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Gallavich : The Never Ending Fanfic

I'm a Tumblr fan. I keep adding more and more "blogs" to my feed: beefcake photos, graphic design, illustrations, gemstones, art deco, art nouveau, mid century design, brutalist design, vintage ads...the list goes on.

I always check out their suggestions and I guess because of all the illustration art and the beefcake photos, I get plenty of suggestions for various "Gallavich" blogs. Basically fan fic and art by fans of the Ian Gallagher and Mickey Milkovich characters from the U.S. "Shameless."

There is an insane amount of fan generated content. I've never seen so much of this shit based on just two people from one show. Not even all the Spock/Kirk shit that seemed ubiquitous in the early days of the net. Not even all the Heartstopper shit.

Anyone seen this or anything like this? From cutsey cartoons, to sexualized drawings.

Here's a tiny example

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by Anonymousreply 4May 10, 2023 6:44 PM

Another

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by Anonymousreply 1May 10, 2023 7:21 AM

One more:

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by Anonymousreply 2May 10, 2023 7:22 AM

OP, Gallavich is far from being the most popular "ship". Take a look at the most popular ones in the fanfiction site Archive of Our Own. At their peak, Destiel (Castiel/Dean Winchester, from Supernatural) and Stucky (James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, from Captain America) were hugely popular among a certain niche of young women. If you search for these terms on Tumblr, you'll find tons and tons fan generated content.

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by Anonymousreply 3May 10, 2023 6:39 PM

Stucky even has a Wikipedia article:

[quote]Stucky as a phenomenon in fandom emerged from online communities that produce fan works. These online communities are typically mostly female, in contrast to the majority male mainstream comics fandom. Fan works featuring Stucky, which have been created in a wide range of media, including fan art, fanfiction, and fan videos, typically give prominence to emotional imagery and romantic subject material, as opposed to the action- and conflict-centered narratives of Marvel's comic and film source material. Stucky fan works thus "realize all the un-filmed narrative moments that fans want to see", with depictions of Rogers's and Barnes' domestic life in 1940s New York – largely unexplored in canonical source material – being a common trope in Stucky fan works.

[quote]The popularity of Stucky in fandom has been widely commented on by mainstream pop culture and entertainment sources. In Tumblr's annual rankings of the most popular ships of the year (as measured by number of reblogs), Stucky placed 17th in 2014, 9th in 2015, 8th in 2016, 10th in 2018, 16th in 2019, and 18th in 2020. As of February 2023, over 59,000 Stucky fan works have been published on Archive of Our Own.

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