#shameless chats

[lordhuronns]

i really do think about lip and monica often that "i spent my whole life trying to help my mom and there's no help for it" + fiona saying in season 2 that he was her favorite + him looking WAY more like her than any of the other kids + lip being (as far as i remember??) the only gallagher to unfailingly hold the line on never letting her back in combo is fucking LETHAL

[lordhuronns]

i think one of my fav things about shameless' style of story telling is all the defining traumas that happen to the gallaghers before we meet them and how we mostly have to put the pieces together ourselves bc its just not in their natures to talk about it openly.

i really do think about that line lip says to his financial aid counselor ("i spent my whole life trying to help my mom and there's no help for [bipolar disorder]") all the time. that + him being the one to immediately clock ian being manic in s4 + fiona missing the signs in monica when lip's gone in s2 paints such a vivid picture. like do you think he appointed himself Monica Watcher and tried everything to keep her stable? but nothing ever made a difference and she always bailed on them and by s1 he's totally shut her out. like that's so vivid!