soph has gone insane

Rooster: *on the other end* Hey Mav, it’s me

Maverick: Unless this is really important, you can just call me back later. I’m really busy right now.

Rooster: Alright, sorry. Bye. *hangs up*

Payback: He keeps using phrases incorrectly on purpose because he knows it pisses me off.

You will be uploading to our moderated and unrevealed (works will not be viewable until we make them which will be August 30) ao3 collection titled: Top Gun: Maverick Fic Exchange

Before making any uploads, please let the mods know you have completed your fic. We will provide you with your prompter’s ao3 user so that you may upload it as a gift to them. 

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Fill out each required field, add your tags, and add your work text. 

Be sure to enter your prompter’s ao3 username in the second line under the Associations category. 

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*If you are someone who writes directly in ao3 (instead of using a google/word doc) you can type ‘tgm_ficexchange’ in the ‘Post to Collections / Challenges’ category directly above the ‘Gift this work to’ option. This will add your work to the collection when you upload.

If you have uploaded to ao3 before, it’s essentially the same process. If you do not see your work posted right away, don’t worry, it may take a couple days until we get around to approving it (it will still remain unrevealed until August 30). When your writer uploads, you will be able to see you’ve been gifted a work but not the user or the work itself. 

Just some thoughts about my fav WSO and her interactions with her fellow airmen ❤️

She's Omaha's wingman (no pun intended) because even though he's fine as hell, he's horrible at flirting with women. She was ecstatic when he finally asked out the nuclear engineer she befriended on an aircraft carrier.

She loves playing bartender. She first started making mocktails, but progressed into more advanced alcoholic drinks. She eventually got her liquor license and is the only pilot Penny allows behind the bar.

Her Mandarin sometimes slips into her English subconsciously. It's mostly a lot of 哎呀 (āiyā, kinda like a sigh of frustration). She says it for any level of inconvenience, whether it be dropping her pen or when Omaha decides to invert the plane unannounced 🙄

She can literally fall asleep anywhere. If you gave her a blanket and a pillow, she could probably fall asleep on the tarmac.

When Halo brought Fritz and Yale home for Lunar New Year, her family instantly instantly hit it off with them. Even the aunties tried to set them up with their daughters.

She has a really good singing voice that carries and is Rooster's go-to duet partner when he's playing a song on the piano with two singing parts.

Her vision corrects to 20/20 with contacts, but she sometimes uses her glasses if her eyes are irritated. She loves her glasses because she deliberately chose the chunkiest pair the store had (think 1980s plastic square frame glasses).

She regularly quotes sci-fi movies, even if no one understands the references. Fanboy was so excited when he realized she was also a Trekkie.

There's a soundtrack playing in her head 24/7. Sometimes she'll just randomly bop her head and tap her pen to whatever she's jamming out to in her mind.

Her favorite pair of sunglasses were picked out by Phoenix at a gas station in Lemoore. She got them matching ones in different colors.

Hello and welcome to the Top Gun: Maverick/Inception fusion (#tgminception)! This spawned as an idea in the TG:M discord and I’m very excited to share it. 

How it works: 

Sign up for the fusion. After sign-ups are closed, invitations to an Ao3 collection will be sent to participants. There are six prompts– one scenario dreamed up in the TG:M discord, and five general prompts for you to work with. You can write something for one prompt or all six! 

The prompt list can be found in the graphics of this post or here. The character list does not have to be adhered to but was a general idea of each character’s counterpart in the other universe. 

You will have one month to write with a minimum word count of 1,000 words. Art is also more than welcome!! Sign-up is available until August 5th and works are due on September 5th. If it’s taking longer for any reason, or if you need to drop out, please reach out. 

Most importantly: have fun! Message the blog with any questions or reach out to eggelyse#2784 on Discord. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Sign up HERE. 

You can also join the TG:M Discord, which has a channel for this fusion, here. 

When Maverick walks into that diner at the beginning and a kid thinks he has come from space

Maverick climbing out of the window and running into Amelia downstairs

The darts scene

Hangman, Coyote, and Payback throwing Maverick out of the Hard Deck and then their reaction to him walking into the meeting next morning

Phoenix flipping the bird to Hangman in the same scene

Maverick having a photo of Goose flipping the bird on the door of his locker

Which makes me think of Rooster as a child seeing that picture and posing like that on photos outraging everyone else, being unaware that it's actually offensive