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reblog if you need a hug

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“So, Iceman, what’s the story?” asks Mav leaning over the table and giving him his best charming smile.

“You know the story, Mav.”

“Yeah, ‘Ice cold no mistakes’ my ass. No Naval Aviator has ever earned his callsign like that. Come on, Ice, I know there is a story there.”

Iceman smiles, considering; this is not something that he would usually divulge at the O club after a couple of beers – he uses his callsign, and the meaning behind it, to foster a healthy amount of respect and reverence toward him in other pilots. But this is Mav; he doesn’t want his reverence, and he likes to think that he already has his respect – and anyway, that’s not something he can earn like that, not from him. “Okay,” he says taking a sip from his beer and ignoring Slider’s incredulous look.

A new chapter of BYMP is now available in ao3.

[ladyeilien]

This, just this.

Iceman/Maverick in their retired era, courtesy of noahdeaart. Posted with permission.

[ladyeilien]

Mav loves cuddles; they are something he learnt not to take for granted quite erarly on - growing up in the foster system taught him that not all families hug you and kiss you goodnight, and the prevailing prejudice in the Navy against his last name taught that friendly affection is not easy to come by - but he still loves them, and craves them. So, when he meets Goose and Carole, he is more than happy to be on the receiving end of friendly hugs, and things only get better when Baby Goose - an endless source of affection and hugs - arrives. But it's not until he meets Ice that he discovers what it feels like to sleep safely wrapped in someone's embrace, to be woken up by someone tenderly kissing the back of your neck, to be on the receiving end of so much care and affection. It soon becomes one of his favorite things in the world, cuddling up with Ice in bed - always claiming his favorite spot as the little spoon, so he can feel Ice's soft breathing against his neck and Ice's hand tracing lazy patterns on his stomach - feeling the outside world fade away and existing for a few minutes only in their happy bubble.

Ice and Mav spooning—as promised in my previous icemav comic

[ladyeilien]

one of my truly favorite things about top gun fics is that in the tg 1986 ones, icemav are very "these guys have never had a decent father figure ever" and in the tg maverick ones, they're "these guys are the father figures they never had"

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As it turns out, the Navy doesn’t care about motivations, it only cares about results, so they give him the privilege of choosing his next posting. He has two and a half years of shore tour ahead of him, and Pete can only think of going home. Home means Carole, and Bradley, and maybe, even Charlie; home means San Diego, and San Diego means TOPGUN.

The first chapter of BYMP is now available in ao3.

[ladyeilien]

Welcome. Welcome to the story of a life hidden behind a façade created for the public eye, a life built within the grey areas of the rules that govern our world, a love lived in the shadows – protected from prying eyes by closed doors and blackout curtains – and not for that, less deserving of the name.

It won’t be a smooth ride - you’ve been warned - but life rarely is.

Like every story, this one starts from the beginning, and for Maverick, the beginning of everything can be traced to a certain summer afternoon at the end of July 1986.

What you need to know:

Which ones are the main pairings?: This is mainly an icemav fic, but you will also find some hangster in it.

What it is about?: This fic will follow Maverick, Iceman and Rooster from the point where Top Gun 1986 left us all the way until Top Gun: Maverick and beyond. So, prepare for lots of historic events and long chapters.

Is it finished? When will you be updating?: It’s not finished, but I’m currently writing at least one chapter ahead of the posting schedule. You can expect updates every two weeks.

If you’re curious about it and feel like giving it a go, you can read the first chapter here.

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somewhere in the stillness

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I once read that a good book is a book you regret finishing. And I wholeheartedly agree because when you finish that last page, you need to close the book, and somehow, your mind has to stop living in that wonderful world and go make dinner. And it's not a slow and gradual transition: one second you're and in that amazing place, in the absolut climax of the story, and the next one, you somehow are back in your room and need to go make dinner.

Reading a good fanfic is somehow similar, but when it's all over, you don't need to crawl back into your own universe and go make dinner, because there is more. All that you need to do is go back to the same place where you found the first story and scroll down, and just like that, you're back in the same wonderful universe with the same great characters living a whole new adventure. And when your soul is somewhat satiated and you emerge back into reality, you are emotionally exhausted, starved, dehydrated, stiff, sleep-deprived, and on the verge of a migraine. And you need to get up and pretend to be a functional, normal human being. And more often than not, it was worth it.

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

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Them ❤❤

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Why Ice stares him that way 😂😂

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So, I know I'm late to the party but I watched Top Gun:Maverick when it became available on Netflix, and then I immediately run to watch Top Gun (1986), and then I immediately run to AO3, and ohh... was I happy to dicover I was not the only one there.

I discovered so many wonderful fics, and loved each one of them, read my favorite one sooo many time. And there was this idea in the back on my mind that would just not let me alone until finally I caved and I wrote it: I sat down, I did the ouline, I planned the chapters, and I thought - okay, this is going to be easy, fast even. And I could not have been more wrong because the first chapter suddenly was over 10k, and the second too, and I don't really see them getting much sorter. So, I've decided to slowly start publishing it, hopefully at a rate of one chapter every two weeks or so, and see what happens.

Wish me luck!