In its tenth year of tenderness, it's Inception Positivity!
Inceptiversary is back, and as it turns out, Inception Positivity is the most resilient parasite. You know the drill: head over to our Google form and submit some anonymous notes of appreciation for your fellow Inception fandom members. We will then post your note on this blog, spreading joy one colourful graphic at a time!
Your notes can be as long, short, serious, silly, general or specific as you want, and you can leave as many as you want!
Key dates:
June 24: Submissions open
July 1: Posting begins
July 28: Submissions close
July 31: Posting ends
For more information, check out the FAQ, or feel free to send a message or ask!
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!)
Inceptiversary 2026 Watch Parties: Week 3 (Thursday, July 16 - Sunday, July 19)
1. Inception - (BINGO) - Thursday, July 16, 8PM EDT | Friday, July 17, 12AM GMT | +1 10AM AEST
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.
2. Shutter Island - Saturday, July 18, 8PM EDT | Sunday, July 19, 12AM GMT | +1 10AM AEST
Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.
In an apocalyptic world, a tyrant rules over a stark desert, controlling every drop of water. Two rebels, one escaping grief and the other reaching out to her childhood, are the last hope for a few.
Watch parties occur in the #watch-party channel on the Inception Discord server and are open to all! (Message us if you need an invite.) To participate in a watch party, you can watch the screenshare stream on Discord, or sync up with us using your own copy of the movie.
Signups will open on Friday, June 19 at 7AM ET (click the hyperlink for your timezone!). There will be 10 slots available!
Signups will close as soon as all slots are filled, or by Thursday, June 25 at 7PM ET at the latest.
AELDWS will run for six weeks from June 26 to July 31. The weekly schedule is below:
Friday @ 1AM ET - prompt revealed
Tuesday @ 1PM ET - drabbles due
Tuesday night - drabbles posted, voting opens
Thursday @ 7PM ET - voting closes
Thursday night - results posted, drabbles revealed
Friday @ 1AM ET - new prompt revealed
AELDWS is a weekly, elimination drabble contest. Each Friday, a prompt will be posted which consists of a prompt, genre, and word limit. Author drabbles are compiled, with author names removed, and the fandom is invited to vote for their favorite and least favorite drabbles. The author who comes in last place each week is eliminated until there are only three authors remaining in the final week.
Note: If all ten slots are filled, the first two weeks of AELDWS will be double elimination weeks.
If you have any questions, send us a message or an ask!
Day 12: What style of dance does each character prefer?
Ariadne: has mostly reinvented herself by moving to Paris, but her guilty pleasure is line dance.
Yusuf: Will only dance if he has to, which turns out to be "a lot" and "extremely well" due to having attended a lot of South Asian family weddings. Insists he's awkward and terrible at it, but is actually better than 80% of this list.
Mal: took ballet lessons as a child and can still hold a mean turnout. She wanted Philippa to take ballet too.
Saito: his wife dragged him to ballroom classes after seeing the movie Shall We Dance?. He remembers every step and executes them with clinical precision.
Robert Fischer: see Saito above, but substitute with "his mother" "college girlfriend" (edit: the years didn't match up, I forgot he has a canonical date of birth) and "Strictly Ballroom". They have a surprising amount in common, which they'll never know.
Eames: as a forger, part of his job involves knowing where and what his body parts are doing at any given time, which lends itself extremely well to dancing. It comes up surprisingly often professionally in dreamscapes - ballroom, latin, belly, square, lap. He tries to forget the job that involved can-can. Up top, it's mostly in clubs to feel alive or get laid.
Cobb: took lessons for his wedding, and learned the waltz through sheer determination, force of will, and love for his wife. Otherwise, cannot count a rhythm or move his feet gracefully to save his life.
Arthur: attended lessons with Cobb partially due to being in the wedding party and partially for moral support. In the time it took for Cobb to learn the waltz, he also learned the tango, foxtrot, rumba; the instructor said he had competition potential. He declined before Mal could start trying to find him a dance partner. Misses it nowadays due to being extremely touch-starved.
