#Sassenach082

[treadthatfineline]

I'm supposed to be illustrating two children's books right now, but instead I'm busy erasing half-naked pilots all day. Just for you, my dears. I was heavily influenced by the shower scene from i'll ride in this life with you by Sassenach082. Enjoy!

[sodapopboy]

hi sorry i cant make it tonight im busy uhhh…. reading an almost 300k word fic on ao3

[mcswbkia]

This is a little one shot In put together in the Universe of "I'll ride in this life with you" from @sassenach082 ! Hope you enjoy :)

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"Bradley?!" Ice called from down the stairs. It was almost time for dinner so he wanted to call the five year old downstairs.

"Bradley?!" Ice called again. When he still got no response, Ice made his way up the stairs. He was getting a little worried now.

"Bradley?" Ice asked again when he gently pushed the door of his bedroom open. Ice saw a flash of something disappearing under the bed, a spooked Bradley turning towards Ice.

"What have you got there, baby Goose?" Ice asked smiling.

"Nothing" Bradley lied.

"Don't lie, baby Goose. That's not polite" Ice said sternly.

"Now what have you got there?" Ice continued with a smile. Bradley sighed.

"It's a surprise" He said and got on his knees and grabbed something from under his bed. It was a cardboard F-14 that was painted grey. There was one black dot with white and red stripes and one red dot with white and blue stripes, where the pilot and his RIO would be seated.

"It's a gift for Mav. For Father's day" Bradley said a little shy. Ice almost started crying right then and there. Almost, but he held himself together.

"Oh, Bradley. He'll love it" Ice said fondly to the five year old in front of him.

"Really?" Bradley asked hopeful.

"Absolutely" Ice answered.

"When did you make this, baby Goose?" He asked as well. Bradley smiled.

"I made them at school with Ms. Anderson" the kid beamed.

"It's awesome, baby Goose. Now let's go eat. Mav's hungry" Ice said, picking up the five year old. Bradley giggled.

"So am I"

"Well then it's good that I came to fetch you" Ice smiled. Bradley nodded and they walked down the stairs towards the kitchen.

Little did Ice know, that Bradley had anotyher, identical, F-14 under his bed. But with a grey dot with blue stripes and a white dot on each side and a grey dot with red stripes and a yellow dot on each side.

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It was a friday night. Ice, Mav and Bradley just had dinner. Ice and Mav were cleaning up and doing the dishes. Bradley had disappeared to his room.

"I'm gonna go get Bradley ready for bed" Mav said once they were almost finished.

"Yeah, I'll finish up around here" Ice nodded. Mav disappeared up the stairs, but quickly returned again.

"What's wrong?" Ice asked, instantly worried.

Mav sprung to attention and said:

"We have orders to wait on the couch from admiral Bradley"

Mav grinned after that and Ice started to laugh.

"You really are an idiot, you know that?" Ice said. Now smiling softly at his wingman.

"But I'm your idiot" Mav grinned.

Ice shook his head and made his way over to the couch. Mav went to sit next to him.

"Are you ready?!" Bradley yelled from upstairs.

"Yes!" Mav yelled back. They heard Bradley storming down the stairs. The five year old appeared in front of them with two boxes in gift wrapper in his hands.

"What's all this, baby Goose?" Mav asked.

"It's a gift. For Father's day" Bradley said smiling. Mav looked a bit surprised by that. Bradley gave Mav one of the boxes.

"Open it" he said. Mav carefully opened the gift wrapper and then the box itself. Inside was the cardboard F-14, Ice had seen Bradley try to hide. Mav instantly teared up.

"Oh, I love it, baby Goose! Thank you" he said and gave the kid a hug. Ice watched the whole encounter fondly.

"What's in the other box, baby Goose?" Mav asked then. Bradley smiled widely and said:

"This one's for Ice!"

"For me?" Ice voiced his surprise. Bradley nodded and gave him the box. Ice opened it carefully. Inside was a cardboard F-14, identical to Mav's, but this one had his and Slider's helmets painted onto it.

"Oh, Bradley" Ice said choked up.

"It's beautiful!" and he pulled the kid, their kid, in his arms.

"I love you, papa" Bradley whispered into Ice's ears.

"I love you too, baby Goose" Ice whispered back.

The cardboard F-14 hung on to Ice's locker ever since.

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That's it! Hope you liked it :)

This is the plane I had in mind for the father's day gifts, but then F-14.

[i-make-questionable-choices]

the top gun/icemav fandom when both @mavspeed and @sassenach082 update on the same day after a hiatus:

[compacflt]

THE p-51D. THE mustang. THE jacket. okay. (Thanks to @sassenach082 for letting me know how close i was to planes of fame!!)

[baby-girl-e]

This day is historical in the Icemav fandom, after a year and some change for I’ll ride and 6months for cloaked in the bruises of our failures, THEYVE BOTH UPDATED TODAY. This is not a drill everyone say thank you to @mavspeed and @sassenach082 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 We’re so back folks

[micahmaeve]

you have been slowly converting me with all your icemav posting, and i recently rewatched top gun and i am s o l d. it has been consuming all of my thoughts! do you have any favorite fics??

omg, am I really?? welcome to the club!!

I’ve thrown myself head first into icemav recently so I can ABSOLUTELY rec some of my favorite fics I've read so far!!

When We Get Around to Talking About It by @compacflt is the pièce de résistance of icemav fiction I think, for me personally. It's masterfully written and nuanced and just so heartbreaking. the characterization feels so true to how these men would really be in real life and how they would deal with coming to terms with their feelings for each other and sexuality while being in the navy. and as if 90,424 words of beautiful prose wasn't enough of a gift, there is also a sequel/other stories called Debriefing (& Other Stories) which includes a more truncated version of the original but from mav's pov which is just 🤌🏻🤌🏻

Dreams of Impact by thecarlysutra is also very good. It involves a little supernatural flavor, which I enjoy, and revolves around how their lives could be different if they'd just made one single different choice.

come the same colors by susiecarter is a fav. It's a classic 'you got hurt and it's made me reckon with how I really feel about you, but I haven't figured out how to express that'. So basically it's amazing. this author also has a great catalogue of icemav, so it's really a jumping point to read all of her great work. A Shared Cup is another personal fav of mine from this author. it involves soul telepathic bonds. soooo good

a binary star by vannral is a really yummy piece of fanfic. the first line of the description is the perfect primer for how great the rest of the fic is: "Ice hasn’t ever given much thought to celestial things up in the sky but he knows that Maverick burns like one." like. c'monnnn

i'll ride in this life with you by sassenach082 is an ice and mav raise bradley after carol passes away fic, and it's full of sooo much lovely hurt/comfort that is so sweet it will rot your teeth. any fic with a plethora of baby bradley is going to be good for me

I saw beauty to the north by sortalively (tiisis) is a delayed injury fic set post TG:M. It has a lot of rooster and ice and mav reconciling in it which I'm a sucker for. and, if you like the exploration of rooster and mav's relationship (I'm a sucker for parental figure fics lets not unpack that) this author has some greaaaaaaaat fics on their page for that!

cloaked in the bruises of our failures by faerie_ground will rip your heart out. It takes the mission from TG:M and moves it to the 80s with our favorite class of '86 being trained to fly it, all while Mav and Ice are a few years post a messy 'break-up'. I should warn you that this one comes with a trigger warned from sexual assault from a person of authority to an employee, so if you aren't interested in that maybe skip this one. It is so beautiful though and treats the subject with the respect it deserves. slithered here from eden (just to sit outside your door) is another by this author that is very good and I am waiting patiently for an update

a higher fidelity by basedchamp is a classic slowburn with ice and mav developing their friendship before they realize their feelings for one another

no brighter diamond by qin_ling is a wonderful 'five times...' fic and it's so good. Everything by this author is fantastic so you should def check out their other stuff. as lions is about time travel. delish.

You're Gonna Be The One That Saves Me by an orphan_account is amazing. It's got mav struggling post hop 31 and Ice being there to offer emotional support and more if you know what I mean

'Til I Understand by Katastrophe (Karrington) is about Mav punching out of dark star and kind of fills in some blanks about what his loved ones went through while he was missing. Katastrophe is another author with a large catalogue to just go crazy in

PurpleArrowzandLeather has 153 tg fics on their page with a huge variety, some icemav, some flyboys of '86 (which I adore, I love fics showing their friendship). you can get lost in their page for a while haha. they also have their bookmarks public! so you can dig around in there, too

Sailor's Delight by saurora_borealis can be read as ice and mav or icemav and I think we both know which one I infer it as. Mal de Mer by them is like that, too

baby, baby, i'd get down on my knees for you by boasamishipper and simplecoffee is 'five times mav proposes and one time ice says yes' fic. It's sweet as candy

Is this arguably too long a response? yes. are all of these worth the read? also yes

I hope you enjoy!!

[mafiatsunafish]

when you and your best friend:

- have crush on  each other

- in denial because you don’t want to lose this friendship

- keep dating the wrong person 

- finally said that three words and put everyone else out of miserable 

- move in with each other

- get married 

- start a family 

- adopt a child or basically accidentally (?) co-parenting kids

(we might need a couple of therapy sessions in between, but still)

- happily ever after (?)

and not necessarily in that order. because, why not? 

-friends to fiancé to husbands to lovers 

(please check out this wonderful fic, which is my last straw before having this rant  I Hate Accidents (Except When We Went From Friends to This) by  morganofthefairies on ao3) 

(recently, buddie has been my hype fixation and their dynamic is so both endearing and frustrating)

( i'll ride in this life with you by Sassenach082,  and this masterpiece, too. Hold my hand has became background music in my head at this point) 

(‘I heard from the heavens that clouds have been grey’ thanks to @pollyna, I’ll never get over this ship name for icemav )

[strangelove97]

Why does the AO3 mobile app hate me that much, it was fine yesterday and I was in the middle of reading @sassenach082 masterpiece of a fic (I'll Ride With You)

[philcoulson-redtapeninja]

✨✨1, 12, 29, 36 for the Top Gun Ask!✨✨

1) Favourite ship and why?

Listen, I'm fairly sure it's mandatory to ship IceMav in the Top Gun Fandom, and it's damn high on my list, but I'm a sucker for Goose and Mav having QPR. Mav kinda defines himself by his father and by Goose. He has to be better than his father and he has to be good enough for Goose. Goose, conversely, took one look at this tiny angry pilot, asked if anyone was going to take care of him, and didn't bother waiting for an answer. At least that's my take on it. It's heavily influenced by the novelization that you can read for free Here~

12) Favourite fic?

I really like A Mavericks Specialty by WYGD4G, I'll ride in This Life with You by Sassenach082, and Wings Threaded by the Same Weave by WafflesRisa. Also basically anything ever written by PurpleArrowzandLeather or Katastrophe (Karrington)

Can you tell I read too much fanfiction

29) Did you get into aviation because of Top Gun or were you a fan before?

I was a huge fan of aviation as a tween and teen, reaally wanted to be an astronaut, but had kinda fell out of the interest as I became more interested in biology/medicine. Top Gun has brought back a lot of that interest though and has caused me to fall into several rabbit holes researching various things.

36) Who’s the better pilot?

Viper Probably Iceman in the original and Mav in the second movie. Ice managed to evade 5 MiGs until Mav got there and that had to have taken some skill! I'd defend my second statement, but there was a whole ass movie dedicated to its defense

[paxny]

11,15,21 for the ask game~

Ha ha ha ha....I'm so sorry it's taken me so long to respond to you 😭. I've been thinking about your questions for a while though, and I've decided to focus on 15, which was asking for fic recs. I consume so much fanfic, so this list is by no means comprehensive, but I will link a handful of my favorite Top Gun fics below.

Please be mindful of all tags and content warnings, consume safely/healthily, and give all of the amazing authors (I have tagged who I can, but if anyone knows of/is a creator I missed please let me know and I'll add you) some love! Enjoy, darling!

@the-hard-deck @sassenach082 @topgunreacts @boasamishipper @beterparker @hcrogasm

[redmeet]

tagged by the delightful and sweet @winter-fir 🫶🏻

Rules: post 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 of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips.

I wish that I could make you mine

sweet emotion

loving you's a bloodsport

get into it (yuh)

I love you always (there's no forgetting)

strangers, to lovers, to enemies

bobnix fic

and, because it doesn't yet have a title: something borrowed au

tagging @hangmanbrainrot @boasamishipper @lilgreyarea @saint--claire @fanboygarcia @sassenach082 and @nicedaybucky if you haven't done it already 😚

[flowersonmymind1016]

tagged by @captainrexshusband

First Ship: Velma and Shaggy from Scooby-Doo Where Are You? And don't come at me for that!

3 Ships: Hangster, Icemav, and Sterek.

Last Song: What hurts the most by Rascal Flatts

Last Movie: Top Secret

Currently Reading: Book - Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Fanfiction - I'll ride in this life with you - Sassenach082 on AO3.

Currently Watching: Scooby-Doo and Scrappy Doo

Currently Craving: My homemade blueberry cookies and pizza.

Tagging: @fastfan @musicisfortheheart @khoshekh42 @abliafina-18782 @onearmedlegend @briseisgone

[fantasygirlsuniverse]

Tag Game 💜

Tagged by @babygirllinds thank you so much!!

slow burn or love at first sight (BUT it’s gotta be like oh fuck not you) // fake dating or secret dating // enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers // oh no there’s only one bed or long-distance correspondence // hurt-comfort or amnesia // fantasy au or modern au // mutual pining or domestic bliss // canon-compliant or fix-it // reincarnation or character death // one-shot or multi-chapter // kid fic or road trip fic // arranged marriage or accidental marriage // high school romance or middle-aged romance (honestly neither but i prefer the slightly lesser drama of middle aged) // time travel (time travel and they have to go back to being rivals!!) or isolated together //neighbors or roommates // sci-fi au or magic au // body swap or gender bend // angst or crack // apocalyptic or mundane

This was fun!

Here’s my tagged people (you don’t have to do it obviously) and below is a clean version of the either-or:

@bloodyrose666 @pollyna @sassenach082 @fuddlewuddle @wearerandomlyyours @purplearrowzandleather-blog

slow burn or love at first sight // fake dating or secret dating // enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers // oh no there’s only one bed or long-distance correspondence // hurt-comfort or amnesia // fantasy au or modern au // mutual pining or domestic bliss // canon-compliant or fix-it // reincarnation or character death // one-shot or multi-chapter // kid fic or road trip fic // arranged marriage or accidental marriage // high school romance or middle-aged romance // time travel or isolated together //neighbors or roommates // sci-fi au or magic au // body swap or gender bend // angst or crack // apocalyptic or mundane

[lookforanewangle]

I was tagged a while ago by @boasamishipper to do my 2022 AO3 wrapped, so here goes!

Works published: 8

Words written: 53,962 published, closer to 80k written

Hits: 24,507

Bookmarks: 604

Most popular by kudos: time's left me exhausted (won't stop 'till it shows) with 610 kudos

Most hits: safe to say we tried | whumptober 2022 with 6,991 hits

Longest: keep your head up (it's a cruel world) with 19,916 words

Shortest: dust and ashes with 109 words

Most comments: safe to say we tried | whumptober 2022 with 82 comments (53 comment threads)

Fic that made me cry: as lions by @qin-ling is currently destroying me atom by atom, it's so good and heartwrenching godDAMN

Fic that made me smile: there are literally so many but tg fandom you definitely took the cake this year no question (@boasamishipper @icemankazansky @qin-ling @sassenach082 @thychesters @reformedtsundere everything I read from you guys for sure is just *chefs kiss* plus SO many more of you gosh)

Gifts: received 5, gifted 2

Collaborations: None this year, however @the-hard-deck has been an amazing beta and I did collab with @thychesters in a zine; she wrote and I drew

Events taken part in: Trick or Treat 2022

Tagging: Anyone who wants to play! Happy New Year! <3

[baby-girl-e]

Literally Viper in chapter 17 of I’ll ride in this life with you

Smile and all. That little genius.

@sassenach082