#Val's memoir

[blueeyeddarkknight]

Val & Mare winnigham (Val's first girlfriend 🥰)

From high school sweethearts to life-long friends

Source : Larryaltmayer on ig

Can u spot da babies? 😃

Source :Brad Koepenick

Val and Mare with acting club at Chatsworth high school in 1976 :

Source : Ed Tobin on Facebook

Source : Val documentary

Source :Brad Koepenick

Val & mare worked together on "one too many"

[compacflt]

Marlon Brando huh? Took some inspiration from Val Kilmer's real life obsession with him?

*controversial opinion, Val sometimes pings my gaydar. low-key would not be surprised he's fooled around with a guy at least once. unlike TC who despite the rumors has never once pinged my gaydar.

i actually did not know Val was obsessed with Brando. Whoa. i try to know as little about actors’ personal lives as possible because they are usually disappointing and cringe. pretty much the only thing i really know for sure about val’s/tc’s personal life is that they both independently fucked Cher (?)

the brando things been in my head since day one no joke—this was one of the first scenes i wrote of the fic, it actually predates ice’s mega-repression & me finding a solid writing style for ice so it’s written fucking weird as shit for no real reason

in the right lighting and minus some masculine jawbone i feel like tc does kinda look like brando a little maybe?

100% there with you re: tc/val on the gaydar. 100% agreed. Val’s too weird to be 100% straight

[mysticaldeanvoidhorse]

What is more incredible than a woman being all she can be? That's it for me

-Val Kilmer (I'm Your Huckleberry)

[on his wife giving birth]

[babygirllinds]

I went out for an early birthday lunch and shopping trip with my best friend (because she’s going to be gone the day of my birthday) and ended up fueling my squishmallow addiction and Val Kilmer addiction 😌

are you ready for the best part?

my cute lil piggy’s name is Peter (and he’s my fav color pink). So this is now my Mav pig and no one can convince me otherwise 🤭💗🐷

[serenfire]

if i thought the prozac was working last week…well. i hadn’t seen NOTHING yet. last night i slept eight full hours and then woke up and have read 2.5 books. i’ve been reading since 11am

[vals-memoir]

★ Monday, 29 July, 2024

made this blog after thinking about it for a while (yippee!) and I think I'll enjoy it, but most likely struggle with posting each day lol

I did some baking today- tried to make edible cookie dough, but added too much sugar (oops), and made some really nice savoury muffins :)

was going to go for a walk, but the weather was shit, so I might go tomorrow,

» 9:16PM

[mysticaldeanvoidhorse]

Oh man, what a legend. What a privilege to see inside this man's mind. He is funny, kind, very honest, self aware, and philosophical. Is there anything this man isn't or can't do? Love ya Val

I finished reading I’m your huckleberry by Val Kilmer and it was so good. I didn’t want to put it down. He had so many fun behind the scenes stories and little notes. It was like getting to delve into Val’s mind and understand him a little more and the characters that he has played

[library-child]

@thefinaljediknight, thanks for the tag!

Last reads: I've just finished 'Dune' by Frank Herbert and I really enjoyed it. There's such a pervasive sense of doom throughout the entire book.

Current reads: Nearly done with 'Als ich ein kleiner Junge war' (meaning 'When I was a little boy', there seems to be no English version) by Erich Kästner. A super heart-felt and witty memoir.

Next reads: Spooky season is upon us, so I'll pick up the one creepy book from my TBR, which is 'The White Dominican' by Gustav Meyrink. And I need to check out some horror fanfiction.

Tagging: @al-val-meadow, @volunteerfelinedetectives, @snowdropnature, @dragoneyes618, @cleverqueencommander, @jacobsnicket, @acacia-may, @virginian-wolfsnake, @wimplee, @insane-author, and anyone I forgot and/or feels free to join. 😊

[priropro]

Parfum Nostalgique Act 1

Releases on Steam July 18th!

Meet Val, a 265-year-old therapist-by-day dom-by-night vampire, and all his whimsical friends in Parfum Nostalgique Act 1, the first installment of the fantastic, dramatic, romantic, traumatic memoirs of New York's own immortal loverboy. ✨️ ❤️

Kinetic visual novel! No choices, just relax and read.

Drama and art style a la classic shoujo and josei manga

Original soundtrack

Majority trans cast of characters and voice actors

Made by a sole developer who worked his ass off on art, story, coding, music, casting, recording, etc!

Wishlist it HERE

[thefreelanceangel]

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BOLD genres your character reads. Italicize genres your character occasionally peruses.

Tagged By: @arty-ffxiv (Specifically for Summer, as requested!)

Tagging: @bogaffxiv; @luck-and-larceny; @dumb-hat; @chainsofaether; @argentrenard

@azems-familiar; @fair-fae; @its-the-val-pal; @tsunael; @ishgard

@sasslett; @archaiclumina; @zylphiacrowley; @sundered-souls; @uldahstreetrat

And anyone else who wants to indulge in book genres!

[luck-and-larceny]

Tagged: Literature Edition

Bold what applies to your character!

STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

ᴄᴏʙʙʟᴇsᴛᴏɴᴇ sᴛʀᴇᴇᴛs / ʟᴀᴍᴘs sʜɪɴɪɴɢ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ғᴏɢ / ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʀᴍᴛʜ ᴏғ ᴀ ғɪʀᴇᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ / ᴜɴᴏᴘᴇɴᴇᴅ ʙᴏᴛᴛʟᴇs ᴏғ ᴡɪɴᴇ / ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴇɴsɪᴏɴ ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜɪɴɢs sᴇᴇᴍ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴛʀᴜʟʏ ᴀʀᴇ / ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴇᴀᴅʏ ᴛʜʀɪʟʟ ᴏғ ғʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ / ᴘᴀɴɪᴄ ᴏғ ʟᴏsɪɴɢ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟ / ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀᴠᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ / ɢᴜɪʟᴛʏ ᴠɪᴄᴇs / ᴛᴏᴘ ʜᴀᴛs ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀʟᴋɪɴɢ sᴛɪᴄᴋs / sᴇʟғ-ᴅᴇsᴛʀᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ / ᴏʟᴅ ᴅᴏᴄᴜᴍᴇɴᴛs ᴛᴜᴄᴋᴇᴅ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ɪɴ sᴀғᴇs.

FRANKENSTEIN, OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS

ʀᴀɪɴ ʜɪᴛᴛɪɴɢ ᴀ ᴡɪɴᴅᴏᴡᴘᴀɴᴇ / ᴄᴀɴᴅʟᴇs ʙᴜʀɴɪɴɢ ʟᴏᴡ / ᴍᴏᴜɴᴛᴀɪɴ ʀᴀɴɢᴇs ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴡʜɪᴛᴇ, sɴᴏᴡʏ ᴛᴏᴘs / ғʀᴇɴᴢɪᴇᴅ ᴏʙsᴇssɪᴏɴ / ᴀ ᴄᴇᴍᴇᴛᴇʀʏ ᴀᴛ ᴅᴜsᴋ / sʟᴀᴜɢʜᴛᴇʀʜᴏᴜsᴇs / ᴀʟʟ-ᴄᴏɴsᴜᴍɪɴɢ ᴛʜɪʀsᴛ ғᴏʀ ʀᴇᴠᴇɴɢᴇ / ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴀssɪᴏɴ ᴛᴜʀɴᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʙɪᴛᴛᴇʀɴᴇss ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴀᴛʀᴇᴅ / ᴀ sᴇɴsᴇ ᴏғ ᴅᴜᴛʏ ᴡᴇɪɢʜɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ sʜᴏᴜʟᴅᴇʀs /ɪɴᴇsᴄᴀᴘᴀʙʟᴇ ɢᴜɪʟᴛ / ᴛʜᴇ ғʀᴏᴢᴇɴ ᴡᴀsᴛᴇs ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀᴄᴛɪᴄ ᴄɪʀᴄʟᴇ/ ᴛʜᴇ ғᴇᴇʟɪɴɢ ᴏғ sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ ʙʀᴇᴀᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ɴᴇᴄᴋ / ʟɪɢʜ���ɪɴɢ sᴘᴀʀᴋɪɴɢ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜᴇ sᴋʏ.

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

ᴇʀᴏᴛɪᴄ ʟᴏɴɢɪɴɢ / ᴘᴀɪɴᴛ ᴏɴ ᴀ ᴘᴀʟᴇᴛᴛᴇ / ɢᴏʟᴅᴇɴ ᴄᴜʀʟs ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴏsʏ ᴄʜᴇᴇᴋs / ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇsᴘᴇʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴛᴏ ᴄʟɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜᴛʜ / ʙᴇᴇs ʟᴀᴢɪʟʏ ᴅʀɪғᴛɪɴɢ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴀss / ʜᴇᴅᴏɴɪsᴍ / ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴀᴄᴋɴᴇss ᴏғ ᴀ sᴏᴜʟ / ᴀ ᴅᴜsᴛʏ ᴀᴛᴛɪᴄ / ʜɪᴅɪɴɢ sᴇᴄʀᴇᴛs / ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴘᴏᴏʟɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ғʟᴏᴏʀʙᴏᴀʀᴅs / ɢᴜᴛ-ᴡʀᴇɴᴄʜɪɴɢ ᴊᴇᴀʟᴏᴜsʏ / ᴀ ᴅɪᴍʟʏ-ʟɪᴛ sᴛᴀɢᴇ / ᴛᴇᴍᴘᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴄᴏʀʀᴜᴘᴛɪᴏɴ.

THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS AND CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER

ᴄʟɪғғs ʀɪsɪɴɢ ᴜᴘ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʟᴏᴜᴅs / sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ ᴀᴍʙɪɢᴜᴏᴜsʟʏ sᴜᴘᴇʀɴᴀᴛᴜʀᴀʟ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs ʟᴜʀᴋɪɴɢ / ᴇᴅɪɴʙᴜʀɢʜ’s ᴡɪɴᴅɪɴɢ sᴛʀᴇᴇᴛs / ʀᴇʟɪɢɪᴏᴜs ᴢᴇᴀʟᴏᴛʀʏ / ᴄᴀʀᴇғᴜʟ ᴍᴀɴɪᴘᴜʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ / ғᴀᴍɪʟʏ ʀɪᴠᴀʟʀʏ / ᴀ ʙɪʙʟᴇ ᴡʀɪᴛᴛᴇɴ ɪɴ ᴀɴ ɪɴᴅɪsᴛɪɴɢᴜɪsʜᴀʙʟᴇ ʟᴀɴɢᴜᴀɢᴇ / ᴀ ғᴀᴄᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ’s ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ sʜɪғᴛɪɴɢ / sᴄᴏᴛᴛɪsʜ ʟᴀɪʀᴅs / sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴅᴇᴍᴏɴɪᴄ ᴍᴀsǫᴜᴇʀᴀᴅɪɴɢ ᴀs sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴘᴜʀᴇ.

DRACULA

ʟᴇᴛᴛᴇʀs ᴀɴᴅ ᴅɪᴀʀɪᴇs / sᴜɪᴛᴏʀs ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛɪɴɢ ᴀ ʟᴀᴅʏ / ᴄᴀsᴛʟᴇs ɴᴇsᴛʟᴇᴅ ᴅᴇᴇᴘ ᴡɪᴛʜɪɴ ғᴏʀᴇsᴛs ᴀɴᴅ ᴍᴏᴜɴᴛᴀɪɴs / ᴛᴇʀʀᴏʀ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ / ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏᴡʟɪɴɢ ᴏғ ᴡᴏʟᴠᴇs / ᴀʀɪsᴛᴏᴄʀᴀᴛs ғʀᴏᴍ ᴏʟᴅᴇɴ ᴛɪᴍᴇs / ᴀ ᴄᴏɴsᴜᴍɪɴɢ ʜᴜɴɢᴇʀ / ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ʀɪsɪɴɢ / ʜᴏʀsᴇs’ ʜᴏᴏᴠᴇs ᴛʜᴜɴᴅᴇʀɪɴɢ ᴀʟᴏɴɢ ᴀ ᴘᴀᴛʜ / ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ sᴛᴀɪɴɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ sɴᴏᴡ / ᴄʀᴜᴄɪғɪxᴇs ᴡᴀʀᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғғ ᴇᴠɪʟ.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

ғᴏɢ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴏʀs / ᴇᴍʙʀᴀᴄɪɴɢ ᴏɴᴇ ᴡʜᴏ ɪs ᴀʟʀᴇᴀᴅʏ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ / ᴀ ᴄʏᴄʟᴇ ᴏғ ᴀʙᴜsᴇ / ᴠɪᴄɪᴏᴜs, sɴᴀʀʟɪɴɢ ᴅᴏɢs / ᴀ ʜᴏᴜsᴇ ʟᴇғᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴜɪɴ / ᴀ ᴛʜᴏʀɴ ᴀᴍᴏɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴏsᴇs / ᴛᴏxɪᴄ ʟᴏᴠᴇ / ɢʜᴏsᴛs / ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏᴡʟɪɴɢ ᴡɪɴᴅ / ғʟᴏᴡᴇʀs ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴅɪᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴇɢᴜɴ ᴛᴏ ʀᴏᴛ / ᴡᴀsᴛɪɴɢ ᴀᴡᴀʏ / ᴀ ᴠᴏɪᴄᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ’ᴛ ɪᴅᴇɴᴛɪғʏ.

Well, this is just super rad. I've been kind of the opposite of active on here lately (thank you, queue, for doing the heavy lifting for me), but this is NEAT so I stepped away from work for 10 minutes to do it. Model employee! Tagged by: @thefreelanceangel (thanks!) Tagging: Hmm. My usual suspects have already been tagged. I will come back to this after work! Edit: Now with tags! I can still tag alts; there's no law saying I can't. @dumb-hat, @faustinebellamy, @the-sycophant, @tough-bit-of-fluff, @alannah-corvaine, @sasslett, @the-wanted-man, @chainsofaether, @fair-fae, @its-the-val-pal, @it-maple-moff, @unabashedrebel, @rylen-ashworth, @archivumesoterica, and people like you (and, specifically, you).

[blueeyeddarkknight]

Take your kid to work day on the tombstone set 🥹❤️😂

Mercedes with baba Doc (Source :I'm your huckleberry memoir) 🥹😍

Wyatt Russell thought it was interesting that his name was in the script 😂🥺 (Source : ET on youtube)

[compacflt]

have you ever considered writing more about icemav's respective childhoods? i'm always thinking about val kilmer saying in his memoir and documentary that he had obsessive dreams about ice's father who made him feel he had to prove himself as The Absolute Ideal Man and that the interactions he dreamt about between ice and his dad surely "imbued ice with greater fury" and his obsession with perfection made him arrogant.

yeah i go into ice’s childhood a little in my slider one shot since they’re right out of high school when they meet. But val and I took it in two completely different directions. Val’s ice has daddy issues and a poor relationship with his father (extrapolating from excerpt above); my ice has lack-of-daddy-issues and NO relationship with his father. No dad = no man to model himself on = overcompensating. When I said, in mavericks POV (debriefing), that ice “clearly doesn’t know how to talk to other men,” I meant that with my whole chest.

i appreciate Val’s insight, and I’m not sure when his memoir was published, but i think TG86 Ice is complicated DEEPLY by his plot-necessary accession to COMPACFLT in TGM22. At least for me, his end rank of O-10 casts him in a totally different light. It implies that what he wants is not necessarily to be “The Ideal Man,” he wants to be The Ideal OFFICER. And there’s a lot of data to back up that claim in Top Gun 86, too: he’s so gentle with Maverick, even when he’s trying to intimidate him (take the intonation of “I heard that about you. You like to work alone,” for example—is that how you’d say that if you were trying to piss someone off?); and there’s also the fact that two of the five times Ice talks directly to Maverick are explicitly about his safety practices and how they affect the safety of the TEAM (“Who was covering Cougar while you were showboating with this MiG?” / “I don’t like you because you’re dangerous.”). I said in a post last week that I don’t think Ice is a team player—but a good OFFICER doesn’t have to be a team player to make sure that the rules are followed and everyone stays safe. I think if Ice were trying to be The Ideal Man, he’d look a lot more like super-cool bad-ass rule-breaker MAVERICK (the buff daredevil male protagonist of a pro-military propaganda movie), who is canonically overcompensating for HIS relationship with his father/his incredibly unhealthy toxic masculinity.

So, yeah. that’s just how i see it. Again, idk when Val’s memoir was published—the writers of TG and TGM treat Ice as a character very differently, and both characterizations necessarily reflect on the other. I did not get the sense that TGM Ice was “imbued with fury,” for instance. So I think Ice trying to be/feeling pressured to be the best OFFICER makes more sense in light of TGM than Ice trying to be/feeling pressured to be the best MAN.

I feel very shrug about mav’s childhood. Kinda seems like he got over that in TG86. He got to save his team the way his dad did, AND lived to tell the tale. Yay. His development’s pretty much done for the franchise.

[mysticaldeanvoidhorse]

So yes, I've seen redemption. The only thing holier than a crucifixion is a resurrection

-Val Kilmer (I'm your huckleberry)

[icemankazansky]

I see you wrote an MFA thesis on Val Kilmer. Are you willing to share the premise here? -dying of curiosity

I like to say my thesis is part memoir and part field guide. It uses Val Kilmer and his film characters (and my own experience) to explain bipolar disorder.

You can find a more thorough explanation and an excerpt here.

[doomcd]

**welcome to marina, VALERIYA KOTOVA ( ciswoman, she/her ) ! they are a 27 year old who has lived on the island for 2 MONTHS. word on the street is they’re currently living in TOWER HILL and work as a DJ. everyone also says they look a lot like CINDY KIMBERLY. what do you think?

NAME:  valeriya antonova kotova.   NICKNAMES: lera. v. val. koshka. and if you’re her mom, lerusya. lerunya. lerukha. leka. le…. AGE:  twenty seven.  GENDER & PRONOUNS: cis woman, she/her.   OCCUPATION: dj SEXUALITY: bisexual ZODIAC: sagittarius sun, capricorn moon, scorpio rising.   TATTOOS: все хо��ошо ( everything’s okay ) on her wrist, a silhouette of a black cat in between her shoulder blades, various flash tattoos she’s gotten with friends ( and strangers ), a few drunken stick n pokes here and there—her favorite being a wonky pair of headphones on her ankle, the word ‘connect’ on her ribs, probably some others PIERCINGS: a nose ring, two in each earlobe and on her right side a stacked lobe, tragus piercing, daith piercing, and industrial piercing

PINTEREST | BIO (under construction) | CONNECTIONS (under construction)

academia to disc jockey pipeline. plant-based. five books going at once in various states of annotation on her nightstand. marlboro reds. this isn’t house, it’s techno. ‘this one time when i was studying with this spiritualist church in the midwest…’ leaving the world a better than we found it. of course i'll go halves on a bag. thinking about the panopticon. was told by mother ayahuasca 'there's nothing to work on right now, come back later.' slipping into an accent she lost years ago. thinks you should try microdosing. is dying to pickle the produce you’re about to waste. dirty martini, extra olives. do it for the memoir.