#shameless spoilers

[theyaremycrocsyoudonut]

Look at him.

LOOK at him.

LOOK AT HOW JEALOUS THE LITTLE ANKLE BITER IS. HE HAS GONE FERAL WITH PURE ENVY.

He can't stand the thought of Ian being with another dude, much less an old, rich one. So he just goes and jealously stares at them kdhfhskdhgdhs. And you know he was looking for an excuse to punch Ned. Had Ned not called Mickey Ian's boyfriend, he still would have gotten a nasty beatdown, just for some other completely bullshit excuse. I think about this a lot. It's like Svetlana said in the later seasons. "I don't say things, I do things.". And that very accurately describes s3 Mickey. He loves Ian but he can't tell him that. Because he hasn't accepted himself, because he's embarrassed, because of Terry and all that. But he can give a beatdown to guys Ian dates. He can kiss him secretly when they are robbing Ned's ex-wife. He can start making out with him right before his wedding as a last hurrah to save their relationship. He just can't talk it out.

#gallavich #ian gallagher #shameless #mickey milkovich #shameless spoilers #SERIOUSLY LOOK AT HIM #he can't handle the emotions #and it's hilarious

[melloween-candie]

Jealousy [P.2]

Lip Gallagher x Reader

Summary

You and Lip have always been best friends, but the day Lip meet Karen, things changed- for the worst! You never pictured yourself to be the jealous type, but you'd be lying to yourself if you said it didn't hurt seeing your crush fighting for that so-called 'family' growing in Karen's womb.

Warning! Friendzone, arguments, pregnancy, spoilers, cussing

Word Count: 1,159

Part 1, Part 2

[Angst/High school]

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/"Talking"//Thinking//Muttering-Whispering/

***Narrator's Pov***

You turned off the TV in defeat.

I guess Lip isn't coming this time.

You left the room and went to bed.

Time skip!~

***Lip's Pov***

F*ck. Not again...

Lip quickly got up and started dressing himself.

"Uggh... What time is it?" Karen rubbed her eyes as she slowly woke up too. "Dude. It's only 8? Why are you up? Come back to bed with me."

"Can't" Lip said as he slipped on his shirt.

"Annnd- why not?" Karen gave Lip a pouty look.

"Because Karen. I've already let down Y/n enough." He said as he tied his shoes.

"Peff- her again." Karen rolled her eyes as she laid back down.

Time skip!~

You were doing your usual morning routine when you heard a knock at the door.

"Lip? What are you doing here?" You asked still slightly sleepy.

"I figured since I missed movie night, why not just move movie night to-" He pulled out two tickets. "Today?"

You smiled. "Let me get my coat."

Time skip!~

***Narrator's Pov***

You two were now at the movie theater. You were so excited to see this movie. You waited for it to come out for months. You were kind of glad that you got to see it with your favorite person. You couldn't stop rambling about the last movie they made... Until Lip got a call.

"Yeah, yeah- hang on." Lip grabbed his phone. Pulling it up to his ear; he answered. "Hello?"

Lips face then morphed dramatically. "The he*l do you mea-" He covered his other ear so he could hear better. "A-are you sure?"

His tone changed drastically at the end. He seemed worried. He then ended the call with a worried expression.

"Is everything okay?" He didn't answer... "Lip?"

"Karen's pregnant."

Your eyes widen. "Wha-what do you mean? Pregnant?!"

"I mean-" Lip took a deep breath. He didn't want to end up yelling at you. A lot of emotions where going through him right now... "Forget it. I got to go." He then left.

Leaving you disappointed once again.

Time skip!~

"A-are you sure it's mine?" Lip asked Karen as she rubbed her stomach.

"Well who else would it be?"

"Okay well are you a hundred percent sure your pregnant?"

"Oh my god, lip we had this conversation a thousand times already! I told you I haven't had my period for 3 weeks now and I've took multiple tests."

"Yes, and I-I'll be t-taking her to the doctor tomorrow to confirm it." Added her mother, Sheila.

Karen only looked at her mother with worry. Deep down, she didn't want her mother to disappoint herself again.

"I'll come with." Lip didn't even hesitate.

Time skip!~

It has been a couple of months now, and surprisingly Karen wasn't lying about being pregnant.

You were currently eating lunch. By yourself as per usual. Before you would eat lunch with Lip but ever since Karen told him she was 'possible' pregnant with his kid he just vanished completely.

Sure before he'd mainly hang out with her but at least he gave you time too, but now it's all about her. It would be childish to say you weren't jealous. The worst part of it all was Karen knew. And every time she went to school, she made it apparent to torture you.

She'd do things like-

Every time you would pass them in the hall, she'd so casually feel a kick, and Lip would get tense and coddle her.

She'd even make Lip carry her stuff- what's worst was that he was okay with it.

It was as if you're entire life revolved around her being pregnant with Lip's child. She was literally living your fantasy.

As much as you hated it, you always wanted Lip to look at you as more than a friend. But it never happened and now it never will and you just had to learn to accept it.

Time skip!~

It was finally the day. Karen was rushed to the hospital, and surprisingly enough her mother went too.

You only knew about it because the moment you had a chance to talk to Lip, the conversation ended quick, and I mean quick. He ended up getting a call two words in. It was about Karen being in the hospital. The last thing he said to you that day was, "Karen's giving birth!" Then he ran off.

And there he goes. Leaving you once again.

Though that night, you were surprised to see a huge text from him.

It explained how he wasn't the father and that the kid had Down syndrome. It also explained how he couldn't help but feel so angry yet so relieved at the same time. It even said something about how shameful Karen was for not keeping it.

He then texted you a question - "So what was it earlier that you wanted to talk about."

After reading that question, you immediately left him on read. You threw your phone across the room and started crying. You really hoped that in that text, he would have said something like - "You were right Y/n, it wasn't mine." Or "I'm sorry..."

You tried warning him. You tried telling him not to get too pent up about her being pregnant with 'his' kid. But all he ever did was yell at you saying stuff like, "how could you say that?!" and stuff like- "You're supposed to be my best friend, so why are you acting like this?!"

It really hurt, but you knew he was just really stressed. Plus, you'd be made too if someone called the mother/father of your children a sl*t and told you that it might not even be yours. But you'd at least take heed of that warning and not go buying so much expensive baby stuff.

Soon enough, you learned to ignore his text messages and eventually learned to ignore him. You decided enough was enough. You didn't like it but you realized that Lip was never going to love you the way you loved him, so in the end, you wanted to leave him.

And you tried. You two ended up getting into a huge argument about it. You yelled at him spilling everything you've been hiding for months and this angered him. He called you selfish and that set you off. You told him that you held back for him. That you could have beaten up Karen but no because he cared for her. You told him everything including everything you felt throughout those months.

You even got salty and said that you were glad it wasn't his. He needed a big slap of realization and you tried warning him too. All that shut him up quick.

You two stopped being friends after that... but you never stopped caring, and eventually, you two came back together. Like drugs, you were both addicted to each other. Whether you liked it or not.

A/n

Sorry, that took longer than expected... (But I did warn you all... I'm really bad with due dates 😅)

#shameless #lip gallagher #lip gallagher x reader #lip gallagher x karen #best friends #crushing #shameless fandom #fanfiction #fanfic #friendzone #karen jackson #sheila jackson #shameless spoilers

[mudkirby]

I'm proud of myself :)

#iterator #rain world sos #sliver #sliver of straw #max karma #saint #rain world #slugcat #tag #monk #martyr #pilgrim #echo #void #shameless spoilers

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

I love Gallavich, I do.

It's a seminal lgbt+ love story involving two defined individual queer characters who're products of their oppressively violent environment but who drag eachother away from becoming their worst case scenarios.

It's messy but sincere and extremely well-acted throughout the shows entire run.

Their story is the heart of Shameless (US), connecting the series from its beginning to its end (same for Kev and V but their season to season shenanigans have little continuity). Ian and Mickey's love story reminds the viewer of how good the show used to be by allowing two characters who've loved eachother since season one, who were tortured by the narrative and constantly torn apart by circumstance, the pathos of a happy ending they fought for and deserved.

However, it's obvious to me that none of the Gallagher love interests in Shameless were meant to be characters in their own right. They were character assessments. A psychoanalysis of the Gallagher they were with and changed on a whim depending on what John Wells wanted to say about Fiona, Lip, Debbie, and Carl. Mickey's legacy and what he meant to people took John Wells by surprise. The writers were blindsided by the response to his character.

I don't think John Wells ever intended for Mickey to be an independent player or Ian's endgame. My speculation is the writers still don't understand how impactful Mickey overcoming fear and hate to embrace love and bravery was. Nor how unique the message was that two poor, abused, violent, "white trash" queer teens could learn to help, heal, and love eachother without a roadmap.

I don't think they ever understood why Mickey and Gallavich received the critical acclaim they did, even if I do think they tried. The writers were too deep in Hollywood thinking to get how important a character like Mickey Milkovich was to people who could relate intimately with his struggles. In their minds Mickey was always a thuggish stepping stone to Ian's eventual upward mobility. If Mickey had stayed throughout the entire run of the show I imagine both characters would've been Pretty Woman'd by a love interest with status, money, and appropriate coping mechanisms. Or Ian would've been Pretty Woman'd while Mickey fell into darkness as a black reflection of what Ian could've become.

So it's for this reason that I say, "I love Gallavich but.." They never develop balance or work through the mountain of emotional baggage that is heaped upon them.

Mickey's no1. priority is Ian and Ian's no1. priority is Ian (this isn't me Ian bashing, there are complex inworld reasons for why this is so, but mostly it's the narrative naturally prioritising the Gallaghers'), and the Sitcom framing of the later seasons does not give two characters forged in a Drama the breathing room necessary to touch upon their shared history and trauma.

So I love Gallavich, I do, but in someone else's hands they could've been an epic and powerful love story that defied convention (👀 look at all that wonderful fanfic). But I was often frustrated by the story that was actually told onscreen, filling in the blanks of their development myself using what I knew about both characters.

#shameless (us) #shameless us #shameless #shameless (us) spoilers #shameless spoilers #ian gallagher #mickey milkovich #gallavich

[theroamingtrashcan]

i can’t explain it but the shameless intro staying the exact same for 9 whole seasons where years pass and every single character ends up looking different, then changing in honor of Fiona leaving and replacing her with both Debbie and specifically Ian and Mickey makes me highkey emotional and idk why

#shameless #shameless spoilers #fiona gallagher #debbie gallagher #ian gallagher #mickey milkovich #gallavich

[strangestarcollector]

i love debbie and mickey bonding over their plans to torture sammi

#shameless #debbie gallagher #shameless debbie #mickey milkovich #shameless mickey #shameless spoilers

[thefemboylinkagenda]

2014: Mickey Milkovich coming out bar fight scene

2024: Evan Buckley's coming out to his sister in her kitchen scene

2034: ??????????????????????????

#i'm so easily amused #every ten years there must be a new challenger to “THE coming out scene of all time” competition #shameless us #911 abc #911 spoilers #what if i just.... #shameless spoilers #just for funsies

[soulmate-friend]

Been watching Shameless and this chick Sammi needs to stop trying to take over Fiona’s role. I hope she gets hit by a bus or something lol she’s really annoying and entitled.

#shameless spoilers

[xenobites]

the narrative treating mickey milkovich like he was some kind of bad influence in ian’s life after season 5 is a little infuriating considering all the build up and character development they did for him beforehand. like he became more of a main character in season 4 than ian himself and was shown to genuinely care and want the best for him, he was one of the only people even looking for him when he was missing and making sure he was going to his doctors appointments/taking his meds and now his return would ‘set a match’ to ian’s life?????? it’s not computing it’s not adding up 

#shameless spoilers #just in case #i'm in season 7 i am fed up #i know he comes back in 9 and all of whatever happens in the future but like #this is just dumb #sorry y'all don't care about shameless but i have to rant

[theyaremycrocsyoudonut]

I was rewatching Gallavich scenes, as one does at 3 am, and I just noticed a detail so wholesome that it would be a crime not to share it. In season 4 episode 7, aka the episode where Mandy gets Mickey to go look for Ian, there is this scene in which Kev wants a gun and he goes to the Milkoviches to get it. There he asks Mickey if he is wearing cologne and Mickey says that it's just Kenyatta's perfumed soap.

BULLSHIT.

Mickey obviously didn't admit it but he was wearing cologne because he intended to see Ian for the first in a while and he wanted to smell good. That's the obvious wholesome detail about this scene. But wait. There's something more that I just noticed.

MICKEY WAS TRYING TO PICK A NICE OUTFIT TO GO MEET IAN AND HE HAD LAID OUT ALL OF HIS GOOD SHIRTS KSHDKSKSHDHS. THE FAN SERVICE GOES FUCKING CRAZY WITH THIS ONE.

NOT ONLY DID MICKEY MILKOVICH WEAR FUCKING COLOGNE, HE ALSO CHOSE TO LOOK HIS FUCKING BEST TO SEE IAN. I CAN'T THIS IS TOO FUCKING MUCH.

#shameless #gallavich #ian gallagher #mickey milkovich #shameless spoilers #mickey fucking adored ian and i don't get how people call their relationship toxic #even in s4 where we know that they ended in bad terms HE MAKES A BIG FUCKING DEAL OUT OF LOOKING AND SMELLING HIS BEST I CAN'T

[rumble-aint-a-rumble-without-me]

cw minor shameless spoilers?? just in case

i’m rewatching shameless & fiona says “i trust you, that means more to me than i love you.” i need this with dally 🥹

Oh my gossssssssh I love that <3 that’s such a Dally thing-

#dillo’s replies #shameless spoilers

[zinikornis]

the shittiest thing frank has ever done – and it is very hard to choose – but the one thing that really pissed me off was when he reported the gallaghers to cps

#shameless us #shameless spoilers #season 3 #gallaghers #csik #s

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

I’m finishing up with Shameless now and, man, something I could write a whole essay on is the fat-shaming. It’s not even body issue stuff you’d find in poor ghetto neighborhoods (which would look more systematised, internalized, and self-hating). Instead Shameless' fat phobia is very LA and US show business.   

Also, I can’t agree with those that attack Gallavich and their fans on principal. Out of all the ongoing romantic relationships on Shameless Mickey and Ian’s is one of the healthie... hmm... maybe functional is a better word. Although they’re not there yet, I don’t doubt they’ll get there because they want to. Desperately. Do people honestly think they’d fight tooth and nail to love each other in peace and then not put in the work to make it work? They are tenacious enough to figure their shit out and sincerely in love enough to want the best for each other. Even when they regress and fall back on their worst habits, they follow it up with a renewed determination to be better (and succeed for the most part). That makes them leagues ahead of a majority of the other characters in the show. Furthermore, I think Ian might just be the only person who could convince Mickey to seek out a therapist, which he does need (can you imagine being a fly on the wall of those sessions? They’d be hilarious and heartbreaking).

On that point, I disagree with the pervasive instinct to self-righteously pontificate on characters in a show about systematic poverty and abuse like they’re watching rabid animals caged in a zoo. Writing the protagonists off as ‘abusive’ and ‘toxic’ wholesale without reflection for why they’ve become who they are and how? On how far they’ve come or how they’re trying? This inability to contextualize characters and their stories says more about the overall willingness to dehumanise those characters, and the failure to understand systematic oppression generally, then it does about those character. Poor, marginalized, and abusive environments breaks and frustrates the development of characters that exist in a world like Shameless, but also, characters of middle and upper class environments can exhibit behaviors that are as ‘toxic’ and ‘abusive’ only it manifests in ways that are seen as socially acceptable. People are not static, nor do we always have the tools to best understand and deal with a situation. That does not make people ‘toxic’ and ‘abusive’. Lives are allowed to touch others. We are allowed to stumble, to be wrong and make mistakes. We are allowed to need help to become our better selves and people are allowed to consent to helping us through that journey.  

That’s not even getting into the ins and outs of what Ian Gallagher and Mickey Milkovich meant to abused, mentally unwell, and closeted queer viewers. Their individual character arcs and their love story is hope that you too can overcome your environment. That you can love and be loved regardless of how the world sees you. That you’re just as worthy of this development and of this great love story. That you are deserving of having your humanity recognized and your pain contextualized. That you can someday be free and love freely. Mickey and Ian are open to growing, their love is resilient, and they’re going to be okay. That matters more than some impulse to moralize at, or rant about, “Gallavich fans” don’t you think?

#Shameless (US) #Shameless US #shameless #shameless spoilers #shameless (us) spoilers #mickey milkovich #ian gallagher #gallavich #i'm likely preaching to a choir on tumblr #but i needed to say it

[theroamingtrashcan]

man ian’s growth from being confused by a trans man, calling him a her and saying that he thought he was normal to getting upset and correcting lip when he uses the wrong pronouns for him makes me proud

#ian gallagher #shameless spoilers #shameless #oh and for the record i don’t know how things end between him and trevor

[hazelbutterflies]

frank dying of covid in shameless was no on my bingo card

#shameless spoilers #lol #covid tw

[elibeeline]

A healthy relationship, on shameless??? A polycule no less 🥰🥰

#something will fuck it up of course but im happy at the moment :] #shameless spoilers #season 6/7 i suppose