september recs, day nine: inception, female-centric

[meretricula]

I am getting to the requested themes, I swear! Slowly. (Plenty of days left in the month if you want to suggest something else as well, because I'm capable of thinking up lots of themes but if I'm left to my own devices they're mostly going to be either hockey or vids.) This particular set was requested by kfunk22, and I'll be the first to admit I'm not really big into Inception (aside from watching L.E.S Artistes about a million times SOMEONE TIE THAT VIDDER UP AND MAKE HER VID MORE I AM A HUGE FAN), but I have braved the wilds of the AO3 and vidding to bring you some Inception recs about ladies: let us all be grateful I escaped the Fireswamp of Arthur/Eames AUs alive. (I don't hate Inception or Arthur/Eames, I swear! There's just... a lot of it...)

Gravity, by shinealightonme [Mal]
A beautiful vid about a very mysterious woman. This movie had such great cinematography; there should be more vids out there!

i am the hero of this story (don't need to be saved), by electrumqueen [Mal/Cobb]
What if Mal was right all along?

Presque Vu, by rageprufrock [Arthur+Mal, Arthur/Eames]
This is cheating because it's primarily an Arthur/Eames fic, but Arthur's relationship with Mal is so fascinating and central to the story that I wanted to include it anyway. In the movie it seems like Arthur is doing everything for Cobb; this fic (which is a monster, fair warning) is predicated on the assumption that Arthur was Mal's friend first.

take the long way home (soft as the radio), by gyzym [Ariadne/Yusuf, Arthur/Eames]
The one where Ariadne takes pictures of everything but doesn't realize what she's seeing in her viewfinder.

Hotel, by kaydeefalls [Ariadne]
ELLEN PAGE'S LITTLE FAAAAAAACE <3 <3 <3

Comments

holy crap! you rock!

[kfunk22.livejournal.com]

i'll be back later to actually look through these, but for now: thank you kindly for heeding my flight of fancy!

[kfunk22.livejournal.com]

okay! i've finally had a moment to breathe and spend some time perusing your suggestions! presque vu is an old favorite; thanks for the reminder, actually, it's going on my re-read list. as for the rest: loved the vids - breathtaking, especially the first. + those two fics? (especially i am the hero of this story) work really well to round out canon characters that function as little more than archetypes in the movie. thanks for the suggestions, i had a ball going through them!