marcicat | must be a sign of something

I was skimming through the Pacific Rim fic on pinboard and AO3 last night, as one does, and it was a beautiful microcosm of fandom classics: kid!fic, domestific, mental bonding (canon!), hooker!fic, high school AU, and — of course — coffee shop AU. Because apparently no fandom can be complete without a coffee shop AU these days.

(And possibly no discussion of coffee shop AU could be complete without a shoutout to I’ve Got Nothing To Do Today But Smile, by gyzym. Seriously, I couldn’t remember the title so I googled ‘inception coffee shop au’ and it was the first result.)

(In fact, was Inception the last movie that got lots of fic that didn’t have huge amounts of semi-canon background (Star Trek, anything Marvel or DCU)?)

Extra note: Pacific Rim fic was a nice change from Teen Wolf’s all teen angst, all the time fic. Grownups! They are interesting!

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