happy blue angels on the severn day to all who celebrate

heading to annapolis for the week for my bf’s baby cousin’s graduation/commissioning and might just post a hangman one-shot while i’m feeling ~inspired~

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I'm watching TG86 (again) and I have a question: So Cougar gives up his wings, and then what? What happens to him? He probably can't leave the Navy just yet, because he doesn't have enough service years done (or maybe he does, timelines in these movies are handwaved a lot)

Hi! Been a long time since I received an ask about actual Navy/military substance, ha.

So chances are pretty high that Cougar could get medically separated! This is different from medical retirement, as he wouldn’t have incurred a medical issue due to his service. But because he is saying that he’s not medically (to include mental health issues) fit to perform his duties, medical separation is an option.

When you can’t do the job that the Navy hired you to do as an officer, you go to what’s called a POCR board. If the Navy didn’t send Cougar to a med board/medically separate him, he might go to a POCR board and get changed into a different community, usually a restricted line or staff corps community (Public Affairs, Human Resources, Intel, Supply, Information Professional, etc).

I’ve known people who dropped out of aviation and been just medically separated (well before their “commitment” was up), and have also known people who were POCR’d into different communities. All depends on the needs of the Navy at the time and the circumstances surrounding the individual.

you can always send me anons. you can always come to my inbox and freak out about my character and your feels about them. you can always throw “okay but picture this” or “this is my headcanon” asks at me. you can always send asks, even when i don’t ask for them. THAT IS ALWAYS OKAY

If you are willing to hear a counterpoint on the whole Glen and Gigi debacle…

When you said that people who didn’t feel like it’s right to gossip about it were “holier than thou” or something like that, you effectively started to create a division in the fandom, whether you intended to do it or not. The “cool” ones, who are on board with making those assumptions, and the “square” ones who don’t want to take part in any of it. Us versus them. Take it or leave it.

And yeah “don’t take fandom too seriously” and yeah “Glen and Gigi people we don’t and will likely never know”, but the fact is that Glen’s fandom exists and it’s generally a great place to be. You are a rather big part of that fandom. I don’t know how many followers you have, but I’d bet it’s a good number, and deservedly so. You are a great author, and you’re also known for your generosity in sharing specific Navy knowledge that none of us have. I’ve seen you answer so many questions in such a detailed manner, it’s amazing.

So when people like you, with a perceived positive influence over the fandom, starts mocking “the other side” of it, it’s not good for anyone. The ones who side with you get lit up, for sure; but the others have probably gotten tired of it at this point and will start disengaging, unfollowing, blocking, if they haven’t already.

Is it really worth it? Perhaps that’s what I’m asking. Is it worth starting, and insisting on, a rift in an otherwise healthy fandom for something so… idk, inconsequential?

So I let this sit in my inbox for a little bit because 1. Work has exploded over the last week, not sure if you’ve been tracking the news and 2. I wanted to make sure I was reading this correctly and could find the time and correct mental space to give it a fair shake. I’m always willing to hear other perspectives, though I don’t think that necessarily means I need to adjust my own opinions to align with them. That all being said:

1. I’m not sure why you’re saying that I created division in the fandom by saying that people were acting holier than thou - if you look through the asks I received, that “division” was clearly already there.

My first post ever about this was me asking what was going on, because I hadn’t had the time to piece together everything. I received a few answers from people generally going over the timeline. Then, the first post I disagreed with was this one, where I felt like I was pretty polite in my disagreement when I talked about public figures and the expectations surrounding celebrities and those in the public eye. Disagreement doesn’t equal division. The first instance of someone personally attacking me was this one, where they said:

“People like you will find any excuses to gossip about those who don't even care about your existence.”

The phrase “people like you” already created a division, so I’m not sure where *I* personally created or “insisted” on “division in the fandom.” Even then, I felt I was very reasonable in my response, when I said I didn’t understand why they were so upset as it was very literally the definition of a celebrity, and gossip has been around for millennia.

The first time that I ever mentioned anyone acting “holier” than others was this one:

“People who don't care simply don't care, whether it's her or him. Personally I don't give a shit if he or she cheated since it doesn't affect me. I like Glen's acting, I don't care about Gigi since she doesn't do anything interesting and that's that.”

That, in my personal opinion, very much places whoever that anon was in a virtue-signaling status, and I also felt it was inappropriate to say that they “don’t care about Gigi” because supposedly “[Gigi] doesn’t do anything interesting and that’s that,” as if it was a fact.

You’ve mentioned that I was “mocking the other side of it,” but I really do not see where I was doing that. You may be referring to these two posts here and here: where I’ll admit, I did get a little sassy, but it was in response to the personal attacks. At no point in any of my answers prior did I ever say anything about “the other side” or “mock” anyone.

“I literally said that Gigi doesn't do anything that interests ME. She doesn't create anything, why should I care? I also don't give a shit about Glen's family. I just think you're all pathetic dicks for making up shit and getting excited over famous people problems.”

“The fact that you came back just to help spread rumors and speculation about Glen’s private life and relationships by tagging everything to his tag just screams attention seeking. You crave all these anonymous responses cos you know people love drama. You clearly don’t care that you’re helping to spread dirt to his name. Such a shameful online behaviour. Especially if you’re an adult. And to think I previously had respect for you from your previous contributions to the tgm fandom. Sad.”

I mentioned this before in my previous posts and answers, but this isn’t my first rodeo with the Glen Powell fandom, which I personally believe gets more toxic by the day. When Devotion was being released, I posted my thoughts and reviews about the movie in advance, as I was lucky to attend a few early screenings due to my connections with DoD/Navy. Many of my criticisms were genuine, and anyone who’s been following me for a while could probably tell you that I love the source material and it was my most anticipated movie of the year. Even then, I received anon asks criticizing me for “destroying the fandom” and being “toxic” and “ruining Glen’s career.” Someone literally said that Tom Hudner and Jesse Brown would be disappointed in me, an ask I had to delete because of how absolutely insane it was. It’s very similar to what’s happened now. I don’t believe that you mean any ill-intent by your ask, but it seems like it’s now turned from toxic, personal attacks to trying to guilt me somehow for stoking division. Disagreement is not division, and if there was division, I guarantee it was there before I personally started asking questions. Frankly, I will stand by my opinion that I’ve remained fairly neutral and have publicly stated my doubts on some of the more far-fetched rumors. That is not “starting” or “insisting” on “division”.

2. You’ve used my “role” in the fandom to justify why I shouldn’t behave a certain way, and aside from all the reasons that I’ve listed out above showing that I didn’t behave that way in the first place, I don’t think my follower count has anything to do with - well, frankly, anything. I didn’t “join” the Glen Powell fandom, there was never a membership card or a terms of agreement. I started writing and posting on here for fun, I engaged with other people for fun, I read other people’s works and support them for fun. I didn’t realize that by posting Hangman imagines and fics that I’d somehow signed up for not being able to express my (what I believe to be reasonably neutral) opinions without being criticized for “mocking the other side of the fandom” and stoking “division.” The craziness and hypocrisy of it all is that these criticisms are coming from people who insist on Glen Powell’s ability to do whatever he wants and his need for privacy, while there seem to be no limitations on personal attacks on me or expectations of how I conduct myself. I am not a public figure, but Glen Powell is.

Sorry for the long answer, but hopefully that answered your ask sufficiently and proved that I did give your opinion due consideration, though ultimately I disagree with it. Frankly, I think everyone is overreacting. I’ve said it before, but my opinion is that something likely happened between Gigi and Glen, that calls for privacy and for gossip to stop are unrealistic given the role gossip plays in human society and the expectations of celebrities in Hollywood, and that I haven’t seen any actual evidence of infidelity. I don’t want to wave my “free speech” banner around because this isn’t a First Amendment scenario, but I frankly do not understand why or how the “fandom” is at a point where if someone says those above things, that has somehow created a civil war. If that’s the case, that a few answers from me specifically “started” and “insisted on” this so-called rift, I don’t believe that the fandom is as “healthy” as you say it was.

And sorry if you thought my quotes and hyperlinks were overboard, but if anyone’s going to come for my character, I’m going to have receipts.

not gonna lie. i saw a reel about a sailor coming home to his little kid and it made me cry- i then felt the need to cry more so naturally i come here to reread “even though i’m leaving” and “i drive your truck” because both of those are so beautifully written they leave me sobbing halfway through. and then i saw you’re back!!! even if you’re not posting/writing as much, i’m so glad to hear the job’s going well❤️❤️.

xoxo

ps i’m happy now but… i’m calling in ten minutes i’ll be sobbing

You’re reading I Drive Your Truck for fun??? Are you……okay???

But thank you for the sweet words! I don’t have time to write anymore really with my new role - I barely have time to work out some days - but I’m so flattered that you willingly revisit my silly little posts

Im only minorly in the tgm fandom (kinda a perimeter gal who really only likes and reboots gifsets and fanart) so I never know what drama is actually happening but people need to calm down. People need to realize a healthy part of fandom is critical discussion lol

That or people just need to embrace messy bitch brain and go “romcom scandals are back babyyyy” bc I love celebrity gossip lmao

I wholeheartedly agree on the critical discussion points, and lol on the romcom scandals bit

Your response to that ask reminded me how terrified I was to be honest about disliking devotion. I watered down my criticism of it (low key it was one of my least favorite glen performances ever) because I was scared the glen stans would come after me and I’m sensitiveeeee ahahaha

I got an ask I had to delete (the only one I’ve ever deleted) during the Devotion debacle after I posted my review, because someone said that “Tom Hudner and Jesse Brown would be so disappointed (in me)” because I said that the movie was poorly executed……as if they personally knew Tom Hudner and Jesse Brown

Also I’m with you on it being one of my least favorite Glen performances…..I know we talked at length about the movie when it came out. I’m not quite sure he’s got the straight-stick serious roles nailed down yet, but I don’t think by any means that he’s untalented. Not that it matters anyways, that movie’s cast aged so damn poorly and it’s been less than 6 months lol

@callsignvalley

Hi so I like to think I’m a Glen Stan, I’m a fan of his work and his acting and I was disheartened by the completely spin on the Instagram posts and the quick turn of people on Twitter and a few on here that I felt are rooting for him to fail because they got cheated on in 7th grade.

But I wanted to say I like your take on it. Did something happen- probably? Possibly? It’s speculation yes but the posts from GiGi are portraying a narrative whether true or not. Im sure his team is aware, maybe that’s why he liked her post or maybe nothing is happening and GiGi just likes Fleetwood Mac? Who knows right but like you said this is the price of celebrity.

I think I got sad more because I did think Glen was great in TGM (to be honest I thought Devotion was a little off with the acting but that’s just me- weird crying face but that’s not here nor there) and now suddenly people are posting on the tag that he’s a creeper obsessed with making himself a good guy and making false narratives. Which who knows could be true but since everything is so faceless (at the moment, who knows what could come out) it just makes me scared of mob mentality on all sides.

Anyway I just ranted for three paragraphs and I’m not sure I got a point across but basically, if he cheated, I hope GiGi leaves him and finds someone that appreciates her but I DON’T wish Glens career never recovers. If he didn’t cheat, I hope the truth comes out and he continues getting the roles he seems to be landing and he and GiGi stay happy.

I also hope you have a great day! Thanks for listening lol

Hi @missathlete31 hope you’re having a good day as well! Thanks for your thoughtful ask and I didn’t think it came off as ranting. Just want to say I agree with your comments on Devotion.

I haven’t seen all those other posts, I might not be following everyone but I haven’t seen the ones saying he’s a creeper.

I do think people are being really extreme about this, on both sides. I’ve gotten a few asks with some theories that I thought were a little more of a stretch, and I’ve doubted a lot of the “Sydney cheated too xyz” stuff because it’s very possible that she was no longer engaged and that information hadn’t become public. Also doubted the “Glen cheated on someone with Gigi so now he’s losing Gigi by cheating” narrative.

On the other hand, I’ve received more than a handful of asks calling me a dick or pathetic or shameful or whatever, and saying that I’m making up rumors (which I’m not doing, maybe I have a different definition of “making up” but at no point did I even say that Glen cheated - I said that it’s very likely something not-great happened between the two of them). A lot of people have said things like “I wouldn’t want people speculating about me,” but the very real fact is that they are not a celebrity with a PR team who willingly joined an industry knowing it is one of the most scrutinized in the world.

I think people are spinning this out of proportion to fit the narrative they want, on both sides, Glen “stans” and others who I guess have it out for him. There is absolutely no reason that we should be acting like a famous actor with a net worth of millions of dollars has no agency and cannot fend for himself. I don’t think silencing everyone or any kind of speculation for the sake of the “TGM fandom” is healthy. Frankly I didn’t realize that when I started consuming and writing TGM content that I was signing up for never saying anything but praises about Glen.

Why do you always have the meanest anons 😭 you’re such a reasonable person I don’t get it

I totally agree that there are lots of celebrities that choose to make their lives super private. Glen is definitely NOT one of them. His family is clearly not interested in that either. And there’s nothing wrong with that but the flip side is when your life is more public there’s more tid bits of information for people to speculate about

The virtue signaling people acting like it’s pathetic to gossip about glen mostly don’t like that people are willing to be critical about him, imo. I saw the same thing happen when someone was critical of his acting skills

It’s honestly weirder to me when people act like their fave is infallible. He’s not perfect. And he’s a pretty white man. His career will be fine lol everyone will forget about this in a week

The Glen stans came out in full force in my asks, lol. And yes, he will be fine. This is so, so small in comparison to other celebrities and PR firms have their hands full with other people in actual controversies, not DeuxMoi fodder.

And on the public persona part - social media tells a story. Glen is smart enough and has been around the industry enough to know that. Celebrities try to curate their social media to tell the story they want, but by doing so, they open themselves to scrutiny and potentially, details being exposed that they may or may not have intended to. This is something they’re aware of, and it’s also often why celebrities have secondary private accounts. Glen is possibly feeling the effects now of what it’s like when you lose control of the story. At the same time, he’s got a decent PR team - I have no doubts they’ll be able to spin this so everyone eventually forgets about it.

I agree that a lot of the virtue signaling is because people don’t want to have their fave criticized. I can empathize with that to a certain extent, but also understand we all need to be reasonable human beings and not “stan” people so much. Personally, I do believe that if something had happened where Gigi was the one whose actions were in question and Glen had been posting cryptic (and some not-so-cryptic) things, people would have no issue speculating what Gigi might have done. I’ve already seen people criticizing Gigi for being “petty” and “airing out their dirty laundry” when they themselves then go around and preach that ~we don’t actually know what’s happening so everyone leave Glen alone~.

I was critical of Devotion for various reasons (and BOY did that movie not age well) but I remember when I posted my review and critiques, I got anonymous asks saying I was “ruining” Glen’s budding career by critiquing the movie and that if I was a fan, I would support him. I personally think that’s an extremely unhealthy approach and attitude and borderline obsessive

These ppl are acting like glen needs them to protect him 😂

Celebrity parasocial relationships make people genuinely feel like they have a *connection* with public figures and I feel like it so often happens with attractive, white male celebrities 🤷‍♀️

The fact that you came back just to help spread rumors and speculation about Glen’s private life and relationships by tagging everything to his tag just screams attention seeking. You crave all these anonymous responses cos you know people love drama. You clearly don’t care that you’re helping to spread dirt to his name. Such a shameful online behaviour. Especially if you’re an adult. And to think I previously had respect for you from your previous contributions to the tgm fandom. Sad.

Did Glen pay you to write this or…?

So it’s funny because there is no “fact” here, and the same things that you accuse me of (speculation) are things you’re doing about me. 🤷‍♀️ If it’s my turn, I’d say that you seem to have quite the parasocial relationship with Glen and are engaging in infantilizing behavior.

My first post was asking people what was going on because my feed was cluttered with it after three days of no service. Given that I still message several people on here and like others’ posts regularly, I don’t think you can constitute it as “coming back.” Me likely not engaging with *you* does not mean I have not been engaged *at all*. Additionally, if you scroll back through my posts, I tag the vast majority of them (and if I forget it’s mostly because I’m lazy). To include previous criticisms of Glen Powell, whether they be ongoing/upcoming/past projects or things he had said (there was one quote about the filming of TGM that still doesn’t sit right with me). It’s really not that deep.

Regardless, I do think it’s interesting like you’re acting like Glen Powell is not a grown ass adult with a net worth of millions of dollars and his own damn PR team. No one is “making up rumors” - his own girlfriend has engaged in behavior that is consistent with what people do during a breakup. You’ll notice that nearly all of my answers have said that it definitely seems like something bad happened between them (like a break up). No one is making up wild allegations, and for the few that I’ve seen in my inbox (like the “how you lose them is how you caught them”), I’ve expressed my doubts or potential other alternatives. Taking evidence (in this case, Gigi’s posts/online behavior combined with the photos of Sydney and Glen) and analyzing them is not “making up rumors.” Please understand the difference.

It’s also not his “private life.” Glen makes every aspect of his family, friendships, and relationships public. There are celebrities who *actually* keep their private lives private, Glen is not one of them. He joined this industry knowing that being a Movie Star - his goal - means being a public figure. He’s not some ordinary citizen that Mean Internet People are attacking, he’s a celebrity whose very public relationship is being publicly questioned after his own girlfriend publicly posted suspicious things to her public social media account.

As far as your “respect” for me goes, I’m really unbothered. I don’t know you, and you don’t know me. But if your original “respect” for someone was based on their “contributions to the TGM fandom,” be serious. It’s really not that deep. Sad. 🤷‍♀️

(Just to clarify, I don’t really have an opinion or think anything about the whole situation in regards to people cheating or breaking up🥹)

But I’m not entirely sure if she still wears it I just remember hearing a lot about it when she first got engaged. Very valid point though!

I gotchu. Yeah idk a lot about Sydney Sweeney to be honest, other than a lot of my male co-workers are really into her

Not an ask really, but just wanted to say how nice it is to see you back on my dash again! I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve reread Sugar and Spice and I still think it’s an absolute masterpiece. Hope life will calm down a little for you now. x

@olliepig thank you this is so sweet! Life has been super busy but good for my career so I can’t complain too much.

I remember it being speculated because there were very public photos of her engagement ring and then she or someone from her team confirmed it. I don’t think it’s that weird to speculate especially on tumblr where they are never going to see it and, like you said they are super public, b ut I do see how sometimes it can get out of hand 🤕

Does she still wear her engagement ring? I only ask because I’ve known people who have broken off their engagements quietly and just stopped wearing the ring.

I just don’t think her having been engaged at one point can lead directly to “she’s cheating on her fiancé” if there’s a possibility the engagement was broken off and no one knew about it.

Also like….where is fiancé in all the red carpets, movie sets, etc????? Sorry I don’t follow Sydney super well so I have 0 clue, this is a genuine question

Ok I just saw your anons talking about Glen and I’m so out of the loop can you fill me in babes? What’s the gossip/drama anything that you know would lovvvvvve to know I’m invested in celebrity gossip at times.

If you don’t wanna talk about it it’s all good too!🤍

Scroll down a bit and you’ll see what other people have filled me in with!