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Same thing, really.

Top Gun (1986) | Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

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“thank you for saving my life”

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look I know we love Mav (and his relationship with Bradley) but I genuinely love thinking about how he fucked Bradley up for life, and how Top Gun: Maverick is an amazing example of how you can love someone so much, but so wrongly. (It mildly baffles me when people talk about Bradley going no contact as being an overreaction because he absolutely deserved to kick Mav out of his life).

The ghosts of Nick and Carole Bradshaw haunt the narrative relationship between Mav and Bradley. When he sees him again for the first time, he doesn't think of a memory of just Bradley, he thinks of one with all the Bradshaws, and it shows where he's at when it comes to his relationship with Bradley. He's an extension of Mav's relationship with his parents—and it's Bradley who reaps the consequences of Mav's unresolved trauma about Goose's death.

What does it feel like to be 17-18 years old and told by your father figure that you can't follow in his (or your biological father's) footsteps. What does it feel like when nearly everyone you'd ever admired was this Thing but YOU alone weren't good enough?

This doesn't even take into account that he takes it a step further and pulls your application. He doesn't say sorry, and he doesn't say it years later, and in fact will double down on how you're not ready, and then tells all your peers that it all depends on the pilot and YOU don't cut it...

and you're meant to be well adjusted after all that? Trust your instincts when you've been led to believe you weren't actually good enough for all this in the first place?

Maverick, meet me in the parking lot because I need to knock some sense into you.

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Top Gun: Maverick (2022) dir. Joseph Kosinski

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So all my best friends are ex-Twilight fanatics and one of them decided we were all rewatching it for her birthday.

Now I'm on my second Edward Cullen/Jessica Stanley fic, cackling my head off.

[Impossible by sephmeadows]

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Glen Powell as “Hangman” in Top Gun: Maverick

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girl who finally is going back to reading by finishing one book: now i'm going to read all the books in the world.

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Rainy day in Kyoto

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Miles Teller as Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw for Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

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miles teller as lt. bradley “rooster” bradshaw top gun: maverick (2022) – dir. joseph kosinski

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The next Top Gun movie should start with Jake "Hangman" Seresin shoving Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw into a wall, and the audience initially thinks they're about to have a fight, and then they start making out. They show Hangman shirtless and we see that there's a ring alongside his dog tags.

The next scene is the both of them at The Hard Deck, and you realise this is a flashback scene and that Jake and Bradley had been married the entirety of Top Gun: Maverick.

Then we jump to the present. Maverick and Hangman are sitting across from each other at a dining table in a nice, but incredibly dated kitchen. There is a very palpable, awkward silence. Maverick comments that the house looks exactly the same as it did in the 90s, and Hangman replies that Bradley is allergic to change and modernity. "It'll look like this 309 years from now." Then they lapse into awkward silence again.

They hear the door opening, and Bradley, Penny and Amelia come through the door with groceries. Both of them are visibly relieved by the return of their respective partners, who are chatting happily together.

Top Gun 3: Your Son Marries A Man Who Is A Little Too Much Like You and You Disapprove About It, But Then You Both Have To Go On A Rescue Mission To Save Him and Finally Understand Each Other (Working Title).

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wooden bears by CarversStudio

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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D. A. Powell, from "Chronic"

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"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

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astonishing how good it can feel to get some chores done sometimes. you’ll be sitting there like damn i am some type of horrid little smeagol like creature who should be crushed to death. but then you do some laundry and you’re like wrow. im actually gods most fuckable soldier.

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by eatingwithwinnie