyoooot Arthur/Ariadne" and "Eames/Arthur where Arthur is a broken woobie and Eames has to fix him - ultra-schmoopy, plz" or "Arthur's a virgin and Eames introduces him to the wonders of buttsex and cocksucking". And when I read fic, it's just like you said: all the fics start sounding alike. The bases are the same, and they're so not drawing on the movie. Wtf? Is the fandom lazy or afraid of variety, or what? Just once, I'd like to see fic where Eames is the one getting fucked silly by Arthur.
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