#mavs talk

[maxipowell]

mavs' latest thread on twitter with this year pics... why am i crying

[nyree2712]

Top Gun - Incorrect Quote 66

Iceman: *Working* What did he do now?

Rooster: HE SMILED

Iceman: *Still working* At you?

Rooster: No, at his friend, but HE LOOKS LIKE AN ANGEL

Iceman: *Tired* Go back to USNA Bradley

Rooster: C'mon Pops, I watched you pine over Dad (Maverick) for years let me have this

Iceman: The only thing you know about him is his name...

Rooster: Jake Bradshaw-Seresin ahh perfect

[rainbowsuitcase]

I recently watched Tombstone, so.

Ice whose grandparents own a ranch and when he was younger, he spent every summer there, no matter how much his dad didn't like it. And maybe he doesn't have as much time when he gets older, but he still knows his way around the place, knows how everything works and where he can help.

Maybe he even has a horse that's half his, that was born in the spring when he was ten and he spent the whole summer that year playing around with it and his granparents include updates on it in every letter they send when he's on duty.

It's practically a second home to him, even if he doesn't talk about it much, so when he brings up introducing Mav to his grandparents, Mav isn't quite sure what to expect.

It's certainly not Ice driving off the highway and on a dirtroad, nothing but fields for miles, then a fence with a herd of cows behind it that they follow all the way through a ranch gate.

It's certainly not an older man in a cowboy hat and a plaid shirt coming out of the barn that smiles wide when Ice gets out of the car, or Ice himself grinning more than Mav has probably ever seen him.

"Tommy!" The old man calls out, affection clear in his tone as he starts walking towards them. "And here I was thinkin' ya wouldn't make it this year!"

But perhaps the biggest surprise is the twang that comes out of Ice's mouth. "I wouldn't miss this for nothin', grandpa! Ain't no way!"

[darling-flora]

he doesn't do it for everyone but...😮‍💨

[crossthread]

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

[pollyna]

five times Mav starts a conversation about more or less important stuff with "we really need to talk" looking half panicked and ready to bolt + one time time Ice says, all soft smile and eyes, "we really, really, need to talk" before going down on his knee to ask Mav to marry him.

[slamrink]

Nothing to see here just steph stealing glances of klay like he’s afraid he’s going to get caught 😃😃 (via namxsj on twitter )

[abirddogmoment]

A lab joined our brittany party 💚💙💜

[sdrose93]

Top Gun 1986 ❤❤

[maxipowell]

still thinking about quentin's postgame conference where he said the mavs aren't even practicing together because of this stupid virus and how this shows on court... when will my wives come back from war (stay free of this virus)?

[halestrom]

listen. i was yelling about this yesterday and i need to yell about it again.

im forever now thinking about how goose is basically canonized in top gun.

he's held up as this untouchable memory and bradley grows up both in the shadow of that, as well as trying to become that but hes not gonna be bc goose is a memory. hes stuck in time. he can be canonized to that extent because he will never change. he will never grow and make mistakes and that is sad. it is a tragic loss, a pure accident and nothing more. and it was so long ago that time has smoothed the rougher edges he has because goose was human. and bradley??

bradley will never be goose bc goose is long gone but people still look at him and think about his dad first in a lot of ways.

and like.

sure, there are parts of him that are his father bc goose is his dad, and there is some aspect of nature involved. and at which point does he end and goose begins and does he ever stand the chance of knowing when that is?

especially when his godfather looks at him with guilt in his eyes first and love second, even though he tries. and his mom (as far as we can tell) never moves on from that love?

bradley's been in both of their lives so much longer than goose ever did, but hes secondary to goose. they love him, and support him but the way they deal with things regarding bradley feels like they aren't seeing him. they're seeing the same ghost that hovers behind bradley and they're making decisions based on that.

their grief drives them. love for sure as well. but so much grief and that grief is once again used to put bradley secondary.

goose died in a freak accident so that means bradley needs to be saved. it doesn't matter what bradley wanted. it doesn't matter that a child can have the same dreams as their parents and not want to walk the same path. its not bradley trying to be a memory. its someone who grew u around that world and still wanted it.

and like, pulling the papers was never about bradley. it wasn't about wanting him to not join a system that would chew him up and spit him out. or talk about the very real dangers that come with the job, or how isolating it can be because of the travel involved.

they pulled the papers because they didn't want him to become goose. even when they claim to want to protect bradley. they are using the memory of goose to make it happen.

bradley never stood a chance of growing up without that shadow and it kinda makes me sad. hes haunting the narrative in so many ways, but hes also dragging bradley down as well.

[himbopunk]

watch in video format! on tumblr | on youtube (tiktok link keeps breaking but i am delsinning on there)

tfw you got that fear demon in you. posting these panel by panel (more or less) as well. esp cuz a handful of panels got cut off on the sides n such on the video format aghhh.

(this character uses they/them only)

dialogue is from MAG 32: The Hive from the Magnus Archives (edited slightly to work for mav + dragon age au)

[mav-the-artist]

wayn..

ro tat te

[29625]

He (Mav) was a “I sleep like a body in a morgue and sometimes sleep with my eyes wide open and scare the shit out of Goose because he thinks I’m catatonic” boy, and he (Sli) was a “I talk in my sleep, staring Ice dead in the eyes and say shit like ‘I hear voices’ in the middle of the night” boy

Can I make it anymore obvious? (they begin dating and continue to scare the shit out of each other with their antics for the next few decades until the death do them apart)

[lesbiradshaw]

if they didn’t want me to believe that rooster and hangman were in love then maybe they shouldn’t have included significant scenes of them parting and reuniting that directly parallel each other… just a thought.

[your-unfriendlyghost]

“You look like Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street.”

“Or Asian Maverick!”

Oh my god I complain abt them sometimes, but my little sister’s friends give me such an ego boost 🥹

i mean they do also make fun of me a lot for doing normal things like fixing my hair in the mirror or flexing when i think no one’s looking. But they also are so nice sometimes so I can’t complain yk