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Top Gun - Incorrect Quote 358

Maverick: Hey love, made anyone cry today?

Iceman: Sadly, no. But it’s only 13:30.

Maverick: You're off your game. I expect at least one junior officer trembling by now

Iceman: I gave a look to someone and he dropped his clipboard. Does that count?

Maverick: Barely. I’ve seen you make admirals question their entire careers with one eyebrow raise

Iceman: I’m saving my strength for the 15:00 meeting. Admiral Cain keeps calling me “Sir” like he’s not terrified

Slider: *From across the room* He’s definitely terrified, I saw him rehearse his briefing in the mirror. Twice.

Maverick: My heart swells with pride

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Iceman: those are poisonous, so no one eat them

Maverick: yeah, duh

Iceman: go throw up

Maverick: I didn't eat anything

Iceman: go throw up

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Iceman: you know there's a rumor going around

Maverick: what that we're gay for each other

Goose: oh my God twizzler gummies

Goose: no, see I'm straight but, like, if there was a man that I would marry it'd be Maverick

Iceman: how do you feel about that Maverick

Maverick:

Maverick: it's not helping with the rumors

Iceman: I think the kiss you guys shared on my birthday isn't helping with the rumors

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Maverick: Bro, you know what I was thinking bro?

Goose: hmmm?

Maverick: if your leg got cut off, would it hurt?

Goose:...

Goose: duh

Maverick: how tho?

Goose: cuz your leg got cut off fool

Maverick: where you gonna feel the pain?

Goose: in your le-

Maverick: exactly bro

Maverick: how you gonna feel the pain in your leg

Goose and Maverick: if your leg is gone

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Iceman: wanna know the best part of wearing sunglasses

Maverick: what

Iceman: no one can see what you're looking at

Iceman: *stares at Mav's tits*

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Goose: *sighs* you're repressing the memory dude

Maverick: oh yeah, the vault

Maverick: that's where the stuff I can't handle goes

Maverick: kerplunk

Goose: okay, so you even know you're doing it

Maverick: yeah

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Iceman: do you want to tell Mav about what happened at school today

Bradley: oh, I flunked my math quiz

Iceman: no! The other thing

Maverick: what other thing

Maverick: what happened at school today?

Bradley: oh, the school shooting?

Iceman: yes the school shooting

Bradley: oh yeah, some kid shot up the school

Maverick: who shot up the school? Was it you?

Bradley: no

Maverick: did you get shot?

Bradley: no

Maverick: oh

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Iceman: get behind me

Maverick: baby the only thing I see when I look behind me is 50 pounds of ass

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Top Gun - Incorrect Quote 363

Rooster: Not to worry. I have a permit.

Cyclone: This just says, "Baby Goose can do what he wants" with Admiral Kazansky signature.

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Texas Boy Jake Seresin and California Girl Boy Bradley Bradshaw. We are not exploring this dynamic enough.

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does anyone have any good fic recs where ice lives and icemav exists and the daggers meet ice. pretty please. bonus points if it's also hangster. (this is all under the assumption that icemav was together when bradley was a kid and he grew up with them)

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More rambling about the novelization!

Goose doesn't know Ice personally. He knows Slider, and he's the one to introduce Ice to him and Mav. Goose has only heard about him, about his reputation. It's mentioned that Ice has "made himself famous before ever getting here."

Which is interesting because just moments before that, it's mentioned that Goose knows a lot of the guys in the bar personally, and many of them from the Academy. But Ice isn't one of them.

It could be that Ice is from a different class - but age-wise, he's smack dab in the middle between Goose and Slider, so I don't think so. Goose says he knows so many people precisely because he went to the Academy, and I don't think Ice is the type to just slip through the cracks either.

I think the novel version of Ice didn't go to the Academy. I think he went the flight school route, just like Mav. Which could mean that he's not a legacy kid - certainly not an admiral's kid, I don't know why he wouldn't have gotten into USNA if that was the case.

It could also fit with my other analysis of novel!Ice, that he flies the way he does not because of his father, but because he knows losing control is too dangerous.

Either way, it does mean that he and Mav are really a lot more similar than either of them probably thinks.

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At the gate for my flight home from visiting friends and there's a woman here with a service Shiba Inu. No pics because he has a Do Not Disturb vest and taking pics of strangers is illegal but I need to stress how ON DUTY this animal is. Ears up. Eyes doing Lazer scans of everything. Examining everyone who passes within 10ft like a security guard. Ass planted on her feet. I have never seen a dog with such intense chivalric guardian energy before. He has tiny eyebrows and they are FURROWED with concentration.

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(Insp.)

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Yelena: Bucky no!

Bucky, watching the person Sam is laughing with through the sniper scope: Relax. I didn’t bring any ammo. Believe me, I’ve already pulled the trigger three times.

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One thing that stood out to me in the novelization, that I really want to consider exploring, is just how ice-cold Ice is really written as. I don't think it translated into the final movie quite as harshly but in the novel, he really is seen as just a cold-hearted fucker.

He's a bastard, he's cocky, he sticks to the book perfectly and that’s why he’s perfect. He’s so ice cold that people, or at least Mav, seriously wonder if he even has emotions.

He cracks during Hop 31, he's frustrated at not being able to get the shot - at making a mistake, and that causes him to lose control for a moment, and we all know how that ends.

His apology to Mav is a lot shorter, a lot quicker and it happens with other people in the locker room too. He's obsessively combing his hair until Mav walks in, after which he drops it, makes his apology and immediately walks away.

The next time he cracks is when Wolf and Wood go down during the Layton rescue. He’s genuinely scared, worried for them - maybe because he’s remembering Goose too. He doesn’t know if Wolf and Wood got out, neither he or Slider saw it, they might be dead too.

And then he does something a little reckless again - he goes practically revenge mode and requests permission to fire. Alone in the sky with six MiGs and Maverick, who he has no confidence in.

I think maybe that’s why at least the novel version of Ice is the way he is. Why he flies so by the book, why he’s so ice cold. Because he’s even more dangerous when he doesn’t, but he also makes more mistakes - sometimes even fatal ones.

He’s also more like Maverick. He wants to do that last flyby just as much as Mav does, even though he absolutely knows he shouldn’t. Not only because he’s not supposed to, but also because he’s low on fuel.

Maybe that’s why he rides Maverick as hard as he does the whole time - because he knows he could be Maverick if he wanted to, and that being Maverick is fucking dangerous for everyone sharing the sky with him, both enemies and allies.

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Inspired my @stopthatfool ‘s wonderful goosecarole wedding art ☺️☺️

Nick and Carole’s wedding is a small, intimate, nearly casual affair. It happens when they’re twenty and madly obsessed with each other. Carole’s dress is flouncy and white with dark blue flowers embroidered on it. Her best friend helped her pick it.

Nick can hardly keep his hands to himself long enough for Carole to get her dress on, and when he first sees her— oh, lord— when he first sees her he cries like a baby. Carole just tips her head back in a fit of laughter and lets him kiss all over her face in front of God and everyone.

Pete, of course, is Nick’s best man. He stands there while Nick and Carole are barely restraining themselves from leaping over the officiant and into each other’s arms.

Pete gives a speech, of course, no matter how small the crowd. It’s sweet and embarrassing, it was bound to be, considering how long he’s known them both.

Carole wraps her arms around Goose late at night, a bottle of champagne in, her hair mussed and the sleeves of her dress hanging off her shoulders.

“You two,” she mumbles with a smile as they look up at her.

“You two!” Pete says in response, pointing at the newlyweds.

Pete drives them to their little hotel room in Goose’s car once the festivities die down. They stumble in giggling, clinging to each other to stay upright. They take a plethora of Polaroids, all of which they show to Pete, a lot of which he didn’t want to see.

Bonus:

Pete makes them a scrap book for their wedding gift. It’s shoddily made and some of the glue isn’t fully dry. It’s full of pictures of him and Carole from high school, him and goose in college, him Goose and Carole in bed. At the end of the little book, there’s a photo of Goose and Carole kissing, that same photo he keeps on his desk, right next to the photo of Rooster in his uniform. His little altar to their family.

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stand_down.mp4

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The amount of times I could have been that white girl in the horror movie could honestly be a movie in itself and it’s honestly a waste that my entire life isn’t constantly recorded on film because it would be HILARIOUS

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lil something i found while editing the final chapter of sugar, enjoy 🤘🤠

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“How’d you get your callsign?” Fanboy asks, grin wide, curiosity lighting up his face as he nurses a bottle of beer.

The question is casual. One they’ve all answered a dozen times before. Some story about a childhood nickname, a screw-up in flight school, a drunken dare that somehow made it onto official paperwork.

Jake doesn’t answer right away.

He just smiles. Not his usual cocky grin, but something smaller, like he’s remembering something no one else in the room could possibly understand.

“Rooster gave it to me,” Jake says finally, voice softer than the bar noise around them.

And that’s all he says.

But it’s enough to kill Bradley just a little.

Their eyes lock across the table like magnets, like bad decisions, like history waiting to be rewritten. Just for a second, the chatter around them fades into static. The jukebox might as well be playing a funeral march.

Because when Jake says Rooster gave it to me, he’s not just telling a story. He’s cracking open a memory.

Bradley is twenty-four again.

Standing under a sky that should have been his wedding canopy. Hands shaking. Waiting at the altar in a goddamn khaki uniform because he thought it would make Jake laugh. Because Jake had once said, “You better show up looking like Top Gun propaganda if you want me to cry.”

He had waited.

And waited.

Until the sun dipped low enough to cast the chapel in gold, and the empty seat in the front row felt like a second coffin.

Until someone said they saw him on his way to the airport this morning, hours ago.

Until all the calls went unanswered.

Until Bradley Bradshaw went home with a ring in his pocket and a name he never wanted to say again stuck in his throat like blood.

Jake looks away first.

He always does.

Fanboy blinks, missing the weight of it all. “Wait like actually gave it to you?”

Jake shrugs. “Yup. Called me Hangman after I left him hanging in Texas.”

And everyone will assume he is talking about a mission, something Jake has done to outfly Bradley maybe. No one will know what it really was.

Bradley snorts.

It’s not a laugh. Not really.

Jake doesn’t smile either.

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frathouse is wild

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MISTER GOODTIMES? I BEG YOUR PARDON?

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Icemav's first time making out

Iceman: so Maverick, you ever kiss a man before

Maverick: does Goose count?

Iceman: you've kissed Goose before?

Maverick: of course, I mean have you seen him, I've also made out with him wife in front of him with his permission so

Iceman: you two astonish me on a daily basis