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Prompt Post No. 14

Feb 23, 2011 19:30

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Arthur/Eames, office/mundane AU - exhibitionism anonymous February 25 2011, 23:01:50 UTC

Eames has a flat next door to an office building, maybe 100 feet away. When he has his blinds open, he can see into an architecture or graphic design office. There is an intriguing, young, quite attractive, well-groomed, suit-sporting employee there whose desk is at the window. Who happens to work late quite often. Alone. And Eames... gets ideas about what he can do in front of his own window.

Would prefer less skeevy and more seduction-at-a-distance-and-in-silence, if filler so desires. Either POV would actually be fine.

This is in no way related to the layout of my own building or a person I see from it. *shifty eyes*

Re: [fill] window born to be broken 7 anonymous March 24 2011, 23:25:58 UTC

Thank you! I pretty much take all the sharp bits out of prompts and make them schmoopy, and maybe also Ribbed For Her(/His) Pleasure, as a general rule, so if it's working and not annoying that's good news by me.

OP bironic March 24 2011, 21:46:56 UTC

Yay! My prompt probably did sound creepier than I intended, but you've written just the sort of sweet-sexy fill I was hoping for. Love the use of the windows as a metaphor for Eames' attempt to distance himself from people. And Cobb's line at the end made me laugh out loud. Very nice. Thank you so much!

(And, heh, just to be meta about it, I read it in front of the window that overlooks the architecture office... but Neatly Pressed Young Man is not there right now.)

Re: OP anonymous March 24 2011, 23:32:53 UTC

Glad you enjoyed it OP! The line about avoiding skeeviness in the prompt encouraged me, because I can't really do skeevy, but I thought there had to rotate the idea a little so the focus wasn't peeping toms and exhibitionism. If that makes sense.

Also, any window metaphors were unintentional, don't give me too much credit (I have a science degree, we speak in statistics).

Re: [fill] window born to be broken 7 anonymous March 24 2011, 22:55:53 UTC

This was great, and I loved the twist in the last section. I was kind of startled to find that this was the end, but it's also a nice place to stop.

On the other hand, it's ripe for a sequel, with the two of them actually getting to know each other now that the seduction has been achieved ;)

Re: [fill] window born to be broken 7 anonymous March 24 2011, 23:36:08 UTC

I am glad you enjoyed it despite the abrupt ending. I just felt like I had filled the prompt and I wasn't ready to continue, but a sequel isn't entirely off the table.

author anon psa anonymous March 25 2011, 13:36:34 UTC

I saw this fill saved on delicious, and the person who saved it mentioned that some of my comments about romance novels and/or Eames' comment about vaginas came off as misogynistic; I just wanted to apologize to any future readers who feel that way, as that wasn't my intent at all. I can't change it now without reposting the entire fill (which I may do if I get an lj in the future, but not right now), but I hope you'll excuse my oversight.

I will say this: The comments about romance novels were largely residual bitterness from having to cull the romance section far too frequently when I used to work at a library (we sold off books older than 5 years). And half the point was Eames' bitter attitude towards romance when the story was obviously moving in that direction, but if it didn't come off that way that's on me, and I'm sorry.

Re: author anon psa anonymous March 27 2011, 11:48:56 UTC

being female, I don't think you have anything to worry about, anon.

Personally, I felt your intent and tone was very clear and I don't find anything misogynistic about this fill.

With that being said, I don't think I left a proper review, so I just wanted to say what a wonderful fill this is and I enjoyed it immensely. Something that could've been kind of sleazy was instead something really sweet and sultry instead.

Do you mind if this is linked in a round up post at eames_arthur?

Re: author anon psa anonymous March 27 2011, 13:15:40 UTC

thank you--I'm glad to hear that it wasn't a problem with everyone. I kind of understand where the complaints came from, and I just wanted to have something out there in case it was a problem with anyone else, because any lack of clarity is on me for not writing clearly enough (tho', admittedly, most of my fills could be improved in about a million places).

that aside, I would not mind at all if you linked this fill at the round-up post.

Re: author anon psa anonymous March 29 2011, 06:52:42 UTC

don't apologize! i didn't find it misogynistic at all. i loved this and i hope you write a sequal!

Re: [fill] window born to be broken 7 anonymous March 25 2011, 18:52:18 UTC

This was great :D I really enjoyed reading this haha

Re: [fill] window born to be broken 7 anonymous March 27 2011, 20:49:36 UTC

Thank you!

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Re: [fill] window born to be broken 7 anonymous March 29 2011, 03:26:37 UTC

Glad you enjoyed it! I've been around the meme a bit recently; I tend to fill a lot of aus.

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Re: [fill] window born to be broken 7 anonymous March 29 2011, 22:11:47 UTC

It is genuinely sad how much thought I put into whether or not I should do this. Linking these together is one step away from not being anon, and I've grown attached to my anonymity ( ... )

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