Hi Sam! When is chapter 6 coming out?❤️

monday babes! monday!

[ catch up from the start here ]

Mickey The Thug Goose

Aaaand Goollavich! Honk, honk!

Ok but like completely objectively if Gallavich ever got a pet it would be a mean and scary looking female Pitbull. At first Mickey would try to train her to be a murder machine on command, but she would just be so cute and non aggressive that they just go with it after a point. And when I tell you they would KILL for that dog I mean it.

Sam!! I love all of your gallavich ideas and I would love to read your fics about them. I especially love no.1 because I love fics where people don’t realise they’re together. I’m wondering if Mickey goes along with this whole thing with the wives - pretending he doesn’t know Ian etc? Why do I feel like Mickey might try and scam them out of money e.g. “how much do you dare me to go over and hit on him? Twenty bucks and I’ll do it.”

calli !! thank you so much !!

(for those following along at home she’s referring to this post)

in my version of this mickey kinda goes along with it for a beat only because he hasn’t quite figured out yet how to explain that his husband and the ginger giant they’re all ogling are actually the same person. before he actually finds the time or words to say anything, ian’s coming their way and all the women are like oh my god shut up he’s coming over here, and then ian ignores them (unintentionally) and sits down on the pool side lounge chair with mickey and probably kisses him

ian then leaves a minute later to get them, like, i don’t know food or drinks or something and mickey’s just sitting there so fucking smug. he is immediately welcomed into the Wives™️ club for having the hottest husband of them all.

whether he actually wants to be in this club remains to be seen but there’s a newfound respect between him and the neighbors he absolutely did not want to meet so. at least this building wide social was good for something !

we obviously do wanna know about the hamsters, please do tell

okay this is the hastily written out list i typed up yesterday after i made this post. it’s just the ones i can think of off the top of my head at the moment, i don’t expect any of them to make total sense to anyone but me rn, but they are all running so fast on their little wheels.

fics i would love to write if/when i have more time

- ian and mickey meet more of their westside neighbors at this pool party that the building is throwing for all of their residents. ian is immediately accosted by the husbands into doing Guy Shit and mickey cannot be bothered so he goes to find an empty chair by the pool and ends up in the corner with all the wives. all the women are talking about the tall hot redhead that just moved in on the second floor. chaos ensues

- more westside gallavich: ian and mickey go to a dinner party that one of their neighbors invited them to. everyone is wearing ties and sweaters and there isn’t even actual dinner, just a bunch of fancy hours d’oeuvres, and mickey is trying to make nice for ian’s sake but he lasts about 45 minutes before he’s uncomfortable enough to break and ian relents and tells him they can leave. someone overhears them, one of the husbands that kind of knows them, and is jealous they get to leave early. gallavich convinces that husband and wife to ditch this snooze fest and come back to their apartment to party southside style. this breaks out into a game of telephone and eventually the entire dinner party end up in ian and mickey’s apartment and they all have a much better time being less stuffy and boring and the rich neighbors even bring the good drugs

- mickey’s mom shows up at their westside apartment one day, years after mickey was told she was dead. turns out she was practically dead from an overdose but managed to survive, get out, and go west for a few years before eventually she got clean. it’s taken her a long time to come back, but she’s trying to find all her kids. mickey is less than welcoming. there’s so much she doesn’t know, including but not limited to how his “kind and handsome roommate” is actually his husband.

- private high school au where mickey and mandy are transfer students and they really don’t want to be there. ian takes a liking to both of them and befriends them, and the three of them plus lip go through an entire school year together. ian plays basketball. there’s a prom on here somewhere.

- dancing with the stars au where mickey is a famous rock star with an attitude problem and his labor is super fucking close to dropping him bc his image is dismal at the moment, so his manager/agent (mandy) signs him up for a family friendly ballroom dance competition to help his image. mickey has to make it to at least week 4 before he can lose on purpose, otherwise his label will cut all ties. his partner is a seasoned pro and takes none of his shit and—oh yeah did we mention the hot redhead pro in the next room over? the one mickey keeps running into during breaks and on show days? yeah mickey kinda can’t stop thinking about him.

- rockstar mickey au where the milkovich siblings make up a rock band that’s rising to prominent fame and they love what they do and they have each other’s backs even with their terrible manager/father always looming over everything they do. ian is part groupie part friend from home that sometimes travels with the band and is also, in the eye of the public, dating mandy but the band knows he’s just a cover for her to do whatever she wants and not get hounded by the media. the band is about to set out on their second tour, oh and gallavich has been hooking up ever since the end of their first tour but no one knows and thus chaos ensues with the band finding out, terry finding out, and the media finding out. eventually.

- canon divergent post s3 ian goes to the army and actually manages to stay there for four years, maybe eight, and he comes home to chicago and some things are different, but some are still the same because he sees some of the Milkoviches in the Alibi one night—including terry, who’s now smaller than ian (picture s11 ian he’s fucking huge) and has a limp from an old gun shot wound that never healed, and they lock eyes but stay out of each other’s way mostly bc ian wants nothing to do with him and terry knows ian could beat his ass now—and ian wonders just how many milkoviches are still in town. if a certain one will show up here one night. it’s been eight years and ian’s been with other guys but mickey’s still the one he can’t shake.

- canon divergent 2x08: carl asks ian to be his football coach bc ian used to play and ian says he can’t because he has to work but what if we change that and ian gets to be carl’s football coach and even goes so far as to convince mickey to come to some of the games. i just think it would be neat !

so yeah. that’s what’s at the forefront of my brain rn i know there are definitely others in my docs that i haven’t thought of in a while but oh well. will i actually write any of these, who’s to say, definitely not me!

Repeat after me:

It is OKAY to have content preferences and to be uncomfortable with certain ships or topics, controversial or not. It is OKAY to distance yourself from such content and block certain tags or creators.

It is NOT OKAY to actively hate and harass real people for creating content of fictional characters that features things that make you uncomfortable.

The two biggest gangstas on the South Side. The King of The South Side and White Boy Carl

you’re my best friend

i have so many gallavich fic ideas running through my mind at any given moment, it’s like nine different hamsters on wheels going full throttle at all times in my brain and i cannot stand that i don’t have the time or the energy to actually write all of them right fucking now

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

Hi bestie, haven’t seen you much on here (maybe it’s just my algorithm) but checking in to say I hope you’re doing okay!

hi !! omg this is so sweet, i’m doing fine !! haha just haven’t been on tumblr as much lately—life has been very busy and a little exhausting

also i massively scaled down my queue the other week because it actually got down to 0 for the first time in like two years bc of how much i haven’t been active here so you actually probably have been seeing way less of me than usual lmao. i used to have it set to anywhere between 8-12 posts per day depending on how active i am. at the moment i have it set to 4 posts per day 😂

anyway, thanks for checking in anon! i’m doing good, just busy lately. 🥰

did you listen to the new taylor swift album? cause why is guilty as sin such a s3 gallavich song... like this cage was once just fine am i allowed to cry? i dream of cracking locks...crashing into him tonight... I KEEP RECALLING THINGS WE NEVER DID MESSY TOP LIP KISS

i did listen to it !! and yes that’s such a s3 song fr !!

honestly, it’s not my favorite taylor album, it’s still good and i like it, but i haven’t really been into it as much as i usually am. the lyrics are great, i think the production of the songs just aren’t really my fav :/ that said, i’ve been listening to but daddy i love him on repeat all morning, so who am i to say anything rn

find someone who grows flowers (in the darkest parts of you)

Ian was practically born with his. He’s had it for as long as he can remember, this bunch of wild red carnations blooming between his shoulder blades. “Pride,” Lip tells him, his finger on the page of a library book about flowers. “Sounds about right for an army nerd like you.” Ian punches him in the arm, but the definition makes him smile. Fiona never saw it like that growing up. She used to tell him they were all about love. “Love and happiness,” she’d say, tracing the pattern on his back through his t-shirt. “These ones around the edges? They’re more orange.”

// soulmate + flower mark au

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Shameless Challenge: Favorite Gallagher

→ Ian Gallagher

We talk a lot about how once you’re an adult, you’re like “oh shit but I don’t feel like an adult.” And yeah, for sure. But I do want to mention that there’s also lots of times where I’m doing something very adulty, and I’m like yeah, I feel mature enough for this, I feel equipped to handle this, this is something I wouldnt have wanted to do ten years ago but find satisfying now, I enjoy the responsibility of what I’m doing, and I have expendable cash to spend on causes that matter to me and also novelty rain boots. It’s dope.

235 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME (ranked by my followers) 57. steve harrington and nancy wheeler - stranger things