Hmm Obsessed With The Way Everyone Is So Much Bigger Than Mav

why does everyone make iceman the normal one, bros a freak too. man was out here air biting dudes in locker rooms and having weird homo rivalries, that should be taken into account when thinking about him

preach 🙏🙏🙏

The Top Gun fandom treating Mav like some sort of self-destructive, unsocialized, bratty, feral cat that Ice needs to train and discipline will forever and ever be my villain origin story

Mav is a highly competent, highly skilled, highly trained, and highly decorated fighter pilot and Naval officer and is every single inch Ice's equal, which is THE ENTIRE GODDAMN POINT of their 30 year friendship-slash-relationship

They both learn from each other in the first film and have decades of loyalty in the second film and you don't get that sort of deep trust in each other without it being a relationship built on mutual love and admiration for each other's talents and for knowing exactly where each other's strengths lie

They may have differing methods for how they Get Shit Done, but they respect each other more than anything else, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

(ps, Ice is more of a brat to Mav in canon than Mav is to Ice - the only person Mav is an actual brat to in either film is Charlie)

yo! this isn’t an ask or anything, just an appreciation to your lovely art and fanfic. i LOVE it so far, and cannot wait for the last chapter. I was up till like 3 finishing reading it cus i was so invested, and you’re so good that i can just imagine this happening without even trying. So yeah, just wanted to show appreciation anywho buh bye (ALSO I LOVE BENTHAN UGH THEYRE SO ZESTY)

Thank you for your kind words! I don't really get a lot of asks anymore, not ones that aren't spam.

I'm so glad to hear that you like my story! I will tell you that a TON of hard work goes into my writing. As anyone who has been reading "Nine Steps" from the beginning can tell you, I am a slow writer and I have to work at it all the time. Anyway, I truly appreciate that someone likes the hard work I've done writing this thing!

I am happy to report that I will be posting the last chapter of "Nine Steps" this week on May 14th in my timezone which might be May 15th depending on where you are in the world. I hope you like the ending.

Then I will be bracing myself for MI:8 like the rest of us Benthan fans!

An old but gold Goose and Maverick art piece. (11/19/24) Probably my favorite Top Gun art piece i’ve ever done, and it’s of my silly boysssss.

I hope y’all sorta recognize the scene, but uh, yeah. Little do they know they are about to be sent out to Top Gun 🤭🤭🤭

enjoy, i suppose

OH! and take him too

Ice: *sees shenanigans afoot* Mav, no!

Mav: *From next to Ice* Hey, I'm right here!

Ice: Sorry, habit.

Ice: Slider, no!

Hold My Hand is playing at this gas station so I guess I gotta go home and watch Top Gun again.

is it weird that i’m a little nervous for mi8 on ethan’s behalf 😭 like what are they gonna put my boy through this time

The rituals, they are intricate

top gun silliness

Pete "Maverick" Mitchell being a Little Shit

I love that man, look at his smile

Bonus for being immediately scolded for his attitude