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With the first semester of culinary school completed, Arthur, Eames, and Ariadne continue to hone their skills in the culinary arts, focusing a bit more deeply on courses that will help them get the sort of job they want, upon completion of their degrees. This semester, as part of the curriculum (and to help them get an idea of what a job in the culinary industry looks like, outside the classroom), they each have the opportunity to take an internship with a bakery or restaurant in the Los Angeles area. As they get a good look at what a real professional kitchen looks like, they also test their respective relationships and friendships, discovering whether they can take the heat, after all. [Sequel to Recipe for Disaster]
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- Part 2 of Recipe for Disaster
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in nobody's eyes but mine (nobody ever had a dream around here) by imprintofadream (imprint_of_a_doe)
Inception (2010)
18 Feb 2013
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Arthur lives with his step-sister Mal and teaches literature at university level, and Eames is a pioneer in the academic field of Dream Imagery. When Eames takes an interest in Arthur's dissertation and Arthur takes an interest in Eames, they each have opportunities which hadn't been available to them before. But Eames disappears after pushing Arthur down a new path in his research that--with assistance from fellow professor Dom Cobb--captivates him a little too fully, and when it's all said and done, Eames makes off with the credit for the research and Arthur aims to get even by using everything he's learned. And he means everything.
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Arthur and Eames are college roommates and could not be more different. Arthur is fussy and uptight and studies into the small hours of the morning. Eames…does other things.
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Arthur Stocker hadn’t planned on a permanent homecoming to California, but a summons from his grandfather leaves him little other choice. He’s supposed to be helping his grandfather open a horse racing track on the man’s sprawling ranch, but Arthur immediately finds himself distracted by a young stable hand named Eames, who’s guarding a big secret. In his pursuit of answers, Arthur finds himself drawn to a prostitute who bears more than a passing resemblance to his unwilling stable boy. Arthur finds himself growing too attached to both of them, falling harder and harder for Eames who remains ever distant. When a woman from Arthur’s past arrives from Chicago expecting him to ask for her hand, he realizes he must face his feelings and his suspicions about the man he loves, and finally gain Eames's trust if they are ever to have a chance at happiness together.
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Ariadne is a designer who's hired by general manager Cobb to create new games for Saito's Las Vegas casino. She and Yusuf, the genius molecular gastronomist who oversees the casino's world-class restaurants, become fast friends and might be on their way to something more. But then billionaire philanthropist Robert Fischer swoops in and seemingly sweeps Ariadne off her feet. Is Ariadne actually underwhelmed by Robert's life of glamour, as Mal suspects? Can Arthur and Eames get Yusuf to declare himself to Ariadne through his food? And what does Danny Ocean's crew have to do with any of this?
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- Part 1 of Vegas 'verse
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Arthur, covert agent, has his cover blown during a job hunting down an underground criminal ring. With a price on his head, Arthur's boss has no choice but to hide Arthur away under a new identity... which just happens to be that of a teenage boy at a boarding school. Now he's forced to play the part of a sixteen year old and deal with classes, a roommate, and bullies-- not to mention the fact that he still doesn't know how his picture ended up in the hands of his enemies. It isn't all bad though. At least he has an extremely attractive teacher named Eames.
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Bartender!AU. Arthur keeps coming back to the same bar where Eames works. They banter. Possible friendship and sexytimes ensue.
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In a universe ruled by the masters of the City-Planets, Dominic Cobb and his friends are on the run for more than their lives. Dom's wife, Mal, has fallen prey to modification psychosis after being wired-in by Cobol, the true power behind the Gate-City.
Dom is in a wilderness of despair at the loss of his wife. His companions, drawn from the highest and lowest castes of the Gate-City long before, and knowing how much they owe him, do what they can to keep things together. But moving to a borderland space station, while they regroup from the devastation of their world, may prove to herald the worst things they could ever have imagined -- among them an old war that has never been settled.
Past, present and future collide and annihilate, most of all for Eames, the Psion soldier who controlled time's passage, and Arthur, the City-Soldier who sold his abilities for the chance to kill the Psions in the name of the Gates.
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"The Machinery, Madam, is a term invented by the Critics, to signify that part which the Deities, Angels, or Dæmons are made to act in a Poem." (Alexander Pope, in a letter to Mrs Arabella Fermor, on The Rape of the Lock)
A parallel-universe/urban-fantasy AU, of sorts.
There is Arthur, who doesn't know if that's even his name; there is also Eames, who hasn't always been Eames, and one day no longer will be; and there is Ariadne, who is afraid to let go of the one thing that matters to her.
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Lieutenant Arthur leaves his post at an international training camp for dream sharing with his name on classified research and a fondness for Flying Officer Eames of the Royal Air Force. He isn't expecting to see Eames again, and he especially isn't expecting them both to be independently captured by an international coalition hellbent on distributing all possible information on the PASIV device to the general population. After negotiations for their release, the world's leading dream psychiatrist is brought on board to help with their rehabilitation. Dr. Mal Cobb isn't sure if she's up to the task.
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Doctor Arthur Moss is a minor academic writing a comprehensive history of the development of dream sharing therapy in near obscurity when he comes upon some new evidence; evidence that could revive ideas long since dismissed as dangerous impossibilities. In an effort to separate the facts from the fiction he seeks the help of Doctor Ariadne Portier, an expert on the work of the architect Dominick Cobb, and together they begin to uncover secrets that have been hidden for fifty five years: about shared dreams, about the pioneers who created it and a relationship that could rewrite its entire history.
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Arthur is a lawyer; Eames is a scientist; Yusuf has shaky morals, and Saito only trusts himself to get the job done.
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Arthur is an assassin hired to kill a seemingly unremarkable English actor named Eames, but a chance meeting has Arthur falling for his target instead.
Excerpt: None of this gave Arthur even an inkling as to why some very powerful people would pay a sizable sum to have the actor killed. From the carefree way Eames was going about his business as usual, Arthur would wager the actor had no idea that someone was at this very moment evaluating his life for the best possible chance to end it.
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The zombie apocalypse has come and gone, and the humans have done their best to pick themselves up and keep going in a world crawling with the infected. Several things have changed since the rising, and one of these changes is the rise in social media. Inception is a team of bloggers, run by Arthur and Eames, who can drive into zombie territory without batting an eyelid, but are far too afraid to act on the tension they both feel between them.
When Cobb, the old leader of the team, approaches them with a job to investigate a dream-sharing device being developed by Fischer-Morrow, the team is sent on their biggest job yet. On top of finding out more about the PASIV device and questioning its place in their zombie-infested, fear-fuelled world, they need to make sure that Robert Fischer doesn't realise why they're really exploring his father's company.
In their search for the truth, they stumble across something much bigger, and suddenly, this becomes more than just a job to them. (Fusion with the Newsflesh series written by Mira Grant).
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Arthur's known since he was young that he has a knack for cooking and baking, and beginning culinary school only makes him more certain. But no matter how good he is, it seems Eames is better – which does not endear him to Arthur in the slightest. Eames, however, is quite determined to get Arthur to open up and stop being so uptight and prickly by any means necessary. While each hones his skill in the culinary arts (and Arthur desperately tries to convince Ariadne that the desired structural integrity of her cakes violates basic laws of physics), they increasingly find themselves drawn together, inside the classroom and out. Given such close quarters in the kitchen, and the amount of sensory stimulation involved with preparing all manner of food, it starts to become difficult for Arthur to retain his customary level of distance and detachment. And, as Arthur will find, when it comes to unsatisfied appetites, hunger is often the best sauce of all.
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- Part 1 of Recipe for Disaster
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It is 1946. Ira Eames is wealthy, a war hero, and a conman. Ireland McCullough was the son of a circus magician and madly in love with a young acrobat. Ireland McCullough disappeared in 1939, the same year Ira Eames enlisted in the Royal Navy to help fight the Second World War.
Ira Eames and Ireland McCullough are the same man, a man who's spent the last eight years of his life trying to escape the confines of his past and the overwhelming affection he's always felt for Arthur Petrov, afraid of the terrible kind of love that consumed Arthur's twin sister Mal and the intruder Dom Cobb. But now, nearly five years since he last saw her, Mal has fallen from the tightrope and Eames is on a train from Paris that will take him home.
But he's not the only passenger. Also on this train are Robert Fischer, an Interpol agent who wants Dom for a decade old murder, and a young woman named Ariadne, with dreams too big for the era she lives in. Eames must decide if he's going to help Robert Fischer make his arrest or protect a man he can hardly stand while he prepares Ariadne for the magical world she's joining. All the while he thinks back on the defining moments in his life, all of which revolve around Arthur.
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Italy, 1703. Arthur is an orphan with a hidden talent for the violin who is sent from his quiet but dull life in a small monastery to study music in Venice. A story about missing violins, lost ducal heirs, mysterious masked men, gondola chases, falling in love with your concert master, music, and finding your place in the world. (A love song to Vivaldi's Ring of Mystery.)
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Continuing the Cohen family tradition, eighteen year old Arthur is about to spend the summer before college with a male mentor, a distant family friend tasked with helping Arthur transition from a doted upon only son in a family of women to responsible college student. Even though they seem well matched -- Eames a best selling author, Arthur interested in editing and publishing -- Arthur isn't exactly looking forward to spending his last summer stuck in a stuffy cabin with an old man he hasn't even met. Once Arthur arrives at Eames' Virginia lake house, that all changes. And just like that, the summer Arthur had been half-dreading doesn't seem nearly long enough.
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- Part 1 of It's Not the Things You Say
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Arthur likes to find his inspiration in other people's dreams. Mal holds the secrets of a princess in a tower. Eames wants to cross the bridge and burn it behind him. And Saito's most popular author can't (or won't) finish her greatest work ...
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Born into a family with too many children and not nearly enough money, Ariadne Porter has spent the last ten years of her life living with her Aunt Malory and Uncle Dominic.Brought to Cobb Manor as a companion to her cousin Phillipa, her only real friend is Mr. Cobb’s adopted son and heir, Arthur. But even this comfort is fraught, as Arthur is intended for Phillipa. So in spite of whatever she may feel, she keeps her head down, her temper in check, and her tongue firmly between her teeth. But when the wealthy Mr. Fischer rents a nearby estate and brings along his friend, notorious rake-hell Gabriel Eames, the fragile equilibrium of Ariadne’s world is shattered and she has to choose between her hope for the man she has always loved and the exciting life that Eames offers.
Or does she?