#top gun

[caystar13star]

Cell phones were also not widespread until the early 2000’s. In the 90’s people had beepers (pagers) and I got my first cell phone (bag phone specifically) in 1999.

Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes you pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

[k9effect]

🎄Hangster Christmas Vacation

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Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone! Here's a massive piece I've spent the last while working on of Jake and Bradley taking a vacation to some snowy mountains together and renting out a little cabin for the holidays. This is a shot of them waking up early for a coffee and a morning view.

Bonus: close ups, lineart and wip shots!

[larkspur777]

Absolutely.  I think that input from actors is so important.  I feel like they often end up understanding the characters more than the writers themselves.  Like, it’s so awesome that Maya Hawke and Natalia Dyer ship Robin and Nancy.  Same for Maleficent and Diaval’s actors.  And I love how Jenna Ortega seems to be very in tune with Wednesday Addams, and doesn’t plan to have romance for her character in S2.

don't mind me i'm thinking about how Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and Tom "Iceman" Kazansky are both CANONICALLY QUEER.

That's right folks, you read that correctly. I present to you the evidence:

Regarding Iceman, we all knew he was gay, because Val Kilmer himself literally confirmed it in an interview for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (he talked about his role as a gay character in the film and said that it wasn't his first; he admitted top gun was his first gay role.)

And for Maverick, the canon evidence was in the original Top Gun itself - in a scene that SO many people overlook. At the o-club scene, Goose tells Maverick when they're making a bet that Maverick "must have carnal knowledge, of a woman this time."

That line right there implies that Maverick has hit on people before that AREN'T women-- because if Maverick was completely straight, why would Goose need to specify that Maverick needs to hit on a woman this time?

The amount of queerness in this film AMAZES ME. And it's not subtle, quiet things only certain people can catch. ITS OUT THERE. So, with Mav and Ice being canonically queer, it's safe to assume Icemav actually had feelings for each other, from all of the very homoerotic scenes they had in the first movie and hell, even TGM.

Tldr: Iceman and Maverick are both canonically lgbt+ and Icemav is literally canon. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

[kcsplace]

Top Gun + Letterboxd Reviews

Top Gun Silliness

[aro-simp]

one of the funniest things about the Top Gun fandom ti me is how many people associate Mav with wolves or cats, and so when there's shifter or animal AUs youknow... Goose is a goose, Rooster is a rooster but Mav's always a wolf or a cat or something "cool", when "a maverick" is literally already used to describe an animal. A motherless calf specifically.

Where is my Top Gun Farm AU where Mav is a cow, huh?

[military-newsboys]

Mav: Hey, can we stay in your room tonight? Ice: Why? Mav: We were playing with an ouija board and cursed ours. Mav: Goose doesn't know how to banish spirits, so he just threw salt at them and yelled “DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A HOTEL TO YOU?!"

[naturaltysaster]

most entertaining thing I read today lmao

So, even when Ice is promoted out of flying full time, he's still going to have to retain his classification as a pilot, at least for a few ranks. To do this, he is going to have to book so many hours in the cockpit a year. Which means that Ice will, most likely, be trained on the Super Hornet when the Navy retires the Tomcat.

What I like to imagine: Ice, in his 40s with at least two stars, attending a flight school refresher to learn the F/A-18, along with mostly young punks. Ice doesn't say anything; he's the ranking officer in the classroom, but he asks the instructors to just sit on that information. The kids think it's funny he's in there, call him Pops, ask him how he's going to keep up with them. Ice doesn't say anything.

They're about to go up for their first more complicated maneuvers, and everyone's suiting up. The instructor passes Ice and a few other students in the hangar, and says, "Hey, go easy on them."

The kids laugh. Say they can't make any promises.

Instructor looks at them over the top of his sunglasses. "I wasn't talking to you."

The military term for what happens next is rapid dominance. None of the kids ever make fun of Ice ever again.

[deatheater25]

Iceman and Maverick taking baby goose to see Santa at the mall.

Santa (looks at Icemav): Have you young men ever used any bad words like “Bah” or “Humbug”?

Bradley (gesturing to Ice): He’s used “for fuck sake”!

Camera turns to Maverick who’s struggling to breathe on the floor due to his abundant laughter.

[torchflies]

(LOOK GUYS! I DID A CHRISTMAS! 🎄)

“It was December 24th, 19 —”

“—86.” Maverick finishes, with a look of such absolute crushing grief on his face that all Jake can do is gather his stuff and leave as fast as humanly possible, even as his boss begs him to stay, practically tripping over his own feet to beat him to the door. But Jake is fast for a heart patient and he's out of that room lickety-split.

He just needed to know for sure, to know for sure that it was the same Bradshaw — that Bradley really is the son of his donor.

That his heart, unlike his love life, isn’t totally and irrevocably fucked.

(Thirty years ago, Jake Seresin got a heart).

[juniorstargazergoke1991]

Top Gun (1986)

Director: Tony Scott

Cinematographer: Jeffrey L. Kimball

[topgunruinedme]

Ice: we were in a prank war? Is that why my socks kept going missing and I kept finding you nakard in my backyard?

Mav: yes???? It was all for the joke.

Ice: I’m in love with you. Mav: We called off the prank war last night at midnight, dork. Ice: I know. Mav: Ah. Okay. Um. Cool. Neat. Very cool. Cool. Cool. Coolcoolcool-

[lieutenantfloyd]

Phoenix: Do you ever want to talk about your emotions, Rooster? Rooster: …No. Bob: I do! Phoenix: I know, Bob. Bob: I’m sad! Phoenix: I know, Bob.

[kcsplace]

There's been a military satellite dedicated solely to tracking Ice's man since his promotion to Admiral

Top Gun Silliness

[sweetmesquite]

to add to this:

the maverick in tg:m has really grown into that confidence, and become a lot more comfortable with who he is, simply by measure of having thirty more years of experience. he no longer has the need to prove he's the best: he is. he knows he is, and he's shown that he is, repeatedly. and other people now recognize that, however begrudgingly. he's the poster boy of "fake it 'til you make it"

granted, he is still struggling with some aspects of his identity, like the "i'm not a teacher" bit, even though he is demonstrably a good teacher.

Not to start yapping randomly but I think there is something to be said on how certain fandom characterization of Maverick ignores the depth in his character and boils him down to a reckless, chaotic man who is very infantilized despite of him being A Grown Man. And this is largely because people buy Maverick's facade. There was a very good passage in 'Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor' by Amy Nicholson where she talks about how Cruise in 1986 was portraying a man (Maverick) who himself is playing the part of a cocky man. He does not have an abundance of reckless confidence, it's an act, one that unravels when you look at his moments of vulnerability (ex. the nighttime scene with Goose). This facade is also much mellower in Top Gun: Maverick as Mav has aged, so it's actually really interesting how some people tend to lean back on TG86!Maverick's mask when characterizing him. Some things to think about

[embersareout9]

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE ALL YOU LITTLE FUCKS

Anyway here's just an idea i had about the dagger ducklings and mavdad/Icepops. I feel like Ice prefers Christmas Eve to Christmas day. (I really really like the idea of Ice being Jewish and celebrating both Hanukkah and Christmas). Christmas Eve is when all of the ducklings (And flyboys) come over for a Christmas eve dinner. Ice cooks (obviously), and Mav gets in the way (again, obviously), and nobody would have it any other way. They always watch Charlie Brown Christmas, and Mav keeps trying to get them to watch Die Hard (because "Iceeeee it takes place during Christmas how is it not a Christmas movie). This has been a years-long debate in the Mitchell-Kazansky House. (For the record, Mav, Bradley, Pheonix, Fanboy, and Omaha are staunchly on the side arguing that is it, Everyone else does not agree).

They also exchange presents, because not all of the daggers will stay for Christmas day. (Mav gives the most elaborate presents)