You can read the Steinway!Verse in two ways, and currently it doesn't matter which order you choose. Both make sense and each has been expressed as a preference by various people.
Uh, and in case anyone isn't aware, LJ = Livejournal, DW = Dreamwidth, and AO3 = Archive of Our Own
In the order the stories were posted (but not chronological in the 'verse):
- Under the Steinway (DW | AO3) - not on LJ as it was a comment fic posted to DW
- Fever Pitch (LJ | DW | AO3)
- What Need (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Ach, des Knaben Augen (DW | AO3 | Podfic ) - not on LJ due to the story length
- Reach Out (and Touch Someone) (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Between the Notes (DW | AO3) - not on LJ due to the story length
- First, Do No Harm (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Er, der Herrlichste von Allen (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Whither Thou Goest (DW | AO3) - not on LJ due to the story length
- Irresistible You (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Soft the Drowsy Hours (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Je te veux (AO3) - only on AO3 at this time due to story format
- An die ferne Geliebte (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Where You At (AO3)
- And I Know It (LJ | DW | AO3)
- For a Man Like Me (AO3)
- Chantant sur le mode mineur (AO3)
- Return to Nestle Here (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Gradus ad Parnassum (LJ | DW | AO3)
- I Will Forget the Light (DW | AO3) - not on LJ due to the story length
- Du bist die Ruh (DW | AO3) - not on LJ due to the story length
- Die Glücklichen (AO3) - not on DW/LJ yet; working on it.
- Yet What I Can I Give Him (AO3) - not on DW/LJ yet; working on it.
- All we like sheep (have gone astray) (AO3) - not on DW/LJ yet; working on it.
- Wer reitet so spät (AO3) - not on DW/LJ yet; working on it.
- Ach, des Knaben Augen (DW | AO3 | Podfic ) - not on LJ due to the story length
- Between the Notes (DW | AO3) - not on LJ due to the story length
- First, Do No Harm (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Er, der Herrlichste von Allen (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Wer reitet so spät (AO3) - not on DW/LJ yet; working on it.
- Irresistible You (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Chantant sur le mode mineur (AO3)
- I Will Forget the Light (DW | AO3) - not on LJ due to the story length
- Whither Thou Goest (DW | AO3) - not on LJ due to the story length
- Du bist die Ruh (DW | AO3) - not on LJ due to the story length
- Yet What I Can I Give Him (AO3) - not on DW/LJ yet; working on it.
- Die Glücklichen (AO3) - not on DW/LJ yet; working on it.
- Under the Steinway (DW | AO3) - not on LJ as it was a comment fic posted to DW
- An die ferne Geliebte (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Soft the Drowsy Hours (LJ | DW | AO3)
- And I Know It (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Fever Pitch (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Reach Out (and Touch Someone) (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Je te veux (AO3) - only on AO3 at this time due to story format
- All we like sheep (have gone astray) (AO3) - not on DW/LJ yet; working on it.
- Return to Nestle Here (LJ | DW | AO3)
- For a Man Like Me (AO3)
- What Need (LJ | DW | AO3)
- Where You At (AO3)
- Gradus ad Parnassum (LJ | DW | AO3)
LJ | DW | AO3
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Inception (2010)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception)
Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception), Yusuf (Inception), Mal (Inception)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Classical Music, Musicians, Operas, Music, Semi-Public Sex, Mild Painplay, Ravel - Freeform, Singing, Piano, Pet Names, Cats
Series: Part 17 of Steinway!verse
Summary:
It takes a few years to break in a factory-new piano like Arthur's Steinway; in related news, Arthur and Eames are both still getting used to the glint of wedding bands on their ring fingers.
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]
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Inception (2010) RPF, Batman (Movies - Nolan) RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Tom Hardy
Additional Tags: Face-Fucking, Blow Jobs, Quickies, Established Relationship, Facials, Hair-pulling, Painplay
Series: Part 12 of Unkissed
Summary:
The truth is, it'd be worthwhile fighting the bridge traffic even if were only dinner with Joseph. Add in Joseph with his shirt off, on his knees in front of Tom — well. Tom would put up with a good deal worse for a lot less.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Inception (2010)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception)
Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception), Bathtub - Character
Additional Tags: Bathing/Washing, Bathroom Sex, Domestic, London, Cohabitation, Fluff, Canon Compliant, NSFW image
Summary:
Can't I just be left alone?
I want to take a fuckin' bath
In which Eames has a really massive bathtub and Arthur absolutely goes dewy and Plor overuses the word 'pink'.
('Mature' rating is mostly for the NSFW photo in the Notes; otherwise I'd call this a soft M at most.)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Inception (2010)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception)
Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception)
Additional Tags: Students, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Young Love, Stupid Boys
Series: Part 5 of Steinway!verse
Summary:
"What is it that Miles says to you?” Eames says, feeling victory in his grasp even as Arthur resists him. "You have to leave the practice room now and then if you're going to understand what it is you're meant to be — god, I am drunk."
In the Steinway 'verse, about six weeks after "Er, der Herrlichste von Allen" and a couple of months before "Chantant sur le mode mineur".
2004: 40 stories. The Year of First Fandom Love.
2005: 17 stories. The Year of First Fandom Disenchantment.
2006: 18 stories. The Year of Second Fandom Love and First Fandom Farewell.
2007: 19 stories. The Year of 'Yep, This Is All the Time I Have For This.'
2008: 8 stories. The Year I Drifted Away.
2009: 8 stories. The Year I Was Gone A Lot.
2010: 14 stories. The Year I Came Back, Yaye!
2011: 28 stories. The Year I Wrote A Whole Fucking Fuckton.
2012: 39 stories. Whoa. Uh, I didn't expect that?
All told: 200 stories over a decade (!!!) of fandom. AO3 tells me my wordcount is 941,905 words, and I've got a personal goal of hitting 1,000,000 words by the 10th anniversary of my first fic posted on August 28, 2003.
( The list )
( The rambly thinky part )
( Next Year, I Will... )
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Inception (2010)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception)
Additional Tags: Christmas, Family, Homecoming, Parents & Children
Series: Part 20 of Steinway!verse
Summary:
Christmas in Windsor feels endless at times like these.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Inception (2010)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception)
Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Musicians, Alternate Universe - Classical Music, Christmas, Judaism, Holidays, Gift Giving, Mornings, Morning Sex
Series: Part 11 of Steinway!verse
Summary:
There'll be time enough later for noisy family meals, hyperactive kids, and holiday chaos. This moment, this morning, is theirs.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Inception (2010)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception)
Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception)
Additional Tags: Schmoop, Domestic, Babies, Hurt/Comfort, Cuddling & Snuggling, Tea, Newspapers
Series: Part 3 of Schmoop Bomb: The Series
Summary:
Six weeks in, and Arthur's still a bit of a perfectionist about the whole parenthood thing.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Inception (2010) RPF, Batman (Movies - Nolan) RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Tom Hardy
Additional Tags: Reunions, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Spanking, Romance, Grief/Mourning
Series: Part 11 of Unkissed
Summary:
Joe hasn’t decided yet, if it’s the sort of thing that he should maybe be worried about, how they don’t leave Joe’s house, how they go all reclusive and intense and just — go fucking nuts for each other.
Or: that time Joe accidentally has sort of emotional sex with Tom.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Inception (2010)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception)
Additional Tags: Romance, First Time, Coffee, Coffee Shops, One Shot, Snippets
Summary:
Eames is really more of a tea person, truth be told.
Fandom: Inception
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: girl!Arthur/Eames
Length: 3,300 words
Summary: “It’s not about what you need, Eames,” Arthur says, and slips her thighs apart, urges him down between them.
Content Notes: Contains cis!girl!Arthur and (by extrapolation) bi-or-het-Eames. Stocking fetish, sort of. Cunnilingus. Car sex. Basically it's filth. :D
when i'm between your thighs (you blow me away) - on AO3
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Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Derek/Stiles
Length: 5,200 words
Summary: Stiles never knows if it's worse when Derek Hale steps out of the shadows or when he slinks back into them; either way, Stiles never expected to have this many feelings about his stupid old yellow owl shirt.
Content Notes: Underage fic (Stiles is his canon age in this). Otherwise, no warnings except that I cannot be kept from making fart references in fic. And I refuse to apologize.
How far do I have to go to get to you - on AO3
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Fandom: Inception
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Length: 1,300 words
Summary: It's still far better than if Eames tried to give Arthur a voice lesson.
Content Notes: In the Steinway!verse, shortly after Arthur and Eames reunite. But not too shortly after. Basically fluff and music!porn.
Die Glücklichen - on AO3
( The more detailed version is here, below the cut. )
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Tom/Joe
Length: 4300 words
Summary:
From Wikipedia:
"Ground-and-pound is a strategy consisting of taking an opponent to the ground using a takedown or throw, obtaining a top, or dominant position [...] Ground-and-pound is also used as a precursor to attempting submission holds."
(source)
A/N: It's worth noting that this fic contains bits of the following kinks: rough sex, D/s, dubcon roleplay/fantasy (though no actual dubcon), orgasm denial, edging, size kink. Set approximately 36 hours before "Mi casa..." and can be viewed as a sort of Tom POV companion piece to that fic. Chalk the 300% higher wordcount up to Tom's nonstop brain. In the Unkissed 'verse.
I also need to credit a convo with nightreveals on Twitter for the whole "Joe pins Tom" aspect of this fic. I've been trying to write this ever since then!
Read it on AO3 or here below the cut:
( Ground and Pound )
Pairing: Tom/Joe
Rating: Mature
Length: 1000 words
Summary: Normally Joe gets grumpy and unreasonable if he goes too long without eating. Trust Tom to have found a loophole.
A/N: Written as twitfic late at night for prompts: Tom/Joe, food, and someone being a fusspot. (Thanks to
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abbylee, anatsuno, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
analia_the_1st for said prompts, and sorry I failed on the porn front. And a bit on the fusspot front, come to that.)Set in the present-ish (July 2012) I suppose, but in some AU where Tom is visiting Joe in L.A. just before the TDKR press goes into overdrive. Part of the Unkissed 'verse. As much as anything is. Heh.
Read on AO3 or below the cut here.
( Mi casa... )
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Joe/Tom
Length: 2100 words
Summary:
Tom finds himself clutching a pair of unmentionables in a very posh hotel lobby in Swakopmund. The rest is inevitable.
A/N: Set in the present (July 2012), in the Unkissed 'verse. Said 'verse has been jossed all to hell and back by, you know, the real world. So please consider it to be, not an actual complete fictional world with its own carefully-planned logic, but rather a shameless excuse to write tinhat fic where Joe and Tom are sekrit boyfriends.
Thanks to Lately and stars_collected for audiencing.
N.B.: This is not the Unkissed fic I expected to be writing in light of the delightful Tom/Joe/some-other-guy-who-cares photo that surfaced yesterday. But this is what came to me as I was fixing lunch, and I know better than to argue with the muses after nearly nine years of writing fic.
Disclaimer: None of this is the least bit true. Except for the part about the Namib desert leaving sand in your arsecrack. That much I can claim as personal experience. D:
( Fine Taste )
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Length: 4500 words
Summary: In which Eames’ excuse for getting naked in front of Arthur is even more filmy and transparent than his panties — and that’s saying something.
Content Notes: Crossdressing kink, sort of.
A/N: Xen and I tag-teamed a little fic off the cuff the last few days, trying a format in which she’d draw a picture prompt and I’d respond with a bit of the story, then she’d draw what happened next, and so on. (In Xen’s defense she sketched all these things on her iPhone. LIKE A BOSS. Also the first one is a Draw Something masterpiece. Heh.) Anyway, that’s what’s going on here. Mostly it’s just straight-up porn. (This format may eventually reappear in a less porn-centric fic, by the way.)
Title is from Britney Spears’ “Toxic” because we already had to reject a Britney-derived title once this week and this fic is deserving of…no more? :P
Thanks to Yvi and anat both for doing amazing *and* lightning-fast beta work on this. Any remaining errors are mine alone.
Read on AO3 or below the cut, here:
( a guy like you (should wear a warning) )
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Length: 9700 words
Summary: Sometimes when you run the tape backwards, you find something unexpected encoded in the noise.
Content Notes: No warnings apply.
A/N: In spite of the somewhat srs bsns summary above, this is essentially a light-hearted fic. It started when I suggested to Xen that I wanted to write silly fluffy porn about Eames being the ex Arthur can’t seem to keep from fucking. Xen replied (brilliantly as per usual) “OR VICE VERSA” and then my head exploded. This fic crawled out of the smoking ruins thereof. It was a bit of work to keep it from pivoting over into angst, I tell you, but I think I managed it. (I cannot promise the same about schmoop, however.)
Thanks to Xen, anat, and Lately for audiencing, beta-ing, grammar-picking, character-building, making sense of the atypical chronology of this story (maps!), and helping me aim for the right ending because I did not plot out a 10K fic when I started typing the first line. All remaining errors are mine.
Read on AO3 or here, below the cut:
( Like a Hook Into an Eye )
Rating: Teen (for language, pretty much)
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Length: 1000 words, ish.
Summary: Arthur likes to think of it as gallantry; Eames mostly just thinks it's cute.
A/N: Warning: (skip) Because today we got talking about boys in dresses and panties on Twitter, and also because
xenakis thought it would be a cool way to approach the canonical nature of Eames' gender queer identity. N.B. - while I fully support crossdressing kink, this fic is not a kink fic. It's just about an Eames who likes to wear dresses and make-up and heels sometimes, and an Arthur who loves him.Read on AO3 or right here, below the cut:
( I See France )
