#mav does art

[mav-doodles]

So that new Atraks lore huh

[da-millerrrrr]

oh my god does anyone have a picture of mattias's boss sprite that i can use as reference

i'm begging rn

[frozen-seagrass]

Morning glow

[eliashirsch]

Drunk Iceman Is A Different Beast (3/3)

they're so in love TT when is it my turn TT.TT

click here for part 1 // part 2

[adelphenium]

so uhh..... i was looking through halloween couple costumes and i just...... erm.....

yeah top gun sid + claude >.<

[maverickcanine]

prince lucian, my little lavertus clone (/J HE'S NOT A REAL CLONE). it's like all of those potential genetics skipped laval and when straight to him.

while landyn is often in her own world, lucian is much more aware of the world around him. he's a thinker but in an "analyzing people and situations" kind of way. the world is just a puzzle to him.

i don't have a ton to say because i feel like i've said the most about him so far! but i love him

[thwackk]

here is my spiderverse oc (ft. a few other important characters) uhmmmm yeah.

the cat is Batman btw

[polar-equinoxx]

You so prettyy <33

- Mav

[stopthatfool]

Concerning getting to know one's fic writer, inquiring minds must know: 8, 16 & 18

Inquiring minds would also like you to choose one question you're hoping someone will ask and answer it! (It always pains me when I desperately want to discuss something, but the prompt is never picked! So, pick that question! :])

Thank youu, I can't wait to learn more about your writing process!! <3

Woodsy!! Thank you so much for the ask (omg i'm so excited to answer these)!!

8. Do you prefer the beginning, middle, or ending of a story?

Hmmmm... I think when it comes to fic writing I like the middle. Because i can just keep adding things and I don't have to worry about tying it all together to actually mean something. And the beginning is very intimidating. It's like the first page of new notebook or sketchbook. And the ending is very scary too, cuz that means it's over!

It's interesting though because whenever I watch movies, TV shows etc., etc., I always like the first movie/episode/season the best!

16. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

I have kind of a one track mind when it comes to writing, so I'm pretty much only thinking of Your jeep. Your teeth. The coffee that you bought me. and that 'universe' (omfg why did i pick such a long name). BUT! I have been playing around with the idea of telling this story through the perspective of Ice... I would love to get up all inside his head and figure him out!

I've also been thinking about like a 'prequel' to this story. Like what happened in '86 and when 'my' Mav and Ice taught at TOP GUN together. I, of course, have ideas and I have alluded to what their relationship looked like in flashbacks and some of Mav's internal monologue, but I think eventually I would love to actually put it in writing and map it all out.

18. Do you title your fics before, during, or after the writing process? How do you come up with these titles?

I came up with the title of this fanfic during the writing process! And all of the titles are lines from Richard Siken's Crush-- which i had just finished rereading as I was writing the first part of the first chapter. The line "Your jeep. Your teeth. The coffee that you bought me." really stuck out to me as I was thinking about IceMav, because I've always really liked Val Kilmer's teeth (which sounds weird as i type it out.... but it's purely from an artistic standpoint and fascination). So the jeep that Ice has in the fic, along with the coffee scene after Mav is let out from the hospital were really inspired from this line!

As for the chapter titles, I decided to keep going with the Richard Siken theme. Whenever I need a break from writing, typing, or editing, that's when I begin to brainstorm chapter titles. I'll look back at my fav lines that I wrote down, or I'll just straight up reread poems to find something that fits whatever things are happening in that chapter.

Initially, chapter 6's title was "Dear Forgiveness, I saved a plate for you" because of the first scene when Mav holds out a plate for Bradley. It wasn't until guns were brought up for like the third time that I changed the title to "It's a down right shoot-em-up."

Anyway! Long story short, it's just a process of going back and forth and reading poetry!

14. How do you write emotional scenes? Do you ever feel what the characters feel? Do you draw from emotional experience?

(the question i picked myself) I absolutely feel what the characters feel and draw from my personal experiences!! Most of Bradley's expressions of anxiety and sadness is inspired from my own teenage self (which was absolutely traumatic to look back on). Along with Bradley wearing Carole's old bracelet and Nick's old t-shirt!

One of my biggest goals within this story (along with other things), was to make these characters more human and really focus on their struggles-- therefore i write about things i know, aka my own personal experiences. Which can sometimes make things difficult to write, but usually it's okay!

Thank you so much for the ask Woodsy!! This was so much fun!! <333

[revenge-is-dead]

A print that I will most likely be selling in the future. For all of the simps or pretty men.

[mav-doodles]

Loamf

[da-millerrrrr]

he is almost here

[torchflies]

Hi TG Fandom!

Time for some more sad Jake!

Hangman is the asshole archetype and while I love that for him, I want him to have a subset of people who see him as the opposite. 

So, I raise you — a Hangman who is raising his siblings. 

I’m talking about Fiona Gallagher from Shameless levels of raising — just with a little more success and in the swamps of the Texas-Louisiana border. 

I'm talking about a Jake who had a terrible childhood and knew how bad they were starting off in the world, so he planted his feet and shoved those kids in front of him to get them farther down the line of success than him.

A Jake who was raising two one-year-olds, a ten-year-old, an eight-year-old and a five-year-old alone at fifteen because the system failed them. 

He eventually joins the Navy to feed them because he's out of options. 

But he does the thing — he gets one into art school, one into nursing, one into professional ball and finishes up with two teenagers who never ever doubt if they have someone in their corner. Because the youngest two, the twins and only girls, had their Jake to teach them to shave and use menstrual products and put on makeup when they were ready and if they wanted.

He taught all of them how to love and be loved with none of the experience himself. 

I need a Jake who broke it off with Bradley because the kids came first and he was scared that Bradley would reject them and the prospect of an “instant family”. 

I just… I need it. 

I need a Jake who takes off to save Mav and Bradley even when he has everything to lose. 

[your-unfriendlyghost]

WAIT SO IN YOUR STEVERANDLE TOPGUN AU:

Does pete/mav even know what a Greaser is? Im guess not based on how they apparently just discovered eachother (looking at the art you’ve made)

I mean he’s probably vaguely aware of greasers in like a “Grease” way, since it’s the 80s for him. I’m not completely sure how the time period works here tbh- I put the date on Mav’s “you’re a guardian now” letter as 1987, but Steve is still a greaser. Idk, maybe in this AU Tulsa is just seriously behind the times.

I did briefly consider making it take place in the 60s/70s, but yk, there was the Vietnam War then. And like considering Maverick’s position in the Navy he’d probably have to participate somehow, which just doesn’t really work with the plot of the AU at all. Besides F-14 Tomcats (the coolest planes tbh) were introduced in ‘74, so Maverick probably wouldn’t be training with such new technology in the 70s…(idk I’m purely guessing here) (both my grandpas were in the Navy in the 70s actually, and my dad grew up watching F-14s on the navy base, so I might be wrong here come to think of it lol)

So yeah, 80s made the most sense to me, and Maverick probably only knows about greasers because they were popular when he was a very little kid.

(Also for the record it’s not my AU! I’m just playing with it ‘cuz it hasn’t been updated since 2020 lol)

[enthyrea]

It’s the man again. Except instead of his head swaying in time with the train, it’s stopped. Directly on Tom’s shoulder. Tom feels the man nuzzle in a little as he exhales, and Tom's higher brain function filters straight out of his eardrums. He sucks in a breath, and keeps it there, afraid to let it go like something will explode if he does. What… in the world does one do in this situation? Does he wake the man? Nudge him softly or say something? Poke him in the eye? Hit him with his book?

sooooo i wrote a fic...

it's linked here: last train home by enthyrea

this absolutely ran away from me, one day i'm on the train thinking about an au where mav falls asleep on ice's shoulder, and the next day i have 6k written and art to go with it 🐛

first time writing in five years so please go easy on me ok love yall bye mwah

[amostexcellentblog]

Ice's second attempt to get Mav into theater is more of a spur of the moment thing when he impulsively buys season tickets to the local Shakespeare in the Park. It's been decades since that last date to the theater, this is the first summer they can officially be a couple, they're almost domesticated, so how bad could it be?

Mav still does not get it.

"You paid $500 for this? We don't even get a theater, we just sit in the park with the mosquitos all night?"

"Technically, it was $500 each..."

"1,000... We're paying 1,000 bucks to sit in a public park to watch men in tights talk funny and get bitten by mosquitos on a muggy summer night? And we had to bring our own chairs!"

"Well, they did include dinner."

"Oh yeah, the soggy deli sandwiches are so worth $1,000. Face it babe, you got ripped off."

"Look, season tickets aren't supposed to be a bargain, they're supposed to help support the arts."

"It's a racket is what it is!"