TOP GUN NATION!! 🗣️

Brad Koepenick (Facebook) just posted a new picture of Val ❄️ and Miles 🐓 on the set of tgm (funeral scene)! 🥹😭❤️🧊❄️

"But language always falls short of the body when it comes to the intensity of corporeal experience."

-The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch.

are edits with like a screenshot of a tweet or tumblr post still a thing?

i totally forgot how obsessed my dad is with top gun actually lol. it came on tv and he made me sit down next to him for the entirety of the layton rescue while shouting at everyone on-screen and holding onto my arm and then he made me sit down again to watch ice and mav buzz the tower and hug on the carrier while pledging their lives to each other in holy matrimony

also according to him val kilmer is the best-looking man in human history (though tom cruise is close behind)

redrawing the one scene from house of the dragon that kills me every time

ice and mav still keeping in touch after all these years. ice and mav keeping in touch to the point where even penny knows how important they are to each other. ice bailing mav out of trouble for thirty plus years. ice sending mav to topgun because mav believes in getting everyone home safe above all else and understands the importance of never leaving your wingman and ice knowing that that is integral to the success of the mission. mav and sarah being on such friendly terms with one another. the wingman hug. how’s my wingman. it’s time to let go. there’s still time. the wingman hug 2.0. the hand touch. who’s the better pilot, me or you? we had a good moment. let’s not ruin it. ice knowing exactly what mav needs to hear. ice never making mav feel bad for still being a captain. mav knowing that ice knows exactly what he needs to hear, that ice is right, that ice has mav’s best interest (and the interests of the kids) at heart, and mav taking his best friend’s advice to heart in turn, which leads to the success of the mission. the wingman hug. THE WINGMAN HUG.

hanamaki takahiro (26) librarian. enjoys the laid back atmosphere, people watching, and writing unreasonable reviews for books ((lord of the flies: title is misleading not about flies don’t be fooled -2/10) (the new english dictionary: good to hit people with. too heavy to aim well. 9/10). he’s actually a pretty avid reader but only ever recommends shitty romances and twilight by stephanie meyer (which still falls under that category). he makes “guess the animal” posters for kids to hang up at the desk every week and hides sticky notes with jokes in them in between pages of books while reshelving them and hates on the bookstore down the street and takes his lunch breaks outside.

matsukawa issei (26) funeral home employee starts visiting the library regularly, but only on wednesdays after dark when they’re open late. he always wears all black and generally broods about between shelves and smells vaguely of candle wax and formaldehyde. he checks out exclusively old dead people poetry and nonfiction books on burial rites and the histories of obscure civilizations. he knows bafflingly little about animal identification and always take a receipt for when his books are due. he is a shameless flirt he always returns things on time he shows up like clockwork and hanamaki is Always the one that checks out his books for him.

hiro watches him like a fucking HAWK he’s so intriguing there’s obviously something up he’s a little too good looking something is off. hiro squints purses his lips hums he’s blatantly suspicious he just hasn’t put the pieces together yet. also those eyebags are working for him. one day hiro wears a twilight shirt to work issei compliments it and it fucking clicks. hiro freezes stares he SWEARS he sees eyes flash red he can smell the bloodthirst he looks for fangs when he opens his mouth it was so obvious how did he not put the pieces together before!!!!! he Immediately looks up water guns on amazon and googles “holy water near me” he hot glues popsicle sticks together to make a crucifix and starts carrying garlic powder in his bag. he hasn’t decided if he wants to slay or seduce matsukawa yet but decides he’s better safe than sorry.

I want Funeral Derangements by Ice Nine Kills to be played at my funeral and the second Spencer Charnas starts screaming my body shoots up from the coffin, I wanna see how many people I can give heart failure because I’m scared of dying alone

i'll see you on the other side but i'd kill to bring you back tonight

Omg omg GUYS! ! SLIDER in tgm! ⚡❤️🥹😭😭

This pic just dropped of Rick slider rossovich and Tom maverick cruise during the iceman funeral scene 😭

Kauan is a…hm. Folk metal band? Atmospheric black metal? Ambient noise? It’s a band that is hard to pin down. I haven’t much experience with their previous releases, but their discography seems pretty well regarded by those folks who are into the more experimental realms of metal. I can understand why, listening to Ice Fleet (2021). The album feels like one long song, dedicated to evoking and sustaining an atmosphere of frigid melancholy. It’s music for gray, rime-crusted January days.

Ice Fleet is accompanied by a square bound RPG adventure of the same name, either tucked into a slit in the gatefold of the record sleeve, or available separately. Produced in collaboration with Exalted Funeral, it allows players to play through the story of the titular fleet of ships, found mysteriously frozen in a glacier during the interwar period. The story is a nice mix of The Terror with a bit of The Philadelphia Experiment or the videogame Return of the Obra Dinn. Using a modified version of the Dirk Rules! expansion of Into the Odd (and that is mostly placeholder — you can use pretty much any system to run the game and I might actually prefer something horror-tuned, like Cthulhu Dark), it explores how the fleet met it’s fate (and, through a neat time inversion late in the adventure, allows players to relive and perhaps change that fate). It should come as no surprise that the music of the album pairs perfectly with the story, imbuing it with a strange mix of hope and fatalism.

I really love the scenario! It knows how to fall back on familiar material (monster stalks the player in an isolated space!) and use that familiarity to quickly push into stranger realms. My favorite bit is that there is a clear answer to the question of why all this happened, but that answers spawns much large mysteries outside the scope of the adventure. So it has a solution, but questions will linger long after play.

Phoenix: Can you guys at least try to see this from my perspective?

Rooster: *crouches down*

Coyote: *gets on knees*

Hangman: *lies on the floor*

Phoenix: ...

Phoenix: I hope you all die

This is 100% canon and I have proof. 🏳️‍🌈

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hugh grant is so fucking attractive in four weddings and a funeral but the sight of him translating the conversation around him into bsl for his deaf brother was so single handedly so hot and beautiful and gorgeous i had to lay on the floor for the rest of the film JESUS CHRIST

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.