melwritesthings
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- Shameless (US) (14)
- Anne with an E (TV) (3)
- Schitt's Creek (2)
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"He waits for a moment; nothing happens. He’s not sure what he imagined could happen. Ian waves a hand in front of his face, shooing away visions of himself bursting into flames as he touches the sheets where they just made another man come."
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treadmill man threesome: the sequel
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- Part 2 of i fretted fire (but that was long ago)
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there are worse ways to stay alive by melwritesthings for GrandSelfMythology
Fandoms: Shameless (US)
23 Apr 2025
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"Ian Gallagher tries so hard. He gets back up and keeps going even when things don't seem like they'll ever be okay. He's so loved, and so good."
For the 2025 Gallavich Gift Exchange on Tumblr.
When Lip struggles a bit, Ian tries to avoid self-sabotaging in order to struggle alongside him.
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Living and working in the icy chill of an endless winter, Ian and his family are assigned to work the farms to bolster food supply. They live quietly enough, following the rules, until Mickey and Mandy Milkovich (with all their secrets) are moved in across the road.
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Ian loves serving cold gin and champagne to the laughing flappers that visit his family's speakeasy. Even as the Gallaghers struggle to build an empire, he thinks the only thing missing is a lover to dance with.
Desperate to get out from under his father's thumb, Mickey sets out to undermine the already thriving Milkovich empire. Tasked with taking the Gallagher operation out, Mickey knows to expect violence and danger.
But he never could have expected Ian.
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our hungers appeased, our heartbeats becoming slow by melwritesthings
Fandoms: Shameless (US)
23 Jun 2023
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Ian feels it break off inside his chest - whatever scenario he’d been expecting. The answer he was waiting to hear. It rises through his body and drifts away.
Of all his theories, the undead wasn’t one of them.
But maybe he should have known. He should have known that it would have to be something this fucking insane—something goddamn supernatural—to change Mickey towards him now.
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Valiant has taken the greatest fall from grace the superhero world has witnessed in years. The Shrike is an unregistered vigilante who doesn't even ping the radar of Chicago's crime fighting scene.
Ian is forcibly put on leave from his job and returns to the Gallagher house, a failure all over again. Not only does he not know what Mickey does when the world goes dark, he doesn't know that Mickey is still living southside at all.
Not since the events of eight years ago.
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04 Jan 2023
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It was as dark as it could get in the city, with its perpetual haze of yellow-gray light ringing the horizon. Mickey’s eyes were half open, unfocused, directed vaguely toward the one tiny pinprick of light that had managed to glow through the screen of rainclouds and smog. If he hadn’t been so out of it, Mickey might have thought it was a little weird that there was a star visible in the first place—almost seeming to hang in front of the clouds rather than behind them—but he didn’t. He peered through his lashes, eyes glazed over, as the only obvious light in the sky did nothing of interest.
Until it did.
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When late summer comes to Chicago, it finds Mickey Milkovich listless, directionless, and truly alone for the first time in his life. Mickey is content to leave his empty hours empty, but the universe has other plans: A mysterious force attaches itself to Mickey and urges him to leave his life behind, to go, come on, come on--
--and so he does.
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07 Jun 2022
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It's Ian's birthday. He decides to try something new.
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13 May 2022
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Mickey never had A Master Plan.
His only plan in the last decade has been Find Ian.
Instead, he's basically raised a kid, accidentally started a slow burning revolution, and failed everyone he actually cares about.
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- Part 1 of Twenty-One
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02 Apr 2022
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Ian gets out of prison 352 days before Mickey does. They do their best to make it through.
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31 Mar 2022