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Ian Gallagher worked hard for this. He's in his senior year of a music scholarship, conducting the first undergraduate orchestra. If the first concert of the year goes well, he might even get noticed by someone who can help him get a conducting gig after he graduates.
But to get there, he's got to work with a principal violinist, Mickey Milkovich, who seems more intent on riling the entire orchestra up and starting fights with first flute and the viola section leader.Bookmarked by Runningempty
23 Feb 2026
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Sometimes your bartender serves more than just drinks.
When I read the quote below from the Parallel 49 Brewing website about one of their signature beers, Jerkface 9000, I knew it was going to be Mickey’s favorite beer.
“Hey you! Yeah... I'm talking to you, buddy. How about you grab a bottle of this Mosaic hopped American wheat beer and cram it down your pie hole. Did I hurt your feelings? Too friggin' bad. When it's this good, you ain't gotta be nice about it.”For Gallavich Week 2020 Day 5: Best Friends
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28 Dec 2025
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The pill bottles rattle as he pulls the drawer open. He takes one out and unscrews it, spilling the tablets on his palm. He counts each and every one of them. He counts the days and the weeks and the numbers turn out to be right on all three bottles. Not one pill is out of place, because he took them. He swallowed them every morning and every night and there’s no way he’d forget even a single dose because he’s…
He’s better now.
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After their move to the west side, Ian and Mickey are left to deal with the new apartment, the weird neighbors, and Ian’s spiral into a manic episode.
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- Part 4 of post s11 gallavich
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09 Nov 2025
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Roasters on Main makes the best coffee in the city.
Okay, that’s probably not true, but for the prices and the location, it’s the best coffee they’re going to find and still get to work on time.
If they ever get out of the driveway, that is.
// coffee shop au
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- Part 2 of au-gust 2024
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17 Sep 2025
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Mickey Milkovich comes home.
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02 Jun 2025
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It’s anticlimactic, really.
But after a week of watching this guy, watching him upload every 2 days, jerking off to him like he’s addicted. He wonders if he can ever go back to normal. It’s a vice.
Still, whatever. It’s not like he’ll meet the guy. He’s allowed his addictions.
or, ian's an idiot, and mickey kind of likes that
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- Part 1 of twitterverse
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30 Apr 2025
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For someone who works at a sex shop, Ian’s love life is tragically dead. That is, until a hot, flirty, tatted up customer decides to enroll in their product review program for the cash. Ian gathers the toys and takes him to the back room for their first session. He’s always kept things very professional at this job - no problems discussing sex-related things at all. But how the hell is he supposed to keep his cool behind the camera and ask corporate’s review questions when he’s got the hottest guy on the planet playing with himself just a few feet away?
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15 Feb 2025
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Mickey jerks awake.
His heart is racing and he's breathing fast. He glances to his right and sees Ian asleep in bed next to him.
It just was a dream. A nightmare, actually.
Mickey tries to slow his breathing, his eyes adjusting to the dark of their bedroom as he stares at the ceiling. He squeezes his hands into fists, then releases.
He digs his knuckles into his eyes and scrubs until he sees stars. It felt so fucking real. He hasn't had a nightmare like that in a long fucking time.
// post-canon: mickey has recurring nightmares
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- Part 8 of whumptober 2024
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08 Feb 2025
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Mystery Work
Part of Bebis_Collection
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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31 Jan 2025
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When the certainty of his father’s violence and perversion is revealed, Mickey is faced with two options: leave Chicago, or stay with Ian and his family. As their lives become more intricately intertwined, Ian and Mickey find themselves spiraling out of control and they're both left wondering if they were always betting on losing dogs.
—Post 3x06, Mickey takes refuge at the Gallagher house and love grows.
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18 Dec 2024
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"Fuck," Ian says, his hand tentatively prodding at his jaw. It hurts like a bitch, but when he runs his tongue over his teeth, at least none of them are missing.
"You okay?" Mickey asks, concerned.
"Yeah," Ian says, nodding. "You?"
"I'm fine," Mickey says, blood falling from his hairline into his eyebrow. He grabs Ian by the shoulder with one hand, gently moves his face around with the other. "Where the fuck are you bleeding from? Why is it all over your shirt?"
"It's not my blood," Ian tells him, but Mickey's eyes still look panicked. "Hey," Ian says, grabbing Mickey by the wrist. "It's not my blood."
// post-canon: ian and mickey try out a new bar on the south side and get jumped in the alley behind it
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- Part 7 of whumptober 2024
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30 Oct 2024
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At the age of 26, Mickey Milkovich gets his first apartment, his first wifi connection, and his first kiss. How he gets from wifi to kissing is a complicated story.
Mickey is socially anxious. Ian is a frustratingly lovable escort working through an app. Mickey downloads said app. The rest is history.
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- Part 1 of Everything With You
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25 Oct 2024
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In which Mickey is an artist and Ian is a model and they do this weird thing where they fall in love super hard without all the shitty darkness of south side still being held over their heads. But love is never easy, so they have to learn to be an actual couple as best they can. The question is how badly can they fuck it up and still keep going?
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12 Oct 2024
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Mickey, an aspiring artist landed the job of his dreams designing the covers of novels at a Publishing firm. Ian, a budding author and editor has worked incredibly hard to get where he is. Mere weeks before Christmas the company announces they are downsizing. Mickey goes to work expecting to be fired. Ian goes to work in hopes of choosing an artist to help him execute the art exhibit to help promote his newest book. Both men wound up working together, but will the tension between them cause them to butt heads or will they find companionship in each other?
Dedicated to Shannon, Vickey and Sarah ♥️♥️ Love you guys
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20 Sep 2024
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Ian is a 26 year-old traveling nurse who’s tired of the same old dating routine he’s subjected himself to for what seems like a fucking millennia. Mickey is the 28 year-old caretaker of his elderly, racist, homophobic prick of a father who is on death’s porch, if not threshold. Fate delivers them a swift backhand one afternoon when nosey-ass Ian can’t keep his curiosity at bay in Mickey’s bathroom. This is the story of how Nursey-boy and Grump-ass meet and fall in love.
AKA Love Songs in the Key of Dumbassery~~~
Original art in chapter 9 by: y0itsbri
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Fic soundtrack here: The Horrified Nurse playlistSeries
- Part 1 of The Horrified Nurse
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18 Sep 2024
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Meanest Hunk Of Woman That Anybody Ever Seen by Still_beating_heart
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28 Jan 2019
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Ian Gallagher takes a night away from the Southside in attempt to find a hook-up in a more accepting part of town.
Mickey may be dressed in drag -but I promise this is not a character assassination.
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Ian takes a moment to let himself feel this. The sparks still receding from his eyes. His entire body feeling weak and gelatinous. Something he'd love to feel over and over again. Something he needs to feel over and over again. He rolls to his side, watching Mickey breathing beside him for a moment. His pale smooth skin, muscles toned and strong. Stubble along his perfectly carved jawline. Random bruises speckled throughout the map of his body, different stages of healing. Splits in his knuckles looking about three days old. Remembering how those calloused hands felt on his flesh he smiles.
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15 Sep 2024
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Eight months ago lan was rescued from a man who held him captive for six months. The trauma he endured has caused him to live a life of silence. Now that he's safe again he has to fight to get back to his normal life...or as normal as his life can be. He has hope that with the help of his family and his dark-haired, tattooed, therapist he can get there.
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03 Sep 2024
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Eight Years Is A Long Time (Ten Years Is Longer) by lambertfanfic
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10 Mar 2016
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Ian had lied to Mickey all those years ago. Now ten years later. Svetlana is long gone and Ian is left raising Yev on his own. He manages to get out of South Side and build a future for him and his son in North Side, but what happens when Yev's new boxing coach just happens to be someone Ian didn't think he'd see again.
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02 Sep 2024
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After accidentally killing Mandy’s abusive boyfriend six years prior, Mickey was sentenced to prison. After he gets out on parole, he goes through the training to be a Peer Support Specialist and lands a job at the same agency where Ian also works as a Peer Support Specialist. Ian’s dating some rich guy, but Mickey thinks he could do so much better, especially when he sees the bruises on his wrists and face and hears how his boyfriend talks to him when the guy comes to pick him up at the end of his shifts. How can Mickey convince Ian that he deserves better, and that better might just look like a 28-year-old ex-thug turned support counselor?
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31 Aug 2024
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After the death of his father leaves eighteen year old Ian and his siblings in trouble, they move across the country to get away from it all. Already wishing he wasn’t in this small town, he is finding himself losing hope; hope that he can get by in this new town and that his sister/caretaker can get them all through it like she always does. One young man changes things for Ian, for the better, or maybe for worse. Mickey, his twenty-one year old neighbour, who has a passion for poetry. Within days of their introduction, Ian and Mickey form an intense connection, leaving Ian with a renewed sense of hope. Not long after a heart-stopping first date, they are slammed to the core when a shocking revelation forces their new relationship to a sudden halt. Daily interactions become impossibly painful as they struggle to find a balance between the feelings that pull them together and the forces that tear them apart.
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28 Aug 2024