This is amazing. I'm amazed. I love the plot, the structure, the pacing. I'm head over heels for your characterisation of both Arthur and Ariadne but particularly Arthur, who doesn't read like an anal-retentive, humourless suit fetishist, and oh my, I love Ariadne's confidence and abilities and his respect for her.
I am so so pleased that you're writing more, that there will be more. My only complaint is that the 22nd is too far away to sate my appetite.
Thank you for the lovely comment! And my apologies for making you wait until the 22nd for the next story-- I've got some stuff going on this week that's not going let me get as much editing done as I would normally like, hence the delayed publication date. ;)
Gods, I love this! Am new to the fandom and I don't know my way around here yet, so forgive me if I gush in an overly famliar way. :D
This gets me on so many of my ficcish kinks: characterization so deft I feel bruised along with Arthur; a palpable setting, rich with local details (the stripped-down history of the Pinacoteca); art and architecture vocab p0rn; foreign travel; names with all the accents in the right places. *g
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Oh, man-- me too. I tried really, really hard to make sure that I didn't miss any (although I probably still missed some, for that is the nature of writing), because it drives me nuts as a reader when the accents aren't in the right place.
And the rating (for sexuality, anyway) will go up in later parts, I promise. :)
ohmygod, I should have known you also wrote "Everybody knows the dice are loaded" (or whatever Leonhard Cohen lyric it is). I should have known because this is proving to be JUST as awesome, and I am so excited to read more! ♥
The thing that I love about this (and the other piece) is how both Arthur and Ariadne are on equal footing. They are each characters in their own right; neither exists merely to tell the story of the other, or to be swept off their feet by the other. I'm so happy you write Arthur and Ariadne in such a sophisticated way!
This is a rare and precious thing of beauty and I wish I knew anything about your other fandoms, b/c I would read those stories in a heartbeat if I did.
flailing, squeeing and grinning all over the place.
And I figured that after two years apart, it was really important to show that neither of them had just sort of curled up and waited for the other to come back. They're both smart, driven people in their ways, and I just couldn't see approaching the story any other way.
(Re: the other fandoms. Heh. Um, my writing style for most of those is totally different from my Inception stuff. Most of it's fairly juvenile humor stuff-- none of that "sophistication" stuff in those parts.)
I love this story! I love how Ariadne is the one to save Arthur, that they're still close even though there was a falling out, and all the details that show how close they are even when they're not.
You know, the great thing about Ariadne-- both as a character in Inception and as a mythological figure-- is that there's sort of an understanding that she's not the one waiting for the rescue, you know? She's the one holding the thread to get everybody else out of the maze, and I really like that about her.
And as for the two of them still being close, even after some sort of failed relationship-- both Ariadne and Arthur just strike me as the sort of people who could still work together after something had gone wrong. Ariadne's really clear-headed, I think, and Arthur is nothing if not professional, so I just see them as the sort of people who can look at a situation and say, "Yeah, there's some stuff we need to deal with, and we're not exactly comfortable with each other all the time, but we have a job to do and we're going to do it, and well."
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While I was writing this, the working title was In Which Arthur is Jason Bourne with Better Clothes, so-- good eye, there!
I'm so glad you enjoyed the story. :)
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I am so so pleased that you're writing more, that there will be more. My only complaint is that the 22nd is too far away to sate my appetite.
Thank you so much for sharing. This is wonderful.
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This gets me on so many of my ficcish kinks: characterization so deft I feel bruised along with Arthur; a palpable setting, rich with local details (the stripped-down history of the Pinacoteca); art and architecture vocab p0rn; foreign travel; names with all the accents in the right places. *g ( ... )
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Oh, man-- me too. I tried really, really hard to make sure that I didn't miss any (although I probably still missed some, for that is the nature of writing), because it drives me nuts as a reader when the accents aren't in the right place.
And the rating (for sexuality, anyway) will go up in later parts, I promise. :)
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The thing that I love about this (and the other piece) is how both Arthur and Ariadne are on equal footing. They are each characters in their own right; neither exists merely to tell the story of the other, or to be swept off their feet by the other. I'm so happy you write Arthur and Ariadne in such a sophisticated way!
This is a rare and precious thing of beauty and I wish I knew anything about your other fandoms, b/c I would read those stories in a heartbeat if I did.
flailing, squeeing and grinning all over the place.
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And I figured that after two years apart, it was really important to show that neither of them had just sort of curled up and waited for the other to come back. They're both smart, driven people in their ways, and I just couldn't see approaching the story any other way.
(Re: the other fandoms. Heh. Um, my writing style for most of those is totally different from my Inception stuff. Most of it's fairly juvenile humor stuff-- none of that "sophistication" stuff in those parts.)
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Thanks for sharing. :)
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You know, the great thing about Ariadne-- both as a character in Inception and as a mythological figure-- is that there's sort of an understanding that she's not the one waiting for the rescue, you know? She's the one holding the thread to get everybody else out of the maze, and I really like that about her.
And as for the two of them still being close, even after some sort of failed relationship-- both Ariadne and Arthur just strike me as the sort of people who could still work together after something had gone wrong. Ariadne's really clear-headed, I think, and Arthur is nothing if not professional, so I just see them as the sort of people who can look at a situation and say, "Yeah, there's some stuff we need to deal with, and we're not exactly comfortable with each other all the time, but we have a job to do and we're going to do it, and well."
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