THE MENAGERIE by CROSSMYDNA
↳ ↳ with cover art by DARTHVADERS-WIFE
Multi-Chapter | Rated: E | Word Count: 148K | Completed in: 2023
Ian Gallagher loves his life, finally. He’s happy. He’s happy… but. But there’s something missing. Some itch under his skin that he can’t quite scratch through work or hobbies or family gatherings or casual hookups.
Until he finds himself splurging on a membership to an exclusive BDSM club and meeting the notoriously hard-to-please club veteran, Mikhailo Milkovich.
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I'm trying to analyze why I'm so entranced by Gallavich kisses and not as much by other couples (not just Shameless,from other shows as well), and it's not just the actor's chemistry, I think it's a combination of body movement, as they seem to be attuned to each other, but also there's something in the angles and the way they act when they kiss, like suddenly giving the camera the best view has become a secondary objective?
So the camera is sort of chasing the action rather than the actors putting it directly on camera.
For the most part I think they really just... get you with the kisses, and then you stay cause these two could literally have an apocalypse happening around them but they wouldn't notice as long as the other was around.