A Top Gun/Tom Cruise Blog

A blog for my Top Gun/Tom Cruise obsession. Will be posting art, meta, and whatever content related to our favorite plane movie + other TC films. (Mitch McDeere is the name of TC's character in The Firm, and Tom is the CPA representation in Hollywood that I need).

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Words Left Unspoken

What I wish Rooster could have admitted. What he said to Maverick was so vicious, biting, and cruel, even from him at the time--and I’ve come to the conclusion that he wasn’t being entirely truthful. Mav had already lost those closest to him, and Rooster wanted to drive it in where it hurt most--that Mav meant nothing. That he had no family left, including Bradley.

Yet Rooster was willing to risk his career--and his life--to disobey orders and go back after Maverick. He cares far more for that old man than he would admit.

I have a lot of thoughts.

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Posted and deleted some art, haha. *sweats* Will try again tomorrow. I’m sorry to the few of you who have already seen the picture. I hope you might catch it again tomorrow morning.

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I don’t have many followers on here, but FYI, I am going to continue this blog because the Top Gun/Tom Cruise obsession has not abated. So please don’t unfollow me yet--this will not be a dead blog!

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Top Gun: My Tribute to ‘Maverick’

I’ve said it before that Top Gun: Maverick has owned my entire summer--and my heart and soul. Now that TGM is imminently leaving the theaters, I feel I need to join and contribute to the fandom while I can. I began this piece over two months ago as a tribute to my favorite character Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, with some of my most beloved relationships of his--dear Iceman, Rooster, and Goose, who I couldn’t fit in--maybe next time (if anyone would like it)?

Thank you for an amazing summer, Mav! I hope we will see him and all of the pilots again one day. Please join me in manifesting Top Gun 3. (╯˘ -˘ )╯

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I guess the positive side of having barely anyone see my art is that I was able to to find and fix some massive, MASSIVE mistakes that I made when originally posting so.....I hope I’m not completely going blind making these edits. -__-

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Little Bradley + Big Rooster  \ ( ^ ◇ ^ ) /

My first foray into the TGM fandom! Top Gun has been my life this summer, and I’ve enjoyed revisiting both movies! It still tickles me that the little kid whom Mav carried around in the original movie grew up to be this massive hunk of a man, so I wanted to portray this contrast.

More to come!

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This is an interesting excerpt from Val Kilmer’s memoir. Basically, Tom Cruise was actually the opposite of Maverick whilst filming Top Gun (1986). Mav’s character famously was going out with all the girls, but in reality Tom was actually. And Ice was the one actually traipsing about town and getting into shenanigans!

In the behind-the-scenes of Top Gun (1986) included in the Blu-Ray, the cast also mentioned how Tom largely kept to himself because while the other guys were out having fun, he–being the main actor carrying the film–was always busy filming a scene or preparing for one. The man was stressed all the time, in contrast to how light-hearted and carefree Maverick seemed.

So I think Mav’s character in Top Gun: Maverick actually does a great job of combining his spirit of adventure with his real-life gravitas. I’ve often said that I believe Pete “Maverick” Mitchell embodies Tom Cruise’s best qualities (while undercutting his not-so-great ones, lol).

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This is such a loaded clip.

Here, Tom Cruise meets a young JYP, then a mid-level singer, who later ends up founding one of Korea’s big 4 entertainment corporations.

This is Tom’s first time ever visiting South Korea to promote Interview with the Vampire (did they know, even then, that Asia is the biggest BL market?). To introduce Tom, they play music from his then most-famous film Top Gun (1986), but instead of using its most recognizable theme song “Danger Zone,” they use “Playing With the Boys” from its infamous homoerotic volleyball scene.

Tom and JYP awkwardly try on vampire teeth. In another clip (which I can’t seem to locate again), Tom picks this other guy up, bridal-style.

Gay chaos. I love it.

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The last few posts are archiving some of my less-embarrassing western fandom art (because my other blog is devoted solely to 中文 things), but this blog is basically just going to be Top Gun and Tom Cruise from now on!

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Soldier: 76 Soldier: 24 76 + 24 = 100 = 100% match = Morrison and Reyes are meant for each other

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Based on @incorrect-overwatch-quotations ‘s post! Apparently, Blizzard enjoys giving us adorable mathematical easter eggs of the gay persuasion, so I had to make this. Because they are. ♡

This is my first Overwatch drawing (hopefully with more to come!)–please tell me it didn’t turn out that bad, lol.

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Drawn based on @incorrect-overwatch-quotations ‘s post!

I know it’s an old meme (and the Overwatch fandom seems relatively dead as of late), but I wanted to try contributing something…they will always be cute to me. *^_^*

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McHanzo #Reaper76 #Jesse McCree #Hanzo Shimada #Gabriel Reyes #Jack Morrison #Overwatch #my stuff

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“Missed the sunshine today,” Thor murmurs. “No,” Loki shakes his head after a beat. “I don’t think we missed it at all.”

Drew this based on one of my favorite moments from Sunshine by the phenomenal @thorduna ! This took so long since I have never illustrated a lighting scheme like this before, but I really hope you like it. Thank you for all you do for the fandom! ♥

IW may have broken our collective hearts, but I think the good that has come out of it is lots and lots of fix-it works. This is my first contribution, but I intend on drawing more of them–I have been shipping them since forever, though this is the first time I’ve drawn them–so hopefully it turned out okay. ◠◡◠