it is like. both fascinating and infuriating to me when people downplay Liam's overdose at the end of season four

1.) I don't expect to hold addicts 100% accountable for their behavior while on drugs i think there's some play in culpability. HOWEVER:

2.) I do think that people who completely write this off and excuse this for the benefit of Fiona are pretty racist or at least have the biggest racism blinders on BECAUSE

2a.) like point blank comparing this specific act of neglect to other acts of neglect (which were no doubt terrible and traumatizing) is one thing. acting like they are on the same level or that say, monica's neglect of Carl is somehow worse is literally just racism

2b.) The choice in drug, as my girlfriend pointed out for a white caregiver to expose a black toddler in her care to, is intentional. You are meant to think about the racial dynamic at play here in regards to conversations and behavior around drug use for the last fifty plus years. Liam is a fucking BABY and you still cannot muster pretend imaginary sympathy for him? How racist do you have to be to react to this arc in this way. Has it been over a month since you called a black drug user a cr*ckhead be honest

3.) Lip losing his shit on fiona while this was happening was not an example of him "perpetuating Frank's cycle of abuse omfg

3a.) I'm not going to say Lip's behavior towards Fiona while she was being incarcerated was completely justified of course but that was their little brother who they both love dearly who might die and Lip is justifiably freaking the fuck out. this is categorically not the same thing as an abusive father yelling in order to exercise control

3b.) Your baby brother does not have the power required to exercise an abusive dynamic over you. Of course he can replicate abusive behavior as anyone who was raised by an abusive parent or otherwise can. The line of thinking that Lip is "abusing" Fiona here shows an irresponsible and, in the wrong hands, entirely dangerous misunderstanding of how and when abusive dynamics come to be

3c.) that is not even Frank's brand of abuse. I can count on one hand the amount of times that Frank uses yelling as a tactic. The name of his game is manipulation and he usually exercises it by acting overly kind to the youngest gallaghers in order to get them to participate in his insane schemes. We see him doing this to Carl and Debbie and Liam and we even hear of him doing this to lip when he was younger. He only hits Ian once and we have reason to believe that is the only time he has hit one of his children. textually. He understands he can't control Lip Ian and Fiona by series start and as such he moslty leaves them alone and occasionally even pals around with them. We SEE him discard Debbie and Carl when they begin to question him and argue against his hair brained ethically heinous schemes

4.)the narrative is indeed asking you to engage with the theme of cycles of abuse being replicated by people who mean well. During this specific arc is asking you to do so with FIONA, not Lip, FIONA, who is liam's legal guardian who she is in this moment recklessly endangering. Even if you pretend the race thing isn't there (which is extremely difficult because its place in the narrative is, as I've pointed out, intentional) Fiona still allowed a baby to eat cocaine through her neglect. You are supposed to be thinking about this. You are supposed to be comparing i in your mind to Carl's childhood injuries and Frank using drugs as a sleep sedative for infants. At all times throughout the show you are meant to be examining how many steps away each character is from being "just as bad as frank"

I know fandom is specifically designed to stomp out critical analysis but omfg.

(3x06 aftermath) this body remembers more than i ever will

i’ll never leave this house.

redraw/study work :3

and an excuse to draw 7x10!!!

reblogs are appreciated!!

Late night cuddles💙🌃

10x02 // 11x05

eeeeek! thank you for indulging me! never stop sharing pls. yeah, service top ian is definitely Established. this is kind of how i was thinking about it (and ian's sexual habits/interests in general) at first. that he's motivated for various reasons by being the one to give his partner pleasure. and it works great as an explanation for him wanting to dom his partners. but it just isn't a satisfying explanation on it's own, for me personally, when it comes to his interest in s/m specifically. (and maybe just selfishly, because i imagine him genuinely enjoying it).

"this is something i feel is really underrepresented in general, so its worth mentioning that ian can be the sweetest little puppy, the hardest worker, great with kids, and still consensually beat the fuck out of his husband and get off on it. theyre not mutually exclusive"

yes yes yes! it's not incompatible with him being sweet and a helper and wanting to HEAL people at all.

anyway, agree that most of his relationships would have been fairly vanilla or maybe D/s lite. and where i think mickey had some inkling that he was into kink (although idk if he would have called it that) all along, i think for ian it was probably an accidental discovery with their fighting/play-fighting and he didn't make the connection until later. probably in the club/boystown like you said, seeing it in person with other people. where he realizes that it isn't just being a top or a dom that does it for him, he actually likes the pain aspect and it's not just some crazy thing that happens in a charged tense moment between him and mickey.

and i kind of think that they don't really get around to naming/exploring their kinks and negotiating and all that jazz until after their prison era? mostly because they've just always had so much other shit going on and they don't really have privacy until they get the apartment.

"because mickey earns all his punishments so ian can really enjoy doling it out. caning, rice kneeling, soaping, slapping, clamps, figging, snapping a rubber band on his skin, stress positions" god bless. coming in a fic when?

fuck’s sake

Galladrabbles: real estate

Jesus, what a week. Thanks to @suzy-queued for the prompt, "real estate," and thanks to @galladrabbles for providing a welcome distraction for me this morning. Sending out love and solidarity. <3

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It’s been a rough few weeks, so when Ian suggests visiting the Southside, I don’t argue. He leads us on a tour of our old haunts, and I let him press inside me in the abandoned building I once considered ours.

We don’t hear the realtor leading a group of developers up the crumbling stairs until they’re just feet away.

I laugh when Ian throws up a middle finger as we make our escape. He’s breathing hard and beaming as his feet slap the pavement in step with mine, looking just as beautiful and carefree as he did at sixteen.

@shamelesscreatorsnetwork JULY THEME: WORDS

╰┈➤ Ian + Baby

I really like to watch them kissing🥺🥵💕

Mandy took this photo. 📸💜