#wicked inception

[wickedinception]

Week 4 results are in!

Thank you to everyone who read, voted, and commented on the drabbles! We had 18 votes this week.

This week, our top three authors were:

1. Aphyxia ( @aphyxiation )

2. @strangegeology

3. @deinvatiwrites

Congratulations! Author names have been added to the original drabble post, and any comments are being emailed to authors anonymously. Authors, if you want to know your ranking for Week 4 or overall, let us know in a reply to that email!

Authors are encouraged to add their drabbles to the WICKED AO3 collection if they post on AO3!

Also, everyone is welcome to use the WICKED Overflow AO3 collection for any extra drabbles related to this competition!

Which brings us to our final winners of WICKED 2024!

After four weeks and 37 drabbles, our overall top 3 authors are:

1. Aphyxia ( @aphyxiation ) 2. @mister-eames & @strangegeology (TIE)

A round of applause for all of our authors! And thank you so much to all who participated in this Inception event!

[theangrykimchi]

Wicked Inception write-along - Week 1

“Still looks good on you,” Eames murmurs, unable to hide how affected he is, stroking Arthur’s Adam’s apple.

A/E Week 1 Prompt: Collars Genre: Angst Rating: E 1/2 chapters 1,331 words

Couldn't really resist those yummy prompts, now, could I?

[hidey-writes]

Magical Frustration arthur/eames | rated: m | dream masturbation, supernatural elements

Arthur has a bit of a hard time on a job.

Up Against The Ropes arthur & dom/mal | rated: e | voyeurism, exhibitionism, masturbation

Arthur can’t help overhearing things.

No Clenched Fist arthur/eames | rated: e | teacher/student roleplay, phone sex

Arthur gets a well-timed phone call.

to have something in the end arthur/dom | rated: m | blowjobs, proxy sex, pining while fucking

Arthur knows what to do now. He’s learned what to look for, to know when he’s needed.

i wrote four drabbles for @wickedinception this last year, yippee! unlocked a lot of powerful dom/arthur sex dynamics 💪

[geekynerfherder]

Showcasing art from some of my favourite artists, and those that have attracted my attention, in the field of visual arts, including vintage; pulp; pop culture; books and comics; concert posters; fantastical and imaginative realism; classical; contemporary; new contemporary; pop surrealism; conceptual and illustration.

The art of Neil Davies.

[thenwhatthefukcisthis]

so I decided to put my big girl pants on and try my hand at a little smut.

write-alongs for the wicked inception 2024 :D

week 1 :

[aphyxiation]

My humble contribution for week 1 of Wicked Inception 2024.

Hope you enjoy!

[roebeanstalk]

i love the concept of wicked fanfiction because it's fanfiction of fanfiction

[denimbex1986]

'George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece “1984” is getting a new audio-only treatment from Audible.

The Audible original audio drama, set to premiere April 4, stars Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick…Boom,” “The Amazing Spider-Man”) as Winston alongside Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked,” “Harriet”) as Julia. They are joined by Tom Hardy (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight Rises”) as the voice of Big Brother and Andrew Scott (“All of Us Strangers,” “Fleabag”), who plays the mysterious and dangerous O’Brien...

Audible’s “1984” is directed by BAFTA-winner Destiny Ekaragha (“Ted Lasso,” “The End of the F***ing World”) and written by Joe White (“Blackout Songs,” “The Little Big Things”). According to Audible, the adaptation remains faithful to the original text, “leaning into the horror of the dystopian setting, whilst going deeper into Winston and Julia’s love story,” the company said. “In a world where love and sex are forbidden, Winston and Julia are the last lovers on Earth.”

Ekaragha said in a statement, “This is my first experience directing an audio drama, and what an honor it was to work so closely with a cast of this caliber. I can’t wait for everyone to hear what Andrew, Cynthia and Tom have done with these iconic characters.”'

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

im gonna be honest with you guys i have been hyperfixating on the joker 2 disaster recently. ive been watching every single video about it i can find i am obsessed with how insane this flop has been. however some notes i wanna put out that i haven't seen discussed in the 700 youtube videos i've watched:

i understand t-dd ph-ll-ps doesn't like dc comics but i think more people should probably be bringing up the weirdness of turning harley quinn (who, since her inception, has been a victim of the joker) into the one manipulating him and making him evil

is it like. disrespectful??? to just throw the glasglow smile in at the end?? considering heath ledger died??? i ask this genuinely i like. don't know. i know christopher nolan didn't want it to happen so like i'm thinking it was kind of a dick move regardless but

being someone who likes musicals, it's really funny seeing people saying "this movie was bad bc the last one got to steal from taxi driver and this one has nothing to steal from" as if it's not definitely stealing from chicago. which could run circles around it in terms of plot, character, design, musical numbers,

the last thing i wanna note is it is SO funny that a bunch of publications are trying to push this failure onto "nobody likes musicals" when wicked is about to come out and win one elphabillion dollars

[stressfulsloth]

I've seen a couple of takes about Disco Elysium being copaganda going around recently, and beyond the fact that DE is relentlessly critical of the police force in general and makes explicit reference to the failures of the system that allow the officers in game to abuse their power, I also think it's important to note that there very literally is an in-world version of copaganda that the writers of the game use to parody that romanticised view of the brutality of policing. The RCM at their inception were structurally inspired by in-world copaganda- their culture, their "fashions, even weapon preferences, borrow heavily from classic Vespertine cop shows." Every investigation is it's own little drama, every officer imagining themselves to be the bad-ass hero of their own crime serial. Detectives name their cases like they're naming episodes of a TV series in a "robust but literary system"; a title that "draws inspiration from snoop fiction and Vespertine cop show staples". They give themselves nicknames to sound like cool, suave fictional officers- Ace, Dick Mullen, etc.- from the cool, suave world of copaganda.

The legend of the RCM's inception, the "point of contention" over its uncertain origins, is even an extention of that; the whole organisation is shrouded in this self-fictionalising mythos that allows for distance that in turn obfuscates much of its violence to the officers that participate in it. They get to convince themselves that they're not abusing their power; they're the hero of the story! The dichotomy of "good guy" taking out the "baddies," a manifestation of the libertarian fantasy of the "good guy with a gun" who does what it takes, just like in Annette's detective novels, and at the same time who rails against oversight bodies like Internal Affairs/'the rat squad' because due process slows down the immediate satisfaction of Swift Justice, despite Internal Affairs existing to protect the citizens from overreach on behalf of the police. "Wanton brutality" from police in their real world is a cold bitter reality but Dick Mullen was "made to crack skulls," "bend the rules and solve cases no one else can," and which version of that story is more comforting to the overworked, underfunded officers of the RCM?

The level of fantasy and detachment required for the cops to still see themselves as the good guys after everything that they do in the line of duty mimics The Pigs and her breakdown too; she parallels Harry so clearly. Both "did right by the kids" in the past, hoping for a better future- Marianne (The Pigs) by looking out for Titus and the Hardy boys when they were young, Harry in his role as a gym teacher. Both abandoned and left behind by the system that the RCM uphold- a brutal capitalist landscape with no safety nets. Both turning the source of their trauma into a costume, a performance, a shield, shaped by "radio waves and cop shows." The Pigs uses RCM items scavenged from the Esperance where they'd been thrown away, while Harry uses the Dick Mullen hat that Annette gives him but both are essentially in costume.

Harry identifies himself with the fictional detective as a kind of wish fulfilment; Dick Mullen is "wicked smart." He doesn't fuck up his cases and when he's sad it's not pathetic; it's effortlessly cool brooding and everyone sympathises. Everyone loves him. His violence- "skull crack[ing]"- is justified because he's a "good guy" enacting that violence against the victims of police brutality sorry "bad guys". He doesn't ever face repercussions; "Dick Mullen won't be sent to the clink for the sake of some legal niceties!" So if Harry is Dick Mullen then his failures, his breakdown, they're all just a part of being a "bad-ass, on-the-edge disco cop." He's not wrong, he's a hero! This idealised fictionalised idea of the police force, this "new, sadly better, reality" that both Harry and The Pigs cling to is "escapist stuff," "receed[ing] into a ludicrous fantasy world," so far removed from the brutal material reality that they're in.

My point is, idk. Disco Elysium is so far from being copaganda. It is a multi-million word long dissection of it, of the purpose of policing, of state sanctioned violence and its interaction with capital and the fallout experienced within the wider community as well as the trauma cycle created for individual officers. A dissection of how copaganda interacts with RCM culture and perception, and by extension how we interact with irl perceptions of police through that lens.

[wickedinception]

Here are the drabbles for Week 4!

The prompt was:

Prompt: Praise Kink: Orgasm control/delay/denial Genre: Historical Word limit: up to and including 400 words

To vote, head over to this Google Form and vote for your top three favourite drabbles.

Unfortunately, another author dropped out, so there are eight drabbles to choose from.

Authors, you are welcome to vote, but we ask that you vote for drabbles other than your own.

Betas, you are also welcome to vote. You may vote for the drabble you betaed if you truly believe it is one of the top three!

Voting will close on Thursday, November 28 at 11 PM EST (click here for your time zone!)

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Anything that stands out to you in the latest submission batch?

A Splatoon fic. I believe we have two now

A few Arcane fics, unsurprisingly

One fic for The Mummy (1999)

A few Moon Knight fics. We've obviously had a lot of MCU, but Moon Knight specifically is new

One Inception fic. Again, I believe that raises the overall count to a whopping 2

Two Mistborn fics

A few Gilmore Girls fics, which I am fascinated by

More Squid Games than I would expect

A Ghostbusters fic, specifically the more recent movies

The Return of Dr Stone

Only one Wicked fic, for some reason

A Life On Mars fic

Rusty Quill Gaming ???

A Buzzfeed Unsolved fic, which is about the second or third we've ever had

One solitary Undertale fic

And many fandoms I'd never heard of, such as: Band of Brothers, Death and Taxes, Beyond Evil, Motherland: Fort Salem, Marble Hornets, Sharpe, Rizzoli and Isles, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, and Code Lyoko

You guys somehow surprise me every time - Mod W

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

This really funny

Stephanie Sterling calls em Fandom Appropriators: a bunch of guys who swell into a fandom insisting that they are the true fans of whatever pisses them off that week. Like all those guys that showed up to Veilguard complaining about racial diversity and LGBTQ representation....things Dragon Age has had since it's literal inception. Or all the Wicked "fans" screaming about Elphaba being played by a black actress when a) stage is usually colorblind and b) it's literally a story about a woman being discriminated against for her skin color.

[sincericida]

The Audible original audio drama, set to premiere April 4, stars Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick…Boom,” “The Amazing Spider-Man”) as Winston alongside Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked,” “Harriet”) as Julia. They are joined by Tom Hardy (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight Rises”) as the voice of Big Brother and Andrew Scott (“All of Us Strangers,” “Fleabag”), who plays the mysterious and dangerous O’Brien.

The cast also features Romesh Ranganathan as Parsons, Natasia Demetriou as Mrs. Parsons, Chukwudi Iwuji as Charrington, Francesca Mills as Syme, Katie Leung as Ling, and Alex Lawther as Ampleforth.

[thenwhatthefukcisthis]

Write-along for wicked inception 2024

Week 2

[inceptiversary]

Inceptiversary is coming to a close but...

...there are SO MANY other events that happen year-round!

Before we get to that, though, we want to take the time to thank everyone for all of their hard work, support, and engagement this year. Everyone please be sure to send love to the mods of @inception30daychallenge, @aeldws, @inceptionauction, @inception-bigbang, @inceptionbingo, @inceptionkitties, @inceptionpositivity, Inception Quiz, and @inceptionwatchparty (and all of the watch party hosts)!

Last but most certainly not least, we want to extend the warmest of warm welcomes to everyone who has joined the fandom this Inceptiversary - thank you for your excitement and enthusiasm, and we hope you stick around for a long, long time!

As a reminder to everyone:

Final watch parties are happening this weekend (Aug 2 to Aug 4).

The final week of AELDWS is currently underway, with voting to open on August 6 and the champion crowned on August 9.

Inception Big Bang fics and art will be posted on August 11.

After that, a whole lineup of events awaits you! Check them all out under the cut to learn more.

InceptGen (@inceptgen)

September 1 - November 31

A fest to celebrate any and all gen fanworks! There are no signups needed and no rule except one: whatever you create, a romantic relationship cannot be the focus of the fanwork.

Writers of Inception Creating Kickass Explicit Drabbles (WICKED) (@wickedinception)

November

A friendly, non-elimination 4-week drabble competition for fic authors to let their smutty side go wild!

Arthur's Anonymous (@arthursanonymous)

December

An anonymous multifandom AO3 comment-giving and -receiving gift event!

Secret Saito (@secretsaito)

November - December; Posting Day December 31

A fun fandom gift exchange! When you sign up, you provide a prompt and a list of pairings, genres, etc. you would be open to receiving and creating for. Once signups have closed, Saito shuffles all the responses together and pairs everyone up with someone else (but secretly!). On posting day, you can unveil your fanwork to your giftee and spread some love!

Inception Gen/Rare-Pair Drabble Competition (IGRPDC) (@igrpdc)

March - April

An event to highlight gen and rare pair fic in a friendly, non-elimination drabble competition!