Celebrating the anniversary of Christopher Nolan's Inception.
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To recap quickly for any new friends who've joined us here: Inceptiversary is the Inception fandom's annual extravaganza throughout the month of July (which usually also spreads into August). We have a whole slew of events to enjoy and some prizes to win!
But first things first: the Inception fandom has two chat room servers (invite links are hyperlinked)
Discord: You're Waiting for a Train
Inception Slack: InceptionChat
We also highly recommend following @inceptioncentral to keep up-to-date on all things Inception all year 'round!
Jump on in and say hello! If the links are expired, don't hesitate to reach out to the Inceptiversary mods for assistance.
Below the cut is a list of all the events taking place this year!
Most will run from July 1 to 31, but some start earlier and some run longer.
Be sure to follow all the event blogs directly, and don't hesitate to reach out to us mods if you have any questions at all! You can message, ask, or email us at inceptiversarymods @ gmail . com.
Inception 30 Day Challenge (@inception30daychallenge)
The inception 30 Day Challenge is a set of 30+ questions and prompts about Inception, its characters, and you! They're meant to inspire some reflection and creativity about Inception, whether it be through a simple text post, art, music, recs - anything goes! And there will be prizes! Keep an eye on the event blog for the full list of questions to be released before July 1!
Arthur/Eames Last Drabble Writer Standing (@aeldws)
Signups will be open June 19 to 25 or until all 10 slots are filled.
A weekly elimination drabble challenge where all works must fit a given prompt and feature Arthur/Eames as the main pairing. This year's AELDWS will run for six weeks, starting June 26, with a maximum of 10 participants. Prompts are posted on the @aeldws blog Friday at 1AM EDT and drabbles are due Tuesday at 1PM EDT. Voting will take place Tuesday night through Thursday night.
Inception Big Bang (@inception-bigbang)
Signups will be open May 11-18. Posting day is July 31. For the full schedule, see the big bang blog!
An author and artist collaborative event. Authors anonymous submit fic summaries, and artists claim their favorites and create accompanying art! For more details and the full event achedule, be sure to follow @inception-bigbang!
Inception Kitties (@inceptionkitties)
A blog to celebrate all the Inception pawrents in our community! Share photos of your furry felines or follow to admire everyone else's!
Inception Positivity ( @inceptionpositivity )
Submissions will open late June!
Inception Watch Parties ( @inceptionwatchparty )
Inception Positivity is a place to send love and kind thoughts to Inception fandom friends anonymously and receive some love in turn. People submit kind messages via Google form and these are turned into colourful posts that are posted on the blog.
Watch parties will be hosted starting July 1 on the You’re Waiting for a Train Discord server.
See above for invite link to the server or contact the watch party mods. For the full schedule and list of films that will be viewed, be sure to follow the @inceptionwatchparty blog!
Inception Watch Party Bingo (hosted on @inceptiversary)
Come join our annual Inception Day watch parties and play bingo for prizes! Grab a bingo card ahead of time by emailing inceptiversarymods @ gmail . com and enjoy!
imagine this… you are dom cobb. you have finally been reunited with your children (who im going to say is 4-6 years old (james) and 6-8 years old (phillipa)).
there are many bangers of animated childrens movies out in theaters in 2010. tangled, megamind, toy story 3, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON… of course you have to see a movie with them, it’s a classic family activity. you ask your children what they want to watch and…
phillipa and james both like despicable me the best ❤️
cue watching despicable me every week when it comes out on dvd
I had a particularly depressing Eames backstory written that'll probably never see the light of day otherwise, so here it goes:
Eames' dad left the picture when he was young. He kept his dad's surname Eames, while his mom reverted to using her maiden name. They weren't very well-off and his mom worked as a nanny for a rich couple, looking after their son. She ended up having an affair with the father and getting pregnant, so he left his wife for her.
Eames now has a younger brother and a half-brother who are both sons of his asshole step-father. Eames and his mom move in and his mom takes his step-father's surname.
So in effect: he's called Eames because he is the only Eames in his own family.
And then his step-father pays for his education to a very expensive school where he's always felt like the out of place poor kid, and joins the military in part to get away from him, which lead him to the dreamshare experiments etc. etc.
Lol it would be very funny if it is because everyone fully expects it to be fake. But his real name is probably something very common like Charles or George or more "ridiculous" and old fashioned like Fitzgerald or Archibald.
One day on a job, the PASIV dumps Ariadne into a dream as a guy. Once he gets over his surprise, he realizes that everything feels so much better and his subconscious knew all along.
He continues doing dream heists long enough to pay off his transition, then quits and has a long, happy, healthy life as an award-winning building architect whose PASIV usage is entirely recreational. He still keeps in touch though.
It’s a very common hc in the fandom but I really like the idea of Eames getting more into extraction after practically carrying the whole Inception job and seeing the evidence of just how good he is after Cobb retires and usually doubling as extractor and forger.
Surviving the job is also what gets Arthur and Eames (back) together. Whenever they work together they use their disagreements/fights as foreplay and find pleasurable ways to release the tension afterwards.
After Cobb's retirement, Arthur and Eames start working together more often, they still clash and butt heads most of the time but their jobs go way better and easier now that Cobb's out of the way. Slowly they come closer until they finally take that last step towards exploring that attraction that's been simmering under the surface for years. Being them, it's not easy being in a relationship while also working together (their fights are legendary) but they make it work somehow. They often work with Ariadne and eventually Yusuf is forgiven and allowed to move out of the doghouse, too. Arthur still remains sceptical about him, though.
During a job, what’s everyone’s caffeinated beverage of choice?
Cobb: triple shot of espresso, black, all the sugar so he can stay awake and spiral as much as he wants
Yusuf: tea with just a drop of milk and half a spoonful of sugar. His nerves are already freyed enough, he doesn't need caffeine to make them worse
Saito: proper japanese tea that he prepares himself bc going through the motions settles something in him and makes him think better on which enterprise giant to buy out next
Ariadne: she shoots back energy drinks like there's no tomorrow (you know, the college student on a deadline way)
Arthur: insists he only drinks coffee that's as black and bitter as his soul, but he's a secret fan of all the frivolous monstrosities with the super sweet syrups and the mix of spices
19. A headcanon about Saito’s family and/or relationships.
Saito feels somewhat unfulfilled in his personal relationships.
He’s prioritised business all his life so he doesn’t have particularly close relations. His relationship with his wife is amicable but distant. Their match was a strategic partnership more than anything else while they tried in the early days, they never managed to find a spark so they came to the unspoken agreement to look for it elsewhere.
The mistress we hear of in the movie is the most recent in a long line of lovers. He enjoys her company but keeps her at arms length.
Saito is by no means lacking options - he has a number colleagues/business partners/acquaintances with whom he goes out for drinks and other activities when he’s in the mood for it - but he’s missing a confidante.
He’s used to people around him having an ulterior motive so he’s constantly on guard and doesn’t let anyone get too close.
Inception Day! Tell us about your first experience with the movie or first experience with the fandom!
It's Valentine's Day, 2017, and I'm alone with my cat in my single-bedroom apartment, reading some random X-Men fanfic set in sorta Inception AU. So I'm like, "hmm, I used to love Nolan, how come I've never watched this movie". And I google it, and there's Tom Hardy in it, and I'm like... "yeaaaah, not a big fan of Tom Hardy's face, prob that's why didn't watch it" and "oh lookie there's a ship apparently, and there's a ship manifesto on LJ, should I..? Naaah, got enough ships on my plate, still didn't get over CACW & Tony/Steve heartbreak, I don't need this."
but it's Valentine's Day, and I'm alone with my cat, and the fic I'm reading is getting a bit tiresome without all the required knowledge about how incepting&stuff works, so I literally - and this is a quote that's going to be stored in my head for decades to come - tell myself:
"yeah I don't need another ship, but I'm gonna give it a try anyway."
A headcanon about Saito’s family and/or relationships.
Hmmm, I can't say I have put a lot of thought in it but Saito strikes me as someone who is married to a person from a good, respectable family, who's able to add to his reputation and will raise their children into well-behaved adults but their marriage is, possibly, one of convenience. They both understand and have accepted that and if Saito has a lover or ten on the side doesn't really matter as long as they can keep up appearances.
What would your favorite character’s social media handle be?
Arthur would have a lot of fake accounts with generic handles so he could spy on targets. He wouldn't have one of his own because, even if he did, he'd be a lurker and can't see the appeal of social media until Ariadne finds out and sets up an account for him with the handle "dressed_to_kill". Arthur would change the name to something more generic but Ariadne with the help of Eames keep going into his account whenever Arthur leaves his phone unattended and changing his handle into all kinds of ridiculous things like "mr-specificity", "t00-c00l-f0r-jeans", "defier_of_gravity" and "lethaltwink".
Eames would have something that'd drive Arthur crazy bc it'd be a reference to his profession like "seductiveforger". He'd get bored of it quickly though and change it to a dozen other things like "notthechair", "thesexierEames", "britishdreammaker" and "darlingsnumberonefan".
This one, hands down. They spend all the rest of the movie teasing and annoying each other but when they know they are facing limbo and are in bigger danger than expected, they have this small, intimate moment. It's their own way of saying "be careful" without really saying it and I just love this.
