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WIP Title Game

tagged by: @blazingstar29

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Shit. Shit. Why'd you do this to me???

Here's my WIPs:

Fight

Pirate AU

[Family Game Night]

Those are the names of my files. I haven't touched them in a month. I am so sorry.

tagging: @iiceman @oneoflifessimplejoys

No pressure to respond!!

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as an aroace person with limited sexual experience, no interest in watching porn, and poor sex ed as a teen, there IS something simultaneously funny and vaguely tragic about being 28 adult years old and realising how extremely tiny your frame of reference is for genitalia and deciding you should expand this to better understand bodies (yours and others). and then you're just there like "okay so what the fuck do I even google right now, anyway"

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people who don't wear glasses are so weird like you just wake up and your eyes are pussy fresh??

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As an autistic grayroace (Idk If that's a word, but it is now) who is currently experiencing their first crush, I'm starting to think that normal people actually DO experience hyperfixations, but it's always on romantic interests.

Like, the whole thing "I THINK ABOUT THIS PERSON WHENEVER I'M NOT FOCUSED ON SOMETHING" yeah, that's a hyperfixation, honey.

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@oneoflifessimplejoys Hello??? That sounds so cool?

Here where I live it's basically "yeah, first day? Ok, we're sending you to the busiest part of the city, good luck!!"

Mf I was STRESSED

There is no area designated for learning to drive. The track you have is the fucking city, GOOD LUCK MOTHER FUCKER!

Where was my simulated car crash??? I wanted that

please i'm trying to figure out if my high school's administration was insane or something.

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@oneoflifessimplejoys how do u feel about this?

Not gonna lie this is feeling less like one of life’s simple joys and more like one of life’s complicated pains

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Nuance: it was not my high school or anything, it was the training school for new drivers that did it

please i'm trying to figure out if my high school's administration was insane or something.

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I want to spam garlic bread in the ask box of every ace spec person on this app . I'm not kidding, this is my project, it's important, you can reblog, start chains under this post, do what you want, but if you're ace spec, write something in the comments or in the reblogs, so I will gift you some garlic bread. WRITE SOMETHING IN THE REBLOGS, ANYTHING, EVEN JUST "#garlic bread", otherwise I won't find you among all these notes

Let me know if you don't receive your garlic news in two days! I might miss some orders!

Btw I'm keeping a journal of my orders. I write your usernames, so I can remember the great people who supported this project

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Come join me around the fire, y'all, let's talk about how absolutely kickass Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is.

I feel like people downplay the amount of work Mav put into his career because he's a Captain and Ice is a four-star and that's clearly a much higher rank, so let's discuss!

The only promotion you have to take in order to make it to twenty years time in service (retirement) is O-4 (LCDR). Anything beyond that is gravy. Which means that Mav being competitive for, selecting for, and taking promotions for both O-5 (CDR) and O-6 (CAPT) was a very active choice that he made, and something he worked hard for. Captain is not a rank you make by accident. It is not a rank that the navy hands out like candy. If you do the math, about 15-20% of officers will make Captain. And that's probably a generous estimate. You work hard, you excel, you excel at leadership specifically, and *maybe* you make Captain. I'd also like to point out that promotions happen on a set timeline, so chances are that he and Ice were on very very similar promotion timelines up until Ice made RDML!

The fact that Mav hasn't been promoted to RDML or higher shouldn't be a mark against him -- of the 54,000+ active duty officers in the navy, 223 of them are admirals of any rank. This year there are over 3,200 Captains in the navy. There are 117 one-star admirals. Being appointed an admiral is more a political question than anything else.

It's also important to note that, in addition to however hard he worked just to make Captain, to make Captain and still be *flying* is an altogether different feat, and even more impressive. For the most part, once you're screening for command (as an O-5, generally with 15 or so years time in service), as an active duty aviator you will have had at least five years where you were serving in a non-flying billet (three years as an O-3 (LT) - O-4 (LCDR) on a dissociated sea tour, and two years on a staff or Pentagon tour). There are very few flying billets available for those tours, and as you can imagine, they are INCREDIBLY competitive. Which means that if he stayed flying for most of his career, he had to have been the best of the best, absolutely excelled, and worked extremely hard in order to stay competitive for those extremely competitive billets.

And that's not even speaking to the fact that he's a test pilot (and therefore was admitted to the test pilot program, and graduated from Test Pilot School).

And the fact that he walks into the room with Cyclone and Warlock, is briefed on the mission requirements, and IMMEDIATELY gives them a viable game plan that lines up exactly with whatever their team behind the scenes had likely been working on for months.

My point is, Mav is incredibly smart, and worked VERY hard on his career. And I think that's very cool of him! He loves flying, and he loves aviation, and he loves planes, and he worked DAMN hard to promote while keeping himself in the air!

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I hallucinated that I had a friend. His name was Thomas and he was just curled up beside me.

I also dreamt that he killed himself a week later.

have you ever hallucinated?

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I just heard someone say they've fucked on a bike. Like an actual motorcycle. And I feel like that's the type of Match My Freak Maverick would be.

I don't know what to do with this thought, however.

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in case you haven't thought about switching to firefox yet, here's an extension that will...

Notify you if a website you're on has employees that are on strike

Bypass paywalls for major news outlets like the New York Times

Change the browser theme based on the time of day

Directly install third party non-extension scripts

Save individual browser sessions to be reopened at any time

Use the TV format of YouTube in-browser

Make all chrome extensions compatible with Firefox

Turn YouTube dislikes back on

Fix Twitter and make it way less fucked up

Automatically remove trackers from URLs

And many more!

Feel free to add any other firefox extensions you think are slept on.

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IT'S SO GRAINY OMG I LOVE IT

fiancee, with 0 hesitation, took my phone to show her father my printed out photo of ice i keep in my phone case. what is wrong with her. i could die

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Val Kilmer’s Behind the Scenes Tour of Top Gun (1986)

from his personal archives, as shown in Val (2021)

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*awkward head scratch* uhm

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I'm... sorry.

This was inspired by a gif of a Screen Test between Paul Newman and James Dean joking around saying "Kiss me", with the other responding "Can't here." They were, however, not envolved romantically, and it was really just a joke. I saw that and thought of these two, and how different their reaction would be.

I can kind of see Mav trying to joke around with the pain to hide it, but Ice isn't the type to do that and for him it just... hurts.

Shout out to @iiceman for (unintentionally) pushing me to finish this piece by recommending the song Hands to Heaven by Breathe! Seriously, go listen to it. It's so Icemav coded.

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I WISH ROMANTIC FEELINGS HAD A REAL FUCKING DEFINITION!!!!!

"Butterflies in your tummy" I get that every time I talk to anyone because I'm an anxious wreck

"Ohh you get all blushy" I blush whenever I remember literally any compliment from anyone. I blush when someone says I blink robotically. I blush when I remember that time my driving instructor said I went through a stop sign correctly.

"You get nervous when thinking about them" I'm always nervous.

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!