#gallavich gift exchange

[sickness-health-all-that-shit]

You deserve better

Mickey pokes his head out of the alley and clears his throat. "'Ey," he says, trying to sound casual. Ian's head turns around. Smoke escapes his mouth in a long plume. Green eyes narrow. "Motherfucker…"

OR Ian's boyfriend talks shit about him. Mickey overhears. Nevermind that Ian's a total stranger—Mickey will see to it that everyone involved gets what they deserve.

my GGE fic for Julia @blue-disco-lights!! I'm so excited to share this with you 🥰 your prompt was right up my alley lol

huge thanks to @mybrainismelted for beta reading and of course to @gallavichthings for organising this wonderful event for us 💖💖

[doshiart]

gallavich in an end-of-the-world for my lovely giftee @spoonfulstar, hope you like it <3

for gallavich gift exchange 2025 by @gallavichthings, thank you for hosting!!

[michellemisfit]

Happy Gallavich Gift Exchange @sam-loves-seb

Chosing a 'Something inspired by one of my fics' prompt seemed like a dangerous gamble, but when it was revealed to be you, Sam, I got SO EXCITED!!!

I chose find someone who grows flowers (in the darkest part of you) (which was in itself a GGE creation from 2024) and really, the most challenging thing was to narrow it down... and I didn't. Oops.

Happy Gallavich Gift Exchange... Squared? 🤔

Huge thank you to @gallavichthings for organising!

Medium: Conté à Paris Pastel Pencils & Fine Liner

Full artwork behind the cut and on AO3

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carnations (red) - love, pride, admiration carnations (orange) - happiness, warmth, determination

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.” “Determination,” Lip counters. “Everything has more than one meaning. It’s why capitalism thrives under the consumers who buy into this crap, and why these marks are most effectively nothing more than a sham.” “Hush,” Fiona cuts him off, smacking him lightly on the head. “Leave him alone.” Ian grins at the two of them, freckle faced and innocent. He doesn’t really care what they mean. It was all good—he could live with any of it. All of it. “At least they match your hair,” Lip says, closing the book. Fiona giggles at that, and Ian shrugs. Blooming over his back and shoulders, the carnations grow with him. Red and orange and every variation in between. None of his other siblings have them. He’s the first Gallagher he knows with carnations imprinted on his skin.

dandelion - hope, perseverance, transformation

Dandelions that sprout on his knuckles. Too yellow and too bright and all wrong. Terry sees them for the first time, and he just laughs. “Couldn’t even be bothered to give you a real fucking flower. They gave you weeds on your goddamn hands.” He finds it amusing, for a little while. Like Mickey’s existence is one big joke. And honestly, at this point, he’s starting to think it might be. Because he hates the dandelions more than anything in the world, the way they sprinkle across his fingers, like a beacon in the worst fucking way. He looked it up once. Hope. Perseverance. What the fuck kind of mark was that? For a kid like him in a place like this—it’s one big cosmic fucking joke is what it is. So he takes a page out of his old man’s playbook and covers them up as soon as he possibly can. He’s thirteen, almost fourteen, and his cousin comes over with a tattoo gun he lifted from his ex-girlfriend’s dad. Mickey gets dark, bold letters stamped across his fingers, burying the dandelions beneath the ink.

carnations (red) - love, pride, admiration

It never even crossed his mind to share his new mark with Ian, but when he sees him on the other side of the bulletproof glass, eyes empty and the plastic phone pressed to his ear, it’s like he has to show him. Mickey unbuttons the top of his jumpsuit, a sad smile on his face. “Think you’re gonna like this one,” he says, pulling down the neck of his tank top. Ian’s mouth parts slightly when he sees the red carnations, three of them, opening up right over Mickey’s heart. For a second, Mickey feels the hope like lightning at his fingertips. Ian clears his throat. “What are those?” he asks, like he doesn’t know. “Hydrangeas?” “You know what they are.” Ian stares at him through the glass. His mouth opens and closes, but nothing comes out. It’s his last card to play. The red flowers that he first saw in the mirror of a holding cell. He thinks it might’ve been out on the sidewalk, when he told Ian he loved him that they finally bloomed, but he can’t be sure. And maybe it really is just a big cosmic joke, but Mickey can’t think of it like that, or he’ll never get out of here alive. So, he tells himself if he can’t have Ian in person, he’ll have to settle for the little bit of him he carries around with him. He wears Ian’s mark on his chest like a point of pride, and Ian does everything he can to forget about it.

lilac (purple) - first love

“The fuck is that?” Iggy asks, poking at Mickey’s arm. “What?” Mickey asks, twisting his arm. “That,” Iggy says, twisting it the other way so Mickey can see. On the inside of his upper arm are two purple flowers, their stems intertwined, and it takes everything in him not to react. “What are they?” Colin asks, smoking by the window. “Don’t know,” Mickey lies. The thing is—he knows exactly what they are. And that terrifies him. “That’s how I’ll know,” Mandy used to tell him. “When I meet the right guy, I know he’ll be the right guy because I’ll see it. I’ll get a flower mark.” Mickey shakes his head. “That shit’s as bad a reading your fucking horoscope in the paper.” “No it’s not,” she counters, annoyed. “I’ll get my lilacs one day. You’ll see.”

gladiolus - bravery

“Can’t believe you did that,” Ian marvels in the shower later, blood washing off them and running down the drain. “Mickey—you came out.” “Yeah,” is all Mickey says with shaky breath, because he kind of can’t believe it himself. ... “Holy shit,” Ian says, breathing hard. “Yeah,” Mickey says again, reaching back and grabbing Ian’s hip. “Yeah, come on.” “No, Mick,” Ian says, fingers brushing over the back of his neck. “Look.” It’s a ridiculous thing to say, because Mickey can’t physically look at the back of his own neck, but later, once they get off and dry off and they’re wrapped in warm towels in Mickey’s bedroom, Ian will show him the flower that blossoms at the place where his neck meets his shoulders. Ian takes a picture of it on his phone and Mickey stares at the gladiolus now stamped into his skin. They fall asleep that night wrapped up in each other with Ian’s lips pressed against the new mark on Mickey.

PS: Go and read find someone who grows flowers (in the darkest part of you) if you haven't yet (and even if you have), it's the most wonderful! 

[gallawitchxx]

a change of weather by gallawitch

↳ for ro of @fireballazalea for the gallavich gift exchange 2025 🖤 thank you to @gallavichthings for hosting! 🖤

Between spring storms and a surprise curse-breaking client, Mickey Milkovich is having a terrible day.

rating: M word count: 4.8K additional tags: modern magic au, cursebreaker mickey milkovich, potentially cursed ian gallagher, meet-ugly, canon typical violence (in flashbacks)

[ read on archive of our own ]

[suzy-queued]

🎁 Gallavich Gift Exchange 2024 📽️

My giftee is the incomparable @juliakayyy. When I saw that I got her, I screamed! Here's to you, my fellow lover of AUs and awkward situations and slow burn and enemies to lovers and workplace drama.

Coming Attraction

An overnight shift at the movie theater forces Mickey and Ian to face their long-standing feud. Read the story here

@gallavichthings

[sam-loves-seb]

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

@gallavichthings @notherenewjersey

[vintagelacerosette]

Gallavich Gift Exchange 2024

Hosted by the magnificent @gallavichthings ✨️

My giftee was the amazingly talented & wonderful @doshiart 🥰 Here's a high school AU with artist Mickey & jock Ian. Mick's trying to resist (albeit not too hard 😆) but it's puppy dog Ian with his sweet freckled face & bowl cut y'all 💕

Also Ian's number is 10 for Mickey's birthday hehehe 🫶🏼

[deathclassic]

this place was never the same after you came and went how can you you say you meant anything different to anyone standing alone on the street with a cigarette on the first night we met look to the past and remember and smile and maybe tonight i can breathe for a while i'm not in the scene, i think i'm falling asleep but then all that it means is i'll always be dreaming of you

hi hi @ms-moonlight-inn ! I was so stoked to see this request as an option especially as i had just seen blink 182 in concert and feeling this is my favourite song! it was so awesome drawing this for you, such a brilliant idea <3 thank you for hosting @gallavichthings !

[look-i-love-u]

A Gallavich Gift Exchange ff for @arrowflier for the event hosted by @gallavichthings.

-> Most first times are exciting and fun. The first time flying across the country? Not so much!

Or so Mickey thought. Luckily there's someone holding his hand. And he's fucking handsome. <-

-> Dear Arrow, your prompt made me so happy. Not only ticked it so many things on my ff-loves list, it also gave me the motivation and inspiration to finally write a story that's been brewing for a long while in my thoughts.

-> Reading the things you enjoy in ff made me even happier then! So I have been trying to tick off as many of your likes as well : AU, first meeting, doing something for the first time, interactions with families, misunderstandings...

-> I really, really hope you enjoy this little story!

-> I also really, really hope everyone else reading it will enjoy it too!

-> READ HERE ON AO3 <-

[blue-disco-lights]

Gallavich Gift Exchange 2024

Excited to present this gift for @dynamic-power!

Breathing Underwater (Read here 🩵)

Summary: Of course, as soon as Mickey finally feels in control of his life, a surprise meeting at work makes him question it all...

A workplace AU 🐠

Thank you @gallavichthings for organizing this event!

[sickness-health-all-that-shit]

Heat of the moment

It all starts with a bar fight. Even before the redhead’s fate was sealed by the arrival of Mickey’s brothers, there was no way Mickey wasn’t going to teach this dude a lesson. And if that means having the guy on him—well, that is a bonus he can absolutely live with.

here's my fic for @suzy-queued for the GGE 2024 hosted by @gallavichthings ✨💖 the prompt was an AU about them getting together, a messy meet-cute or meet-ugly with silliness, mutual pining and first kisses. well I hope I delivered! I've certainly had a lot of fun writing this as those are among my favourite ever tropes 🥰 hope you enjoy Deena!!! <3 p.s. thanks to @sam-loves-seb for beta reading this for me 💕

4.2k words - read on ao3

[doshiart]

🧡🖤 Happy Gift Exchange everyone! 🖤🧡

Teen gallavich gift for the lovely @michellemisfit with the birthday boy! 🧡🖤

Prompt: Teen Setting with them being awkward but still wanting to mark the day.

I like to think about Ian making a cake for Mickey and sneaking it into the van.

Gallavich Gift Exchange 2024 by our dearest host @gallavichthings Thank you for organizing this!!!

[michellemisfit]

WIP Whenever!

@wehangout tagged me in this WIP WHENEVER! Tag Game. Except mine’s not whenever. Mine’s got a very clear deadline, as it’s a GGE piece. Hence it’s also super secret. Sorry!! 🤦

Tagging @crossmydna @callivich @gallawitchxx @heymrspatel @deedala @darlingian and @loftec - hopefully you can do better haha

[gallavichthings]

Gallavich Gift Exchange 2024

Here it is, the long-awaited Gallavich Gift Exchange 2024!

Please read the rules before signing up. Under a read more because it's rather long.

General rules:

Click here to sign up. You’ll be asked for a prompt for the gift you want to receive. Please notice you will also be required to make a gift for someone else (hence the word exchange). Having a Tumblr account is not mandatory, though it does make things a bit easier.

Once sign-ups close, I’ll be making a list of all the wanted prompts for you to choose what you want. This will be done in a first-come, first-served basis (if by any chance the prompts left are somehow not possible to be completed by the authors/artists left, the people who’ve requested them might be asked to make some changes).

If by any reason you think you won’t be able to finish your gift, let me know as soon as possible so I can find someone else to finish in your place. Please know that in this case it’s possible that the gift being done for you isn’t concluded either.

One last thing: you’re allowed to send anonymous messages to the person whose prompt you’re fulfilling to ask for more information (or just to be cute :) ), as long as you don’t disclose your identity, of course. If the person doesn’t have anonymous messages enabled or isn’t on Tumblr, let me know and I’ll send them the messages on your behalf.

As always, send me any questions you might have via askbox or chat.

Minimum requirements: Fanfiction - 1,000 Fanart - lineart Gifset/photoset - 6 gifs/pictures Edits/manips: 4 small images OR 2 large images OR 1 large/detailed image Videos: 30 seconds Fanmix: 8 songs + cover Podfics: 1 fic

Dates: Sign-ups close: February 18th Prompts will be announced: February 19th Check-ups: March 3rd and March 17th Posting: March 24th to 31st

[sandrashaine]

The Day That He Left Me

For @howlinchickhowl as part of Gallavich Gift Exchange 2024 (@gallavichthings).

I am not sure if I did your prompt justice but here's my gift for you! The rest of the chapters will be posted tomorrow and on Monday. Hope you like it!

Summary:

5 years together. Engaged for a year. And just like that, Ian Gallagher was left on his own. A month before their wedding. 

Ever since his ex left him, nothing felt right in his life.

READ HERE

[dynamic-power]

Gallavich Gift Exchange!

This is a gift for Evie @energievie!!!

Ofice Space (Read here on ao3)

Mickey Milkovich doesn't talk to his coworkers. Ian Gallagher is determined to change that. It doesn't take much convincing.

Rated M, 8.8k words, Office AU

Shout out to @gallavichthings for putting this event together. It has been so much fun, as always!