Hangster - Blog Posts

Am i using one of my weirdly seen posts to try and manifest a stupid crossover into existence? Well yes indeed, hear me out: 👐Hangster x Much Ado About Nothing👐

I was watching for the 5665667th time Much Ado about Nothing, and the vibes between Bradley/Jake and Beatrice/Benedick are UNCANNY! Embittered exes who are seeing each other after a considerable time apart and trade sassy barbs without missing a beat every time they share the same space and (as in the general fandom consensus regarding TGM post canon and headcanon) get together thanks to hijinks and the meddling of their friends???? Immaculate, perfect, no notes, chef kiss.

Mind you, i'd never write it, but i would die laughing if i ever see this fanfic out there in the wild.

Maverick: I've been where you are.

Rooster: Struggling to prove yourself as a naval aviator, yeah, I know.

Maverick: No, I meant being in love with an asshole in your Top Gun class.

Shove them together and make them kiss??? Sometimes….

does anyone wanna uuhhhhhh

He’s trying to kiss him because he was so turned on.😂😂😂😂

no because I need to talk about this moment again for a second actually

hangman has spent so much time trying to goad rooster into reacting the way that he wants. the song at the bar, the asking personal questions, the bickering in the classroom. and rooster is relatively dismissive of it up until this point - smiles at hangman while he’s monologuing, shuts the convo down with a ‘none of your business,’ rolls his eyes and casually points out that hangman’s being a terrible wingman

and then this moment happens. rooster is finally reacting the way hangman wants, and like. pls just watch the gif again through the hangster lens.

there’s that moment on hangman’s expression before he starts to grin where he’s almost, like. recognizing bradley again. like, a mix of “that’s how far I have to go to break you now?” and “oh, there you are”

and it makes me want all the history for them. how easily did bradley react to jake’s asshole behavior before? how many times has bradley shoved him like that? how many times has hangman seen what rage looks like on rooster?

like. that is a man that knows what he did. that is the face of a man that just proved to himself and to his whatever-the-fuck-bradley-is-to-him that he’s still able to get under bradley’s skin bc he knows exactly where to cut. jake realizes he still has the power to affect bradley (even if it takes more effort now), and he knows it.

that look in the second gif is a quiet, taunting “I’m in your head”

so also, consider -

a quiet, arrogant, taunting “I’m still in your head”

"Would you still love me if I was a worm?"

Maverick with Goose...

Mav: Goose, would you still love me if I was a worm?

Goose: Sure, honey.

OR

Goose: Hey, Mav, would you still love me if I was a worm?

Mav: A what?

Goose: A worm. Would you still love me?

Mav: Yeah, Goose, I'd still love you.

Maverick with Penny...

Mav: Penny?

Penny: Yeah?

Mav: You'd still love me if I was a worm, right?

Penny: *unimpressed/amused* Pete....

Mav: What???

Penny: *rolls eyes fondly* Yes. I'd still love you.

OR

Penny: Pete?

Mav: Mmm?

Penny: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

Mav: *totally unphased* Yeah, of course.

Iceman with Slider...

Ice: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

Slider: If you- What?? What do you- *stops* Actually. You know what? Sure, man. I'd love you if you were a worm.

OR

Slider: Hey, Ice, would you still love me if I was a worm?

Ice: Like, if you were always a worm, or if you got turned into one?

Slider: *shrugs*

Ice: *rolls eyes fondly* Sure, Ron.

Iceman with Sarah...

Sarah: Tom?

Ice: Yeah?

Sarah: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

Ice: Of course.

OR

Ice: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

Sarah: *laughing* What?

Ice: Humour me.

Sarah: *kisses him* Of course, love.

Ice and Mav with each other........

Ice: Mitchell, would you still love me if I was a worm?

Mav: *immediately* No, because you're annoying.

OR

Mav: Hey, Ice-

Ice: No.

Mav: What?

Ice: No. Do not ask me if I would still love you if you were a worm.

Mav: I WASN'T GOING TO!!!

BONUS ROUND!

Carole and Goose...

Carole: *yells across a room full of people* Hey, Goose, you'd still love me if I was a worm?

Goose: *yells back* Damn straight, Honey!

Carole: *blows him a kiss*

Hangman and Rooster...

Hangman: Hey, Bradshaw, would you love me if I was a a worm?

Rooster: *without looking up* Yeah, sure.

Hangman: Wait, what???

Phoenix: *manifesting out of nowhere* It's because if you were a worm you wouldn't be able to talk, Bagman.

Rooster: *silently high-fives Phoenix*

🗡️🌹A Stolen Moment🌹🗡️

[swords n roses au hangster]

your honour they are disgustingly in love

Sketch (kinda) below :P

SAM YOUVE DONE IT AGAIN GOOD BUDDY!!!!

The beach scene but make it gayer

Honestly I need more clearly country Hangman, just as a southerner. There’s a coupla good fics out there but I need more! Just bonfires and the dagger squad shootin the shit! Cause I ain’t a writer but I need more southern Hangman fics!

we have a lot of golden rich boy jake, i kinda want to see more traditional, country side boy jake and well maybe not RICH rich bradley, but he definitely had better situation as a child than jake.

maybe there was a time where jake can’t even eat dinner because his parents have 4 children and jake had to give up his dinner so his little siblings can eat. and he definitely can’t have pet besides the dog that his father’s boss owned. he grew up with love, but was struggling. that’s why he enlisted right after high school graduation, to ease his parents weight and so he can have better place to sleep and if not better, something to eat.

and bradley grew with both a lot love and privilege. he has both an admiral and a captain as his foster parents with no siblings. he got lonely sometimes, but mav and ice got him a dog, it was big and very fluffy and it costs them good amount of money just for the grooming and the food. bradley had some remote control cars, and many other good toys growing up. he only have to fend for himself when he cut off mav (which led to him restricting himself from ice too) with the money he saved, got into the best college he can find by scholarship and live in a dorm. but he definitely was in a better situation than jake.

so when they got together, bradley takes jake to a lot of dates, from movie date to fancy dinner date. he spoiled jake. when they moved in together, bradley got jake his first pet, and he drives with jake back to texas to meet his family. and when bradley and mav’s relationship is mended, jake makes sure to go with him to mav and ice’s house, making sure he never gets lonely. they lift each other up basically.

I’m sobbing, THEYRE IN LOVE

I was planning on abandoning that one but @srs-bean said it's gotta be finished, so here we go :3

oh my god I’m already sobbing

DID WE JUST GET TWO CHAPTERS?!

Welcome to the beginning of the end.

These two are gonna be the death of me

glens never fucking escaping the allegations my god

Rooster: “I love it when my life spices itself up with ✨depression✨”

Hangman: “Bradley- honey- no.”

to me, being an american means writing gay fanfic ab characters from the sequel to an 80’s propaganda film, and i think that’s beautiful.

Hangster but put them on The Bachelor

we‘ve been neglecting the bradley calls jake princess agenda

There’s a magnet pulling me to you

Bradley followed Jake outside the Hard Deck intending to have some words with him, but he never has been able to resist the pull between them… they can’t help but surge towards one another again and again

The toothpick and raybans will be lost very quickly ;)

Iineart and sketch below:

Bob: Don't you get jealous?

Hangman: I never really had anything to worry about. Roo was never really good at the flirting thing.

Rooster: What are you talking about? It worked with you.

Hangman: Oh, you know what? You're right. We met, you flirted, and then bam! Ten years later you had me!

hangster or icemav friendship kiss 🫶🏻

The gayviators

protective bradley bradshaw. reblog if u agree

my absolute favourite genre of Hangster fic might be "are they really enemies with benefits or is Bradley just stupid"

my personal take on the Hangster Mess in that (iconic) first scene is that Jake knows he's into Bradley and is handling it badly, while Bradley has no idea he's into Jake but is somehow handling it worse

You know what would be funny? Whether or not in this scenario Bradley and Mav would still be talking or not - imagine that Bradley still talks about his family, and that includes his dad, so Jake catches things about him from time to time and makes mental notes in case he ever meets him.

The problem is, he is not aware Bradley is talking about 3 different people. And Bradley talks about Mav using 'dad', and about Goose using 'dad/father' and about Ice using 'pops'. Sometimes he just uses 'my old man' for any of them and only he knows it.

So Jake is under the impression that dad, father, pops and his old man are one and the same person, which in turn makes Bradley's 'dad' into some kind of mythical being.

Because he's a naval aviator, but he was also a RIO?? He's an admiral, but he's a test pilot as well?? Or he was from Tenesssee but he was also from New York and from DC??? He had a father (Bradley's grandfather) who died in a car crush and who died in Vietnam, and who died of cancer? Also he has tons of medals but he's also a person non grata in the Navy? He drives motorcycles but hates motorcycles? He taught Bradley how to drive but also had his driving licence confiscated twice for bad driving?? He met Bradley's mom in a group home but he also met her through his best friend? He's gay but he's bi but also he's a straight ally who Bradley is pretty sure dated guys at some point (can that even be classified as a straight ally, Jake doubts it)?

Jake doesn't want to call out Bradley on the inconsistencies out of fear he'd stop talking about his family or feel pressured to tell him more than he's ready for, but Jake is also dying to meet that man just to confirm what is true

The way I love the 'Hangman thinks the Rooster-Maverick animosity/familiarity during mission training is there because Rooster and Maverick are exes/partners and Rooster is horrified when he finds out because excuse me that's my dad' trope

Bonus points if Hangman (Rooster's actual ex) is green with jealousy and fucking panicking because he can't compete with that silver fox and he's got no chances to get back with Rooster if Maverick is nearby

Please give me more fics with this, I can't be the only one writing them like that

(I'm begging you people for fic recs 🙏🏻)

This is giving strong Icemav or Hangster

idk if this has been done before | insp.

Bradley: I’m bi.

Natasha: I know.

Bradley:

Bradley: …Do you think Jake knows?

Thinking about Jake being 'hot for teacher' and realizing (after the fact, post-canon when he finds out about who Mav is for Rooster for real) that all the mannerisms he found hot in Rooster first time they met (and still are part of why he finds him attractive) are Maverick's mannerisms but inherited

(The way he moves his hips, the way he bops his head when he plays piano, the way he clenches his jaw when he's frustrated or angry, the way he raises his eyebrows and just-barely-there smirks when he flirts, the way humms instead of saying yeah, the way he ruffles his partner's Jake's hair when he's being fondly affectionate, the way he makes his french toast, putting it in the toaster before marinating, the way he bits down on his tongue when he's thinking about something complicated, even the way he clears his sweaty face with his shirt is exactly like Mav's - he takes it out from the side, not the front like everyone would; that's all Maverick but in Rooster's version)

[Maybe Jake even gets a second blast of surprise when he realizes the way Bradley wears his shirts unbutton on the top directly mimics the Iceman, the way the admiral scratches behind Maverick's ear directly mimics the way Bradley's done it to Jake countless times, the way he eats his ice cream - scoping it around the base, then taking the syrup or sprinkles, then coming back to the base, then to the top - they way plates his meals in three equal parts, veggies, meat, carbs; that's all Iceman]

Mav and Bradley reconcile and he finds out (it's not really a surprise tho) that Mav and Ice got married, so he apologizes for not being there for them at their wedding.

Mav blinks at him all confused because while he's feeling something at Bradley being so remorseful — looking like a kicked puppy, really — about missing a big moment of their life but also because, "Oh, no, buddy, we didn't have a wedding."

And the thing is, they got married when Ice's health took a turn for the worse, and it was allowed and legal and would, in Ice's opinion, make a lot of things easier for Mav in case he died — even just from an inheritance point, or just so the Navy doesn't forbid him from being part of the state funeral. It was a very quick sign the papers, get someone to officiate it in the hospital, and then get their lawyer to adjust the paperwork in the express time kind of marriage.

Things got better and life went on and they just, well, forgot to have a real wedding. And they were fine with it. They didn't need a wedding, in fact now that Bradley was back in their life, they couldn't be happier.

But in Bradley's head, an idea is born. Mav and Ice will have their 30th anniversary in a few months (more like almost 10...) and it's the perfect time to get them to have a wedding. You know, as a gift from him for missing all those years from their life.

The problem is, it very quickly turns out that Bradley is shitty at planning weddings. He doesn't know where to start and what needs to be organized and how to organize it in a way that lets it stays a surprise.

But you know who is good at it? Jake Seresin, brother of four sisters, planner of four weddings.

And how does Bradley know that? Well. He might or might not have been Jake's plus one to all four of those weddings.