#there's a universe in which I wrote 300k words of hangster fanfic instead

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do you have a fav icemav fic?

ive read exactly three top gun fics in total so yes but also statistically no lol.

dancingdisaster (?)’s “Men Like Us” was the first top gun fic i ever read, back when i was a hangster-only guy, and it opened my third eye as to “omg what if ice survived all the way through tgm?” which then in my weird little brain turned into -> “omg how would ice have reacted to mav dying?” -> “omg what if mav died before ice ever got to say he loved him?!!!!” -> “omg i have to write that fic rn.” so that would be the fic I would cite as most obviously having had an effect on me & the story I wrote (rooster going to boot camp & ocs etc)

but yeah i don’t read a lot of tg fic because i try not to read fic for fandoms im actively writing in. the other two fics that i have read are time to let go (idk who by sry) and my beloved mutual sliderkerner’s (vulcanx on ao3) excellent “leave a tender moment alone,” which you should all be reading rn if u aren’t already. But that’s pretty much it

So if you were wondering why I’m so myopic/blinkered about top gun stuff/act like my interpretation is the only one, it’s because i literally do not consume any tg content that is not my own lmao. i am a top gun poaster, not a top gun consoomer. TG isn’t even my most brainwormy fandom (that’s succession rn)—TG is just the fandom i post for. but i have no idea what’s going on in the rest of the fandom/what other ppl think about ice & mav (or even what people think about MY ice & mav). i have no idea if my thoughts are original at this point, I’m just poasting thru it & continually grateful people are here to listen