#debbie gallagher lesbian

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

HI WLW DEBBIE FANS I FOUND MORE EVIDENCE THAT DEBBIE WAS GAY FOR HOLLY (as if we need any):

remember that guy who played chess that debbie knew in seasons 1/2?

he went to her sleepover and he was super into her and despite her desperation for love and attention and how easy it was to get it from him, she literally just used him to get to holly

and for a big percentage of the sleepover she was just admiring holly

she was trying to look cool and pretty for her

and when holly left she was devastated

like she definitely had a crush

it was cute

[elainiisms]

lesbians who are just off the rails crazy insane... very dear to me

[werewolfesam]

"I want more mean lesbians"

bitch you couldn't even handle debbie gallagher

[acethetically-bway]

recently joined the lesbian fiona bandwagon and now i need to express my hcs & analysis on debbie/fiona realizing they’re lesbians:

debbie secretly prints out the lesbian masterdoc when she first starts to struggle with having/finding a bf. she skims it and brushes it off (bc comphet/repression), shoving the pages between her mattress and boxspring so no one can dig them out of the trash and interrogate her. she forgets about them for years and just continues to try to fit in with other girls and gets pregnant and has franny. and franny is her everything and she thought maybe franny could fix her and make her appreciate and love a man for giving franny to her but oh fuck there’s still something missing.

so later on when she’s older and genuinely having an identity crisis, one day she takes the sheets off her bed to wash them and she finds the old crumply lesbian masterdoc pages peeking out. she steals one of ian’s blankets from his bed (bc he’s in jail and she wishes more than anything he could talk her through all this but at the same time knows he wouldn’t ever fully understand. but at least he’s here in spirit). and she reads that shit cover to cover under her blanket with a flashlight and makes the most scribbled manic nonsensical annotations all over the pages to the point where the paper is made of more pen strokes than original text. she rereads the doc every night until she falls asleep for a week straight. she puts herself in every hypothetical situation, conjures up random male fictional characters/celebrities to deny the truth, looks over at her baby and feels the worst kind of guilt that she doesn’t know how to love the 50% of her own kid that came from a man. and then she falls in love with a girl for the first time, like REALLY in love, and all that doubt and anxiety just disappears and it’s them and franny against the world and nothing could make her happier.

okay and then fiona is a whole different ballpark. she doesn’t have the time or energy for such insane levels of self-discovery. she’s so focused on her kids that thinking about who she loves is like the furthest thing from her mind. she knows she *can* be happy with a man, she knows that she enjoys sex with men in theory, she doesn’t see any other option for herself besides what she’s been doing, going through the motions. i imagine younger/teenage fiona inherited her parents’ fucked up ideas and perceptions about sex and relationships and so the bar for her is literally on the floor. she’s perfectly fine just engaging in meaningless sex and impulsive relationships that end sooner than they begin and throwing herself and her worth away to keep the men in her life happy. these relationships come to her naturally because she’s been doing this for so long, likely since middle/high school. she doesn’t care if the guy is objectively bad for her or if she fucks him every night or if she marries him after only knowing him for a week because none of it really holds any weight to her. she dates guys who can provide for their kids because it doesn’t matter if they’re good for her as long as her kids are happy. to her, relationships with men are just standard practice. it’s not so much about genuinely being in love, it’s about the benefits and the recklessness and the constant need to throw herself into chaos lest she feel completely useless.

and then along the way she meets jasmine and angela and nessa (and probably others too). and whoa boy everything gets flipped on its fucking head. she finally starts to understand what people mean when they say their S/O or crushes give them actual butterflies in their stomachs. she gets excited imagining herself being intimate with them. it’s not some chore or some ritual/routine that just exists for the sake of feeling connected, it’s an *actual* connection. it’s confusing as fuck because it’s not like she’s actually ever been with a girl before so she doesn’t understand what about it makes her feel so giddy, but the feeling doesn’t go away. the way she interacts with these women she barely knows is SO different than the guys she dates and sleeps with and even marries because these women have such fresh perspectives and raw energy that excites her. they care about her in a genuine sort of way, they’re tender and gentle but also loud and bold and confident all at once and it’s the actual coolest thing.

her biggest struggles come with the fact that she’s realizing her sexuality relatively late in life. she feels repulsed by identifying as a lesbian because of the whole “gold star” rhetoric, and because what nearly 30-year-old dates and sleeps with and marries dozens of men since they were a teenager and then suddenly goes “mm actually i’m gay”? it’s all so pointless to her and it doesn’t compute in her brain that there’s more than one way to be a lesbian. and i think debbie coming out first would help her with this; even though she dismisses it (because deep down she’s projecting her own experiences and beliefs about sexuality onto debbie), she realizes that damn, her kid sister is way happier than she’s ever seen her with any of those other losers. so when fi leaves for florida, she figures it’s the perfect time to reinvent herself and start fresh. no strings attached, no ghosts of past relationships haunting her. she’s free to be with whoever she wants and no one has to know anything else beyond her present self. (although moving to florida as a newly discovered lesbian is definitely a choice given everything that goes on there relating to LGBTQ+ issues, but it’s something new for her at least. tbh i imagine she only stays in florida for like a year or two max, makes some money, gets a gf, and moves with her to somewhere else much more tolerant and vibrant and similar but not identical to home).

[ingydarz]

fiona gallagher is the straightest woman alive and that’s ok, good thing emmy left because debbie being a lesbian makes so much more sense

[cringengl]

Debbie abandonment issues because of Frank and Monica leading to her needing to find a romantic life partner who won't leave her like everyone else but all she knows about that is heterosexual so she puts all her effort into being liked by boys as soon as possible in order to find someone who will stay with her but it never works because she's never pretty enough even though she's still young and doesn't need to find a romantic partner right now, meaning that when she got pregnant she was going to keep it to have someone who won't leave her and although discovering herself as a lesbian has allowed her to stray somewhat from heteronormativity some of those lessons about marriage and family are so ingrained that she'll do anything to find a family and keep it Gallagher I think I understand you

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

debbie gallagher from shameless is lesbian (canon)

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[iheartmoons]

i have never needed anything more than debbie’s endgame ship being wlw

[themoonandthedogstar]

me 🫱🏽‍🫲🏻 debbie gallagher

being feminist man hating lesbians

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

will never forget when john wells accidentally gave us good queer/neurodivergent rep thru debbie gallagher

[weird-ass-queer]

reader: hm i would like to order some gallavich fanfics

writer: we have three options, gay, straight or lesbian

reader: wait a minute i have options…?

[werewolfesam]

"you're not gay you're a pillow princess"

PILLOW PRINCESSES MAKE THIS WORLD GO ROUND MR GALLAGHER

[moonschocolate]

if sandy and debbie ever break up im gonna cry

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

i support women’s rights but more importantly i support women’s wrongs

[cringengl]

debbie being a lesbian is so important to me like her abandonment issues plus the inherent lesbian loneliness is such a brutal combination and once I saw that I loved her character that much more