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Fic: Sad Sappy Suckers (Inception-SPN), (Gen, pre-slash Sam/Arthur, PG-13)

2012-12-02T06:37:57Z

Title: Sad Sappy Suckers
Author: moragmacpherson
Betas: sistabro and callowyn
Fandoms: Inception-Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Series: Not Such as I Was
Pairings: Sam/Arthur, pre-slash
Timeline: Pre-canon, Stanford-era
Disclaimer: None of the canonical characters contained herein belong to me and this work is not intended for any profit or other commercial purposes. Title from the Modest Mouse album of the same name.
Contents include: Language, disturbing dream imagery
Summary: Everyone needs their secrets, Arthur knows that, but there’s something huge he’s missing here and without it, Sam’s a puzzle he can’t quite solve.

September 4, 2001

( Arthur's sitting in a diner booth across from the Winchester kid (emphasis on 'kid'), who's sucking down a milkshake like he’s going for a prize, giving these tiny groans of pleasure every time he pauses for breath. )

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Fic: Lost in Her Loving Embrace (Inception-SPN), (Gen, R)

2012-07-28T15:55:06Z

Title: Lost in Her Loving Embrace
Author: moragmacpherson
Betas: sistabro and callowyn
Fandoms: Inception-Supernatural
Rating: R
Series: Not Such as I Was
Pairings: Mal/Dom, Sam/Arthur, Arthur/Eames
Timeline: Set during the first half of season four in Supernatural, during an in-movie flashback for Inception.
Disclaimer: None of the canonical characters contained herein belong to me and this work is not intended for any profit or other commercial purposes.
Contents include: Insanity, suicidal ideation
Summary: There are many reasons why Mal must make Dom wake up with her.

( November, 2008 )

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Fic: Penrose Stairs (Inception-SPN), Sam/Arthur, Arthur/Eames, NC-17) Master Post

2012-05-22T16:49:36Z

Title: Penrose Stairs
Authors: moragmacpherson dragonspell.callowyn
Betas: callowyn, sistabro
Fandoms: Inception-Supernatural crossover fusion-AU; let's just call it Superception
Rating: NC-17
Final Word Count: 19,541
Pairings: Sam/Arthur, Eames/Arthur
Timeline: Set during "Mystery Spot" (3.11) for Supernatural, pre-movie for Inception.
Disclaimer: None of the characters contained herein belong to me and this work is not intended for any profit or other commercial purposes.
Series: Not Such As I Was
Contents include: Language, graphic sexual situations,canonical character death, angst
Summary: The stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend yet form a continuous loop, so that a person could climb them forever and never get any higher. This is clearly impossible in three dimensions.

Tuesday's Child is Full of Grace

Wednesday's Child if Full of Woe

Thursday's Child Has Far to Go

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Fic: Penrose Stairs (Inception-SPN), Sam/Arthur, Arthur/Eames, NC-17) 3/3

2012-05-22T16:40:27Z

Title: Penrose Stairs (3/3)
Authors: moragmacpherson dragonspell.callowyn
Betas: callowyn, sistabro
Fandoms: Inception-Supernatural crossover fusion-AU; let's just call it Superception
Rating: NC-17
Final Word Count: 19,541
Pairings: Sam/Arthur, Eames/Arthur
Timeline: Set during "Mystery Spot" (3.11) for Supernatural, pre-movie for Inception.
Disclaimer: None of the characters contained herein belong to me and this work is not intended for any profit or other commercial purposes.
Series: Not Such As I Was
Contents include: Language, graphic sexual situations,canonical character death, angst
Author's Notes: Included at the end.
Summary: The stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend yet form a continuous loop, so that a person could climb them forever and never get any higher. This is clearly impossible in three dimensions.

Master Post

Tuesday's Child is Full of Grace

Wednesday's Child if Full of Woe

( Thursday's child has far to go )

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Fic: Kaddish (Inception, Eames/Arthur, R)

2012-05-07T05:06:08Z

Title: Kaddish
Author: moragmacpherson
Beta: callowyn
Fandom: Inception
Rating: R
Pairings: Eames/Arthur
Characters: Arthur, Mal, Philippa, Miles, Eames, Dom, OCs
Timeline: Pre-movie
Contents include: Canonical character death, religious imagery, language, graphic sexual situations
Author's note: Never mind that I made her beta it, this is kind of a graduation present for callowyn inspired by this conversation with my roommate (Further proof that just knowing Cally will enable you to inject angst into anything). Congratulations, hon: you made it out alive (which is more than I can say for many of your thesis characters).
Summary: Regardless of which calendar Arthur uses, Mal has been dead for thirty-four days now.

( The sun has set and now it's Monday, the Twenty Fifth of Kislev, first night of Hanukkah in the year 5769. Winter twilight does not linger and it is Sunday, December Twenty First, the Solstice and the longest night in the Year of Their Lord, 2008. )

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Not Such as I Was Timeline (Superception)

2012-03-07T12:37:56Z

"I...OK, not a crossover that would have occurred to me right off, but it works kind of scarily well." - Ao3 bookmark comment by MollyC

This sums up about half the comments this series has received, reminding me that not everyone has spent the last six months obsessing over Superception the way I have. For me, this is a parallel head canon, so I'm always confused by people being surprised that it works. Of course it works! This is how it happened!

The thing of it is: I love this crossover and I will never be able to write all of the fic that I want in it. Plus, I'm lazy and would like to read some without having to write it first. Hence this post: the merged timeline of my Superception 'verse, "Not Such As I Was". If you're curious how to pull the two canons together, here are the basic mechanics and back story for how I chose to do it: a mix of canon, fanon, historical fiction, applied phlebotinum, miracles, and, of course, True Love(s).

I post it in the hopes it may inspire some people to cross these canons over in completely different ways. It's also an open invitation for other people to join this sandbox; after the timeline, there are some general guidelines that I'm using while writing the series, further details on Project Lavoisier, quite a bit of miscellany and some story ideas that I don't know if I'll ever get around to incorporating. But maybe one of you will.

Needless to say: here there be spoilers-- probably. This is a living document: it's how I think the two canons interacted prior to June 2012 (with the help of my accomplices - Cally, Squid, Sis, DS, Mel, Lass and anyone else whose ear I've talked off: THANK YOU.). Particular details about events may change in the process of fic writing, or if someone happens to come along with some much better idea about what happened. Also, these are by no means the only places where the canons intersected: others almost certainly happened, it's just they haven't been noticed yet. So if you notice 'em, feel free to tell us all about 'em.

-MM
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( The Road So Far... )

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Fic: Penrose Stairs (Inception-SPN), Sam/Arthur, Arthur/Eames, NC-17) 2/3

2012-02-26T19:27:40Z

Title: Penrose Stairs (2/3)
Authors: moragmacpherson & dragonspell
Beta: callowyn
Fandoms: Inception-Supernatural crossover fusion-AU; lets just call it Superception
Rating: NC-17
Final Word Count: 19,541
Pairings: Sam/Arthur, Eames/Arthur
Timeline: Set during "Mystery Spot" (3.11) for Supernatural, pre-movie for Inception.
Disclaimer: None of the characters contained herein belong to me and this work is not intended for any profit or other commercial purposes.
Series: Not Such As I Was
Contents include: Language, graphic sexual situations,canonical character death
Summary: The stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend yet form a continuous loop, so that a person could climb them forever and never get any higher. This is clearly impossible in three dimensions.

Master Post

Tuesday's Child is Full of Grace

( Wednesday's Child is Full of Woe )

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Fic: Penrose Stairs (Inception-SPN), Sam/Arthur, Arthur/Eames, NC-17) 1/3

2012-02-18T20:32:57Z

Title: Penrose Stairs
Authors: moragmacpherson & dragonspell
Betas: callowyn and sistabro
Fandoms: Inception-Supernatural crossover fusion-AU; let's just call it Superception
Rating: NC-17
Final Word Count: 19,541
Pairings: Sam/Arthur, Eames/Arthur
Timeline: Set during "Mystery Spot" (3.11) for Supernatural, pre-movie for Inception.
Disclaimer: None of the characters contained herein belong to me and this work is not intended for any profit or other commercial purposes.
Series: Not Such As I Was
Contents include: Language, graphic sexual situations,canonical character death
Summary: The stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend yet form a continuous loop, so that a person could climb them forever and never get any higher. This is clearly impossible in three dimensions.

Master Post

( Tuesday's Child is Full of Grace )

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Out of Hand: A User's Guide to Unraveling Morag

2012-02-12T18:41:30Z

Psych #1: Why is the first word you always use to describe yourself "short"?
Me: Because it's the obvious one. "Look for the short chick." People pick me out of a crowd every time.
Psych #1: You seem to focus on being small, it comes up almost randomly in conversation. Why is that?
Me: Because it's not something I ever have a chance to forget about.
Psych #1: Why? Do other people always bring it up? Because you seem to be the one always bringing it up in our conversations.
Me: No, it's because... well, being as short as I am is really tedious.
Psych #1: I don't understand. How is being short tedious?
Me: Like when I cook, if I need something in the pantry, I have to climb up a stool to grab it. God help me if I forget to grab everything I need in one trip, otherwise it's back up the stool. And standing in grocery aisles, waiting for someone, anyone to show up to grab something for me. People are always nice about it, but I'm still the one always stuck there waiting for them.
Psych #1: Huh. I never thought of it like that.

Hi. I'm Morag! There's a number of new people about (I'll get to that in a minute), and it's been awhile since I posted anything that wasn't, well, porn (there's an explanation!), so an intro/update post isn't uncalled for. I've been doing a lot of tumblr-ing too, which has added think-y things, as well as thesis-ing, so more thinking. But yeah, first thing to know about me: I'm 4'9", short enough for it to be annoying, not quite so short that people ask if it's a symptom. Also probably a good giveaway up there: the necessity of numbering my psychiatrists and psychologists.

( Knitting, porn, philosophy, fic, and more disturbing insights... )

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Sam and Eames and Lucifer and the Creeps (Superception pic-spam)

2012-01-16T06:36:46Z

Stage directions are over-rated (also, I need to write some porn for the next scene in the next actual story in this 'verse, which means I need my porn writing security blanket, aka callowyn , to settle in for the semester and make me write the phone sex.) Anyway: more Superception pic-spam/pretty things to distract you from exposition dumping.

Warning: While being a PG-13 story, this ficlet contain references to dub-con Samifer goings on.

( Sam and I need to have a word. )

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Dean versus Arthur Sartorial Snark-tacular!

2012-01-15T17:38:39Z

Okay, I admit it: the temptation to pic-spam Dean in his '40s get up is too strong to resist. So I tacked some dialogue from one of the up-coming "Not Such As I Was" stories onto them to justify myself (and that way I get to pic-spam Hotel-Level Arthur and Eames too!). Also, tabaqui was asking about Arthur and Dean's relationship after the last story — this is about as well as the two of them will ever get along.

( I feel like I'm a goddamn Ken doll... )

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Not Such as I Was Masterpost

2012-01-12T19:20:59Z

The series/'verse previously known as my Sam/Arthur, Arthur/Eames Supernatural-Inception Fusion of Doom™ actually has a name, "Not Such as I Was." Now that it has more than a couple of stories in it, it's earned a masterpost! So, from now on, links will be collected here. Furthermore, if anyone else is interested in contributing to the 'verse, you can private message me and I will send you a link to the original timeline that birthed this beast.

Updated: 01 December 2012

( Not Such As I Was Stories )

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Fic: Discreet and Discrete Lives (Inception-Supernatural Fusion AU, Sam/Arthur, NC-17)

2012-01-03T01:19:08Z

Title: Discreet and Discrete Lives
Author: moragmacpherson
Betas: callowyn and kalliel
Fandoms: Inception-Supernatural fusion AU
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Sam/Arthur,
Timeline: Set during "Dream a Little Dream" (3.10) for Supernatural, pre-movie for Inception.
Series: Not Such As I Was
Contents include: Language, graphic sexual situations
Summary: Sam never expected both of his lives to catch up with him at once.

( January, 2008 )

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Two Things and Three Six-word Stories

2012-01-01T23:03:33Z

Thing the First: Catching up on Leverage and there was Hardison in a waistcoat. I thought my waistcoat-thing was just due to Arthur, but no, it's its own thing.

Thing the Second: I'm actually trying real, no-holds-barred self-editing on a story, which I haven't done in ages because my betas spoil the crap out of me. I swear that most of what I'm doing is deleting over-dramatic lines, eliminating parts that at one point fit where I thought the story was going but didn't in the finished product, and stream-lining dialogue. Despite this, the word count has gone up by almost a thousand words from where it started. Seriously, WTF?

( Six word stories! )

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Fic: Who Knows What Might be Lurking (Inception-Supernatural Fusion AU, multi-ship, PG-13)

2011-12-29T17:16:24Z

Title: Who Knows What Might be Lurking
Author: moragmacpherson
Beta: callowyn
Fandoms: Inception-Supernatural fusion AU
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Sam/Arthur, Mal/Dom & Arthur/Eames
Timeline: Part of the Not Such As I Was 'verse and kind of all over it in time, between 2003 and 2012.
Series: Not Such As I Was
Contents include: Language, mentions of canon character death
Notes: Title from the Prologue to Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. Arthur POV.
Summary: Mal survives in different memories in different ways.

( Read more... )

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Arthur, darling: a brief word about your name, please*

2011-10-21T15:15:19Z

Arthur. Lovely, honorable name of ambiguous ethnic and etymological origins, although it does seem to muck about with bears an awful lot. There are worse ways to be named for a bear. "Ursula" for one has always reminded me of the sound I make when I vomit for a particularly long period. And "Beowulf" is fine but it makes people think that any moment you're going to start quaffing all over the upholstery (that's not another vomit joke, don't give me that look). No, "Arthur" captures the whole 'bear' bit while being vaguely medieval but still a bit modern and maybe a little posh with only a little bit of scruffy growling Anglo/Celtic violence poking out at the ends. It rather suits you. That's not my problem.

The problem, my love - my muse, my great internal critic - is that your name contains half the bloody vowel sounds a mammalian throat is capable of producing if you pronounce them long and languid to be savored properly (the way I hear it in my head), and picks up half of the remainder if you pronounce it terse and broken like most Americans do instead. I shan't bring up the issue of rhotic versus rolling "r"s lest we wind up fighting about them until next Sunday and they only complicate the next bit, which I'm getting to.

This wouldn't be an issue if you'd simply tell me your real last name.

But you're a stubborn bastard and so I've been forced to make one up for you. (I know I'm neither the first nor the last to do so and no: I don't care; and yes: I am indeed a very special fucking snowflake, thank you for mentioning it, you sarcastic prick) And I keep finding wonderful, meaningful names to match you with: all of which have at least one internal rhyme and and worse, both internal and external rhymes, and therefore sound about as natural and unforced as a Marvel villain's when attached to Arthur.

I know this is illogical: that Arthur Miller was indeed a real live human who wrote some good plays and some bad plays, but published all of them under a given name with two internal rhymes and never thought about it twice. But it's giving me fits, driving me to distraction when I've things I'd much rather be doing to you and so I really must insist: tell me your name. I promise I won't share it. I won't even rhyme mine to the real one. All I'm asking for is the ghost of a clue.
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*Conveniently phrased in Eames' voice that you might actually rise to the taunt

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Aches and irritations

2011-10-16T01:42:29Z

So, my adventures in NYC/Washington with the Over-packed Bag of Doom™ may have had unforeseen and misery-inducing consequences. My poor, abused upper back and shoulder muscles, bones, tendons, and ligaments -- already facing the constant oppression of lugging around my bodacious ta-tas and my habit slumping of a keyboard and typing 4-5 hours a day -- have declared war. My left scapula kicked things off two days ago with the traditional "taking my rhomboid muscle hostage and threatening to cut it off with my rib cage". It does this every once in awhile and I hate it, but it's at least something I'm used to. But today my trapezius, deltoid, triceps brachii and I think the entire teres muscle group (shoulders are so wonderfully complicated) have all banded together and declared strike. Seriously - when the most comfortable resting position for your arms is to keep your elbows pointed out and level with your shoulders, something has gone horribly wrong. Anyway, the bad news of this is - typing? Makes it worse - unless of course I'm lying on my belly to do it (like I am right now) -- but my neck muscles are warning me that keeping my face up at this angle is not an acceptable long-term solution. The real killer, however, is that holding up books hurts as well, so I can't even lie in the bath and read until the pain goes away.

tl;dr - I hate my body and it hates me right back. Consequently, there might not be much of me about for a day or two while I wait for my muscles (and tendons and ligaments) to forgive me for all of my sins. If it's not better by Monday, to the masseuse I shall go.

( But one other thing, if you can help... )

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Fic: The Drive (Inception/Supernatural xover, Arthur/Eames, PG-13)

2011-09-29T22:40:49Z

Title: The Drive
Author: moragmacpherson
Betas: sistabro, architeuthis
Fandoms: Inception & Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Arthur/Eames & Past Sam/Arthur
Timeline: Post-movie for Inception, an AU version of the events in the first half of 7.01 for Supernatural. Also, approximately five hours after The Call, which really needs to be read first.
Series: Not Such As I Was
Contents include: Language, gratuitous sexual innuendo, snark.
Summary: It's a long drive from Pierre to Sioux Falls.

( Read more... )

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Fic: The Call (Inception/Supernatural xover, Arthur/Eames, PG-13)

2011-09-26T05:19:15Z

Notes Come First For This One: This is a teaser for a much larger universe that already has four other stories in various states of completion in it, not to mention a timeline stretching back over thirty years which intertwines the history of the Winchesters with the development of dreamshare and which has been referred to as "obscenely detailed". But I think this is as good an entry point for the series as any and it should give you plenty of clues about how the 'verse came to be and where it might be going.

Many thanks to Sistabro for her beta and to everyone else who's been cheering this 'verse along: hey guys, I finally finished one!

Title: The Call
Author: moragmacpherson
Beta: sistabro
Fandoms: Inception & Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Arthur/Eames & skip Past Sam/Arthur
Timeline: Post-movie for Inception, an AU version of the events in the first half of 7.01 for Supernatural.
Series: Not Such As I Was
Contents include: Language
Summary: Sometimes, destiny calls while you're still getting dressed.

( June 2012 )

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Ficlet: Dream a Little [REDACTED] Of Me (SPN/Inception xover)

2011-05-17T02:45:50Z

This is for callowyn, who told me she'd finally watch Inception if I wrote an Inception fusion with the SPN episode "Dream a Little Dream of Me". Quick, dirty, and un-beta'd, but a heck of a lot of fun to write.

Title: Dream a Little [REDACTED] Of Me
Author: moragmacpherson
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 470
Fandoms: Supernatural, Inception
Characters: Arthur, Eames, Sam, Dean, Bela, Jeremy
Timeline: Dream a Little Dream of Me (SPN 3.10), pre-movie for Inception
Contents Include: Surprisingly little, but some implied Eames/Bela and if you squint really close, Arthur/Eames
Disclaimer: Supernatural belongs to Eric Kripke, the CW, and their associated corporate identities; Inception belongs to Christopher Nolan, Warner Brothers, and their associated corporate identities
Summary: The story of what really happened lies between the redactions

( Burn after reading... )

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