#icemav (tangentially)

[brabe]

extremely amused by the idea of jack ross eventually becoming staff judge advocate to the commandant (apparently the highest rank you can get as a military lawyer in the marines), and him bailing danny out all along the way when he inevitably pisses off someone too important in court à la iceman and maverick lmao. of course they're married.

[compacflt]

While I was reading your slider oneshot for the third time (sooooo good btw, i cant say enough how much i love your writing), I kept thinking about Ice and Sliders conversation about Carole-[“Me and Carole?” Ice said, thinking it over. He smiled his bitter, bashful smile— “Yeah, we might’ve worked out, once. I won’t get into the details. We tried it out. But I don’t think the timing was right.”]-What is Ice referencing here?? Is he referring to when Carole kissed him? Or did I miss something (entirely possible tbh)? I really felt like Mav when I read that scene ["What do Admiral Kazansky and Carole Bradshaw get up to when he doesn’t know about it?"]

The parallel of Mav being [redacted] with Goose and Carole liking/loving/pining for Ice. Wow! So deliciously complex. What an interesting little love square they have going on. Bradley and his four parents.

But man...Carole really is such a tragic figure in both canon and your fic. But I really really love the depth of emotion that you give her in the glimpses that we get. Her relationships with both Mav and Ice are so interesting and layered. They just feel very real. I really really loved the gimpse of her point of view you gave us in the Dad!Ice fic (the half empty box of cigarettes!! I still think about that)

this is such a sweet ask. thank you. yes he was referring to her kissing him (not really “trying it out,” to be fair, but he’s also trying to “prove” to slider that he’s still interested in women, so he’s using even the most tangential of evidence and holding it up like “see? See? not gonna give you all the details but Trust Me bro we tried it out😎”)

& also here’s from my notes in my printed-out copy of my fics from last OCTOBER (whoa). Referring to the scene in the hospital when Carole gives ice & maverick the instructions to pull Bradley’s USNA app & suggests she & ice have discussed it previously (they haven’t).

Carole is pretty much the only person who is around both Ice & mav enough to know the truth of who they are. (Slider also recognizes this— “ice let Carole Bradshaw see his happiness but not slider… :( que cruel”. And the whole “she is literally the only camera capturing icemav’s happiness on film for the historical record” section of slider

.) And Carole therefore is the only person to whom ice quite literally cannot deny that he & maverick are together, because she… has eyes. And is their best friend. and they’re raising her kid with her. So that sets her up as like a confessional character, in that ice HAS to be truthful with her in a way he isn’t with anyone else, including… his literal boyfriend maverick. so it’s a pretty easy leap for Maverick to be like, It’s a given that ice does not honestly want to be with me, a man -> but he is honest about his feelings with Carole, a woman who has expressed interest in him, behind my back (“what do admiral Kazansky & Carole Bradshaw get up to when he doesn’t know about it?”) -> Omg they’re having a heterosexual emotional affair. Which, like, they totally might be? which is why i keep going back to the *possibility* that they might have worked out once, had it not been for the simultaneous timing of ice falling in love with maverick, since ice is also Bradley’s no. 1 dad figure in my story. Which slider points out.

From a heterosexual family planning perspective, ice & Carole together just kinda makes sense. In a way that everyone in the story recognizes, for better or worse.

[boasamishipper]

2021 Year-End Fic Review

Tagged by @connorswhisk and @hacash - thanks guys!

How many stories did you complete?

16 (probably 30 if you count Tumblr-exclusive drabbles). Not bad considering I was working on completing my grad applications for half the year.

What is your total word count for the year?

211251 words :elmofire:

What fandoms did you write in this year?

Ted Lasso, What We Do In The Shadows (TV), Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick, Mission: Impossible, WandaVision.

Did you write more, less, or roughly about what you expected?

Way way more - over 100k of the words I wrote this year were for Ted Lasso, which I did not expect to get so into. The muse wants what it wants.

What’s your own favorite story of the year?

When I See Your Light Shine, the first story of my Bantrverse (in which Sam matches with Dani on Bantr, not Rebecca). I wrote all 18.6k of it in nine days and had an absolute blast doing so (and rambling with @brainrot-time about it).

What is your most underappreciated story of the year?

Falling Free, Landing Hard. I wrote it for @academicgangster for the Black is Beautiful exchange back in February, and though I didn’t expect it to attract much attention, I was still hoping it’d get a bigger reaction than it did - I think it’s one of the best fics I wrote this year.

Biggest fanfic-related disappointment of 2021?

This is only tangentially fanfic-related, but TG:M getting postponed Yet Again was a major blow creatively-speaking - I haven’t written anything substantial for TG or Icemav since September and probably won’t until the movie comes out, which is sad because I do miss writing my boys.

Biggest fanfic-related surprise of 2021?

The fact that WISYLS and my other Robisanya fics received any attention at all. I’m very used to being all alone in my rare pair canoes, but I’m beyond thrilled to have roped people into enjoying Robisanya alongside me.

Something you’re looking forward to working on in 2022?

More Ted Lasso fic, for sure. I’ve got a ton of ideas percolating, including but not limited to:

more fics in my Bantrverse

Sam/Dani time loop au

Sam/Dani fwbs au where Dani plays for Man City

“five times Sam and Dani had sex somewhere they weren’t supposed to, and one time they made it to a bed”

Richard/Thierry first date fic (as part of @hacash’s Misadventures series)

Roy&Thierry fic that focuses on their (very different) relationships with Judaism

Roy&Sam fic that focuses on their first meeting

Tedbecca fake dating au

Trent/Sharon accidental romcom

I’m also looking forward to writing more of my Benji/Ethan Terminator AU, my Monica/Jimmy post-WandaVision fic, and more TG fics (Icemav and Goosecarole) if TG:M ever actually comes out.

Tagging @academicgangster @naturallyoccurringminotaur @raayllum @rochc93 @dorsalfin @themardia and anyone else who has written fic this year and wants to do it :D