MEMECEPTION!

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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

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[cherrybina]

HI AJA HI. I wish I could have stuck around last night because that sounds AMAZING. But MEMECEPTION. I want to play!

ALSO P.S. THAT IS NOT MATH THAT IS COUNTING [-(

[cherrybina]

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

[bookshop]

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. what was one inception fic that made you think about canon in a whole new way?
2. what aspect of the movie do you think fandom hasn't explored enough?
3. does eames call everyone darling or just Arthur? ;)
3.14 what do you think eames' relationship to cobb is?

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2.14 have you read Mami-san's military 'verse? AWESOME.

do you have any favorite canon AUs? e.g. the Calvin & Hobbes fic by Starlingthefool where Eames' canon backstory is that he's Calvin <3 -- just stories that wrap around canon in really neat ways?

3.28 BUT DO YOU THINK ARTHUR KNOWS IT :o

3.42 lol yeah, i almost wanted to ask WILL EAMES EVER WORK WITH COBB AGAIN after this job? because. definitely some resentment there, i think. but Eames doesn't appear to have ANY deep back-history with any of them except Arthur, so i wonder. HMM.

Brrmmmm!

[dremiel]

WHY DID I DECIDE TO SLEEP LAST NIGHT? (Clearly a poor life choice)

Re: Brrmmmm!

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1. What are Yusuf and Eames *both* doing in Mombasa???
2. WHAT DOES THAT FLIGHT ATTENDANT THINK ABOUT ALL OF THIS
3. What do you think Mal's role in extraction was?
3.14 and did it always involve slinking around in sexy dresses or is that just Cobb's puerile fantasy?

[laria_gwyn]

Hi Aja! I'm so sad I missed yesterday's party; I'll def try to make the next one. INCEPTION LIBRARY AUS! *____* Links, please? <33

Meme me, bbs! ♥

[petyaboo]

1. What do you think Arthur and Cobb's relationship is like? Why did Arthur stick around through all of Cobb's difficulties? Has their relationship changed since Mal died? (I'm sorry! This still counts as one question, right? >_> )
2. Whose dress sense do you admire the most? (including Fischer, Browning and Saito)
3. What's your favourite dream (level) in the film, and why?
very-possibly-6. Does Arthur typically test drive chemical compounds, as seen in the film, or was testing Yusuf's compound something of a peculiarity?

[bookshop]

oh my god i can't even remember, I THINK WE JUST SEARCHED PINBOARD FOR "INCEPTION" AND "LIBRARY" :))

1. WHAT ARE YOUR TOP FIVE CANNOT-LIVE-WITHOUT-THEM-EVER INCEPTION FICS

2. if Arthur were to have an unassuming day job on the side when he wasn't leading a life of crime, what would it be?

3. How do you think Ariadne's scarves are coded to her personality? I HONESTLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW I AM SUPPOSED TO READ THOSE DAMN SCARVES.

3.14. Do you think Arthur and Eames are intended to represent the left and right parts of the brain, and if so, WHICH ONE WINS?

[aredblush]

1. What's Mal's mum's reaction to Dom coming back home?
2. If it was possible, would you ever consider going into dreamsharing?
3. Who thought hiring Nash was a good idea?
3.14. What's Arthur's favourite sport to watch on tv?

[cthonical]

HI GUYS HI.

[dremiel]

1. Where were Arthur and Saito just before they arrived at the warehouse to tell Cobb that Fischer had died.
2. Can you have skills in dreams that you don't in RL? e.g. Could Eames ski like that in the third level if he was a non-skier or mediocre skier in waking life?
3. What's the deal with Yusef?
3.14 What does an Arthur-planned date look like (Eames or OMC)

[dremiel]

3.15 Why do half of my questions not end in question marks?

[cobweb_diamond]

1. canonically, which character is a gamer and what do they play?
2. who out of the Inception crew uses the PASIV recreationally, and why?
3. doe any of them meet up with Saito again, post-Inception, and if so, what for?
3.14. are arthur and eames together at the time of the movie, broken up, or not together at all?