new story: Practice Makes Perfect

[helenish]

Title: Practice Makes Perfect
Author: Helen
Fandom: Inception (I KNOW)
Pairing: Arthur/Eames (I KNOW)
Rating: NC-17
Size: ~4000
Summary: "Maybe this is news to you," Arthur says, "but I spend most of my working life doing things I don’t particularly want to do."Notes: What's the polite way to say 'blatant rip-off'? Oh, let's just go with inspired

Comments

[quatre_k]

Awesome! :D

[helenish]

Thanks!

[wildestranger]

This is beautiful and hilarious and poignant. I love your Arthur with his confusion and his bitchiness. Also, Cobb's advice is hilarity.

[helenish]

Cobb gives the most AMAZING advice. He's always all, "Just don't ask what you did wrong or you'll have to sleep on the sofa!" and "I think you just need to show Eames that you're really listening to him." and when Arthur blocks his calls he sends embarrassing dad-style texts, all "Arthur dont forget Valentines Day LOL"

[aynatonal]

I could hardly be more delighted. I love how inimitably screwed in the head your characters often are and these two are AWESOMELY screwed in the head. "You paid me in Monopoly money!" Best. Ever.

[helenish]

Thank you!

I prefer to think of it as having complimentary neuroses!

And one problem with writing tight one-character POV is that you miss the part where the other guy is looking at his wallet, checking through his coat pockets, and realizing he doesn't have enough money to go through with this sick fantasy that is obviously really important to the guy he cares about, and he wants to make it perfect for him to show him how much he values being TRUSTED and everything. Better for that whole Show-don't-Tell thing, though.

[ladyvyola]

Monopoly money = love. Trufax.

[jolielaide]

Oh thank god! I can't say how happy I am to see a new story from you-- and for it to be Arthur/Eames, !!! (Off to read now...)

[jolielaide]

Aaaaaaaaah, this is why you are my favorite! So funny, so fucked up, so hot. How is it even possible that you write such amazing, sexy badsex? (This reminds me a little bit of a McShep thing you wrote ages ago that I've read approximately eleventy billion times.) <3

[helenish]

Thank you so much! I am afraid I get kind of weirded out and bored while trying to write good sex! I always give up and fade to black - they do it, it's good, they listen to each other about what they want and then everyone has orgasms and subsequently a good night's sleep, WHO CARES. When it goes wrong, though, you have to explain why.

[sandalstrap]

I am in love with your philosophy of writing sex scenes. Not that this story wasn't fantastic! I kept imagining the faces everyone must be making, especially Eames at the end -- so confused, so earnest! But this little piece of reasoning, man, I tell you, it's perfect. WHO CARES indeed. Everything is better with a little awkward for seasoning.

[anonymous]

This is an ABSOLUTE DELIGHT; I had to stop reading in the middle and take a second because my utter joy at reading it was getting in the way of the Serious Emotional Impact of dudes, having sex, mildly perturbed by the possibility of feelings, not really wanting to talk about it. So glad that this exists!

[helenish]

Thank you so much! FEELINGS. GOD, THEY'RE THE WORST. It's like being COBB OR SOMETHING.