FRIENDS WELCOME

They say you need to knock three times to rouse the sleeping dragon. Three times you need to peer inside his straw-thatched hut, three times you need to chase him down through snow and slow summer afternoons. They say it's only on the third try that you'll find him, and it seems like a steep price to pay -- but then, on the third try, he'll shake himself awake. He'll become the water to the fish you are. He'll leave the mountains for you, ready to take down the world. And there you have armies at your fingertips, a legend in the making; only three visits and the dragon is yours.

I am no such dragon, so just the one visit is enough. Step inside. Let's be friends.

[If you are looking for fics, they are at tornadobelt! I was also (sort of) on tumblr, a bit. I'm pretty sure that this journal was entirely public, but I can't actually remember if there were any friendslocked entries or not-- I'll friend you back, though, just in case!]

HIYOOOooo guys. I know that the last real post here was made eight months ago, and... this is not actually a post either... But at any rate, I am alive and doing well, even though man is school a time sink or what? It's like they actually expect you to BE A STUDENT when you are in school?? MADNESS

So this is just to say that I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox, and also that there is a neonatal tumblr thing thataway! Regrettably I seem to have more snippets than extended lengths of time on my hands, which doesn't work too well with LJ-based fandom activities, and I pretty much fucking suck at twitter forevermore, so tumblr it is. It won't be the sort of place where I attempt to, you know, ~build a presence~ or anything, I am not actually moving to tumblr fandom, I am just going to... dick around with a tumblr and do everything wrong :| I mean, I am using it primarily because it seems like it can be less of a commitment than LJ, so things that will probably not happen: 1. checking the dash regularly like I should, and 2. trawling around for cool things to reblog all the time-- BUT, if in my time at this journal you have seen me talk about things that you are also interested in, then now you know where you can find me making incoherent posts about our mutual loves!

Of course this doesn't mean that THIS LJ IS ABANDONED FOR ALL ETERNITY AND I WILL IGNORE ANY ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT ME, as always there are comment notifs (...although I have been known to leave things unanswered for months and months when school gets particularly troublesome...) and e-mail and whatnot, so all in all I guess this isn't a moving at all, it's just, like, that annoying neighbor who lives next door starts showing up outside the Circle K to deliver his unsolicited wackjob political opinions instead of blasting them out into the street from his house with a loudspeaker. And it's not really that he's sold his house or anything, and his cell phone number is still the same (though it is uncertain why you know his number to begin with), but now you just see him a lot more at the Circle K, and also his unsolicited political opinions are still pretty wackjob, except I guess in this case they aren't very wackjob at all, because my opinions are pretty boring.

So if you are into stuff like TV shows, video games, Inception, food, complaining about things that seem pretty trivial upon closer consideration, cats, and other stuff that the Internet is into, and also if you are really bored or masochistic, then come on over :D

Artist: keelain
Word Count: 20,000
Rating: R overall
Pairings: Arthur/Eames
Notes: For inception_bang. Endless thanks to keelain, who pulled through wonderfully and blew my mind despite all the difficulties in her way, and to starbolin, whose phenomenal editing skills are directly responsible for every single thing you may happen to enjoy about this fic, and who also made an amazing mix for it. (Go download it now!) I shudder to think the wreck this would have been without their generosity and talent :'(
Summary: Ten months after a savage split, Arthur climbs down to pull Eames out of limbo.

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(Look! It's The Bridge that Ariadne Built from Memory! :D)

Europe was amazing, dearest beloved friendslist! But Europe was two weeks ago-- since then, I've been back at school, trying my best not to drown under unholy amounts of work. Like... what is even this much reading, I don't understand...? This little bit of Sunday night is legit the first chance I've had to take a breath at all, Jesus Christ. I DON'T THINK THIS IS LEGAL

Maybe at some point of time in the near future I will have actually read ahead of class (haha, what a hilarious thought) but until then, I think that I am probably not going to be able to hang around LJ very much... Especially because I don't want to default out of the big bang, and I should really start doing something about that, even though the deadline is still a ways away :'( So if I am scarce, please know that I am shaking my fist at school with ten times your vehemence, and that I am reachable over e-mail! Otherwise I am doing very well-- the only reason I am locking this to comments is that I know I won't be able to resist semi-endless comment threads, but I still have several more articles to read until tomorrow dg;dhgklhkalg I... will survive... and you too, friendslist, be strong. ♥

1. Today I want to start with a poll to which there are no right answers; in fact, the only wrong answer might be thinking that there IS a right answer, but I've been curious as to what the results would be like, in response to a poll such as this. I wish there were a way for a broader sample of fans to answer it-- and also, it might be interesting to compare ratio results from Inception fandom and those from other fandoms. Anyway, as it is, it's just a small poll for people who happen to stumble across it, but I'd love to know what you think...!

[ETA] I have realized that this poll is even worse than I initially thought it was-- ahahaha if you haven't answered it yet, please don't agonize over the answers, as it is too vague and ill-planned to measure or indicate anything significant XD



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