#simultaneous elections

[the-balloon-shed]

look, people can have whatever headcanons they want (this whole blog is devoted to my own brainrot over icemav because I needed an outlet, I love all the different stuff out there and wanted to contribute) but I do have a hard time picturing Ice being the world's most upstanding student with his pencils sharpened and teacher's pet vibe that I sometimes see attributed to him. I get that he's ice cold, no mistakes, but that has to do wit his flying. I think when it comes to flying, yeah, he fucking knows everything about that plane, about how it flies, about what he needs to do. He's devoted to the act of flying, of being a naval aviator, of being the best pilot there is.

On the ground though? Yeah, he'll do everything textbook -- so long as it keeps him flying. But a guy who is willing to cause a class laughter by coughing "bullshit" into his fist as another student explains his process to their instructor is not a guy who is concerned with being a teacher's pet. I've seen it around here, so I'm not the first to note this, but honestly Ice looks bored in the classes. Hell he spends half his class staring at Maverick. The difference between Ice and Maverick is that Ice does care enough to know the rules and can be compliant when it suits his goals. Maverick will blatantly disregard rules he doesn't agree with and doesn't know when to keep a lid on his own perspective.

(Side note - People who climb the military ladder, I imagine as I do not personally know, don't do so merely by keeping their head down -- Ice has to take risks and challenges that get him noticed, which sometimes means pissing off people, with which how often he's a brat to Maverick he is clearly capable of doing. I think the difference between Ice and Maverick is that Ice knows how to play the game and knows when is the right time to piss off people and knows how to do it within the regulations and best tactics. Maverick -- Maverick can't keep an opinion to himself, and does things he feels are the right thing to do, regardless of the consequences. )

Also going based off of other knowledge I've seen on tumblr explaining what the Academy is which Ice apparently went to, it's (allegedly) a pretty prestigious school that's hard to get into. Which makes me think, personally, that Ice had exceptional grades for a long time, and probably even did advanced physics and aerodynamics already. These classes might be even easy for him, or at least nothing new. He pays attention as much as he needs to, but for the most part, he's already got it. (I personally like to headcanon that he would regularly get best scores on exams while at the Academy, or maybe even had a friendly competition with Cougar as to who would be the best academically, and maybe even helped tutor other students -- which would be a decent precursor to him being a teacher at TOPGUN)

Which I think is why Ice finds Maverick so compelling. Maverick gets all this, seems to be a damn good visualizer, and he didn't go to the academy. Ice worked his ass off, but Maverick had to overcome genuine barriers due to his family history, and did so while doing absolutely off the wall shit that Ice would have never even considered. The thing that draws Ice to Maverick? Maverick is the farthest thing from boring. Even if he is lying about flying upside down -- which despite Ice saying "bullshit" I think at least part of that is just reactive disbelief because holy shit, what if he actually did? -- it's still entertaining. Breaks up from the monotony. Catches his attention.

And then when he watches Maverick fly and realizes, jesus christ, he probably did fly his plane upside down. He flew his plane upside down and taunted the shit out of the enemy. And because this is the 80s, and toxic masculinity, instead Ice channels that feeling of kind of awe into antagonism because how else is he going to do it. So he asks Maverick, "who was covering Cougar while you were showboating?"

And the thing is that Maverick takes it in stride. He listens pretty politely. honestly, I think he notices the fact that Ice -- Goose's proclaimed "best" -- is paying attention to him. Even if it is by being an asshole, it doesn't stop the fact that Ice doesn't do that to anyone else. He keeps to his lane. They're teammates, they're all on the same side, but other than Slider it doesn't seem like Ice takes much of a personal interest in anyone. But he does in Maverick.

It's the fascination that makes the Icemav for me. The intrigue. Maverick asking Goose who he thinks is the best, and Goose points out Iceman, and Iceman backs it up because he flies textbook perfectly. Iceman having heard about Maverick, acknowledging that Mav and Goose were notorious, and discovering why and being compelled by it. The rivalry between the two that comes from really, being two sides of the same coin. They both want to fly, badly. They both want to be the best. They both have very different understandings and beliefs of how one becomes that, and even what the best means. They both recognize that the other is a threat to their own goal. And once the competition is over -- well. Damn. Who else do they want on their wing than this person who has earned their respect, impressed them, who they've come to understand, and with whom went through so much together?

(And if there's a hell of a lot of sexual tension and confusing romantic feelings along the way, well -- that's just even more fun)

[atlantablack]

Maglor who stayed in Middle Earth all the way through till present day, or close to it, and then for whatever reason finally ends up going back to Valinor, but he has enthusiastically picked up all the modern day curses and slang and sometimes when he talks he's so completely incomprehensible to his family that they're not sure if they want to cry or hit him

aka: Maglor comes back to Valinor and instead of getting a traumatized son/brother back like the expected, they find that Maglor did in fact get over his shit eventually but was just having a blast becoming an agent of chaos and now he's brought all that back with him <3

[lookninjas]

I'm starting to see the "Don't feel despair, don't give in to the misery, get up and go to work right now" stuff going around again, and --

Yeah, no. I want you to fucking feel that shit.

Not forever. But for like a day. At least an hour. I want you to engrave that shit on your memory. I want you to preserve the private crying jags in amber. I want that four a.m., staring at the ceiling, panic attack carved into you forever. I want you to pay close personal attention to the rage. To the fear. To the disillusionment and the betrayal. To every nagging doubt that maybe you could've done more. Maybe you could've fought harder. Maybe you could've screamed louder.

I want you to memorize it.

Because if we ever get a chance to get this country back. And it's an incredibly accomplished human being against a sack of babbling garbage. And people start saying, "Well, the garbage wasn't that bad last time. I mean, we got to work and we got on with it and only a few million people died and it wasn't that bad."

I want you to bury them under the weight of this moment, of these next few days, of every sleepless night. I want the tears you shed right now to wash those bastards away. I don't ever want you, or me, or anyone, to let them tell you that this isn't that bad.

Yes it fucking is. It fucking is that bad. We'll keep fighting anyway, because that's how we do, but it's that fucking bad.

Never let anyone tell you it wasn't.

Never let them make you forget.

[frigidlyauthorial]

endlessly fascinated by the career trajectories of ben wyatt and leslie knope

[pocketramblr]

I always found it slightly awkward how media makes siblings or people who see each other as siblings call each other brother/sister all the time as in real life you almost never see people do that with their own siblings (maybe someone out there like that)

In the case of Arkham Shadows I see why they did though because Bruce quite literally tells Harvey he loves him and Harvey says it back. Can't have the audience think Batman is in love with the DA.

They had Bruce pay for his college, pay for his campaign, pay for his surgery, pay for his therapy and had Harvey have him as his best man at his wedding. Wow..... Sugar baby Harvey is real.....

The calling sibling title thing is less common in English than in some other languages for sure- me and a couple of my siblings do it on occasion, but it's for a bit then. More common is when I call one of my close family friends "my sister" or "my nephew" when talking about them to someone else because it's faster and easier to say that than to say "my friend who I've known since she was born and lived with for a few years and consider a little sister" or "child of a close family friend who considers me an aunt" to someone who doesn't know them. Which is a lot of words to say that if they wanted to fully sell me on the brothers thing they should have either had a different bit or should have referred to the other as "my brother" when talking to an unrelated character instead.

But "oh no we have to make Bruce not look gay" has been a problem DC has struggled with more than once for many decades and it basically never works so I guess at least they didn't try to solve it this time by having Bruce pick a lady love over Harvey or cutting the holding hands thing

Because I saw that scrapbook! I know Harvey has been Bruce's sugar baby since he was ten years old! But we can't have Bruce take Harvey's hand and call him the love of his life because ok technically that's Gotham but also because gay. And we can't have Bruce take Harvey's hand and call him his best friend because they're not ten anymore and somehow that seems gay also. So brothers it is, I guess. Even if I think my brothers would bite my finger if I ever tried to pay for everything for them on that scale, guess it's different at billionaire levels

[pinolitas]

that lois and Clark argument in the movie. it's literally how it is on the internet

[testosterone-girldog]

realizing that a big reason why i like house md so much is because in order to watch it it demands that you engage with it critically... everyone in the show sucks by design, they've all got numerous biases, you have to contend with all of that. you get to see messy opinions and feelings, you get to watch characters as their opinions develop and change (or don't), and you get to compare it all against what YOU think.

[eight-freakin-gids]

In light of the Universes Beyond controversies, I started to ruminate on my feelings. Certain UB settings have excited me a lot, whereas others invite my disdain.

I know Wizards has set their guidelines for what is and isn't a good fit for UB, but I feel they're too broad. Additionally, iirc, those guidelines mostly concern set design rather than creative design.

So, here are my super thought out guidelines for what makes a good Universe Beyond:

Does the world have magic / sci-fi / fantasy in abundance?

Is the setting somewhere other than a variant of modern day Earth?

Is it tonally diverse?

If yes to all, than I'm fine with it as a UB setting.

At least, these were my original thoughts. I still like these criteria, but something still was still bugging me. And I think I finally figured out what it is.

I don't know if I can describe it better than "Universes Beyond is bad when it's normie shit"

This still isn't perfect criteria. Lord of the Rings is one of the biggest film trilogies ever, and D&D is more mainstream than ever, but idk. They've at least got history and street cred.

But The Walking Dead? Stranger Things? Fornite? Things that I've seen or feel like I would see YouTube ads for because they're so mainstream.

And as much as I love Spongebob, and it's a cultural touchstone for so many z-llenials, I don't think I'm rocking the boat by saying UB Spongebob is stupid.

The other side of this feeling, I don't have any attachment to Warhammer 40,000, but I feel it worked well for Magic.

If Magic is going to be filled with crossovers, I'd rather it be a hall of fame. Make it the Smash Bros of nerdery. Show us the worlds and stories that helped shape modern day fantasy. Pick established series with staying power.

Magic always has been derivative, and it always will be. I just hope we can get back to the lovingly crafted homages and away from the cash grabs.

[obituarybug]

One of my biggest life mottos is that I will never say, think or feel anything nice/positive towards a politician. They could save my fucking cat and they'd still be one of life's greatest evils

[lovefromsamwinchester]

me when my red state that has been blue like once in all of history is once again red:

[chatdomestique]

Stayed up past midnight (usually sleep at 10) just to call dibs on the spring classes I wanted

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

a lot of folks who were perfectly content to ignore politics for 4 years suddenly think election season is just the perfect time to start slamming their own side

[desvoeux]

primo ülkücü era?

can a laik yeditepeli chp'li girl and giresun'lu ülkücü kurt boy make it work? GOD LET THEM MAKE IT WORK.....

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Beginning to really wonder how much of my financial concern is manufactured and handed to me as opposed to something I'm genuinely concerned by

[moraygrotto]

1,500 followers event!!

Thanks to everyone for being here with me!! To celebrate, I'd like to write a short fanfiction based on your preferences!! So, I will be holding polls on my blog to decide the main character & main kinks of this piece!

You can use this Google form to submit whom & what you'd like to see, and depending on engagement, it should close by about the end of the week. The form is anonymous, and you can submit whomever and whatever you like!! I'll only write characters & kinks I am both familiar with & personally comfortable with, but if you're not sure if your suggestions fit those requirements, please submit them anyway! You never know :)

I look forward to hearing from you guys!