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TOP GUN: MAVERICK (2022) dir. Joseph Kosinski MILES TELLER as Lt. Bradley 'ROOSTER' Bradshaw

#movie: tgm #Him #fav

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forever and always insane about the fact that haunting means "heimsuchen" in german which literally translates to "homeseeking". a haunting is a search for a home you can never return to

#sometimes you need to smile

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insp

#tv: h50

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9-1-1 7.04 | Buck, Bothered, and Bewildered

#tv: 911 #lol chim #basketball beard

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is he...............you know..................

#tv: 911

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“The strongest argument I’ve ever seen for the existence of destiny.” x

#tv: sg1 #sam/jack

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always passing by

For @hero-in-waiting, who prompted me with "Buddie, like ships in the night - always passing by." Be careful what you wish for??

It had been a bumpy road to get here, but Chim and Maddie had finally managed to get married. Eddie nurses his beer and watches them twirl around the dance floor with a smile.

Buck drops into the seat next to him with a groan; the Man of Honor has been running around all day, desperate to make sure Maddie's wedding was perfect. He'd confided to Eddie that from what he remembered, Maddie's first wedding had been mostly their parents and Doug's work, and he was determined to give Maddie the wedding of her dreams.

Eddie's not the only one who'd wanted to snap Buck's Official Wedding Clipboard in half over the past few months, though he's pretty sure he's the only one who secretly thought it was hot when Buck got all authoritative with it.

Eddie looks over to see Buck watching the happy couple with a wistful smile on his face.

"You think we'll ever get there?" Buck asks, not taking his eyes off his sister. Eddie forces down his first reaction, which is a somewhat pathetic "I'd marry you tomorrow if you'd let me."

"Marriage? One day, maybe," he says instead. Aside from some not-always-PG fantasies inspired by Buck in a nice suit, Eddie hasn't really thought about it in years. The idea of marrying Ana had literally given him heart palpitations, and he and Marisol had called it quits long before they got to the rings phase. "What about you?" he asks, and hopes he sounds casual.

Buck laughs softly. "Man, so many times over the years. I used to daydream about my wedding to Abby," he confesses.

"Please tell me you didn't do that with Taylor," Eddie groans. Buck laughs.

"Are you ever going to stop hating her?" he asks. Eddie hopes he's being rhetorical, because the answer is no, but he's a little embarrassed to admit that. Luckily, Buck moves on.

"Nah, I never thought about Taylor. To be fair, that's because I spent half the time I knew her fantasizing about you," Buck says casually. Eddie freezes. He - he can't have heard that right, there's no way.

"Me?" he chokes out.

Buck laughs again. "Yeah, man - you know I was gone on you for ages," he says, like it's obvious, like he isn't turning Eddie's world upside down.

"You - what?" Eddie forces out. He can't breathe. Buck doesn't hear him.

"God, everyone gave me so much shit for it too," he says. "Hardest thing I ever did, getting over you, Eddie Diaz," Buck says with a grin, and -

Oh.

Well.

Eddie hadn't even realized he'd started to hope for anything until he feels it wither away into nothing.

"But you - you did," he hears himself say. Buck's grin softens.

"Yeah, of course I did. You're my best friend, Eddie, you and Chris are everything. I wasn't going to mess things up with feelings you'd never reciprocate," he says, tilting his head with that endearing curl to his lip that Eddie has dreamed about tasting.

"Yeah," Eddie says. "You're my best friend too, Buck," he says. The words taste like ash in his mouth. He feels like he's floating above his body.

"I'm going to get another drink," he says, stumbling to his feet. "You want anything?"

Maddie chooses that moment to start calling for her brother. "Nah," Buck waves him off, already focused on his sister.

Eddie backs away, watching as Buck reaches Maddie and swings her up into his arms. They're both laughing, and Chim takes it as his cue to go pull Albert onto the dance floor with them.

Eddie turns tail and flees out of the tent. He finds a corner just far enough away that he has to strain to hear the music and sinks to the ground, tugging at his tie as he goes.

He pulls his knees up to his chest. Of course I did rings in his ears.

The last time he'd felt like this, like everything he'd done had been for nothing, that he'd lost everything he'd tried to build, Buck had broken down his bedroom door like a knight in shining armor and put him back together.

Of course I did

Eddie puts his face in his hands and tries not to fall apart.

Of course I did

He fails.

#tv: 911 #tumblr fic #so so so so so good

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Stargate Universe "Lost"

Bonus, careful what you wish for:

#tv: sgu #sgu is a comedy

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THE EXPANSE REWATCH 6/∞ ⤿ 3x6 ❝ immolation ❞

#tv: the expanse #bobbie draper #HER #queen

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Stargate Atlantis "First Contact"

#tv: sga #sga: first contact #love him

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7x05 you don't know me

#tv: 911 #hes so pretty

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The Lost Boys (1987) dir. Joel Schumacher

#movie: lost boys

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Military girl vs military boys who will win

My contribution to CALLSIGNS: A Top Gun Zine Collection by @topgunzine !! I contributed artwork to the Squadron and Wingman collections. This one is a piece for Squadron :D

#movie: tgm #fanart

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i really like outsider POV, but the thing is, it fundamentally works better when whatever is going on with the characters in question is so fucking weird that no reasonable outsider could ever discern it

like, the ideal outsider POV should have at least some element of 'what the fuck is wrong with these people'.

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#tv: teen wolf

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And ever since that night We've been together Lovers at first sight In love forever It turned out so right For strangers in the night

I'm cheesy. What of it?

#movie: tgm #hangster #fanart

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save me 1.2 million modern au sas merthur fic series. save me