A Pattern of Butterflies

[coldthermistor]

Title: A Pattern of Butterflies
Fandom: Inception
Rating: PG-13. There will be swears. Also, do note that there is mention of World War 2 and Acre. Warning for math and quantum physics.
Characters: Arthur, Eames
Summary: Done for an  inception_kink prompt. Five times they met in a past life and things didn't work out, and the one time the universe

Comments

[kirstenlouise]

Very rarely am I honestly at a loss for words, but I find myself hard pressed to express how much I enjoyed this and how incredibly smart and lovely and poetic I really think it is.

A moment or six of awed silence is perhaps in order.

All the overlapping patterns throughout (especially the most obvious one of the boy with green eyes) keep this so tightly knit even across such long periods of time, and the symbolism and the metaphysical aspects of it all are just amazing. You have me nerding out like you would not believe.

There's so much here, but it's got this remarkable subtlety to it that makes it so understated and quietly passionate... I love it. I love this, and I love how the ending is open and uncertain like the proverbial die, though it has been cast, has yet to fall.

And the Wilde quote just ties it all together perfectly, because it's all the things that don't happen driving your story. I love it when authors make use of white space, and you've got volumes between the lines here

[coldthermistor]

THANK YOU! :D

Now I feel bad because I was gonna write you a novel but I totally did my best to cut it down when I dropped comments. SO. Is it fine for me not to summarise next time when I go crazy over your Yusuf/Eames? :D

I AM HAPPY YOU CAUGHT THE PATTERNS. I was so worried I didn't make them obvious enough. At one point, I was even considering putting them in dark blue font, but IDK, that seemed way too obvious. Am totally glad you loved the open ending and stuff though - IDK, I like things open and a bit less blatant. Ironic, considering what I just said.

Hmm. S'okay. I don't really know what the boy means, either. To me, he was just a symbol of this intuitive sense you can get, of something...greater than time, greater than the human experience can describe. I prefer your explanation though :P

Glad you loved it! (:

[kirstenlouise]

LOL! Run away with it however you like. :)

Oh, no, subtlety is such a good thing! You have to give your readers a little credit. It kind of reminds me, though, about the idea some people had of creating a punctuation mark that would indicate when statements were ironic, lol.

I see that, too. I don't think the interpretations are necessarily at odds with one another. :)

And you're welcome, also!

[coldthermistor]

Awesome XD

And yeah, I figured. The irony punctuation mark thing wouldn't run that well, I guess :/ IDK, to me, irony kind of stops being ironic when you indicate it. It's not usually terribly...blatant.

[time_was_lost]

Dear god, this was brilliant. Smart, poetic and completely beautiful, I really truly loved this. The way you wrote it, my goodness, you're very talented. Incredible ♥

[coldthermistor]

Thanks (:

I'm glad you liked it (:

[we_reflamingos]

I may have to come back and post something better later. I'm pretty sure I'll need to digest - no, I'm plain old confident I'll have to

[coldthermistor]

Thanks (:

Glad you liked it (:

PHYSICS. YES, PHYSICS. MATH. HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT LIKE THEM XD

S'okay man, just glad you enjoyed this (:

[anonymous]

I enjoyed this, though the Edmund and Peter threw me off because I thought it was Narnia AU and they were brothers in that section...

[coldthermistor]

Sorry :/

It didn't really occur to me. I'm not much of a Narnia reader.

[laughing_lovers]

Wow. Just... wow. That was so smartly written, I'm amazed. Is there something about the Inception fandom that makes its authors so much smarter than other fandoms? This was brilliant. I read another fic that also took an obvious amount of thought. It's not just smut with different names put in. This is the sort of brilliance that makes me feel like I'm in an alternate reality and that, yes, this is a story I'm reading online, not in a published book. I don't know what I'm talking about, I hope I'm getting my point of admiration across.

[coldthermistor]

Hey, thanks (:

I'm glad you liked it (:

IDK, I think it's just that the tricksy nature of the film itself seems to encourage people to mess with style? :/ IDK lol.

[laughing_lovers]

Tricksy indeed. Maybe that's what it is. You have to think to understand and appreciate the movie. I don't participate in online fandoms of many of my obsessions, but the ones I have? Totally different from the types of fics I've read in this fandom. Those other ones are mindless. In the best way, of course. But Inception... I maintain that it has spawned a group of immensely talented writers. Thanks, Chris Nolan!!

[coldthermistor]

(I know it's not the same icon, but close enough? :D)

LOL, I guess it depends. But totally, thanks Chris Nolan! Without him, I wouldn't have one of my favourite fandoms lol.