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i have this very specific image in my head of all that ruckus on the aircraft carrier after mav and rooster made it back and everyone’s cheering and rooster’s thanking hangman and hugging phoenix and finally making up with mav and he’s so happy and then he notices that — wait a minute. there’s a ring looped through mav’s dog tags.

“you and ice tied the knot?” rooster says over the loudness of everyone and their mother cheering on the carrier. something in his stomach sinks a little at that, but — well. rooster would never begrudge them for wanting to get married as soon as they could do it. even if he wasn’t there for it.

mav looks at him. “what?”

“i said, you and ice tied the—“

“what? no! c’mon bradley. he hasn’t even taken a damn vacation in maybe six years. and if we got married that’s the first thing i’d make him do.” then mav softens. “plus,” he adds, “we were holding off in case — if — when you came home.”

and that makes rooster hug him all over again and jesus, he’s done a lot of hugging today, and his ribs are fucking killing him and there’s still so much shit to still talk about, but it doesn’t matter. it really doesn’t.

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ice grinning when mav gets called arrogant followed by that grin DROPPING the second viper says he likes arrogance in a pilot 💀

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because i am delusional and a fluff maniac and usually ignore ice‘s death or any real angst in a need to satisfy my fluff-o-meter, just imagine the beach football scene in TGM for one minute. see below the cut:

about ten minutes after everyone and maverick arrives at the hard deck, when they’re all busy playing at the beach, ice shows up. hangman of all people sees him catching up with penny at the deck out of the corner of his eye and is like, huh, weird. then he realizes that OMG that’s admiral kazansky except he’s literally never seen him in anything but dress blues with all four stars and the admiral is in civvies. not service khakis. civvies. then the admiral goes down to the beach and sits in one of the two deck chairs sitting there and switches out his glasses for actual aviators. then he starts doing what looks like a fucking sudoku puzzle of all the things. hangman is briefly extremely confused but then he gets tackled by fanboy.

after a while, cyclone shows up because he was like where the fuck did everyone go. he shows up, probably to ask mav wtf he’s doing, except when he gets there he’s literally confronted with ice randomly sitting on the beach and doing sudoku while the squad plays football. cyclone doesn’t know how to process this.

“admiral,” he says, standing by his chair.

ice pauses in his sudoku puzzle—too bad, he was almost done—and looks up at him for a moment.

“what is this?”

“from how captain mitchell explained it to me,” ice says, dry as anything, “it’s dogfight football. players play both offense and defense simultaneously.”

cyclone still doesn’t know how to interpret this. “who’s winning?”

“i really doubt they’re keeping score at this point, beau,” ice replies, going back to penciling in his sudoku puzzle.

cyclone just looks at what’s happening with the squad cheering and tackling each other out on the sand. “the detachment still has some training to complete, admiral,” he says.

ice nods, still looking fairly unbothered.

“pardon my—curiousity, but i don’t really see how this is helping.”

“well,” ice says, “it’s one way to create a team, if i had to guess.”

“did you authorize this, admiral?” cyclone is mostly asking because he doesn't know why else ice would be there.

“i never said that,” ice says, and the strangest thing is that he sounds like he’s trying not to laugh. cyclone has never even heard admiral kazansky even make a noise to suggest laughter. not even a chortle.

farther up the beach, mav waves at ice, grinning gleefully. half of that is partially because he can 100% tell how confused cyclone is by this whole turn of events. the other half is that ice looks … well, pretty damn good.

ice grins back, tipping his aviators down in acknowledgement. cyclone, meanwhile, just stands there until ice advises him to maybe go sit down and get a drink from what penny’s whipping up inside, mostly to avoid any other questions and because the man looks like he’s going to burst a blood vessel.

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[slams fist on table] give Jim Lake Jr a service dog for his ptsd

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GLEN POWELL in the trailer for TWISTERS (2024)

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I finally made a clean vector for the symbol on Toby's warhammer! I've been wanting to make this for a while since there's no clean ref, but my hands are horrendously shaky so it took me a bit before I finally figured out my drawing programs stabilizer and how to draw comfortably with the delay that stabilizer makes ;w;

I'm going to make stickers with this, I hope you'll enjoy!

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TOP GUN SUMMER PT 2

WERE CHEERING

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As excited as I am by this, I almost don’t want it to be true. I’m genuinely afraid they’re going to ruin it. TGM was perfect, and I love the fanfics so much. I’m afraid a new movie might ruin this lot world we love to escape into.

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So which of Maverick’s family/friends do we think they’re killing off in this movie?? Hondo? BRADLEY? Penny mayhaps? Someone from 1986 we don’t see in TGM?

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Just got to say, if they make top gun 3, please talk more about carole. If her relationship with her son was so important that it led to the main conflict of TGM, then show him missing her! Have him mention her or visit his parents grave.

From what I've seen it's unclear if Tom Cruise is rejoining? But I feel it would be a Rooster story, not a Mav story.

It could maybe, if Tom Cruise is in it, have Rooster spending time with Mav at the start. Mav is ill and we can call back to how Carole died, have them bond over lost time, they visit goose and Carole’s graves but Rooster gets called off to a mission and has to learn to balance career and personal life after having no one for so long. Continue his arc and make it complete.

Or if Tom Cruise isn't in it, Mav’s died, they give it time but Rooster delves more into Mav and his parents and finds out about Carole’s last wish. Hey, we could even meet the 86 guys and wherever they are now. Didn’t Rick Rossvich really want to be in it?

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Top Gun 3 Prediction #2

(Hangman and Rooster, left unsupervised - who knew Maverick could count as supervision? - made a boo-boo. Now they are both staring at one of their phones sitting on the table)

Hangman:...Call.

Rooster: What?! No, you call!

Hangman: If I call, I'll never hear the end of it! You have to call!

Rooster: Oh, and you think I'LL hear the end of it - ?

Hangman: - JUST MAKE THE CALL, BRADSHAW

Rooster: *sighs and finally picks up the phone, dialing a number*

Phoenix(answering):....So, what did you two idiots do now?

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IT’S SO FUCKING ON KELEIGH POSTED IT ON HER STORY!!! POP THE FUCKING CHAMPAGNE!!! ALEXA PLAY DANGER ZONE BY KENNY LOGGINS!!!!

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My last six months in a nutshell.

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Y'know I can see why this was Anton's favourite episode this shit is funny asf

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This just makes me even more excited for top gun three the only thing that can make it better is having Bob and Phoenix in it also I need rooster and hangman to be a couple