VIKINGS. It is ON, babies, ON UNTIL THE BREAK OF DAWN.

I would like to call your attention to this beyond amazing fan art by paperflower86 that made me seal clap in glee - as well as this DELIGHTFUL, EXTREMELY ARTISTIC AND OBVIOUSLY HISTORICALLY ACCURATE MANIP that is a true depiction the inner landscape of my soul at the moment. WIP format isn't going to work ( Read more... )

I avoid writing works in progress for all the obvious reasons (pacing is impossible, I usually don't really figure out my stories until I finish them and then have to go back and fix them by ripping out and rewriting big chunks, short attention span means I might wander off, etc. etc.) but! I have forgotten that wips can also be fun and ( Read more... )

There are two new parts up starting here from a few days ago. Interestingly, these all seem to hover around 1000 words; I think that's just my natural scene-sized chunk.

Here is the briefest outtakes for the part that went up today:

( SPOILERS!!! )

Here is a little unrelated-to-anything Inception snippet. It's sort of an idea in search of an actual story.

( Into the Closet, Under the Bed )

a little thing that isn't happening update, with:

this part, yet another part where Mal talks and talks and proves that, at any given moment, she's only about six seconds away from bringing up Dom's penis.

and

this part, which contains references to rape and teenage prostitution and is just completely gratuitous and irresponsible in every way.

I said I wasn't writing this, but then I went and did, a little. (Sort of the writing equivalent of "just the tip ( Read more... )

Title: Untitled, redux.
Author: Helen
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Rating: NC-17
Size: ~2900
Summary: Arthur, extraordinarily capable by any standard, is not exactly built for certain types of subterfuge.
Notes: This story has literally exactly the same plot as this other story here and was written more or less simultaneously.

( and the same totally unexpected plot twist )

Title: Untitled. You should know, this story and I are in a fight
Author: Helen
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Rating: PG
Size: ~3700
Summary: Eames has known Arthur for more than a decade, since he was just Cobb’s psychotic little shadow, and has never once heard him use the word "boyfriend."

( notes )

Here, have some paragraphs. Really, just take them, I don't want them. (eta: okay, it's not that I don't want them, I DO, it's just they keep showing up. And I don't--. I can't--. FEELINGS.)

( Arthur/Eames, blah blah help, etc. )

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 ( Read more... )