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I was asked to pull together “some meta” for the fifth Inceptiversary celebration. Perhaps I should have asked for a little specificity.
(Sorry. I swear that’s the only bad joke I make.)
It’s hard to me encompass five years of fandom in one document, especially when I’ve only been in the fandom for about eight months. I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface of everything that went on and the amazing community that this movie fostered.
Coming to it late is a bit like getting into a long television series about three seasons in — you can go back and watch the DVDs, but you’ll never quite get the in-jokes or the weird memes that spawned while the seasons were current. The best thing to do is enjoy the content you find, embrace the new community — being thankful one still exists — and move forward.
I’m a little sad to have missed out on things like the amazing comment threads on the kinkmeme, but I’m glad I found the fandom now. There are still great things going on here, just in new places and slightly different formats. My hope is that this document will let you find a little bit of everything.
On document logistics:
Roughly the first half of this document is devoted to the film, behind-the-scenes footage, extended canon, interviews, and analysis. Most of the content here is made up of links to traditional media sites.
The second half of the document is pulled mostly from fandom. That’s where I talk about where to start online, the costumes, the fan meta posts, character analysis, shipping, and some other things.
So, if you’re reading through it thinking, “Where’s the meta?” — stick with it. Or skip ahead a few chapters. My definition of meta was pretty broad.
Since this document contains links, some of them will no doubt die with time. Warner Brothers, for example, took down the Inception website and The Cobol Job comic. (I’ve tried to provide new links to some items.)
Some links on other people’s pages are already dead (in particular, the ones to already-purged LiveJournal accounts). If you find that any of my links have died, please leave me a comment and I’ll update or remove them.
I’ve rated this document as Explicit because so many of the links go directly to explicit material. The document itself is pretty tame.
One last note on style. This is not a pretty document. The lack of extensive formatting on AO3 and the profusion of links is a bad combination, I know. In order to make sure I wasn’t corrupting my links, I chose to leave most of them as they were instead of hiding them under inline text; it was too easy to corrupt the links when I edited them. Ugly links were better than broken links. It was a tradeoff.
My many thanks to bookshop and lezzerlee for giving me some starting points. I would have been stuck without you. And I won’t lie — I found a few of the memes on my own, but bookshop gave me most of them. Thank you.
And now — the linky goodness.