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5 year old Bradley that wears his mama's mini skirts or uses her long skirts as a cape and has his hair grown out enough to have small french braids

11 year old Bradley who has a girl best friend and can't understand why he can't swap clothes with her the way she swaps clothes with her other friends (he really wanted to wear her butterfly skirt and shirt set...)

14 year old who has a talk with Mav, about what people will think if he goes out in a skirt (that he's an effeminate gay boy, or the 90s would probably have stronger words...), about how he can't get too much attention from outside or people will start question whether Mav is an appropriate guardian for him...

16 year old Bradley who sleeps in skirts and helps Mav cook in skirts but never steps outside without pants on.

24 year old Bradley who hasn't worn a skirt in ages

27 year old Bradley who wears skirts during sex only, always a bit too sexual for his taste, not like the long, modest flowy ones he prefers, always something that isn't supposed to bring anything but pleasure

28 year old Bradley who wears long skirts around their house, who sits cross-legged on their couch and has the hem polling around his ankles, who has Jake's hands getting tangled in the cotton layers, looking for the muscles of his thighs

33 year old Bradley that wears an ankle length jean skirt and a cropped jean jacket for a dance night in the Hard Deck, who has to be caught at the waist when he can't take a step big enough to keep with Jake's movement, legs caught in the fabric

34 year old Bradley who doesn't wear his dress whites at their wedding, who wears a white jacket and flowy white skirt made of his mama's wedding dress

Okay I might write a Rooster in skirts fic... Just a quick one shot under 5k... With some MavDad and some hangster...

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Okay I might write a Rooster in skirts fic... Just a quick one shot under 5k... With some MavDad and some hangster...

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I understand some of you are 19 but that is not an old man, he's 32.

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I have 1.6k posts in drafts 💀

I need to queue some of them this week

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spreading my rooster skirt agenda🩵

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No, this is perfect Becks, thank you 💙💙

Will add them to the pack (my sib's birthday is in June so I'll be putting the graphics together mid-May)

I'll also share the few otter memes I have:

If you find any more (or anyone else does) I'll gladly adopt them

Weird request but if you have any, please reblog this post with otter memes (the water-dwelling mammals, not the gay guy type) 🦦

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I don't think Mav would ever tell Bradley why he pulled his papers.

(Partially because I think Carole's promise was just an excuse to give into Mav's own fears, but that's a thought for another post...)

I think he'd tell him how afraid for Bradley he was, how he knew firsthand you could be the best of the best and accidents still happened, there were still people who would not give you the same trust in the air, who would not sacrifice as much as you were willing to. That he's been in the Navy for years by the point Bradley applied for the academy and he's seen what kind of people mostly thrive in there and what kind of people wilt and he didn't want Bradley to become either.

I think Mav kept Carole's image as clear as possible in Bradley's head and he'd try to not 'stain' her memory for him. Even if he said Carole was afraid for Bradley to fly, he'd never tell him the whole truth about her making Mav promise to keep him from flying. Rather, I think he'd take on some of her fears as his own and confess to them as the reason why he did what he did and take the blame.

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im going to grow out a short mullet. i have had enough

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fic is now titled with arms wide open because I'm weak for that song

Writing the hangster a/b/o fic from this idea bit and 1) it is so out of control, it went from silly goofy fic to write for fun to something with almost-plot and drama, 2) I made up some endocrinology stuff for the omegaverse that would explain shit in the universe and cause drama because I couldn't just leave it to 'don't question it' logic and like, what am I doing

also this fic needs a title, badly

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I also realize this could be to tease Bradley about Mav (Bradley's hot dad) too

(I'm still not over the whole hot for teacher bit...)

What Jake buys after he and Bradley have their first kid(s):

It was for Jake to wear but he obviously doesn't mind if Bradley borrows it 👀

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What Jake buys after he and Bradley have their first kid(s):

It was for Jake to wear but he obviously doesn't mind if Bradley borrows it 👀

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Random ass idea that came just as I laid down to sleep (I'm on night duty now, don't be alarmed by the timing fellow Europeans):

Hangster Soulmates AU but slightly to the left.

Soulmates aren't found, they're made — your soulmark (symbol, picture, text, names, there's lots of theories what each type of a soulmark means, etc) show up only after you meet someone and make the effort to build a relationship.

Jake had always been fixated on finding his soulmate (either because his parents were perfect for each other and were soulmates or because they were terrible for each other and weren't, you pick). Bradley had a slightly less romanticised idea about soulmates, having grown up with his mom being less than a full person after Goose died, never stopping grieving, and with Mav and Ice, still very taboo as same-sex soulmates (I imagine Mav and Ice got their soulmarks straight after Layton, still on the carrier). He, however, always thought it'd be effortless in sense that it'll come naturally and even the hardships will seem easy once he meets his soulmate.

The first time Jake and Bradley are together, the soulmarks don't show. First year passes, second year passes, and third year passes and nothing.

The longer they're together, the more logical it is to say they aren't each other's soulmates.

There are couples who aren't soulmates and live long happy lives together, but this isn't something neither Jake or Bradley want. Jake tells himself that if by the fourth year there's no soulmark, they will break up. Bradley is in sort of a limbo, because his relationship with Jake had been easy and natural, and he genuinely thought they would turn out to be soulmates. He decides he doesn't care that much after all and wants their lives to be entangled even without the soulmark. In the meantime, as the time goes, Jake becomes more and more distant.

Jake gets a soulmark a week before their anniversary (two planes and a sunset in the background, travelling up the space between his shoulder blades), expecting Bradley to tell him on the anniversary that he got his too. It doesn't happen because Bradley doesn't have a soulmark at all.

The day of their fourth anniversary, Bradley wants to talk about their plans for the future, but Jake breaks up with him before, telling him he's not going to settle for less than his soulmate and they obviously would know by then if they're soulmates by now.

Things turn bitter, they're still in the same squadron, Bradley saying a little too much and then leaves for a different base without ever taking them back.

When they meet during the return to Top Gun, Jake is still bitter, both because of the stuff Bradley said and because they had something good and he broke up with him to find something better with his soulmate and still hasn't found them.

Bradley is bitter, but in a sad way, feeling like he's never going to be enough, especially with Mav as a second reminder hovering around.

Post-mission, things get better, they apologize to each other and start spending time together again (mostly in group/work settings).

Bradley can feel that something is happening between them again but tries to seem oblivious to all of Jake's flirty demeanor because he knows Jake is still obsessed with finding his soulmate and he obviously isn't them. Jake wasn't acting like this on purpose at the beginning, it just showed up naturally when he and Bradley started talking in a friendly manner again, but the more it happened, the more he wanted it to happen — his soulmate wasn't there and Bradley was and he alread knows how good they could be together.

This goes on for some time until Bradley snaps and tells him to stop giving him hope and mixed signals with his behavior and that he's not up for being around as a second best option just until Jake finds his soulmate.

Obviously, Jake needs to decide what he wants — and he decides he wants Bradley.

It takes 3 months together for the soulmark to show up on Bradley (two planes with a sunset as a background travelling down the space of over his sternum).

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Writing the hangster a/b/o fic from this idea bit and 1) it is so out of control, it went from silly goofy fic to write for fun to something with almost-plot and drama, 2) I made up some endocrinology stuff for the omegaverse that would explain shit in the universe and cause drama because I couldn't just leave it to 'don't question it' logic and like, what am I doing

also this fic needs a title, badly

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I think I’m going to think about this youtube comment forever

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Weird request but if you have any, please reblog this post with otter memes (the water-dwelling mammals, not the gay guy type) 🦦

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