Endless Summer Exchange

Top Gun/Top Gun: Maverick Endless Summer Fanfic and Art Exchange

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Event Status: Prepping Fic and Art!

Are you read to match the heatwaves of summer with some killer writing or amazing artwork? Well back by popular demand, welcome to Top Gun's Endless Summer Exchange for a 2nd year!

This event, open to all ships and ratings, looks to turn up the heat with a fic and art exchange that adds a twist to the typical prompt assignment to ensure everyone gets to write or draw what they want! (more on that in the rules/info) 

To participate in this exchange, you must be 18+ and be prepared (as a writer) to post a completed fic of at least 2k words. All works will need to have a summer theme or connection, from a sweaty game of beach volleyball in July to a character reminiscing on a hot summer romance in the depths of winter and everything in between!

Rules/Info - (app | desktop)

Exchange Schedule - (app | desktop)

The linked exchange schedule has more details, but the key dates are:

Sign-ups: Wednesday, May 14th - Wednesday, May 28th

Prompt Selection opens: Saturday, May 31st

Prompt Selection due: Wednesday, June 4th

Assignments Sent: Monday, June 9th

First Check-in: Monday, June 30th (halfway)

Second Check-in: Friday, July 11th (10 days left)

Fic/Art due: Monday, July 21st 

Fic/Art posts: Monday, July 28th- Thursday, July 31st

Times for this exchange are in EST - Please use this CONVERTER to calculate that on your end.

Initial Sign-up Form COMPLETE

Prompt Sign-up Form COMPLETE

Collection

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this exchange, please feel free to send an Ask! or check out the FAQ!

This exchange is hosted by:

Alex (ReformedTsundere / @film-in-my-soul)

Saturn (Saturn/ @icemav86)

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how about you wanna be my baby, maybe, baby

By: @crooked-jes | k0ralik

For: @reiverreturns | ReiverReturns

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: T

Word count: 8,207

Summary: One of the perks of being raised in California is that, maybe, you will have inherited a beach house by the time you are 36. Bradley certainly has, way, way back. The drawbacks, on the other hand, are plenty but it’s not what Bradley is thinking about right now - not when Jake is visibly hurt.

“You know, if you wanted five minutes of alone time with me, you could’ve just asked. Didn't have to step on glass.”

or: bradley and jake helping each other out

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Beach Day

By: @halestrom | halestrom

For: @intrepidjourneys | intrepidjourneys

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: T

Word count: 4,864

Summary: Spending the day at the beach with Jake's family was noisy, chaotic, but they only had eyes for each other.

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Beneath the Surface

By: @chocabel | Chocabel

For: @plantsarecute | Aikei47

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: M

Word count: 3,751

Summary: When Bradley and Jake meet on a clear summer night by a secluded beach, there’s more lingering beneath the surface than meets the eye.

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too busy being in love

By: @ontinetine | AliuIce0814

For: @nickfromguesswhohateclub | indigofudge

Pairing: Carole Bradshaw/Nick "Goose" Bradshaw/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell

Rating: T

Word count: 10,257

Summary: Bradley’s seen that old Parent Trap movie, like, a hundred times. He's studying. Sure, he has two happily married parents. He also has a lovesick Mav.

This is the summer he'll get them all together. (Yeah, yeah, yeah.)

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the bridges I have burned (light my way back home)

By: @magdarko | magdarko

For: @gothampot | MadeItUp

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: E

Word count: 11,449

Summary: The voice is right behind him, cutting through the soft ambient sounds of the bar. Bradley freezes, his glass arrested halfway to his mouth. The easy drawl, alight with that ever-present smile, the faint note of that familiar peppery aftershave… no. It can’t be.

Bradley finds his destiny on the vacation he takes to avoid it.

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something happens and I'm head over heels

By: @doodledraw | doodlewrite

For: @sweetlittleladybug | SweetLittleLadybug

Pairing: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell

Rating: G

Word count: 4,407

Summary: In all fairness, Tom hadn't meant for it to end up this way.

In all honesty, Pete hadn't expected to spend his summer rescuing one surfer over and over.

But that's getting ahead of themselves.

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If I could turn back time (Then you’d love me like you used to do)

By: @lovemadethemdoit | LoveMadeThemDoIt

For: Notchka88

Pairing: T

Rating: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Word count: 11,370

Summary: “You must be happy to know you won’t have to deal with their egos all by yourself. We’ve filled the other position, as you’re aware.”

Jake frowned. He hadn’t heard about anyone being reassigned to Top Gun.

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Sometimes Love Is a Team Sport

By: @green-socks | aprilfoolish

For: @brendaonao3 | Brenda

Pairing: Pete "Maverick" Mitchell/Jake "Hangman" Seresin/Javy "Coyote" Machado

Rating: M

Word count: 4,321

Summary: When several Daggers express interest in asking Maverick out on a date, they figure they need to have some ground rules in this game of love. There's a competition within a bet, a few surprises, and... varying results (though no one ends up disappointed, because Maverick is the gift that keeps on giving).

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Endless Reverences Illuminating Nights

By: @intrepidjourneys | intrepidjourneys

For: @mxrcusflint | mxrcusflint

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: T

Word count: 6,538

Summary: 

Every morning, he watches the ever-changing swirls of blue and green, but it's this morning that he waits for. For Bradley's ship to crest into view, dragging the sun across the horizon like Apollo to deliver himself to Jake for one day a year.

Jake, Bradley, and the curse between them.

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every breath you take

By: @iceman-maverick | billpaxton

For: @icemav86 | Saturn

Pairing: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell

Rating: E

Word count: 2,035

Summary: “Carole and Bradley,” Maverick says.

Ice frowns, his eyebrows scrunching. There’s no way Carole knows anything. How could she? They’ve barely spoken. And Bradshaw, for all his paranoia, was far more concerned about Ice being gay then…well, this.

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I’ve Been Saving Up My Time

By: @shealwaysreads | shealwaysreads (onereader)

For: @wordsonamission | wordsonamission

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: E

Word count: 14,066

Summary: Jake and Bradley have been trying to be friends.

After two flights to Texas, some good honest hard work, and a beer or two they work out that maybe 'friends' isn't what they've been aiming at.

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And now I'm just somebody you ghost

By: @iprefervillains | Iprefervillains

For: @magdarko | magdarko

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: T

Word count: 3,591

Summary: Jake thought he had finally found his prince charming when he met Bradley at Callie's wedding. Too bad that after four fantastic dates full of cheeky banter and exchanging what felt like thousands of texts, Bradley suddenly stopped responding to Jake's messages on Wednesday. Needless to say that Jake didn't take it well.

For the prompt: "I've been dreaming about you all my life, but now I've met you and I've woken up to my worst nightmare."

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you make me feel so brand new

By: @tornadeoqueen | hrtofglss

For: @allforreading-fandomthings | AllForReading

Pairing: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: E

Word count: 7,345

Summary: He slides his eyes over to Bradley, and flushes slightly at the hungry look he finds. Transfixed, Bradley reaches out and cups his jaw with his hand, thumb rubbing gently at the rough stubble covering his cheek.

“Your beard has a little bit of grey in it,” Bradley says with awe, and Jake winces, leaning down to place his glass on the ground at his feet. Bradley, you beautiful, perceptive bastard.

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Better Let Somebody Love You (Before It's Too Late)

By: @consultingunicorn22 | consulting_unicorn

For: Lacerta

Pairing: Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell

Rating: T

Word count: 13,117

Summary: “A record breaking heat wave continues to hold the greater Southwest region in an iron grip, and appears likely to stick around through at least the end of the month. Officials are urging vulnerable citizens to stay in the shade, drink plenty of water, and if needed, seek out a cooling center as temperatures soar once more today right here in San Diego County. More at nine, but first—”

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there's a rumor goin' round about me and you (stirring up our little town)

By: @growingupbrown | growingupbrown

For: @enthyrea | enthyrea

Pairing: Javy "Coyote" Machado/Jake "Hangman" Seresin

Rating: E

Word count: 2,487

Summary: this was written for the prompt: at a cowboy/southern bar, cowboy hat rule , and man did I have a blast writing this one! ☺

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Wild Uncharted Waters

By: HanaG

For: @lightsabersandpens | lightsabersandpens

Pairing: Sarah Kazansky/Tom "Iceman" Kazansky

Rating: T

Word count: 4,747

Summary: Sarah has an eventful nightshift and is too hyped up to sleep, Tom knows a place that nice and relaxing. Written for the 2025 Endless Summer fic exchange

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