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I hate when a tiny stupid thing pushes you over the edge and makes you freak the fuck out because it makes you look like a completely irrational tar pit of a human being. Like no I promise this is warranted just maybe not about that specifically I swear I'm well adjusted. Come closer stick your fingers in my cage

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"there should be some kind of test you have to take before having kids" -> wrong, extremely dangerous and highkey eugenicist and racist "the youth should have safe and effective legal pathways at their disposal to make sure their human rights are constantly protected and upheld" -> based, centers the youth, gives minors more power to fight inequality and does not reinforce the idea that parents are immune to scrutiny from their kids

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I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

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"tumblr humor is only funny to tumblr users" NOT true. those bitches on pinterest love us.

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Is “Dagger Swagger” a thing? Because it should be. Those cocky SOBs know they’re the shit. Other squadrons and higher-ups clock them instantly.

“Yep, that’s one of Maverick’s kids. You can tell. He’s got that damn Dagger Swagger.”

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Joke's on you, Bradley doesn't start calling Mav "dad" until he's 15.

Before that, he called him "mama" because Carole made a joke when he was 3 and he stuck with it because Mav was just mama and Carole was mommy and then mom.

As revenge, Mav learned how to say "baby" in as many languages as possible to confuse the little boy and give Carole an aneurysm by referring to Bradley as different terms every day, maybe even different terms every hour.

When he's injured and delusional from the pain or meds, his single most used term of endearment for Bradley when he's blindly searching for him is "baobei"

After the suicide mission, Mav collapses because the two ejections took a toll on him and broke a few ribs and injured something internally. He's out for the count and on pain meds, waking up surrounded by the daggers in confusion and pain and muttering to himself.

Phoenix is the closest to him because they bullied Bradley into bed to sleep and hears him mumbling nothing before a clear "baobei" rings through the room followed by a sob and tears rolling down the older man's face. They can't get him to stop crying before Bradley wakes up and stumbles over. The taller aviator scoots maverick over in the bed and curls around him, murmuring "it's ok, mama" into his hair before he's falling back asleep and maverick is calming down and burying his face in Bradley's arms, falling asleep himself before anyone can react.

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People saying that the daggers would fight each other to be Mav’s favorite

When actually they know Mav love them all equally

They fight for Ice though.

“I’m his literal child.”

“We don’t care Rooster, I brought him perfect coffee last week!”

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Happy Pride Month to these two and whatever the fuck they had going on in the 80s

And to their adopted son and his on/off boyfriend

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I wish omegaverse was real - I’d be such a great pack omega

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Spite can be a incredible motivator

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Okay but. A Bradley Bradshaw who truly doesn’t know until TGM that Maverick is a little unhinged. He “tried to be the father he lost”, tried to set a good example, didn’t exactly tell an impressionable kid about all the ways he earned his reputation. So for years, Rooster avoided any mention of Maverick and probably dismissed rumors about him pissing off Admirals as so much Navy scuttlebutt - after all, he never got kicked out, he made it to O6, and he’s at least known for being good at what he does. So he figures the stories he heard growing up, and the new ones he’s hearing, are exaggerated.

…until they’re shot down behind enemy lines and Maverick’s happily strolling onto a bombed-out enemy flight line to steal a whole aircraft in an unknown state of repair by taking off from a very short taxiway and is just expecting him to go along with it, like it’s the obvious thing to do.

Smash cut to Bradley running down a LONG list of batshit stories he’s heard about Maverick, trying to confirm what’s actually real, and having to mentally readjust his whole worldview (including realizing that Goose was equally batshit and egging him on from the backseat half the time.)

“This one has to be made up, right, you’d never take an admiral’s daughter on an unauthorized F/A-18 flight — wait what do you MEAN that was Penny from the bar??”

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Update! I’m moving in with my boyfriend, and now am living in Fallon myself.

…and I still have the sticker on my car.

Ok, so the real life actual Top Gun was moved from Miramar in 1996 and now is located at NAS Fallon in Nevada.

Fallon is about an hour outside of Reno, which is the only nearby “big” city, and they lean HARD into the whole Top Gun thing. Top Gun Rodeo. Top Gun Restaurant.

Even one of the casinos here has a Top Gun poker chip. It’s a thing.

My boyfriend lives in Fallon. Which means that when I visit his house I have to drive through town.

This is my car. With the big huge Top Gun quote across the back that I have had there since long before I met my boyfriend.

I am now very self conscious about the sticker and wondering if I should get rid of it.

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*pulls up to Sonic Drive-In* HEY *honks la cucuracha horn* YO DOES KNUCKLES WORK HERE

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They should block chatgpt on uni WiFi the way they used to block coolmathgames