#Mav vs Ethan

[airlocksandaviaries]

Competent meaning capable and good at what they do.

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[compacflt]

your last post abt icemav vs. interior design has me cry laughing and also makes me want to ask: how does rooster (millennial gay man, fairly good at being open about his sexuality in comparison to the the environment he came from) feel about being one-uped in the gay department constantly by Mr. and Mr. Can’t Talk About It?? like him and jake have to have conversations about it [jake, meeting ice the first time: oh this is the gayest man i’ve ever met. he had everyone fooled for thirty years???? // bradley: “yeah but you didn’t have to grow up with him. i was on the front lines.] like—they were willing to get married at the same time as icemav as a distraction, so they have to be aware of how groundbreaking icemav is to the structural appearance of the Navy. but they’re also fully immersed in Navy culture and customs, so are civilian gay people even surprised??? do they care??? or is everyone collectively reading through twitter like “gay men in navy? okay fork found in kitchen 🙄 who cares.”

this is all just a long way for me to ask if icemav is easier to pick up on/less surprising if you’re gay. bradley clocked them early because he was in close quarters with them constantly, but he’s also gay—in comparison, slider knew ice for years, but only added it up when it was way too obvious to ignore. and to other straight people they seem to be at an Ethan Hunt level of undercover, but are they really??? (this is kind of a dumb question so feel free to do whatever you want with it lol)

see i feel like i haven’t been writing them very obviously clockingly gay at all! i actually feel like it would piss Jake and bradley off how STRAIGHT ice & mav act all the time!

1st excerpt from post-marriage, second excerpt from a scene that got deleted from WWGATTAI chapter 9, wherein compacflt ice approves the promotion of a fictional “first female admiral to be married to another woman” and then runs into her at a DOD Xmas party and chats about gay marriage for a bit out of curiosity… (deleted bc chapter 9 was already 9.5k words) like it is still a secret even if they aren’t actively trying to keep it secret anymore

but you’re right hold on. here’s christmas 2017

[shoesplease]

TC Blorbo Poll Finals: Ethan vs. Mav

Welp, to nobody's surprise, it's come down to Ethan vs. Maverick for Most Blorbo. My apologies to Danny Kaffee, who lost 85-15. I'm not going to apologize to Bill Cage, who managed over 25% of the vote?!!!! Pink Panther man and Edge of Tomorrow are surprisingly popular around here.

But I digress. I feel so bad pitting these two against each other, especially since they are siblings in my heart (thanks @malewifebillcage @beterparker for putting this idea in my head with their excellent AU fic which you should go read here)

Finished reading? Excellent! Go comment, and for your efforts, here's the poll!

Thanks to everyone who's voted in this silly little tournament! It's been so much fun. <3

[maverickcalf]

Luther x Ethan x Benji vs carolgoosemav

Send me two ships and I’ll tell you which one I prefer:

Carol X Goose+Mav

Let me just start out by saying, I adore Luther x Ethan x Benji. It makes a ton of sense and warms my heart.

But like, god the Bradshaw Mitchell household... more under the cut

Listen I spent a month trying to nail down what the dynamics of the three of them are. I mean they all clearly love and care about each other. (Goose and Carol clearly)

But like the more I watched the movie the more I realized that there relationship might be a bit more than the usual family dynamic with Maverick as the uncle. I mean for one...

Maverick sits next to Carol in the diner and not Charlie. Like...that's interesting. They are so close. Carol later tells Charlie that she loves Maverick to death. It is also like the only time some says that they directly love someone, like uses the word love. Not saying "oh you are in love with this person, or he loves you." Nope this is the only direct declaring with the word love about another person in the whole movie.

But there is something like so good about the bond between Goose and Maverick. Maverick might be a bit of a wild card, and seem like a stuck up ass. But here is the thing, he cares about Goose. He isn't afraid to admit his mistakes to him (like actually say sorry too, that's supposed to not be a trait of assholes). They have inside jokes. Goose will just enter Maverick's room late at night to talk to him. It is very easy to read as not heteronormative and something different.

I have a whole series about these three, I love writing them and their queer platonic family dynamic.

I guess I just like this ship more because I have put a lot of time and thought into it.

I love them. God I love them all so much. BRB gonna actually cry about this ship.

[academicgangster]

Eyes Emoji Bass Boosted @ potential meta of similarities between Vincent and Maverick

Aw man I should make one of those lists of potential topics and ask people to vote on them just so I have some incentive to actually write them, lol. I still wanna get to topics such as 'Sam Gerard and Agent Kay are actually deeply compassionate heroes', 'why Maximilian de Winter should be played as a trauma survivor, not a mysterious brooding m!dom figure', and 'Mav and Ice versus the concept of winning'.

(May I remind the court that my current greatest hits by which I mean almost my only meta posts, lol, most of my meta is in tags are: Jane vs Ilsa and femininity/agency; Ghost Protocol and the absence of Luther (1), (2); Days of Thunder is a better, brighter and emotionally healthier film than Top Gun; the best thing about Ethan Hunt is how bad he is at pretending to be evil.)

[academicgangster]

As someone who enjoys Daniel Kaffee very much, in part because I am in fact into subby men and he is a (not at all) covert sub, I appreciate this post a lot! Danny's not my favourite sub, but I do love his character - particularly his learning-to-stand-on-his-own-feet arc and his super high-strung SUDDENLY SWEARING moments. 😂

ANYWAY YOU FOLKS WERE TALKING ABOUT SUBMISSIVES and that is my very niche area of expertise in this fandom, heh, so I hope you don't mind my going off on a couple of tangents here :D

• I'm not super into Danny the way @supergeekytoon is - I consider him the Puppy / Little Brother Friend I'd love to have - but I do thoroughly adore him because of the cleverness he hides under sass and obfuscating stupidity, and also for the fact that he's that little bit socially awkward, that little bit (though reluctantly) eager to please, and makes connections in unexpected ways. Also that he admits he doesn't like boats, and uses a comfort item (the baseball bat) to help him think. And - my very favourite thing about him - that his reaction to a woman asking him on a date is "I've been asked on dates before :D" DANNY YOUR LACK OF TOXIC MASCULINITY IS WONDERFUL AND I LOVE U.

• LOVE your points re: Danny's entire story arc being about agency. This is why I can't see him as the kind of straight-up, unequivocal sub that, say, Maverick, or even Ethan, is: Mav and Ethan, though very different in the things they're into, both know exactly how to be in control and can therefore find release in voluntarily giving it over. Danny, so far, has spent his whole life fighting for control, fighting for the right to know what it is, and so he'd probably also vehemently fight the idea of giving it up - no matter how much his body betrays him by liking the thought of giving it up. Danny's a sub and he hates that he's a sub.

• That'd be why in the Tom Cruise Sub Masterpost (lol what is my life) I described Danny as "likes to be handcuffed, whines about rules". He chafes at the thought of voluntary obedience, and is not likely to deal well with the service aspect of submission or with being taken into subspace; he'd probably panic and nope out if he felt himself approaching it. That said, the instincts are very much there, even if his various issues mean they stop at play at a scene and (for now) don't go deeper into play a scene.

• Uh, tell me I'm not the only one who initially thought the 'use your Harvard mouth and ask me nicely' line meant...Something Else. Something Else And Much, Much Creepier.

• I don't in any way sexually enjoy this, but on a social level / character study level, I really, really love how surprisingly often Tom's characters are put in the position of being creeped on by someone who has power over them. I doubly love how it's always portrayed as being unequivocally creepy, as opposed to the camera framing it as a nice/normal/complimentary thing (which, unfortunately, usually happens when it's a woman in that situation). See: Claire in MI: 1 (slightly ambiguous but Ethan is clearly not into it), Colonel Jessup here, Dr Hineman in Minority Report, Julie Gianni in Vanilla Sky, all the way up to the White Widow in MI: Fallout.

• I also love how crystal clear Tom makes the difference between his character consenting vs. not consenting in sexual situations. Among other more subtle examples, we see it in MI: 1 with Claire vs Max, and we see it in Vanilla Sky with Julie vs Sofia, and it's Fucking Great.

tl;dr Danny Kaffee is a super interesting character, and also if you guys are looking for someone who actually DOES have domme fantasies about subs played by Cruise I'm your girl, lol. Also also I love flipping the sexual script even if it's not strictly a Sexy Situation, and Cruise does that extremely well, thanks for coming to my TED talk ᕕ(✿◕‿◕)ᕗ

FUCK YOU @ineverhadadoubt, I’M NOT INTO SUBMISSIVE MEN IT’S MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT

A slightly humorous critical response to @ineverhadadoubt on my irrational attraction to Daniel Kaffee 

A bit of context before the main argument. I’m known on the Benthan Discord Server as the Resident Kinkster, not because I’m kinky per se, but because I don’t shut up about them. As well as my very peculiar thirst objects: Rolled Up Forearm Sleeves, Voice Kink, Rope. Jk lmao. (or am I, you don’t have proof). And Well, look. I really like Danny Kaffee and this post by @academicgangster slightly inspired me to write this. Also because I have a lot of thoughts and I need to get this out and defend myself from Libel™ and False Narratives™ from @ineverhadadoubt and @misstangle about kinks I don’t have. 

So, having watched A Few Good Men three and a half times over the course of three days has led to various conversations and speculations on the film. Mainly centering on the character of one, Daniel Allister Kaffee. In this essay, I will be responding the frankly egregious accusations the Mainstream Media™(e.g. Ruth) that the author is into subish men when the reality is a far more nuanced and complex situation having to do with the themes present in the film and the characterization of Daniel Kaffee in particular.

Keep reading

[airlocksandaviaries]

Unhinged meaning insane and reckless.

Mav vs Ethan poll 2/4

[shoesplease]

TC Blorbo Tournament Sweet Sixteen Recap

So I had half of this post written up and then I hit one too many ctrl-z's and Tumblr decided to erase it. I'm bitter because it was quite witty if I do say so myself. Anyhow, let's try this again.

Results! Our group of sixteen has been whittled down to eight.

In the flyby region, Maverick rolled to victory once again to the tune of 82% of the vote. He'll face--get this--Jack Reacher.

Yes, Jack Reacher of homeless, only owns one shirt fame eeked out victory over Stacee Jaxx of the assless chaps and Tom Cruise singing voice. I'm as surprised as you are. Guess he gets good mileage out of that white shirt.

I may be surprised by the outcome of the vote, but I'm not surprised by drama in the flyby region. Mav my Most Dramatic Boy deserves a worthy opponent.

To my personal relief, Danny Kaffee managed to defeat Jerry Maguire in the bat region. (FWIW I considered calling this the baseball bat region but it sounded funnier if it was just a singular bat. An animal? A baseball bat? nobody knows!) I'm relieved because I'm pretty sure @awkwxrdapple was going to personally track me down if Danny lost to Jerry, and I've already heard plenty from @tvheit about Vincent Collateral's seeding. Did not need to go through that again. Whew. (I'm joking, I love you all and I love how invested you are in these silly polls. I love it so much.)

Danny Kaffee will now face Barry Seal, a much tougher opponent who squeaked by Ray Ferrier in a surprisingly close Sweet Sixteen matchup. Well, I say he's tougher but to be honest I like Jerry way more than Barry. Perhaps it's fair to say that Barry Seal has the weight of the milf-community behind him where Jerry did not. (Looking at you, @malewifebillcage. I love you!!!!) Time will tell who emerges the bat region champion.

On the other side of the bracket, Ethan Hunt earned yet another blowout victory but now faces the winner of the Tom Cruise Baddie poll, Lestat. Personally, I'm kinda hoping Ethan manages not to get bitten. Maybe he can hop on a plane and rope climb his way to victory? No matter the outcome, we shall crown a King of Farm Boy Land (that's Wisconsin, for those not in the know) this coming week.

Oh, and last but not least, we have Jack Harper vs Bill Cage in the battle of the TC sci-fi film disney princesses. Or maybe I should say the TC sci-fi film disney princesses from the past fifteen years? We love Steven Spielberg in this house and I do not want to offend him. (I still haven't seen Minority Report. Don't tell him.)

That's all for today, folks! Stay tuned for links to all the polls. I love seeing your unhinged tags and replies, as always. <3

[shoesplease]

TC Blorbo Polls: FINAL FOUR INBOUND

I crack myself up with the basketball references.

(Edited because Tumblr ate half my post.)

ANYWAY hello, I'm not dead, I just literally forgot these existed amidst life and Mission: Impossible fanvidding and Tom Cruise movie watching. Which, speaking of, shameless plug to go check out my Ethan Hunt fanvid! It's my first attempt at real fanvidding in...a very long time so I'd love some feedback.

Continuing on: results! Maverick cruised (hehe, Cruised) to victory over Jack Reacher. I'm very sorry to the Other white-shirt-wearing, homeless Tom Cruise character but I think Mav is just too popular in these parts to be beat. Of course, going up against him is Danny Kaffee, and I'm going to be hunted down by @awkwxrdapple if Danny loses, so for my personal safety I have to hope Danny can pull a rabbit out of a hat. Or should I say a rabbit out of a bat? Seems more likely for Danny XD

On the other side of the bracket, Ethan Hunt beat out Lestat two votes to one, which is honestly impressive. Vampire fandom is verrrrry rabid (i love you all). And to @doodledrawreblogs and my eternal disappointment, our Disney princess Jack Harper lost to Bill Cage, who doesn't know what color the pink panther is. (I'm kidding, but also that's what @malewifebillcage's header says so am I really kidding?)

ANYWAY. We'll have a very disaster Navy matchup on one side and a very disaster-everything-else matchup on the other side. Tom Cruise's characters really are the best, folks.

Links here:

Mav vs Danny

Ethan vs Bill

[airlocksandaviaries]

LETS HEAR IT FOR BISEXUALITY!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Bisexuality 💖💜💙

Mav vs Ethan poll 4/4

[airlocksandaviaries]

Bisexuality 💖💜💙

Mav vs Ethan poll 4/4

[airlocksandaviaries]

Bratty meaning sassy subs ofc

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[airlocksandaviaries]

And Mav wins by a landslide 😏 I should have expected this tbh

Bratty meaning sassy subs ofc

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[airlocksandaviaries]

Thanks for playing everyone! I’m glad we could appreciate both of these character’s skills 😊

RIP to Mav tho 💀

Competent meaning capable and good at what they do.

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[airlocksandaviaries]

This caused some debate in the discord server, but in the end I think that based on the evidence Ethan has had more opportunities to be unhinged

Unhinged meaning insane and reckless.

Mav vs Ethan poll 2/4