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crossthread · 5 months ago

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No jokes here. The Navy’s best pilot and the Navy’s best admiral. Between them, eight air-to-air combat kills and five stars. These were men who commanded respect with or without your approval. This was the picture of ruthless competence.

Debriefing (& Other Stories) • part 2 of Easier Done Than Said by @compacflt

#easier done than said by COMPACFLT #this is one of my alltime favourite fics rn #and probably for the rest of time too #its a topgun fic written by COMPACFLT and its insane and its so fucking good #its basically a canon rewrite of #top gun 1986 #and #top gun maverick #and spans thirty years of Ice and Mavs relationship #theres just so much in this #so much emotion and characterization and everything #which has driven me insane that im having one hell of a dopamine comedown this week after having read it #i highly reccomended people go read it cause its just really that good #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #bradley rooster bradshaw #jake hangman seresin #i love how the commander wrote mav and ice in this. like theyre clearly military men #but theyre also SO much more #icemav #and theyve taken the canon 'whos the best pilot' and given its own twist #'hes the best pilot in the world'#my heart cant take it anymore #i know im making this sound like 100k words of just fluff but believe me its not #its 30 years of pain and internalised homophobia and time away and falling in love and raising a kid and not once talking about any of it #but the ending is so so so good and the additional parts from different povs literally left me wanting more #i cant do this someone help me go read this go read this go read this #and come cry with me how we cant ever read this for the first time ever again #also shoutout to the commander once again for the insane amount of preplanning and research into the navy theyve done to write this fic #im forver thankful. sorry im a stalker

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