#this is kind of a companion piece to the richard siken piece i posted a few days ago!

[crestfallercanyon]

I got tagged in some questions from @callivich and while I didn't answer all of them, I've got some! (I also kept these answers Ian Gallagher/Mickey Milkovich centric, though I did have a couple thoughts about just the show generally haha). Anyway --

What’s a fic you’ve read more than once? makes a cathedral, him pressing against me and then the companion piece and we will be like sailors, swimming in the sound of it by misandrywitch and intimatelyrearranged respectively -- they're just really good post-mickey's-coming-out-fics which I tend to love every rendition but those ones are really good (also I, like many tumblr people, love richard siken, so it had me hooked from the start)

What’s a headcanon you can’t stop thinking about? I love the idea that Ian gets really into photography. I think when he's settled in life he takes a lot of photos He's a sentimental guy, I think he's someone who would definitely have photos of his family in his wallet, and would just love taking pictures. (I also like the idea of when he is struggling, maybe going through a manic phase, this propensity to take photos is helpful for his family to find him and figure out what mental state he's in because the photos are kind of all over the place or of things that aren't there). And then ever since finding out Noel Fisher actually plays the piano, I love the idea that Mickey always wanted to play piano. (and that after expressing this desire that was when Terry tattooed his knuckles as an attempt to quash this dream). It's something I may explore in a fic later on.

What’s an idea you’d love to create if you had the time/inspiration? I have a bajillion but we'll stick with two that I'm not actually currently trying to write -- Kind of a strange idea, but I loved -- especially earliest seasons -- Sheila Jackson. Her struggle with agoraphobia was really heartwrenching (I love the scene where she finally leaves the house for the first time both for Liam and for Karen -- she's just someone who I rooted for then so uncomplicatedly). Anyway, I have an idea where Mickey, before Terry's dead but maybe safely with the Gallaghers, starts to develop agoraphobia like Sheila Jackson had. He finally feels safe at home and he starts to really fear the outside world, and it sneaks up on him, because he's supposed to be fine right? But he's not. He keeps repressing this fear and now it's coming out in this way of being unable to leave the house. And Ian -- from Fiona -- thinks to call Sheila Jackson. With Sheila's help, Ian and her and Mickey actually have interactions. I just think it'd be a really interesting dynamic, because Sheila was so motherly and kind and Mickey I think would hate that at first, but it's also kind of the care he should have had? Anyways, it's strange, but I'd love to explore it. The other one I have is a North American Western Au. Usually I don't write modern-world-setting canon in other contexts but for gallavich I have ideas. And I love western aus, I've written one for another fandoms, it's just fun. Maybe a small town where Ian was a sheriff but he struggles with his disorder and so he resigned; and then Mickey is part of the Milkovich gang that's raising hell all throughout the state but ends up finding Ian and... well if I ever actually write it you'll see.

What’s a plot hole you wish had been answered or resolved? I just wish the show would talk about characters that left more often. Or things that happened in their past more often. The only one they seemed to have done a decent job with in the beginning is Jimmy-Steve. But like, why the heck don't they mention Mandy? Or Karen? Or... ANYONE? That and there are events that should absolutely be referenced again. All of the shit with 3.6 at some point could probably use a rehash of trying to process that trauma. The characters talk a bit about what happened with Monica, or Fiona when Ian and Lip were kids, in later seasons they should be telling the stories of what happened in the early seasons to Liam or Carl or Franny or whoever. I understand many shows drop things for sake of the future plots, but as Shameless is a family drama, things that are dramatic in the family I think could have maintained their relevance for longer. Especially since Shameless has such a brilliant focus on generational trauma and how the kids are, in many ways, going to become their parents in some aspects (but how much so is up to them) it would have been neat for them to actually discuss some of the scars they earned during the show.

What scene or moment do you feel isn’t discussed enough? I don't know how much more it could be discussed, but I want to discuss it lmao -- but when Mickey says "missed ya", with the cigarette in his mouth and Ian responds with "really?" To me, it's the first time that Mickey says something real to Ian about their relationship, really the first acknowledgment that there's something to miss. He says this, and it's something he's said with no ulterior motive that he knows will make Ian happy, really for only the sake of making Ian happy. It will probably get him laid because this is Ian and they're both horny teenagers, but there's no guarantee, and that's clearly not why he's saying it. The best part of the interaction, though? The way Mickey smiles because he knows Ian's going to be thrilled. That like preemptive "watch this" and then he says it. I just, there's something really sweet about the interaction in a way that Mickey never let himself be previously.

What line/dialogue/description from something else (a poem, a book, a tv show, a movie, or something else) do you feel describes Ian and Mickey’s relationship? There's also a song aptly named "Goodnight Chicago" by Rainbow Kitten Surprise that immediately had me thinking about these two. Here's one verse: "...I killed a man there, in spite, and when he died, I took his place/eighteen made you callous to the kisses that you gave/a course exchange, a cause for blame, and I stood out in the rain/You killed a man there, and I cried, but the rain masked the hurt behind your face/by the way dear, we're alive, and it hurts 'cause we survived."

I'm going to leave this as an open tag and also reference the original questions from callivich because there's some great ones! I did a reblog because I figured this would be overwhelming if I answered on their asks. But please go ahead and answer and hope you enjoyed what you've read here lol. <3

#shameless #shameless (us) #tag game #ian gallagher #mickey milkovich #gallavich

[ophanic]

it’s september! i am choosing to believe in love! 

#this is kind of like my mantra. i have a ton of journal pages with this on it!! love will find you and it will save you!!! #i wanted 2 make something that made me nostalgic for a home that wasn't mine. and like yeah #this is kind of a companion piece to the richard siken piece i posted a few days ago! #the background pic is from pictures from an airbnb in pennsylvania lol #autumn #tender #art journal #visual journal #graphic design #my art tag

[artofflorescence]

artofflorescence’s compilation of everything

this is separated 3 categories: tumblr-exclusive ideas/snippets, for fun stuff, and all my ao3 works

ALL MY IDEAS/SNIPPETS that are NOT on AO3:

*obligatory angst warning

izuku memory quirk idea (check out the reblog where miraculous-mused wrote a fantastic snippet!)

don’t break me when you fall (a 1.4K one shot/snippet where izuku time travels but it’s sad and terrible) - this one is heavy! -- now on ao3 under the same title (within the give me a reason to stay series)

a martyr a day (snippet where izuku also time travels and it’s still sad and terrible BUT different and slightly less terrible) - summary given on the post

izuku life-sensing quirk idea

doctor/healer au with a twist (part 2)

the fantasy au (izuku as a fae/spirit/supernatural being??)

effigies of infinity (blink au) 

FOR FUN

favorite bookmarks on my ao3 fics

AO3 WORKS:

give me a reason to stay (find me another way home):  A series of completed stand-alone one shots or two shots focused around Midoriya Izuku suffering, a lot. With a heavy dose of angst and major character death. Exploring the many facets of death and how sometimes, it can be very, very gentle. Extremely Midoriya Izuku-centric. Please read tags and beginning notes for warnings. More detailed descriptions are under each work. ongoing (current count: 11 works. 73,275 words)

“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.” — Richard Siken

i did not think it would hurt like this (but here i am):  In a universe where Midoriya Izuku and Todoroki Shouto each have their own demons, but healing does not come so easy. Or at all. Because the world was not kind to them, and they could do nothing but hurt in silence. (Closure is not so easily found when the people who hurt you are untouchable). At least they have each other. (What else is there?) completed (total: 4 works, 10,413 words)

A series of one-shots that is set in the same universe, but does not have to necessarily be read in order, or read together. They occur in a vaguely chronological order, but are independent from each other. I would categorize them as companion pieces to each other versus sequels

was it reverence (or were you just tired?): (completed one-shot, my first ao3 work, what a throwback)

“Are you tired, Tenko?” Izuku asks as he stumbles to the nearest piece of rubble, collapsing as his legs give out to lean back against it. 

Tomura immediately gets angry, “What? Don’t call me tha—“

“We’re both dying, Tenko. It doesn’t matter what I call you, or how much I hate you, or how much you hate me.”

In which there is a slumber those cannot wake from. And two children, so very tired.

tell me you love me before i let go: (completed one-shot)

Midoriya Izuku’s father is Midoriya Hisashi, and Izuku remembers love. Love in spite of his quirklessness, in spite of his uselessness. When he’s six, his father disappears.

Seven years later, it is his father that saves him. And when he gives Izuku the chance to disappear with him, well, the choice is easy.

The story in which All for One loved his son, even when the world didn’t. And fate changes. (The devastating universe where Izuku goes willingly when All for One vaults him, and it’s a soft, grieving kind of tragedy.)

all is light inside: (completed one-shot)

In a world where something quite like peace is found, Class 1-A has carved itself into the history books, and Izuku, wrinkled and wise, still has one last message to give to a world moving on without him.

(Old age was the last thing Izuku thought he would die to, but he’s always specialized in the unpredictable).

dust to ash, ash to embers (bnha/khr, 2/???, ongoing)

In a world where quirks continue to grow in power, and the quirkless continue to grow obsolete, Dying Will Flames are nearly extinct. A relic from an old underground, surviving only in rumors and the occasional story. Buried records and conspiracy forums hold the last living reminders of a time gone by. The public never even knew something had been lost.

The chances that Midoriya Izuku should become an Active Sky are highly improbable. The chances that Shigaraki Tomura is also an Active Sky of the same generation is...ridiculous.

The idea that they, as two Skies, harmonize? Impossible. (Turns out, they happen to be pretty good at doing the impossible.)

*you do NOT need KHR knowledge coming into this fic. Midoriya-Izuku centric. I borrowed the concept of flames and flame lore (some of which is not even canon), but otherwise, the fic is COMPLETELY UNAFFILIATED with KHR. Characters from KHR will NOT make an appearance.

a little love, gently breaking (completed one-shot, also found in the give me a reason to stay series):

The Midoriya family is of the forest. They come from the trees, the forest, lovely, dark, and deep.

All that comes from the forest eventually must return. (There is a tale, that those who die in the forest do not truly die. There is a tale that winter’s children used to be people too.)

His whole life, Izuku has been looking for shelter. And now that he’s found it, it’s so devastatingly easy to share.

good kids die quietly (BLEACH completed one-shot):

Good kids never stay good kids. They grow into broken teenagers, then broken adults-- broken people.

And broken people? They grow jaded or they die. (Ichigo is a soldier on his last legs).

#masterpost #masterlist #ao3 writer #artofflorescence

[kiraziwrites]

Author interview

Tagged by: @slipsthrufingers

Name: Not telling (but it starts with E).

Fandoms: Game of Thrones (JxB) is the only one I’ve really written for seriously so far, but I regularly read and have toyed with writing (to the point of having some dusty fragments that never made it to story status on an old laptop) in a bunch of others: Vorkosiverse (all kinds of pairings and stories), Queen’s Thief (ditto), Wimsey (mostly Harriet/Peter), Rivers of London (anything that gets the canon tone and voices right, but I’ve got a soft spot for Peter/Nightingale or Beverley/Peter/Nightingale as a v-shaped OT3), and Broadchurch (Hardy/Miller, both as OTP and BroTP). I’ve also read a fair amount of Yuri!!! on Ice and Veronica Mars and random other things, but I’ve never felt the impulse to write for those. 

Where you post: AO3 and here. I did put a piece of Babylon 5 fic on a listserv sometime in the 90s and I hope internet entropy has erased any trace of its existence (I was very young and it was almost certainly terrible).

Most popular oneshot: Going by kudos, Rescued Again, my first proper fic. Going by comments, its sequel Adequate Vocabulary.

Most popular multi-chapter story: Ring Them Bells, which doesn’t surprise me, because it’s the longest, it contains several plot elements that are popular in the fandom (i.e. J&B go to Tarth, meet Selwyn, etc) and it was written at what was probably the peak of appetite for S8 fix-its (not that that’s stopped me from continuing to write more of them....)

Favorite story you wrote: Ring them Bells is still dear to me, but A Great Fountain has mostly displaced it from the no. 1 spot in my heart—both because it feels more real to me (my head has been stuck in that continuity since late June, between writing it and the companion story) and also because I think I put more of myself in it. I wrote RTB for the fandom (and for myself, as a member of it), whereas AGF was for myself first, if that makes sense.

Story you were nervous to post: I feel like I ought to have been nervous before posting Rescued Again, but I’d been up all night writing and I think I was too high on the glee of it to feel nervous. Maybe a little bit about A Satisfactory Maneuver because it was my first time posting porn? TBH it’s probably Winter Should Have Meaning because this one has been much harder to write than the others and I’m both less sure of what I’m trying to do, and whether it’s working. 

How you choose your titles: It depends! The first three were all references to lines within the story; Ring Them Bells was after a Dylan song because I was thinking about bells and 8x05 as the turning point and a cover version got stuck in my head and many lines suddenly seemed to fit the story beats I wanted (which is why it’s the only one with chapter titles). As previously noted, AGF/WSHM are both titled after lines from one of my favorite books of poetry, Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris. If I continue to be on my bullshit, I forecast a high probability of either lyrics from The Mountain Goats, or more poetry (likely candidates: Seamus Heaney, Richard Siken, Agha Shahid Ali, Adrienne Rich....)

Do you outline: Not at the start; everything begins with vibes and feels and scattered clumps of text emerging from the depths and cohering into a scene or two. And then when I get stuck, or need to try to make sense of the larger picture, I outline. Sort of. It’s more like a jumble of incoherent notes-to-self with lots of ????? and idk, maybe X, and [something goes here] and ugh fml than anything as organized as the word “outline” would imply.

Complete: 5 stories so far. All about our favorite dumbass knights in love.

In-progress: Just the one! Well, maybe two, if we count the fragments of porn-in-Winterfell that might turn into something someday. I wrote a version of their first time for the Winterfell Sequence, but there’s a different, 8x04-compliant version of it (and the second, third, etc times) in my head that would be a sort of background/prequel to the fix-its. 

Coming soon/not yet started: See above, re: porn-in-Winterfell.

Do you accept prompts: Sure, why not? I can’t promise I’ll fill them, since I’m having trouble keeping pace with one story at a time right now, but it might be fun to play around with some short and different stuff, especially since Winter is hard going at present (I expect it will get easier once I can go back to writing all the post-reconciliation softness, but I have banned myself from writing any more of the soft parts until I get through the middle section of the story). Anyway, the ask box is open; fire away. 

Upcoming story you are most excited to write: Any of them, but I think I might sign up for Yuletide this year to push myself to try writing in another fandom, probably Queen’s Thief or Broadchurch.

Tagging @agirlnamedkeith, if she hasn’t been tagged yet, and anyone else who wants to jump in.

#author interview meme