the way that debbie receives more hate in season 6 that carl does is wild to me… debbie gets pregnant and finds a way to figure out how to raise a baby all by herself and she’s the devil and carl is a racist drug and weapon dealer and he’s just seen as some cool alpha male type
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WHY IS NO ONE USING FINANCIAL BURDEN AS AN ARGUMENT TO GET DEBBIE TO CHANGE HER FUCKING MIND ABOUT THE BABY??? IT'S DRIVING ME ABSOLUTELY INSANE
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When queenie said Lip was a young Frank I knew it was going downhill fast for him.
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i so fucking badly need to know what happened between seasons 5 and 6. what was going on in ians minds after he broke up with mickey and mickey got sentenced to prison and he wasnt regularly taking his medication - if at all - and he visited mickey a couple times only because svetlana said he had to and he would go over to the balls' house to see yevgeny and all his siblings could talk about for a couple weeks was how peaceful the house was without sammi and chucky and carl and mickey there and nothing felt real and fiona forced him to get a job at patsys so she could keep an eye on him and he felt so weighted down and empty that he went on that bridge to end his own life
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shameless writers knew what they were doing to us when they introduced caleb. You can't tell me they didnt.
A, one of the best known and loved scenes of gallavich was them drunk walking home and singing love is a battlefield. Right before Ian got taken, the two of them were planning on going on an actual date. Like a fist actual date, since both of their other relationships had been with either woman or middle aged men.
B, they knew everyone would notice that caleb literally took Ian's first official date. that broke me in general. but,
C, during said date, Ian began to tell Caleb how Mickey's idea of a date was to punch him then fuck. This was basically a punch to the stomach to all gallavich fans, and i'm convinced that was exactly what the writers were going for.
Because Ian could have 1.) had experience with dates if sammi didnt call the cops. 2.) not have had met caleb if sammi didnt call the cops. 3.) still been with mickey if sammi didn't call the cops.
Therefore, everything I just talked about is completely Sammi's fault and the mental hospital is now rightfully her home.
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EMT Ian my LOVE, MY LIFE, MY JOY <3 pls him lifting the switch makes my heart swell
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i'm not the way i was -- chapter 5
Ian picks himself up off the floor and sits on the edge of the mattress. He runs his fingers through his hair and sighs, remembering all the shit that went down last night.
The house. Fuck.
“Remind me again why you’re not staying at your boyfriend’s place?” Lip asks, half teasing, half grumpy from his rude awakening.
Ian rolls his eyes and feels around under his pillow for his phone. “I don’t have a boyfriend.”
“Then what am I supposed to call Mickey?”
Ian opens his mouth to tell him off, but the words die in his throat when he sees the little green text notifications on his phone.
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I see a lot of season 6 talk recently and tbh it's an interesting one because rewatching season 6 can be difficult. Because it actually is so hard to have to sit through the anti-mickey rhetoric that the writers were forcing, but watching Ian become an EMT and learn to accept his bipolar is so beautiful (Caleb can choke but like the rest of it).
I feel like people have this idea that if you criticise anything about season 6 then you hate all of it and you're completely writing off the whole thing, but I think both ideas can exist together tbh. Like i loved watching Ian become and EMT and come back to himself, but at the same time, I really had no interest in watching him in another relationship at that point tbh, it seemed like it was just too soon and they forced it simply because they wanted to make mickey a terrible villain. Which is painful to watch after they'd spent 5 seasons building a complex, flawed, loving, multi-faceted character only to minimise him to an abusive thug just because of a BTS issue with cast and showrunners. And it's okay to not like that imo.
But there is also a beautiful and important story about Ian finding himself again, and watching him accept his bipolar. Like the joy that scene where he talks about it with the rest of the EMT's gives me is insane it's sUCH beautiful scene.
Anyway what I'm saying is I don't think one opinion cancels out the other. I don't think voicing criticisms of mickey's characterisation or some of Ian's actions means that you're writing off the whole season, or that you're villainising Ian's whole character, or acting like mickey was perfect. In the same way that loving Ian's storyline doesn't mean that you have to agree with or even enjoy every part of the season. If you do then cool! There is a lot to love and defend about it. But it's okay that people don't like elements of it.
There are parts that are not nice to sit through as a Gallavich fan imo. And I think it's okay that a season that doesn't feature your favourite character isn't your favourite season. And it doesn't mean you're writing off the journey of self acceptance Ian goes through or that you're a bad fan or whatever. And it's okay if you loved the season because of that journey. I'll agree that there probably are some people who are extreme on both sides but I just don't think you have to be one or the other.
There are great parts to talk about but it's okay to talk about the flaws and the uncomfortable parts too.
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hey hey today is sunday september 24th and here is your ian gallagher of the day :)
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