scrolled past all of my original posts and it’s hilarious seeing me post headcanons that seemed revolutionary to me then. but is. like. accepted as fact in my head now.
And also the billion “ask arthureames is open!!!” Posts 😭😭😭😭 And i dont do HALF OF THEM 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 AND THERE ARE STILL A BUNCH IN MY INBOX IM SORYRYAYAUAYAGGGGG
Don’t forget to send your messages in for your favourite fandom members! Run over to our submission form before we close submissions on July 28 at 11:59 PM EDT (click here for your time zone!)
@elohyou + @insert-cleverurl - Thank you for running the Inception 30 Day Challenge! I love the prompts you chose, especially the alignment chart and the underappreciated fic rec!
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
Inception 30 Day Challenge 2026: Get creative and win prizes!
Create a post, whether it be text, art, music, or any other media, using these 31 items as prompts. Feel free to participate in as many or as few of them as you want!
Copy the prompt into the body of the post somewhere and tag your posts with @inception30daychallenge, #inceptiversary,and #inception30daychallenge. Your posts will be reblogged on this blog for everyone to appreciate!
You earn one entry for every prompt you answer before 11:59 PM EDT on July 31 (what’s that in my timezone?). We’ll hold a raffle then to determine our prize winner(s)! More info can be found in our FAQ.
Prompts below the cut, or at this Google Doc link!
Day 01: Your favorite line.
Day 02: What other media would you like to see in a crossover?
Day 03: A headcanon for how two characters interact (i.e. hobbies, inside jokes).
Day 04: Yusuf’s totem?
Day 05: A character’s go-to karaoke song.
Day 06: Did Robert Fischer have childhood pets?
Day 07: Recommend a fic with less than 1000 hits!
Day 08: If the roles in the movie were swapped, who would be who?
Day 09: What part would you play on a dreamshare team?
Day 10: A fanart rec! (note: please do not repost art from tumblr artists! just reblog it and tag @inception30daychallenge so we can see it.)
Day 11: Arthur’s preferred tie knot?
Day 12: What style of dance does each character prefer?
Day 13: What other movie would you recommend to a fellow Inception fan?
Day 14: A pre-canon headcanon.
Day 15: Ariadne’s favorite art movement?
Day 16: Inception Day! Tell us about your first experience with the movie or first experience with the fandom!
Day 17: What would your favorite character’s social media handle be?
Day 18: During a job, what’s everyone’s caffeinated beverage of choice?
Day 19: A headcanon about Saito’s family and/or relationships.
Day 20: Your favorite scene.
Day 21: Do Phillipa and James’s names have any particular meanings?
Day 22: A post-canon headcanon.
Day 23: Is ‘Eames’ his real name?
Day 24: What movie does Cobb watch on repeat?
Day 25: Fill out this alignment chart!
Day 26: Who’s the biggest shipper/meddler on the team?
Day 27: What song would play over the credits of an Inception sitcom?
Day 28: What job would your favorite character have if they weren’t in dreamshare (or weren’t a high-powered business executive)?
Day 29: A self-rec! (anything from art to a funny Tumblr post you made!)
EEEEE thank you so much!!! i love this event, and i definitely feel like the drabble format has been amazing "exercise" for my writing development over the years 🤓 i really appreciate everyone who reads them 💛
Prompt: "Wait, what?" (phrase must be used word for word, but not necessarily as dialogue)
Genre: Accidental marriage
Word limit: Between 350 and 400 words, inclusive
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Voting will close on July 23 @ 7 PM EDT (click here for your time zone!).
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Thank you to everyone who read, voted, and commented!
We had a three-way tie for first place this week! So congratulations to:
@dingdangit, who wrote 'non-zero-sum'
@enchi-elm, who wrote 'cards on the table'
@thestalwartheart, who wrote 'the dance'
Sadly, we must say goodbye to @cantfixhim who wrote 'Tempus Fugit'. Thank you so much for joining us!
Author names have been added to the original drabble post and comments are being emailed to authors. Authors, if you would like to know your ranking for this week, let us know in a reply to that email!
Authors are encouraged to add their drabbles to the AELDWS AO3 collection if they post on AO3!
The next prompt will be posted July 17 @ 1 AM EDT!
HAPPY INCEPTION DAY!!! (day 16: first experience w movie or fandom)
I don’t really remember my first experience, I think my art teacher recommended it to me and I remember enjoying it and thinking Arthur was hot and also played by keanu reeves (unrelated facts) cuz i recently watched the matrix at the time??
But i REWATCHED it several years later when I saw a youtube video that showed all the levels of the heist in real time and I’d forgotten most of inception so i decided to rewatch it!
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After watching it i immediately ran to ao3 to see how many arthureames fics there were and the rest is history.
I posted inception fanart 2 months after my first rewatch and I remember it was of art of text convos that someone and @/mister-eames had… i remember being REALLY SCARED to interact w the inception fandom because fandoms were incredibly intimidating to me but now I know better!!
Ok this might be basic but: art nouveau! I hc her as american or canadian (definitely Not french) and I feel like she went to architecture school in paris for a reason, which was enjoying a very parisian art movement!
Her style and how she styles her hair also reminds me of the flowy curly ness of art nouveau…
The only problem is that i came up w this hc from absolute bullshit. Like she’s the architect for the whole job, right? If we look at her actual builds they’re so…….. corporate and brutalist like the cobb’s limbo.
If we ignore the movie part and that nolan probably wanted all the levels to Look Like That we could attribute it to her being so talented and able to be kind of a forger in an architect way that she can build in any style that is required to make sense for the mark’s reality…?
Oo wait!!! Or!!!!!! Maybe a style of architecture in dreams, especially when not directly copying a preexisting location (like nash did), is just layout and suggestions and the mark fills out the rest of the details so it fits better w their reality??? (Thinking back to the line where she said they were making the bottom level a hospital but in the dream it was more armed protected base)
But idk. I think she would also probably appreciate baroque sculptures and honestly brutalism. Like she would probably appreciate the fact it doesn’t try to hide anything in grand details and the history behind it, just as she likes impossible builds that are all grand details.