#drish

[heymacy]

Macy!! Hi!!

Thoughts on YQHBR Ian booping Mickey? <3

DRISH! HI!!!

boy oh boy do i have thoughts. in fact, i even wrote a little something about it 😉 i give you, YQHBR: boop edition

**

Mickey stretches, twists his torso and legs like he’s wringing out a sponge. Bleary eyes blink awake, squinting against the sunlight beaming through his window.

He sighs. Good morning.

It’s April 1st. The day of fools. He already feels like a fool, if he’s being honest, every day of his life. But that’s something he can sort through later. Right now he has some catching up to do.

He rolls over in bed and grabs his laptop where it rests on the dresser. He pulls it into his lap, flipping open the screen and waiting for it to light up. When it does, it’s less than a minute before he’s logged into tumblr.

What….what the fuck?

There’s something new on his screen, right at the very top. It isn’t an ad, at least he doesn’t think so. He clicks it, hesitant, and nothing happens.

Hm. Strange.

He decides to consult the one tumblr expert he knows.

fcku-up: what the fuck is this thing on my dash eternitysgate: good morning to you too, sunshine

It’s been a week and a half since they’d started talking. They were friends now — not IRL, but something close — and talked nearly every day. It was becoming an integral and beloved part of Mickey’s daily routine.

Ian had been on tumblr longer than anyone Mickey knew. Except maybe Cassie. But he wanted to talk to Ian.

eternitysgate: it’s called boop eternitysgate: i think it’s an april fools thing eternitysgate: they do something like this almost every year eternitysgate: one year you could spam people’s pages with digital crabs fcku-up: crabs? eternitysgate: yep. little orange crabs fcku-up: lovely fcku-up: so what do i do? eternitysgate: click “opt in”

Mickey does as he’s told. Waits. A few minutes later, he checks his notifications.

eternitysgate, staysmashed, oliviasmiddlepart, and 6 others boop boop boop

He takes a screenshot, crops it, and sends it to Ian.

fcku-up: explain eternitysgate: lmao eternitysgate: who else booped you?

Mickey checks. Cassie twice, Victor, Liv, Zoe, and Ian 4 times.

fcku-up: you, mostly eternitysgate: excellent 😇 eternitysgate: now you boop back fcku-up: this is silly eternitysgate: boop me back, bitch 👊🏻 fcku-up: 🙄 eternitysgate: go to my blog, click the little paw. but don’t accidentally unfollow me or i’ll cry for a thousand years fcku-up: 🖕🏻

Mickey clicks on Ian’s username and opens his blog. There, in the navigation section, is a little orange paw. He clicks it.

You’re about to boop eternitysgate

And then, below it, in a purple oval,

boop

He sighs. Clicks it. A tiny green box shows up at the bottom of the screen, altering him to the fact that his boop had been sent through.

eternitysgate: BOOP BOOP BITCH fcku-up: you are a child eternitysgate: I AM A GOD eternitysgate: you don’t understand mick, i’ve been doing this for an hour and a half and i’ve never felt more alive fcku-up: happy for you eternitysgate: oh come on, you know you love it eternitysgate: now go boop cassie back or she’ll come whining to me about it fcku-up: FINE 🙄

** 

It’s been two hours and, much like Ian, Mickey has never felt more alive. He’s been booping almost the entire time, his meter ticking up, up, up. He’s booping friends, mutuals, strangers, people he’s seen in his notifications and people he’s never seen before in his life. Anyone and everyone.

He and Ian are in what the user base has declared a “boop war” — flooding each other with boops, not caring if the other person boops back first. It’s madness and Mickey can’t stop laughing.

There are memes now. Viral posts made mere minutes ago. He’s never seen anything like it, never been a part of anything like it.

eternitysgate: boop me again and i’ll fly to chicago and boop you IRL fcku-up: is that a threat or a promise? eternitysgate: both

Mickey bites back a grin. 

eternitysgate: do you think they’re gonna keep this around after the day is done? fcku-up: idk, maybe fcku-up: part of me hopes they do eternitysgate: it would be a never-ending war eternitysgate: wake up every morning, ride into battle fcku-up: eventually you’d admit defeat eternitysgate: HA! not likely

It goes on like that for hours. They talk for the entire day. It isn’t all about boops, little tidbits slip in between the cracks – what did you have for lunch? how’s your sister? do you have to work tonight? – but the main focus is this inane game they’re playing, this innate sense of bonding they’re experiencing with each other and everyone else.

Mickey can’t help but feel like he’s a part of something, finally. In this game, and in the grand scheme of things. He has friends. Mutuals. People that want to engage with him. Acknowledge him.

To see and be seen.

The sun set ages ago. Mickey is beneath the covers, laptop on his thighs. He boops Cassie, then Liv. Then goes and super boops Ian, followed by an evil boop. He wishes there was something higher than an evil boop, but alas. He decides to send another.

eternitysgate: stop evil booping me you bastard fcku-up: never shoulda told me to opt in, bitch eternitysgate: god i’m gonna miss this fcku-up: they might keep it eternitysgate: in case they don’t, i just want to say – it’s been a pleasure booping with you 🫡

Mickey smiles. Rolls his eyes. Can’t help but find Ian, as always, painfully endearing.

fcku-up: you too, nerd

#IDK WHAT HAPPENED I BLACKED OUT #i miss them so much #and i miSS YOU DRISH I LOVE YOU SO MUCH and i love seeing you back on my dash #i hope y'all enjoy this one #maybe this is the motivation i need to get my ass back in gear and give y'all the final chapter + epilogue you deserve #we shall see #ANYWAY #ILY #BOOP #yqhbr

[gallawitchxx]

since gallavich text posts are having another moment (thanks @liamgallaghers 🥳 ), i thought i'd take a minute to shout-out other folks who have made/are still making me laugh on the regular:

@gallavich-textposts by @sluttymickey - [original content + reblogs of other folks's!]

@whatthebodygraspsnot - [truly a master]

@metalheadmickey - [reductress royalty]

@celestialmickey - [always makes me guffaw]

@milkovichs - [pristine gifs + hilarious posts]

@lev-calder - [also killing it with the gif/post combo!]

@gallawitchxx - [yes, hi, i have also been known to make some & you can check out my tag HERE, which also includes reblogs of other people's!]

be sure to reblog if you see something you like 🖤

#feel free to add to this list too if you think of someone that i missed! #i should spend a day sometime compiling my favorites #but it would seriously take so long hahahah #just go through my tag they're all there! #so happy we're still making these things! #also hi drish i miss you every day #shameless #ian x mickey & text posts my beloveds

[heymrspatel]

julissa! hold up! stop the car! shut the doooooor. were you... by any chance.... cat's freckles and baby curls anon OH MY GOD??

see, the thing is that i've been around and been away, on and off. so i never really connected the two of you!!

wowww! not to be dramatic but this is like an unsolved mystery getting solved in my eyes

anon! hold up! yes i am, that's me!!! 🥹

i was a little lurking goblin back then. just reading and appreciating and loving and dropping into inboxes nearly daily haha and @iansfreckles is beautiful bright sunshine! she really humored me and my silly thoughts. so much so that i became freckles and baby curls anon 🥺 then i wanted to actually get involved in the flailing, so i dropped into her inbox as me, heymrspatel, and was all "hi it's me hi!" 💙

and well, it's been a beautiful ride!! 🥰

#the way that if i think about this too hard i'll actually burst into tears #i would literally watch the show with everyone. consume all the content. read fic. marvel at all the art. and still just lurk. #my life has become infinitely brighter because i decided to drop into cat's inbox. and i will be forever thankful for that! #and mel and macy and anna and leah and arrow and drish and and and - who fielded the silliest anon questions from me back then #i love you all! #OH NO I'M CRYING 😭😭😭 #anon #asks

[howlinchickhowl]

I would like to hear more dad ian and mickey thoughts from you 🥺👉👈

oooh boy ok ok wow alright hmm gosh oh man. This is a high pressure ask for me because so many people have so many great thoughts about them as dads and they all make me soft and sappy and I accept them all as my headcanons! But these are a few of the thoughts that I have.

under the cut because I apparently have quite a lot of thoughts???

So I feel like they're definitely gonna have a chonker. Even if it's not biologically related to either of them, it just, in my head it's a fat baby. Everyone kind of makes jokes about it and pretends it's really difficult to lift it and whatever. Ian is just unhappy about all the joking, and Mickey tells him don't worry about it it's just jokes and everyone loves the kid, but Ian makes sure every night when he has a minute alone with the baby, to let it know that it is beautiful and perfect and valid and so so loved, because he doesn't want his kid to grow up thinking about its weight before it even really knows what that is.

I think Ian is the dad that they want when they're overwhelmed or having a tantrum or just can't. cope. They just want to climb into Ian's lap and have his big arms around them and hear him murmur soothing nonsense against their temple (as do we all I'm sure). He smells like home and comfort and he lets them take as long as they want to calm down, and he wipes their teary cheeks with his big thumbs and makes a little joke when they're ready and they need him for that. No one makes them feel better like Ian does.

But I feel like Mickey's the one they go to when they have a problem they want to figure out for themselves. Ian always wants to help. He wants them to feel better. He wants to fix things. And Mickey wants that too, but he's also just, less of a Gallagher. He didn't grow up with the team mentality that Ian did, if a Milkovich kid had a problem, they fixed it themselves. And obviously he's not gonna leave his kid to fend for itself, and if some little shitface needs a beatdown then he'll be there with his knuckle dusters and a shovel, but also he doesn't think it's such a bad thing for the kid to work through things for themselves every now and then. And the kid likes that. They like that they can tell Mickey something and not be immediately told what to do, or have input from a whole bunch of aunts and uncles and cousins, none of whom really have any idea what the situation is really like. Mickey sits with them, asks a few questions, makes a few suggestions, but ultimately lets them get there by themself. And if he helps them plan a couple of pretty awesome and borderline violent revenge pranks every now and then, well, Ian never has to know 😏

This child is obsessed with 80s culture. Halloween costumes include Jon Bon Jovi, the fortune teller machine from Big, Rambo, Segal obviously, Hans Grueber, and Pat Benatar. Ian helps make them all. Mickey gives out copious high fives and takes a lot of pictures. There are lots of selfies of them wearing bandanas and making rock hands 🤘

They love family bath time! Mickey creates elaborate scenarios with plastic submarines and helicopters and gunfights and 'splosions, which the baby thinks are hilarious and makes the little squealy happy noises every time Mickey makes the AK47 noises. Ian does lots of sensory splashing and making sounds with the water and playing peekaboo, which the baby also loves. They amass so many bath toys it's ridiculous. But every time they talk about getting rid of some, they can't pick any that they can bear to part with.

They just love their kid a lot man. And they're both obsessed with making sure it's eating enough, and is always warm and has spending money and shoes with no holes in.

Ok that's all I have 😭😭😭 Greatest tragedy we never got to see them be dads. They're gonna be the best fucking dads!

#drish ilysm thank you for letting me unleash! #I didn't even know I had all these feelings about this but apparaently I do! #howlin atcha #🐶🐱 #galladads

[cononeillbreastingboobily]

#ahem. anyway #manny jacinto #i want you back #i want you back 2022 #MEN #he's soooooo #hot hot hot #meme #hornyposting before 6 am #drish look

[whatwouldmickeydo]

Hi, have a love bonk 🫶🥰

HI HI HI sweet angelface hi!!!! 😍

I hope you’re having the most wonderful day and if someone hasn’t told you that you are adored then please let me be the first to tell you that 😘

Ily ily ily drish you make my heart pitter patter 🩷✨🩷✨🩷✨🩷

#drish my first beloved how do I love thee let me count the ways #heart locket you’ll always be the real mvp #drish my grocery store babe 😘😘😘 #asks

[gallacaps]

what? No! I'm not doing anyon- I mean anything! in here! I'm not doing anything in here. you shouldn't come in though. Not because there's anything going on, just because. you shouldn't. play what cool?

#ian is a capybara #answers #sluttymickey #drish at this point do you want to co-run this blog with me? #queued

[sluttymickey]

Help how else does Mickey make Ian smile like this?!

Okay okay so I've always believed that's Ian's “OH. My husband loves me” face

This is Ian after the surprise anniversary party. And his birthday party. Like. Seeing everything Mickey did for him. Mickey taking care to include all the things he knows Ian likes. Hearing Lip and others talk about how Mickey had been planning for it for MONTHS, had threatened all of them against even hinting about the surprise to Ian. Thinking about all the effort Mickey put in just so he could make Ian feel happy and special. It makes Ian feel so fucking FOND. My husband!!! My husband loves me!!! Come here let me smooch your beautiful face😊☺️

Ian after he hears Mickey bragging about him to the old ladies at the farmer's market 🥺 He can FEEL how proud Mickey is of him and he can hear the immense fondness in Mickey's voice and he feels so adored 🥺 He puts an arm around Mickey's waist and pulls him in for lil smiley pecks 🥺

When Mickey randomly plays their song and gently pulls Ian towards him for a slow dance. He feels Mickey snake a hand down his t shirt to caress the skin there and he puts his arms around Mickey's shoulder and just looks and looks at him with so much love 🥺

In the morning when he moves away from a sleeping Mickey and Mickey instinctively reaches out for him and pulls him close again and snuggles upto his chest. He buries his nose in Mickey's hair and feels so warm and cozy ❤️

When he sees the sketches Mickey has made of him; the easy smiles, the sunshine and the freckles. It's like watching himself from Mickey's eyes. It's feeling how much Mickey loves him and how beautiful he thinks Ian is. He cherishes every single one of them and they never fail to make him smile 🥺

When Mickey shows love to his tummy. This is how he looks down at Mickey when mickey's sucking a mark on his tummy or blowing raspberries on his tummy or kissing the freckles there. HIS HUSBAND LOVES EVERY PART OF HIM

#welcome to sappy hours w drish #that smile of his is SO IMPORTANT TO ME #it's EVERYTHING #quickly all of y'all tell me what does mickey do that makes ian smile like this!! #anna ily 🥺 #asks #reread anon #ian×mickey #/d

[squirrel-fund]

Quickly what sappy thing has Mickey done that made Ian smile this week (apart from the extra tomatoes 😌)

Drish!!! It's only Tuesday and he's been BUSY in the sap department. Also I realized this got away from me 🤣

So, it's only 6 days until Ian's birthday and Mickey has been planning for a week now. Not to mention, Mickey celebrates the entire month of May doing little things for Ian because he missed so many birthdays and by God he won't miss any more.

This week, he's been up before Ian (a fucking miracle) to get breakfast started. Today, it's French toast (he's excited to make this because he watched some bitch named Rachel on tv make it and it seemed pretty easy), scrambled eggs, fresh fruit (only for Ian), and of course, bacon. And not that turkey shit Ian buys. You get the OG bacon for your birthday month.

Before breakfast is done, Ian comes in and wraps his arms around him, nuzzling into the back of his neck. "You don't have to do all this, Mick."

Mickey just tuts at that. "What? Make breakfast? I was gonna do it anyway. You ain't special, Gallagher."

Obviously he is. He's everything. But Mickey can't admit that this fucking early. He'll get there tho.

Ian just grins, turning Mickey away from the stove top and kisses his husband softly on the lips. "I'll be back. I love you."

"Love you more."

And that's something new that Mickey's been doing lately. Saying he loves Ian more. That was a tough conversation because apparently it had upset Ian.

So Mickey explained that he had read something online about when people say they "love you more" It's not a contest. It means he loves him more than the bad days ahead of them. More than the fights they'll have. More than any distance that could come between them. And that basically he loves Ian most. Above anything else.

And that's the truest fucking thing Mickey has ever known.

His dad loved guns and drugs more.

He loved beating him more.

He loved everything more than Mickey and no one should ever feel that way.

And Ian never will. He'll always feel loved as long as Mickey has a say.

Ian leaves for his run and as soon as the door shuts, Mickey heads to the hallway closet where today's gift is hidden.

It's an old shoebox, but the box isn't the gift, it's the contents inside. The letters, all in order, from the first time Mickey started to write to Ian. He never sent them. How could he? It wouldn't have been fair. He knew Ian didn’t want to wait. Knew he lied that day, shit, Mickey had told him to. But writing to him, pretending things were fucking normal? That made life behind bars a little bit easier.

Until the stack of letters became too much. Staring at Mickey from their hiding places. Suddenly his lie became unavoidable. And he made an escape plan with his cell mate.

Mickey closes his eyes. Those memories aren't allowed here today. Maybe he'll talk about them in therapy later in the week. But not today. Today is good. He gets to have good.

He plates their breakfast after calling Fiona, letting her know he bought her plane ticket so she can come visit for Ian's actual birthday.

Then he puts the box on Ian's chair, and right on time, Ian walks through the front door.

"It smells amazing in here! I'm starving-" Ian sees the box. "What's this?"

"Guess you better open it and find out, Red."

When Ian sees the letters he smiles. "Letters?"

"One for every day I was in that shit hole. Like I said," He reaches for Ian's hand, squeezing it tight. "I love you more."

#drish thank you for allowing me to gush #im hurting myself with this shit #gallavich husbands #gallavich #ian x mickey #asks

[trashbaget]

Here's some cute animal pics from my gallery that I hope will make you feel atleast a lil better <3

thank you drish beloved i appreciate them 🥺💗

#📬 here’s the mail it never fails ✉️ #slutty mickey #drish tag!

[crossovereddie]

Don’t mind me I’m just continuing my Eddie/Mickey parallels agenda

#DRISHLOOK #DRISH LOOK DRISH I MADE THIS FOR YOU

[heymacy]

Me while reading the first chap of your new fic!!!!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH ALREADY 😭😭😭😭

drish my bish!!! oh my god thank you 😭 i'm having so much fun with it. it's making my brain go brrrrRRRRRR 🥳

(also i saw your comment on ao3 and when i got to "The plot reminds me of a certain someone who found her wife through Tumblr 🤭😉" i positively died. they say to write what you know, right? 😉)

#drish 😍 #macy write a fic that doesn't involve social media challenge 2k22 asjdhgjkl #answered #sluttymickey #YQHBR

[gardenerian]

Mel!!! Blog vibes💌-

Fully on belly laughter w friends vibes

Finding a quote/poem you know is gonna be your favourite vibes

Pink hearts floating above the head when you look at your friend slaying vibes

Finding pretty rocks to give to your friend at the beach vibes

Staying up late goofing around at a sleepover vibes

🥰love you 🥰

hmmmm wow okay drish 😭 that’s so weird it seems to be raining in my apartment  😭 and on my face in particular 😭 

i adore you! i love the beaming energy you bring here and the way you embrace every single one of us. you are our biggest cheerleader and the sweetest friend. thank you for being you and for sharing you with us! 

#i am a SAP tonight #love you all so much i'm gonna BURST #drish you beautiful soul #mel answers

[heymrspatel]

Hi!!!!!! Myn just reblogged one of your pieces from 2021 and I am so amazed by how your style has changed! I’ve seen that one before and didn’t realize it was yours. It’s sonprecious!

hi! aah yes yes 😅 i'm glad people still find that one cute? hahaha because it's not so much that i've decided to change up my style and more that i had no idea what i was doing lmao like not a clue! drish kindly asked for a drawing and i quickly doodled them with no intention of ever drawing them again. i bamboozled myself.

you've all seen me literally learn in real time! and that's been amazing and real, but also fucking terrifying! so, i'm glad that one is still making some of you smile! 🥺🥺🥺 (cc @vintagelacerosette for spreading it around today! thanks for the love my sweet!! you're the kindest! 💙✨)

#i've thought of redoing that one alot too! like first time vs now. we'll see! #(i've also thought of deleting it... but it's there. for drish. for growth and transparency too!) #anon #asks

[short-sim-wayz]

Jason and Alicia grew their relationship.

#sims free play #sf alicia drish #sf jason chase

[cononeillbreastingboobily]

Brand: OMFD and WWDITS enthusiast, shipping Adahim and NOT looking respectfully at Guillermo <3

Alright LISTEN

it's true, all of it 😌🤭💕💕

#drish <3 #my brand #ofmd #wwdits #adahim #guillermo de la cruz #true 😔😔😔 #ask