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Back in 2011, I baked an Inception-inspired cake to celebrate Oscar night. This year, for Craft Week over at inceptiversary, I decided to bake that cake again, making use of the lessons I learned the first time around.



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Title: Limbo, Longing, and the Power of Love
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Ariadne
Other Characters: Cobb, Projection!Ariadne, other OCs
Rating: PG for a couple of curse words, dream!death, and dream!suicide
Word Count: 8,688
Disclaimer: The characters and concepts contained herein are the property of Christopher Nolan, Syncopy, Legendary Pictures, and Warner Brothers Entertainment. No money is being made from the publication of this work of fanfiction.
Summary: After the inception job, Arthur loves Ariadne from afar. His projection of her, powered by his love for her, attains semi-independence. When he falls into Limbo, she decides to take charge and do what it takes to save him.
Author's Notes: This is Part 3 of my entry in the Big Bang challenge at inception_land. This part completes my Big Bang. This was also written for this prompt at inception_kink: "Character A has a particularly independent-minded projection of Character B. Character A drops into Limbo and projection!Character B takes over Character A's waking life body."

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Title: Hatsuyume
Characters: Saito, Ariadne, Arthur, Cobb (Gen)
Rating: G
Word Count: 1,719
Disclaimer: The characters and concepts contained herein are the property of Christopher Nolan and Syncopy Pictures. No money is being made from the publication of this work of fanfiction.
Summary: According to Japanese folk belief, if one's first dream in the new year includes an eggplant, a hawk, and Mount Fuji, one will have good luck during that year. Evidently, this will be an exceptionally fortunate year for one Mr. Saito.
Author's Notes: This is Part 2 of my entry in the Big Bang challenge over at inception_land.

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This is Part 1 of my Big Bang for inception_land round 3. I also have a picspam and several fanfics in progress.

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Oscar night is tomorrow! Oscar night is tomorrow!

I'm so excited to watch the Oscars this year that I've been planning for a while to make a special Inception-themed cake to eat during the ceremony. This post contains my recipe for the cake. When I try this idea tomorrow, I will post photos.

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One of this month's challenges over at inception_land is to create a fanmix. Though I've been making playlists of songs I associate with various works of fiction for many years, this is the first time I've ever made a real fanmix with front and back cover art.

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Title: A Dream Wedding, Part 1 of 2
Rating: G
Word Count: 818 (this part)
By: barbarafett
Category: Arthur/Ariadne, post-movie fic
Warning: Fluff ahoy!
Disclaimer: All characters are the property of Christopher Nolan. No money is being made off this work of fanfiction.
Summary: Arthur and Ariadne have their own ideas about how they want to do their wedding. Their friends help them make it happen.
Author's Notes: I've had this idea in my head for a while. I finally sat down and wrote it in response to the Free-For-All challenge (#14) at inception_land. I ran out of time to finish Part 2 before the deadline for the challenge, but I'm entering Part 1 anyway. Worst-case scenario, I just won't earn any points for it.

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This is #19 in my ongoing Inception drabble series, but chronologically, it goes after #17. I still haven't gotten to the point in the story where #18 happens yet; that's further down the road. Crossposted from inception100.

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“Hello?”

“Yusuf? It's Ariadne.”

“Ariadne! Hello! It's been a long time- what's going on?”

“Don't worry, this is just a social call. I have news to share. I have been hired to perform an extraction.” She sounded very proud.

Yusuf hesitated. “Giving in to the temptations of the lifestyle, eh? Well, I wish you every success.”

“Thank you. The others don't really want me to go into it, either, but they're helping me anyway.”

“The others?”

“Everyone except Saito is with me. We're working together again.”

“Oh, good! You'll be fine.”

Recently, my friend mithrigil posted this awesome entry in which she described her relationship with two of the works of fiction she's a fan of, and their fans, by personifying the two fandoms and telling a story. I was inspired to do the same. kawaiigami , this one's for you.

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Today I went to Starbucks and managed to spill a full cup of coffee all over my table, shirt, jeans, and the floor. Not much of it got on the table, but a very little bit got onto the bottom of my laptop. I didn't think it would be a problem after it was dried off. So I went home, changed, and then went back to the Starbucks. A particular website made my laptop freeze, and then when I tried to do a brute-force restart using the power button, it told me it couldn't detect the hard drive. This may or may not have to do with the coffee, I don't know.

I'm currently posting from the desktop computer at home. I'm going to hook up the hard drive from my laptop to the desktop computer (using a handy USB adapter we have) when my dad brings the adapter home from work. It remains to be seen whether my own hard drive will remember that we even had a revised resume in progress, or whether the whole thing will have turned into scrambled egg. I hope my laptop is having fun building sandcastle skyscrapers. ;-) :-D

Update Saturday 9/18: Since I posted this entry, I've backed up everything from that hard drive, then put the hard drive back into the laptop. They both worked perfectly. I don't get it. Because my dad offered to help me, and because right after backing up everything seemed like a good time to do it, we spent most of the day wiping and reformatting that hard drive and rebuilding the entire system from the ground up, making it dual-boot for the first time. I'll be able to use Windows 7 for the Cisco Academy curriculum program, iTunes, Finale, Adobe Premiere if I ever get back to it, and JumpStart 3rd Grade if I ever get back to that, and Ubuntu for everything else. I'm looking forward to getting my laptop back. (I'm still on the big desktop computer right now.)