#lip x mandy

[strnqer]

TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT U

pairing. lip gallagher x afab!reader

synopsis. lip gallagher believed he had it all: a best friend who always had his back and loved him unconditionally—the same girl he thought he had fallen for—and a dysfunctionally perfect family. but one day as he climbed her window in search of her, he stumbled upon a list detailing all the ways in which he had hurt her. and suddenly she wasn’t just his best friend, she was the girl he had taken for granted, knowing or believing she would always be by his side. what would happen when, one day, she simply wasn’t there anymore?

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i. the beginning of the end

ii. one: his voice

iii. two: his smile

iv. three: his laugh

v. four: his eyes

vi. five: his hands

vii. six: his looks

viii. seven: his scent

ix. eight: lip gallagher

x. nine: the way he knew me

xi. ten: you

[haunted-phantom-student]

Hilarious to me that from Debbie and Carl's point of view Ian was dating Mandy and got her pregnant and had a fundraiser to get her an abortion and then one day she comes home with Lip and she's kind of his girlfriend now instead and Ian's not jealous or anything but is pissed at Lip for not treating her well? The alleged love quadrilateral that is Lip, Ian, Mandy, and Mickey must be so wild from the outside.

[mossy-fae]

Fav Shameless Trope; Lip being attracted to girls who give him shit.

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

i keep seeing “me and my husband” by mitski in gallavich playlists and like… no. WRONG. INCORRECT. *loud incorrect buzzer*

are ian and mickey husbands?? YES. are they happy? YES. and that is precisely why they are not “me and my husband”.

“me and my husband” is so grossly misinterpreted and it kills me… it is not about a healthy relationship; the song isn’t about a stable happy marriage like…

you know who fits “me and my husband”? lip and mandy.

the song is about a houswife who is dependent on her spouse- who places her worth on her husband. it’s about unhealthy attachment, being so attached and dependent that you really aren’t your own person without your spouse, and not in a good way. not like you fit together like puzzle pieces, like you are really not a person without them.

season 3 mandy IS that song. people joke about how mandy’s like a housewife, and like, yeah she kinda is. being without lip, or even the thought of being without him, destroys her. and it ends up literally destroying karen because of what it drove (no pun intended) mandy to do. “and i am the idiot with a painted face, in the corner, taking up space” is such a mandy line, especially when lip screams at her to go home to her own fucking house. she thrives when lip loves her, but when he doesn’t, she goes crazy. she craves it- she’s addicted to it because she’s never been loved and the only way she knows how to get love is through her sexuality, so she will literally do anything in her power to get him to love her even if it means ruining herself.

anyways, ian and mickey may be attached, but they aren’t attached like that. they have been unhealthy and toxic, but not like that. ian and mickey are much more like “i’m your man” by mitski.

[echosluvr]

me :3 when I find parallels between the three gallavich ships

[jeremyallenwrench]

[konaiiro]

fic which was drabble that kept growing until i decided enough's enough. anyways i think its good and angsty if you have time for a quick 1705 words.

s2/s3 of Shameless from Mandy's perspective

Looking back, summer of 2012 had been something special. Something was in the air they breathed, in the beer they drank and in the joints they smoked. It was inescapable and ever since the leaves began to yellow later that season, she had craved that feeling like an addict.

Like most cherished things the adolescent euphoria didn’t last forever, as the two of them had started the late May days as wide-eyed teenagers but by October they had begun to grow weathered like the leaves, following their twisted, auburn stems on an inevitable path down, down, down.

[copperarsenite]

electrons - ruth madievsky / future starts slow - the kills / the rokesby venus, slashed by mary richardson / electrons - ruth madievsky / glass tears, 1932 - man ray / killing eve / boyish - japanese breakfast / how to be a dog - andrew kane / heart-shaped bruise, nyc - nan goldin

mandy milkovich x lip gallagher / shameless

[strnqer]

chapter zero: the beginning of the end

pairing: lip gallagher x afab!reader

series history

lip gallagher climbed your window once more. the same window he had jumped out of countless times before your mother had caught him on your bed.

despite being best friends, you never let lip meet her.

if anyone asked frank, your mother was just like him in every way—well, all except for franks somewhat outgoing and talkative nature, hell, he's even had a good conversation with a tree. your mother on the other hand, had a relentless need to point out everyone's flaws; she was judgmental and often homophobic. she also believed in many things, all of which were extremely controversial in their time. anyone could easily describe her as awful.

yet, if someone asked you, you’d talk about how lovely she was on her good days—those rare moments when she wasn't raising a drunken fist at your presence.

but then there were those days. the days she'd be so high off whatever drug she'd find the night before and she'd be shit. on those days you would have to physically restrain your mother to prevent her from doing whatever crazy shit she'd thought of next. it's one of the hundreds of reasons why lip despised the woman. he hadn't even met her, yet the mere thought of someone laying their hands on you overwhelmed him with rage that was often hard to control. ian would often have to restrain him before he jumped the gate at the sound of your screams.

lip grunted as he lifted himself up on her ledge, he gently slid the glass window open and hastily climbed inside almost falling on his face in the process. "fuck" he muttered, grabbing onto her shelf for balance.

lips eyes casted around the room looking for any signs of his girl, he called your name softly, subconsciously holding his breathe as he strained his ears to listen. the only sound that could be heard was the hand of the clock on your wall ticking away seconds in the silence.

he huffed, pacing slowly around the room, eyes carefully scanning through your belongings. he’d memorized where everything was from the many times he'd been there already, but he hoped that something would be different this time—something that might lead him to you. the mere thought of finding you hurt filled him with nausea.

he swallowed the feeling down.

his gaze landed on your bookshelf and there, nestled between your favorite books sat a medium-sized framed photo of you together. the soft white frame had a small red heart in the corner. lip almost laughed, a small smile tugging its way onto his mouth 'typical.' he thought.

the photo itself took him by surprise. it was from years ago, a time when he wasn’t such an asshole.

you were sat delicately up on his lap in the gallagher kitchen table, laughing at something he’d said, while he looked at you as if you hung the stars and the moon yourself. you were the center of his universe. he looked at you as if there was nobody else in the room, like it was just the two of you in that simple moment. his fingers traced it softly before wrapping themselves around the frame.

he opened it and took out the old photo, leaving its remains on the shelf. tears welled up in his eyes at the bittersweet memory but he brushed them away quickly, refusing to cry pathetically in your room.

lip flipped the picture, you always wrote some sappy shit in the back of your photos, in fact, it was one of the many things he loved about you.

his smile faded.

in the back, he saw your neat cursive writing: 'ten things i hate about you.’ beneath it was a long list of reasons of all the hatred you had for him. him. each word felt like a punch in the gut.

regret washed over him in waves. he thought of every moment you’d shared, each one heavy with the weight of his mistakes.

why had he been such a jerk to the one person he loved?

he had been a dick to fiona and even debbie at times, but those are his sisters—it was different. you were the love of his life for crying out loud.

"i'm sorry, i'm so sorry" he whispered, to who, he wouldn't know, he just... "i'm so fucking sorry"

tears streamed down his face like a fountain, and finally he broke. lip fell to the floor with their picture clutched tightly in his hand. he scanned your words again and again, each one cutting only deeper.

his sobs grew louder, and for a moment he was grateful your mother was likely passed out in the living room floor, oblivious to your absence.

why had he treated you like something so easily replaceable? you were one of the few people he relied on, the one person he thought could never leave.

why am i so fucked up.

he had taken for granted the one person willing to risk everything for him. maybe it was the fact that he knew you’d never go anywhere, or the fact that you had proved many times that despite his shitty personality you’d always remain his girl. either way he's lost you, he lost his soulmate.

in the process of finding himself he lost the person that was most important to him in his life and he didn't know if you’d ever return.

next chapter

[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…?

[gallavichfanficlibrary]

Hiii! I just wanted to say I adore you and everything you do <333 I was wondering if you had any fics with background Mandy/Lip

Hey! So you should definitely check out the Lip/Mandy tag on ao3 for some more, but here are a few we could think of:

this is the road to ruin

across the hall

a journey in the dark

feeling sun (i'm no longer one)

Just a tip - you can use 'minor lip gallagher/mandy milkovich' tag to only get background relationships.

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

one of my main problems with lip (regarding mandy) is that he never thought highly of her. like, in 1x03 he shits on her, and it’s understandable, but still, he’s slut-shaming her. and then, in season 3, he never defends her to fiona- and if he ever does, it wasn’t memorable because it was probably like one sentence. she did everything for him and he, in her words, was “fucking blind”. he really didn’t give a shit about her, and everytime he did, it was short-lived. emma greenwell once said something (paraphrasing) about how mandy knows she’s not enough for lip, but she still tries. it’s fucking saddening because in honesty, she’s too good for him. she does everything, treats him well, and puts up with his shit. i wish she didn’t, i wish she wouldn’t let men walk all over her, but she does.

(ik what she did to him in 3x11- but i’m not talking about that part)

[colorfuldaydreams]

complex by katie gregson-macLeod

[shirtlessteacup]

THIS FUCKING SCENENEEEEE

[jeremyallenwrench]

[copperarsenite]

canine coded younger siblings by @holymurdock