Okay everybody buckle up! Today I’d like to talk about:
How Hollywood is Creating an Unattainable Male Physique!
Specifically, I want to talk about how Hollywood’s use of the male power fantasy physique is not only very harmful for actors, but also very harmful for people at large.
Before I begin I’ll flat out say it, I am fat, I have always been fat. The last time I was an average weight was when I was a literal child. I will not be discussing the debate about average bodies, fat acceptance, or anything else in that realm. I’m not trying to make any points about that right now, and I want to focus on a very specific idea. If you are offended by this please feel free to disregard this post.
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[This is what happens when you trap Maverick on a carrier at sea for several months, in shared bunks with Merlin, Slider, and Iceman. He finds new ways to entertain himself. Namely, antagonising Slider.]
Maverick: You know what I’ve always wondered? How do tall people sleep at night when the blanket can’t go over them right to their toes?
Slider: Maverick, it is three o'clock in the goddamn morning.
Maverick: So you can’t sleep, huh? Is it because of the blanket?
Slider: Maverick, I swear to god if you don’t shut up I’m gonna-
Maverick: Sorry, what was that? I couldn’t hear you through the blanket covering me completely.
Ice and Goose flew together at the Academy because they needed to test compatibility. Years later, when they meet again at Top Gun and Slider is Ice’s RIO, Goose sits with both of them, and Sli and him compare manoeuvres and how Ice’s styles evolved. They even make stupid posters with numbers to vote for what they are describing. Ice always ends up blushing and trying to hide it behind his glass of vodka, but he promises, patting Goose on his shoulder and saying, “Once Top Gun is over, I’m going to take you up again, Mother Goose. And maybe Mav can take up Slider if they don’t kill each other.”
Slider’s arm is around Goose’s shoulder, and they are all laughing. It’s the 28th of July, and Ice promises they’re going to swap at the beginning of August. They just have to wait another couple of days.
au in which Mav’s first day back from deployment consists mostly in him being sleepy, going around the house only with one of Ice’s shirts that are too big for him and a pair of boxers, waiting for Ice to get back home to finally give him a proper hello and I’m glad you’re back kiss.
As much as he loved the seat of his plane, as wholly as he identified as a Naval aviator, the deployments were not as easy as they once were. He supposed it was in part age, but moreso the absence of the Flyboys he thought. One by one they’d all retired or taken promotions that plucked them out of the air and mostly left them on dry land.
i think jake and javys early friendship played out like a horse girl movie. jake is the unfriendly horse and javy is the girl with boundless optimism and apples.
