name me ONE person I've murdered
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SHAMELESS (US) X GALLAVICH MASTER LIST
Every Gallavich Kiss
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIJ178e7zRNL0SYT0WtQ9Ee5PmwzL5FJI
Every Gallavich Fight
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIJ178e7zRNIOyPHl55rxXGH5MOlXlnnF
Every Time Mickey Wore That Ugly Brown Sweater
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIJ178e7zRNJ5_3EwUppFo3ZXXZ-NV6wu
Every Gallavich ‘Intimate’ Scene
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIJ178e7zRNJh3AwbouTbSNguaU4Gyo-U
Every Gallavich “I Love You”
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIJ178e7zRNJSAetyfCBX3EW-x3ME9RL4
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RIP s11 hunky ian gallagher. you would have loved forcing your grumpy husband to look at all the bougie shit at a sunday morning farmer’s market.
you would have loved treating him to an overpriced homebewed beer by a hipster named Otis (whose beard looks like a ferret died on his chin according to mickey).
you would have loved buying seeds for other types of veggies to add to your growing garden from little old ladies called mary. whose taken a liking to you and mickey as seeing two young people so in love reminds her of her and her late hubby pete. (bonus: mickey being flabbergasted when he learns he’s the mary in the situation as pete was a towering inferno ginger too)
Anonymous
see you just get me
ian gallagher was born to be a husband and he enjoys a little splurging here and there (he’s still a gallagher tho and he loves a good sale!)
but he would drag mickey up early on a saturday to go to the farmers market (“don’t worry they’ve got coffee and donuts!”) so they can get fresh veggies and homemade bread
mickey pretends to hate it but he is also very gay and he also loves the fact that he can have this now he has a husband he can spoil with money they make from their shared business and they can hold hands in public and flirt and kiss and do stupid shit like “buying fresh produce when we can get this for cheap at dollartree”
so yeah
happy husbands who get hard and sappy for saturday morning gamers market dates (and then later fuck for three hours to celebrate)
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i love the idea that neither ian or mickey can to stay mad at each other too long as they have such a power over each other they can’t resist giving in.
we see this in canon when ian refuses sex but he’s too horny for mickey and mickey knows he is. i love the idea that ian is all angry and mickey just walks out naked and ian forgets everything even his name. mickey taunts it with his bubble butt and pretty blue eyes. that man uses his body to get what he wants from the big friends ginger giant. another example obvs is the slutty dock scene. it also back up my previous anon i sent in that mickey is the sluttiest.
ian’s equivalent in canon is giving mickey head i feel. i say this as there’s that scene where mickey is all stressed about the wanted poster and ian just blows him. and i think that’s the one that ian will use against mick. mickey grumpy = blowie, mickey stressed = blowie. ok also i bet he uses sex too, but the blowie is the real one that gets mickey to give in. he mentions ian giving him blowies so many times it backs up my hc. like the blowies in the heated pool, the “perfect height got blowies” chair, the 6th blowie in the HOS episode).
you get what i mean
Anonymous
thank you for blessing me and also for making me think about gallavich all day at work (<3)
i agree with absolutely everything about this, those two boys are so obsessed with each other and cannot ever keep their hands off the other’s body
i will raise one point tho; mickey secretly looooves handjobs more than blowies - ian is skilled and has these ginormous hands that wrap all the way around him and he crumbles at the touch (and he can kiss him at the same time)
a handjob is the safest way to defuse a situation when comforted with a frustrated mickey
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the thing with ian is that he says he’s responsible more than he actually is responsible. he wants to be responsible, talks about being responsible, but he’s also rough and chaotic like mickey is. i feel like people forget about that aspect of his character.
see ian talks a lot about how much he wants to get his grades up for WestPoint in the early seasons, he has a big plan for his future and after that he goes on to be an EMT. all of this is responsible, of course it is, but ian also has just as much disrespect for authority as all of his brothers. he’s not this super serious character, he’s going to let mickey be reckless UNLESS (and it’s a big unless) it could get him sent to prison or juvie.
but you can tell he’s in the same genre as lip and mickey are. he’s not a golden boy goody-two-shoes (although mickey probably thinks he is). he helped lip steal the parts to the robot he built, he was with lip in jimmysteve’s stolen car, he stole an ambulance with mickey.
that’s why i think he and mickey are so perfect together, because they’re both reckless and chaotic and do illegal things. not only that, but ian also gets to be the ‘responsible one’ in the relationship. he wants to be responsible, and with mickey he gets to feel like he’s really responsible because he plans ahead and mickey doesn’t. ian also doesn’t get shamed or looked down on because of the irresponsible things he does, because no matter what mickey will still think he’s more responsible.
this is kind of a stupid rant, but i love how ian’s character is so three dimensional. he says things sometimes and acts in a different way, which is how people act in real life. he tries to be really responsible but still stays firm to how he was raised, still runs scams and steals things and fights and enjoys mickey’s violent streak. ian is a really well written character, and although i criticise s11 a lot, most of it stays consistent.
Ian isn’t the white knight he tries to be. Nor is Mickey the badass he would want you to think he is. They aim those things, of course. Ian wants to do right by people, but he’s impulsive and a bit too stubborn at times. And Mickey likes people to think he’s dangerous and not crossed lightly, but his concern for his loved ones and his protective instincts tend to outweigh his thuggish impulses.
See also: Fiona thinking she’s a good person, Lip thinking he’s too smart for things to blow up in his face, etc.
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One of the problems I have is that some people fall into the most repeated dynamic when it comes to gay couples, perpetuating a power role that simply cannot be applied to Ian and Mickey, at least not in such a superficial way. In a way, you can see a bit of the sunshine boy x grumpy boy dynamic, but we can’t forget that this is Shameless and that both of them are… unhinged.
Ian is sometimes treated as innocent and soft, when in reality he is just as delinquent, reckless, and at times has very questionable tendencies, starting with his kink for Mickey being violent and difficult lol. Mickey, on the other hand, is treated as the tough one, and yes, he is, but not everything is black and white. Both of them have exaggerated, raw ways of acting, but they can also be sensitive and attentive in their own ways. Reducing their relationship to two archetypes completely misses the complexity of their characters and how that complexity has, in fact, shaped their relationship.
Gallavich has never been portrayed as a stereotypical gay relationship in television media, and that’s something I really love. It’s true that they can lean toward one type of behavior or another, but I think that depends heavily on the moment in their lives. Mickey in S2 is not the same as Mickey in S5, and Ian in S4 is not the same as Ian in S11, for example.
When Ian is often portrayed as more open with his feelings and therefore falls a bit into being “the softer one” in the relationship, he actually isn’t lol, he just expresses himself more than Mickey does, who at first is extremely closed off. When Ian isn’t portrayed as equally violent, it’s because we tend to see Mickey being violent constantly, since the conditions of his life have forced him to stay in that state of alert all the time. But Ian is violent too, just in more encapsulated moments, when something around him pushes him to that point. Their dynamic is incredible because they complement each other, not because one has a personality on one extreme and the other on the opposite, but because they are actually the same! they just manage it differently, and that’s where they find the crack where they can support each other.
And when they both need to be angry, they are. And when they need to be sensitive and affectionate, they are. Both of them. I’m not saying that on a superficial or external level, or even within their relationship, they aren’t sometimes perceived in a specific way; for example, in S11 you can notice that difference in dynamics a bit more, but even then, I feel like it’s not because their personalities are inherently like that, but because they’re in a certain stage of their lives, an emotional and mental position, where Ian behaves more one way and Mickey another. If “responsible Ian” and “delinquent Mickey” were something inherent to who they are, we wouldn’t have the scene where Ian steals an ambulance and says he wants a gun to protect himself, nor would we have Mickey in the kitchen scene softly saying that he should worry because he’s his husband.
I think it’s life, you know? That pushes them to lean more toward one role or another. But it’s important to understand, in general, that… well, there is something fundamentally wrong with Ian and Mickey, because they are, in fact, not mentally well. They are the product of the conditions they grew up in, of their family environment, their upbringing, and their education.
Ian throwing the punch in S10 before proposing to Mickey, I mean. Mickey also hitting Ian’s date. And then both of them smiling, completely like teenagers, when Ian tells him he wants to marry him. And Mickey smiles and they kiss in the softest, most delicate way.
That’s the Gallavich dichotomy. And it’s something they both do. They’re the same idiots
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other than getting the supermodel ian gallagher, why do the shameless writers act like mickey couldn’t get it from other hot, attractive people? like i’m sorry to sound mean but he can do better than byron, angie, or that weird ginger lady in s4. mickey is gorgeous like what’s going on?
Anonymous
he is gorgeous and i wanted s11 or my imaginative s12 to be mickey gets hit on at every place they go and ian is silently fuming in the back
“and for you, sir, perhaps some white wine? ;)”
“he prefers red actually,”
“ian let go of the fork you’re not gonna stab this fucker, we’ll share a bottle a’ red thanks now fuck off”
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All of it.
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ian hates frank because frank’s a piece of shit to him. it’s not very complex really. ian isn’t his son, he’s too like monica. (it’s actually sadly more common than you think for a father to take anger out on a child which should be directed to the mother). while it’s horrible to see ian get treated that way, ian gets his parental love from fiona and lip (and monica i guess). when frank hits him, ian is comforted by so many people. so ian doesn’t need anything from frank and not having frank’s favor on the whole doesn’t affect ian’s life too much, especially in comparison to the monica of it all. yes frank tries to exploit ian’s mania for cash but that’s shockingly not even the worst thing he does to one of the kids - he literally tells carl he’s got cancer. i think that shows ian’s not treated as other as much as we think
on the other hand, mickey growing up has no one to teach him that love isn’t terry being proud of him for catching a knife he’s thrown at him. that pistol whipping your child half to death isn’t something to be taken lightly (mandy joking about it shows it happens more than we know). ian has no interest or need to know what frank is up to because he doesn’t need to, but mickey has to learn terry’s every move like a prey has to know what their main predator does. terry doesn’t just beat mickey, he wants to kill mickey. and sadly in the centre of it all mickey wanted a father who loved him, even the monster he was given
“spare the fireside poker, spoil the child” is just the tip to the iceberg
(forever annoyed that the writers had season 11 & HOS ian say frank was as bad as terry)
Anonymous
downplaying what ian goes through with frank makes me very uncomfortable. i don’t like the blunt comparisons the show makes in s11 & HOS, but ian growing up without any love from his father significantly impacted him. much of his worst experiences in life come from him searching for love with older men—i don’t like the writing in HoS, but the gallavich episode is called “daddy issues” for a reason. i know it’s tami who bizarrely gets an episode dedicated to her being groomed, but everything she says in her realization (right down to being the ignored middle child) applies to ian, too.
frank is a manipulative piece of shit, but how he treats carl and ian are world’s apart, regardless of how getting dragged into frank’s schemes has its own issues for carl (or for any other of the kids when frank cozies up to them). frank and the other children are more equivalent to how monica’s love for ian can have a negative impact. they’re different types of trauma, and their effects on the children vary. debbie, carl, and liam are dotted on by frank the most during the show’s timeline, and all of them were affected by that in completely different ways.
that’s why i’m not really concerned with who had it worse. a person’s ability to handle a specific trauma is unique to them. what i find interesting then is how ian and mickey’s specific experiences shaped them into who they are.
i like your comparison of mickey as prey and terry as the predator he’s studying, because that feels very apt for their relationship by the time the show starts. what i find fascinating is how those are “transferable skills” — mickey is also very good at studying ian’s behavior. he notices when things are off (there’s my favorite s11 deleted scene again). he handles an unmedicated ian for months in s4/s5 and only fails (when ian kidnaps yev) because he was too emotionally compromised for the confrontation he initiated.
that’s why i cringe at ian in s10 saying mickey’s emotional IQ is low for the shit he’s pulling with byron. IMO ian sees mickey’s behavior as immature because he’s lashing out instead of talking to ian which is valid, but it’s not a poor showing of mickey’s emotional intelligence. mickey is succeeding in exactly what he intended: in pissing ian off and making ian jealous enough to figure his shit out. is that not a skill? mickey even picked a target (byron) that he could easily control. i don’t want to hear mickey has a low emotional IQ from ian when ian is getting played like a fiddle (lol).
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gallavich in a nutshell:
mickey: *being a violent feral raccoon*
ian:☺️😋🥰😘😍🤤🍆🍑
Anonymous
yes and no
mickey is actually loverboy of all time and he loves being clean and fancy shit (he steals it dw, (he would never pay full price) and he is not afraid to punch a bitch)
but ian is a scrappy gallagher that would eat expired food and use someone else’s toothbrush (but mickey is trying to take the gallagher outta the boy, they got money now)
they’re both dirty racoons 🦝 who scrimmaged through life, but they’re also the only person who could genuinely put up with the other 🥰 and find those traits ~adorable~
“jesus christ mick! pick up your damn socks”
“shut up gallagher, at least i don’t water down our milk!” etc followed by makeout on the couch time
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listing my favorite gallavich moments each season (except s6 and s8 because lol) because i am stressed out and need the distraction
(this is a really long post)
SEASON 1: THE JUVIE VISIT
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Gallavich kisses>>>
God, they are so hungry for each other
