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mickeym4ndy · 3 months

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Alternative Storylines

One of the reasons I don’t love the “Mickey came back from Mexico for Ian” storyline (unpopular opinion I know but hear me out) is because of how many more interesting storylines we could’ve got if Mickey had come back in a different way.

For one it would’ve been so interesting to see Ian deal with the fallout from the gay Jesus and prison storyline without Mickey.

Like we know Ian has always thrived when he’s had a purpose and a goal to work towards with first the army, then being an EMT. After prison when he didn’t have either of those, he had Mickey - he found purpose in being a good partner and husband, in getting them out of the south side and earning a living legally. It’s one of the reasons he was so excited about the move to the Westside. In season 11 after he quits the warehouse job we see how much it affects him to not have that purpose anymore (in his mind) and how low it makes him. Mickey helps pull him out of it and makes him shift his focus to a new job that brings on new opportunities and new goals - moving out, expanding the business etc. and we see him come back to himself and think about the future positively again. If he didn’t have Mickey I don’t think that would’ve happened so easily. I honestly think that once he left prison the reality of his actions would’ve really hit him hard and we would’ve seen him spiral similarly to the start of season 6 - “This is it for me, Lip.” In his mind he’d be back where he started after working so hard to get to where he had been. He alludes to it when he says “trying to find the strength to look for another soul crushing dead end job.” It would’ve been SO interesting to watch how he deals with that and see how he pulls himself out of it and comes to terms with his life again.

ALSO there would’ve been a cool callback to season 6 with the storyline of Ian moving on with his life while Mickeys is stuck in prison, except it could’ve been Mickey moving on with his life while Ian is stuck in prison. This would’ve been interesting to explore because I think they’d both understand the other’s actions/feelings so much more. I think Ian would’ve had to deal with the guilt & reality of how shit everything was for Mickey while he was in prison and his own role in that. BUT also I think Mickey moving on with his life would allow him understand more why Ian couldn’t have given everything up to go to Mexico with him and also maybe some of Ian’s actions in season 6. And how they deal with those feelings while finding their way back to each other would’ve made for pretty scenes I think.

I also have more thoughts on how this would’ve given Mickey a chance to have his own growth and development without Ian (which also would’ve been SO good to see) and if he were to come back to Chicago on his own terms, there’s a chance we’d have gotten to see the dynamic of a Mickey who got his life together and Ian who’s life is somewhat in shambles. Not that I think it actually would be in shambles, but I think that’s definitely how Ian would view it himself and witnessing that dynamic would’ve been so interesting.

Would it have been happy? Probably not but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have been decent TV and character development.

#gallavich #ian gallagher #mickey milkovich #shameless #i say interesting so much in this post #anyway I love that gallavich was endgame I just think that particular storyline was incredibly lazy writing #that took away a lot of character development opportunities particularly for Mickey #tho I do get that originally Noel & Cameron weren’t supposed to come back for s10 so #would’ve been cool to see what they would have done had they known they’d both be series regulars again and how that might’ve changed thing #I feel like I could say so much more on this topic #but the gallavich fandom scares me sometimes #Shameless US #Also All the fanfic where Mickey comes back from Mexico a different way usually have Ian as an EMT with his life the same as season 7 #but even without the losing Mickey to Mexico element #Monica’s death wud likely still have triggered his manic episode so it still would’ve happened #So the fallout of it would’ve happened whether Mickey was there or not

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callivich · 9 months

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hi do you have any tips for writing?

Hi! I’m flattered you’ve asked me. I enjoy writing a lot but I always feel like i’m still learning so an ask like this is a bit of a surprise in a way because I’m so in awe of so many other writers that I don’t feel qualified to give advice. But here are some random thoughts and I hope they are inspiring:

Write. That probably seems really obvious. But just write. You don’t have to post it. Just write dialogue or random paragraphs or interesting thoughts. Just write. Anything you feel is good, stick it in your drafts.

Edit it and focus on spelling and grammar. But don’t worry about it so much that you feel you can’t post it. Chances are, if you’re worried about a minor plot point or a weird sentence, your readers will either not notice or love it.

I first started reading fandom years and years ago and I didn’t write at all because I was so nervous and anxious and worried about what I might write. It was an utter waste of time. I could have been writing for years and I didn’t. I regret it.

If you want to share your work - go for it. The Gallavich fandom is an especially kind and supportive place. So all those worries you might have? They’re probably bullshit because everyone here is so welcoming.

Try @galladrabbles - it’s such a wonderful challenge because you can just try sharing a short piece of writing and see how you feel. 100 words is very easy and each weekly prompt is very inspiring.

Read. Read everything and anything. Articles/newspapers, non fiction, fiction of all genres, fanfiction - recent and old, from any fandom. Read and reread, any type of writing. It’ll be useful and interesting and you’ll learn a lot in terms of style, narration, dialogue, plotting, words and ideas.

Make comments on fanfic you’ve enjoyed. I always find this is useful in terms of leaving feedback which is always nice for the author but also in terms of clarifying to yourself what has been especially enjoyable. Did you like the plot or the dialogue or the overall feel of the story? Think about it and share it with the author. It’ll be great for them but it will also allow you to realise what you like in a story.

Remember that no one starts out as a fantastic author with millions of comments and kudos and hits. Everyone starts out as a beginner. And they were just as nervous or lost as you might feel. And probably still are when it comes to sharing new work sometimes.

Practice is important. And that means writing when you can and as often as you are able. Try different genres or tropes or writing styles. Find out what works for you and what doesn’t. Experiment in your drafts or take part in challenges.

Get silly and indulgent with fandom on tumblr (or other social media) because interacting with fellow fans on here is always inspiring. Whether it’s reading/making comments on posts or having ideas because of gifsets or edits or headcanons or just engaging with meta that allows you to see certain moments in canon in a new way - this is a great place to find inspiration.

Ultimately, just have fun. Play around with writing and storytelling. You asked for writing tips and I’m assuming you meant fandom writing. So just go for it, write and share your work. I was scared and intimidated for years about writing. It was a waste of time. Now I love writing. It’s such a great hobby and I’m so glad I jumped in and did it.

And take care of yourself, write when you want to and share when you want to. Writing in fandom should be a fun hobby for you.

If anyone else would like to reblog this and add their thoughts or encouragement, please do! 💖

#calli talks

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goodkwuestion · 2 years

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✨Fic Writer Interview✨

Tagged by the amazing @shameless-notashamed. Thanks for thinking of me ♥

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

I have 25 works so far.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

1,086,466. I'm pretty chatty.

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Ian Gallagher

Lost In Translation

Mandy in the Middle

The Miseducation of Derek Hill

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I do a general thank you/response every few chapters of the updating story. I overthink a lot and then get very overwhelmed trying to come up with personalized things to say to each person. My social anxiety is that weird, apparently.

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Hmm, maybe You Can Bite Me or Crossing Over. But even they are technically happy endings anyway.

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

All of them? I guess Lost in Translation was light from start to finish, so that might take the title.

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I do not. Although I guess You Can Bite Me has Resident Evil mentions. Shout out to Lady Dimitrescu and her excellent blood wines.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Oh yeah. All of my multichaps and a few of my one-shots. Just brush that dirt off your shoulder.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do write smut, though I might be trending downwards a bit. I think TIPDIG was probably my apex in regards to volume. I think my smut tends to be mostly goofy, sometimes a bit kinky.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Of course. These hoes ain't scared of nobody.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, I have. I don't often do it, tbh, but I've met a few people who are really awesome and I trusted them enough to unclench a little.

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, fam. Nobody wants this problem.

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

It's currently Gallavich (Shameless), but of all time? It's between Gallavich and NaruSasu (Naruto).

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I'm a completionist. Barring misadventure, if I start something, it will be done. Is that a flex? No, it's a problem. Your girl has some obsessive-compulsive tendencies.

15. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue and character creation maybe.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Scene descriptions, editing down/trimming the fat, addiction to pop culture references, overuse of alliteration, unwieldy word counts, etc. etc.

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in your fics?

Tu idioma es mi idioma, and I will not hesitate to use it.

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*✲ﾟ*｡⋆

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

(shifty eyes) Naruto... Yeah, that's it, Naruto. And no one better say otherwise. ¬_¬

19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

Don't have another yet.

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Ian Gallagher. No other fic has managed to unseat it yet. I have fun writing all my babies tho!

Tagging @ronandhermy @whaticameherefor and anyone else who wants to have a go!

#about me #writing

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dancewithyoutoday · 4 years

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During this quarantine period my friend and I rewatched all the episodes Mickey is in, ending our journey with 10x12, of course. My memories of Ian’s storyline from s6 to s9 were a little foggy though, so I decided a few days ago to rewatch the show starting from 6x02, because I love him and I miss him. The result is that I’ve been feeling so overwhelmed by my Ian feelings lately that I don’t even know what to do with them, I mean I almost cried my eyes out the other day, as I watched him unsuccessfully searching for a job and ending up at the Fairy Tale again, before plucking up the courage to go back to the station and beg Rita to give him his job back.

Because people hated him for the way he broke up with Mickey as it didn’t matter. People hated him for the way he acted in 6x01 and for the way he dismissed their entire relationship when talking to Caleb, but it’s so, so obvious to me that that was nothing but a mask. The words we hear him saying are nothing else but the words of a broken-hearted 18-year-old boy. The words of someone who will do anything, say anything to move on from the past, to forget what he had and lost, to accept the reality, which is (in his mind, obviously) that he can’t be with the only person he’s ever truly loved, because he’s too scared of what he might do and doesn’t want to force him to live like this, because he just knows Mickey would. And maybe we watched two different scenes back then, I don’t know, but the boy I see in 5x12 on those stairs, is a boy who doesn’t know anything anymore, except that he loves Mickey Milkovich, and it’s because he loves him that he feels he has to end things. Because he thinks he’s damaged goods, because he lost eveything he believed in. Because he can’t have Mickey worrying about him constantly.

That being said, I also have been finding myself struggling once again with the the way his character was treated back in s6, with the hate he got and still gets sometimes. The thing is that the majority of the fandom often tends to take Mickey’s side and villainize Ian’s past actions, you know? But now that I’m rewatching, it’s even clearer to me how this was so... unfair.

I’m not trying to minimize what Mickey went through in any way: he lost the love of his life, he was completely alone in prison with nothing but memories and heartache and, believe me, that is something that breaks my heart into a million pieces. But what some people often forget (or don’t want to see) is that Ian lost the love of his life, too. Ian was in hell, too. Ian hated everything that happened, too.

In s6 he was so clearly depressed, and it always upsets me how people can’t just see it, or refuse to.

The prison scene in 6x01? The hell on earth of the Gallavich fandom prison scene? It’s sad, it’s heart breaking, but it couldn’t have been more obvious (and I saw it that way even when it aired 5 years ago and we thought it was the end).

In that scene, it’s almost impossible not to see the way Ian is two seconds away from crying or worse, completely falling apart, along with Mickey. The body language is so obvious, guys. He can’t look Mickey in the eyes for more than one second, he is uncomfortable, he hides his smile almost immediately when Mickey freaks out about the mispelled tattoo, and yeah, telling him Svetlana paid him to be there was cruel, but I can’t find it in my heart to hate him for it, because that’s what you do when you’re trying to move on. That’s what you do when you’re trying to make someone forget about you, or even hate you, because that’s what Ian wants. Because I can’t believe Ian meant that, I never could. He wants Mickey to forget him, because at that point in his life Ian can’t see a future with him. And he explained why. And the prison visits are torture. He loves Mickey, and he is forced to see him through a glass, and he knows he won’t be able to touch him for another 15 years, and he knows he won’t anyway, because he loves him too much to put him through hell again.

Imagine that. You would do anything to erase the pain and start over, too.

And that’s what Ian does. With Caleb, with Trevor. He is in pain and he is in denial. And you don’t just talk about your ex constantly (nicely or not) or even say you miss them if you are over them. You just don’t. And Ian wasn’t even remotely over Mickey Milkovich. He didn’t trust Caleb, he deleted Trevor from his brain the second the police officer mentioned Mickey’s name. I mean, you can just see it in the way he swallows hard when the man tells him Mickey escaped from prison, you can see it in the way his eyes and face literally light up when he sees the love of his life standing across from him under the bleachers.

Because Mickey is the love of his life. He dated Caleb, he dated Trevor, he did everything in his power to forget Mickey, but he never said “I love you” to anyone but him. He never stopped thinking about him, he never let anyone in the way he let Mickey. Ian knew that, he knew that he could never love anyone else the second their lips touched again and their bodies met, and he also knew that when he got in the car with him and then let him go. And we all know the way this affected him the following season.

After being reunited in 9x06, he didn’t “start caring about Mickey again” as I sadly read somewhere, because he never stopped. He just didn’t want to accept it. He didn’t know how to accept it, because doing that, being reminded every single day that he could never be with him, that he could never see him again, was just too painful. He didn’t stop caring about Mickey... he just chose to survive.

#shameless #ian x mickey #ian gallagher #mickey milkovich #gallavich #gallavich meta #i'm basically fiona crying in the 'oh my god ian' scene when it comes to him #listen... i just love him okay ;___;#shameless meta

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yeah-all-of-it · 3 years

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Fic Writer Interview

Tagged by the incredibly talented @arrowflier! I want to preface this by saying I am freaking honored that you consider me enough of a fic writer to tag me in this. I’ve been writing fic for like, 5 minutes, and most of them are sitting in my drafts because I’m too scared to share them, lol! I am so so humbled and appreciative! I will try to answer these but not sure how well I’ll do on some.💘

Name: Anna. Real or not? I’ll never tell:)

Fandoms: Shameless with a focus on Ian and Mickey. This is the only fandom I’ve ever been a part of, ever even read fic for. This is all brand new territory for me.

Two-shot: Um, not really a two-shot, more like two one-shots that kinda go together. Wrote this one first, then this one as a prequel/friendship origin story.

Most popular multi-chapter: Never written one😬 I am working currently on a prison cellmates to friends to lovers that has taken on a life of its own so it may end up being a multi-chap. I have a tendency to go back and change little things so I’m nervous about posting chapter by chapter because then I can’t make any changes to the earlier parts as the story evolves. Is it acceptable to post all chapters of a multi-chap at once?🤔

Actual worst part of writing: Coming up with a creative, unique idea. Up to this point, I have stuck with canon compliant/fill-in/canon divergent because I’m most comfortable utilizing ideas that already exist and creating a story around that. Like, writing something that I would have loved to see in canon. I love reading fics from other writers that come up with whole different worlds to plop Ian and Mickey into. There are so many writers that blow me away with their creativity, especially those that are able to stay true to the characters no matter the setting.

How do you choose your titles: Sometimes I just don’t😬 The ones I have titled, I usually use something from the text that sticks out to me.

Do you outline: Nope. I just wing it. A lot of it just sort of organically evolves. I’ll just type whatever I’m thinking and go back and change stuff I don’t like or feel doesn’t fit.

Ideas I probably won’t get around to but wouldn’t it be nice: I turned a headcanon into a fic of Ian and Mickey having a baby via Debbie as a surrogate. I’d love to do a whole series of the baby growing up and Ian and Mickey learning how to parent, taking her on vacations, giving her the childhood they never had, maybe having another kid, stuff like that. Not a multi-chapter, more of a series. It sounds like a monumental task but as a series, I don’t think I’d feel pressure to add to it regularly. Because it would never really “end” so to speak. So I may do that eventually.

Callouts @ me: While I’m no writer, I’ve always been a stickler for proper grammar and punctuation. English was always my best subject in school. I feel like writing for Ian and especially Mickey, you kind of have to throw those things out the window. So it might appear that I’m not following the “rules” but I promise it’s intentional. I also find myself using sentence fragments, run-ons, and other things because I like the informalness (that’s not a word, but you get it) of how they read. I also love to italicize things for emphasis and you can pry the Oxford comma out of my cold, dead hands.

Best writing traits: I like to think that I’m decent at dialogue. It’s my favorite part to write at least. I find myself picturing the character’s face and hearing the line in my head spoken in their voice to “hear” if that’s something they would say and how they would say it.

Spicy tangential opinion: I’m so new to this world I don’t think I really have any.

Tagging @abundanceofnots, @unbridgeabledistances, @crazynadine, @gallavich-x, @grabmyboner Ignore if you’ve already done this or just don’t want to. I admire the heck outta all y’all though!💗

#fic writer interview

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