#arthur darling

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Day 25: Your favourite Inception actor.

@inception30daychallenge

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

He's an awesome actor and an all-around good person, thoughtful and considerate, creative and passionate. Listening to him talking always gives me joy, and it gives me new perspectives about different topics. I just love him.

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arthurs character traits/physical appearance defined in fanfics/fanart akin to jgls mannerisms : a self indulgent list :D

1. the entire fandom unanimously deciding on his ethnicity as jewish. and a proud one at that. I love how when he does the related rituals and celebrate the holidays, specially making eames fall in love with him even more. (yes I’m talking about that one fic where arthur marries eames in a coffee shop with witnesses and and whispering a prayer in respect to his religion)

2. the slick black hair falling to natural wavy luscious curls when freed from pomade jail, de-ageing him by about fifteen years. oh yes.

3. arthurs love for singing and dancing. both the fun kind and the professional kind. in line with being surprisingly bad/surprisingly good at karaoke. (someone is yet to make arthur take a guitar and serande eames with a ballad please do it thanks)

4. GLASSES. THAT ARTHUR USES CONTACTS AT WORK AND GLASSES WHEN AT HOME READING HIS RESEARCH. YOU ARE SO RIGHT!

5. arthur being a bit too long-winded and all adorably rambly when asked about something he really loves and cares about.

6. arthur randomly mentioning his love for batman comics or going to see batman movies (or someone finding long forgotten movie tickets to batman in his wallet) that’s the cutest thing I swear.

feel free to add more :D

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Eames calling people “darling” is second nature to him, but the moment he learns that Arthur’s surname is Darling, Eames reserves that pet name for his Arthur only.

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My goodness…how lovely is he?

[mrwilliameames]

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Do you guys think that after guiding his teammates into the elevator, Arthur took just one moment to squeeze Eames' hand, maybe even touch their foreheads together while taking a deep breath, just to center himself and give himself the courage to face the most difficult challenge of timing the kick right?

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Arthur: *sigh* Eames is so awesome and impressive.

Mal: Oh, don't worry, Arthur, you're brilliant too.

Arthur: Mal, I'm not envious, I'm gay!

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This morning I've had a friendly discussion about, of all things, cartoons like tom&jerry, Donald duck and such, and realized something.

There were a lot of details in those short episodes, details that didn't really serve to further the story but were just put there for the sake of eliciting a laugh at the small silly absurdity (for example a Santa's elf painting a chess board with an already checkered paint). And I was marvelling at those people who came up with these little things, and realized that that's where the flair, the talent and creativity of the artists involved came through, in those little details that 'merely' enriched the experience of the consumers.

It obviously made me think of Arthur, right away, because he has such attention to details, but he builds those details in his dreams himself, and that's where his imagination finds its expression. Enriching the environment, making it either more realistic or more absurd, such as in case of his beloved paradoxes.

He's not an artist, and he doesn't have the same type of imagination as Eames does, but he can come up with wonderful things and twists within the bounds that have been already set, he just needs to know where his boundaries are first before being able to play with what he's got and bring little details and pieces of himself in.