#ice reads books; mav doesn’t have that kind of attention span 90% of the time

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does ice read architectural digest to keep up w home decor trends or are they solely somewhere between coastal gradparents house and mediterranean style home w leather accents

okay. yes. when they first move in together their house is frat-house-ugly-bad. They don’t want to think about it too much. interior decoration is Incriminating when you’re not supposed to be living together. It’s hand-me-down furniture with scuff marks and stains and no sense of interior design or organization etc. After the whole rooster-papers-pulling-divorce fiasco they (mostly ice) basically start throwing money at it in the hopes that it will help heal their relationship so that’s when it actually starts to look nice & like an actual house that people live in and not just their chaotic secret escape-from-reality house

all of this couched by my own personal opinion that it was a mistake of the highest narrative order to have them buy a house together and everything ive written about it is just an attempt to try to fix/explain that original mistake (as I write about on this blog All the Time)

but late-40s early-50s ice is somewhat clued in to interior design trends yes. think midcentury modern and a Lot of chrome everywhere because they are middle-aged white guys. or, shit, his canonical interior decorating sense, that’s what the house is supposed to look like! It’s supposed to be the TGM house lol. so like dark woods and bookshelves and big windows etc. HOWEVER. this is just a hc that i cant in any good conscience actually work into any type of narrative, but: they’re, like, really into aviation themed decor. like, really really. it allows them to be into the girlycoded hobby of interior decorating because it’s interior decoration about a manlycoded lifestyle. like if you look on etsy for aviation decor…

ice & mav have it all. i am so serious about this.

#like that engine coffee table… thinking about mav sourcing an f-14 turbofan from ‘a buddy of mine’ in the mid 2000s to DIY table like that #look these extras are just an opportunity for me to work in all my extremely specific lame headcanons okay #and do weird shit with the writing i couldn’t otherwise do #having fun for once #trying to give myself permission to be silly/goofy/experimental #writing practice is writing practice #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #asks #secondary headcanon that maverick is the real Magazine guy in this relationship #ice reads books; mav doesn’t have that kind of attention span 90% of the time #but that boy can Fuck Up a magazine #maverick is the AD reader here #He got the free tote bag and was like ‘now what the fuck am i sposed to do with this’