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[sirgawainofgalifrey]

Feel free to ignore this, but you said you were taking requests, and I'm kind of missing the heyday of fradrian, so. :3

I have no idea what their actual height differences are but this is how I perceive them

[ninjigma]

Yautja Jedi Master Pia’itzi

Recovering from a real rough patch but hoping to be well enough to join in on Jedi June, which I figured meant it was about time to share my Jedi OC that I’ve been hiding a bit.

Always really nervous about OC sharing and such; but it has honestly been really fun designing this character and slowly making sketches to expand on him, and his life as a Jedi (plus my own headcannons and world building for the Yautja themselves hehe). So… I guess here is the first piece of the puzzle, a quick character sheet that I have been using for reference on the Jedi June art :3

Hope you enjoy! And if you have questions feel free to ask

[bloobydabloob]

When you answered the ask asking about your art style (which is a post I keep looking back on bc what you have to say is very interesting) in one of your screenshots of you talking you mention something about how most if not all of your symbolism is self referent and I was wondering what you meant by that!

Hellloooo. I’m glad you found my ranting interesting. Here is some Dirk art I’m probably never going to finish for your troubles.

What I meant by that when talking about any symbolism in my art is that it doesn’t reference outside sources - e.g. where some art might use something like religious concepts, animals, real life events to represent ideas, I tend to use things more like colors, contrasting objects, composition. That sort of thing. So things that are inherently a part of the work itself rather than connections to the real world. If I ever do use symbolism otherwise, it’s usually comic related even still. Although I have done pieces with religious symbolism before too, haha.

I don’t know how to describe it other than “self referential” because I’m not really sure what else to classify that sort of symbolism as. Just… artistic maybe? Non literal? I couldn’t say. I think it all basically just goes along with the majority of my art nowadays being more figurative than literal. Sorry if this doesn’t explain it very well. It’s also funny to think that anyone is “Looking back” on any of my texts posts though, haha. To me I feel like I am just dumping my words on my poor followers. Surprising. Thank you for reading.

[youredreamingofroo]

^ due to tumblr hating me, i cant upload the last gif and to combat that, i've linked the discord link for it in this last pic. this is the only way I can feasibly post this gif. Usually I wouldn't do this, but tumblr is annoying :) ^

You feel it too, right? The eyes

I lost the way back And I was swallowed in the night I felt drawn in Like a moth to candlelight An awful feeling Started creepin' over me And what I saw was like no horror I had seen Following eyes A sound in the night

↓ an hour before this... ↓

[vellichorom]

i s2g i feel like the only normal hato fan NOT being a papa/isa shipper get out of hEEREEE isa was like 14 or younger when they met.........

anyway here's my essay thinking about their relationship in any other context & IT'S RIGHT

[vikab]

for like fifteen usd on steam you too can experience 🤯 from the mind twists this vn provides

[ornithological]

obsessed with black grouse. why are they so eyebrows

[compacflt]

Would you ever consider writing about a different path Ice and Mav could take, one where they choose to leave the Navy and pursue a more open relationship and civilian life? Thinking it would be easier but maybe the sacrifice to their careers brings its own challenges?

(hi, jan 2024 me here, this was an ask that I answered when it was sent in in May 2023 & didn't post because I felt I actually answered it fictionally in the "icedad" one-shot the week after [and you can obviously see how these thoughts affected the writing of other pieces like "tremors & aftershocks"], but I still mostly agree with this take [though it's a little overgeneralizing] & I think it sums up a lot of my final "meta" modern-military-theory thoughts on ice & mav & their relationship, so im posting it now before I post the compacflt masterpoast)

see,… the thing is, i just… can’t see that happening!! i have no idea how to write that!!! Maybe i really do have a lack of imagination. But i can’t see that happening for a number of reasons. So short answer, no.

Long answer (and it’s long):

1. lame reason to start out, but it, uh, it’s canon that ice ends up at O-10 and mav ends up at O-6. not saying that im beholden to canon obviously (my mav ends up at O-7 and my ice ends up alive) but I do base my characterizations of them on the implications of the political struggles of both their careers so… taking away ice’s fourth star is basically starting from square one wrt my characterization of him. which is a lot of work. i could start from the beginning with a top gun 1986 ice who knows he’s gay—that would be a fun AU (i think other people than me have definitely done that better, though—I’m a one-trick pony). So if that’s what you mean then disregard the rest of this post. but if what you mean is a divergence from my existing work (i.e. homophobic/rank-climbing ice&mav) then… yeah, can’t see that happening, for further reasons below.

2. wrt my characterization of him: it’s based on a broad historical overview of armed service officers and the expectations of their careers. in my view, high-ranking officers aren’t after power—or maybe they started their careers wanting power, but somewhere down the line, it just becomes an expectation. if you do everything right and follow all the rules, you are expected by the institution to lead, whether you want to or not. That’s just the pipeline. at some point you start losing agency. which is what I mean when I keep saying ice doesn’t have a choice in advancing his career (besides the meta fact that this is fanfiction and canon demands that he have 4 stars lol)—high ranking military officers are continually and continually groomed for bigger and better positions; and the longer they spend in the military, the harder it is to leave that lifestyle for something else. And with ice’s canonical (and characteristically INTEGRAL, as I mentioned a week or so ago) refusal to rebel against the wishes of the navy as an institution, plus this historical expectation to lead placed upon the shoulders of excelling officers, I really do think ice is destined for four stars & nothing less, even if it gives him chronic depression. It’s his highest priority not because he wants it to be, but because…it just is. that’s how the institutionalized system of advancement in the military works. it just is. it has to be.

3. I mentioned in this post that I can’t ever see a foot in the door with them talking about their relationship unless maverick dies and is resurrected, and I feel the exact same way about them & their retirement plans. There’s a lot that ice and mav don’t talk about: the biggest one is obviously Goose’s death, the foundation of their relationship; but also their love for each other obv, what they did to rooster, AND their careers, which have to end at some point. Them talking about everything is totally inevitable, it was gonna have to happen eventually before they died, and I think one foot in the door MIGHT have been them eventually talking about retirement (someone sent in a prompt asking for this exactly & i am brainstorming it furiously) but before the Navy FORCES them to retire… i think they would studiously avoid talking about it. For a couple reasons: a) what does retiring with each other mean? living in the same house until they die together? hard to do if you’re just good friends. talking about retirement is tantamount to talking about Them. and b) what are they gonna do outside the navy? Ice has a lot of options, as I mentioned in the slider one-shot—general/flag officers are SUPER sought after in leadership/intelligentsia/management positions post service, so maybe if he were offered a crazy cool civilian position somewhere in San Diego in like the 2000s he would quit the navy for it… but what about maverick? I have no idea what a non-navy mav would do. Civilian airline pilot? Hoo boy. I think he’d hate that. I could maybe see emergency helicopter pilot, lol, or race car driver (i just watched days of thunder can you tell?) but none of the above offers the institutionalized honor the navy does (that, as a reminder, he *killed people* to obtain in the first place). I suggested his test piloting expertise would make him an attractive technical advising candidate to A&D companies like Boeing, LockMart, GD, etc. so that might be one option. But it might have been kind of a touchy subject for him before he racked up the expertise he’d need for those high-level civilian positions… the navy was kinda his only option. So they wouldn’t talk about it because it might hurt his feelings.

4. The biggest reason: again… open rebellion like rocking the boat by quitting the navy to be in an open long-term gay relationship, in upper mil brass ranks, and even retired upper mil brass ranks, just… isn’t done. And REALLY wasn’t done in the 2000s, when i think the scenario in this ask is positioned. And it’s not like “oh but whatever who cares about the navy, ice and mav are in love, they deserve to be happy no matter what, they should do what they want, fuck the navy…” no. Ice and Mav care about the navy. Clearly. Canonically. By necessity. The military requires cohesion and on some level repression of individuality & personal expression to FUNCTION, even when you’re retired. Yes, maverick certainly strains against that repression (which is why you Could spin top gun as an anti-military franchise if you were desperate enough), but he rebels through his ACTIONS (stupid plane maneuvers) not through his personal IDENTITY. his personal identity (headstrong overtly masculine white male pilot, whether gay or straight who cares) is NEVER challenged throughout the franchise (i.e. no one really challenges his masculinity specifically) & his personal identity does not POSE a challenge to the navy. Both he and ice in their outward-facing personal identities really fit in quite neatly to the navy’s overarching identity & contribute to the navy’s cohesion in a way that is favorable to both their careers and the establishment. Lack of imagination or not… i can’t see a universe in which Ice and mav would actively WANT to rock the boat and wreck the navy’s cohesion and their reputations for an open relationship and definitively rebellious personal identities, with the obvious caveat being Maverick’s death recontextualizing both their priorities (yes we’re in love AND we’ve finally proven ourselves to be ultra-capable officers regardless of our sexuality so no one has a license to judge us anymore etc.).

And also, they’re not enlisted seamen. Nor are they mediocre officers who have the luxury of fading into obscurity. Things are different when you’re that high in the ranks, and when your job publicly matters more. sorry, but even post DADT (probably until about biden’s election), an open relationship would end their careers. They might not be fired, but they’d never be promoted again. Too much of a liability getting subordinates to still respect them, from the higher-ups’ perspective, especially if there are other qualified candidates who fit the navy’s core identity better. Like—sorry. This is such a jaded oversimplification. But if you rock the boat like that (i.e. break the service’s united front to be individualistic in a way that does not match the service’s overarching identity), from the perspective of your officer peers, you simply are a bad officer. Being an open individual in a job where you are required to fit in and represent your service is not your job. You are not doing your job well. Straight-up. Even if you’re retired. I met US Army 4-star gen. David Petraeus (retired obv) in February—he led the successful-ish surge in iraq and Afghanistan in the mid-2000s—and he’s STILL a laughingstock for his disastrous affair with his biographer a decade ago, even after he retired from AD service. That’s what people remember him for, not the fact that he was one of our only successful commanders in any of our Middle East campaigns.

Something like that might be one of ice and mav’s worst fears—being known for their affair/scandal instead of the institutionalized honor they’ve fought and killed for. That kind of thing just Isn’t Done. It's bad taste. You have to keep it quiet. If you’re an officer representing the service, you have to represent it well & according to the service’s preconceived identity, even in retirement. (see, for another shitty example of "not fitting in" even in retirement, Lt. gen. Mike Flynn [his whole scandal is actually kinda geopolitically relevant to my fic if you squint lol] whom everyone fucking hates)

To summarize: i hope I’m not mischaracterizing your ask when i reframe it like this—would you ever write ice and mav without the institutionalized pressure to advance in rank and conform to institutional norms?

and yes, I would (and will if you ask—it looks like this: ice & mav meet & fall in love & it’s boring and fine. end of story), but I guarantee you someone else already has. I’m all about interrogation of institutional norms here. And i think until maverick dies & comes back from the dead, there is absolutely no *REALISTIC* incentive for ice & mav to leave the navy and/or have an open relationship. Like it’s just not possible. Idk how else to say it.

[sasster]

i hope you all have a beautiful day today okay? :3

[rainingmbappe]

The rise of "let people enjoy things" is single handedly the backbone of the rise of anti intellectualism

[welcometogrouchland]

Steph on a desperate quest to get Damian to unwillingly incorporate informal gotham-isms into his speech by using "jabroni" in every other sentence

[smolcinnamonchipmunk]

[midnaurs]

Top 10 old films:

1) The Children's Hour (1961)

2) Queen Christina (1933)

3) Camille (1936)

4) What A Way To Go! (1964)

5) Ninotchka (1939)

6) Roman Holiday (1953)

7) Love In The Afternoon (1957)

8) The Nun's Story (1959)

9) Funny Face (1957)

10) Grand Hotel (1932)

Top 10 modern films:

1) Carol (2015)

2) The Addams Family (1991)

3) Mean Girls (2004)

4) Ocean's 8 (2018)

5) Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

6) D.E.B.S. (2004)

7) Wicked (2024)

8) Steel Magnolias (1989)

9) Beetlejuice (1988)

10) Saving Face (2004)

[nooripoori]

hehe luca/pecco 11😁

not sure i understood the assignment but here’s my best shot.

pecco/luca

~in secrecy

word count : 859

They don’t get much time together nowadays and with luca no longer being a ducati rider, their time together has been scarce. Pecco can count on one hand how many times he and luca have had more that 5 minutes of peace, it’s always that one of them has a schedule and vice versa. Also with their garage’s being on two ends of the paddock they can’t even visit eachother between meetings for a minute or two. Which is why pecco has a plan, he knows luca’s meeting ends in 10 minutes and then he is gonna go straight to his trailer to change into casual clothes for the team dinner he has in a while. So, pecco is going to fake feeling unwell to get out of his meeting, he was p1 in both practices they can cut him some slack, and go to luca’s trailer(and ofcourse he already has a key).

It’s been 12 minutes since pecco has been waiting in luca’s trailer and exactly 2 minutes since luca’s meeting should have ended so he knows luca is gonna be here any second now. And just like that he hears the door opening and then the click of the door closing, standing up from the bed pecco goes to see luca who has his back turned to him and is taking off his shoes, quickly but stealthy pecco goes and back hugs him. He can feel as luca flinches but quickly relaxes and turns around.

“What are you doing here?”, luca asks with a smile adorning his face.

“What can’t a person visit his boyfriend anymore?”, pecco teases.

”Stop teasing”, luca’s face turns red, he always gets shy when pecco calls him his boyfriend.

Pecco cups luca’s face and raises it to meet his eyes, despite luca being the taller of the two he always had the ability to make himself seem smaller around pecco, they don’t know how long they stand there just staring into each other’s eyes and taking the other one in. It truly has been too long, but ofcourse the peace cant last too long because pecco’s phone starts ringing. Letting out a groan pecco takes out his phone,”it’s my sister”, pecco says looking at luca to see if he can attend the call, with a nod from luca he attends it.

Luca’s not even paying attention as to what pecco is talking about with his sister on the phone except that it is getting long and he’s getting bored just standing here, so like any mature person luca hides his face in pecco’s neck and starts leaving small feather light kisses there. He stops when he feels pecco gasp but when he doesn’t make a move to stop him luca just continues kissing from the bottom of his neck to his ear. Gently takes pecco’s earlobe in his mouth and grazes it between his teeth, can feel pecco’s breath stuttering and feels pecco’s free hand hold his waist to steady himself. Continues his ministrations for awhile and is just lost in the feeling of pecco’s body near him that he doesn’t even hear pecco end the call until a hand comes up to cup his cheek from where he was sucking a love bite near pecco’s collarbone.

“Are you done?”, pecco’s says trying to act like he wasn’t affected but was a bit breathless.

“Hmm. i don’t know”, luca says going back to kissing along pecco’s collarbone.

Just then pecco takes luca’s face and kisses him and luca can feel himself sigh into the kiss, it has been too long. They continue for awhile when someone knocks on the door of luca’s trailer making them break apart.

“Luca are you ready? The team is ready to leave for the dinner.”, luca hears his trainer say.

Clearing his throat luca says,”Yeah just give me five minutes.”

Hearing a ok from his trainer luca leads pecco to his room,”looks like i gotta go”, luca says looking downcast.

“Hey we’ll meet again tomorrow i promise,” pecco says leaving a kiss on luca’s temple.

Slowly untangling himself pecco’s arms luca scurries around to change his clothes.

Standing infront of the door he can hear his trainer pacing outside the door, luca turns around and gives pecco one last hug and just as he turns around to leave the trailer pecco turns him back around and pull him down into a kiss. It’s slow and calm unlike the urgency luca was feeling a few minutes ago. Kissing pecco has always been like that for luca, it’s like the whole world vanishes away and it’s just the two of them in the secrecy of their own world, and no one can do or say anything to them.

But at the end of the day they both have busy lives and luca can hear his trainers footsteps slowing meaning he’s getting impatient, luca for the second time that day slowly untangles himself from pecco’s arms and with the promise that they will meet again tomorrow no matter what he turns around and leaves.

Pecco stands in the lobby(?) of luca’s trailer and sighs he’s gonna have to wait for the paddock to clear a bit for him to quietly leave without getting asked questions. He turns around, goes to luca’s bed and falls face first into it, today has been a great but exhausting day.

Send me a Ship and a Number and I will Write a Kiss

[unitleada]

So that's why you stopped coming home. The words rung in her ears long after she'd slammed her phone onto the table and sat down, head in her hands. 'Does Moira know Kate? No, it's alright. I'll tell her. One of us is just a wee bit more trustworthy when it comes to these things.' She should've seen it coming. She should've prepared for it. Stupidly idiotic not to have. Who'd been the one to break the news she wondered. Because apparently, they'd seen fit to put their own spin on it. There were a half a dozen names she could think of who would have loved to cause this, each a more crass, gossip mongering little... The knock at the door jolted her to her senses, hurriedly dropping her hands away. The door opened. Her heart sank as she saw him standing there. She had to tell him. No way around it. Hullo darling. I know you prefer the quiet life but I've caused a bit of a mess... nasty rumours and the like. ❝ She knows. ❞ Kate swallowed thickly, realising she'd said too much and not enough in the same breath. A small, bitter smile, gesturing for him to sit. God please do sit down. ❝ Sorry, I'm not making any sense. ... it's. it's Siobhan. She knows. About us. Well, not exactly. There's more... ❞

@strtravels