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Fanfic recommendations and more. Mostly Arthur & Eames, but some others. All slash! ;-)

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Oh my god. I can’t get enough of this series. Absolutely stunning. Beautiful writing. Read the whole series - in order. (Do heed the warnings/tags though.) Also check out tamat9’s lovely artwork to accompany the series: http://tamat9.tumblr.com/post/79717854375/a-companion-piece-to-an-inception-gang-crime-au Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception) Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception) Additional Tags: Homelessness, Underage Prostitution, Reference to Past Domestic Violence, Gang Violence, Gang Rape, Heavy Angst, Revenge, Retribution, Hurt/Comfort, Early Recovery Series: Part 6 of Cigar Box Summary:

Dom Cobb was Eames’ partner for years, until Cobb put a knife in his back.

At fourteen, Arthur’s never been arrested before, but being locked up in this room has to be far, far worse than any jail cell could be.

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Oh. This is so beautifully written. Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception) Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception), Mal (Inception), Dom Cobb, Ariadne (Inception) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Historical, World War II, Romance, Angst, Pining, Love Letters Summary:

It’s difficult to remember, sometimes, that a world away living nightmares are manifest. In the warmth of the Iowa sunshine, the heat, the tall green grass, the waving haze of golden corn, sometimes it’s easy to forget that men are dying in the cold, in the dirt, in an explosion or a sickening trickle of blood. Dying alone. It is Arthur’s biggest fear. He sees him in his mind’s eye, blood smeared across that beautiful face, cherished life flickering out of eyes like oceans, in a dark place, in a cold place, dying alone. Arthur doesn’t forget. Arthur doesn’t feel the warmth of the sunshine, doesn’t see the green and gold of the fields. Arthur lives everyday over there in the nightmare. With him.

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Oh my god, this is GORGEOUS! So beautiful, I love this Arthur/Eames. Read the whole series. Hope bohemeyourself writes more! Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: Mature Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception) Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception) Series: Part 3 of The Stupid Backstory Verse Summary:

Honeymoon!fic. Eames and Arthur vacation in Sorrento, and Eames uses Arthur’s new DSLR for a little recreational photography. Inspired by this piece of art by and also this song by Jason Mraz

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Always was a sucker for a good medical drama. Gripping, and quite brilliant! Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier Characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Sebastian Shaw, Armando Muñoz, Emma Frost, Azazel (X-Men), Logan (X-Men), Raven Darkholme, Abraham Erskine, Cecilia Reyes Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Medical, Honestly Charles What Are You Thinking, Emotionally Crippled Erik Is Fun To Read, Smart People Doing Stupid Things, Moral Ambiguity, Pathologists, Makeup Sex, 5000 Word Sex Scenes, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Doctorverse, Gore, Boston, Cambridge, Surgeons, Classism, Eugenics, smitten!Erik, Morality, Ethics, Introspection Summary:

Bifurcation - (n.) the splitting of a main body into two parts.

In medicine, a single mistake can mean the difference between life and death.

For cardiothoracic surgeon Charles Xavier, a fatal error leaves him standing at a crossroads … and at the mercy of the man he has not faced since their relationship fell apart thirteen months ago.

Dr. Erik Lehnsherr has a fearsome reputation. Due to his incisive autopsy reports, he has gotten more surgeons fired in two years than any other pathologist has managed over an entire career. But when an old enemy returns to Erik’s life, he must find a way to temper his pride — or lose the man he loves, all over again.

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Beautiful.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: Mature Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception) Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception) Additional Tags: Emotional Baggage, Emotionally Repressed, Arthur has an emotion, Eames is patient, Eames is bemused, Canon-Typical Violence, Ramble on little story, Ramble on, Arthur has a fortress of solitude, Awkward Conversations, Conversations, Late Night Conversations, Talking, More talking, Even more talking, My God why won’t they stop talking, Cuddling & Snuggling, Spooning, Inappropriate Erections, Appropriate erections, And so on. Summary:

“You’d be surprised how many ridiculous things the body does, every day.”

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Beautiful. Stunning. Heart-wrenching.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception) Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception), Yusuf (Inception), Ariadne (Inception), Dom Cobb, Saito (Inception), Original Characters Additional Tags: Major Illness, Friends to Lovers, Recovery, Explicit Sexual Content, Developing Relationship, Five Stages of Grief, Hurt/Comfort, Forging (Inception), Dreamsharing, Teaching, Sharing a House, Healing, Angst, Triggers, Falling In Love Summary:

The worst thing for a forger is to lose his gift. But in the end, it may be the worst thing for a point man, too.

Eames is not up to his usual snuff, and Arthur refuses to stand by, even if that’s all he can do.

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Yep, I’ve fallen, hook line and sinker into this fandom. This is another classic…sigh! Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011) Rating: Mature Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Azazel (X-Men)/Mystique, Hank McCoy/Alex Summers, Sean Cassidy/Cosmic Oneness Additional Tags: Allusions to Sexual Assault, Nonspecific Nasty Things Done To Minors, Psychic Bonding, Non-PC Religious References, Non-PC Ethnic References, Emotionally Crippled Erik, Alex Trollin’, Evil Ghosts of Nazi Sociopaths, Overly Pretentious Writing in Sex Scenes, Author Attempts Smut, Author Has A Mental Affliction, Author Does Minimal Research, Author Writes About Things Beyond Her Ken, Improbable Resurrection, Unnecessary Supernatural References, Unrealistic Medicine, Drug Use, Unrealistic Everything Summary:

Set one year post movie, Charles overloads himself in Cerebro, and his mind goes walkabout; wherever he is (and he’s around), it’s not in his body. Erik temporarily takes over the school in his absence, and finds that there’s little time for resentment or hatred when he’s busy organizing assigned reading for English lit, keeping the youngest children out of trouble, and trying to talk Raven into wearing clothing for the boys’ sake. Somewhere in between taking responsibility for the students and dreaming Charles’ dreams every night, he manages to remember that he’s something rather more than a weapon. In other words: A Love Story between two Gentlemen, told in Prose, Epistles, and Nonsense Rhymes.

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OK, so I was watching XMFC at the weekend, then remembered this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48tozwnBPIY and so now I have been totally drawn into the amazing Charles/Erik fandom! Love this one, and all of the beautiful artwork referenced therein. Chapters: 11/11 Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier Characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Raven, Angel Salvadore, Alex Summers, Armando Muñoz, Sean Cassidy, Moira MacTaggert, Hank McCoy, Emma Frost, Sebastian Shaw, Janos Quested, Scott Summers Additional Tags: WIP, Romance, Kink Meme, Non-powered AU Summary:

Charles is a social worker who fosters troubled kids, and one day he meets Erik, an ex-convict, who reluctantly agrees to stay for only a while, but ends up staying for good and helping Charles to raise the kids. Awkward parenting ensues.

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This is beautiful. 

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception) Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inceptison) Additional Tags: Run On Sentences, POV Arthur Summary:

You think you could fall in love with this, and nothing’s more dangerous than that.

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Love this series. Read it all!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception) Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - High School, Alternate Universe - 1950s, First Date, Making Out, Groping, Teaching Series: Part 1 of All Shook Up Summary:

Inspired by the 1950s styling in those photos of JGL in Flaunt magazine #123, and that one photo of Tom sipping on a Coke. Arthur’s the mysterious boy in the leather jacket who smokes, and Eames can’t stop thinking about him. (Now with a sequel, One Night With You.)

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Just reread this…again. Forgot how good it is! Love it.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception) Characters: Ariadne (Inception), Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception) Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Broken Bones, Minor Injuries, Technology, Engineering, Mechanic(s), First Time, Glasses, Blow Jobs, Hand Jobs, Semi-Public Sex, Workplace Sex Summary:

[Image description: a page out of the PASIV manual, annotated in red ink with circles around the words ‘self-filtering’ and ‘cleaning’ and the text ‘ha. bloody. ha!’ in the margin]

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Beautifully written.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception) Summary:

After the Fischer inception, Eames goes back to work as an extractor, and Arthur joins his team. Due to circumstances involving a guy who may or may not be from Greenland, pop astrology, someone’s broken limb, hormones, and convenience, they end up learning that love is what starts down below (and makes its way up your spine).

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Magnificence! 

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception) Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception) Additional Tags: Community: inception_kink Summary:

Smut. Porn. Explicitly graphic sexual activity. Also: flirting, terrible abuse of nouns and throwing money at the cab driver — aka Eames finds out things with Arthur and they just happen.

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Beard porn! ;-)

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception) Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception) Additional Tags: Prompt Fic, Kink Meme, Hurt/Comfort Summary:

Mish-mash of two prompts from the inception kink meme (summarized):

Arthur hurts his leg on a job and needs Eames’ help. Arthur takes it in stride, but Eames is acting weird about seeing him naked.

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Eames confesses that he’s in love with Arthur, and Arthur is taken aback, because he’s not in love with Eames. Yet.

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Arthur with a tramp stamp. Yesssss!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inception Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Arthur/Eames Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception) Additional Tags: Tattoos, Rimming Summary:

It was all going so well until Eames took a bullet in a bar fight, fired back, and promptly took another.

This came about thanks to platina, who wanted Arthur with a tramp stamp.

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Brilliant. 

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Inception (2010) Rating: Mature Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception), Dom Cobb/Mal (Inception) Summary:

No matter how many times Eames points out the strangeness of this place, no matter how hard and long he focuses on all the details that are wrong, nothing is shaking, nothing is coming loose. If he was really dreaming, he’d know it by now. This is something else, something he can’t just wake up from. Universe swap! Warning: hand-wavy “science” mostly stolen from Fringe.

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Quite lovely.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inception (2010), Låt den rätte komma in | Let the Right One In (2008) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception), Dom Cobb/Mal (Inception) Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception), Dom Cobb, Mal (Inception), Saito (Inception), Yusuf (Inception), Ariadne (Inception) Additional Tags: Vampires, Supernatural Elements, Alternate Universe - Fusion, Bullying, Alternate Universe - High School, Familial Abuse Summary:

One of them is being bullied and abused; one of them is a centuries-old vampire. They meet in the dead of winter.