Title: Akallabêth
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Categories: AU, Angst, Drama, Sad Stories
Length: Medium (11,209 words)
Warnings: ( Click to view major spoilers that reveal the plot-twist ) Also, the story is an AU of the film, so requires some knowledge of/has spoilers for Inception.

Author on DW: mirabella
Author Website: House of Hobbits / mirabellafic

Summary:
Ariadne knows their point man has his eccentricities. She just doesn't know where they come from. Neither does Eames, until it's too late.

Review:
I was wracking my brain for an appropriately angsty fic for our theme week (nothing was angsty enough), and then remembered Akallabêth. This story is like a punch to the gut. It's a fabulous exploration of some of the dynamics of the universe of Inception in the saddest way possible. Re-telling the the film with an excellent Ariadne point-of-view, however with one major change that affects everything and everyone, including the job, all the character relationships, and especially the relationship we see developing between Arthur and Eames.

It's one of those stories that you like reading twice, the second time after you know the plot twist (which I put under a cut above and below if you want to avoid knowing ahead of time) and things take on a new meaning with the knowledge of how it all ends. Man, even re-reading it for the n-th time, I tear up a little with the melancholy and wistfulness and utter hopelessness of the scenario.

Read this if you want an intense heart-breaker of a story that deals cleverly with the concepts of shared dreaming, but maybe take a pass if you're feeling a bit fragile.

( Click here to read a spoilerific excerpt. )

Akallabêth (DW), (Author's website)

Title: Akallabêth
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Categories: AU, Angst, Drama, Sad Stories
Length: Medium (11,209 words)
Warnings: ( Click to view major spoilers that reveal the plot-twist ) Also, the story is an AU of the film, so requires some knowledge of/has spoilers for Inception.

Author on DW: mirabella
Author Website: House of Hobbits / mirabellafic

Summary:
Ariadne knows their point man has his eccentricities. She just doesn't know where they come from. Neither does Eames, until it's too late.

Review:
I was wracking my brain for an appropriately angsty fic for our theme week (nothing was angsty enough), and then remembered Akallabêth. This story is like a punch to the gut. It's a fabulous exploration of some of the dynamics of the universe of Inception in the saddest way possible. Re-telling the the film with an excellent Ariadne point-of-view, however with one major change that affects everything and everyone, including the job, all the character relationships, and especially the relationship we see developing between Arthur and Eames.

It's one of those stories that you like reading twice, the second time after you know the plot twist (which I put under a cut above and below if you want to avoid knowing ahead of time) and things take on a new meaning with the knowledge of how it all ends. Man, even re-reading it for the n-th time, I tear up a little with the melancholy and wistfulness and utter hopelessness of the scenario.

Read this if you want an intense heart-breaker of a story that deals cleverly with the concepts of shared dreaming, but maybe take a pass if you're feeling a bit fragile.

( Click here to read a spoilerific excerpt. )

Akallabêth (DW), (Author's website)

Title: Akallabêth
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Categories: AU, Angst, Drama, Sad Stories
Length: Medium (11,209 words)
Warnings: ( Click to view major spoilers that reveal the plot-twist ) Also, the story is an AU of the film, so requires some knowledge of/has spoilers for Inception.

Author on DW: mirabella
Author Website: House of Hobbits / mirabellafic

Summary:
Ariadne knows their point man has his eccentricities. She just doesn't know where they come from. Neither does Eames, until it's too late.

Review:
I was wracking my brain for an appropriately angsty fic for our theme week (nothing was angsty enough), and then remembered Akallabêth. This story is like a punch to the gut. It's a fabulous exploration of some of the dynamics of the universe of Inception in the saddest way possible. Re-telling the the film with an excellent Ariadne point-of-view, however with one major change that affects everything and everyone, including the job, all the character relationships, and especially the relationship we see developing between Arthur and Eames.

It's one of those stories that you like reading twice, the second time after you know the plot twist (which I put under a cut above and below if you want to avoid knowing ahead of time) and things take on a new meaning with the knowledge of how it all ends. Man, even re-reading it for the n-th time, I tear up a little with the melancholy and wistfulness and utter hopelessness of the scenario.

Read this if you want an intense heart-breaker of a story that deals cleverly with the concepts of shared dreaming, but maybe take a pass if you're feeling a bit fragile.

( Click here to read a spoilerific excerpt. )

Akallabêth (DW), (Author's website)

Title: Akallabêth
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Categories: AU, Angst, Drama, Sad Stories
Length: Medium (11,209 words)
Warnings: ( Click to view major spoilers that reveal the plot-twist ) Also, the story is an AU of the film, so requires some knowledge of/has spoilers for Inception.

Author on DW: mirabella
Author Website: House of Hobbits / mirabellafic

Summary:
Ariadne knows their point man has his eccentricities. She just doesn't know where they come from. Neither does Eames, until it's too late.

Review:
I was wracking my brain for an appropriately angsty fic for our theme week (nothing was angsty enough), and then remembered Akallabêth. This story is like a punch to the gut. It's a fabulous exploration of some of the dynamics of the universe of Inception in the saddest way possible. Re-telling the the film with an excellent Ariadne point-of-view, however with one major change that affects everything and everyone, including the job, all the character relationships, and especially the relationship we see developing between Arthur and Eames.

It's one of those stories that you like reading twice, the second time after you know the plot twist (which I put under a cut above and below if you want to avoid knowing ahead of time) and things take on a new meaning with the knowledge of how it all ends. Man, even re-reading it for the n-th time, I tear up a little with the melancholy and wistfulness and utter hopelessness of the scenario.

Read this if you want an intense heart-breaker of a story that deals cleverly with the concepts of shared dreaming, but maybe take a pass if you're feeling a bit fragile.

( Click here to read a spoilerific excerpt. )

Akallabêth (DW), (Author's website)

Title: Akallabêth
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Categories: AU, Angst, Drama, Sad Stories
Length: Medium (11,209 words)
Warnings: ( Click to view major spoilers that reveal the plot-twist ) Also, the story is an AU of the film, so requires some knowledge of/has spoilers for Inception.

Author on DW: mirabella
Author Website: House of Hobbits / mirabellafic

Summary:
Ariadne knows their point man has his eccentricities. She just doesn't know where they come from. Neither does Eames, until it's too late.

Review:
I was wracking my brain for an appropriately angsty fic for our theme week (nothing was angsty enough), and then remembered Akallabêth. This story is like a punch to the gut. It's a fabulous exploration of some of the dynamics of the universe of Inception in the saddest way possible. Re-telling the the film with an excellent Ariadne point-of-view, however with one major change that affects everything and everyone, including the job, all the character relationships, and especially the relationship we see developing between Arthur and Eames.

It's one of those stories that you like reading twice, the second time after you know the plot twist (which I put under a cut above and below if you want to avoid knowing ahead of time) and things take on a new meaning with the knowledge of how it all ends. Man, even re-reading it for the n-th time, I tear up a little with the melancholy and wistfulness and utter hopelessness of the scenario.

Read this if you want an intense heart-breaker of a story that deals cleverly with the concepts of shared dreaming, but maybe take a pass if you're feeling a bit fragile.

( Click here to read a spoilerific excerpt. )

Akallabêth (DW), (Author's website)

Title: Jeeves and the Monetary Imbalance
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Pairing: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram Wooster
Categories: Angst, Romance, Humor, Established Relationship
Length: Long (15,849 words)
Warnings: implied period-compliant homophobic societal pressures

Author on LJ: triedunture
Author Website: triedunture

Summary:
Jeeves comes into a bit of money. Enter ruses, angry words over gentlemen's accessories, Bingo attempting to be helpful, and a trip to India.

Review:
When Jeeves's uncle dies and leaves him his estate, it seems at first that nothing need change in Bertie's and Jeeves's lives. However, things shift subtly, and Jeeves soon realizes that his obligations to his uncle's estate in India, require him to leave Bertie's service. It's a painful wake-up call to Bertie, who doesn't know how to express his feelings to Jeeves and drops into a deep depression, until he and Bingo work out (increasingly farcical) plans to attempt to win Jeeves back or somehow work Bertie back into Jeeves's life.

The tone of this story, while preserving a Wodehouseian voice and humor--particularly with Bertie's plans--is overall rather heart-wrenching. They love one another, but it's a love that can't be expressed publicly and external obligations force them apart. Bertie's inability to communicate or deal with his emotions, as well as his little glimpses of Jeeves's loneliness really get to me.

Fortunately, they (mostly Jeeves) are able to resolve things, and have a happy ending once things are cleared up.

( Click here to read an excerpt. )

Jeeves and the Monetary Imbalance (AO3), (LJ pt.1, pt.2)
also available as a podfic.

Title: Jeeves and the Monetary Imbalance
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Pairing: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram Wooster
Categories: Angst, Romance, Humor, Established Relationship
Length: Long (15,849 words)
Warnings: implied period-compliant homophobic societal pressures

Author on LJ: triedunture
Author Website: triedunture

Summary:
Jeeves comes into a bit of money. Enter ruses, angry words over gentlemen's accessories, Bingo attempting to be helpful, and a trip to India.

Review:
When Jeeves's uncle dies and leaves him his estate, it seems at first that nothing need change in Bertie's and Jeeves's lives. However, things shift subtly, and Jeeves soon realizes that his obligations to his uncle's estate in India, require him to leave Bertie's service. It's a painful wake-up call to Bertie, who doesn't know how to express his feelings to Jeeves and drops into a deep depression, until he and Bingo work out (increasingly farcical) plans to attempt to win Jeeves back or somehow work Bertie back into Jeeves's life.

The tone of this story, while preserving a Wodehouseian voice and humor--particularly with Bertie's plans--is overall rather heart-wrenching. They love one another, but it's a love that can't be expressed publicly and external obligations force them apart. Bertie's inability to communicate or deal with his emotions, as well as his little glimpses of Jeeves's loneliness really get to me.

Fortunately, they (mostly Jeeves) are able to resolve things, and have a happy ending once things are cleared up.

( Click here to read an excerpt. )

Jeeves and the Monetary Imbalance (AO3), (LJ pt.1, pt.2)
also available as a podfic.

Title: Jeeves and the Monetary Imbalance
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Pairing: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram Wooster
Categories: Angst, Romance, Humor, Established Relationship
Length: Long (15,849 words)
Warnings: implied period-compliant homophobic societal pressures

Author on LJ: triedunture
Author Website: triedunture

Summary:
Jeeves comes into a bit of money. Enter ruses, angry words over gentlemen's accessories, Bingo attempting to be helpful, and a trip to India.

Review:
When Jeeves's uncle dies and leaves him his estate, it seems at first that nothing need change in Bertie's and Jeeves's lives. However, things shift subtly, and Jeeves soon realizes that his obligations to his uncle's estate in India, require him to leave Bertie's service. It's a painful wake-up call to Bertie, who doesn't know how to express his feelings to Jeeves and drops into a deep depression, until he and Bingo work out (increasingly farcical) plans to attempt to win Jeeves back or somehow work Bertie back into Jeeves's life.

The tone of this story, while preserving a Wodehouseian voice and humor--particularly with Bertie's plans--is overall rather heart-wrenching. They love one another, but it's a love that can't be expressed publicly and external obligations force them apart. Bertie's inability to communicate or deal with his emotions, as well as his little glimpses of Jeeves's loneliness really get to me.

Fortunately, they (mostly Jeeves) are able to resolve things, and have a happy ending once things are cleared up.

( Click here to read an excerpt. )

Jeeves and the Monetary Imbalance (AO3), (LJ pt.1, pt.2)
also available as a podfic.

Title: Jeeves and the Monetary Imbalance
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Pairing: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram Wooster
Categories: Angst, Romance, Humor, Established Relationship
Length: Long (15,849 words)
Warnings: implied period-compliant homophobic societal pressures

Author on LJ: triedunture
Author Website: triedunture

Summary:
Jeeves comes into a bit of money. Enter ruses, angry words over gentlemen's accessories, Bingo attempting to be helpful, and a trip to India.

Review:
When Jeeves's uncle dies and leaves him his estate, it seems at first that nothing need change in Bertie's and Jeeves's lives. However, things shift subtly, and Jeeves soon realizes that his obligations to his uncle's estate in India, require him to leave Bertie's service. It's a painful wake-up call to Bertie, who doesn't know how to express his feelings to Jeeves and drops into a deep depression, until he and Bingo work out (increasingly farcical) plans to attempt to win Jeeves back or somehow work Bertie back into Jeeves's life.

The tone of this story, while preserving a Wodehouseian voice and humor--particularly with Bertie's plans--is overall rather heart-wrenching. They love one another, but it's a love that can't be expressed publicly and external obligations force them apart. Bertie's inability to communicate or deal with his emotions, as well as his little glimpses of Jeeves's loneliness really get to me.

Fortunately, they (mostly Jeeves) are able to resolve things, and have a happy ending once things are cleared up.

( Click here to read an excerpt. )

Jeeves and the Monetary Imbalance (AO3), (LJ pt.1, pt.2)
also available as a podfic.

Title: Jeeves and the Monetary Imbalance
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Pairing: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram Wooster
Categories: Angst, Romance, Humor, Established Relationship
Length: Long (15,849 words)
Warnings: implied period-compliant homophobic societal pressures

Author on LJ: triedunture
Author Website: triedunture

Summary:
Jeeves comes into a bit of money. Enter ruses, angry words over gentlemen's accessories, Bingo attempting to be helpful, and a trip to India.

Review:
When Jeeves's uncle dies and leaves him his estate, it seems at first that nothing need change in Bertie's and Jeeves's lives. However, things shift subtly, and Jeeves soon realizes that his obligations to his uncle's estate in India, require him to leave Bertie's service. It's a painful wake-up call to Bertie, who doesn't know how to express his feelings to Jeeves and drops into a deep depression, until he and Bingo work out (increasingly farcical) plans to attempt to win Jeeves back or somehow work Bertie back into Jeeves's life.

The tone of this story, while preserving a Wodehouseian voice and humor--particularly with Bertie's plans--is overall rather heart-wrenching. They love one another, but it's a love that can't be expressed publicly and external obligations force them apart. Bertie's inability to communicate or deal with his emotions, as well as his little glimpses of Jeeves's loneliness really get to me.

Fortunately, they (mostly Jeeves) are able to resolve things, and have a happy ending once things are cleared up.

( Click here to read an excerpt. )

Jeeves and the Monetary Imbalance (AO3), (LJ pt.1, pt.2)
also available as a podfic.