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Written for Shameless Big Bang 2025!

A Series of Unfortunate Dates

Summary:

A little bit drunk, a little bit high, and a little bit lonely, Mickey realises he wants a relationship, not random hook-ups. When he reaches out to a handful of people from different parts of his life and asks them to set him up on blind dates, he ends up on multiple awful dates with Ian Gallagher.

Due to the extenuating circumstances of every bad date, they begin to form a friendship that could be so much more if they could just get their heads out of their asses.

Click above to read and see the gorgeous art by @geonbaeeeesblog

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Galladrabbles: Twin Size Mattress

Thank you @spacerockwriting for our @galladrabbles song prompt this week! Such beautiful and melancholy lyrics in this song, but of course I could only think to put them in this situation 🤷‍♀️

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“I want a normal twin mattress, man. Don’t need no sleep-number-temper-whatever-the-fuck-memory-foam crap.”

Mickey starts pacing around the “Mattress Showroom”, and for the tenth time, wonders why he ever listens to Mandy. What was wrong with buying this shit online like everything else??

Don’t be a dumbass, you gotta go test it out first!

He’s staring at another bed when a new sales guy approaches. 

“Sir, my associate tells me you’d like to test out a mattress?” Says a tall redhead sporting a name tag and an obnoxious smirk. Damnit.

“Yep. Maybe you should show me that King-size one over there.”

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I had someone on insta point out to me that Gideon is described as being of Maori decent (which I appreciate them trying to be kind and also give that bit of info) So I decided to change up Gideon's nose and skin color.

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I'm on Amazon!

You can follow me here and also pre-order the eBook of The Menagerie (but it's cheaper to pre-order direct from the publisher here!)

Physical copies will be out on May 13th!

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doesnt my job understand i have a blooming fanfiction writing career to work on

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Tù.úk'z v2

realm of absurd hope

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I really can't wrap my head around why the belief that commenting chapters or stories that have been posted some months of years ago might be a bother to the writers is so persistent in fandom.

I'm genuinely happy every time a reader takes a few minutes of their time to write a comment, even more so if they comment on a story that never got a lot of love to begin with.

And if it's an older story I'm happy to learn that it still brings its readers some joy.

Dear readers, please never think that we writers aren't interested in reading your comments no matter what. Every comment is valuable to us. Stories don't have an expiration date.

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steel. he made steel

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"Can I Please Eat In The Computer Room Tonight?" by Nicole Nikolich (2025)

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are they... you know... *plays a beautiful and complex melody on an imaginary piano*

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Weekly Tag Wednesday

First... the basics:

Name: Jaclyn

Popular music/band/artist while you were in highschool: Simple Plan (oh how I loved them)

Okay... let's get into it...

What's one thing you wish you'd known when you were younger? Someone's gonna love me someday

What is a course or certification you wish you'd done? I could technically still do it, but I wish I hadn't dropped out of BJJ classes at my martial arts school

What's a style you wish you'd never rocked? The preppy Aeropostale look in middle school

What's a style you totally killed? Punk in high school

Do you still wear it? Nope, I tend to dress much more feminine now. Though the all black definitely stuck

Favorite pair of shoes you've ever owned: Honestly, I got some orthopedic shoes that I love because they're so comfortable. But otherwise I have a pair of beige flats that are also super comfortable.

Have you ever worn heels? Do you regret it? Do you wish you had tried to wear heels? Do you think heels are the devil? What are heels--Jess stop saying that word: Yup, I wear heels to pretty much every formal event (even though my feet hate me for it)

Name one bucket list item? Go to New Zealand and be a LOTR tourist

What's something you would do if you could step outside all your insecurities/fears today? Dress differently (more expensive/form fitting clothing in a much more chic style than what I wear now)

Is there another language you wish you learnt? I wish I continued learning French. I took it for about 8 years throughout school but never got to be fluent

What's something you've done to your hair that you look back on and cringe? I used to color my hair with sharpies and make rainbows lmao. Also I once dyed just the ends of my hair black and it blended into my shirts making it look like I had the world's worst bob haircut

Okay last one... what's a real regret? I wish I had more confidence growing up and put myself out there more

Tagged by @jrooc and @energievie! Tagging @suzy-queued @deedala @deathclassic @michellemisfit @mybrainismelted if you want to play!

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Charles van den Eycken (1859-1923) "The Little Writer" (1913) Oil on panel

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A COMINT !!