Fic: too much like the world we're stuck in [Inception]

[anowlinsunshine]

DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT, YOU KNEW THIS WAS COMING.

Title: too much like the world we're stuck in
Fandom: Inception
Pairing/Rating: Arthur/Eames, soft R
Word Count: 4,375 (jfc. Fic, you were not supposed to be this long.)
Date Completed: 27 July 2010
Disclaimer: These people? Aren't mine.
Author's Notes: Title taken from Lawrence Raab's "Isn't

Comments

[anowlinsunshine]

I KNEW YOU WOULD LATCH ONTO THAT PART YOU ENABLER. YOU SHOULD NOT ENCOURAGE THIS KINK, WHAT IS YOUR DEAL. >:\

J/K ILUUUU. EVEN IF YOU ARE STILL GOING TO MAKE ME WRITE MR-EAMES!KINK PORN, I KNOW IT. /SIGH MY LIFE.

[anowlinsunshine]

>:\ >:\ >:\ >:\ >:\

WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH YOU

[hackthis]

This is lovely. It was lyrical and poetic and sad and hopeful all at thesame time. I enjoyed it tremendously.

[anowlinsunshine]

Wow, okay, this is probably going to be a little creepy, but just. Thank you so much. I cannot even tell you how happy I am to hear that someone whose writing I admire and enjoy so much liked something I put together. I'm beyond thrilled to hear this worked for you, and the fact that you liked it enough to leave feedback has completely made my week. And now I'm going to stop myself before I sound like any more of a total creeper (ahaha, too late for that, I'm afraid), so: thank you again for reading and commenting! It means more I can say. ♥

[hackthis]

You are very sweet, and thank you for all your kind words I'm very touched. And I did like it, there was this sweet poignancy to it (poor Eames, always doing all the work) that resounded beautifully. (In fact, I liked it so much I recommended it :)

[rane_ab]

Gorgeous, bb. I especially love the section with the broken up sentence between brackets (seriously, asqdljqk), and how it shows them slipping away; I love the way you build that up throughout, how they're convinced they won't lose themselves, and how they do anyway. How Arthur needs to go find himself again, while Eames just wants Arthur back. Or how maybe Arthur needs to save Eames, because it's his chip he goes looking for, just like Dom wanted to save his wife. And, oh, how Eames thinks he's dreaming when he wakes up; how it's so heart-breaking that he thinks that, while Arthur is happy to be back. There's just no way to win in this situation, because they can't have it all in either world, which is perhaps the saddest thing of all.

[anowlinsunshine]

Ahaha, you always seem to love best the sections that were the hardest for me write. And that one really should have been easy to do because of the length, but ugh, it wasn't, largely because of the broken-up, bracketed sentence. I quibbled over the format on that for so long; it's great to hear that it worked for you! And oh, I'm so happy that you got the double-meaning-type thing out of that section! I actually started writing it with the intention of having Eames go out and find Arthur, who left earlier to ~find himself~, and they'd both wake up at the end and be totally confused. But that wasn't where the story wanted to go, so it became more of a mission-to-save-Eames thing. I'm actually really happy that both of those came across to you for reasons I don't even know, but yeah. My ~process: it is so far from developed, let me tell you.

Anyway, I'll stop babbling at you now. As always, thank you so much for the great feedback!

[maurheti]

This is so beautiful; I love the limbo you built, and the world you built in your limbo, and your Eames and Arthur who are just so perfectly them. I love how bittersweet this is, and how the ending reflects back to the beginning. Truly awesome, this!

[anowlinsunshine]

Thank you! I tried to stay pretty true to (what I understood as) Nolan's Limbo, so it's great to hear that aspect of the story rang true for you.

[nova33]

This is lovely. I love the whole atmosphere of it, and there's something about that first kiss scene that just seemed totally them to me.

[anowlinsunshine]

Thank you! And aha, the first kiss scene. That was the part of this fic that surprised me the most in writing it. I had a general idea of what all the other scenes were going to be, and of what needed to be accomplished in the first kiss scene, but almost no sense of how to get it done. More than any other, it's the scene that wrote itself. I'm thrilled that it worked for you!