Wer reitet so spät (3959 words) by toomuchplor
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".

2003: 9 stories. The Year of Discovering Fandom.
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... )

All we like sheep (have gone astray) (746 words) by toomuchplor
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.

Yet What I Can I Give Him (1921 words) by toomuchplor
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.

Ding (1045 words) by toomuchplor
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.

Lost in the Warm (1511 words) by toomuchplor
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.

First Crack (1299 words) by toomuchplor
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.

I suck; I haven't cross-posted these. Sorry.

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

So I mentioned on Twitter a while back that I had an exciting medical crisis while travelling in Germany, and I figured I might as well share the details for anyone who cares. The tl;dr version is that I had a minor surgery and I'm totally fine now.

( The more detailed version is here, below the cut. )

Fandom: Inception/TDKR RPF
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 )

Fandom: Inception/TDKR RPF
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 abbylee, anatsuno, and 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... )

Fandom: Inception/TDKR RPF
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 )

Fandom: Inception
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) )

Fandom: Inception
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 )

Fandom: Inception
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 )

...for anyone who doesn't follow me on Twitter. Or who does, but has me filtered out because I tweet a lot about my niece. (Fair. I'll allow it.)

I've finally just posted the two last big pieces of the Steinway!Verse, making the grand total wordcount break through the 150K mark. (I...cannot actually process that.) In any case, these are the fics most requested in the comments after I posted the mid-point Cobb wedding sadfic of DOOM: namely, the one where they break up and (better yet) the one where they get back together. Both are quite angsty. Sorry about that. *coughIblamemybetaLately*

Be sure, by the way, to read these two big-ass stories in the order posted here, i.e. I Will Forget the Light first, and then Du bist die Ruh. I suppose you could reverse the order, but why multiply the angst? :P

One last thing - while this does mark the last of the major instalments I had planned/plotted, I am not necessarily calling this 'verse completed as it stands. Your curiosity should be satisfied, I hope, by these two pieces -- but I don't intend to close the door on writing more Steinway. (In fact, I have at least two or three ficlets in progress -- active progress -- even as I type this.)

Thanks to all of you who've come along for this ride, who have shared your feedback along the way, and who are still here to finally finish out this last flourish with me. ♥ you all.

Fandom: Inception
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Length: 21,400 words

Summary: Takes place in the Steinway!Verse, after Whither Thou Goest.

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going" ~ Beverly Sills

Doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results is a good working definition of insanity.

Warnings/Content Notes: (skip) References to and plot points around mental illness, mental breakdown, post partum depression, and threatened harm to children (though no serious injury to children.) Read at your own discretion!


Read the story on AO3 or below the cut here on Dreamwidth.

( Du bist die Ruh )

Fandom: Inception
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Arthur/Eames, Arthur/OMC, Eames/implied others
Length: 26,700 words

Summary: Set in the Steinway!Verse, after Chantant sur le mode mineur.

“The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.” ~ Andre Segovia

Coming unravelled in your senior year is practically a tradition at the conservatory. Arthur's never been one to do things by halves.

Content Notes: Contains references to musician injury, open relationships, long distance relationship (failure), insomnia, and huge amounts of senior-year angst. Musicians live large, and that carries over to pain too, I'm afraid. All I can say is: in the grand scheme of things, the boys get their happy ending. But you already knew that if you've read the previous fics.



Read it on AO3 here (if you dare) or click through the cut below to check it out right here on DW.

( I Will Forget the Light )

Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Rating: Teen
Length: 900 words

Summary: Composition is a discipline, every bit as much as playing the piano ever was.

A/N: Another one that xenakis resurrected from Gmail, bless her. Set in the Steinway 'Verse, a couple of years after Arthur reveals he's been composing. Title is from a very famous music theory text by a dude named Fux. Can't make this shit up, yo.

Read it on AO3 here or skip the queue and click on the cut-tag below:

( Gradus ad Parnassum )

Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Rating: Mature
Length: 1100 words

Summary: Arthur has done it: he's conquered sleep.

A/N: Thanks to xenakis for rediscovering this fic in her email, as I'd completely forgotten it existed. I think it was originally written as chatfic for lately around the theme "Arthur is hyper after a big performance, until he's not." Set in the Steinway 'Verse, sometime in their married life. Title is from the poem by Rossetti, which is also well-known as an art song set by Somervell.

Read it on AO3 or, if you want to go around the traffic jam, right here below the cut.

( Return to Nestle Here )